Justin Tumlinson

Justin Tumlinson is an Associate Professor (Reader) in Business Analytics at the University of Exeter Business School and Co-Director of its Research Methods Centre. His research examines how teams form, how incentives shape the behavior of team members and loners, and how entrepreneurship and organizational design affect private and public welfare. He uses both applied game theory and empirical methods, with a broader interest in bringing formal analysis to questions often discussed more informally.

He is also an External Researcher at the Technical University of Munich. Before entering academia, he worked in venture capital and at Intel and founded ZIVIS LLC. He holds a PhD from the  University of California, Berkeley.

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Selected Publications

When Autarky Trumps Free and Costless Trade · with John Morgan and Felix Várdy · 2026 · Theoretical Economics

Linguistic Distance to English Impedes Research Performance · with Yihui Cao, Robin Sickles and Thomas Triebs · 2024 · Research Policy

The Limits of Meritocracy · with John Morgan and Felix Várdy · 2022· Journal of Economic Theory

Does Experience Improve Acquisition Performance? … · with Lena Langosch · 2022 · Academy of Management Discoveries

Information Frictions and Entrepreneurship · with Deepak Hegde · 2021 · Strategic Management Journal 

Corporate Provision of Public Goods · with John Morgan · 2019 · Management Science 

Does Social Proximity Enhance Business Partnerships? Theory and Evidence from… Venture Capital · with Deepak Hegde · 2014 · Management Science