Join the Sunday Program of the Cooperative Strategies interest group at the
Strategic Management Society Conference in Prague.
An exciting program expects you.
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Session 100
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cooperative Strategies
Track N Date: Sunday, October 7, 2012
Time: 08:00 09:15
Interest Group Panel Room: Club C
Session Chair:
Tina Dacin, Queen's University
Panelists:
Rajesh Kumar, Nottingham University Business School
Joanne Oxley, University of Toronto
Harbir Singh, University of Pennsylvania
Edward Zajac, Northwestern University
Alliances and cooperation have been studied from various theoretical
perspectives, anchored in economies, sociology, and psychology. These
perspectives have informed strategy research on alliances, as evident, for
instance, in the relational view. What are the fundamental assumptions of
these disciplines? How have they shaped research on cooperative strategies?
Can we integrate multiple perspectives when studying alliances? What are the
remaining research gaps and directions that future research on cooperative
strategies should take? A distinguished panel of scholars will discuss these
questions, underscoring the influences of economics (Joanne Oxley),
sociology (Ed Zajac) and psychology (Rajesh Kumar) and relating them to
mainstream strategy research (Harbir Singh). The panel will offer guidance
for developing theory on alliances as well as discuss the theoretical
implications of cooperation.
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Session 101
Practicing Cooperative Strategies
Track N Date: Sunday, October 7, 2012
Time: 09:30 10:45
Interest Group Panel Room: Club C
Session Chair:
Andrew Shipilov, INSEAD
Panelists:
John Bell, Royal Philips
Yves Doz, INSEAD
Geert Duysters, Eindhoven University of Technology
Mitchell Koza, Rutgers University
Research on cooperative strategies has traditionally followed management
practice, yet in recent years it has also offered practical implications for
managing cooperative arrangements. A distinguished panel of scholars and
executives will discuss some interesting cases of companies that manage
alliances: STMicroelectronics (Yves Doz), Philips (Geert Dusters and John
Bell), and Nexia International (Mitchell Koza). Based on their personal
experiences with these companies, the panelists will consider how managers
implement practices that have been advised by research on cooperative
strategies and whether these practices indeed enhanced the success of their
alliances. The panelists will reveal insights from these cases that can
inform academic research and identify potential questions that are yet to be
explored.
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Session 102
Research Methods in Cooperative Strategies
Track N Date: Sunday, October 7, 2012
Time: 11:15 12:30
Interest Group Panel Room: Club C
Session Chair:
Kyle J. Mayer, University of Southern California
Panelists:
Gautam Ahuja, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Africa Ariño, IESE Business School
Thomas Mellewigt, Free University of Berlin
Melissa Schilling, New York University
Scholars have been using various data sources and research methods for
studying cooperative strategies and alliances, including case studies,
surveys, archival data, and social network analysis. What are the relative
advantages and limitations of these methods? What research questions can be
best addressed using a particular method? What are some available data
sources that scholars can use for studying cooperative strategies? What are
some recent developments in using certain research methods? How can we best
combine multiple methods? A distinguished panel of scholars with expertise
in case studies (Africa Arino), surveys (Thomas Mellewigt), archival data
(Melissa Schilling) and social network analysis (Gautam Ahuja) will address
these questions and offer guidance for advanced research on cooperative
strategies and alliances.