Archived SIM seminars

Date Speaker Title
     
 10 Dec 07  Henry Sauermann (PhD student, Duke)  "What makes them tick? Employee Motives and Industrial Innovation"
 7 Dec 07  Christina Fang (NYU Stern)  "Is sustained performance impressive? A Bayesian analysis of sustained competitive advantage"
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 30 Nov 07  Joachim Henkel (Munich)  "The modularity of intellectual property"
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 23 Nov 07  Anil Gupta (Maryland) "Impact of value chain configuration on HG-subsidiary relationships within MNC's"
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 16 Nov 07  Victor Seidl (Oxford)  "Crafting interpretation in ambiguous contexts: Entrepreneurial teams and the collective evolution of novel product concepts"
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 9 Nov 07  Chris Bingham (Maryland)  "Opening the black box of organizational expertise: Understanding what firms learn from their process experience and how that learning unfolds over time"
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 2 Nov 07  Felipe Monteiro (SIM PhD student)  "Connecting the dots: Uncovering the technology scouting process"
 26 Oct 07  Kai-Yu Hsieh (SIM PhD student)  "Trotting at my heels: Multiparty competitive interdependence and rivals' imitative reactions to new foreign investments"
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 19 Oct 07  Rich Burton  (Duke)  "Fallacies of fast track tactics: Implications for organization theory and project management"
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 12 Oct 07  Fabrizio Ferraro (IESE0  "Accounting for sustainability: Analogical work and the global reporting initiative"
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 5 Oct 07  
Xavier Castaner (HEC)
  "The drivers of initiative selling within organizations"
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 29 June 07  Govert Vroom (Purdue)  
 "Pricing response to entry and agglomeration effects"
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 22 June 07  Greta Hsu (UCD)   "Standards for quality and the coordinating role of critics"
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 15 June 07  Markus Reitzig (London Business School)   "Patent sharks and the sustainability of value destruction strategies"
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 1 June 07  Paul Almeida (Georgetown)  
 11 May 07  Pankaj Ghemawat (IESE)  
 4 May 07  Gabriel Szulanski (Insead)  
 27 Apr 07  Dave McKendrick (Durham)   "The cumulative and temporal effects of spin-outs on the performance of parent firms (Progenitors) in the Hard Disk Drive Industry"
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 25 Apr 07  Isin Guler (Boston)   "Home-country networks, intangible assets and foreign expansion" (with Mauro F Guillen)
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 20 Apr 07  
 

Xavier Martin (Tilburg University)

  "Learning, knowledge transfer; and technology implementation performance: A study of 'Time-to-build' in the global semiconductor industry"
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 30 Mar 07  Mari Sako (Said)   "Governing automotive supplier parks: Leveraging the benefits of outsourcing and co-location."
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 23 Mar 07  Andrea Fosfuri (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)  "The penguin has entered the building: The commercialization of open source software products"
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 16 Mar 07  John Haagedorn (University of Maastricht)  

 

"Knowledge flows in inter-firm R&D networks"
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 9 Mar 07  Waverly Ding (Haas)  "Founder imprinting and the adoption of open science by for-profit firms"
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 2 Mar 07  Thomas Powell (Said)  "Firm performance and the axis of errors"
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 9 Feb 07  Anita McGahan (Boston)   "Syndication in international venture investing"
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 1 Feb 07  Jo-Ellen Pozner (Kellogg)   "Stigma and the symbolic contest for corporate control"
 24 Jan 07  David Bardolet (UCLA)  

"New perspectives on capital allocation"
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22 Jan 07   Olivier Chatain (Insead)    "Extracting value from client relationships: competition, expertise and cross-selling in the UK corporate legal market"
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18 Jan 07   Xun (Brian) Wu (Wharton)   

