Posted on behalf of Govert Vroom:
ANNOUNCEMENT: EDEN ADVANCED STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT DOCTORAL SEMINAR
When: November 17-21, 2014
Where: IESE Business School, Barcelona
The Eden Advanced Strategic Management Doctoral Seminar is co-organized by INSEAD and IESE and will take place from November 17 to 24, 2014 in Barcelona at IESE Business School.
This intensive week-long doctoral seminar will be taught by internationally renowned scholars in the Management and Strategy field from Europe and North America. Topics covered in the Seminar will range from formal theoretical modeling to latest empirical methodologies for strategy research.
The target audience is doctoral students from all over the world, preferably in their second or third year of study, who have covered the basic Management and Strategy courses and are actively developing their own research questions in the Strategy field.
The week will consist of lectures, discussions, and presentations and aims at bringing the participants up to speed regarding the state of the art in Strategic Management research.
Panelists:
Bruno Cassiman (IESE, Barcelona, Spain)
Javier Gimeno (INSEAD, France)
Matthew Grennan (Wharton, University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.)
Michael Ryall (Toronto, Canada)
Brian Silverman (Toronto, Canada)
Govert Vroom (IESE, Barcelona, Spain)
Monday, November 17: Javier Gimeno (INSEAD) and Govert Vroom (IESE)
Topic: "Competitive Strategy: Competitive Interaction and Dynamics"
1. Competitive Strategy Research: What have we learned so far?
o This session provides an overview of the major streams of empirical research in competitive strategy: their motivation, major findings, and cumulative learning. Focus on industry and firm profitability, market share effects, strategic groups and generic strategies, early mover advantage.
2. How do firms differ, and how does it matter? Strategic positions and competitive interdependence
o This session will focus on examining research on competitive processes among heterogenous firms. We will focus on how to measure strategic heterogeneity, and the competitive process among heterogenous firms.
3. Doing Empirical Research on Competitive Behavior
o This session examines streams of research where competitive behavior is explicitly studies (research on intensity of rivalry, competitive dynamics, multimarket competition, etc).
4. Methodological Issues in Competitive Strategy Research
This session will focus on methodological issues to consider when engaging in large sample empirical research in competitive strategy. We will focus on issues of data sources, measurement, analytical techniques, and common pitfalls.
Tuesday, November 18: Matthew Grennan (Wharton)
Topic: "Modern Methods and Models for Empirical Work in Strategy"
1. The Importance and Challenges of Causal Inference
2. Leveraging "Natural" Experiments
o "Incentives and Creativity: Evidence from the Academic Life Sciences", by Pierre Azoulay, Gustavo Manso, and Joshua Graff Zivin
3. The Value of Theory in Empirical Research
o "Incentives Work: Getting Teachers to Come to School", by Esther Duflo, Rema Hanna, and Stephen Ryan
o "Bargaining Ability and Competitive Advantage: Evidence from Medical Devices", by Matthew Grennan
4. Communicating Empirical Research: Etiquette and Best Practices
Wednesday, November 19: Michael Ryall (U. of Toronto)
Topic: "Value-Based Strategy"
1. Introduction, background and motivation.
2. The Value Capture Model: notation, setup, assumptions, solutions and interpretation
3. Essential Results: important findings, the subtleties of competition, added value, and persuasive assets
4. Advanced topics, empirical findings, future directions
Thursday, November 20: Brian Silverman (U. of Toronto)
Topic: "Organizational structure, technological capabilities, and competitive strategy"
1. Integrating organizational economics and organization theory in strategy research
o Basic insights from organizational economics
o Basic insights from organization theory
o Developing studies that usefully combine these approaches
2. Organizational boundaries and technological performance
3. Intra-organizational structures and technological performance
Friday, November 21: Bruno Cassiman (IESE)
Topic: "Innovation Strategy and Productivity"
1. Firm Decisions and Productivity
o In these sessions I propose to explore the connection between the enormous "productivity literature" in the area of economics and interesting applications and extensions of this knowledge and body of work relevant to the field of the management and strategy. I believe there are interesting bridges between these two fields to be built.
2. Profiting from Innovation
o Innovation is becoming central to the strategy of firms in order to secure a sustainable competitive advantage. In these sessions we attempt to uncover fundamental drivers of a firm's incentive to innovate. The readings for this session present some empirical regularities on this relation while the theoretical papers present a formal theory (or contrast different theories) of what might be underlying this incentive. The seminar consists in understanding the potential drivers of innovation, learning the existing theories and discussing how well these theories match the empirical findings of this multifaceted phenomenon.