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Strategy Research on Interfaces –Strategic Leaders and Beyond

(AOM Annual Meeting PDW# 13887)

Friday, August 4, 2017 (from 2-4PM)

Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Hanover Hall F

Are you a strategic entrepreneurship scholar who wants to incorporate the concept of interfaces into your work?  Do you have an interfaces-related paper and want to improve it further? Join us for this PDW that explores the conceptual, methodological, and empirical challenges for examining strategy interfaces, and provides an opportunity for early-stage proposal development.

This PDW at the Academy of Management meetings in Atlanta is comprised of two parts.

In the first part, our distinguished speakers will present "teaser" presentations about new theories, frameworks, concepts, or methods that advance our understanding of strategic leadership interfaces, governance interfaces, inter-organizational interfaces, and intra-organizational interfaces. The following distinguished speakers will take part:

·         Steve Boivie, Texas A&M University

·         Brian Boyd, City U. of Hong Kong

·         Andreas König, University of Passau

·         Dovev Lavie, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

·         Shenghui Ma, University of Zurich

·         Matthew Semadeni, Arizona State University

Following these presentations, we will transition to a proposal development workshop where the speakers and organizers will provide developmental feedback on accepted proposals.  If you have a proposal that you would like to submit for inclusion consideration, please send (a) your current CV and (b) a 3-5 page proposal to Brian Fox (brian.fox5@gmail.com) no later than June 30, 2017. Scholars admitted to the PDW will be notified by July 10, 2017 with further instructions for how to pre-register for the event.

We invite proposals related to one (or more) strategy interfaces including strategic leadership, governance, inter-organizational, and intra-organizational interfaces.  By strategic leadership interfaces, we mean the interdependent interactions among those strategic actors with overall responsibility for business strategy and performance, most notably the CEO and the top management team.  Governance interfaces are the interdependent interactions among the boards of directors, owners, investors, and other governance bodies to align the goals and incentives of executives with owners, intermediaries, and capital markets. Inter-organizational interfaces represent the interactions among actors that straddle organizational boundaries, and are vital conduits through which resource interdependencies among cooperating organizations are reconciled and managed. Finally, intra-organizational interfaces constitute the interdependent interactions among strategic actors and salient unit- or function-level leaders such as middle-managers which inform and allow for the execution of strategic choices and actions.

We seek early stage papers where these interface concepts play a significant theoretical or empirical role. We are open to submissions from multiple theoretical perspectives, as well as diverse research designs including conceptual, case/qualitative, survey-based, archival, longitudinal, or mixed methods. The organizers will be reviewing the proposals on a rolling basis prior to acceptance to ensure a high-quality discussion and to manage a balance across each of the four interface domains.  Submissions must be received by no later than June 30, 2017.

We look forward to seeing you in Atlanta on Friday August 4 from 2-4p at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta – Hanover Hall F.  If you have any questions, please contact us at brian.fox5@gmail.com.

Sincerely,

Brian Fox

Ciaran Heavey

Zeki Simsek

PDW Organizers