I am Assistant Professor of Strategy at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.

I study organizational learning through two lenses. In one stream of research, I examine learning in organizational collectives. In this stream, I study transactive memory systems, search processes, and communication networks. In a second stream of research, I examine knowledge transfer within organizations.

I use experiments and field data. In my research, I have worked with military and healthcare organizations.

Previously, I was Assistant Professor of Management at Aarhus University. I earned a PhD in Organizational Behavior & Theory at the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University.

Prior to starting my PhD program, I worked at the United States Naval Postgraduate School, where I supported research sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

Email: jerry.guo@fs.de

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Publications

Management & Organization Theory

Guo, J., Frederiksen, A., & Frederiksen, L. (Forthcoming). New Venture Team Stability and Long-Run Organizational Growth. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.

Argote, L., Guo, J., Haan, K.W., Rosengart, M.R., Teng, C.Y., & Kahn. J.M. (2025). Transactive Memory Systems and Hospital Trauma Team Performance: Shared Experience in Action Teams. Organization Science. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2024.19022

Guo, J., Argote, L., Kush, L., & Park, J. (2023). Communication networks and team performance: selecting members to network positions. Frontiers in Psychology, 14. [Special paper collection on the Carnegie Perspective.] https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1141571

Argote, L., Guo, J., Park, S., & Hahl, O. (2022). The Mechanisms and Components of Knowledge Transfer: The Virtual Special Issue on Knowledge Transfer within Organizations. Organization Science, 33 (3), 873-1249. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2022.1590

Fahrenkopf, E., Guo, J., & Argote, L. (2020). Personnel Mobility and Organizational Performance: The Effects of Specialist vs. Generalist Experience and Organizational Work Structure. Organization Science, 31 (6), 1313-1620. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2020.1373

Galperin, R., Hahl, O., Sterling, A., & Guo, J. (2020). Too Good to Hire? Capability and Inferences about Commitment in Labor Markets. Administrative Science Quarterly, 65 (2), 275-313. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0001839219840022

Argote, L., & Guo, J. (2016). Routines and transactive memory systems: Creating, coordinating, retaining, and transferring knowledge in organizations. Research in Organizational Behavior, 36, 65-84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.riob.2016.10.002

Augier, M., & Guo, J. (2012). Geopolitics and Garbage Cans: Understanding the Essence of Decision Making in an Interdisciplinary and Psycho-Cultural Perspective. In Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Volume 36, A. Lomi and R. Harrison (Eds.), The Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice: Looking Forward at Forty, 431-469. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X(2012)0000036019

Defense & National Security

Guo, J., Patterson, L., & Augier, M. (2025). Learning from failure when failure isn’t an option. In Everybody Fails But Not Everybody Learns, K. Dahlin and Y. Chuang (Eds.), 208218. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191995170.003.0011

Augier M., McNab, R., Guo, J., & Karber, P. (2017). Defense spending and economic growth: Evidence from China, 1952-2012. Defence & Peace Economics, 28 (1), 65-90. https://doi.org/10.1080/10242694.2015.1099204

Augier, M., Guo, J., & Rowen, H. (2016). The Needham Puzzle Reconsidered: Organizations, Organizing, and Innovation in China. Management and Organization Review, 12 (1), 5-24. https://doi.org/10.1017/mor.2016.5

Working Papers

Organizational Routines and Adaptation: The Effects of Routines in Building Transactive Memory Systems and Enabling Team Performance. Preparing for Submission.

Heterogenous Aspirations in Dyadic Search. (with T. Wahle). Preparing for submission.

Work in Development

Meta-knowledge Updating and Task Change. (with K. Tanaka).

Learning from Peers. (with T. Wahle and R. Klingebiel).

Team Stability and Routine Adoption (with P. Audia and N. Beck)

Coordinating Specialists and Generalists: Evidence from eSports. (with D. Kalanoski).

Education & Employment

Education

2020

2011

2010

Employment

2023 - Present

2020 - 2023

2011 - 2013

Teaching

Instructor

Frankfurt School of Finance & Management

Strategy & Organization (BSc Core), Spring 2024/2025

Aarhus BSS

Leading a Learning Organization (MSc Elective), Fall 2021-2022

Business-to-Business Marketing Research Methods (MSc Core), Fall 2020, Fall 2021

Methods in Management and Organization Research (MSc Core), Fall 2020, Fall 2021-2022

Business Development: Innovation and Strategy (MSc Core), Spring 2021-2023

Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University

Organizational Behavior (Undergraduate Business Core), Summer 2017