Dr Lourdes Sosa joined LSE as Associate Professor. Prior to LSE, she spent seven years at the London Business School where she taught in the MBA, Executive MBA, Master’s in Management and Executive Education programs. She received her PhD degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management. Prior to her academic career she worked in R&D management at General Electric and General Motors.

Dr Sosa studies technological discontinuities, a pervasive phenomenon in which a radical change in technologies disrupts a market, a phenomenon commonly referred to as creative destruction. In her work she uses technological discontinuities as an opportunity to contribute to mainstream strategy's objective of explaining within-market differences in firm performance. Furthermore, by looking at variation in the ability of established firms to adapt to a radical change in technologies, she also finds an opportunity to contribute to research on organizational change.

She is specifically interested in understanding the competitive dynamics of the R&D race that ensues through a technological discontinuity, thus her current interest on the Pharmaceutical Industry and the Biotechnology Revolution.

An active member of the Academy of Management, INFORMS, and the Industry Studies Association, she has won awards from these associations for her research. She is currently in the Editorial Board of the Academy of Management Journal.

Organisational Behaviour Faculty Research Group