Dear TIM Division Member:
We have put together what we believe is an exciting Technology & Innovation Management Division program for those of you attending the Academy of Management annual meeting starting next week Friday August 7 and continuing through Tuesday August 11. As in recent years, this year the TIM program has been organized in tracks. In principle, the tracks allow conference attendees to follow their favorite topic of interest throughout the Monday and Tuesday of the conference. We provide the program by tracks at the end of this communication (and in the attached document). Some highlights of the TIM program are listed just below.
FRIDAY AUGUST 7TH
* How to write your first academic paper (session 44, Fri 8-10am in Vancouver Convention Center (VCC) 205)
* Early venture evolution (session 76, Fri 10-12am in VCC 003)
* Advances in patent research (session 52, Fri 8:30-10:30am in VCC 214)
* Innovating how we teach innovation (session 105, Fri 11:30am-1:30pm in VCC 011)
SATURDAY AUGUST 8TH
* TIM Wiley Distinguished Scholar Session: We are honored to have Carliss Baldwin (Harvard) as this year's recipient. Come meet one of the leading scholars in the field. Lunch is provided (session 357, Sat 12-1:30pm, in VCC East Ballroom C)
* Introduction of seven new datasets for innovation research (session 388 Sat 1-3:30pm in VCC 214)
* Research Networking: This is a new social event organized in the form of "speed dating" to get to know TIM peers engaged in related research topics (session 472, Sat 5-6:30pm in VCC 216)
SUNDAY AUGUST 9TH
* One of our symposia has been selected to be listed in Sunday's prestigious All Academy Theme on "Opening Governance". The symposium is titled "Linking Open Innovation to Business Models". The speakers include Henry Chesbrough (U. of California, Berkeley); Thomas Ritter (Copenhagen Business School); Christopher Lettl (WU Vienna); and Christopher L Tucci (EPF de Lausanne) (session 612,Sun 11:15am-12:45 in the VCC, Room 224)
* TIM Division Best Dissertation Session (session 689, Sun 2:30-3:30pm VCC 101)
* TIM Division Business Meeting. Come hear about the Division and help celebrate our award winners (session 785, Sun 5:30-6:30pm in VCC 109)
* TIM Division Social. Food is provided (session 805, Sun 6:30-8pm, in VCC 001)
MONDAY AUGUST 10TH
* TIM Breakfast (session 818, 7-8am in Fairmont Waterfront Hotel Ballroom A)
* TIM Plenary. This year's TIM Plenary presents what we believe will be a thought-provoking debate over whether management theories have been adopted too quickly and without sufficient empirical support. Several management theories or frameworks have achieved widespread attention and have become widely used in the practitioners' world, such as Core Competences and Disruptive Innovation. Some scholars have argued that often these theories are not properly tested or developed and that therefore their adoption and usage produces more problems than solutions for our field. Should we, can we, as a scholarly community, have a stronger role in showing which theories are developed and tested enough to be promoted among practitioners? This panel session will present divergent views on what our role should be, and the advantages and disadvantages of the existing transfer process between the theories generated in academia and those adopted by the business world. The plenary features Fernando Suarez (Northeastern U.) as the moderator and Gautam Ahuja (U. of Michigan) as well as Brent Goldfarb (U. of Maryland) as the panelists. Snacks are provided (session 1165, Mon Aug 10 2015 11:30am - 1:00pm at VCC in Room 211)
* The program also includes three TIM Showcase Symposia that we consider to be among our very best symposium submissions received and which are also expected to attract a substantial audience:
- The Past, Present and Future of Technology and Innovation Management Theories (participants: Wolfgang Sachsenhofer, Werner Helmut Hoffmann, Sohyeong Kim, Henry Chesbrough, Ikujiro Nonaka, Neil Kay, Raymond E Miles, Ayano Hirose) (session 1049, Mon, Aug 10 2015 9:45am - 11:15am at VCC in Room 204)
