The Knowledge and Innovation Interest Group will be hosting three SMS
pre-conference sessions on Sunday, October 11 that we would like to
invite you to attend.
10:00-11:30: Strategy in an Uncertain World: “Black Swan” Implications
for Knowledge and Innovation Scholars
Panelists: Gary Dushnitsky (Wharton), Gary Hansen (University of
California, Santa Barbara), Jason Mendelsohn (Managing Partner, Foundry
Group Venture Capital), Mary Tripsas (Harvard).
Nassim Taleb’s best selling book, “The Black Swan: The Impact of the
Highly Improbable” focuses on the role of outliers, or Black Swans.
These Black Swans can have extreme effects, as he illustrates through
examples such as 9/11, the dotcom bubble, and the current financial
crisis. This panel will highlight the main concepts from this book that
apply to knowledge and innovation. Panelists will then discuss questions
such how the ideas in “Black Swans” can affect how we understand and
study firms, especially with regard to their ability to generate or
respond to "Black Swans"; how these ideas influence the theory and
methods we use to study knowledge and innovation; and what questions
knowledge and innovation scholars should be looking at, given that the
incidences of “Black Swans” is increasing.
1:00 – 2:30 The Changing Governance Landscape and its Impact for Firm
Knowledge and Innovation Activities
Panelists: Robert Hoskisson (Rice University), Jay Lorsch (Harvard),
Edward Zajac (Northwestern), Garry Bruton (TCU), Igor Filatotchev (City
University London), and Charles Elson (National Association of Corporate
Directors (NACD) Advisory Board Member, Director of U of Delaware’s
Center for Corporate Governance, law professor)
This purpose of this session is to highlight in detail how the
governance landscape is changing and the implications of these changes
for firm knowledge and innovation activities and scholarship. Panelists
will cover behavioral, economic, international, legal and front-lines
perspectives (e.g., how board agendas and activities actually evolving)
on governance changes. Discussion will also center around the
theoretical implications associated with these changes, such as the
unexpected effect greater monitoring is likely to have on compensation
and on orientations towards longer-term, more risky activities.
3:00 – 4:30 Integrating Theories of Problem Formation
Panelists: Pamela Barr (Georgia State University), Patricia Gorman
Clifford (McKinsey & Company), Ian Mitroff (University of Southern
California), Jackson Nickerson (Washington University)
Co-sponsored with the Competitive Strategy Interest Group, this session
will discuss theories of problem formulation. In contrast to theories
and frameworks used by strategy scholars that aim to identify and
describe methods for solving well-defined business problems, the
panelists in this session will describe theoretical and practical
efforts to conceptualize problem types, design problem formulation
processes, and align problem formulation processes with particular
problem types. Participants may expect a discussion of significant
issues and potential solutions to efficient problem formulation,
knowledge development, and innovation.
For further information on these and other sessions at the upcoming SMS
conference, please go to:
http://dc.strategicmanagement.net/schedule.php
We hope to see many of you in Washington DC.
Regards,
Sharon Matusik
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