Marc Ventresca teaches technology, strategy and organisation theory at Saïd Business School with a focus on how new markets get built. His research uses strategy, economic sociology, and cultural institutionalism to understand industry emergence, innovation, and entrepreneurial activity in knowledge-intensive industries. Current research projects investigate global models and institutional innovation, the shifting conceptions of 'services' in statistical frameworks of the modern economy, governance reforms in 'ancient' universities of Sienna, Uppsala, and Oxford, and governance innovations and new business models in the global field of financial markets.  He is author of over twenty scholarly articles, chapters, and books.

He is a Fellow of Wolfson College, a University Fellow of the James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization, and on the Academic Programme Committee of the Rothmere American Institute. He serves on the editorial boards for Organisation, Organization Studies, and the European Management Review. He contributes to scholarly and professional activities in the American Sociological Association, the Academy of Management, the European Academy of Management, and the European Group for Organisation Studies. He is co-convener of EURAM 2007 Subtheme, 'Identity, Institutions, and Organisation. At Oxford, he convenes the Strategies, Institutions, and Practices Seminars (SIPS), and organises occasional research Workshops, Conversations, and short courses.

After taking his BA in political science at Stanford University he worked at the US. Congressional Budget Office. He returned to Stanford for graduate degrees in education policy analysis and organizational sociology. Before joining the Saïd Business School, he served on faculty at the Kellogg School of Management and Department of Sociology, Northwestern University for nine years. He has been visiting faculty at the University of Illinois, Stanford University School of Engineering (Center for Work, Technology and Organisations), the Stanford Institute for Higher Education Research and the Center for Social Innovation, the University of California at Irvine, and the Copenhagen Business School. He is active in executive education for firms and agencies such as Allergan, British Energy, BMW, Citizens Information Service, El Pollo Loco, League of Women Voters, the U.S. Navy 3rd Fleet, and Zurich Insurance. He has served as external asessor at Erasmus University, London Business School, University of Cambridge, and the Copenhagen Business School. 

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