The  Strategic  Interest  Group  (SIG)  Innovation  at  the  European  Academy  of  Management (EURAM) aims to:

  • facilitate the  continued  evolution  of  an  open,  inclusive,  international  and  cross-cultural EURAM community of engaged scholars,
  • support scholars  in  designing,  producing  and  disseminating  higher  quality  and impactful research at each stage of their career,
  • influence the development of management education,
  • provide platforms and facilitate networks for the dialogue between scholars, reflective practitioners, and policy makers.

The Goal of SIG Innovation is to create an open “learning climate” for all members (juniors and seniors) to reach the goals of EURAM in the field of innovation. 

 

SIG OFFICERS (2019-2021):

Vivek K. Velamuri (HHL Leipzig, Graduate School of Management, Germany) - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - SIG Chair

Romy Hilbig (Universität der Künste Berlin, Germany) - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - SIG Programme General Track Chair

David W. Versailles (Paris School of Business, France) - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - SIG Program Co-Chair

Steve Diasio (University of South Florida - St. Petersburg, USA) - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - SIG Program Co-Chair

Julia Jonas (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - SIG Program Co-Chair & Communication Officer

 

 


GT06_00 Innovation General Track

The general track offers an umbrella for any innovation-related research that does not find a home in one of the tracks listed below.

UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

Vivek Velamuri , HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

INNOVATION SIG STANDING TRACKS

ST03_01/ST06_01/ST13_01 - Business Model - Strategy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurial Venturing (co-sponsored by Entrepreneurship SIG-03, Innovation SIG-06 and Strategic Management SIG-13)

Business Model - Strategy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurial Venturing

The business model topic attracts continued interest in business research and practice (Massa et al., 2017; Foss & Saebi, 2017, Zott, Baden-Fuller and Mangematin; 2015: Spieth et al., 2014). However, despite ongoing research efforts to understand the business model and its role in firm performance, scholars face persistent questions about constituent components, sequences and contingencies for the process of business model innovation, impacting strategic intents of the firm to develop new value-creating and value-capturing activities.

UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure,
Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals

Patrick Spieth , University of Kassel, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

ST06_02 - New Challenges in Business Management: Working from Higher Education

Companies today are part of more complex and dynamic environments than ever, and this calls for new competencies and learning needs for managers. Higher education must deal with this challenge, ensuring that: 1. Students acquire appropriate competencies 2. Current managers have appropriate lifelong learning opportunities in order to be prepared to face the new challenges (in fact LLL has become one of the main demands of most socio-economic agents). The purpose of the track is to propose and analyze avenues for the development in higher education of skills and new learning needs related to business management.

UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 4: Quality education

Sara Urionabarrenetxea , University of the Basque Country, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

ST06_03 - Digital Innovation: Strategies, Competencies, Theories, and Practice

New organizational challenges arise when accommodating digital innovation; it characterizes either with the use of digital technologies during the innovation process, or with the outcome of innovation. Digital innovation modifies the ways of working and how people use technology. It carries organizational challenges in relation with the firm’s capacity to coordinate knowledge and resources and with open innovation.
We expect several types of contributions: workplace and work practices; organizational structure; emergence of new roles in resources orchestration and knowledge articulation; critical competences to facilitate coordination and creativity; the role of technological artifacts; and the elaboration of new business models.

UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 4: Quality education,
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth,
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure,
Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities,
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production,
Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals

David Versailles , Paris School of Business, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

ST06_04 - Inter-organizational networks and innovation

The track aims to stimulate and update the debate on the relationship between inter-organizational networks and innovation. Despite the great attention in past decades still many topics deserve a better investigation and attention, with possible important contribution to the general theoretical framework.

UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 1: No poverty,
Goal 2: Zero hunger,
Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people,
Goal 4: Quality education,
Goal 5: Gender equality,
Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation,
Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy,
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth,
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure,
Goal 10: Reducing inequalities,
Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities,
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production,
Goal 13: Climate action,
Goal 14: Life below water,
Goal 15: Life on land,
Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions,
Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals

Angeles Montoro-Sanchez , Complutense University of Madrid, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

  

ST06_06 - Managing for Service Innovation

This track encourages discourse on the management of service innovation in different settings (digital, industrial, traditional service innovation). It includes current themes in service innovation research such as the co-creative nature of services and the multi-dimensionality of service innovation as a process demanding the integration of various stakeholders;

  • the role of the service (eco)systems which enable and guide service innovation activities;
  • the role of service innovation platforms and ICTs to align multiple players for service innovation; and
  • the need for tools and methods to deal with the process-character of services.

UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

Julia Jonas , FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

ST06_07 - Open Innovation

The track aims to stimulate a discussion on the latest research insights in open and collaborative innovation in the ecosystem, especially with respect to new perspectives, methods, tools, competencies and context-specific solutions. This track involves diffrent concepts : open innovation, innovation and ecosystem, collaborative innovation, Interllectual Porperty rights and innovation.

UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

Liliana Mitkova , UEVE, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

 

ST06_08 - Organising creativity for innovation: Multidisciplinary perspectives, theories, and practices

This track intends to address research from various disciplines on organisational creativity and innovation. Our objective is to discuss the processes, mechanisms, behaviours, tools and methods that promote or hamper creative and innovative efforts of individuals and teams, and how they can be managed. We focus on: “Organising” which includes (HR) management practices, leadership, organisational elements, and strategic environment; the “Creativity” of individuals and teams in general as well as with a specific creative task; the “Innovation” of products, services, processes, marketing, business models, etc., and on the contribution to firm “performance”. We welcome both conceptual/theoretical and empirical contributions. 

