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CALL FOR PAPERS – EURAM 2015
SIG: Innovation
17-20 June, Warsaw (Poland)
ST_06-07: Knowledge, Learning and Innovation
Organizers:
Nina Katrin Hansen, University of Hamburg, Germany
Yvonne Van Rossenberg, University of Bath, United Kingdom
Juani Swart, University of Bath, United Kingdom
Vanessa Ratten, La Trobe University, Australia
Anders Örtenblad, University of Nordland, Norway
Hong Bui, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Valeria Stulova, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Mait Rungi, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Description
This track intends to address research on the intersection of organizational knowledge, learning, and innovation.
Since the development of the knowledge-based view of the firm (e. g. Grant, 1996; Kogut & Zander, 1996; Spender, 1996), organizational knowledge has been seen as the central source of sustained competitive advantage and basis of organizational capabilities and successful innovation.
Against the backdrop of seminal theoretical concepts such as e.g. the dynamic capabilities of a firm (Teece, Pisano & Shuen, 1997), organizational knowing (Orlikowski, 2002), exploitative vs. explorative learning (March, 1991) as well as (structural and contextual) ambidexterity (Tushman & O'Reilly, 1996; Gibson & Birkinshaw, 2004; O'Reilly & Tushman, 2008; Raisch et al. 2009), we ask the question which creative and innovative individual and collective efforts underlie organizational learning modes and knowledge management and how these processes can lead to incremental as well as radical innovations (e. g. Benner & Tushman, 2003) or even "disruptive" innovations (Christensen, 1997). Also, we are determined to understand the balance between the sources of innovation on a firm level: are openness for external knowledge and absorptive capacity the keys to innovation (Cohen & Levinthal, 1989) or does innovation stem from internal knowledge generation efforts of organizations. We also are committed to explore the mechanisms of knowledge creation and use within organizations as well as welcome studies on operationalization of organizational learning and innovative output.
By exploring the theoretical link between knowledge, learning and innovation, this track also aims to account for recent calls for further micro-foundations of strategy research (e. g. Felin & Foss, 2005) and a multi-level approach to organization theory and strategic management.
To explore emerging and new areas of research in the field of knowledge, learning and innovation and to gain new insights into the management of knowledge workers and knowledge-intensive firms, conceptual as well as qualitative and quantitative empirical contributions from a wide range of topics are welcome. We thereby invite research from several disciplines such as organization theory, strategy, innovation, human resource management and entrepreneurship as well as sociology or psychology etc.
Interested or curious? Please see the enclosed call for papers for a detailed topic description.
For more information on submission guidelines and practicalities, please visit the conference website www.euram2015.org
We hope to see you @EURAM in Warsaw!
Best wishes,
Nina, Yvonne, Juani, Vanessa, Anders, Hong, Valeria & Mait