Dear Colleagues, We invite you to our PDW entitled Aspirations as a Driver of Organizational Change and Innovation to be held Friday, August 3rd from 2:45pm to 5:45pm in the Boston Hynes Convention Center, Room 202. Goal: The goal of the panel is to identify important researchable ideas about resource reconfiguration that draw from some combination of the resource based view and performance feedback theory. Defining resource reconfiguration and opportunities to increase our understanding of reconfiguration: By resource reconfiguration, we mean substantial organizational changes either within existing boundaries or changes of boundaries resulting from multiple mechanisms and activities such as internal development, contracts, alliances, acquisitions, divestitures, and other ways of achieving substantial organizational change. Scholars drawing from the resource based view and related work (e.g., business dynamics, dynamic capabilities) and from performance feedback and related work (e.g., the behavioural theory of the firm, prospect theory) have generated important insights about resource reconfiguration. Scholars are now beginning to generate insights that draw from complementary ideas within these perspectives: the PDW seeks to encourage such joint insights. Format: The PDW will consist of three parts: (1) presentations by panelists, (2) roundtable discussions guided by facilitators that generate research propositions, and (3) reports about research opportunities. The panel will include Rajshree Agarwal (University of Maryland), Philip Bromiley (UC Irvine), Michael Hitt (Texas A&M University), Robert Hoskisson (Rice), and Pino Audia (Dartmouth College). Research development: Table discussions will be a key activity of the PDW. Following the opening panel, participants of the PDW will break into smaller facilitated discussion. The goal for each table will be to generate at least three researchable ideas about resource reconfiguration that draw from some combination of resource based and performance feedback theory. We hope to see you there we would love to hear your insights about new opportunities to study resource reconfiguration! Kind regards, Will Mitchell & Elena Vidal (Duke University)