Dear colleagues attending the AOM Annual Conference in Boston in August,
Vikas Aggarwal and Paul Nary are organizing a PDW on research opportunities in private equity and other forms of private capital, alternative governance, and ownership.
We will have a wonderful group of academic speakers (including additional panelists and industry insiders), as well as roundtable sessions to discuss specific research opportunities and projects. If you have relevant projects or ideas, this could be a great place to get feedback and guidance from those specifically interested in these topics.
The panel session is open to all AOM attendees, but pre-registration via email is strongly encouraged for the roundtable/workshop sessions to mitigate any potential capacity issues - just email us directly to indicate interest in attending, including a sentence or two on your relevant research interests or projects at AOM.PE.PDW@gmail.com by July 22.
Time: Saturday, August 5, 2023 1:00-4:00PM
Place: Boston Marriott Copley Place, Suffolk Room
Please join us and share with colleagues, both faculty and students, who may be interested!
More details below:
AOM 2023 PDW: PRIVATE EQUITY AND ALTERNATIVE OWNERSHIP AND GOVERNANCE: RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES FOR STRATEGY SCHOLARS
[AKA: The Eclipse of the Public Corporation, 2.0 – Through the Lens of Strategy]
Where and when: Saturday, August 5, 2023 1:00-4:00PM ET at the Boston Marriott Copley Place in Suffolk Room (Session 421 in the program)
Sponsoring divisions: STR, TIM, ENT, OMT
Panelists: Gautam Ahuja (Cornell), Mary Benner (Minnesota), Aseem Kaul (Minnesota), Ivana Naumovska (INSEAD), Prothit Sen (ISB), Todd Zenger (Utah), as well as additional academic guests and PE practitioners.
Organizers: Vikas Aggarwal (INSEAD), Paul Nary (Wharton)
This PDW will bring together a community of scholars interested in issues of strategy and organizations to better understand forms of ownership and governance under the umbrella of private equity and private capital. These forms represent either alternatives or challenges to public corporate ownership. While many of the prominent scholars studying this topic have been from the finance discipline, we feel that: (1) a strategy and organizations lens would be of unique value in understanding alternative ownership and governance forms as phenomena; (2) the emergence and continuing evolution of various ownership and governance forms such as PE, VC, SPACs, etc., bear important implications for firm strategies and outcomes; and (3) using these contexts for research can help us more deeply understand key questions related to corporate scope, firm capabilities, corporate governance, alliances, ecosystems, and so on. In our view, there can and should be significantly more work on these topics in the mainstream strategy, organizations, and management journals. This PDW will serve as a "primer" for scholars interested in using this industry as a context for strategy research. We will have a panel of both senior and junior scholars who can speak to potential research directions and current work in this area, and will include a set of roundtable discussions for scholars interested in doing research in this domain. Our ultimate goal is to build a vibrant research community oriented around these issues.
This PDW will consist of two 90-minute components:
1. Part I (1:00-2:30PM): Panel Presentations and Discussion (Open attendance)
2. Part II (2:30-4:00PM): Roundtable Workshops and Community Development
(Pre-registration preferred due to capacity constraints)
If you have ideas or projects you'd like to discuss in our roundtable workshop (Part II), please send us an email indicating your interest, including short (2-3 sentences) description of your research to AOM.PE.PDW@GMAIL.COM by July 22, 2023
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Vikas Aggarwal
Associate Professor
INSEAD
Fontainebleau
+33160724440
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