Announcements

Are you preparing to teach a strategic management course in early 2025? Did you know that the STR Division website has a phenomenal library of digital resources devoted to teaching that can help you design your course, engage students, enhance learning, and introduce new teaching innovations? From sample syllabi to teaching videos to in-class games and exercises, and even links to external teaching resources, this library is rich with tips, tools and materials that can help you with your upcoming teaching assignments.

Please explore the STR teaching website at: https://str.aom.org/teaching

In addition, you may also find STR YouTube teaching playlist useful, available at (also available as podcasts; see the STR home page): https://youtu.be/dgay45yMfbY?si=JvyVyqOsMaQr0faK

Special thanks go out to the STR Teaching Committee members who have helped collate these materials over the years (and especially Paul Seaborn who carried out the most recent update), and to the STR Communications team members who manage our YouTube account and other STR communication channels. If you run into an STR team member please thank them for their service.

The STR Division has adopted a new Global Impact Plan this year that makes a stronger commitment to outreach in underserved and emerging regions of strategic management scholarship. As a part of these efforts, the STR Division is co-sponsoring the 2^nd wISE Scholarship in Oceania – Fostering the Innovation, Strategy & Entrepreneurship Community conference. We hope that many of our members, particularly in the ASEAN and Oceania region, will submit papers and attend.

wISE Scholarship in Oceania Conference (wISE 2025)

The second edition of the wISE Scholarship in Oceania Conference (wISE 2025) will be held at Macquarie University, Sydney, from 20-21 March 2025. Full details at: https://event.mq.edu.au/wise-conference/.

Submission deadline: January 9, 2025.

SUBMISSIONS

Presenters will be selected based on manuscript submissions, which should be sent to wISE@mq.edu.au. Please include the following (in one single word file), following AOM guidelines:

·        Cover page (including all authors and their contact details)

·        Working paper (up to 40 pages, including references, tables, and figures). Papers should include research questions addressed, theory/literature review, hypotheses/propositions, research design, and expected results and contribution to scholarship in strategy, innovation and/or entrepreneurship literature(s)

·        Stream that you would prefer presenting in (Innovation, Strategy, Entrepreneurship)

Scholars in the region can attend the conference without presenting a paper.

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

·        Paper submission opens: 15 December 2024

·        Paper submission closes: 9 January 2024

·        Authors notified of outcomes: 1 February 2025

·        Registration closes: 21 February 2025

As a part of our efforts to support strategic management scholarship around the world, the STR Division is co-sponsoring the India Strategy Conference. We hope many of our members will submit papers and attend.

The academic year is rapidly coming to an end and so are the STR online events. But there is still time for you to join some of these exciting events. 

Two of the May events included the PhD Networkshops organized by Philipp Meyer-Doyle (INSEAD) and Florence Honore (U Wisconsin-Madison) where senior panelists gave feedback to late-stage STR PhD students and post-docs as they are preparing for the job market. A huge thank you to the panelists for your time and advice in supporting these young scholars for their future careers in the field of Strategic Management: Michael Bikard, Linus Dahlander, Giada Di Stefano, Kenneth Huang, Tobias Kretschmer, Bala Vissa, Heli Wang, Pavel Zhelyakov, Donald Bergh, Felipe Csaszar, J.P. Eggers, Aline Gatignon, Jiao Luo, and Atul Nerkar. 

If you missed the other May events organized by STR you will find them as per usual on the STR Youtube channel.

June starts with another STR Impact and Relevance event on June 4th at 11AM ET on the topic of “publishing phenomenon-based research in strategic management”. The event is hosted and organized by Koen Heimericks (U Warwick) and Fabrice Lumineau (U Hong Kong) and will feature Aseem Kaul, Greg Fisher, Jonathan Doh, and Sue Cohen.

We host a second STR Impact and Relevance event on June 27th at 11AM ET on the topic of how STR scholars can collect primary impactful data. The event is hosted and organized by Florence Honore (U Wisconsin-Madison) and will feature Michael Leiblein,
Elena Novelli, Tim Ott, Henry Sauermann, and Margarethe Wieserma.

On June 28th, the Membership Engagement Committee of STR is organizing an online student-only conference open to any STR division PhD student who submits a full paper by the registration deadline. There is no review process aside from a quick check that the paper is an STR research paper suitable for discussants. By submitting a paper, you agree to attend the conference and serve as a discussant for two other student papers. You will be matched into a research topic track to ensure the highest quality feedback. The deadline for signing up is June 7th.

