Thomas Edison envisioned his phonograph as a business dictation machine
Aspirin was used as a pain killer for over 100 years
Viagra was developed to treat heart disease
But instead of fulfilling their inventors' aims, these inventions were exapted as a jukebox, a blood thinner, and a libido-enhancer. Our PDW will explore exaptation's potential contributions to organization theory, strategy, technological innovation, and entrepreneurship.
| Sponsors: | Organization and Management Theory (OMT); Business Policy and Strategy (BPS); Entrepreneurship (ENT); Technology and Innovation Management (TIM) |
| Time: | Saturday, 2 August 2014: 8:00 – 10:00 am | |
| Location: | Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 203B | |
| Panelists / Discussants: | Phil Anderson INSEAD; Gino Catani NYU; Vibha Gaba INSEAD; Dan Levinthal Wharton; Chris Marquis Harvard; Alan Meyer U. Oregon; Anne Miner U. Wisconsin; Saras Sarasvathy U. Virginia. | |
| Workshop Content: | Panelists will define exaptation, distinguishing it from adjacent concepts such as adaptation, effectuation, variation, selection, and retention. Early applications of exaptation in the domains of OMT, BPS, ENT, and TIM will be summarized. Small group breakout discussions facilitated by panelists and discussants will explore exaptation's potential for advancing our modeling of different concepts and different levels of analysis. Discussants will speculate about how exaptation might advance our understanding of organizational evolution and learning. A concluding plenary discussion will gather insights developed during the breakout groups, and address general questions. | |
| PDW Website: | To prepare for a lively and interactive session, we invite you to visit the PDW website: http://faculty.insead.edu/vibha-gaba/academy-of-management-pdw. There you can view the PDW's agenda, download background articles on exaptation, and read panelists' papers. | |
| | ______________________________________________ Alan Meyer, Lundquist Professor Emeritus of Management Charles H. Lundquist College of Business University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403-1208 phone: 541.346.5178 mobile: 541.206.2138 ______________________________________________ | |
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