| Organizer: Brian C. Fox, Bentley U.
Organizer: Ciaran Heavey, U. College Dublin, Smurfit
Organizer: Zeki Simsek, Clemson U.
Facilitator: Brian Boyd, City U. of Hong Kong
Speaker: Steven Boivie, Texas A&M U.
Speaker: Andreas Sebastian Konig, U. of Passau
Speaker: Dovev Lavie, Technion Israel Institute of Technology
Speaker: Shenghui Ma, U. of Zurich
Speaker: Matthew Semadeni, Arizona State U.
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| Interfaces are the contact points where the separate worlds of actors, units, and organizations intersect and are central to facilitating the transfer of influence, information, resources, and insights in supporting the design, development, and execution of strategy. As organizations and entities within them become more porous, flexible, and loosely-coupled, interfaces represent an increasingly important phenomenon for strategy research. Despite the omnipresent nature of strategy interfaces, an integrated and inclusive conversation for advancing associated research has yet to take place. To that end, the PDW is designed to accomplish two goals. First, it brings together a distinguished group of scholars to discuss the key conceptual, methodological, and empirical challenges for conducting high-quality research on strategy interfaces. Second, the discussion is followed by a proposal development workshop of early stage papers in order to develop consensus around a number of attractive and plausible future research directions for strategy interfaces. In the first part, our distinguished speakers will present "teaser" presentations about new theories, frameworks, concepts, or methods that advance our understanding of strategic leadership interfaces, governance interfaces, inter-organizational interfaces, and intra-organizational interfaces. By strategic leadership interfaces, we mean the interdependent interactions among those strategic actors with overall responsibility for business strategy and performance, most notably the CEO and the top management team. Governance interfaces are the interdependent interactions among the boards of directors, owners, investors, and other governance bodies to align the goals and incentives of executives with owners, intermediaries, and capital markets. Inter-organizational interfaces represent the interactions among actors that straddle organizational boundaries, and are vital conduits through which resource interdependencies among cooperating organizations are reconciled and managed. Finally, intra-organizational interfaces constitute the interdependent interactions among strategic actors and salient unit- or function-level leaders such as middle-managers which inform and allow for the execution of strategic choices and actions. In the second part (pre-registration required), we invite proposals related to one (or more) strategy interfaces including strategic leadership,governance, inter-organizational, and intra-organizational interfaces. We seek early stage papers where these interface concepts play a significant theoretical or empirical role. We are open to submissions from multiple theoretical perspectives, as well as diverse research designs including conceptual, case/qualitative, survey-based, archival, longitudinal, or mixed methods. The organizers will be reviewing the proposals on a rolling basis prior to acceptance to ensure a high-quality discussion and to manage a balance across each of the four interface domains. Submissions must be received by no later than July 14, 2017.
Pre-registration is required for the second component of the workshop. Please contact the workshop organizer at brian.fox5@gmail.com to obtain the approval code. To register online, please visit https://secure.aom.org/PDWReg. The deadline to register online is July 14, 2017.
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