Announcements

STR Announcements: March Events

The STR Division completed several virtual events in February including events on best practices for reviewing and symposia on the topics of strategic human capital and knowledge and innovation. The symposia are available on our YouTube and BiliBili channels. 

An overview of our March events is below. This month we feature a symposium on corporate strategy research and a session on the distinctive contributions of Organizational Behavior and Strategic Management research to the topic of leadership. As always, future events are on the STR calendar and recordings of past events are available on our YouTube and BiliBili channels as well as in podcast form for those unable to attend the events. 

I hope you will join the community enjoying these events and creating and disseminating ideas that matter for the field of strategic management!

Thursday, March 16, 2023 (1:00 to 2:30 pm Eastern): 

STR Virtual Symposium: Corporate Strategy Research

This symposium will feature research from the sub-field of corporate strategy.

Carolyn Fu (Harvard U), Philipp Meyer-Doyle (INSEAD), Paul Nary (U of Pennsylvania), and Susan Perkins (NYU) will present some of their recent research.

Distinguished scholars Juan Alcacer (Harvard U) and Aseem Kaul (U of Minnesota) will summarize these presentations and discuss opportunities for future research.

Our thanks to STR EC member Philipp Meyer-Doyle for organizing the session. Register in advance for this meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqcuChrzssHNZesa0a2wkiCzmGdzqUC0iB   

Monday, March 27, 2023 (10:00 to 11:15 am Eastern): 

STR Distinctiveness Dialogue – STR & OB

The STR Distinctiveness Dialogue Series focuses us on the overlaps and distinctions between the Strategic Management division (STR) and complementary domains. The series is aimed at fostering dialogue in areas of mutual interest, such as a) foundational assumptions and connections, b) distinctive contributions of each domain, and c) research opportunities at the intersection of the domains. In this session, we will focus on the contributions of research involving strategic management and organizational behavior.

The panelists for this session are:

·         Christopher Berry (Indiana University)

·         Giada Di Stefano (Bocconi University)

·         Lamar Pierce (Washington University in St. Louis)

·         Tanya Menon (Ohio State University)

The session will be moderated by STR EC member, Tomasz Obloj (Indiana University).  For suggestions and questions about this symposium, please reach out to Tomasz Obloj: tobloj@iu.edu.

Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAsde6srjstEtVrsZa3EXfvqvaI5mE4Qrkz

To stay informed of these and future events, please visit the STR calendar on the STR homepage, and/or any of our STR social media accounts. 

Michael Leiblein

Division Chair, AoM Strategic Management Division |

Co-Founding Editor, Strategic Management Review |

Academic Director, Integrated Business and Engineering Program |

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/michael-leiblein/0/b2/b14

Dear STR Division members:

 We need your help to identify future volunteer leaders in the STR Division. Our division leaders play an essential role in organizing some of the STR Division's most important activities. Do you know a colleague with great leadership skills who you would recommend? Are you interested in serving in a volunteer role? (Self-nominations are accepted for specialized committees.)

During the month of February, the STR Division is accepting nominations for a number of key volunteer roles, including:

• STR Assistant Program Chair
• STR Executive Committee
• STR Specialized Committees, including:
• Research Committee
• Global Representatives
• Membership Engagement Committee
• Teaching Committee
• Awards Committee

If you would like more information about the STR Division and specific officer responsibilities, please go to http://str.aom.org/home and check out our "Team" tab. If you would like to see summary information about the EC, Officer and specialized committees that have open positions, please see my STR Daily Digest post from January, available here. 

To nominate candidates, please visit https://apps.aom.org/DivNomination and follow the onscreen instructions to log-in to your Academy profile. Once you log-in, you may select 'Nominate Now' for Strategic Management. Nominations will remain open until February 28. 

We hope you will take this opportunity to nominate a colleague who might be willing and able to contribute to the leadership of our division.  If you have any questions, please reach out to me at aomstrheather@gmail.com.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Sincerely,

Heather Berry

STR Past Division Chair

STR Members,

The STR Division completed several virtual events in January (with another January event on the 31^st regarding research on resources and capabilities) and is sponsoring several additional Virtual Events in February. An overview of our February events is below. Future events are on the STR calendar and recordings of past events are available on our YouTube and BiliBili channels as well as in podcast form for those unable to attend the events. 

