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 (2023-2024):
- David W. Versailles (Paris School of Business, France) – dwv@newpic.fr
SIG Chair and SIG Programme Chair - Patrick Spieth (University of Kassel, Germany) – spieth@uni-kassel.de
SIG Co-Chair and SIG Programme co-chair - SIG officers in charge of Paper development workshops (academic publications)
Francesco Schiavone (Partenope Univ., Naples, Italy) – franz.schiavone@gmail.com - SIG officers in charge of talent development (PhD level)
Francesco Schiavone (Partenope Univ., Naples, Italy) – franz.schiavone@gmail.com
Quentin Plantec (Toulouse Business School, France) – q.plantec@tbs-education.fr
Anna Bastone (Partenope Univ. Naples, Italy) – anna.bastone15@gmail.com - SIG officers in charge of Early carrier development (junior faculties)
Patrick Spieth (Univ. of Kassel, Germany) – spieth@uni-kassel.de
Kristel Miller (Ulster University, UK) – k.miller@ulster.ac.uk
Christian Hossbach (University of Halle (Germany), christian.hossbach@wiwi.uni-halle.de - SIG officers in charge of the Dialogue with Practitioners
Marina Schmitz (IEDC Slovenia) – marina.schmitz@iedc.si
Claudia Lehmann (HHL, Germany) – claudia.lehmann@hhl.de
Ana Beatriz Moraes (USP/ All4Food) – abgmmoraes@gmail.com - SIG marketing and communication officers
Kristel Miller (Ulster University, UK) – k.miller@ulster.ac.uk
Jeremy Orsat (Geneva School of Economics and Management, Univ of Geneva, Switzerland) – jeremy.orsat@unige.ch (social media)
NB: The position of general track chair will be assigned after reception of the submissions to the annual conference.
INNOVATION SIG STANDING TRACKS
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 of the SIG. The general track also offers an opportunity to host specific sessions on topics that do not meet EURAM’s minimal requirements for the programming of tracks. On the other hand, if authors cannot identify a home for their article in the SIG, they can send their article to the GT and the SIG officers willl assign a track relevant for the article.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities, Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production, Goal 13: Climate action
Primary Contact:
David W. Versailles, Paris School of Business – dwv@newpic.fr
ST03_01/ST06_01/ST13_01 – Business Model – Strategy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurial Venturing (co-sponsored ENT / INNO / SM)
Business Model – Strategy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurial Venturing The business model topic attracts continued interest in business research and practice (Leppänen et al. 2023; Spieth et al. 2021; Massa et al., 2017; Foss & Saebi, 2017, Zott, Baden-Fuller and Mangematin). Research characterizes business models as boundary-spanning activity systems encompassing value creation, value capture, and value delivery activities (Teece 2018; Snihur and Zott 2020). Business model innovation describes “designed, novel, nontrivial changes to the key elements of a firm’s business model and/or the architecture linking these elements” (Foss and Saebi 2017).
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy; Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure; Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities; Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production; Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Primary Contact:
Patrick Spieth, University of Kassel – spieth@uni-kassel.de
ST06_02 – Innovation in Education for Sustainable Development
Companies and their leaders today are increasingly urged to act in a responsible and sustainable way. Management education must deal with this challenge, ensuring that students/executives acquire competencies to make management decisions enabling sustainable development, considering environmental and social issues as well as stakeholder demands. The purpose of the track is to propose and analyse avenues for the integration of Education for Sustainability in higher education, identifying new teaching and learning needs and respective innovative pedagogies fostering knowledge and skills related to responsible leadership and sustainability.
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 10: Reducing inequalities; Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production; Goal 13: Climate action
Primary Contact:
Marina Schmitz, IEDC-Bled School of Management – marina.schmitz@iedc.si
ST06_03 – Digital Innovation: Strategies, Competencies, Ecosystems, 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: infmuence and impact of workplace and work practices; organizational structure; emergence of new roles in resources orchestration and knowledge articulation; critical competences to facilitate coordination and creativity; role of ecosystems; etc.
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
Primary Contact:
Valerie Merindol, Paris School of Business – valerie@merindol.net
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 better investigation and attention, offering the potential for important contributions to theory and practice. With a clear focus on innovation, we welcome papers on the evolution of network relations, on different networks and multiple relationships, on the exploration of networks in different contexts, such as geographical cluster, ecosystems, and platforms. We are also interested in the role of firms and institutions in different network arrangements.
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
Primary Contact:
Angeles Montoro-Sanchez, Complutense University of Madrid – mamontor@ucm.es
ST06_05 – Innovation for Sustainability, Circularity and Green-tech
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 and its subthemes of circular and green-tech 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 system-level sustainability transitions in the society.