"Capacity-constrained capabilities, market maturity, and corporate diversification: evidence from the cardiovascular medical device industry, 1976-2004"
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 15 Jan 07  Ian Larkin (Haas)  "The cost of high-powered incentives: employee gaming in enterprise software sales"
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 11 Jan 07 Subramaniam Ramanarayanan (Kellogg)  "Does practice make perfect: an empirical analysis of learning-by-doing in cardiac surgery"
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 9 Jan 07
 Ramana Nanda (MIT)  "Financing constraints and selection into entrepreneurship"
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19 Dec   Stine Grodal (Stanford)  "The co-evolution of labels, meaning and resources in nanotechnology"
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 1 Dec 06  Thorbjorn Knudsen (S Denmark)  

"Two faces of search: Alternative generation and alternative evaluation"
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 24 Nov 06  Gautam Ahuja (Michigan)  "Integration and Search"
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17 Nov 06  Mikolaj Jan Piskorski (Harvard)

 "On the market in the company of friends: Crafting strategy out of social failures"

 
10 Nov 06  Pai-Lin Ying (Harvard)  "Economic and technical drivers of technology Choice: Browsers"
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3 Nov 06  Alessandro Lomi (Bologna)  
 27 Oct 06  Paul Almeida (Georgetown)  Cancelled
 20 Oct 06  Martin Schulz (Sauder)  "A problematic approach to institutional rule change: The evolution of the British Colombia Water Law 1914 to 2003"
 13 Oct 06 Ha Hoang (INSEAD)    "Do established firms learn from collaborations with new ventures? External capabilities transfer & internal learning in biopharma R&D projects."
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 6 Oct 06 Peter J Richerson (UC Davis)
 
"Why the science of management needs an evolutionary theory of organizations"
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 29 June 06  
Olga Khessina (Georgetown)

