| Organizer: Brian C. Fox, Bentley U.
Organizer: Ciaran Heavey, U. College Dublin, Smurfit
Organizer: Zeki Simsek, Clemson U.
Facilitator: Brian Boyd, City U. of Hong Kong
Speaker: Steven Boivie, Texas A&M U.
Speaker: Andreas Sebastian Konig, U. of Passau
Speaker: Dovev Lavie, Technion Israel Institute of Technology
Speaker: Shenghui Ma, U. of Zurich
Speaker: Matthew Semadeni, Arizona State U.
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| Interfaces are the contact points where the separate worlds of actors, units, and organizations intersect and are central to facilitating the transfer of influence, information, resources, and insights in supporting the design, development, and execution of strategy. As organizations and entities within them become more porous, flexible, and loosely-coupled, interfaces represent an increasingly important phenomenon for strategy research. Despite the omnipresent nature of strategy interfaces, an integrated and inclusive conversation for advancing associated research has yet to take place.. In the first part of our PDW, a distinguished panel of speakers will present "teaser" presentations about new theories, frameworks, concepts, or methods that advance our understanding of strategic leadership interfaces, governance interfaces, inter-organizational interfaces, and intra-organizational interfaces. By strategic leadership interfaces, we mean the interdependent interactions among those strategic actors with overall responsibility for business strategy and performance, most notably the CEO and the top management team. Governance interfaces are the interdependent interactions among the boards of directors, owners, investors, and other governance bodies to align the goals and incentives of executives with owners, intermediaries, and capital markets. Inter-organizational interfaces represent the interactions among actors that straddle organizational boundaries, and are vital conduits through which resource interdependencies among cooperating organizations are reconciled and managed. Finally, intra-organizational interfaces constitute the interdependent interactions among strategic actors and salient unit- or function-level leaders such as middle-managers which inform and allow for the execution of strategic choices and actions. Following these presentations, our discussion Brian Boyd will highlight common threads and directions for future inquiry. Registration is not required for the first component of the workshop (from approximately 2 – 3p). Please feel free to join us if you are interested in these topics! |