How did Nokia change from a paper mill operation to producing rubber boots, and later to mobile phones and telecommunications equipment? How did Pearson change from a Yorkshire building and engineering company into an educational publisher?

🚨 Only 2 days left! The #AOM_STR 3-year member survey closes on 17 November 2025. Take 15 minutes to share your voice and help shape the future of our division! 👉 Don’t miss your chance! #STRongerTogether

🚀 STR Teaching Committee Virtual Event 🚀 Teaching AI and with AI in Strategy Smarter course tools, hands-on coding, and empowered students. 🗓 Nov 24, 2025 — 12pm EST 👥 Milan Miric (USC), Pinar Ozcan (Oxford), Christian Peukert (HEC Lausanne) 🔗 Registration: coming soon, save the date!

📢 STR Members — We need your input! The #AOM_STR Division is conducting its 3-year member survey. Share your thoughts and help shape the division’s future directions and member services. 🕒 Deadline: 17 November 2025 💬 It only takes 15 minutes — your voice matters! #STRongerTogether

Join us for the SMS conference symposium on the strategic role of chance, luck, and serendipity! A panel of inspiring thinkers and doers will explore how organizations can cultivate environments where chance encounters and unexpected connections turn into opportunities.

What a great day: legends of innovation economics Mokyr, Aghion and Howitt win the Nobel. Joel was a PhD advisor of mine, so need a full article! Included: good & bad explanations of the Indus Rev, Aghion's charisma, influence of Jon Hughes, French fashion houses: kevinbryanecon.com/mokyraghionh...

The call for papers for the next @nber.org Organizational Economics Working Group is up! We will meet in Cambridge, MA on November 13 and 14 2025. Please submit your paper by September 1st 2025 at: conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b...

🚀 Join us for The Best of Copenhagen Refresh Tour 🇩🇰 🗓️ Sunday, July 27, 2025 (during #AOM2025) 📍 Copenhagen Reconnect, recharge & revisit the highlights of STR’s Copenhagen retreat 🌟 🔗 Register now: forms.gle/XPi2XxV4Z6a1... 📣 Spread the word! #STR #STRongerTogether

🚀 STR Walking Tour: The Royal Route Wake up with wonder! Join our STR Royal Walking Tour of Copenhagen’s most iconic royal sights & hidden gems 🇩🇰 📍 July 26 | 8:30–10 AM | Meet at Nørreport Station 🎟️ Free but reg required copenhagenbusiness.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #AOM2025 #STRongerTogether

🚀 STR Reffen Happy Hour Finish the day by the water with a pint in hand 🍻🌊 Explore Copenhagen’s buzzing street food scene at Reffen with STR! 📍 July 26 | 4:30–6:30 PM | Reffen Beer Garden No registration — just show up, drink up, and soak in the sunset ☀️ #AOM2025 #STRongerTogether

🚀 Exciting news from the STR Division! 🚀 Join us in welcoming the newly elected STR Leadership Team for 2025–2026 — including our new STR Assistant Program Chair, Executive Committee members, and more. 👇 Announcement here: str.aom.org/discussion/a... #STRDivision #STRongerTogether

Why do some firms not change—even if they would be better off doing so? Very happy to share that our study on #ResourceAllocation #inertia is now published in 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘤 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭. You can find the paper #OpenAccess here: sms.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🎺 Call for Papers #CfP #MunichSummerInstitute #MSI2025 from 26-28 May 2025. ⏰ Hurry up! 📅 Deadline 1️⃣ 5️⃣ February 2025 ❗ #Digitalization #Strategy #Organization #Innovation #Entrepreneurship #Law #Economics #IP 🎓 MSI #PhD #Workshop on 26 May ❗ ℹ️ More information: www.ip.mpg.de/en/the-insti...

Very excited to see our paper "Like Stars: How Firms Learn at Scientific Conferences" out in print in Management Science! (with Stefano Baruffaldi - yet to join over here) pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Are you interested in exploring the role of chance, luck, and serendipity in strategy and management? Join us for the 𝑺𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒈𝒊𝒄 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝑱𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒍 special issue virtual information session next week! bit.ly/SMJchanceluc... 📝 Call for papers: bit.ly/SMJCallforPa...

Richard R Nelson (1930–2025): Evolutionary economist and innovation scholar www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🪧Call for Applications: #AOM #TIM Division Ideas Development Workshop. A 90-min interactive session to boost your research and connect with senior scholars. 📢 Open to early-career scholars in Low and Middle-income countries, studying #TIM topics. More info at: www.linkedin.com/posts/aom-ti...

Dick Nelson, pioneer in the economics of technical change, has died at 94. His remarkable book with Sid Winter (1982) An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change spawned many literatures. His edited the first "Rate and Direction" volume and wrote a history-based investigation of 1/2

What are proven strategies for writing engaging introductions? Thanks for sharing your insights and experience, #DanaMinbaeva, in our #PublicationPathfindersNetwork at @kingsbschool.bsky.social!

(1/5): After a few turbulent weeks, it was a breath of fresh air to be part of the Organization Science Winter Conference. On our serendipity panel, we explored how chance encounters and unexpected moments shape organizations. Some key takeaways:

Our dept (Entrepreneurship & Strategy) at U of Utah is hiring a Post Doc for a July 2025 start. If you are graduating this Spring with a PhD in Strategy or Economics (or related fields) please see the posting and apply! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/178...

