SMS Milan Conference: Strategic Human Capital, Management Practices & Performance
March 31 – April 1, 2017
Submit Proposals by October 18, 2016
While firm performance has been studied for decades in strategy research and economics, our understanding of how many factors internal to firms drive performance remains incomplete. Many advances have been made in our understanding how resources and capabilities contribute to firm performance, but there are fundamental gaps concerning the role for performance of human resources, management practices (including HR practices and organizational design), and their interaction. The purpose of this conference is to address these gaps. Recent advances concerning strategic human capital, microfoundations, important breakthroughs in measurement (e.g., increased use of microdata) and research methods (multilevel methods, identification) and the emergence of organization design suggest that we may increasingly be well-equipped to grapple with the role for performance of human resources and management practices. The conference will stimulate a dialogue between strategic management scholars, human resource management scholars, economists, and others working on these issues.
Conference Tracks (track chairs):
· A: Strategic Human Capital and Human Resource Management (Heli Wang/Rebecca Kehoe)
· B: Management Practices and Organizational Design (Nils Stieglitz/Massimo Colombo)
· C: Research Methodology (Sharon Belenzon/Michael Dahl)
· D: Entrepreneurship and Top-Management Teams (Steve Boivie/Martin Ganco)
Program Chairs: Russ Coff, Nicolai Foss, Alfonso Gambardella, and Pat Wright
Keynotes (so far): Rajshree Agarwal, Ed Lazear, Scott Snell
Advisory Board: Jay Barney, Arnaldo Camuffo, Barry Gerhart, Anna Grandori, Tobias Kretschmar, Anthony Nyberg, John Van Reenen and Todd Zenger
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I hope to see you there!
-Russ
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Russell Coff, UW Foundation Chairman Orr Bascom Professor of Strategy
Sr Associate Dean for Faculty & Research | bus.wisc.edu/faculty/Russ-Coff