- Services, Platforms, Business Model Innovations and the Implications for Open Governance (participants: Veronica Martinez, Andrew Neely, Michael Cusumano, Fernando Suarez, Annabelle Gawer, Neil Alison, Andrew Neely, Ivanka Visnjic) (session 1291, Mon, Aug 10 2015 1:15pm - 2:45pm at VCC in Room 216)
- The Emergence of Radical Inventions: Indicators and Applications (participants: Bart Van Looy, Reinhilde Veugelers, Bruno Cassiman, Raffaele Conti) (session 1409, Mon, Aug 10 2015 3:00pm - 4:30am VCC in Room 204)
As mentioned above, also this year the TIM program has been organized in tracks. Each paper and symposium has been allocated into one of seven tracks (the particular symposia and paper sessions that fall within each of the tracks appear below in full):
Track A. Open & Collaborative Innovation
Track B. Technology Innovation Strategy
Track C. Alliances & Ecosystems
Track D. The Innovation Environment: Competition, Industry, and Institutions
Track E. Learning, Search, and Knowledge
Track F. Multi-Level Innovation: Creativity & Teams
Track G. New Product Development & Introduction
Track H. Intellectual Property Strategy
Best wishes for a safe trip to Vancouver and for a stimulating conference,
Keld Laursen, TIM Division Program Chair, 2014-2015
Aija Leiponen, TIM Division PDW Chair, 2014-2015
AOM 2015 Technology and Innovation Management Division:
Paper Sessions and Symposia by Track, Sunday August 9, Monday August 10 and Tuesday August 11
Track A. Open & Collaborative Innovation
Sunday
Location: Vancouver Convention Center, East Meeting Room 17
11:15-12:45 Linking Open Innovation to Business Models (TIM, All Academy Theme, session 612)
Monday
Location: Vancouver Convention Center, West Meeting Room 214
8-9:30 In- and Outbound Open Innovation (session 946)
9:45-11:15 Symposium: What is New About 'Openness'? Implications for Value Creation and Value Capture (session 1052)
Location: Vancouver Convention Center, West Meeting Room 216
8-9:30 User Innovation (session 947)
9:45-11:15 Firm-hosted User-communities (session 1050)
1:15-2:45 Symposium: Services, platforms, business model innovations and the implications for open governance (session 1291)
3-4:30 Co-creation of Innovation (session 1408)
4:45-6:15 Collaborative Innovation (session 1516)
Location: Vancouver Convention Center, East Meeting Room 12
1:15-2:45 Symposium: Integrating East Asian Centers of Innovation into Global Technology Networks (session 1217)
Location: The Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, Gabriola Island
1:15-2:45 Symposium: Research Crowdsourcing, Data Sharing, and Large-Scale Collaboration (session 1275)
Location: Vancouver Convention Center, East Meeting Room 13
3-4:30 Knowledge Protection and Spillovers (session 1405)
4:45-6:15 Knowledge Disclosure (session 1511)
Location: Vancouver Convention Center, West Meeting Room 224
3-4:30 Symposium: Online Communities Research: Quo Vadis? Perspectives on Knowledge Work, Collaboration, & Innovation (session 1370)
Location: Vancouver Convention Center, West Meeting Room 110
3-4:30 Symposium: Beyond Embeddedness: When Community Engagement Governs Firm Strategy (session 1384)
Tuesday
Location: Vancouver Convention Center, West Meeting Room 216
8-9:30 Open Innovation Contests (session 1682)
9:45-11:15 Open Innovation Performance (session 1801)
11:30-1:00 Open Innovation Search (session 1928)
1:15-2:45 Organizing Open Innovation (session 2048)
3-4:30 Innovation and Market Orientation (session 2147)
Location: Pan Pacific Vancouver: Crystal Pavilion Ballroom A
8-9:30 Symposium: Open Strategy and Open Governance: Practices and Technologies (session 1670)
Track B. Technology Innovation Strategy
Monday
Location: Vancouver Convention Center, West Meeting Room 204
8-9:30 Symposium: Linking Business Model Research and Practice Through Action Research (session 949)
9:45-11:15 Symposium: The Past, Present and Future of Technology and Innovation Management Theories (session 1049)
1:15-2:45 Channels for Interorganizational Mobility (session 1290)
