Dear colleagues,
We hope that you can join us at the Academy for a professional development workshop on Understanding and Managing Ecosystems. Please see the details below.
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Understanding and Managing Ecosystems (Sponsored by TIM, BPS, ENT)
Professional Development Workshop, 2011 AoM Annual Meeting (San Antonio, TX)
Saturday, Aug 13th, 2:00PM - 4:00PM
Location: San Antonio Convention Center in Room 216 A
Organizers:
Rahul Kapoor, University of Pennsylvania
Anne Parmigiani, University of Oregon
Discussants:
Ron Adner, Dartmouth College
Alfonso Gambardella, Bocconi University
Anita McGahan, University of Toronto
Will Mitchell, University of Toronto & Duke University
Harbir Singh, University of Pennsylvania
Workshop overview:
A firm's ability to create and capture value from its innovation is critically shaped by the web of interdependent activities and technologies that exist within an ecosystem. These ecosystems often span multiple industries and comprise of focal firms, their suppliers, customers and complementors. Thus, to truly understand the nature of firms' innovation efforts and performance implications, we need to look beyond internal resources and capabilities as well as dyadic inter-firm relationships to consider the broader set of interdependencies in the ecosystem.
Workshop format and registration:
Participants will have the opportunity to hear and learn from some of the leading scholars in strategy and innovation. We intend this to be a working session, helping authors develop their early-stage work, with a focus on sharpening their questions, framing and contributions. We are open to the different theoretical and methodological approaches.
Interested participants should register at https://secure.aomonline.org/PDWReg and submit a 3-5 page extended abstract to ecosystem@wharton.upenn.edu by July 19. Late submissions will not be considered and the slot will be released to individuals on the waitlist. To ensure high quality feedback and discussion, this workshop is limited to 40 participants.
Rahul Kapoor
Assistant Professor of Management
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
3620 Locust Walk, Suite 2019
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Tel: 215-898-6458
Email: kapoorr@wharton.upenn.edu
http://www.management.wharton.upenn.edu/kapoor/