Strategy Research Colloquium (SRC)

Strategy Research Colloquium is our seminar series for leading strategy and entrepreneurship scholars around the world to present their recent research. 
 

Upcoming seminars 2018
 

 

Schedule 2018

 

15.1.2018 10:00-11:30 (Tuas, room 1171-1172, lobby level)

Dr. Matthias Wenzel, Viadrina University in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
“Staging Deliberate Strategy-Making: A Dramaturgical Analysis“ (joint work with David Seidl from University of Zurich and Madeleine Rauch, Jochen Koch and Michael Hartmann from Viadrina University).

 

Schedule 2017

 

10.5.2017 10:00-11:30 (Tuas, room TU5)

MSc, PhD Candidate Eui Ju Jeon, HEC Paris
"Performance Feedback, Shareholder Influence and the Direction of Organizational Change: Evidence from Corporate Venture Capital Investing".

21.4.2017 10:00-11:30 (Tuas, room 4126)

MSc, PhD Candidate Roxana Turturea, RSM - Rotterdam School of Management, Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship.
"Heuristics in the Decision-Making Process of Crowd Investors"

24.3.2017 10:00-11:30 (Tuas, room 4126)

Professor Aija Leiponen, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
"The (Unfulfilled)) Potential of Data Marketplaces".

 

Schedule 2016

 

15.12.2016 10:00-11:30 (Tuas, room 4126)

Professor Marco Clemente from  SKK GSB, Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul
" Understanding Evaluativity in the Climate Change Grand Challenge: TheBiofuel Trailblazer and the Palm Oil Pathway". This is a joint project with Professor Gustafsson from Aalto University.
 

17.6.2016 10:00-11:30 (Tuas, room 4126)

Professor Sampsa Samila, NUS Business School
" Persistence of Initial Success: Evidence from Venture Capital ". This is a joint project with Ramana Nandan (HBS) ja Olav Sorensonin (Yale SOM).
 

20.4.2016 10:00-11:30 (Tuas, room 4126)

Professor Kalle Lyytinen, Case Western Reserve University
"Theorizing the Nature of Strategic Agility in Organizations"
 

16.3.2016 10:00-11:30 (Tuas, room 4126)

Professor Nils Stieglitz, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Strategic Management
"Adaptation in Multi-Business Firms: The Contingent Value of Internal Competition".

 

Schedule 2015
 

25.9.2015 10:30-12:00 (Tuas, room 4126)

Associate Professor Brayden King, Management and Organizations, Kellogg School of
Management 
"Halo Effects and Halo Taxes: The Limitations of Status and Reputation".

 

24.8.2015 10:00-11:30 (Tuas, room 4126)

Professor Işın Güler, School of Management, Sabancı University
"Status Transfer to New Markets in Cross-Border VC Investments". 
 

30.6.2015 10:00-11:30 (Tuas, room 4126)

Professor Joe Porac (New York University)
"The Social Construction of Scandal: The Role of Media in the 2009 British Parliamentary Expense Affair?"
 

5.5.2015 10:00-11:00 (Tuas, room 4126)

Professor Richard Priem, TCU Neeley School of Business
"Calming or Amplifying Effects? CEO Gender and Firm Performance Variability?"
 

30.1.2015 10:00-11:00 (Tuas, Seminar room TU5)

Dr. Markus Kajanto, Institute of Strategy and Venturing, Aalto University
"Forming Capability Beliefs: How Do Managers Understand What Their Organization Is Capable Of?  The paper is co-authored with Prof. Timo Vuori and Prof. Henri Schildt.

 

Schedule 2014
 

15.12.2014 10:00-11:00 (Tuas, room 4126)

Professor Ari Hyytinen, Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics.
"Managerial earnings, skills and tasks across countries". This paper is co-authored with Hannu Karhunen (University of Jyväskylä)

13.11.2014 10:00-11:00 (Tuas, room 4126)

Dr. Timo Ehrig, Mac Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany
"How are Decisions Made When Probabilities are not available? Interview-Based Evidence from an Investment and a Central Bank". This paper is co-authored with Konstantinos Katsikopoulos.

23.10.2014 13:00-14:30 (Tuas, Seminar room 1071-72)

Professor Benyamin B. Lichtenstein, University of Massachusetts
"Cycles of Emergence: Creation and Recreation of New Ventures".

19.6.2014 10:00-12:00 (Tuas, room 4126)

Professor Riitta Katila, Stanford University
Professor Poh Kam Wong, National University of Singapore (NUS)

12.6.2014 11:00-12:30 (Tuas, room 4126)

Professor Koen H. Heimeriks, Tilburg University, TiasNimbas, Research Fellow of CentER.
"Sources and types of knowledge: toward a typology of deliberate learning in acquisitions "

23.5.2014 11:00-12:30 (Tuas, Seminar room TU5)

Professor Aleksios (Alex) Gotsopoulos, SKK Graduate School of Business.
"Fools Enter Late? Founder Characteristics and the Inherently Weak Competitiveness of Late Entrants"
 

Schedule 2013
 

16.12.2013, 10:00-11:30 (Tuas, Seminar room TU5)

Associate Professor Thomas Moliterno, Isenberg School of Management
"Knowing your place: Performance feedback in good times and bad times."

