TRACK D:
Strategic Capabilities and Knowledge Transfer
Within and Between Organizations
Track Chairs: Arturo Capasso, Giovanni Battista Dagnino and Andrea Lanza
This track will be held in Delux Suite 420. It commences in the first
session of the conference.
6th of May
Conference Session 1: Strategic Capabilities and
Knowledge Transfer: Conceptual Approaches
13.00-14.30
Chair: Arturo Capasso
 Pedro López Sáez, Gregorio Martin de Castro and José Navas
López : Processes of Knowledge Creation and Transfer: The Quest
for a General Framework

Sophia S. Philippidou, Dimitris A. Brachos and Klas Eric
Soderquist: From Managerial Cognitions to Managerial Actions: A
“Community of Practice” Unit of
Analysis

Desiderio J. García and Alicia M. Bolívar: The Role of Motivation
in Knowledge Transfer Projects: An Empirical Analysis in the
Incorporation of New Organizational Unit

Andrea Lanza: Knowledge Governance: Managing Heterogeneity,
Allocative Balance and Behavioral Concerns in Competitive and
Cooperative Inter-Firm Relationships
 Bertrand V. Quelin: Determinants of Strategic Outsourcing: A
Model for Contracting Out
 Molina: Discussant
6th of May
Conference Session: 2: Strategic Capabilities and
Knowledge Transfer: Process Perspectives
15.00-16.30

Chair: Joan Enric Ricart
Juan Carlos Bou Llusar, R. Lapiedra Alcamí and Mercedes Segarra
Ciprés: Knowledge as Strategic Asset and its Implications in Knowledge
Transfer Process

Rebecca Marchan Piecari and Kristina Makela: Underlying Patterns of
International Knowledge Sharing: Who Talks to Whom?

Barbara Larraneta- Gomez-Caminero and José Luis Galan Gonzalez:
Absorptive Capacity as a Type of Dynamic Capability

Peter Galvin and Kelvin Willoughby: Interorganisational Communication,
Knowledge Intensity, and the Sources of Innovation in the Biotechnology and
Medical Devices Industries

Stephan Kaiser: The Utilization and Integration of Professional Services
Implications for Managing Organizational Knowledge

Discussant: Gianmario Verona, Bocconi Univ. of Milan
6th of May
Conference
Session
3:
Strategic
Capabilities
and
Knowledge Transfer in Acquisitions and Alliances
17.00–18.30

Chair: Andrea Lanza
David Knoke: Strategic Alliances: Formation, Developmental Dynamics, and
Performance Outcomes

Ulrich Wassmer: The creation of Organization Capabilities to Manage Alliance
Portofolios: A Literature Review

Wim Vanhaverbeke, Bonnie Beerkens and Geert Duysters: Explorative
and Exploitative Learning Strategies in Technology-based Alliance Networks

Arturo Capasso and Olimpia Meglio: Integration Capability and Knowledge
Transfer in Post-Merger Integration: Some Evidences from the Frequent Acquirors
Histories

Maria Iborra and Angels Dasi: Acquisitions as Centers of Excellence. Can it
Make a Difference?

Denise Sumpf: Discussant
7th of May
Conference Session 4: Strategic Capabilities and
Knowledge Transfer in Networks
8.30-10.00

Chair: Pierre Dussauge
Anupama Mohan: Strategic Capabilities for Transnational Management of
Practices within TNCs

Jay Barney, Valentina Della Corte and Mauro Sciarelli: SMEs Networks &
DMS

Gianmario Verona, Emanuela Prandelli and Mohanbir Sawhney:
Innovation and Virtual Environments: Towards Virtual Knowledge Brokers

Lucio Fuentelsaz, Juan Pablo Maicas and Yolanda Polo: Measuring the
Impact of Switching Costs and Network Effects on the European
Mobile Telecommunications Sector

Giovanni Battista Dagnino: Strategic Capabilities and Interorganizational Best
Practice Transfer: An Evolutionary Synthesis

