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*The R&D Management Conference 2015*
*"(FAST?) CONNECTING R&D"*
23-26 June 2015 – Pisa (Italy)
http://rnd2015.sssup.it/
*Call for Proposals*
*Strategic alliances, business groups, and innovation: research
opportunities and challenges*
*Track leaders*
Prof. Giovanni Battista Dagnino, University of Catania
Dr. Pasquale Massimo Picone, University of Catania
*Abstracts due*: 1st February, 2015
This track of the 2015 R&D Management Conference in Pisa, Italy (23-26
June, 2015) aims to stimulate research on managing and organizing R&D and
innovation processes in strategic alliances and business groups. While
widely recognized as increasingly relevant issue in the business world, the
study of the relationships between strategic alliances, business groups and
the spread out of innovation is a relatively uncultivated area in
management studies that calls for receiving deeper specific attention.
For this track, we invite scholars and students from various disciplines to
submit their best conceptual and empirical studies that contribute to
deepen our understanding of how strategic alliances and business groups may
be able to integrate knowledge and generate innovation through processes of
knowledge recombination and assimilation within and across their
boundaries. We anticipate that we are open to papers that bear various
theoretical stances and empirical methods given that they are thoroughly
designed and coherently crafted.
*Research Questions*
While we are interested in the study of the relationships between strategic
alliances, business groups and innovation in a broad sense, in more detail
we look forward to seeing abstracts of papers and research papers that
address the intriguing research spaces related to:
a) How do knowledge and R&D features moderate the relationship between
strategic alliance and innovative performance?
b) How and why do country-specific dimensions affect knowledge sharing
within strategic alliance and firm innovation?
c) How the ‘dynamic dance’ between cooperative and competitive
tensions in a strategic alliance affects the alliance’s innovativeness
level?
d) What are the single firm’s capabilities to take advantage of
participation to strategic alliances and business groups?
e) How do value appropriation processes within business group and
strategic alliance impact on knowledge longevity and transfer?
f) Does business group affiliation stimulate radical innovation or
incremental innovation?
g) What are the governance mechanisms driving affiliated firms’
innovation in business groups? How can they be used?
h) What are business group’s coordination mechanisms helpful to
stimulate affiliated firm innovation?
*References*
Belenzon, S., & Berkovitz, T. (2010). Innovation in business groups.
Management Science, 56(3), 519-535.
Chang, S. J., Chung, C. N., & Mahmood, I. P. (2006). When and how does
business group affiliation promote firm innovation? A tale of two emerging
economies. Organization Science, 17(5), 637-656.
Dagnino, G.B., Levanti, G., Minà, A., and Picone, M. (2015).
Interorganizational Network and Innovation: A Bibliometric Study and
Proposed Research Agenda. Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing. In
press
Forrest, J. E., & Martin, M. J. C. (1992). Strategic alliances between
large and small research intensive organizations: experiences in the
biotechnology industry. R&D Management, 22(1), 041-054.
Hagedoorn, J., & Duysters, G. (2002). External sources of innovative
capabilities: the preferences for strategic alliances or mergers and
acquisitions. Journal of Management Studies, 39(2), 167-188.
Hess, A. M., & Rothaermel, F. T. (2011). When are assets complementary?
Star scientists, strategic alliances, and innovation in the pharmaceutical
industry. Strategic Management Journal, 32(8), 895-909.
Jacob, J., Belderbos, R., & Gilsing, V. (2013). Technology alliances in
emerging economies: Persistence and interrelation in European firms’
alliance formation. R&D Management, 43(5), 447-460.
Joshi, A. M., & Nerkar, A. (2011). When do strategic alliances inhibit
innovation by firms? Evidence from patent pools in the global optical disc
industry. Strategic Management Journal, 32(11), 1139-1160.
Karamanos, A. G. (2012). Leveraging micro‐and macro‐structures of
embeddedness in alliance networks for exploratory innovation in
biotechnology.R&D Management, 42(1), 71-89.
Leiponen, A., & Helfat, C. E. (2010). Innovation objectives, knowledge
sources, and the benefits of breadth. Strategic Management Journal, 31(2),
224-236.
Meier, M. (2011). Knowledge management in strategic alliances: A review of
empirical evidence. International Journal of Management Reviews, 13(1),
1-23.
Vissa, B., Greve, H. R., & Chen, W. R. (2010). Business group affiliation
and firm search behavior in India: Responsiveness and focus of attention.
Organization Science, 21(3), 696-712.
*Important Dates and Deadlines*
· *Abstracts due (1.000 words)*: 1st February, 2015
· *Notification of acceptance: *28th February, 2015
· *Final papers due: *30th April 2015
· *Deadline for registration: *31th May 2015
To learn more about
The R&D Management Conference 2015 and the track on "strategic alliances,
business group, and innovation"
please visit:
http://rnd2015.sssup.it/call-for-paper/66-conference-tracks/280-strategic-alliances-business-groups-and-innovation-research-opportunities-and-challenges.html
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Giovanni Battista Dagnino
dagnino@unict.it
www.giovannibattistadagnino.eu
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