14.11.2013, 10:00-11:30 (Tuas, Seminar room TU5)

Professor Timo Vuori, Aalto University, Institute of Strategy and Venturing
"Emotional Asymmetry among Top and Middle Managers and a Helicopter Company’s Decline".
Coauthored with Quy N. Huy, INSEAD

07.11.2013, 10:00-11:30- (Tuas, room 1171-72)

Marco Clemente, HEC Paris
"Vox Populi Vox Dei?  People’s Complaints about Illegitimate Advertising". Authors: Gino Cattani, Marco Clemente and Rodolphe Durand.

24.10.2013, 10:00-11:30- (Tuas, room 1171-72)

Assistant Professor Marina Biniari, Aalto University, Institute of Strategy and Venturing
" Understanding the corporate venturing model of an organization: An institutional and resource dependency approach". Authors: Marina G. Biniari, Sharon A. Simmons, Erik Monsen, Maria Isabel Pizarro Moreno

10.10.2013, 10:00-12:00- (Tuas, room 1171-72)

Associate Professor Kelley Packalen, Queen's School of Business, Visiting Professor at Aalto University
"Role theory and the entrepreneur’s autonomy-dependence paradox:  Insights from a study of a business incubator"

26.6.2013, 13:00-14:30  (Startup Sauna, Betonimiehenkuja 3)

Professor Riitta Katila, Stanford University
"Creative entrepreneur"

13.6.2013, 12:30-14:30 (Tuas, room 1171-72)

Professor Aija E. Leiponen, Cornell University
"Financing of Innovation in Emerging Economies"

6.6.2013, 10:00-12:00 (Tuas, Seminar room TU5)

Professor Kevin Corley, Department of Management, W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University
"Seeing Past the Orange:  An Inductive Investigation of Organizational Respect in a Prison Context"

28.5.2013, 10:00-12:00 (Tuas, Seminar room TU5)

Professor Jay Barney, Presidential Professor of Strategic Management and Pierre Lassonde Chair of Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Utah
"Human capital and competitive advantage"

10.4.2013, 10:00-12:00 (Tuas, room 1021-22)

Dr. Evangelos Syrigos, Aalto University, Institute of Strategy
"Ambidexterity and Unit Performance: Intellectual Capital Antecedents and Cross-level Moderating Effects of Human Resource Practices".

14.3.2013, 10:00-12:00 (Tuas, room 1021-22)

Constantinos S. Mammassis, Department of Business Administration, University of Patras, Greece
"Conducting Multi-Source Scientific Research"

13.2.2013, 10:00-12:00 (Tuas, room 1171-72)

Professor Tomi Laamanen, Institute of Management,  University of St. Gallen
"Strategic Content Designs of Acquisition Streams: Balancing Explorative and Exploitative Acquisitions".

29.1.2013, 10:00-12:00 (Tuas, Seminar room TU5)

Professor Aija Leiponen, Cornell University, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
"Russian Governance: The Influence of Ownership Networks and Organizational Transparency on Long-Term Resource Commitment in Russian Listed Firms".

15.1.2013, 10:00-12:00 (Tuas, Seminar room TU5)

Professor Erkko Autio, Imperial College London, Business School. 
“Information Exposure, Opportunity Evaluation and Entrepreneurial Action: An Investigation of an Online User Community”
 

Schedule 2012
 

18.12.2012, 10:00-12:00 (Tuas, Seminar room TU5)

Professor Henri Schildt, Aalto University, Department of Management and International Business and Department of Industrial Engineering and Management.
"Innovation at the intersection of institutional logics". 

29.11.2012, 16:00-18:00 (Tuas, room 1171-72)

Professor Arne Carlsen, BI Norwegian School of Business, Department of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour. 
"From prepping and prototyping to wonder and punk: What does extraordinary idea work look like?"

25.9.2012, 10:00-12:00 (Tuas, room 1021)

Dr. Evangelos Syrigos, Aalto University, Institute of Strategy
"Corporate Sustainability and Financial Performance: Complementarity and Time Related Effects"

26.6.2012, 10:00-12:00 (Tuas, room 1021)

Professor Riitta Katila, Stanford University
“Institutional logics of investors and startup innovation”

Professor Aija Leiponen, Cornell University
“Patent aggregators: A market solution to a legal problem, or nuclear warfare?"

