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 2013
The SE subject area holds weekly seminars. Below is the schedule for the Spring and Summer Terms:
| Feb 5 | Scott Shane | Genetics of Entrepreneurship | 2.00pm-3.30pm, LT2 |
| Feb 12 | Erkko Autio | Consequences of Cultural Practices for Entrepreneurial Behaviors | 11.00am -12.30pm, LT4 |
| Feb 19 | Mihaela Stan | Taking Time to Do it Right: The Impact of Time-Compressing Experience Accumulation on Organizational Quality Outcomes | 11.00am -12.30pm, LT4 |
| Feb 26 | Orjan Solvell | Competitiveness, Innovation and Clusters | 11.00am -12.30pm, LT4 |
| Mar 5 | Rudy Durand | Social Consensus in Multiple-Audience Context: People's Complaints to Illegitimate Advertising |
11.00am -12.30pm, LT4 |
| Mar 12 | Chaim Fershtman | Social Network and Social Clubs | 11.00am -12.30pm, LT4 |
| Mar 19 | Todd Zenger | Do Managers Face a Uniqueness Paradox in Crafting Corporate Strategy? Evidence from Mergers and Acquisitions | 12.30pm-2.00pm, LT2 |
| Mar 27 | Timothy Devinney | The Vectors of Coporate Social Responsiblity | 3.30pm-5.00pm, LT4 |
| Apr 9 | Richard Makadok | Determinants of the Profitability of Shared-Customer versus Shared-Resource Scope Advantages | 11.00am -12.30pm, LT5 |
| Apr 16 | Gerard Hodgkinson | Behavioural Strategy: Past, Present, and Future |
11.00am-12.30pm, LT4 |
| Apr 23 | Aleksandra Kacperczyk | Female Entrepreneurship and Alternative Opportunities Inside an Established Firm | 11.00am-12.30pm, LT7 |
| Apr 30 | Vangelis Souitaris | The Halo Effect of a New Reputation: Spinoff-Portfolio Characteristics and University Research Income | 11.00am-12.30pm, LT5 |
| May 14 | Raffaella Sadun | Managing Firms in an Emerging Economy: Evidence from the Time Use of Indian CEOs | 11.00am-12.30pm, LT5 |
| May 21 | Giacomo Negro | TBC | 12.30pm-2.00pm, TBC |
Contact us
Sharon Wilson
swilson@london.edu
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