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TIM-troduction: Eunhee Sohn

By Llewellyn Thomas posted 16 days ago
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Let us introduce Eunhee Sohn of Georgia Tech, which is in Atlanta, Georgia. Eunhee, you recently joined the TIM Executive Committee as an At-Large member - thanks for your service! So… What are your research interests right now? Through my work, I investigate the organizational processes and individual incentives of economic actors that build new technological industries and scientific fields. In some sense, my research interest is in understanding the emergence of other economic actors' research interest - "How do companies and individuals choose their area of research/innovation?" "When and why do companies and individuals become influenced by their local ...
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Why Companies Need Digital Solutions for Better Health Savings

By Terrance Palmer posted 21 days ago
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Recent technological developments have ushered in innovations for the healthcare industry. Digital health solutions, in particular, allow medical facilities to offer better healthcare. This includes providing enhanced medical products and services for patients. They also help in diagnosing and treating diseases as well as reduce minor errors. From a business standpoint, going digital has also brought increased revenues. It has improved profitability for those in the healthcare industry.  If your company hasn’t invested in digital health solutions yet, here are reasons why you should: Centralized Information for Better Access, Storage, and Management ...
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2021 SAP Pushing the Boundary Award

By Georg Reischauer posted 26 days ago
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The winner of the SAP Pushing the Boundary Award are Matthew James Hurst, Davide Nicolini, Rene Wiedner with their paper “We Get Them Running Through Walls: Strategizing Via an Indignation-Based Moral Battery”. Congratulations on winning the SAP Pushing the Boundary Award! Can you briefly elaborate on what your paper is about? Thank you very much, we were very pleased to receive it!  Our paper theorizes a process model of how emotions are harnessed through organization-level strategizing to both materialize strategy and mobilize executives and managers for it. Leaders of large organizations face considerable challenges in getting themselves and everyone ...
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2021 SAP Best Practice Oriented Paper Award

By Georg Reischauer posted 26 days ago
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The winner of the SAP Best Practice Oriented Paper Award is Vikas N. Prabhu with the paper “Enacted Clock-Time: How Temporal Agency Structures Strategic Activity”. Congratulations on winning the SAP Best Practice Oriented Paper Award! What is your paper about? First of all, it is a great honour to receive the Best Practice Oriented Paper award from the SAP DIG of AOM. Having my work recognized at such high levels at an early stage of my career is an incredible feeling. My paper is an attempt to understand how temporal agents strategize. By temporal agents, I refer to the temporal embeddedness of agentic actions (as Emirbayer and Mische, 1998, have ...
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2021 SAP Best Paper Award

By Georg Reischauer posted 26 days ago
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The winner of the SAP Best Paper Award are Fannie Couture, Paula Jarzabkowski, Jane Le with their paper "Assessing the Unintended Consequences of Legitimating Responses to Grand Challenges" Congratulations on winning the SAP Best Paper Award! Please, tell us more what this paper is about. Thank you! Our paper looks at the social processes and practices involved in generating a collective response to a grand challenge, and how these processes and practices end up shaping a group’s ability to tackle the grand challenge over time. We specifically follow the dynamics of a multi-stakeholder partnership established to address water health issues in a critical ...
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TIM-troduction: Henning Piezunka

By Llewellyn Thomas posted 09-18-2021
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As part of our profiles of TIM people, let us introduce Henning Piezunka of INSEAD which is sort of near Paris, France. Henning, you recently joined the TIM Executive Committee as an At Large member, so… What are your research interests right now? My research agenda includes three distinct but related streams: crowd-sourcing, collaboration, and competition. My research on crowd-sourcing examines how firms attract voluntary contributors yet often fail to learn from their contributions. My research on collaboration examines how the evolution of dyadic collaborations depends on structural context. My research on competition examines how actors become ...
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TIM-troduction: Sourobh Ghosh

By Llewellyn Thomas posted 09-18-2021
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As part of our profiles of TIM people, let us introduce Sourobh Ghosh of Harvard Business School, which is in the United States. Sourobh, you recently won a TIM award at the 2020 virtual conference. Congratulations! So… What are your research interests right now? I study how firms use inexpensive experiments to drive innovation and form strategy. While the phenomenon of firms using experiments isn’t necessarily new, what’s changed is that the cost to firms to design and run business experiments has become relatively cheap. With recent advances in information technology, experimentation is now scalable to test decisions of firm-wide consequence, changing ...
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TIM-troduction: Sonali Shah

By Llewellyn Thomas posted 09-18-2021
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As part of our profiles of TIM people, let us introduce Sonali Shah of Gies College of Business which is part of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Illinois. Sonali, you recently joined the TIM Executive Committee, so… What are your research interests right now? My research centers on improving our understanding of the processes that fuel innovation and entrepreneurship. There are three areas that I’m particularly interested in: investigating collaborative models of innovation development—such as open source software development—and their implications for firms and policy; examining the factors that determine startup success ...
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TIM-troduction: Joey van Angeren

By Llewellyn Thomas posted 09-18-2021
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As part of our profiles of TIM people, let us introduce Joey van Angeren of VU Amsterdam, which is, perhaps not surprisingly, in Amsterdam! Joey, you recently were nominated for an award at the 2020 virtual conference. Congratulations! So… What are your research interests right now? Most of my research focuses on product outcomes in the context of platform ecosystems. Within this broad area, I mainly adopt the perspective of the complementors that make up the vast majority of the platform ecosystem and ask what the implications are of the strategic choices that they make as they navigate this challenging competitive environment. I examine classic issues ...
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TIM-troduction: Elie Sung

