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Workshop on Organizing for Emerging Digital Technologies

ESTT member G. Reischauer co-organized the workshop “Organizing for Emerging Digital Technologies: Taking Stock and Moving On”. The workshop provided an overview of recent advancements in organizing emerging digital technologies, offering feedback on working papers and discussing the organizational challenges posed by technologies such as AI, blockchain, and quantum computing.

ESTT at the AOM Meeting 2024 in Chicago

ESTT members presented the following papers at the 2024 Academy of Management (AOM) Meeting in Chicago (USA): Slipstream Strategy: How Product-Focused Incumbents Cooperate and Compete in the Face of Platforms Ups and Downs in an Open Strategy Initiative: Exploring an Incumbents’ Struggles to Embrace Openness

ESTT at the EGOS Colloquium 2024, Milan

ESTT members contributed to the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium 2024, Milan with the following papers: Resonance through framing: How meta-organizations gain influence in addressing grand-challenges Unlocking potential: Leveraging open strategy for energy transition planning

ESTT at the R&D Management Conference 2024

ESTT members contributed to the R&D Management Conference 2024, Stockholm with the following papers: Strategy Formation in Entrepreneurial Ventures after Rapid Growth Optimal Distinctiveness of Incumbent-Born B2B Platforms

Final Presentations of Course Twin Transition: Strategizing for Sustainability and Digitalization

In June 2024, selected students from WU’s SIMC master program presented findings to partner executives as part of the business project course on Twin Transition. The course offered students a unique opportunity to collaborate with two of Austria’s leading energy firms. This year, the focus was on how digitalization can drive sustainability. One group analyzed…

ESTT at the BCERC 2024

ESTT member P. Holzmann participated in the 44th Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BCERC) 2024 in Munich, from 5th-8th of June 2024. Dealing with the algorithm: Entrepreneurial encounters with generative AI.

ESTT at the Open Strategy Workshop 2024

ESTT members C. Bruck and M. Wiener participated in the first Open Strategy Workshop, in Zurich, from 1st-2nd of June 2024. Opening-up conventional strategy processes: Does it make sense? Ups and downs in an open strategy initiative: Exploring an incumbent’s struggles to embrace openness

Innovation Talk “Artificial Intelligence in the Energy Industry”

This Innovation Talk with the title “Artificial Intelligence in the Energy Industry” was held by Professor Markus Kraft, a Fellow of Churchill College Cambridge and Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology. The focus of this talk was on the decarbonization of energy systems, which is crucial for managing global greenhouse gas emissions…

Innovation Talk “Best Practices University-Industry Partnerships”

This Innovation Talk with the title “Best Practices University-Industry Partnerships” was held by Prof. Dr. Gerhard Plasonig (Honorarprofessor, Technische Universität München) and Dr. Andreas Mayer (CEO NanoCleanAir GmbH, Universität Karlsruhe). The panel discussion was extended by the thoughts and experience of Rudolf Zauner (Senior Innovation Manager, VERBUND AG), and the panel discussion was moderated by…

ESTT at the Conference of German Academic Business Research Association (VHB) 2024

ESTT members contributed to the Conference of German Academic Business Research Association (VHB) 2024, Lüneburg, with the following papers: Twin Strategies: Leveraging Digital Technologies to Grow Into a Greener Future Strengthening the Identity of Incumbent Ecosystems After New Rival Entry