Canan Ceylan , Uludag University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  

 

ST06_09 - Design, Innovation and Organizations: Rethinking Theory and Practice

Design issues are addressed in many fields, e.g. R&D management, engineering design and industrial design, organisation theory, but these research areas are often poorly connected. The aim of this track is to build an interdisciplinary research platform to link design issues, management, R&D management, organisational theories, and organisational behaviours. This interdisciplinary view could transform a fragmented debate into a fruitful diversity. Some key topics include (but not limited to): design as a model of thought, design & creative processes, design professions & leadership, team working & design, studies in design-related industries, research methodology in these fields (including action/collaborative/intervention research orientations).
 
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
 
 
Stefano Cirella , University of Essex, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

ST06_10 - Innovation for Circularity, Green Technologies and Sustainability

Innovation researchers and practitioners are increasingly interested in reframing ecological and societal challenges as opportunities for innovation. In this track we explore recent advances towards the broader field of sustainability-oriented innovation (SOI) as well as the subthemes of circular and green technology innovation. We are keen to understand these innovation directions on the levels of products, product-service systems, and business models and are particularly interested in a better understanding of the innovation processes and related ecosystems underlying these innovation outcomes. Last but not least, we are interested in how organisational practices link into, if not impact broader sustainability transitions.

UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 1: No poverty,
Goal 2: Zero hunger,
Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people,
Goal 5: Gender equality,
Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation,
Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy,
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth,
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure,
Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities,
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production,
Goal 13: Climate action,
Goal 14: Life below water,
Goal 15: Life on land,
Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals

Erik Hansen , Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU), This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

ST06_11 - Teaching and Learning with a difference

Since knowledge widely accessible, teaching no longer means “spoon-feeding” transmission. The Academic Territory of our Classrooms is increasingly being policed and controlled by methods of student and faculty evaluation. Resources such as space, attention, reflection, and money become scarce and shape diverse obstructions for good education. Reviewing and renewing the principles that guide education has to account for the learning needs of diverse audiences (undergraduate and post-graduate students, MBAs, DBAs etc.). Reviewing the principles that guide education will also need to address the burning question of what does teaching management mean today?
 
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 5: Gender equality
 
 
Eila Szendy El Kurdi , Université Paris 8, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
 
 

ST03_02/ST06_12/ST11_04 - Cultural and Creative Entrepreneurship (co-sponsored by Entrepreneurship SIG-03, Innovation SIG-06 and Public and Non-Profit Management SIG-11)

This track focuses on research and innovative enrepreneurship practices in the arts business and cultural & creative industries (CCI). They have become one of the most important and innovative economic sectors, in which cultural and creative entrepreneurs perceive opportunities and create organizations. Therefore, a scientific focus on entrepreneurship, management and entrepreneurial marketing and finance in creative arts business seems necessary, e.g., personnel management or governance issues. In this context, the topics of key antecedents, effects and specifics of cultural and creative entrepreneurship need to to be explored from a theoretical perspective as well as in practice.
 
 
Elmar Konrad , University of Applied Sciences Mainz, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
 
 

INNOVATION SIG TRACKS

T06_13 - Managing people for innovation

Digital transformation for innovation is not only about technology. Thus, the track aims to stimulate the debate on new research and practice insights in the human aspects of innovation:

  • „People innovating“ covering topics such as skills and competencies needed for innovation, team mechanisms as well as leadership for innovation.
  • „Innovating for people“ covers human-centered topics such as social innovation, innovation with purpose and social entrepreneurship.
  • „Context of people-centered innovation“ describing the circumstances in which people-centered innovation occurs, e.g. intra- and interorganisational structures and processes, new organisational forms in which innovation is created, mobile and virtual working etc.

UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth,
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure,
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production

Barbara Castrellon Gutierrez , Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

T03_07/T06_14/T09_07 - Artificial Intelligence as an Enabler for Venture Creation, Innovation, and Organizational Change 

Artificial Intelligence is perhaps the most promising architectural innovation in the 21st Century and will impact all aspects of society and businesses in far greater magnitude than any previous digital revolution (Makridakis, 2017). Given its powerful technological capabilities, AI is a promising enabler for organizations: It facilitates new venture creation processes (Nambisan, 2016), reshapes the nature of the innovation process and organization of R&D (Cockburn, Henderson, & Stern, 2018), augment management work (Kolbjørnsrud, Amico, & Thomas, 2016). Therefore, this track invites both conceptual and empirical research that examines the question of how AI can enable venture creation, innovation, and organizational change.

UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people, 
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth, 
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure, 
Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities

Yann Truong , Burgundy School of Business, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

T06_15 / T08_03 - New Frontiers in Managing Sport: the Rise of Digital Transformation (co-sponsored by Innovation SIG-06 and Managing Sport SIG-08)

How value is generated in the Sport Industry has dramatically changed in the last years. Spectators/viewers want to play an active role as value co-creators. Wearables and the internet of things (IOTs) allow measuring athlete and amateur performance. Tradiums are combining sport, trade and entertainment. Virtual and augmented reality are delivering immersive services. Big data are fuelling artificial intelligence. eSports are attracting new fans within the youngest generations. This track aims at attracting novel contributions from scholars of sport management, innovation management, sports marketing and information science to develop “sports innovation” as a novel stream of research.

UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people,
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

Emanuele Lettieri , Politecnico di Milano, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

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