 "Hidden costs of technological innovation: Effects of product innovation on firm survival in the worldwide optical disk drive industry, 1983-1999"
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 22 June 06   Ezra Zuckerman (MIT)   "Why knowledge does not equal power: the network redundancy trade-off"
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 15 June 06  Gregory Jackson (Kings College)  "Employee representation in the board compared: a fuzzy sets analysis of corporate governance, unionism, and political
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 8 June 06  Jerry Davis (UMich)   "Implications of recent changes in US corporate ownership"
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 1 June 06  Arjen van Witteloostuijn (Groningen)  "Trader personality and trading performance"
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 11 May 06  Andrew Delios (NUS)   "Diversification and diffusion: a social networks and neo-institutional perspective" (with Nan Zhou)
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4 May 06
 Anita McGahan (Boston) "Firm value depends on innovation by competitors" (with Brian Silverman)
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 17 Mar 06  Peter Williamson (INSEAD)   "Dragons at your door: how Chinese companies will disrupt global competition"
 16 Mar 06  Ranjay Gulati (Kellogg)   "Exploring the effects of organizational interdependence on performance: the role of embeddedness and power"
 28 Feb 06  Soong Moon Kang (Stanford)  "Uncertainty, social choice and social structure of interfirm networks: a micro-macro perspective"
24 Feb 06   Sonali Shah (Illinois)  "From innovation to firm formation in the windsurfing, skateboarding and snowboarding industries"
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 21  Feb 06  Catherine Thomas (Harvard)  "Too many products: the interaction of multinational firms with heterogeneous consumers"
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 9 Feb 06  Brandon Lee (Cornell)  "Certifying the harvest: the role of standards-based certification organizations in the organic food industry"
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 2  Feb 06  Louise Mors (MIT)  "Innovation in a global firm: the role of informal networks when the problem is too much diversity"
 30 Jan 06  Magali Delmas (USC)  "Deregulation and environmental differentiation in the electric utility industry"
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 26 Jan 06  Lourdes Sosa (MIT)  "Decoupling market incumbency from organizational inertia: evidence from the anti-cancer drug market"
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 24 Jan 06  Nicola Lacetera (MIT)  "Multiple missions and academic entrepreneurship"
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 19 Jan 06  Stefano Brusoni (Bocconi)  "Making design rules: a multi-domain perspective"
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 17 Jan 06 Gerry McDermott (Wharton)  "The politics of institutional renovation and economic upgrading: lessons from the Argentine wine industry"
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 13 Jan 06  Kim-Chi Trinh (Duke University)  "Social retrieval and risk-based storage of organizational memory:  testing the effects of memory availability and redundancy"
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 5 Jan 06  Antoaneta Petkova (University  of Maryland)  "Reputation building by new ventures: the role of symbolic activities and signaling assets"
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 19 Dec 05  Kyle Mayer (USC)  "Capabilities, contractual hazards and governance: integrating
resource-based and transaction cost perspectives"
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 16 Dec 05  Margaret Kyle (Duke)  "Strategic responses to parallel trade"
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 14 Dec 05  Markus Reitzig (Copenhagen)  "The battlefields of intellectual property competition - how patent data-based research can contribute to management science"
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 1 Dec 05  Peer Fiss (Queen's, Ontario)  "The symbolic management of strategic change: sensegiving via framing and decoupling"
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 24 Nov 05  Omar Toulan (McGill)  "Alternative forms of fit of supplier-manufacturer relationships in new product development" (with Maurizio Sobrero)
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 17 Nov 05 Todd Zenger (Washington)  "Corporate strategy, analyst coverage and the uniqueness discount"
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 10 Nov 05  Phanish Puranam (SIM)  "Plural sourcing: why firms both make and buy"
 8 Nov 05  Connie Helfat (Dartmouth)  "Innovation objectives, knowledge sources and the benefits of breadth"
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 3 Nov 05  Ishtiaq Mahmood (Singpore)  "The Janus face of intra-group ties: affiliate-level innovation by multi-business firms in Taiwan"
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 20 Oct 05  Michael G Jacobides and Stephan Billinger (SIM)  "Information technology and organizational design: shaping institutional packages"
 13 Oct 05  Ron Sanchez (Copenhagen)  "Towards a theory of modularity in organization design: understanding interfaces in organizational architectures"
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 6 Oct 05  Riitta Katila (Stanford)  "When do opposites attract? Nascent technology ventures and corporate venture funding" (with Jeff Rosenberger and Kathy Eisenhardt)
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 23 June 05  Michael Tushman (Harvard)  "Innovation streams and ambidextrous organizational designs"
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 16 June 05  Henry Chesbrough (Berkeley)  " Managing Intellectual Property - Evidence from Patent Reassignments"
 9 June 05  Michael G Jacobides (SIM)  "The inherent limits of organizational structure and the unfulfilled role of hierarchy: Lessons from a near-war"
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 26 May 05  Rebecca Henderson (MIT)  "Organizational rigidity, incentives and technological change: Insights from organizational economics?" (joint work with Sarah Kaplan, University of Pennsylvania)
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 12 May 05  Phanish Puranam (SIM)  "The social and contractual structure of vertical relationships" (joint work with Ranjay Gulati, Kellogg School of Management).
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 5 May 05  Kathy Eisenhardt (Stanford)  The internationalization of heterogeneous experience (Christopher Bingham and Kathleen Eisenhardt)
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 28 April 05  Ashish Arora (Heinz)  Patent protection, complementary assets and firms' incentives for technology licensing (co-authored with Marco Ceccagnoli, INSEAD)
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 24 Mar 05  Ron Adner (INSEAD)  A demand-based perspective on sustainable competitive advantage
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 3 Mar 05  Ed Zajac (Kellogg)  The diffusion of ideas over contested terrain: the (non)-adoption of a shareholder value orientation among German firms
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 31 Jan 05  Pinar Ozcan (Stanford)  Start-ups in an emergent market: building a strong alliance portfolio from a low-power position
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 27 Jan 05  Brian Uzzi (Northwestern)  Collaboration and creativity: how small worlds make big differences
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 24 Jan 05  Ayse Karaevli (Kellogg)  Performance consequences of new CEO "outsiderness": moderating effects of pre- and post-succession context
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21 Jan 05
 Hart Posen (Wharton)  Do capital markets value firm capabilities?
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 17 Jan 05  Mukti Khaire (Columbia)  Great oaks from little acorns grow: strategies for new venture growth
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 14 Jan 05  Bill Schneper (Wharton)