Barbara Larraneta Gomez-Caminero: Discussant
7th of May
Conference Session 5: Strategic Capabilities and
Knowledge Transfer: The Role of University and Other
Institutions
10.30-12.00

Chair: Giovanni Battista Dagnino
Jorge F.S. Gomes and Pia Hurmelinna: Managing collaboration of Universities
and Companies: The Rules of the Game and the Game of the Rules

Emilio Belini: A Knowing Approach to University-Industry Interorganizational
Processes: An Empirical Research on ICT Distributed Companies

María Otegui: Measuring the Effects of U-I linkages on firms

Michael D. Rosko and Jose Proenca: The Impact of Inter-Organizational
Collaboration on Hospital Cost: The Role of Environmental and Organizational
Moderators

Kimmo Riusala and Vesa Suutari: Impediments to the International
Knowledge Transfers through Expatriates: A Qualitative Study Among Expatriates
in Poland

Salvo Torrisi: Discussant
TRACK E:
Gender and Management
Track Chairs: Adelina Broadbridge and Jeff Hearn
This track will be held in Ballroom 2.
It commences in the second
session of the conference.
6th of May
Conference Session 2: Theories and Visions
15.00-16.30

Jim Barry, Elisabeth Berg and John Chandler: Academic ShapeShifting: Gendered Managerial Identities in Sweden and England

Judi Marshall: Watching Corporate Social Responsibility Take
Shape: Asking Gender Questions

Ruth Simpson and Patricia Lewis: Using Visibility and Voice to
Explore Gender and Organizations: a Review of the Literature

Marieke van den Brink and Lineke Stobbe: Paradoxes in Gender
Subtext

Alison Linstead and Stephen Linstead: Gender Journeys: From
Multiplicity to Nomadics in the Transformation and Emergence of
Identities
6th of May
Conference Session 3: From Margin to Centre
17.00-18.30

Adelina Broadbridge: The Balancing Act: The Personal Sacrifices
Managers Make in their Career And Home Life

Cristina Reis: Male Managers’ Domestic Arrangements: Differences
Between England, Germany, Portugal and Finland

Elaine Swan: On Weeping at Work: Crying, Emotionality and
Gendering

Anne Ross-Smith, Colleen Chesterman and Margaret Peters:
“Watch Out, Here Comes Feeling!” Women Executives and Emotion
Work

Johanna Kujala and Tarja Pietiläinen: Female Managers’ Ethical
Decision-making – A Multidimensional Approach
7th of May
Conference Session 4: Women and Men
Managers
8.30-10.00

Emilia Fernandes and Carlos Cabral-Cardoso: The Social
Stereotypes of the Female Manager and Male Manager: Very Alike but
Not Enough …

Barbara Kożusznik: Regulation of Influences Ability and SelfMonitoring of Effective and Non-Effective Women and Men Managers

Charlotte Holgersson: The Recruitment of Managing Directors as a
Gendered Process

Päivi Eriksson, Elina Henttonen and Susan Merilainen: Shared
Agendas of the Social Network and Feminist Research
7th of May
10.30-12.00
Conference Session 5: Women Managers

Tineke M. Willemson: Effects of Part-time Work and Motherhood
on the Perception of Successful Female Managers: The Role of
Cultural Norms

Pia Höök: Constructions of Management in Women-only
Organisations

Ozura Omar and Marilyn J. Davidson: Women as Managers: A
Comparative Study of the Malaysian Practices

Morten Huse and Anne Grethe Solberg: How Women can make
Contributions on Corporate Boards
7th of May
Conference Session 6: Gendered Processes
and Equal Opportunities
13.00-14.30

Jeff Hearn and Rebecca Piekkari: Gender Divisions, Gender
Policies and Gender Practices in Top Management: Interviewing Chief
HR Managers of Large Finnish Corporations

Ulf Elg, Karin Jonnergård and Anna Stafsudd: Gender Barriers
in Professional Organizations: A Study of Accounting Firms

