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 (2020-2021):
Vivek K. Velamuri (HHL Leipzig, Graduate School of Management, Germany) – vivek.velamuri@hhl.de – SIG Chair
Romy Hilbig (Universität der Künste Berlin, Germany) – r.hilbig@udk-berlin.de – SIG Programme General Track Chair
David W. Versailles (Paris School of Business, France) – dwv@newpic.fr – SIG Program Co-Chair
Steve Diasio (University of South Florida – St. Petersburg, USA) – sdiasio@mail.usf.edu – SIG Program Co-Chair
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, vivek.velamuri@hhl.de
INNOVATION SIG STANDING TRACKS
ST03_01/ST06_01/ST13_01 – Business Model – Strategy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurial Venturing (co-sponsored ENT / INNO / SM)
(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, spieth@uni-kassel.de
ST06_02 – Education for Sustainable Development: the path to responsible and innovative management behavior
Companies and its employees today are increasingly urged to act in a responsible and sustainable way. Management education must deal with this challenge, ensuring that students acquire competencies to take management decisions enabling sustainable development, considering environmental issues and stakeholder demands. The purpose of the track is to propose and analyse avenues for the development in higher education, identifying new learning needs and fostering attitudes, knowledge and skills related to responsible leadership and sustainability.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 4: Quality education, Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth, Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Silke Bustamante , Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht – Fachbereich Duales Studium Wirtschaft • Technik, silke.bustamante@hwr-berlin.de
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 in ecosystems. It eventually leads to new ecosystems.
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 ecosystems; 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, dwv@newpic.fr
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, mangeles@ccee.ucm.es
ST06_06 – Managing Service Innovation
This track encourages discourse on the management and creation of service innovation in different settings (digital, industrial, traditional service innovation). It includes current themes in service innovation research such as _the role of the service (eco)systems which enable and guide service innovation activities; _the alignment of resources and the resource integration processes as well as their coordination in (offline/digital/industrial) service systems; _the role of service innovation platforms, peer to peer sharing 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 5: Gender equality, Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities, Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Julia Jonas , FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, julia.jonas@fau.de
ST06_07 – Open Innovation
The track aims at stimulating a discussion on the latest research insights in open innovation, especially with respect to new perspectives, methods, tools, competencies and context-specific solutions.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
Liliana Mitkova , UEVE, liliana.mitlkova@univ-evry.fr
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.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people, Goal 5: Gender equality, 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
Canan Ceylan , Nişantaşı University, Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences Department of Business (English), Istanbul, canan.ceylan@nisantasi.edu.tr
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, scirella@essex.ac.uk
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 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, related ecosystems, and entrepreneurial activities 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):
Erik Hansen , Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU), erik.hansen@jku.at
ST06_10 - Innovation for Circularity, Green Technologies and Sustainability
ST06_11 – Innovation, Learning and Creativity in Organizations and the Public Sector
Since knowledge is de-concentrated and widely accessible, and because of the increasing of the digitalization and automation of organizational processes, traditional learning methods are reaching their limits when teaching may no longer mean “spoon-feeding” transmission. Both university and industry are now focusing third-spaces to develop successful research environments and innovative learning spaces. New forms of collaborative spaces are also gaining visibility and legitimacy in the public sector to stimulate public innovation. This track will look for convergences between art, design, creativity and innovation, learning and organization and hopes to attract those interested in their intersecting lines of flight.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Eila Szendy El Kurdi , Université Paris 8, eila.szendy@gmail.com
INNOVATION SIG TRACKS
T06_12 – From improvisation to routines: How ecosystems evolve under special circumstances
We expect proposition that study the evolution of ecosystems that had to improvise, and how they are going back to a routinized activity. The existence of routines can be helpful or harmful to improvisation. In some situation, it is easier to improvise when the agents (firms, supplier, individuals, institution) can play a selected or randomized choice of existing routines and sometimes it is more efficient to invent a new behaviour without a the constrains of determined routines. Consequently, routine setting and improvisation might not be the same when approaching business ecosystems, business networks and innovation ecosystems, entrepreneurial ecosystems or knowledge
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
Thierry Burger-Helmchen , University of Strasbourg – BETA, burger@unistra.fr
T06_13 – Managing people for innovation
Digitalisation stimulates new interfaces in which humans interact to innovate. However, digital transformation for innovation is not only about technology. Thus, the track aims to stimulate the debate on research and practice insights in the human aspects of innovation, i.e. people innovating for people. This implies three perspectives: „People innovating“ covering topics such as competencies needed for innovation, team mechanisms and 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. structures and processes, new organisational forms, virtual collaboration etc.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people, Goal 4: Quality education, Goal 5: Gender equality, 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 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions, Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Anne-Katrin Neyer , Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, anne-katrin.neyer@wiwi.uni-halle.de
T06_14 – Virtual Care: The new now normal
The demand for and provision of virtual care services connecting with a healthcare provider by email, phone or video call has reached a tipping point in the context of COVID-19 pandemic because Telehealth- virtual care was viewed as an effective means to minimise in person visitation and reduce the spread of the virus. Many Countries changed their perspectives on using the Telehealth in the context of COVID-19 as a powerful tool to handle swiftly the current infection. Telehealth in practice was not just a novel approach to care butbut a necessary one for public health safety.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Dr. Asmâa Hidki , SSVAR – UKFCI, dre.ahidki@outlook.com