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STRUCTURE AND ATTRACTIVENESS OF INDUSTRY?
WHERE: <st1:placetype w:st="on">Academy</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Management</st1:placename> 2006, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Atlanta</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">GA</st1:state></st1:place>
WHEN: <st1:date month="8" day="13" year="2006" w:st="on">Sunday, August 13, 2006</st1:date> <st1:time hour="9" minute="0" w:st="on">9:00AM – 12:00PM</st1:time>
LOCATION: <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Atlanta</st1:city></st1:place> Marriott Marquis – International 1 Room
CO-ORGANIZERS
· Michael G. Jacobides, Assistant Professor of Strategic and International Management, London Business School; Sumantra Ghoshal Fellow, Advanced Institute of Management Research; Visiting Scholar, Harvard Business School
· Michael Leiblein, <st1:placename w:st="on">Fisher</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">College</st1:placetype> of Business, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Ohio</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">State</st1:placetype> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>.
· Jeffrey Macher, McDonough <st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Business</st1:placename>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Georgetown</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>
DISCUSSION FACILITATORS
· Nick Argyres, School of Management, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Boston</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>
· Jay Barney, <st1:placename w:st="on">Fisher</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">College</st1:placetype> of Business, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Ohio</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">State</st1:placetype> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>
· Dan Levinthal, The <st1:placename w:st="on">Wharton</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Pennsylvania</st1:placename></st1:place>
· Harbir Singh, The <st1:placename w:st="on">Wharton</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Pennsylvania</st1:placename></st1:place>
· Todd Zenger, <st1:placename w:st="on">Olin</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype> of Business, <st1:placename w:st="on">Washington</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">St. Louis</st1:place></st1:city>
WORKSHOP GOALS
· To help researchers at all career stages who are currently examining the development and exploitation of firm specific sources of advantage.
· To aid researcher and scholars in further developing working papers, planned projects, and other works-in-progress into publishable articles, through the friendly exchange of ideas, constructive feedback and critique.
· To foster the exchange and sharing of ideas, projects, and data among geographically dispersed researchers who might otherwise have no opportunity to interact.
· To promote the development of a mutual-support network for researchers interested in different aspects of capabilities.
WORKSHOP APPROACH
Over the last few years, a promising convergence of theoretical perspectives has emerged in the field of strategy. In contrast to prior efforts that tightly mapped different topics to different theoretical perspectives (e.g., issues of firm boundaries were analyzed using TCE; issues of competitive advantage were considered using the RBV; and issues of change and capability adaptation through evolutionary approaches and the KBV), there has recently been a marked increase in research that cuts across such boundaries. Recent contributions have considered questions such as:
· Whether and to what extent do transaction costs and/or sources of firm-specific heterogeneity lead managers to pick one governance form over another?
· What is the influence of governance choice on the subsequent development of firm capabilities?
· How do environmental and firm-specific factors affect the manner in which industries shift from integration to disintegration and back?
· How do firms' strategies and prospects for success evolve over time in an industry?
This PDW intends to build on this budding research by developing a forum in which authors with similar interests meet and discuss related questions. We particularly encourage submissions on the following topics:
· How do resources and capabilities influence outsourcing decisions and subsequent performance?
· What firm- and industry-level factors influence the evolution of industry structure (e.g, vertical disintegration or reintegration)?
· What factors affect the allocation of profits along the value chain and across stakeholders?
· How does firm and industry organization (in particular, boundaries within and between organizations) affect the identification of valuable opportunities, and how does it impact competitive dynamics?
Each work-in-progress paper will be grouped with others that are "similar" in either topic or methodology. Prior to the workshop, participants in each group will prepare written comments and feedback on the other works-in-progress in their group. Individual groups will exchange feedback during the workshop, with each group's discussion being facilitated by an experienced discussant, familiar with the topic or method in question.
Submission Requirements
· In order to participate, individuals must submit one 10 to 25 page manuscript by <st1:date month="6" day="30" year="2006" w:st="on">June 30, 2006</st1:date> to Leiblein_1@cob.osu.edu.
· Submissions should be targeted to research journals, but not under advanced review.
· Submissions should include at least three key words that describe the contribution of the paper.
· Submission indicates permission to distribute and post the submitted paper to the workshop web page which will be located at http://fisher.osu.edu/~leiblein_1/Acad/acad06pdw.htm.
Upon receipt of all the papers, the workshop organizers will group papers with others that are similar in topic and/or methodology and post them to the conference webpage. Prior to the workshop, participants in each group will prepare written comments and feedback on the other works-in-progress in their group. Individual groups will exchange feedback during the workshop, with each group's discussion being facilitated by an experienced discussion facilitator who is familiar with the topic or method in question.
Michael J. Leiblein
Associate Professor of Strategic Management
Ph: (614) 292-0071
Fax: (614) 292-7062
e-mail: leiblein_1@cob.osu.edu
web: http://fisher.osu.edu/leiblein_1/