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Starling Hunter

Visiting Professor 1998-2000 PhD candidate, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Through our scientific and technological genius, we've made of this world a neighborhood. And now through our moral and ethical commitment, we must make of it a brotherhood.
— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Background

Starling Hunter is an organizational theorist and recent graduate of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Before earning his PhD from Duke, Hunter earned an MBA from Duke and a BS in electrical engineering (1985) from Arizona State University.

Interests

Hunter’s research interests include the strategic uses and organizational consequences of management information systems. For several years 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.

Sample Work

  • Publication

    Information technology and organization structure

    Hunter III, Starling David. Information technology and organization structure. Duke University, 1999.

  • Publication

    Strategic organizational diagnosis and design: Developing theory for application

    Burton, Richard M., Børge Obel, Starling Hunter, Mikael Søndergaard, and Dorthe Døjbak. Strategic organizational diagnosis and design: Developing theory for application. Springer Science & Business Media, 1998.

  • Publication

    Information Technology & Organizational Design: A Longitudinal Study of Information Technology Implementations in the US Retailing Industry, 1980–1996

    Lewin, Arie Y., and Starling D. Hunter. “Information Technology & Organizational Design: A Longitudinal Study of Information Technology Implementations in the US Retailing Industry, 1980–1996.” Organisation im Wandel der Märkte (1998): 251-286.

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