Dear All
We are happy to share the Call for Papers for our Owners as Strategists 2024 conference, held online on November 21, 2024.
The Owners as Strategists conference aims to bring together scholars with an interest in ownership, governance, and strategy to address the overarching question of what the role of ownership is for firm strategy and governance.
This year's conference will focus on owners as stakeholders. The landscape of corporate governance is undergoing a continuous evolution. While owner primacy has dominated corporate governance for the past decades, more and more scholars claim that the central problem in corporate governance today is to enable a team effort of various stakeholders and to overcome collective action problems. From a stakeholder perspective, we may ask whether the superior position of shareholders is justified? How should owners cooperate with other stakeholders? What is the role of the board when the primary focus is on resolving conflicts between stakeholders and who should appoint such a board of directors? Who should be the owners of the firm? Are there new legal forms and new ways of distributing control and cash-flow rights that help organize firms in efficient ways? This year's conference aims tackle these and related questions about how firm owners integrate into a stakeholder-driven world.
Besides contributions to the this year's conference theme, we also invite submissions in the following fields: corporate governance, institutional ownership, family business, foundations, state ownership, entrepreneurship, venture capital and private equity.
Paper submission:
To submit your original work, please visit: www.strategicownership.com
The deadline for submission is September 6, 2024.
Confirmed speakers:
ANITA McGAHAN University of Toronto
COLIN MAYER Oxford University
J.W. STOELHORST University of Amsterdam
JOE MAHONEY University of Illinois
LEO PONGELUPPE University of Pennsylvania
RUTH AGUILERA Northeastern University.
Best regards,
The Organizing Committee
Christine Scheef, Mario Daniele Amore, Paola Taricco, Thomas Zellweger
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Christine Scheef
Assistant Professor
University of St. Gallen
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