Please remember to complete your reviews for the annual conference! Your reviews help ensure we can develop a dynamic and interesting conference. 

 

Friday, February 10, 2023 (9:00 to 10:00 am Eastern): 

• STR Reviewing for Conferences and Journals: Best Practices
  
  Catherine Maritan (Syracuse U), a long-time STR member and Strategic Management Journal Associate Editor will provide tips for reviewing conference submissions. This event is organized by Aldona Kapacinskaite and Lisa Tang from the STR Membership Engagement Committee. Please email questions to Aldona or Lisa at, lisa.tang@nus.edu.sg

Monday, February 13, 2023 (9:00 to 10:30 am Eastern):

• STR Virtual Symposium: Strategic Human Capital Research
  
  This symposium will feature research from the field of strategic human capital.

Victoria Sevcenko (INSEAD), JR Keller (Cornell U), DK Kryscynski (Brigham Young U), and Ulya Tsolmon (WUSTL) will present some of their recent research involving Human Capital.

Distinguished scholars Mathew Bidwell (U of Pennsylvania) and Russ Coff (U of Wisconsin) will summarize these presentations and discuss opportunities for future research.

Our thanks to STR EC member Mahka Moeen (U of North Carolina) for organizing the session.

Wednesday, February 22, 2023 (12:00 to 13:30 Eastern):

• STR Virtual Symposium: Knowledge and Innovation Research
  
  This symposium features research about knowledge and innovation strategies at the individual, platform, industry, and regional levels of analysis. The focus of the discussion will be on how this research interacts with central topics in strategic management. Although strategy research primarily seeks to understand firm heterogeneity, many scholars focus on other levels of analysis for shedding light on firm-level dynamics.

Michaël Bikard (INSEAD), Tobias Kretschmer (LMU Munich), Mahka Moeen (U of North Carolina), and Myles Shaver (U of Minnesota) will reflect on what we know about innovation at the individual, platform, industry, and regional levels of analysis, how existing research sheds light on canonical strategic management questions, and what research gaps exist to better link to firm-level strategic management issues. 

The session will be moderated by Elena Plaksenkova (Ohio State U).

Our thanks to STR EC member Mahka Moeen (U of North Carolina) for organizing the session.

To stay informed of these and future events, please visit the STR calendar on the STR homepage, and/or any of our STR social media accounts. 

Michael Leiblein

STR Division Chair

Michael J. Leiblein, PhD

Co-Founding Editor, Strategic Management Review | Division Chair, AoM Strategic Management Division | Academic Director, Integrated Business and Engineering Program |

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/michael-leiblein/0/b2/b14

STR Members,

The other STR Officers, Executive Committee members, and I would like to wish you all a happy, healthy, and productive New Year. 

We would like to remind you of the upcoming deadlines to submit (and review) for the annual conference!

• The AoM deadline for all conference submissions is Tuesday, January 10 2023 at 17:00 ET (UTC-5/GMT-5). Information on the annual meeting is available here.
  
  
• Please remember to sign up to review for the annual conference. Reviewing helps your officer team create a fantastic program and ensures you are aware of contemporary research in the field. Please sign up to review for the annual conference here.
  
  

We would also like to inform you of some potentially exciting virtual events that the STR division is sponsoring in January. Zoom registration information is available in the links for each virtual event below, in addition to being posted on the STR calendar.  We will also record these sessions and make them available on our YouTube and BiliBili channels and in podcast form for those unable to attend the events. 

Monday, January 9, 2023: 

• STR Distinctiveness Session:  Strategic Management, Human Resource Management, and Strategic Human Resource Management – January 9^that 10 am ET.
  
  Jay Barney (U of Utah), Peter Capelli (U of Pennsylvania), Dan Elfenbein (Washington U at St. Louis), and Patrick Wright (U of South Carolina) will present their views regarding research opportunities within the Human Resource Management, Strategic Management, and Strategic Human Resource Management fields. This session is moderated by Philipp Meyer-Doyle (INSEAD).

Thursday, January 19, 2023:

• STR Virtual Symposium on Open Strategy– January 19th at 12:30 pm ET
  
  Martin Friesl (U of Bamberg), Julia Hautz (Innsbruck U), David Seidl (U of Zurich), and Eero Vaara (U of Oxford) will introduce their latest work and discuss opportunities for future research on Open Strategy. Ann Majchrzak (USC) will offer comments. This session is chaired and moderated by Richard Whittington (Oxford).  
  
