Session ID: #1683
Date: Tuesday, Aug 8 2017 8:00AM - 9:30AM
Location: Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Embassy Hall E
Sponsoring Divisions: TIM – BPS - OMT
This symposium will examine strategic challenges of small firms in digital industries and those industries affected by digitization. Whereas small and young firms are assumed to be pivotal in global digital innovation, the roles of firm size and age have rarely been explicitly examined. To better understand how small firms contribute to the ongoing digitalization of the economy, we focus on five key strategic challenges: R&D performance, IT productivity, platform strategy, employee mobility, and firm location. Our five speakers will introduce recent strategy research on these themes and lead a discussion on how small and young firms differ from other types of firms in their strategic behavior and performance in innovating digital products and services.
The five papers to be presented are:
- Small is big in ICT: The impact of R&D on ICT firm performance (Pantelis Koutroumpis, Aija Leiponen and Llewellyn Thomas)
- Economies before scale: IT investment and performance in young firms (Kristina McElheran and Wang Jin)
- Small versus large firms in platform strategy: Lessons from mobile apps (Pai-Ling Yin)
- Job search during mergers and acquisitions (Ashwini Agrawal and Prasanna Tambe)
- Agglomeration of invention in the Bay Area: Not just ICT (Chris Forman, Avi Goldfarb, and Shane Greenstein)
We look forward to seeing you there!
Aija Leiponen & Llewellyn Thomas