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 FjeldRichard 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