Strategy and Entrepreneurship
Examining company competitiveness
As Strategic and Entrepreneurship faculty, we focus on how organisations can create and sustain superior competitive performance.
Our group provides an integrated perspective on Strategy and Entrepreneurship. We do this by combining strategy tools and frameworks with an understanding of the process of strategy making and the working of general management.
Research Values
Topics of interest in our research
These include:
- innovation and entrepreneurship within large firms
- the theory of the firm and corporate scope
- technological change and its impact on firm strategy and industry structure
- management of multinational corporations
- behavioural and cognitive foundations of strategy
- organisational learning
- the impact of informal and formal structures on firm performance.
Strategy and Entrepreneurship Seminars 2012
The SE subject area holds weekly seminars. Below is the schedule for the Spring and Summer Terms:
| Feb 14 | Geoffrey Hodgson | Brakes on Chinese Development: Institutional Causes of a Growth Slowdown | 11.00am -12.30pm, WLT |
| Feb 21 | John van Reenen | Management as a Technology | 11.00am -12.30pm, LT2 |
| Feb 28 | Isabel Fernandez-Mateo | Coming with Baggage: Past Rejections and Relationship Evolution in Executive Search | 11.15am -12.45pm, LT4 |
| Mar 6 | Rajesh Chandy | White Knights and Firms in Distress: How CEO Backgrounds Matter in Corporate Turnarounds | 11.00am -12.30pm, WLT |
| Mar 13 | Robert Seamans | Market Shocks and Product Positioning in Multi-Sided Markets: The Impact of Craiglist on Local Newspapers |
11.00am -12.30pm, LT5 |
| Mar 20 | Sharing Among Competing Researchers | 11.00am -12.30pm, LT5 | |
| Apr 3 | Rahul Kapoor | Persistence of Integration in the Face of Specialization: How Firms Navigated the Winds of Disintegration and Shaped the Architecture of the Semiconductor Industry | 11.00am -12.30pm, LT4 |
| Apr 17 | Nicola Lacetera | Would you Buy a Honda Made in he U.S? The Impact of Production Location on Manufacturing Quality | 11.15am -12.45pm, WLT |
| Apr 24 | Marco Tortoriello | Lost in Transition: How Network Structure Affects Knowledge Loss in Interpersonal Knowledge-Sharing Ties | 11.15am-12.45pm, LT1 |
| May 1 | Mike Ryall | Full Knowledge to Ambiguity: How Experience Affects Alliance Contracts | 11.00am-12.30pm, LT4 |
| May 8 | Chloe Tergiman | The Process of Choice in Guessing Games | 11.00-12.30pm, LT3 |
| May 22 | Henrik Bresman | Context Matters: When Can Upward Lobbying Help (or Hurt) Knowledge Acquisition in Organizations? | 11.00-12.30pm, LT4 |
| Jun 12 | Evan Rawley | TBC | 11.00-12.30pm, LT9 |
| Jun 19 | Catherine Tucker | TBC | 11.00-12.30pm, WLT |
| Jun 29 | Avinash Dixit | TBC | 12.30pm-2.00pm, LT6 |
Contact us
Sharon Wilson
swilson@london.edu
SE events
London Business School hosts informative, exciting SE events:
