Instructor

Dwire Hall 347
719.255.3294
mmetzger@uccs.edu

Education

• Ph.D. Management
  University of Oregon, Lundquist College of Business, Eugene, OR
  

• MBA, Entrepreneurship Concentration, Cum Laude
  University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN; 2007 

• BA, Environmental, Population, and Organismic Biology, Summa Cum Laude
  University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; 2004

Interests

My research interests lie at the intersection of organization, identity and entrepreneurship theories. I am particularly interested in processes of organizational identity emergence, the agentic and organic ways that organizational identities are maintained and changed and whether/how identities and other cognitive filters influence entrepreneurial processes. Current projects examine:

• The change or maintenance of an identity ascribed to a category of similar firms in the face of nascent forms of competition
• The influences that effectual approaches to entrepreneurship have on new technologies
• The possibility that an organization's identity can be "resurrected" after long periods of dormancy

Experience

Manager at a family-owned start-up coffee roasting and retail business, Platteville, Wisconsin; 2004-2007