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🎾 Is using sports data in innovation and strategy research a winning strategy? Christoph Grimpe, Annamaria Conti, Jan Ross & Elisa Operti share the promises and pitfalls of using sports as a research context, based on their debate at the DRUID 2024 Conference. www.tandfonline.com/.../10.../13...

⁉️ Does Lean Startup represent a giant leap?

📝New Target Article by Christopher Tucci, Yuliya Snihur, Elena Novelli and Teppo Felin, based on their heated debate on this topic back at the 2023 DRUID Conference: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🤓Enjoy the reading!

Come to Copenhagen Business School to do your PhD in the Department of Strategy and Innovation at CBS! 3-year fully-funded scholarships, a structured program, and a vibrant research community to support your PhD journey with the 2025 cohort starting in September. Apply before March 6, 2025.

🥳The Industry and Innovation Best Paper Award for the year 2023 goes to... Julia Mazzei, Tommaso Rughi, & Maria Enrica Virgillito for their paper "Knowing brown and inventing green? Incremental and radical innovative activities in the automotive sector"! 👏 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A timely post from #ASQ editors about the impat of #GenAI on academic publishing. In short, if we seek the generatively easier road it will hurt the quality of organizational scholarship.

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🥇 It is now a tradition at Industry and Innovation to start the new year by looking back at the previous year and recognize our Best Reviewers! Here is a selection of the Best Reviewers of 2024 by our editorial board. Thank you all very much!

‼️ SUBMISSION DEADLINES APPROACHING ‼️
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📍 Special Issue on "Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and the Quest for Sustainable Transitions". Deadline: January 15 (think.taylorandfrancis.com/.../industry...)

🥳We are excited to kick-off 2025 with a Special Issue on “Leveraging Culture to Cultivate Green Innovation in Organizations and Institutional Fields”!
▶️ While posts on each paper will come up soon, you can start by reading the Editorial www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
📖Happy reading!

🎓📖Graduated with a PhD in a field related to Technology and Innovation Management in 2023 or 2024? Submit your dissertation abstract by Feb 21 for the AOM TIM Best Dissertation Award! All details here: connect.aom.org/tim/discussi...

✨ Our editorial team wishes everyone happy holidays, a restful break, and a great start into 2025! 💫 We'd like to thank everyone who has contributed to the development of the journal this past year. 🙏 We look forward to the initiatives, collaborations, and new content that 2025 will bring! 🎆

🙏 We are grateful to many (among whom the Editor guiding us through the review process, as well as two anonymous reviewers) for all the constructive feedback received over the (many) years we worked on this paper!

▶️We also bring a more dynamic perspective to research on entrepreneurial experimentation and pivoting, by studying how strategic changes may occur when founders give a *“second shot”* to their entrepreneurial careers and adjust their hiring strategies while starting another firm.

🔦 With this study, we hope to shift the traditional focus from *whether* entrepreneurial experience impacts subsequent new venture performance to exploring *how* it may influence new firm outcomes by shaping essential strategies such as hiring.

📜 While a long list of other explanations came to mind during this study, we did not find empirical support for any of them – no need to read the full paper, we have summarized it all in one single table. 😉

📈 This change in hiring tactics seems to be driven by experiential learning (or learning from failure): pipeline hiring is + common among those who performed the poorest in the 1st business and it is associated with better performance (survival and employee retention) in the 2nd venture.

💡Serial entrepreneurs adopt different hiring tactics than first-time founders – they make use of “pipeline hiring” (i.e., hiring repeatedly from the same source organizations) more often, especially after having failed with a prior venture.

❓ Do hiring strategies change in successive entrepreneurial stints?
📰 We study this question in a new paper recently published in Strategic Management Journal (joint work with Dario Pozzoli) and the answer is…
✅ Yes! The full paper can be found here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... (1/n)

⏳Working on a paper to be submitted to our Special Issue on "Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and the Quest for Sustainable Transitions"? The submission deadline has been extended to January 15! Read the full call for papers here: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

The interview featuring the #BestPaper #Award of Industry & Innovation 2022 - "The architecture of innovation: how firms configure different types of complementarities in emerging ecosystems" - is out! Thank you @enriqueacebo.bsky.social for the excellent work! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🔍 How do firms use organizational learning—vicarious & experiential—when innovating?

Findings from Seidle (SUBizSchool) reveal distinct learning patterns for high vs. low novelty innovations!

🔗 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

June 25-27
Submission deadline: March 1, 2025

www.druid.dk

DRUID has become one of the world's premier academic conferences on innovation and the dynamics of institutional and geographic change. DRUID invites scholars to contribute with a paper to DRUID25, hosted by Rotman School of Management.

🔍 How did COVID-19 relief impact creative industries long-term?

A new study in @indinno.bsky.social explores the unintended consequences for creative firms.

Key finding: Policy support now hampers recovery.

by Louis-Etienne Dubois & Emmanuel Bochud

doi.org/10.1080/1366...

🔍 How can incumbent firms drive cross-sectoral sustainability?

Discover insights from SSAB, LKAB, and Vattenfall’s pioneering "Hybrit" venture toward fossil-free steel in the latest Industry and Innovation study by Karltorp, Lu, & Perez Vico.

🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1366...

🥇 New interview article featuring Soomi Kim's award-winning research on “Shortcuts to Innovation: The Use of Analogies in Knowledge Production”, winner of the #BestPaperAward at the 2024 DRUID conference! 🎊 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Thank you Leo Schmallenbach & Gianluca Biggi!

💡 Having a great idea for a dedicated Special Issue on an innovation-related topic? Here is our annual Call for Special Issue Proposals!
📨Make sure to assemble a diverse team of Guest Editors and send your proposals by January 31, 2025, using this form: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qts44...

The Inaugural New Paper Report Hi everyone!

Excited to launch our New Paper Report! 🎉

This issue features research on AI, a proposed law for firm profit distribution, political shareholders, and customer improvisation in problem-solving.

Subscribe to our Substack for more insights! 📚
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Welcome to the team, Georg! 🎉🙌💪

Andrew Goodman-Bacon giving a master class on "New Developments in Difference-in-Differences" at Copenhagen Business School this morning. 📈📉#LEED2024

Entrepreneurship, Choice and Strategy - the first books have arrived in Cambridge!! 👏👏👏

📣 Reach out to us if you'd like a preview copy or you'd like to adopt for your classroom next Fall!

📣 More information here: seagull.wwnorton.com/Entrepreneur...

👋Call for Papers for a Special Issue on “Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and the Quest for Sustainable Transitions”
⏰Submission deadline: December 15th, 2024
💻Check out all the details online: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...