Dear BPS Members:
We would like to invite you to several pre-conference sessions at the upcoming SMS conference in Prague on Sunday, October 7. As you may know, this year's conference marks the introduction of the Strategic Leadership and Governance Interest Group. In honor of this occasion, there will be two sessions devoted to "State of the Field" discussions with some of those scholars who have contributed most to the development of this sub-domain of strategic management. A third session will then explore the links between strategic leadership and governance, and discuss the reasoning behind the creation of the new Interest Group. Registration is not required, and all SMS conference attendees are encouraged to join us for what will certainly be a fascinating series of discussions.
Best regards,
Guoli Chen, Craig Crossland, Karen Schnatterly, and Anja Tuschke
Sunday, October 7, 2012
8:00am - 9:15am
Club H room, 1st floor, Prague Congress Centre
Panelists:
Brian Boyd; Chaired Professor of Strategic Management, City University of Hong Kong
Sydney Finkelstein; Steven Roth Professor of Management, Dartmouth College
William Judge; E.V. Williams Chair of Strategic Leadership, Old Dominion University
Margarethe Wiersema; Dean's Professor in Strategic Management, University of California, Irvine
Chair: Craig Crossland, University of Texas at Austin
Description:
This Panel will bring together a group of scholars who will discuss potential research avenues in strategic leadership. Topics will include leadership, upper echelons, managerial constraints and discretion, the need for renewal, succession, and compensation. The session will broadly explore the role of strategic leadership in different institutional environments. The session will also engage the panel and audience in identifying further research questions in these various areas.
Sunday, October 7, 2012
9:30am - 10:45am
Club H room, 1st floor, Prague Congress Centre
Panelists:
Ruth Aguilera; Associate Professor of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Amy Hillman; Rusty Lyon Chair in Strategy, Arizona State University
Gerry Sanders; Professor of Strategic Management, Rice University
Toru Yoshikawa; Associate Professor of Business, Singapore Management University
Chair: Anja Tuschke, University of Munich
Description:
This Panel will bring together a group of scholars who will discuss potential research avenues in governance with an emphasis on boards. Topics will address how corporations can be directed or controlled, how practices diffuse and what impedes or facilitates this process, and the impact of governance reform, stockholders and other external entities to whom the firm is responsible. The session will broadly explore what governance research entails in different institutional environments. The session will also engage the panel and audience in identifying further research questions in these areas.
Sunday, October 7, 2012
11:15am - 12:30pm
Club H room, 1st floor, Prague Congress Centre
Chairs: Guoli Chen, INSEAD; Karen Schnatterly, University of Missouri; Anja Tuschke, University of Munich
Description:
Leadership and governance research have much in common. This session will explore the commonalities and complementarities of these research streams. Topics will include the role of the CEO and board in leadership and governance, issues involving their composition, different ways these entities interact and influence each other, and how they, together influence critical firm activities. All of these activities also take place in various institutional environments, ranging from regulatory regimes within a country, to differing institutional environments across countries.