 Cognition, cooperation and rivalry: patterns of interorganizational relationships in major league baseball
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 11 Jan 05  Oliver Gottschalg (INSEAD)  Rewards and firm performance - a look into the motivation blackbox
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2 Dec 04 Charles Baden-Fuller (Cass) Replicating Knowledge - Principles or Templates?
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4 Nov 04 Sean Safford (LSE) Why the Garden Club couldn't save Youngstown: Social Networks and Mobilization in Economic Crises.
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28 Oct 04 Nelson Phillips (Cambridge) Remembrance of Things Past?  The Dynamics of Organizational Forgetting
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18 Oct 04 Nick Argyres (Boston University) Do transaction costs matter for firm survival at all stages of the industry lifecycle?
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18 Oct 04 Elaine Romanelli (Georgetown University) Entrepreneurship Research Seminar
5 Oct 04 Olav Sorenson (UCLA) Social networks and exchange: Self-confirming dynamics in Hollywood
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1 Oct 04 Leverhulme Workshop Panel Conference Mis-Measurement of ICT
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30 Sep 04 Anne-Marie Knott (Wharton) Spillover Asymmetry and Why it Matters
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23 Sep 04 Sea-Jin Chang (Korea) Types of firms generating network externalities and MNCs' co-location decisions
16 Sep 04 Yuval Millo (LSE) Performative Theory in Financial Markets
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23 June 04 Margarethe Wiersema (California) Foreign Competition and Diversification
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17 June 04 Jerker Denrell (Stanford) Random walks and sustained competitive advantage
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4 June 04 Tim Devinney (Australian GSM) The process of knowledge creation in organizations
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27 May 04 Bjorn Lovas (SIM) Social capital, competition and resource mobilization: The strength of indirect ties
20 May 04 Giovanni Gavetti (HBS) Rationality and plasticity over time: Toward a grounded theory of the origin of strategies
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29 April 04 Javier Gimeno (INSEAD) Competition within and between networks: The contingent effect of competitive embeddedness on alliance formation
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22 April 04 Brian Loasby (University of Stirling) Organisation and the human mind
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6 April 04 Tom Lee (Editor, AMJ) How to publish in AMJ – Insights from the Editor
24 March 04 David Mowery (Berkeley) The Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 and University-Industry Technology Transfer: A Model for Other OECD Governments?
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18 March 04 Mark Zbaracki (Wharton) Pricing structure and structuring price
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9 March 04 William H Starbuck (NYU) Learning from extreme cases
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4 March 04 Bruno S Frey (University of Zurich) What Can Corporate Governance Learn from Public Governance?
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26 Feb 04 Jasjit Singh (HBS) Social Networks as Determinants of Knowledge Diffusion Patterns
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24 Feb 04 Isabel Fernandez-Mateo (MIT) How free are free agents: Relationships and wages in a triadic labour market
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19 Feb 04 Lisa Rohrer (HBS) The Effect of Mergers on Human Capital in Professional Service Firms
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16 Feb 04 Sarah Kaplan (MIT) Framing contests: micro mechanisms of strategy-making in the face of technical change
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9 Feb 04 Gary Dushnitsky (NYU) Limitations to inter-organizational knowledge acquisition: The paradox of corporate venture
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5 Feb 04 Goncalo Pacheco-de-Almeida (NYU) The effect of time on competitive advantage