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
Primary Contact:
Erik G. Hansen, Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU) & Leuphana University Lüneburg – erik.hansen@jku.at
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 4: Quality education; 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
Primary Contact:
Claudia Lehmann, HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management – claudia.lehmann@hhl.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
Primary Contact:
Liliana Mitkova, University Evry Paris Saclay – liliana.mitkova@univ-evry.fr
ST06_08 – Managing Creativity for Innovation: Design, Collaborative Spaces, and People
Over the last decades, scholars accumulated a vast body of knowledge how we can best attract, select, and develop creative people, deliberately manage creative processes, and create organisational work environments that nurture creativity. Yet, most of the existing knowledge relating to these issues is fragmented across multiple disciplines. Today, organisational creativity faces new challenges linked to collaborative spaces, open innovation, complex ecosystems, and new technologies, that make it necessary to advance our understanding of creativity both conceptually and empirically.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people; 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
Primary Contact:
Christian Hoßbach, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg – christian.hossbach@wiwi.uni-halle.de
INNOVATION SIG TRACKS
T03_16 / T06_09 – Entrepreneurial and Innovation Ecosystems
While there is a growing consensus regarding the importance of entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystems in both theory and practice, our understanding of the dynamics and processes that promote entrepreneurship and innovation within complex spatial structures and specific contexts remains limited. This knowledge gap gives rise to an promosing discussion that encompasses various perspectives, such as multi-level and multi-stakeholder approaches, microfoundations, industry-led ecosystems, processes, legitimacy, governance, and comparative studies across different countries, regions, and cities.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth,Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure,Goal 10: Reducing inequalities,Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities
Primary Contact:
Leading track chair – Christina Theodoraki, Toulouse Business School – c.theodoraki@tbs-education.fr
Co track chair – Valerie Merindol, Paris School of Business – valerie@merindol.net
T06_10 – Innovation intermediaries and intermediation practices for interorganizational and cross-domain collaboration
Addressing contemporary business and societal problems across sectors and knowledge domains requires collaboration among diverse interdependent actors. However, this collaboration comes with challenges due to differences in knowledge, problem focus, and stakeholder interests. Innovation intermediaries play a crucial role in facilitating collective action in ecosystems. They orchestrate dynamics to support collaboration and knowledge flow despite these differences. Our topic aims to explore the practices, processes and mechanisms of different intermediation approaches to better understand the role of innovation intermediaries in addressing these challenges and promoting effective collaboration across domain and organizational boundaries in an ecosystem.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure,Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Primary Contact:
Karl-Emanuel Dionne, HEC Montréal – karl-emanuel.dionne@hec.ca
T06_11 – From Science Management to Innovation Management: Science – Industry Relations and New Forms of Knowledge Transfer
To tackle Grand Challenges, the development and diffusion of new scientific knowledge to fuel NPD processes are critical. A better understanding of new ways of organizing such knowledge transfer is needed. At the individual level, academics and corporate scientists need to navigate novel tensions between engagement with industry, publish-or-perish paradigm and innovation. At the organizational level, universities and companies need to explore new ways to foster mission-oriented research and synergies between discoveries and inventions. Furthermore, new forms of research organizations are emerging and take part in transfer processes. This results in significant ecosystem shifts which call for further investigation.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
Primary Contact:
Quentin Plantec, TBS Education – q.plantec@tbs-education.fr
T06_13 – Innovation Management in Healthcare: Current Challenges and Future Opportunities for Value Creation
Healthcare was a domain at ease with the cascade or techno-push model of innovation, with special attention on experimentation structured by legal test protocols. The management of innovation in healthcare has attracted renewed attention with reference to AI, “big data”, biotechs, med techs and with the reference to user-centric innovation and the role of individual creativity. This track seeks papers focusing on both 1) the current industry challenges for innovators and 2) the new models and practices for the value-driven management of innovation in all subareas of healthcare.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people,Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure,Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Primary Contact:
Francesco SCHIAVONE, Parthenope Univ. Naples – schiavone@uniparthenope.it
T03_11 / T06_10 – Entrepreneurial and Innovation Ecosystems (ENT & INNO SIGs)
Over the last decade, research on ecosystems has been increasingly stressing the importance of context to develop entrepreneurship and innovation. A growing consensus has emerged to identify the importance of entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystems for theory and practice. However, there is still limited understanding on several issues, most notably: the dynamics and processes that nurture entrepreneurship and innovation at the dawn of complex spatial morphologies and specificities, the management of networks of stakeholders to foster the emergence of radical innovation and of sustainability-centric innovation, and the management of innovation intermediaires to support entrepreneurial ventures and new approaches for innovation.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 1: No poverty,Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth,Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure,Goal 10: Reducing inequalities,Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities
Christina Theodoraki, Toulouse Business School – c.theodoraki@tbs-education.fr