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Overview Strategy Process IG activities during SMS Conference

The Strategy Process Leadership team (Dries Faems, Jorge Walter and Frances Fabian) would like to invite you to the program of the Strategy Process Interest Group (IG) during the SMS Conference (September 22-25, Paris). Below is an overview of our core activities on the Saturday and Sunday program. For more information on our IG, please go to our website (https://www.strategicmanagement.net/ig-strategy-process/overview)

Saturday Workshop (9.00 -12.00, together with Strategy Practice IG)

Strategy Process and Strategy Practice scholars share similar interests and challenges in their research. The purpose of this workshop is to discuss the challenges of conducting and publishing studies on strategy processes and practices, providing junior faculty and PhD students with a forum to interact with senior scholars in the field and receive feedback on their projects. For this, we have gathered a group of senior scholars, including some editors and authors from the 2018 SMJ Special Issue "Strategy Processes and Practices: Dialogues and Intersections". The panelists will share their experience and offer advice from both the editors' and authors' perspectives. As the panel will also explore promising topics at the intersection of strategy process and practice research, this workshop will also provide a forum for research exchanges between the Strategy Process Interest Group and Strategy Practice Interest Group members.

For more information and registration: https://www.strategicmanagement.net/paris/workshops/process-practice-research-workshop#/?_k=wp8wn7

Sunday IG sessions

First session:  8:00 am - 9:15 am Behavioral Foundations of Strategy Process

Organizer: Murat Tarakci

Panelists: William Ocasio (Northwestern University), Steven Floyd (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Daniella Laureiro-Martínez (ETH Zurich)

 Strategy is made, shaped and executed by those who think, feel, and care with all their perfect imperfections. In fact, we are witnessing not only the acceptance of this behavioral perspective but also a proliferation of strategy process studies along behavioral lines. Some scholars have been quick to borrow explanations from social and cognitive psychology and apply them into strategy process to advance and reformulate our existing theories. Others are building home-grown behavioral theories of strategy process. To further move strategic process research forward, it is time to look back on our accumulated knowledge and discuss the major challenges and opportunities for future research. Our panelists, who have helped build the foundations of this behavioral turn, will facilitate our review and offer an invaluable and lively forum to spark new research ideas.

Second session: 9:45 am – 11:00 am Executive cognition and strategy process: Current research directions and methodological advancements

Joint session with the Research Methods IG

Organizers: Patricia Klarner, Andreas Schwab

Panelists: Sucheta Nadkarni (University of Cambridge), Taco Reus (Erasmus University), Gerard P. Hodgkinson (The University of Manchester), Jeremy Short (The University of Oklahoma)

Recent research has highlighted the ability for individual personality characteristics, predilections, and team interactions to significantly contribute to macro-organizational outcomes. This panel has published a variety of approaches to document the array of supporting evidence for this contention, and here takes stock of research on executive cognition and strategy process as well as contemporary methodological advancements. Panelists will present their recently published research in top tier journals, illustrating the state-of-the-field on the role of CEO temporality and personality as well as team cognition in strategy process. They will also discuss new areas of inquiry and new methods to study executive cognition and respond to questions from the audience. 

Third session: 11:15 am – 12:30  New platform creation in digital ecosystems: Processes, dilemmas, and implications for corporate strategy

Joint Session with Knowledge and Innovation IG

Session Chairs: Shahzad Ansari (University of Cambridge), Saeed Khanagha (Ericsson)

Panelists: Gasper Wosa (Ericsson), Manfred Dasselaar (Philips Lighting),  Michael G Jacobides (London Business School), Tobias Kretschmer (LMU Munich), Nikolas Fahlskog (Philips).

With the advent and increasing pervasiveness of digital technologies, established firms and new entrants often seek to gain competitiveness by creating new platform ecosystems. These firms, however, face several strategic dilemmas revolving around sustaining their own interests while also encouraging other firms to participate. To address the question of how to initiate, expand and diffuse a new platform ecosystem, we invited a distinguished panel of practitioners and scholars to explore the dynamics of platform creation over time. In this session, two senior practitioners will present some of the challenges of new platform creation and how they addressed those challenges. This will be followed by reflections and insights from the academic panel. The session will provide a forum to share insights about platform creation and to illuminate unresolved challenges, puzzles and gaps in our knowledge of platform strategies. The session will conclude with both practical and scholarly avenues to be addressed in future.