Foundational Issues and the Future of Strategy: A Strategy Science PDW on Value
Academy of Management PDW
Sunday, August 2, 2026, 12:00 - 16:00 EDT, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 200 Level: 201C, Philadelphia
AOM web link: https://events.aom.org/events/aom-2026/session/vx9AMh-yIYKTaIREZGIE5
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PARTICIPATION IN THE BREAKOUT DISCUSSIONS (PART 4) REQUIRES SHORT SEPARATE REGISTRATION VIA THE FOLLOWING LINK:
https://forms.gle/GcktaVGbz9uwnyTU9
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Organizers:
- Anparasan Mahalingam, Syracuse University
- Todd Zenger, University of Utah
Distinguished Speaker:
- Dan Levinthal, University of Pennsylvania
Keynote Speakers
- Colleen Cunningham, University of Utah
- Rahul Kapoor, University of Pennsylvania
- Phebo Wibbens, INSEAD
- Michael Ryall, Florida Atlantic University
- Andy Wu, Harvard University
Panel Discussion
- Ron Adner, Dartmouth College
- Natarajan Balasubramanian, Ohio State University
- Mary Benner, University of Minnesota
- Dan Elfenbein, Washington University in St. Louis
- Robert Seamans, New York University
Breakout Group Discussions (REQUIRES SEPARATE REGISTRATION)
- The purpose of these breakout group discussions will be to brainstorm and refine ideas for future research projects related to value (creation, capture, orchestration, measurement, redistribution).
- Each breakout group will feature one or two panelists, keynote speakers, and/or organizers. Breakouts are explicitly developmental: participants are encouraged to bring a paper in progress, a nascent idea, a methodological challenge, or a conceptual puzzle.
- Any participant who would like to join the breakout sessions is invited in advance to complete the following online form with their name, title, institutional affiliation, and email address by July 24: https://forms.gle/GcktaVGbz9uwnyTU9. They can also choose to complete the optional question in the online form that articulates an idea for a research project on the topic of the workshop. It will help us to identify the suitable facilitator in the breakout discussion.
Strategy's enduring intellectual project concerns how value is imagined, created, secured, measured, and distributed over time. While the field in recent decades has developed important new perspectives around platforms and ecosystems, broadly expanded its range of topics, and aggressively pursued empirical studies that permit more causal empirical methods, attention has also shifted away from more foundational topics in the field. This PDW, affiliated with Strategy Science, convenes a set of leading scholars to reopen foundational questions about value in a way that is disciplined (clarifying constructs and mechanisms) and generative (surfacing new research opportunities and methodological challenges). The PDW is also designed as a high-bandwidth interface between the STR community and Strategy Science, a first-tier strategy journal widely regarded as publishing novel, foundational work in the field. Participants will have structured opportunities to learn about the journal's evolving intellectual agenda and to receive direct developmental feedback from its leadership and senior scholars who routinely shape the field's frontier. The workshop blends short presentations with an integrative panel and developmental breakout discussions, with the explicit aim of advancing a more cumulative, conceptually precise conversation about value, broadly defined and spanning creation, capture, orchestration, measurement, and redistribution.
Contact us at strategy.science.coms@gmail.com for any questions and comments.
Sponsored by STR, CTO, ENT, IM, MC, OB, OMT, TIM & RM divisions
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Anparasan Mahalingam
Assistant Professor of Strategic Management
Whitman School of Management
Syracuse University
amahalin@syr.edu
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