  

Monday, January 31, 2023:

• STR Virtual Symposium: Resources and Capabilities – January 31^stat 10am ET
  
  Gary Dushnitsky (LBS), Martin Ganco (U of Wisconsin), Elena Novelli (City U, London), Robert Seamans (New York U), and Deepak Somaya (U of Illinois) will share their thoughts regarding the importance and research opportunities involving financial, human capital, general-purpose technology, artificial intelligence, and intellectual property. This session is moderated by Mahka Moeen (U of North Carolina).  
  
  

To stay informed of these and future events, please visit the STR calendar on the STR homepage, and/or any of our STR social media accounts. 

Michael Leiblein

STR Division Chair

Michael J. Leiblein, PhD

Co-Founding Editor, Strategic Management Review | Division Chair, AoM Strategic Management Division | Co-Chair, Strategy Research Foundation | Academic Director, Integrated Business and Engineering Program |

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/michael-leiblein/0/b2/b14

 

The 2022 AoM Hybrid Conference starts at the end of this week!  There are some fantastic symposia, paper sessions and professional development events on the AoM program every day – far too many to list.  Below, I have included the time and location of the main STR-sponsored conference events open to all STR members.  I have also included the locally-organized events the STR Membership Engagement Committee has organized.  See you in Seattle!

STR-Sponsored Conference Events:

Friday August 5^th

5:30- 7:30PM PT: STR Division Welcome Back Happy Hour at Optimism Brewery

Saturday, August 6^th

7:00-8:00AM PT: STR Virtual Social: Asia time zone social online (virtual on AoM platform)

11:00AM-12:00PM PT: STR Virtual Social: Europe time zone social online (virtual on AoM platform)

Sunday, August 7^th

7:30-8:30AM PT: STR Social: Coffee with Distinguished Scholarship and Irwin Award Winners: Kathy Eisenhardt, Dan Levinthal, and Margarethe Wiersema. Sheraton Grand Ballroom D

8:30-10:30AM PT: STR Awards: Distinguished scholarship and Irwin Award session to celebrate Kathy Eisenhardt, Dan Levinthal and Margarethe Wiersema, Sheraton Grand Ballroom D

Monday, August 8^th

7:30-8:30AM PT: STR Social: Coffee with plenary speakers Connie Helfat, Phil Leslie, Marvin Lieberman, Bruce Kogut. Seattle Convention Center, Tahoma 4

8:30-10:00AM PT: STR Plenary “Creating a Better World by Creating Value,” with Connie Helfat, Phil Leslie, Marvin Lieberman, Bruce Kogut, Seattle Convention Center, Tahoma 4

3:00-4:30PM PT: STR Best Dissertation Finalists’ Presentations, Sheraton Metropolitan A

4:30-5:30PM PT: STR In-Person Business Meeting, Sheraton Metropolitan A

5:30-7:00PM PT: STR Social, Sheraton Grand Ballroom C

Locally-Organized STR MEC Events Open to All STR Members:

Friday, August 5^th:

11-12:30PM PT: Coffee Brewing and Tasting at Vitrola Coffee Roasters.  There is very limited availability for this hands-on class. Please contact Jessica Jeesoo Kim (jeesoo.k@uci.edu) or Jia Shen (jia.shen@utdallas.edu) for details.

4:30-5:30PM PT: Pre-Happy Hour Meet-Up: Are you new to the STR division or attending AOM for the first time? Let's meet at the Sheraton Grand Seattle Hotel, walk together to Optimism Brewing, and get to know each other over some donuts before the Happy Hour starts. Please contact Franziska Hittmair (franziska.hittmair@novasbe.pt) or Narae Lee (naraelee@smu.edu.sg) for more information.

Sunday, August 7^th

7:00-8:00AM PT: STRun 2022 – Seattle (and remote option): meet in front of the Sheraton Grand Seattle Hotel for a 8-10K run.

10:00-12:00PM PT: AoM Soccer Cup, meet at the Bobby Morris Playfield – Seattle (estimated cost of less than $10 per person for the game (field use)

Tuesday, August 9^th

12:00-1:00PM PT: STR Wellness (Yoga) at the Freeway Park.  All levels welcome.  Please register here or contact Heloisa Aragao (heloisa.aragao@uta.edu ) if you have questions.

