Scott A. Snell

Scott A. Snell, E. Thayer Bigelow Professor of Business Administration

  • BA, Miami University; MBA, PhD, Michigan State University
Office: FOB 183
Phone: +1-434-924-7175
E-mail: SnellS@darden.virginia.edu

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MBA Courses

First Year Leading Organizations
Developing Organizational Capability
FY Strategic Management

Executive Education Courses

HR Strategy, Leadership, and Change
IIPM
Lockheed Martin
Shire Pharmaceuticals
United Technologies
U.S. Air Force
U.S. Navy

Biography

Snell is the E. Thayer Bigelow Professor of Business Administration at Darden, where he teaches courses in Leadership and Strategic Management. 

His research focuses on strategic human resource management, and he was recently listed among the top 150 most-cited scholars in the field of management. He is co-author of four books: Managing Human Resources, Management: Leading and Collaborating in a Competitive World, M: Management and Managing People and Knowledge in Professional Service Firms. He has worked with a number of Fortune 500 companies in the United States and Europe to align investments in talent and strategic capability, and he has served on the boards of the Society for Human Resource Management Foundation, the Academy of Management’s Human Resource Division, the Human Resource Management Journal, the Academy of Management Journal and the Academy of Management Review.

Prior to joining the Darden faculty in 2007, Snell was professor and director of executive education at Cornell University’s Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies and a professor of management in the Smeal College of Business at Pennsylvania State University. 

Expertise

Human Capital Strategy
Organizational Capability
Talent Management

Selected Publications

  • Intellectual capital configurations and organizational capability,  Journal of International Business Studies, 2011, in press.
  • Global challenges to replicating HR:  The role of people, processes, and systems.  Human Resource Management, special issue, 2010, Nov-Dec (Academy of Management International Human Resource Scholarly Research Award.
  • Intellectual capital architectures and ambidextrous learning.Journal of Management Studies, 2009, 46(1):65-92.
  • Relational archetypes, organizational learning, and value creation.  Academy of Management Review, special issue, 2007, 32(1): 236-256.
  • Intellectual capital profiles:  Examination of investments and returns.  Journal of Management Studies, 2004, 41(2): 335-361.
  • Employment flexibility and firm performance: Examining the moderating effects of employment mode, environmental dynamism, and technological intensity, Journal of Management, 2003, 29(5): 681-705. 
  • Examining the human resource architecture.  Journal of Management, 2002, 28(4): 517-543.
  • Human resources and the resource based view of the firm.  Journal of Management, 2001, 27(6):  701-721.
  • Selection and training for integrated manufacturing.  Journal of Management Studies, 2000, 37 (3): 445-466.
  • The human resource architecture: Toward a theory of human capital development and allocation. Academy of Management Review, 1999, 24 (1): 31-48. 
  •  Toward a unifying framework for exploring fit and flexibility in strategic human resource management.  Academy of Management Review, 1998, 22 (4): 756-772.  
  • Designing and supporting transnational teams.  Human Resource Management, 1998, 37(2): 147-158.
  • Human resource management, manufacturing strategy, and firm performance.  Academy of Management Journal, Special Issue, 1996, 39(4): 836-866.
  • The strategic use of integrated manufacturing.  Strategic Management Journal, 1996, 17(6): 459-480.
  • Use transnational teams to globalize your company. Organizational Dynamics, 1996, Spring, 50-67.
  • Human resource management and firm performance: Testing a contingency model of executive controls.  Journal of Management, 1995, 21(4): 711-737.
  • Strategic compensation for integrated manufacturing: The moderating effects of jobs and organizational inertia.  Academy of Management Journal, 1994, 37(5): 1109-1140.
  • Integrated manufacturing and human resource management: A human capital perspective.  Academy of Management Journal, 1992, 35 (3): 467-504.
  • A test of control theory in strategic human resource management: The mediating effect of administrative information.  Academy of Management Journal, 1992, 35 (2):  292-327.
  • Integrated manufacturing and job design: The moderating effect of organizational inertia.  Academy of Manage­ment Journal, 1991, 34 (4):  776-804.
  • Effects of ownership structure and control on corporate productivity.  Academy of Management Journal, 1989, 32 (1): 25-46. 
  • External control, cor­porate strategy, and performance in research-intensive industries.  Strategic Management Journal, 1988, 9 (6): 577-590.