20.1.2012,  08:30-10:00 (Tuas, room 1021-22 )

Professor Jeffrey J. Reuer, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University
"Administrative Mechanisms in Non-Equity Alliances"

 

Schedule 2011
 

13.9.2011,  10:15-12:00 (Tuas, room TU3)

Prof. Martin Kenney, Department of Human and Community Development, University of California., Davis
"How Venture Capital Became a Component of the U.S. National System of Innovation"

17.6.2011,  10:15-12:00 (Tuas, room 1021)

Riitta Katila, Stanford University
"On Beat, but off the Beaten Track: A Longitudinal Study of Sequences of Competitive Moves and the Effects on Firm Performance" (co-authored with Eric Chen and Sruthi Thatchenkery)

8.6.2011,  10:15-12:30 (Tuas, room 1021)

Helena Yli-Renko, University of Southern California
"Resource Search, Interpersonal Similarity, and Network Tie Valuation in Nascent Entrepreneurs' Emerging Networks" (forthcoming in Journal of Management)

Sampsa Samila & Olav Sorenson
“Institutional investors and the supply of private equity”

31.5 .2011,  10:15-12:00 (Tuas, room 1021 )

Teppo Felin, Associate Professor & Lee Perry Fellow, Marriott School, BYU
"Organizational boundaries and capabilities"

3.5.2011,  10:15-12:00 (Tuas, room TU3)

Ted F. Tschang, Singapore Management University
"Stepping Towards a General Theory of Combinative Innovation, and Consequently, Creative Enterprise"

7.4.2011, 15:00-18:00 (School of Economics, Runeberginkatu 14-16, room A-308)

Six presenters: M Maula, M Peltoniemi, N Vuori, E Rose, M Paukku, I Jormanainen
"Joint Strategy and IB (JSIB) research seminar"

 

Schedule 2010
 

3.12.2010, 10:15-13:00 (Tuas, room 1021)

SRC two paper session

Tomi Laamanen, Juha-Antti Lamberg & Arjo Laukia, Aalto University, Institute of Strategy
“Narratives of Success: Causal Attribution Theory and Firm-External Sensemaking”

Arjo Laukia, Aalto University, Institute of Strategy
“How does who we are affect where we go? Multiple identities and organizational outcomes”

11.11.2010, 10:15-12:00 (Tuas, room 1021)

Tuomas Kuronen, Aalto University, Institute of Strategy
" The Hunter and the Conqueror: Visual and textual in constructing leadership mythology"

18.10.2010, 14:15-16:00 (Tuas, room 1021)

Vivek Ghosal, Georgia Institute of Technology
“Business Strategy and Firm Reorganization under Changing Global Market Conditions”

30.9.2010, 09:30-11:00 (Tuas, room 1021)

Thomas Keil, Aalto University, Institute of Strategy
“The Temporal Effects of Relative and Firm-level Absorptive Capacity on Inter-Organizational Learning”

9.9.2010, 14:15-16:00 (Tuas)

Erkko Autio, Imperial College
“Constraint or Catalyst? Organizational Capabilities and Entrepreneurial Internationalization”

14.6.2010, 10:15-12:00 (Tuas, room 1021-1022)

Sampsa Samila, Brock University (joint with Olav Sorenson, Yale University)
"Venture capital as a catalyst to commercialization"

2.6.2010, 10:15-12:00 (Tuas, room 1021-1022)

Stéphane Guérard, University of Zurich
“Institutional Change through Field Interaction: The Case of the Transnational Environmental Movement for Climate Change and the Automotive Industry”

26.5.2010, 10:15-12:00 (Tuas, room 1021-1022)

Mitchell Stevens, Stanford University
“Preserving Knowledge”

19.5.2010, 10:15-12:00 (Tuas, room 1021-1022)

Stephane J.G. Girod, Accenture Institute for High Performance
“Organizational strategy in emerging-market multinationals”

11.5.2010, 10:15-12:00 (Tuas, room 1021-1022)

Juha Mattsson, Aalto University School of Science and Technology
“When Does Being ‘In’ Mean Being ‘Out’?: The Effect of Popularity and Genre Dynamics on Subsequent Appeal”

16.3.2010, 10:15-12:00 (Tuas 1171)

Mikko Jääskeläinen, Aalto University, School of Science and Technology,
“Returns on status: Positional rents and hierarchical allocation”

17.2.2010, 10:15-12:00

Nina Granqvist, Aalto University, Helsinki School of Economics
“Hedging Your Bets: Explaining Executives' Labeling Strategies in Nanotechnology”

11.2.2010, 10:15-12:00 (Tuas)

Henri Schildt, Imperial College
“Categories as Concepts: Theorizing the Discursive Processes of Organizational Form Emergence”

 

Schedule 2009
 

3.12.2009, 16:00-17:00 (‘Tieteiden talo’ in Helsinki, http://www.tieteidentalo.fi/)

Niklas Stenlås, Institute for Futures Studies
"Political Parties in the Corporative State. The conservatives and the Corporativisation of the Swedish Parliament 1920-1970"

Juha-Antti Lamberg, Helsinki University of Technology
“Business, government, and regime changes: Special interest group activities in Finland 1918-1950”

27.11.2009, 15:00-16:30 (Tuas 1021)

Olivier Bertrand, Graduate School of Management, St. Petersburg State University TBA

27.10.2009, 10:15-12:00 (Tuas 1021)

Mirva Peltonen, Institute of Strategy, Helsinki University of Technology
"Evolution of video game devices".