4:30-6:30PM PT: Brews and Tunes at the Freeway Park.  Live music, a beer garden and a food truck.  Join other STR members as you wrap up AoM 2022.  Please register here or contact Heloisa Aragao (heloisa.aragao@uta.edu) if you have questions.

 

We have one final virtual event before the August AoM conference – our final Meet a Theory session for the 2021-2022 year.  Please follow the link on the session title below to register for the July 6^th event.

All prior Meet a Theory and Meet a Method sessions can be accessed on the Research Tab on the STR homepage and there is some amazing content (including research, teaching and professional development sessions) that has been created by our members over the last two years available on the STR YouTube channel.  

 

July Virtual Event:

Friday, July 6, 2022: 

STR Meet a Theory:  Transaction Cost Economics – July 6th starting at 12pm (noon) ET.

Please join us for our final Meet a Theory event this year, focusing on transaction cost economics.  The panelists include Nick Argyres (Olin Business School), Fabrice Lumineau (U. of Hong Kong), Brian Silverman (U. of Toronto) and Libby Weber (U. of California, Irvine).  This session will be moderated by Nuno Barros De Oliveira (Tilburg U.) and has been organized by Mahka Moeen (U. of North Carolina)

The STR Leadership is saddened to learn of the death of Professor Sharon Oster.  Sharon was an economist who was the first woman to gain tenure and the first female Dean at the Yale School of Management.  Her research focused on business strategy, non-profit organization management, microeconomic theory and the economics of regulation and antitrust policies.  She was the recipient of the 2018 STR Irwin Outstanding Educator Award for Excellence in MBA/Executive Education.  Many of Sharon’s students have shared stories about the influence of her teaching on their lives, decades after taking her course.  She also received several teaching awards from Yale, in addition to receiving the 2011 American Economic Association's Carolyn Shaw Bell Award for furthering the status of women in the economics profession.  Our thoughts are with her family.  

Leading up to the annual August AOM conference, the STR Division has coordinated a number of virtual social hours.  These are open to all STR members – whether you are attending the AOM annual meeting or not (and please let us know if you are interested in hosting a virtual social hour in July around a theme you identify).  We also have an exciting debate scheduled for the end of June.  Please follow the links below to register for these events.

June Virtual Social Hours:

June 7:  Italian Virtual Social Hour, starting at 17:00 CET

June 17:  Bulgarian Virtual Social Hour, starting at 16:00 CET

June 21:  Job Market and Strategy Trends – Brazil, starting at 11am BRT

June 21:  French Virtual Social Hour, starting at 14:00 CET

June 22:  Scandinavian/Nordic Virtual Social Hour, starting at 16:00 CET

June 23:  Iranian Virtual Social Hour, starting at 17:00 GMT  

June 24:  Turkey Virtual Social Hour, starting at 3pm Turkish time (TRT, GMT+3)

June 29: Baltics Virtual Social Hour, starting at 15:00 CET

Debate:

Friday, June 24, 2022: 

STR Debate:  Do we need a new theory of the “international firm”? – June 24^th starting at 12pm (noon) ET.

Please join us for an exciting Oxford/Cambridge style debate will consider whether we need a new theory of the “international firm,” given all of the major changes in the world.  The “for” side include Peter Buckley (University of Leeds) and Alain Verbeke (University of Calgary) and the “against” side includes David Teece (University of California, Berkeley) and Jay Barney (University of Utah).  This debate is organized and moderated by Ilgaz Arikan (Kent State University).   

Please join us at one of our STR virtual events during the month of May.  These events include a new Meet a Method session focused on lab experiments, a new Meet a Theory session focused on firm resources and capabilities, a virtual symposium on competitive advantage in ecosystems and a teaching PDW that focuses on digital strategy. 

Zoom registration information is available in each of the links below. 

All the best,

Heather Berry

STR Division Chair

May 2022 Events:

Thursday, May 5, 2022: 

STR Meet a Method:  Lab Experiments – May 5^th starting at 11am ET.

This Meet a Method session will focus on using lab experiments in strategic management research with Giada Di Stefano (Bocconi University), Oliver Schilke (University of Arizona) and Regan Stevenson (Indiana University).  Tomasz Obloj (HEC Paris) will moderate this session and encourages participants to send any questions in advance of this event to him.      

