Special Issue on Open Innovation and the Integration of SuppliersSubmission closing date: November 1, 2009 Guest Editor Dr. Alexander Brem (School of Business and Economics, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) and VEND consulting GmbH, Nuremberg: brem@vend-consulting.de Background Open innovation describes an innovation paradigm shift from a closed to an open innovation model (Chesbrough, 2003). With this idea, [...]

Chairpersons Professor Richard M. Burton The Fuqua School of Business – Duke University Durham – USA Professor Børge Obel Aarhus School of Business – Denmark Professor Dorthe Dojbak Haakonsson Aarhus School of Business – Denmark Background Organizational Design is a dynamic process where the organization adapts to new challenges and creates new opportunities. Successful organizations [...]

The Inaugural EMAC McKinsey Marketing Dissertation Award-2009! EMAC and McKinsey & Company are pleased to announce the initiation of a new award to highlight the brightest newcomers to the profession: The Marketing Dissertation Award . This distinguished award will be offered in 2009 for the first time. In addition to receiving a cash prize, three [...]

Competition or Cooperation: East vs. West May 12-13, 2009 MacEwan School of Business, Edmonton, Canada With the rapidly changing landscape of the global economy as the backdrop to a more challenging and unpredictable world, it is imperative to look at cooperative and competitive antecedents for future East-West relationships and the internal economic, social and political [...]

European and Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (EMCIS 2009) Annual Conference & Doctoral Consortium Izmir, Turkey http://www.emcis.org Conference: 13-14th July, 2009 PhD Consortium: 14th July, 2009 Theme: ‘Human, Organisational and Technical Issues and Supply Chain and Technology Management’ Background: Within the Global Economy, managers and academics in IS continue with the critical challenges of how [...]

Strategic Dynamics in Industry Architectures: The challenges of Knowledge Integration Submission due date: January 15, 2009 Guest Editors Stefano Brusoni, Bocconi University Michael G. Jacobides, London Business School Andrea Prencipe, University G. d’Annunzio Motivation Industries can no longer be taken for granted. As sectors disintegrate and re-integrate, converge and transform, the question of how exactly [...]