Norsiah Aminudin and Khairul Akmaliah Adham: Gender Work
in R & D Organisations in Malaysia

Manfred Auer and Heike Welte: ‘Equal Opportunity Actors’ –
Identities, Social Positions and Strategies

Carol Woodhams and Ben Lupton: Gender-based Equal
Opportunity in Small to Medium Size Employers: Benchmarking Policy
and Practice
7th of May
Conference Session 7: Gender and
Management: Future Research/Special
Interest
15.00-16.30
TRACK F:
THE FAMILY BUSINESS CONTINUITY:
THEORY AND PRACTICE
Track Chairs: Guido Corbetta, Amparo San Jose and Ugo
Lassini
This track will be held in Delux Suite 421. It commences in the sixth
session of the conference.
7th of May
Conference Session 6: “Family Business”
13.00-14.30

Edle I Gjøen, Lise Hålien and Morten Huse: Board decisionmaking in family businesses

Salim Chahine: Corporate Governance and Firm Value for Small
and Medium Sized IPOs

Annika Hall: Managerial Life in the Family Business: In Search of
Identity

Salim Chahine, Edle I Gjøen and Ugo Lassini: Proposed
discussants
7th of May
Conference Session 7: “ Growth Strategy of
SMS”
15.00-16.30

Anna Arbussà Reixach, Andrea Bikfalvi and Sanjay Goel: The
accumulation of knowledge in small and medium-sized firms: The role of type of
knowledge and absorptive capacity

Leona Achtenhagen and Lucia Naldi: ‘Practicing growth’ – how companies
build and use valuable resources for expansion

Paola Giuri and Alessandra Luzzi: Growth strategies of
technology based SMEs in Europe

Pinar Yilmaz and S. and Birgi Martin: Collaboration and
networking as a source of competitive advantage for small-medium
sized enterprises

Leona Achtenhagen, Anna Arbussà Reixach, Pinar Yilmaz and
Paola Giuri: Proposed discussants

Conclusions and Research Agenda
TRACK H:
MANAGEMENT AS THE DISCIPLINE OF THE
SECOND MODERNITY
Track Chairs: Ken Starkey and Armand Hatchuel
This track will be held in the Boardroom.
It commences in the fifth
session of the conference.
7th of May
Conference Session 5:
Management as the
Discipline of the Second Modernity
10.30-12.00

Hatchuel, A: “Epistemology of action: Management and the second modernity”

Laufer, R:“Looking for the visible hand”

Starkey, K:“The business school in the twilight of the first modernity”
7th of May
Conference Session 6: Management as the Discipline of
the Second Modernity
13.00-14.30

Michlewsky, K. & Silwa, L:“Developing a new breed of Aristotelian manager:
Reconciling art and science through the philosophy and practice of design”

Gianlucca, C. “Thinking and acting strategically”

Roca, E. “Aristotle and Levinas: A ‘kaleidoscopic vision’ of business ethics”
7th of May
Conference Session 7: Management as the Discipline of
the Second Modernity
15.00-16.30

Pezet, E: “To conduct oneself in order to conduct the firm: an analysis of the
use of coaching in management”

McKinlay, A: “All play and no work? Experience, identity and reflexivity”

La Rocca, S: “Strategy emergence: A journey through modernism, semeiotic,
complexity and nonmodernism”

Pesqueuex, Y: “Management science: Reshaping culture”
7th of May
Conference Session 8: Management as the
Discipline of the Second Modernity
17.00-18.30

Patriotta, G.: “Knowledge and modernity”

Loveridge, R: “The role of management models in the modernisation of
management in developing countries”

Knights, D: “Towards a trans-disciplinary method for research: Reflectivity and
ethics”
TRACK I:
STRATEGIC IMAGE MANAGEMENT:
BRANDS, COMPANIES, AND CONSUMERS
Track Chairs: Jonathan Schroeder, Miriam Salzer-Mörling and
Majken Schultz
This track will be held in Delux Suite 422. It commences in the fourth
session of the conference.
7th of May
Conference Session 4: Strategic Image
Management: Brands, Companies and
Consumers
8.30-10.00