2 Feb 04 Renata Kosova (UMICH) Do foreign firms crowd out domestic firms? The evidence from the Czech Republic
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22 Jan 04 Matthew Bidwell (MIT) What Do Firms Do Differently? Comparing the Governance of Internal and Outsourced IT Projects
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12 Dec 03 Mats Lingblad
Tiemin Wang
(SIM PhD Students)
"The social network of Innovation project managers and project performance""Innovation adoptions under uncertainty: The modernization trend in the traditional Chinese medicine sector"
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9 Dec 03 Peter Murmann (Northwestern) The coevolution of industries and academic disciplines
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4 Dec 03 Andrea Prencipe (Sussex) Managing modularity and change in complex systems industries
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27 Nov 03 Massimo Warglien
 (University of Venice)
Complementarity, frustration and organisation.A network model
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CANCELLED Maurizio Zollo (INSEAD) Superstitious Learning in Corporate Acquisitions
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30 Oct 03 Randall Rothenberg (Editor, "Strategy & Business" Journal) How to publish your research to influence managers
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27 Oct 03 Don Sull(HBS) No Exit: The failure of bottom-up strategic processes and the role of top down disinvestment
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2 Oct 03 Strategy, Organisation and Technology mini Conference
17 Sep 03 Pankaj Ghemawat (HBS) International Competitors in a Local Industry: An Exploratory Study of Cement
24 Jul 03 Susan Hill (SIM PhD)
Dimo Dimov (Entrepreneurship PhD)
Corporate Venturing Performance: An Investigation into the Applicability of Venture Capital Models
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THE GLASSES OF EXPERIENCE: An Experiential Theory of Opportunity Recognition
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3 July 03 Phanish Puranam Interdependence between Organisational Units: When do Broad Incentives Create Value
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26 June 03 Sumantra Ghoshal Why we Need a Good Theory of Management
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19 June 03 Atul Nerkar (Colombia) The Road to Drug Discovery: Experience and Exploration along Different Dimensions
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12 June 03 Don Slater (Sociology, LSE) New Economy, Internet and Ethnography
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22 May 03 Ranjay Gulati (Kellogg) Getting off to a Good Start: The Effects of Upper Echelon Affiliations on Interorganisational Endorsements and IPO Success
9 April 03 Dr. Ajit Kambil  (Accenture) Making Markets: How to Profit from Online Auctions and Exchanges
17 March 03 Eric Clemons  (Wharton School) Business Process Outsourcing Research: Transformational Breakthrough in Business Performance or Pouring Old Wine in New Bottles.
28 February 03 Margarethe Wiersema (University of California, Irvine) Human and Social Capital as Market Signals: Implications for CEO Selection
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24 February 03 Harry Barkema (Tilburg) Navigating through the Value Landscape Using International Joint Ventures
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21 February 03 Morten Hansen (Harvard) How do Multinational Companies Leverage Technological Competencies? Moving from Single to Interdependent Explanations
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18 February 03 Julia Porter Liebeskind  (University of Southern California) Public Research and Intellectual Property Rights: A Tale of Two Inventions
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23 January 03 Udo Zander (Institute of Advanced Business, Stockholm) Seminar CancelledTo be rescheduled at later date
16 January 03 Balagopal Vissa SIM PhD (job talk paper) Leveraging Networks: Venture teams´ Internal Process, External Ties and Software Start-up Performance in India
2 December 02 Michael Jacobides
Phanish Puranam
A Coordination Based Theory of the Firm: Building the Theoretical Framework
26 November 02 PhD Students:
Susan Lynch
Susan Hill
Michelle Rogan
21 November 02 Professor Giovanni Dosi (Sant´Anna of School of Advanced Studies, Pisa) Heterogeniety and Interactions at Work: Evidence from Industrial Dynamics
14 November 02 Professor Joe Tidd (University of Sussex) Organising for Service Innovation: Practice or Configuration
7 November 02 PhD Students:
Peter Van Overstraten
Siri Terjesen
Tiemin Wang
4 November 02 Phanish Puranam
Prashant Kale  (UMICH)
Ownership Choices in Inter-Firm Relationships: A Review
17 October 02 Daniel Raff (Wharton) Business History and the Study of Strategic Management
10 October 02 Laurence Capron (INSEAD) Which Institutional Failures Matter? The Effect of Market and Internal Failures on Capability Sourcing Choices and Effectiveness

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