Deadline for submissions: Jan 15, 2018 (Full papers)
Responses to authors: Feb 25, 2018
Final papers submission: March 25, 2018
This call follows activities previously organized by PSB' newPIC chair and UOC' KiMO research group.
A workshop was organized in March 2016, on PSB Campus, on the topic Microfoundations of Dynamic Capabilities,
under the patronage of AIMS Special group on Dynamic Capabilities.
We are also running at the same time a call for papers for the EURAM 2018 annual conference about
Digital innovation, Strategies, competencies, theories and practice.
All submissions will follow a double-blind review process.
The submission process will be documented soon...
A large variety of technological areas generates today new opportunities for business. This is the case with digitalization, data management, artificial intelligence, and additive technologies for instance. They prepare for radical technological changes that will most probably instantiate a new industrial revolution. Boundaries between sectors and rules of competition are drastically reshaped. Various ecosystems emerge with start-ups. To face up to turbulent environment, large firms have to adapt their organizational design and to redefine their core values (Yoo et al, 2012). These radical changes are illustrated with new open innovation initiatives aiming at collaborating with start-ups and end-users. This translates also with new business models. This process implies new creative capabilities (Pandza and Thorpe, 2009). New organizational designs emerge today in order to facilitate the adoption of these technologies, such as fab labs, living labs, coworking spaces, incubators or a mix of them (Capdevila 2016; Merindol and Versailles, 2017; Aubouin and Le Chaffotec, 2017). These designs provide opportunities to connecting distant actors and to acquiring new ways of working in the innovation process.
In this context, small and large companies seek new forms of agility. Their transformation covers all dimensions of the organizations: corporate strategy, ways of working, culture, key resources (Teece et al., 2016), organization of the supply chain (Blome et al. 2013), etc
Agility is “the ability of every organization to perceive and predict available changes in the business environment” (Razmi and Ghasemi, 2015; Alavi et al., 2014). An agile company is an organisation with a broad vision of the new order of the business world, and with a handful of capabilities and abilities to deal with turbulence. It is intended to capture the advantageous side of changing circumstances (Zhang et al., 2000).
The concept of agility comprises two main factors (Dove, 1996; Kidd, 1995):
Agility, entrepreneurial capabilities, dynamic capability, and resources orchestration are inter-related concepts used to appraise the ways companies adapt to turbulent environment (Teece, 2016; Teece et al., 2016) but they are barely articulated to each other. They are also seldom used to anticipate on the capacity to manage radical technological change incurred by digital technologies, artificial intelligence and the management of big data. These concepts are intended to analyse and to support how to prepare for a forthcoming transformation, but they are most often only used for providing retrospective explanations or justifications and seldom associate with the description of actual managerial modalities for decision-making.
This track addresses the following topics (list not limitative):
The text of this call for proposals in English is available for download in clicking on the flags.
You will access the French text of the call for proposals in clicking on the pdf icon...
The organizers of the RGS-IBG 2016 annual conference will eventually validate the session in the program in considering the quality of the papers submitted. The convenors will keep you posted of this process as soon as information will be available.
To be documented very soon
