WHARTON CORPORATE STRATEGY & INNOVATION CONFERENCE
December 7-8, 2023
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
We are very pleased to announce the fourth annual Wharton Corporate Strategy and Innovation Conference, generously sponsored by the Mack Institute for Innovation Management at the Wharton School. The conference will be held from the afternoon of Thursday, December 7 through Friday, December 8, 2023.
Modern companies are increasingly engaging in innovative corporate strategies that call out for academic inquiry. Firm boundaries are constantly being reconsidered by both newer firms (like Google and Amazon) and more traditional firms (like GE and Siemens) alike. New technologies are influencing corporate strategies in ways that are only partially understood, and there is increasing empirical evidence that returns to scale and scope may have fundamentally changed over the past several decades, and are likely to continue to do so.
We are looking to foster an engaged community of like-minded researchers interested in exploring questions on the frontiers of corporate strategy and innovation. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, new insights on the following:
- Corporate scope and firm boundaries
- Related and unrelated diversification
- Innovation in multi-business firms
- Innovation and returns to scale and scope
- Corporate strategies of platform-based businesses
- Governance, structure, and organization
- Outsourcing, alliances, and partnerships
The conference format will include a mix of longer and shorter paper presentations, as well as a poster session for PhD participants.
Please send completed papers or a statement of interest for non-presenting participation using the online application form.
The application deadline for submissions is July 31, 2023.
Emilie Feldman, Claudine Gartenberg & Paul Nary, Conference Organizers
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Paul Nary
Assistant Professor of Management (Strategy Area)
Management Department
The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
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