Bio

Starling Hunter is an organizational theorist and visiting professor at the Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar. His research interests include the strategic uses and organizational consequences of management information systems.

Professor Hunter holds a BS in Electrical Engineering (1985) from Arizona State University. He earned an MBA (1992) and a PhD in Organizational Theory (1999) from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. For several years Prof. Hunter worked as an engineer in the Electromagnetic Technology Group of the Boeing Defense and Space Group, researching and developing communications systems for military aircraft. After completing his MBA, he worked as a Human Resource Analyst at Exxon Chemical’s Bayway Refinery in Linden NJ. In 2007, he joined the faculty of the Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar.

Prof. Hunter first came to MIT as an MLK Visiting Professor in 1998, hosted by the MIT Sloan School. After his two-year visit, he stayed on to serve as a Theodore T. Miller Career Development Professor for a three-year term. 

Publications

A Semi-Automated Method of Network Text Analysis Applied to 150 Original Screenplays
SD Hunter III
Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Social Dynamics and Personal Attributes ...
2014
A Novel Method of Network Text Analysis
SD Hunter III
Open Journal of Modern Linguistics 4 (2), 350-66
2014
Word-Formation in Mark Boal’s "The Hurt Locker"
SD Hunter III
Open Journal of Modern Linguistics 3 (1), 20-29
2013
Thematic and Lexical Repetition in a Contemporary Screenplay
SD Hunter III, S Smith
Open Journal of Modern Linguistics 3 (1), 9-19
2013
Structural Holes and Banner-Ad Click-Throughs
SD Hunter III, R Chinta
Technology & Investment 4 (1), 30-44
2013
Pricing Banner Advertisements in a Social Network of Political Weblogs
SD Hunter III
Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application (JITTA) 12 (2), 2
2011
Same technology, different outcome? Reinterpreting Barley's Technology as an Occasion for Structuring
SD Hunter III
European Journal of Information Systems 19 (6), 689-703
2010
Information technology, contextual factors and the volatility of firm performance
K Kobelsky, SD Hunter III, VJ Richardson
International Journal of Accounting Information Systems 9 (3), 154-174
2008
Organizational Design, Learning, and the Market Value of the Firm
TN Carroll, SD Hunter III
Organization Design, 125-142
2006
On the Feasibility of Improving Patent Quality One Technology at a Time: The Case of Business Methods
JR Allison, SD Hunter III
Berkeley Tech. LJ 21, 729
2006
Contested codes: The social construction of Napster
D Spitz, SD Hunter III
The Information Society 21 (3), 169-180
2005
Have Business Method Patents Gotten a Bum Rap? Some Empirical Evidence
SD Hunter III
Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application 6 (1), 1-24
2004
Information technology, organizational learning, and the market value of the firm
SD Hunter III
Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application 5 (1)
2003
Information technology and organization structure
SD Hunter III
Duke University
1999
Strategic organizational diagnosis and design: Developing theory for application
RM Burton, BR Obel, SD Hunter III
Springer
1998
Information Technology & Organizational Design: A Longitudinal Study of Information Technology Implementations in the US Retailing Industrie, 1980–1996
AY Lewin, SD Hunter III
Organisation im Wandel der Märkte. Gabler, Wiesbaden, 251-286
1998