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The Organizational Design Community (ODC) invites you to the following webinar:

Organizational Design, Corporate Structure and Diversification

24th November 2022, Thursday at 9am Eastern Time 

The recent Corporate Strategy research on Diversification has highlighted important heterogeneities and differences in how diversified companies are exploiting competitive advantages. This means that companies competing exactly in the same sectors and with the same Herfindhal index for their product portfolios could have quite different logics for value creation. Two main models emerge: Diversifiers with a logic of nurturing synergies from a common pool of resources and diversifiers with a real option logic which push for resource redeployment and internal market competition. We suspect that these two models imply different organization structures: different designs, processes, hierarchies and routines. Could you help us to open this black box? How do strategy and structure emerge and evolve? Is there an optimal fit?

Marco S. Giarratana

Marco S. Giarratana (PhD, 2003, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy) is since 2019 the Vice-Rector of Coordination and Research at IE University in Madrid, Spain. He is full professor at the department of Strategy at IE Business School since 2016. He was previously associate professor at the University Carlos III (Madrid), and full professor at the Bocconi University (Milan). His main research interests focus on the role of diversification, resource redeployment, patents and trademarks, and strategic sustainability. From 2017 to 2019, he was the Chair of Strategy department at IE Business School. From 2020 to 2022 he was visiting professor at the University of Bath.

Juan Santaló

Juan Santaló has a Master in Economics from Pompeu Fabra Universy and a PhD  from the University of Chicago that he got thanks to a Fulbright grant. He is full professor of Strategy at IE University where he has developed his entire academic career since 2002. Juan Santaló was Chair of the Strategy Department from 2008 to 2013 and visiting professor at Bocconi University (2013-2014), the Freeman school of business (Summer 2007) and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business (Summer 2003). He has two main lines of research: competitive strategy in platform markets and corporate diversification (competitive advantage of multi-business firms).  

Link to register: https://orgdesigncomm.com/event-5019164/Registration. Registration closes 22nd November, 2022 at 10 am (eastern time).

The live webinar is open to the public. The recorded webinar is only available for ODC members.

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