This SAP Community Day will again consist of interactive sessions and workshops that will maximize engagement and dialogue among scholars interested in the process and practice of strategy-making. As digitalization rapidly gains importance for organizations of any kind, scholars across the SAP community need to reflect on research practice, in terms of topic and method. Entitled “Rethinking Strategy Research for the Digital Age”, this SAP Community Day is designed as a space for this important conversation to take place. It consists of two parts with distinct goals.
PART I [09:00–13:00] aims to make the SAP community more familiar with conducting research and being a scholar in the digital age. To this end, we will have two sessions. We kick off the day with a brief introductory presentation and a subsequent panel discussion amongst experienced scholars of digitalization. The panel will help us to explore different ways to study strategy in the digital age. After that, three panelists will introduce the notion of “open science” and, together with the participants, discuss how digitalization affects the role of the (strategy) researcher in society. Distinguished experts who will join us include:
François-Xavier de Vaujany, Stella Pachidi, Iain Munro, Mikkel Flyverbom, Eugenia Rodrigues,Theo Andrew, Maximilian Heimstädt
PART II [14:00–17:30] features two rounds of paper development roundtable sessions. Attendees are able to present their research and gather feedback from leading SAP scholars. This format has been piloted at previous SAP Community Days and was always very well received. The afternoon session closes with a short outlook on current and forthcoming special issues related to SAP and a summary of the day. Distinguished experts who will join us include:
Julia Balogun, Leonhard Dobusch, Paula Jarzabkowski, Ann Langley, David Seidl, Violetta Splitter, Linda Rouleau