Monday, May 9, 2022:

STR Meet a Theory:  Resources and Capabilities – May 9^th starting at 4pm ET. 

This Meet a Theory session will focus on resources and capabilities with panelists Connie Helfat (Dartmouth College), Aseem Kaul (University of Minnesota), Cathy Maritan (Syracuse University) and Ralf Wilden (Macquarie Business School).  Mahka Moeen (University of North Carolina) will moderate this event. 

Tuesday, May 10, 2022:

STR Teaching PDW:  The Rules and Tools of Digital Strategy – May 10^th starting at 10:00am ET. 

Please join three experts on digital strategy, including Vinod Jain, Lokesh Kumar and Sridharan Rangarajan, for a discussion of how “digital strategy” differs from “strategy” (regarding value capture and competitive advantage, for example), economic principles that underpin digital and Internet of Things business and why it is important to include digital strategies in strategic management courses. 

Monday, May 16, 2022:

STR Virtual Symposium – The Theory of the Firms and Competitive Advantage in Ecosystems – May 16^th starting at 11am ET

Please join us in this virtual symposium that will discuss how the ecosystem framework can help to address core issues in strategic management research, including competitive advantage and firm boundaries.  Panelists Olivier Chatain (HEC Paris), Rahul Kapoor (University of Pennsylvania) and Brian Wu (University of Michigan) will be joined by discussant Marvin Lieberman (University of California, Los Angeles).  Organizers Cameron Miller (Syracuse University) and Elena Plaksenkova (Ohio State University) will moderate this event.  (Please note - this is a two hour virtual event, with the last thirty minutes devoted to roundtables where participants can interact with the panelists and get feedback on their ideas or ask questions.) 

We have many different types of events planned for the month of April, including new Meet a Theory session focused on the attention-based view, a virtual symposium that focuses on the past and future of global strategy, a professional development event focused on research in academic and industry careers, a teaching event that focuses on incorporating research into teaching and a fun social virtual trivia quiz event.  

Zoom registration information is available in the links to each of the virtual events listed below.  

We look forward to seeing you at one of these virtual events in April!

Heather Berry
STR Division Chair

April Events:  

Tuesday, April 5, 2022: 

STR Meet a Theory:  Attention-based View – April 5^th starting at 10am ET.

The Meet a Theory session will focus on the attention-based view with panelists Nel Dutt (Bocconi University), J.P. Eggers, (New York University), William Ocasio (University of Illinois), and Richard Whittington (University of Oxford).  Luke Rhee (University of California Irvine) will moderate this event. 

Wednesday, April 20, 2022:

STR Virtual Symposium – The Past and Future of Global Strategy – April 20^th starting at 10am ET

Please join us at the virtual symposium that will analyze the past and future of global strategy, i.e., how managers guide their firms to address the opportunities and challenges of operating across countries in response to the continuous transformation in the global geopolitical, technological, and sociocultural contexts.  The panel consists of current and former associate editors and coeditors of Global Strategy Journal who will share their expertise on what we have learned in the past and especially what they think are the most interesting developments in terms of topics and theories to analyze in the field.

Thursday, April 21, 2022

STR Member Engagement Activity:  Virtual Trivia Quiz Social, April 21^st, starting at 11:00am ET

We are bringing back the virtual trivia quiz game for 2022!  Prepare to be challenged and meet fellow STR members in this purely social event which will be moderated by David Clough (University of British Columbia) and Dimo Ringov (ESADE). 

Tuesday, April 26, 2022:

STR Professional Development:  Research and Career Advancement Across Academia and Industry – April 26^th starting at 12:00pm (noon) ET 

Please join us for a discussion with Annamaria Conti (HEC Lausanne), Kevin Kniffin (Cornell University) and J. Muir Macpherson (AON) on the importance of research in both academic and industry careers.  Caterina Moschieri (IE Business School) will moderate this event.   

Friday, April 29, 2022:

STR Teaching Discussion:  Incorporating Research into Strategy Teaching, April 29^th starting at noon, ET

Please join Linus Dahlander (ESMT Berlin), Riitta Katila (Stanford University) and Brian Silverman (University of Toronto) for a discussion on synergies between teaching and research.  Andrea Contigiani (Ohio State University) and Cheng Gao (University of Michigan) will moderate this event.