PRELIMINARY PROGRAM 2013
The Vienna Conference on Strategy, Organizational Design, and Innovation
21 June 2013
19.00
Early bird evening out at a local “Heuriger” (beergarden, or rather winegarden) in the vineyards at the outskirts of town. Joint meeting point for collective transport in front of the Hotel Regina at 18:30 (we will organize for transportation from there). “Late early birds” should, please come directly to: 2 Kahlenberger Straße 22, 1190 Vienna
22 June 2013
11.30 – 12.00
Registration at Senatssaal (“senate hall“), University of Vienna, Universitätsring 1 (pls enter the main building and follow the signs for the conference)
12.00 – 12.15
Welcome
12.15 – 13.00
Keynote speech by Sendil Ethiraj: What do our Models of Firm Heterogeneity Tell us about Industry Structure?
13.00 – 13.20
Coffee break
13.20 – 15.30
Paper session 1 (4 x 25 mins/ paper plus 20 mins total discussion, with brief break in between)
SOURCES OF FIRM-LEVEL HETEROGENEITY
Moderator: Sendil Ethiraj
Presenters, co-authors, and papers:
- Bo Eriksen – Reaching for the Stars
- Jon Fjeld, Richard Burton – Connecting the Theory and Empirics of Capabilities
- Sangyoon Yi, Markus Becker, Thorbjoern Knudsen – Routines, Organizational Change and Organizational Change: Inertia as a Hidden Source of Variation
- Massimo Warglien, Markus Reitzig, Daria Arkhipova, Tobias Kretschmer – Symmetry breaks in industry structures
15.30 – 15.50
Coffee break
15.50 – 18.00
Paper session 2 (3 x 25 mins/paper plus 20 mins total discussion, with brief break in between)
(RE-)ORGANIZING FOR INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Moderator: Markus Reitzig
Presenters, co-authors, and papers:
- Oliver Alexy, Cristina Rossi Lamastra, Evila Piva – Citius, Altius, Fortius? The two sides of community-enabled bricolage and their effect on entrepreneurial ventures”
- Monika Hartmann, Raffaele Oriani – Exploring the Antecedents to Business Model Innovation: An Empirical Analysis of Pension Funds
- Celine Abecassis-Moedas, Sihem Ben Mahmoud-Jouini, Delphine Manceau – The Role of Entrepreneurial Motivation in Entrepreneurship
20.00
Dinner in the old town hall . Dresscode: Semi-formal.
23 June 2013
09.00 – 09.45
Keynote speech by Phanish Puranam: Bring out the Microscopes – Trends in Organization Design research
09.45 – 10.00
Coffee break
10.00 – 12.15
Paper session 1 (4 x 25 mins/paper plus 20 mins total discussion, with brief break in between)
FORMAL MODELS IN ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN
Moderator: Phanish Puranam
- Oliver Baumann, JP Eggers, Nils Stieglitz – Competition, Cooperation, and Search: Incentives and the Competition for Research Resources in Multidivisional Firms
- Hart Posen, Dirk Martignoni, Markus Lang – Partial Knowledge and the Efficacy of Learning
- Thorsten Grohsjean, Tobias Kretschmer, Nils Stieglitz – Reinforcement learning in strategic decision-making
- Mike Ryall, Rachelle C. Sampson – Ambiguous Alliances
12.15 – 13.30
Lunch break in the Arkadenhof
13.30 – 15.45
Paper session 2 (4 x 25 mins/paper plus 20 mins discussion ,with brief break in between)
INDUSTRY FORMATION, ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE, AND PRODUCT DESIGN
Moderator: Carliss Baldwin
- Ramon Lecuona Torras – The Role of Established Firms in Introducing Architectural Innovations
- John Joseph, Ronald Klingebiel, Alex Wilson – Situated Selection: Organizational Structure, Performance Feedback, and Persistence in Product Phase-out Decisions
- Richard Tee, Jason Woodward – Architectural Control and Value Migration in Layered Ecosystems: The Case of Open-Source Cloud Management Platforms
- Sen Chai, Willy Shih – Using Public-Private Partnerships to Improve Firm Survival, Employment Growth, and Innovative Performance
15.45 – 16.00
Coffee break
16.00 – 16.45
Keynote speech by Carliss Baldwin: Modularity in Action: Positive Risk and the Innovation Commons
16.45 – 17.00
Wrap up