Session 6
Quantitative Empirical Approaches in Strategic Management
Track Q |
Date: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 |
Time: 14:15 – 15:15 |
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Showcase Panel |
Room: Lisboa |
Session Chair:
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Alfonso Gambardella, Bocconi University
Alfonso Gambardella is Professor of Corporate Management at Bocconi University. He obtained his PhD in 1991 from the Department of Economics of Stanford University. His research focuses on technology strategy. Along with publications in leading international journals, his book, Markets for Technology (with Ashish Arora and Andrea Fosfuri, MIT Press) is widely cited. He is Co-Editor of the Strategic Management Journal.
Panelists:
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Rajshree Agarwal, University of Maryland
Rajshree Agarwal is a Chaired Professor in Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland. Her research interests focus on the implications of entrepreneurship and innovation for industry and firm evolution. Rajshree Agarwal's recent projects examine knowledge transfer through employee entrepreneurship/mobility, experience-based advantages in new product markets, and the influence of dynamic knowledge-based capabilities on firm performance. She has published articles in journals such as Academy of Management Journal, American Economic Review, Strategic Management Journal and Review of Economics and Statistics. Her paper on employee entrepreneurship received the Best Paper Award for 2004 from the Academy of Management Journal, and her work on post exit knowledge diffusion received the Stephen Shrader Award at the 2005 Academy of Management Meetings. She has received research grants from the Kauffman Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Marketing Science Institute and the US Department of Agriculture.
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Ashish Arora, Duke University
Ashish Arora is the Rex D. Adams Professor of Business Administration at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. He is a member of the strategy area, is associated with the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and is active in the Program for Entrepreneurs at the Fuqua School of Business. Ashish Arora received his Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University in 1992, and was on the faculty at the Heinz School, Carnegie Mellon University, where he held the H. John Heinz Professorship, till 2009. His research focuses on the economics of technology and technical change. Ashish Arora's research has included the study of technology intensive industries such as software, biotechnology and chemicals, the economics of information security, and the role of patents and licensing in promoting technology start-ups. He has studied the rise of the software industry and the pharmaceutical industry in emerging economies, especially in India. His current research focuses on the management of innovation, including intellectual property and licensing in corporations, and innovation based entrepreneurship. He has published three books, and nearly eighty articles and book chapters. He serves as co-editor, Research Policy, and Associate Editor for Management Science and is on the editorial board of Strategic Management Journal, Industrial and Corporate Change, Information Economics and Policy, and Journal of Evolutionary Economics. In the past, he has served on advisory panels to the Secretary of Commerce, the National Academy of Sciences, and The Association for Computing Machinery.
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Constance Helfat, Dartmouth College
Constance E. Helfat is the J. Brian Quinn Professor in Technology and Strategy at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Constance Helfat’s research focuses on firm capabilities, including capabilities for technological innovation and firm adaptation and change. She also has conducted research on corporate executives, including women executives. Constance Helfat has published widely in leading academic journals, and has written and edited three academic books. She is a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society, received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Technology and Innovation Management Division of the Academy of Management, serves as Co-Editor of the Strategic Management Journal and Associate Editor of the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management, and is on the editorial board of other academic journals. Constance Helfat received her undergraduate degree from the University of California-Berkeley and her Ph.D. from Yale University.
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Will Mitchell, University of Toronto
Will Mitchell is Professor of Business Administration in Strategy and the J. Rex Fuqua Professor of International Management at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. He is a faculty associate of Duke’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Health Sector Management Program, and Global Health Initiative. Will Mitchell teaches corporate strategy, business dynamics, and health sector strategy in the MBA, MMS, Ph.D., and Executive Education programs at Duke, as well as in partnership programs in Africa and elsewhere. He studies business dynamics, focusing on how businesses in developed and emerging markets change as the competitive environments change and, in turn, how the business changes contribute to ongoing corporate success or failure. Will Mitchell is a former SMS board member, a member of the SMS Fellows Group, a co-editor of SMJ, an editorial board member of several strategy-related journals in North America, Asia, and Europe, and a board member of Neuland Laboratories, Ltd.
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J Myles Shaver, University of Minnesota
Myles Shaver is Professor of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota where he holds the Pond Family Chair in the Teaching and Advancement of Free Enterprise Principles. Myles Shaver’s research interests revolve around corporate and international strategies. His research has been published in the Strategic Management Journal, Management Science, Organization Science, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Journal of International Business Studies, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Strategic Organization, Journal of Management, Small Business Economics, Advances in Strategic Management, Asia-Pacific Journal of Management and various book chapters. Myles Shaver is a Senior Editor at Strategy Science, an Associate Editor at Management Science and a special issue editor at the Strategic Management Journal. He has previously served as Associate Editor at the Global Strategy Journal and Area/Consulting Editor at the Journal of International Business Studies. Myles Shaver has taught MBA and executive education classes on Corporate Strategy, Multinational Business Management, and Corporate Responsibility; and Ph.D. classes on strategy and international business research. Myles Shaver received the Academy of Management Business Policy and Strategy Division’s Irwin Outstanding Educator Award, the Ross School of Business (University of Michigan) Distinguished PhD Alumni Award, and Poets and Quants profiled Myles Shaver in their compilation of the “World’s 50 Best Business School Professors.”
This panel is planned to discuss some of the key issues in the empirical strategic management research and offer guidelines to make the analysis and its techniques more standardized and rigorous. There are different approaches to rigor, and rigor does not necessarily mean complicated. Most importantly, researchers must understand their data, as well as the limitations of the empirical approaches utilized. Different empirical approaches have utility in different situations and contexts, but there is no substitute for researcher judgment. Moreover, the methods employed should neither constrain nor determine the questions asked.
All Sessions in Track Q...
- Sun: 13:45 – 14:30
- Session 295: Keynote: Lifetime Achievement Award
- Sun: 14:30 – 15:15
- Session 471: Keynote: CK Prahalad Award
- Mon: 09:30 – 10:30
- Session 296: How Social Networks Create Competitive Advantage: The Microfoundations Reputation
- Mon: 13:30 – 14:30
- Session 4: Business Models in their Competitive Context
- Session 5: Building Strategic States
- Session 298: Using Networks to Shape Strategy
- Session 299: Dealing with the Euro Area Economic Crisis: Strategic Adjustment in the Period of Turmoil
- Session 300: Methodological and Conceptual Frontiers in the New World of Networks
- Tue: 09:30 – 10:30
- Session 297: Granularity of Profit
- Tue: 14:15 – 15:15
- Session 6: Quantitative Empirical Approaches in Strategic Management
- Session 301: Strategy Frameworks: In Quest of Relevance in a Turbulent World
- Session 302: Directing Strategy: The Process Challenges of Formulating and Implementing Strategy in a World of Networks
- Session 470: Governance Challenges in Globalized Networks
- Session 473: Rethinking the Architecture of Global Corporations