AOM Presenter Symposium: Innovation and Politics
Date and Time: Tuesday, July 29, 2025; 3:30PM – 5:00PM CEST
Venue: Bella Center in Hall D- D3-m6
Presenters:
John De Figueiredo (Duke University and NBER)
Michael Park (INSEAD)
Elie Sung (HEC Paris)
Shirley Xiaoli Tang (Bocconi University)
Discussants:
Brian Silverman (University of Toronto)
Nilanjana Dutt (Bocconi University)
Organizers:
Elie Sung (HEC Paris)
Yasir Dewan (HEC Paris)
Overview
Scholars of innovation, organization, and strategy recognize the critical role of the political environment in shaping innovation processes and outcomes. While much of the existing research emphasizes how public policies influence innovation, other significant aspects of the interplay between politics and innovation remain underexplored. This symposium shifts attention to the active role firms play in shaping public policies, the incremental nature of policy change and its effects on firms' adoption of new technologies, and the within-firm political dynamics that influence innovation. By addressing these underexplored issues, the symposium participants seek to offer a more nuanced understanding of how political dynamics shape innovation strategies and outcomes, providing theoretical and empirical contributions that will interest scholars in technology and innovation management, as well as those examining the broader intersections of politics, institutions, and non-market strategy.
Presentations (Presenters [*] and Co-Authors)
How do inventors' political preferences affect innovation?
John M. De Figueiredo* (Duke University)
Trijeet Sethi (Capital One)
Brian Silverman (University of Toronto)
Computational quantification of green regulation
Michael Park* (INSEAD)
Shuping Wu (INSEAD)
Zhen Ge (INSEAD)
Patrick McLaughlin (Stanford University)
Lobbying the court for patent policy: An introduction and new dataset
Elie Sung*(HEC Paris)
Yasir Dewan (HEC Paris)
Directed technical change through disclosure: Evidence from the U.S. fracking industry
Shirley Xiaoli Tang* (Bocconi University)
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Yasir Dewan
Assistant Professor
HEC Paris
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Yasir Dewan
HEC Paris
Jouy-en-Josas
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