Professional Development Workshop at the Academy of Management 2024 meeting
Theories of State Capitalism
Session 163 on Friday, August 9th (14:00 – 15:30 CT) at Hyatt: Stetson Suite F
The resurgence of various manifestations of state capitalism led to renewed scholarly interest in deriving, developing, and extending theoretical explanations for the behavior of state-owned firms, statist policy turns, and new forms of business-government relations. Management scholars have responded to this demand often through the application of familiar management theories. However, most management theories are firmly rooted in the experience of advanced economies, and many assume declining state interventions in markets. To explain modern forms of state capitalism – including those that have gained prominence in emerging economies, as well as the statist turn in a number of mature economies – more theoretical and empirical studies are needed to develop a contextual, contingent, and nuanced view of state capitalism that is management- and firm-centered. The participants of this PDW will discuss relevant theoretical perspectives from management, international business, and adjacent social science disciplines to identify boundary conditions of existing theories and opportunities for theory sequencing, proliferation, extension or development. The ultimate goal of this PDW is to stimulate theorizing about firm behavior in the context of active state involvement in the functioning of markets.
Panelists:
Brian Boyd (Northern Arizona University, USA)
Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra (Northeastern University, USA)
Anna Grosman (Loughborough University, UK)
Jette Steen Knudsen (Tufts University, USA)
Gerhard Schnyder (Loughborough University, UK)
Geoffrey Wood (Western University, Canada)
Organizer:
Ilya Okhmatovskiy (Nova SBE, U. Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
No registration is required for this PDW (AoM program link: https://cdmcd.co/PndDw7). The guest editors of the Journal of Management Studies Special Issue "State Capitalism and Firms: Ownership, Institutions and Beyond" will be present at the PDW and welcome questions from the PDW participants interested in submitting their work to this JMS SI (submission deadline: 30 September 2024).
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Ilya Okhmatovskiy
NOVA School of Business and Economics
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
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