You will find more information about these events including how to sign up on the STR homepage: https://str.aom.org/home

Dear STR Members, 

You might have seen the call from AOM to nominate the future leaders of our field. STR Past Division Chair, Michael Leiblein, has also sent a reminder. I hope that you will take the time to vote for the future leaders of STR. You will find the link to the Division elections here: https://aom.org/about-aom/governance/board-of-governors/board-nominations-and-elections and you have until May 16 to vote. 

In May, we again have a number of online events lined up for the STR community: 

On May 1st at 9AM EST, Florence Honoré (U Wisconsin-Madison) is hosting another STR: Impact and Relevance event on “Empowering Real World Change through STR Teaching”. The panelists are Keyvan Vakili (London Business School), Min Jung Kim (Gies College of Business), Ilaria Orlandi (Copenhagen Business School), and Russ Coff (U Wisconsin-Madison).You will find more information about this event, including how to sign up here: https://str.aom.org/discussion/reminder-str-virtual-symposium-on-may-1st-at-9-am-et?ReturnUrl=%2fcommunity%2fourdiscussiongroup

On May 3rd at 12:30PM EST, Koen Heimericks (U Warwick) is also hosting an STR: Impact and Relevance event on “Purposeful Growth”.  The confirmed speakers at this event are: Ranjay Gulati (HBS), Claudine Gartenberg (Wharton), Alan Morrison (Oxford), and Flore Bridoux (RSM). Here is the link to sign up: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAtf-mspjouE9SQK0nfCgfK4xqOHZ4io3iL 

On the 9th of May at 9AM EST, Cameron Miller (Syracuse U) from the STR Membership Engagement Committee will host Russ Coff (U Wisconsin-Madison) for a session on “How to Master Conference Presentations.” This is a great opportunity to learn more about how to present at conferences, where you have less time than for a regular paper presentation and need to convey a lot in little time. https://str.aom.org/discussion/str-virtual-event-how-to-master-conference-presentations 

On May 23rd and May 28th Philipp Meyer-Doyle (INSEAD) and Florence Honoré (U Wisconsin-Madison) are hosting the annual “STRonger Together Networkshops”. These workshops are a series of online workshops for late-stage PhD students, post-doc or equivalent, i.e., those who expect to be on the job market next academic year (2024-25). The workshops will last two hours and each student is matched with two senior discussants. The organizers have a great set of discussants lined up: Michael Bikard, Linus Dahlander, Giada Di Stefano, Kenneth Huang, Tobias Kretschmer, Bala Vissa, Heli Wang, Pavel Zhelyakov, Donald Bergh, Felipe Csaszar, J.P. Eggers, Aline Gatignon, Jiao Luo, and Atul Nerkar . Thank you to the organizers and the panelists for being part of creating this wonderful opportunity for junior STR scholars.

As per usual, if you missed the April events you can find them on our home page as podcasts (https://str.aom.org/home) or on the STR Youtube channel. Hope to see you at one of the May events.

Louise Mors, STR Division Chair

str@cbs.dk  

In April, STR has a new set of exciting virtual events lined up for you: On April 16 at 3pm London time, Richard Whittington (Oxford U) is hosting another event in our series of “STR: Impact and Relevance.” The panel will address “how strategy research can engage with state actors.” The panelists are Anna Grossman (Loughborough U, London), Aline Gatignon (Wharton), Pasha Mahmood (NUS), Mike Peng (UT Dallas), and Anthea Zhang (Rice). You can register for this event here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZclceyurDopGt2gCtM3ipyyTwxgmTyG3nX4

On April 24 at 10AM Eastern Time, Philipp Meyer-Doyle (INSEAD) will host a symposium on Corporate Strategy. Four scholars will present their work: Colleen Cunningham (Utah), Mark DesJardine (Dartmouth), Catherine Magelssen (LBS), and Lisa Tang (NUS). Distinguished scholars Emilie Feldman (Wharton) and Constance Helfat (Dartmouth) will provide comments on the work. Register in advance for this meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpf-CqpjIqH9Vy8JPOR1zf78lluQcGRKfS

Finally, the teaching committee are organizing an event on April 26 at 11AM Eastern on the interaction between teaching and research. The event is hosted by Jenny Kuan (Cal State Monterey) and Nathan Furr (INSEAD). At this event you will hear examples of how teaching sparked a research idea or how research is used in teaching from Rahul Kapoor (Wharton), Olga Hawn (UNC-Chapel Hill), and Jeffrey York (Colorado). Register at: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87663700840?pwd=NHhwL1ZiVjgrZjREcExQM0VUZmJCUT09