By Llewellyn Thomas posted 09-18-2021
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As part of our profiles of TIM people, let us introduce Elie Sung of HEC Paris which is in, not unsurprisingly, France. Elie, you recently won a TIM award at the virtual conference of 2020. Congratulations! So… What are your research interests right now? I am interested in how firms react to innovation policy and how in turn they shape it through corporate political actions. My work is informed by innovation research on the rate and direction of innovation that often finds a heterogeneous impact of innovation policies. Policies tend to change the business environment in ways that are both advantageous for some types of firms and disadvantageous ...
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TIM-troduction: Thomas Klueter

By Llewellyn Thomas posted 09-18-2021
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As part of our profiles of TIM people, let us introduce Thomas Klueter of IESE which is in the sunny city of Barcelona, which itself is in Catalunya, Spain. Thomas, congratulations on recently joining the TIM Division Executive Committee, so… What are your research interests right now? My broad research interests lie at the intersection of strategic entrepreneurship and innovation. I focus on the ways in which established and emerging firms manage technological change and the strategies firms utilize to develop and commercialize new technologies. Naturally, understanding how incumbent bio-pharmaceutical firms position themselves during the ...
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TIM-troduction: Ann-Kathrin Leiting

By Llewellyn Thomas posted 09-18-2021
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As part of our profiles of TIM people, let us introduce Ann-Kathrin Leiting of ETH Zurich which is in Switzerland. Ann-Kathrin, you recently won the TIM Best Paper Award at the 2020 Virtual Conference, so… What are your research interests right now? My current research interests include innovation, entrepreneurial experimentation, and corporate entrepreneurship. Specifically, I am studying how incumbent firms can use internal corporate venturing as vehicle for organizational transformation. This research is strongly informed by insights that I collected when spending three years with a large engineering and electronics company, closely working with entrepreneurial ...
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TIM-troduction: Trey Cummings

By Llewellyn Thomas posted 09-18-2021
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As part of our profiles of TIM people, let us introduce Trey Cummings of John Hopkins University which is in Baltimore, Maryland, on the east coast of the the IS. Trey, you recently were nominated for a TIM award at the 2020 conference so… What are your research interests right now? I’m currently interested in how firm structure and processes affect the incentives and collaboration characteristics of innovation. This topic is interesting to me for a few reasons. We have witnessed multiple significant shifts along these dimensions in the last couple of decades such as the disappearance of many large centralized R&D laboratories (and possible signs of ...
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TIM-troduction: Annamaria Conti

By Llewellyn Thomas posted 09-18-2021
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As part of our profiles of TIM people, let us introduce Annamaria Conti of HEC Lausanne which is in Switzerland. Annamaria, you recently joined the TIM Executive Committee (congratulations!) so… What are your research interests right now? I am interested in the innovation production process in the context of technology startups. Within this broad area, I analyze information problems arising between startups and investors or between startups and potential acquirers. As these problems may hinder startups’ production of innovations, I investigate mechanisms that could improve transactions in the markets for venture capital and acquisitions. Such mechanisms ...
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TIM-troduction: Michael Mödl

By Llewellyn Thomas posted 09-18-2021
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As part of our profiles of TIM people, let us introduce Michael Mödl of the Max Plack Institute for Innovation and Competition which is in Munich. So, Michael, you recently won a TIM award at the 2019 conference… What are your research interests right now? Broadly speaking I like to understand how new technological and societal developments affect innovation management and entrepreneurial activities. In my current research, I investigate how emerging crowd-based forms of funding interact with traditional venture capital to catalyze innovation and growth. I have been looking at different dimensions of this topic, for instance, how crowd-based ...
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TIM-troduction: Jacqueline Lane

By Llewellyn Thomas posted 09-18-2021
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As part of our profiles of TIM people, let us introduce Jacqueline Lane of Harvard Business School, which is in a fairly well known location. Jacqueline, so… What are your research interests right now? I am interested in the knowledge production process, and the implications of social networks and technology in facilitating the creation and diffusion of new knowledge and innovative breakthroughs. I am particularly interested in the role of digital platforms in diversifying people’s networks to broaden how knowledge is shared, accessed, transferred and diffused to produce new knowledge. More specifically, digital platforms offer individuals unprecedented ...
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TIM-troduction: Said Matr

By Llewellyn Thomas posted 09-18-2021
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As part of our profiles of TIM people, let us introduce Said Matr of U. Carlos III de Madrid which is in a big city that is the capital of Spain. Said, so… What are your research interests right now? As a young scholar with the energy, the desire, and the flexibility, I am interested in multiple disciplines. In general terms, my research interest includes technology and innovation management, human capital management and labor mobility, optimization models, and the decision making process. Currently, I am working on researches lie at the intersection of innovation management and strategy. I always try to look at the innovation process from ...
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TIM-troduction: Araks Ayvazyan

By Llewellyn Thomas posted 09-18-2021
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As part of our profiles of TIM people, let us introduce Araks Ayvazyan of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid which is, unsurprisingly, located in the capital of Spain. Araks, so… What are your research interests right now? My current research interests include technology management, innovation and corporate governance. Specifically, I am studying why firms practice inside-out open innovation, in a setting, where the firms voluntarily grant access to their proprietary knowledge, without any direct financial benefits in return. I also look at how these practices affect other firms in the market. Finally, I am trying to understand the role of boards of directors ...
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TIM-troduction: Holmer Kok

By Llewellyn Thomas posted 09-18-2021
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As part of our profiles of TIM people, let us introduce Holmer Kok of the Stockholm School of Economics which is in, wait for it, Stockholm! Holmer, so… What are your research interests right now? Currently, I’m focusing my research on three core topics. First, I study factors that underlie the creation of impactful new technologies. In this respect, I pay particular attention to the characteristics of components that constitute such technologies. Second, I am interested in how firms and inventors appropriate the value of their own technologies. For example, I am part of a project (funded by a Swedish grant) in which we look at factors that allow original ...
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