Deadline: February 21, 2022SMS's Full Call for Proposals: HereDear colleagues,
there is one month left to submit your proposals to be considered for the SMS Strategy Practice IG's conference program at SMS 2022 in London. Below, you find the track description of the Strategy Practice IG.
Next to AOM and EGOS, SMS typically is the "third big conference" for SAP scholars, which some do and others do not attend. Here are a few reasons why you should consider submitting your work to SMS:
- Understandings of "strategy" are (re)negotiated at SMS. In a way, one might consider the SMS Annual Meeting, the main strategy conference, a "field-configuring event". As scholars and practitioners from the strategy world come together to discuss strategic phenomena, they stake out what "is" and what "isn't" strategy; and the outcomes of these discussions may at least partly be consequential for reproducing or altering dominant understandings of strategy at our main journals and beyond. Given that SAP advances an alternative understanding of strategy as something that people "do", one might consider participating in panel and paper sessions at SMS important for shaping the broader strategy discourse, rather than leaving this discourse to others.
- Open strategy. The SMS Strategy Practice IG welcomes submissions with a general interest in the practice of strategy-making. Yet, as the conference theme "Innovating Strategy for an Open World" conveys, the conference will provide a vibrant forum for debates around open strategy, among others (a big thanks to the Conference Program Chairs Jamie Cattell, Anu Wadhwa, and Richard Whittington for developing this theme!). The Strategy Practice IG will serve as key site for discussions around the ways in which more transparent and inclusive ways of strategy-making are performed. Therefore, the SMS Strategy Practice IG also welcomes submissions that are particularly interested in the activities, tools, and methods through which open strategy is practiced. As open strategy has become a key theme in research on strategy as practice, we believe that the conference theme as well as the IG's track description (see below) resonate with quite a few SAP scholars.
- London. What a great, accessible place to connect!
We hope for your submissions!
All the best,
Matthias
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Matthias Wenzel
SMS Strategy Practice IG
Program Chair
Track Description of the Strategy Practice IG
The Strategy Practice Interest Group explores the activities through which actors make strategy. Thus, the interest group is interested in the myriad of activities, methods, and tools that actors perform in the doing of strategy-making, and how such "strategy work" contributes to organizational outcomes as well as the broader institutional environment in which it is embedded. Over the years, strategy practice has increasingly become more transparent and inclusive. Amongst other things, this manifests in the growing use of digital tools for sharing information about the firm's strategy more openly, and the more widespread adoption of agile methods for enabling stakeholders outside the circle of corporate elites to contribute to strategy-making. Despite the ever-growing prevalence of transparency and inclusion in strategy-making, the tools and methods for enabling transparency and inclusion in the strategy process as well as their outcomes remain poorly understood. Therefore, while embracing all contributions that are aligned within the Strategy Practice Interest Group's interests, we particularly seek conceptual and empirical submissions from academics, executives, and consultants that engage with questions related to "open" tools, methods, and practices in strategy-making; ones that enable, produce, and recreate transparency and inclusion in the strategy process.
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Matthias Wenzel
Professor
Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Lüneburg
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