The 2010 Holger Crafoord Memorial Symposium

Strategy and Entrepreneurship

The Crafoord Hall at the Lund School of Economics and Management
September 7, 13.00

Research Seminar

The times when the chances that incremental optimisation of organisations could lead to sustained competitive advantage were great seem long gone. In today’s economy, organisations aspiring to reap any advantage at all will most likely be forced to master the reinvention of their business models on a regular basis – or better still, create new ones. The strategists and decision-makers who can combine strategic vision, foresight and rapid execution of change with an entrepreneurial mindset face a brighter future. But what does it take to actually combine and merge strategic management and the ability to drive innovation and new business development? How do the successful manage to balance creativity and forceful implementation? Under what premises can the executive be successful both as manager and entrepreneur? At this year’s symposium, four leading scholars will discuss these and other scientific matters connected with the subject of organisational capabilities, change and growth.

Welcome

Thomas Kalling
The Institute of Economic Research

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Registration

The number of participants is limited. We therefore urge you to register as soon as possible. Registration is open until September 1 on an availability basis. The symposium is free of charge.

Please register with Elsbeth Andersson at +46 46 222 78 24 or email to Elsbeth Andersson

Venue
The Crafoord Hall at the Lund School of Economics and Management, Tycho Brahes väg 1, 220 07 Lund

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Programme

13.00 Introduction
Professor Thomas Kalling, Lund University

13.15 Entrepreneurship and Competitive Advantage
Professor Jay B. Barney, The Ohio State University

14.00 Organisation Design for Firm Level Entrepreneurship
Professor Nicolai J. Foss, Copenhagen Business School

14.45 Refreshment Break

15.15 Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Organisation
Associate Professor Peter G. Klein, University of Missouri

16.00 Strategy and Entrepreneurship: Getting at Fundamentals
Professor John A. Mathews, LUISS Guido Carli University & Macquarie University

16.45 Panel Discussion
Moderator: Assistant Professor Niklas Hallberg, Lund University

17.15 Reception in the Hall of Lights

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Presenters

Jay B. Barney

Jay Barney, professor of management, holds the Chase Chair in Corporate Strategy at the Fisher College of Business. He holds honorary visiting appointments at Peking University (Beijing), Sun Yat Sen University (Guangzhou), Waikato University (New Zealand), and Brunel University (UK) and has received two honorary doctorate degrees (Lund University, Sweden, and Copenhagen Business School, Denmark). Professor Barney has published over 100 articles and book chapters and six books. His research focuses on identifying the attributes of firm resources and capabilities that enable firms to gain and sustain a competitive advantage. In addition, he has begun doing research on entrepreneurship and corporate social responsibility, with special emphasis on entrepreneurship among the abject poor. He has an active consulting practice.

Nicolai J. Foss

Nicolai J. Foss is a Professor of Strategy and Organization at the Copenhagen Business School and the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, and the Svenska Handelsbanken Visiting Professor at Lund University. His main research interests are the resource-based view of strategy, entrepreneurship, and the methodology of the social sciences. Foss’ work has appeared in leading managements journals and he is the author and editor of several books.

John A. Mathews

John A. Mathews is Eni Chair of Competitive Dynamics and Global Strategy at LUISS Guido Carli University, in Rome, where he teaches International Business. He is concurrently Professor of Strategic Management at Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Macquarie University in Sydney, where he has taught graduate MBA classes for the past decade. He is the author of several books including Strategizing, Disequilibrium and Profit (Stanford University Press, 2006), Dragon Multinational: A New Model of Global Growth (Oxford University Press, 2002), and Tiger Technology: The Creation of a Semiconductor Industry in East Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2000). Professor Mathews’ most recent work is ‘Lachmannian insights into strategic entrepreneurship: Resources, activities and routines in a disequilibrium world’, published in the journal Organization Studies.

Peter G. Klein

Peter G. Klein is Associate Professor in the Division of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Missouri and Associate Director of the Contracting and Organizations Research Institute. He is also Adjunct Professor of Strategy and Management at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration and Faculty Research Fellow at the University of Missouri’s McQuinn Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership. Klein’s research focuses on the economics of the business firm, with applications to corporate and competitive strategy, entrepreneurship, corporate governance, financial markets, banking, and economic institutions. He teaches undergraduate, MBA, doctoral, and executive courses is managerial economics, business strategy, the economics of institutions and organizations, entrepreneurship, and Austrian economics.

 

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