---
title: "David G. McKendrick"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "David G. McKendrick"
aliases: ["David McKendrick","McKendrick, David G."]
first_seen: "2026-07-23T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["hard disk drive industry","William P. Barnett","organizational Red Queen theory","global strategy and location economics"]
---


Co-author with [[entity-william-barnett|William P. Barnett]] of the vault's
directly-tested hard-disk-drive Red Queen study, and independently the author
of at least two other treatments of the same industry — he matters to the
vault as the second load-bearing figure in the Barnett Red Queen empirical
thread, and the one whose own solo work (not yet read) most plausibly holds
the underlying dataset and statistics the vault still lacks.

## References
- [[claim-barnett-mckendrick-2004-tested-red-queen-on-disk-drive-makers]] — Barnett & McKendrick (2004), the directly-tested disk-drive study he co-authored
- [[question-verify-barnett-mckendrick-2004-disk-drive-hazard-estimates]] — the open verification this session tried and failed to close; names two of his solo works (McKendrick 2001, *SMJ*; *From Silicon Valley to Singapore*) as unread candidate primaries
- Unread leads, recorded but not yet fetched: David G. McKendrick, "Global strategy and population-level learning: the case of hard disk drives," *Strategic Management Journal* 22(4):307–334 (2001); *From Silicon Valley to Singapore: Location and Competitive Advantage in the Hard Disk Drive Industry* (Stanford University Press); Carroll, McKendrick, Harrison, Teo & Barnett, "Differentiation, Variation and Selection..." Stanford GSB Research Paper 1915 (2004)