Cooperative Strategies Interest Group focuses on issues related to cooperative strategies at the functional, business, corporate, group and network levels of analysis. We are interested in work that explores cooperative strategies within a sector of the economy (for example, among firms or among government agencies) and across sectors (for example, between firms and government agencies or between firms and non-profit organizations). Cooperative arrangements include inter-organizational alliances, joint ventures, federations, constellations, networks, vertical buyer-supplier relations, franchises, community service collaborations, public-private partnerships, corporate board interlocks, etc. The purpose of this Interest Group is to help create useful knowledge on the antecedents and consequences of cooperative arrangements and effective cooperative strategies as well as on the processes that inhibit or facilitate the emergence, evolution and termination of cooperative strategies.
Research streams encompass a broad range of phenomena, including relational mechanisms such as trust, knowledge sharing and conflict resolution; social interaction involving power relations, legitimization, and intervention; organizational perspectives such as relational capabilities, organizational routines, and cooperative governance structures; organizational outcomes such as social capital, learning, innovation, and financial performance; dynamics and evaluation with respect to processes such as formulating cooperative strategies, negotiating and transacting cooperative arrangements, implementing and managing cooperative strategies, and change and renewal of cooperative strategies.
Networking Lunches at SMS Minneapolis
2019 SMS Annual Conference in Minneapolis
Please join us for Networking Lunches of hte Cooperative Strategies IGs on Sunday, Ocotber 20th and Monday, October 21st.
We invite everyone interested in cooperative strategies to join us at one or both lunches offered at the SMS Annual Conference in Minneapolis. Look for the "Cooperative Strategies IG" signs on the lunch tables. We hope to see both the members and nonmembers of our IG who will have an opportunity to meet new colleagues and chat with existing ones!
How to Join Us
We welcome new members! Joining the IG Cooperative Strategies is a great opportunity to meet scholars from more than 50 countries around the world who share your research and education interests.
You can spend time with Cooperative Strategies scholars at all levels and career stages, and explore your ideas in a collaborative and supportive environment. You will make lifelong friends and professional contacts and have fun at our social events.
If you are interested in this newly instituted domain, regardless of your other interests, you are welcome to join us as we attempt to answer questions, ones that are illustrative rather than exhaustive, such as the following:
Below you will find a list of highlighted sessions of the Cooperative Strategies Interest Group program during 2019 SMS Annual Conference in Minneapolis.
Tuesday, 16:15-17:30
Panel Session 1439
Organizations are simultaneously embedded in inter-organizational networks and ecosystems, yet research on networks and ecosystems developed in isolation. This panel will provide a platform to underline similarities and differences between networks and ecosystems; to bring ecosystems’ focus on modularity and complementarity at the forefront of inter-organizational research while enriching ecosystems scholarship with systematic applications of network analytic tools to map the patterns of interdependences. This integration of two bodies of knowledge will bring new energy into maturing research on organizational networks and greater structure to the burgeoning research on ecosystems.
Proposed by:
Andrew Shipilov, INSEAD
Panelists:
Ron Adner, Dartmouth College
Yves Doz, INSEAD
Rahul Kaoor, University of Pennsylvania
Dovev Lavie, Bocconi University
Tuesday 11:00-12:15
Paper Session 1448
The following will be presented during this session:
Crowd Dynamics in Internal Crowdsourcing: Insights from Challenges in Management Higher Education Gianluigi Viscusi, EPFL - École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Christopher Tucci, Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne
How the Network Neighborhood Influences Partnerships: Handshakes to Formal Collaboration among U.S. Fire Departments
Jay Horwitz, University of Toronto
Bill McEvily, University of Toronto
Anita McGahan, University of Toronto
Perceptions of Asset Specificity: Bias and Manipulation in Interfirm Exchanges
Libby Weber, University of California, Irvine
Russell Coff, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Effect of Perceived Incongruence on Contract Design: Evidence from Debt Contract
Cyril Um, Purdue University
Shiau-Ling Guo, National Chengchi University
Fabrice Lumineau, Purdue University
Wei Shi, University of Miami
Monday, 08:00-9:15
Paper Session 1442
The following will be presented during this session:
How Do a Firm’s Acquisitions Affect the Performance of Its Alliance Partners?
Binh Minh Truong, BI Norwegian Business School
Dovev Lavie, Bocconi University
Randi Lunnan, BI Norwegian Business School
The Need for Speed: Firm Speed and the Decision to Go Alone Versus Partner
Ashton Hawk, University of Colorado, Boulder
Jeffrey Reuer, University of Colorado, Boulder
Andrew Garofolo, University of Colorado, Boulder
Organizational Structure Matters: R&D Centralization and Alliance Governance
Kun Zhang, University of Colorado, Boulder
Sandip Bisui, University of Colorado, Boulder
Harsha Tadikonda, University of Colorado, Boulder
Sources and Consequences of Value Chain Configuration: Evidence from the Global Biopharmaceutical Industry
Navid Asgari, Fordham University
Will Mitchell, University of Toronto
Tuesday, 14:30-15:45
Panel Session 1440
This panel connects two important research streams that have received considerable attention in the literature. The first examines forms of cooperation and competition in an industry and how it evolves over time. It studies these dynamics as they unfold in the context of the interactions between younger ventures and well established companies. The second research stream focuses on the emergence and evolution of entrepreneurial ecosystems and factors that determine this evolution. It highlights how interactions between new ventures and established companies can influence the evolution of an ecosystem. To discuss these issues, we assembled a panel of academics, executives and entrepreneurial leaders. The objective is to draw on current research and best practices to generate rigorous, relevant and actionable research findings that enrich managerial practice.
Proposed by:
Giovanni Battista Dagnino, University of Rome LUMSA
Shaker Zahra, University of Minnesota
Panelists:
Giovanni Battista Dagnino, University of Rome LUMSA
John Geisler, Cargill (Retired)
Sabina Saksena, Cytilife
Shaker Zahra, University of Minnesota