If you're graduating with a PhD in Strategy, Econ, or similar, consider applying to be a post doc with me and my stupendous colleagues at U of Utah! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/178...

New in SO! 📢 "Steven W. Floyd: His legacy as a Scholar and Academic Community Builder" (👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...) by Julia Balogun (University of Liverpool Management School), Christoph Lechner (University of St.Gallen), Linda Rouleau (HEC Montréal) and Bill Wooldridge (UMass Boston)

🌟 The Strategic Management (STR) Division of the Academy of Management is now on BlueSky 🌟 Join us for insights, events, and discussions to inspire your strategy research, teaching, and practice. Stay connected and be part of the conversation! 🚀 #AOM #StrategicManagement #STRDivision #BlueSky

It was great to kick off our seminar series this semester with a wonderful talk from Africa Ariño on governance mechanisms and public–private partnerships. Thank you so much for visiting us in London, Africa! @kingsbschool.bsky.social #IESEBusinessSchool

Good read! New paper in Strategy Science: Theory Is All You Need: AI, Human Cognition, and Causal Reasoning, by Teppo Felin and Matthias Holweg pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10....

Episode 87: Ambar La Forgia on Chain Ownership and Fertility Clinic Performance. #EconSky. Listen at: www.thevisiblehand.uk/episodes/epi...

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.

This is a great paper.

Follow TIM if you're into technology and innovation research! #StrategySky #InnovationSky

Ten days left to submit to the Industry Studies Association conference, June 4-6 in Cambridge (at MIT). ISA draws a super crowd of management, innovation, and policy folks united by a desire to do deep, empirical research on industries. #mgmtsky #orgstudies www.industrystudies.org/isa-2025-con...

Readvertising here: Episode 9: Raffaella Sadun on Communication in Organisations #EconSky Listen here at: www.thevisiblehand.uk/episodes/epi...

Here are the first five sets of slides: 01 Introduction: psantanna.com/DiD/01_Intro... 02 Classical 2x2 setup: psantanna.com/DiD/02_two_b... 03 Clustering issues: psantanna.com/DiD/03_Clust... 04 Functional form: psantanna.com/DiD/04_Funct... 05 Covariates: psantanna.com/DiD/05_Covar...

Applications for the 2025 AI Plus Management Doctoral Consortium are now open (deadline 31 Jan). Please see the website for more information and instructions for applying. Co-organized with Oliver Hauser (Exeter), Hila Lifshitz (Warwick), and Pinar Ozcan (Oxford). www.aiplusmanagement.com

The 2024 Platform Papers Year in Review is here! What were the top journals for platform competition research? Which were the top-cited papers and the most-read #PlatformPapers blogs? Read all about it and more by following the link. Happy holidays!🎄🎅 platformpapers.substack.com/p/platform-p...

And this one is for organisational economics and the economics of entrepreneurship and management: go.bsky.app/4DSq8AZ Will add to both as more people transition over here. 2/2

I am trying to be more active on here, and have not yet seen an IO or org econ starter pack, so here is an attempt at one: go.bsky.app/Rchu8QX Please shout out if I have forgotten someone, or when others join. #EconSky

The 10th edition of the Empirical Management Conference has just started! We have a great line up of presenters and papers: www.hbs.edu/faculty/rese... Just started a list of participants of current and past editions, ping me if you want to be added.

Are you interested in the role of chance, luck, or serendipity in shaping management and strategy? Join us for a virtual information session about the upcoming Strategic Management Journal Special Issue!

I'm hiring a one-year post doc for research on AI, new tech and Future of Work Ideal candidate has Special Sworn Status and Census RDC experience. Interfolio link: apply.interfolio.com/158246 (NYU's term for "post doc" is "research scientist") AEA JOE link: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

Call for Papers: Strategic Management Journal Special Issue on “Chance, Luck, and Serendipity”! The goal of this Special Issue is to explore the role of chance, luck, and serendipity in management and strategy. Submission deadline: November 1, 2025. More information: bit.ly/SMJCallforPapers

Great idea and will give it a try for the Org Econ NBER workshop and Empirical Management Conference coming up in December. Here is the program of the NBER org econ meeting, EMC coming up soon (NBER will be live streamed on youtube): www.nber.org/conferences/...

Episode 82: Wouter Dessein on how Organisations Allocate Decision-Making Power. #EconSky Listen now at: www.thevisiblehand.uk/episodes/epi...

Thanks for the idea, Charlie! I’ve put together a list of strategy academics on Bluesky: "Strategy #STRsky". Feel free to follow the list bsky.app/profile/nikl..., and do let me know about others who should be added!

Thanks, @niklaslindlbauer.bsky.social, this is great!

As this platform is rapidly growing, feel free to follow the below list of #strategy academics on Bluesky

🚀Excited to launch the first Duke Strategy PhD Conference! Student-run event for PhD candidates in innovation, strategy & entrep. 🗓 June 5, 2024 📍 @DukeFuqua ❗ Apply by April 1, 2024 📣 Please help us spread the word! #strategysky #econsky Details ➡️ dukestrategyphdconference.com

Financial decision making starter pack Happy to add you if you do research on consumer financial decision making, behavioral finance, pensions, saving, etc go.bsky.app/P6cGSdW

How Large Firms Can Get #Innovation Right hbr.org/podcast/2024...

Decision Centralization and Learning from Experience in Groups: Separating Context from Aggregation Effects - Sanghyun Park, @cotyg.bsky.social, Phanish Puranam pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10....