Strategizing Activities and Practices SAP

Come to a PDW on unpacking process in organizational search. For the third iteration, we expect an exciting and interactive session!

The session takes place on Saturday, August 8, 3:00 - 5:00 PM at UBC Robson Square.

   
Organizer: Amit Nigam; City U. London;
Organizer: Sam MacAulay; U. of Queensland;
Organizer: Thorsten Grohsjean; LMU Munich;
Organizer: Nils Stieglitz; Frankfurt School of Finance & Management;
Participant: Gino Cattani; New York U.;
Participant: Hart E. Posen; U. of Wisconsin, Madison;
Participant: Lars Frederiksen; Aarhus U.;

Organizational search is widely used to explain the generation and diffusion novelty. Our most commonly applied theories conceptualize search as a process. For example, A Behavioral Theory of the Firm, Cyert and March's (1963) seminal contribution to organizational theory, conceptualizes search as a process whereby actors seek to discover alternative ways of meeting performance goals. Organizational scholars have typically conducted research that tell us little about the process of search, what goes on between when one decides to initiate a search and when one decides to terminate it. This trend is beginning to change and our PDW aims to strengthen it by stimulating early stage research that unpacks the process of organizational search and, in doing so, helps improve our understanding of organizational life. The workshop will be organized around participants' own interests in organizational search and their research ideas in progress and their methodological approaches to studying search. The session will begin with an overview of where the field is going and why. We will then break into themed roundtables. Experts in the field, including the co-organizers, will lead each table, facilitating developmental reviews and encouraging the group to work collaboratively to strengthen each other's projects. The workshop will conclude with the organizers facilitating a general discussion of issues surfaced and the road ahead.

Meets at UBC Robson Square Room C150. UBC Robson Square is located at 800 Robson Street (between Hornby and Howe Streets).

Amit Nigam

Senior Lecturer in Management

Cass Business School