3-4:30 Symposium: The emergence of Radical Inventions: Indicators and Applications (session 1409)
4:45-6:15 High-tech Startups (session 1515)
Location: Vancouver Convention Center, West Meeting Room 211
8-9:30 Symposium: Strategy Research at Crossroad - Interesting Papers in Strategy: What Are They & How Do We Know? (session 848)
Tuesday:
Location: Vancouver Convention Center, West Meeting Room 105 (office)
8-9:30 Innovation-based Rivalry (session 1677)
9:45-11:15 Technological Capabilities and Competition (session 1797)
Location: Vancouver Convention Center, West Meeting Room 111
8-9:30 Ambidexterity and Knowledge Structures (session 1678)
9:45-11:15 Ambidexterity and Dynamic Capabilities (session 1798)
11:30-1:00 Strategy and Industry Evolution (session 1924)
1:15-2:45 Business Model Innovation (session 2044)
3-4:30 Sustainable Business Models (session 2144)
Location: Hyatt Regency Vancouver: Seymour
11:30-1:00 Symposium: Implementation and Governance in Health Care: Tensions and Synergies (session 1841)
Track C. Alliances & Ecosystems
Monday
Location: Vancouver Convention Center, West Meeting Room 119
8-9:30 Symposium: Creating and capturing value in ecosystems: Bottlenecks and strategies (session 950)
9:45-11:15 Innovation Ecosystems (session 1048)
1:15-2:45 Innovation and Two-sided Platforms (session 1289)
3-4:30 Platforms for Innovation (session 1407)
4:45-6:15 Networks for Innovation (session 1514)
Location: Vancouver Convention Center, West Meeting Room 111
1:15-2:45 Knowledge Flows Through Individuals (session 1288)
3-4:30 R&D-based Startups (session 1406)
4:45-6:15 Complex Collaborative R&D Projects (session 1513)
Location: Vancouver Convention Center, West Meeting Room 211
9:45-11:15 Symposium: Ecosystem, Platform and Industry Architecture Research: Re-focusing the Agenda (session 967)
Location: Vancouver Convention Center, West Meeting Room 211
4:45-6:15 Symposium: Employee Mobility and Entrepreneurship: Theoretical Synthesis and New Frontiers (session 1424)
Tuesday:
Location: Vancouver Convention Center, West Meeting Room 119
8-9:30 Licensing and Joint Ventures (session 1679)
9:45-11:15 Technology Licensing (session 1799)
11:30-1:00 Innovation and Firm Acquisition (session 1925)
1:15-2:45 Joint Innovation (session 2045)
3-4:30 R&D Alliances (session 2145)
Location: Vancouver Convention Center, West Meeting Room 212
8-9:30 Symposium: Governing Corporate Venturing Activities: Logics, Structures, and Practices (session 1592)
Location: Vancouver Convention Center, West Meeting Room 213
8-9:30 Symposium: Outsourcing and Innovation (session 1575)
Track D. The Innovation Environment: Competition, Industry, and Institutions
Monday
Location: Vancouver Convention Center, West Meeting Room 224
8-9:30 University-Industry Links (session 948)
9:45-11:15 Symposium: Scientific Communities, Public R&D, and Technology Trajectories (session 1051)
Location: Vancouver Convention Center, East Meeting Room 5
1:15-2:45 Technological Evolution: Exaptation, Complexity and Chaos (session 1285)
3-4:30 National and Regional Innovative Capacity (session 1404)
4:45-6:15 Clusters and Innovation (session 1510)
Location: Vancouver Convention Center, East Meeting Room 17
1:15-2:45 Symposium: Creating Innovations for Inclusive Growth (session 1292)
Location: Vancouver Convention Center, West Meeting Room 213
4:45-6:15 Symposium: Industry Convergence: Drivers, Mechanisms, and Consequences (session 1425)
Tuesday:
Location: Vancouver Convention Center, West Meeting Room 204
8-9:30 University Technology Transfer (session 1680)
9:45-11:15 Symposium: Commercializing Science: Strategies Frameworks and Organizational Innovation (session 1803)
11:30-1:00 Adoption of Labels and Technologies (session 1926)
1:15-2:45 The Introduction of New Technologies (session 2046)
3-4:30 The Role of Institutions for Innovation (session 2146)
Location: Vancouver Convention Center, West Meeting Room 109
9:45-11:15 Symposium: Forgetting: Structural and Competitive Implications for Organizational Performance (session 1780)