Jonathan Schroeder
Anders Bengtsson: Married Brands: Co-branding and the Management of
Symbolic Meanings

Klaus Jennewein, Alexander Gerybadze and Thomas Durand: The Role of
Brand Equity in the Appropriation of the Returns of Technological Innovation: The
Case of Bayer Aspirin

Maria Backman: Exploring Experimentation: Concept Car Development
7th of May
Conference Session 5: Strategic Image
Management: Brands, Companies and
Consumers
10.30-12.00
Henrik Uggla

Ralf Reichwald, Kathrin Moeslein and Christoph Ihl: Mass Customization
Shoppers Between Utilitarian and Hedonic Shopping Values

Rosario Vázquez, Juan C. Real and Manuel Ortigueira: Consumer
Relationship Proneness: Antecedents

Veronika Tarnovskaya and Ulf Elg: The Dynamics of Market-Driving in a
Globally Branded Retail Company

Antonio Carmona-Lavado: The Antecedents of Customer Delight: An Empirical
Study
7th of May
Conference Session 6: Strategic Image
Management: Brands, Companies and
Consumers
13.00-14.30

Anders Bentsson
Nopporn Srivoravilai and TC Melewar: Corporate Reputation and Resource
Support

Ulf Johansson and Sofia Ulver: Transferring International Retail Image

Chen-I Huang: The Impact of the Franchise Relationship to the Organisational
Development

Henrik Uggla: What is Gore-Tex?
7th of May
Conference Session 7: Strategic Image
Management: Brands, Companies and
Consumers
15.00-16.30
Janet Borgerson

Hervé Mathe: Shaping the Contours of Services: Innovative Architecture and
the Building of Corporate Symbols

Martin Fougère and Per Skålén: Becoming and Being Normal – Not
Excellent: Service Management, the Gap-model and Disciplinary Power
7th of May
Conference Session 8: Strategic Image
Management: Brands, Companies and
Consumers
17.00-18.30

Jonathon Schroeder
Paul Whysall: Stakeholder Engagement as a model of British Supermarkets’
News Management.

Anne Rindell: Image Heritage in Corporate Image Management

Ethel Brundin and Klas Gäre: How Smart is a Smart Community? The
establishment of ICT in the municipal image and its implications for growth
TRACK L:
CROSS CULTURAL MANAGEMENT
Track Chairs: S. Magala and Susan Schneider
This track will be held in Delux Suite 421. It commences in the eighth
session of the conference.
7th of May
Conference Session 8: Does it work between
continents, nations and sustainable
environments?
17.00-18.30
Chair: Susan Schneider

Terence Jackson: keynote address (double time slot)

Cecilia Cassinger: Intercultural understanding beyond national borders

Luciara Nardon and Richard Steers: Culture, Organization and
Environmental Scanning
8th of May
Conference
Session
9:
Knowledge
management perspective
11.15-12.45

Chair: Nigel Holden
David Weir: Knowledge Opportunities in organizational contexts: latent, tacit
and subterranean knowledge

John Saee: Dynamic organizational culture and economic performance of
enterprises in the 21st century of global economy

Slawomir Magala: Postcommunist cultural landscapes; the interplay of tacit
knowledge and liberal ideology in evolutionary perspective

Eva Kohonen: Narratives about the consequences of international assignments
on identity
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8th of May
Conference Session 10: Global evolution of
cultural softwares
13.00-14.30

Chair: Slawomir Magala and Barbara Krug
Barbara Krug, Gabrielle Jacobs and Hans Hendrischke: How Chinese are
Chinese entrepreneurs: Reinventing the notion of guanxi in the context of
business relations

Tony Fang: Cross-Cultural Management: a Yin Yang Metaphor

Pawel Boski: The double trap of uncertainty un-avoidance:
bureaucratic over-regulation or organizational improvisation
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