Professor Dr. Dylan Boynton

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Dylan Boynton is an Assistant Professor at the MSU Broad College of Business, specializing in Management. His research lies at the intersection of behavioral strategy and organizational theory, with a focus on the cognitive underpinnings of firm growth. He is particularly interested in the role of managerial attention and how this process facilitates learning and the identification of new opportunities, acting under limited resource constraints. His recent work examines the relationship between managerial attention and a firm's technological resources, exploring how attention moderates the value firms create through innovative output. Dr. Boynton employs both qualitative and quantitative methods in his projects, with a particular interest in combining computational text analysis. Conceptually, his research draws on the history of humanities to understand changes in organizations and strategy, and how managers interpret their world over time. His work has been published in respected journals and has received support from the Strategic Management Society’s Dissertation Research Grant Program. He completed his PhD in Management and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania, where he majored in History and English Literature and minored in Anthropology.

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