Location: Vancouver Convention Center, West Meeting Room 211
11:30-1:00 Symposium: The Determinants of Regional Competitiveness (session 1815)
Location: Vancouver Convention Center, East Meeting Room 1
11:30-1:00 Symposium: Identity and Industry Emergence (session 1909)
Location: Vancouver Convention Center, West Meeting Room 211
1:15-2:45 Symposium: Categories or Submarkets: Different Perspectives on Within-Industry Heterogeneity (session 1938)
Track E. Learning, Search, and Knowledge
Monday
Location: Vancouver Convention Center, West Meeting Room 205
8-9:30 Symposium: Dynamic Capabilities: Bridging Diverging Conversations (session 847)
Location: Vancouver Convention Center, East Meeting Room 13
9:45-11:15 Governance, Search and Innovation (session 1046)
Location: Vancouver Convention Center, East Meeting Room 19
1:15-2:45 Learning and Innovation (session 1286)
Location: Hyatt Regency Vancouver, Georgia Ballroom A
1:15-2:45 Symposium: Dealing With Competing Paradoxical Demands in Search of Co-existence (session 1247)
Location: Vancouver Convention Center, East Meeting Room 1
1:15-2:45 Symposium: Breathing Life into Technology: Socio-cognitive Paths Towards Opening Up the Black Box (session 1267)
Location: Vancouver Convention Center, West Meeting Room 224
4:45-6:15 Explorative and Exploitative Learning (session 1517)
Tuesday:
Location: Vancouver Convention Center, West Meeting Room 224
8-9:30 Sources of Invention (session 1683)
9:45-11:15 Knowledge Flows and Innovation (session 1802)
Location: Vancouver Convention Center, East Meeting Room 5
8-9:30 Mechanisms for Search and Learning (session 1676)
9:45-11:15 Technological Search (session 1796)
11:30-1:00 Knowledge Diffusion and Innovative Assets (session 1921)
1:15-2:45 Product Innovation Strategy and Failures (session 2041)
3-4:30 The Evolution of Capabilities and Industries (session 2142)
Track F. Multi-Level Innovation: Creativity & Teams
Monday
Location: Vancouver Convention Center, East Meeting Room 5
8-9:30 Individuals, Human Capital and Creative Output (session 943)
9:45-11:15 Leadership, Psychology and Individuals' Behaviors in the Context of Innovation (session 1045)
Location: Vancouver Convention Center, West Meeting Room 213
8-9:30 Symposium: Antecedents and Consequences of Team Formation in Entrepreneurial Contexts (session 846)
Location: Hyatt Regency Vancouver, Georgia Ballroom B
8-9:30 Symposium: New Directions in Organizational Creativity Theory (session 917)
Location: The Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, Garibaldi
9:45-11:15 Symposium: ICT and Well-Being in Employees: Examining Differential Technostress Relationships (session 1000)
Tuesday:
Location: Vancouver Convention Center, West Meeting Room 214
8-9:30 Work Organization and Problem Solving (session 1681)
9:45-11:15 Creativity and Recombination (session 1800)
11:30-1:00 Teams and Innovative Outcomes (session 1927)
1:15-2:45 The Creation and Selection of New Ideas (session 2047)
Location: Hyatt Regency Vancouver, Georgia Ballroom A
8-9:30 Symposium: Technology at Work: Opportunities and Challenges (session 1642)
Track G. New Product Development & Introduction
Monday
Location: Vancouver Convention Center, West Meeting Room 105 (office)
8-9:30 Agile Product Development (session 944)
9:45-11:15 Management of Product Innovation (session 1047)
Tuesday:
Location: Vancouver Convention Center, West Meeting Room 105 (office)
11:30-1:00 Customization and Green Innovation (session 1923)
1:15-2:45 New Product Development Outcomes (session 2043)
3-4:30 Innovation Adoption (session 2143)
Track H. Intellectual Property Strategy
Monday
Location: Vancouver Convention Center, West Meeting Room 111
8-9:30 Institutional differences in IPR Protection (session 945)
Location: Vancouver Convention Center, West Meeting Room 105 (office)
1:15-2:45 Appropriability Strategy (session 1287)
4:45-6:15 Patent Strategy (session 1512)
Tuesday:
Location: Vancouver Convention Center, East Meeting Room 13
11:30-1:00 Intellectual Property Rights (session 1922)
1:15-2:45 The Value of Intangible Assets (session 2042)