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Firms often face a key strategic choice: open up to broad participation or restrict access to protect what makes them distinctive. This choice is highly relevant across a wide range of ecosystems, including digital platforms and open-source communities. This webinar offers insights into how openness and exclusivity shape firms’ value creation and capture mechanisms and their incentives to innovate.
Speakers:
Melissa A. Schilling is the Herzog Family Professor of Management at New York University Stern School of Business, where she serves as Deputy Department Chair of Management and Organizations and Director of the Innovation Initiative at the Fubon Center for Technology, Business and Innovation. She received her PhD in strategic management from the University of Washington. Her research focuses on innovation and strategy in high-technology industries, with particular interests in platform dynamics, networks, creativity, and breakthrough innovation. She is the author of Strategic Management of Technological Innovation, now in its seventh edition and the world’s leading textbook in innovation strategy, and coauthor of Strategic Management: An Integrated Approach. Her research has appeared in leading journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Management Science, Organization Science, and Strategic Management Journal. Her numerous honors include the NSF CAREER Award and the 2022 Sumantra Ghoshal Award for Rigour and Relevance in the Study of Management.
Linus Dahlander is a Professor at ESMT Berlin and holds the Lufthansa Group Chair in Innovation. He received his PhD from Chalmers University of Technology and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University. His research examines how new ideas and innovations emerge through networks and communities, with a focus on innovation, entrepreneurship, and digitalization. His work has been published in leading academic journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, and Strategic Management Journal, as well as practitioner outlets such as Harvard Business Review. Recognized as one of Poets & Quants’ Best 40 Under 40 Professors in the world in 2017, he has advised startups, multinational corporations, and government organizations on innovation and networks. He currently serves as an Associate Editor of Strategic Management Journal.
Cameron Miller is the Nagpal Family Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, where he is also a Faculty Associate at the Institute for an Entrepreneurial Society. He holds a PhD from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management and a master’s degree in economics from the University at Albany, State University of New York. His research examines platforms and ecosystems, technology strategy, innovation, competitive strategy, and evolutionary economics. His work draws on applied econometrics to investigate strategic and competitive dynamics in technology-driven markets. He serves as an Associate Editor of *Strategic Management Journal*. Before entering academia, he held several positions in finance and research, including Director in the Global Fixed Income Research Department at Standard & Poor’s in New York City.
Joost Rietveld is Professor of Business Strategy and Digital Markets at UCL School of Management, University College London. He received his PhD from Bayes Business School, City University London, and previously served as a faculty member at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. His research focuses on technology strategy, innovation management, platform strategies, and digital business models, with applications across industries including video games, mobile apps, and crowdfunding. His work has been published in leading academic journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, and Research Policy. His doctoral dissertation was a finalist in competitions organized by INFORMS and the Academy of Management. Beyond academia, he has advised on major industry transactions, including Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard, and served as an expert witness in antitrust litigation involving digital platforms.
Leju Ma leads business incubation at a multinational platform company in Singapore and has worked on its global expansion across several continents. He is a DBA candidate at SDA Bocconi School of Management, with a research interest in network dynamics in platforms. He has also overseen several APEC-funded projects promoting public-private dialogue in the platform economy.