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SIG 06: Innovation (INNO)

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 (2024-2025):

  • SIG Chair: Patrick Spieth (University of Kassel, Germany) – spieth@uni-kassel.de
  • SIG Programme Chair: Kristel Miller (Ulster University, Northern Ireland) – k.miller@ulster.ac.uk

Paper Development Workshops (Academic Publications) Officers

  • Francesco Schiavone (Parthenope University of Naples, Italy) – franz.schiavone@gmail.com
  • Miia Martinsuo, (University of Turku, Finland) – miia.martinsuo@utu.fi
  • David Sarpong (Aston University, England) – d.sarpong1@aston.ac.uk

Talent and Early Career Development Officers

  • Quentin Plantec (Toulouse Business School, France) – q.plantec@tbs-education.fr
  • Mirella Muhic (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) – mimu@dtu.dk
  • Christian Hossbach (University of Halle, Germany) – christian.hossbach@wiwi.uni-halle.de
  • Hannah Altenburg (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) – hannah.altenburg@fau.de

Dialogue with Practitioners Officers

  • Marina Schmitz (IEDC, Slovenia) – marina.schmitz@iedc.si
  • Claudia Lehmann (HHL, Germany) – claudia.lehmann@hhl.de
  • Krithika Randhawa (University of Sydney, Australia) – krithika.randhawa@sydney.edu.au
  • David W. Versailles (Paris School of Business, France) – dwv@newpic.fr 

Marketing and Communications Officers

  • Kristel Miller (Ulster University, Northern Ireland) – k.miller@ulster.ac.uk
  • Jeremy Orsat (University of Geneva, Switzerland) – jeremy.orsat@unige.ch
  • Lauren Anne Mackintosh (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg) – lauren.anne.mackintosh@fau.de
  • Derrick Boakye (Aston University, England) – d.boakye@aston.ac.uk

This and much more new updates are presented here: https://euram.academy/euram?service=info&d=show_sig&p=06

NB: The position of general track chair will be assigned after reception of the submissions to the annual conference.

Former SIG chairs: 
2022-2024: David W. Versailles (Paris School of Business, France)
2020-2022: Vivek K. Velamuri (HHL Leipzig, Graduate School of Management, Germany)
2017-2019: Pascal Le Masson (MINES ParisTech)
2013-2016: Jan Dul (Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus School)
2006-2013: John Bessant (University of Exeter Business School)

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

Patrick Spieth – spieth@uni-kassel.de

ST03_01/ST06_01/ST13_01 – Business Model – Strategy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurial Venturing (co-sponsored ENT / INNO / SM)

The business model topic attracts continued interest in business research and practice, spanning the fields of strategy (Leppänen et al., 2023; Casadesus-­Masanell and Ricart, 2010), innovation (Spieth et al., 2023; Foss & Saebi, 2017) and entrepreneurship (Snihur and Zott, 2020). While business models are conceptualized 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

Dirk Schneckenberg – dirk.schneckenberg@rennes-sb.com

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: 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

David  Versailles – dwv@newpic.fr

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 – erik.hansen@jku.at

ST06_07 – Open Innovation Engaging Individuals, Communities and Networks

The track aims at stimulating a discussion on the latest research insights on open innovation, with a special focus on the role of individuals, communities and networks, welcoming different perspectives and research methods applied to different contexts.

UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth; Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure; Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals

Primary Contact

Liliana Mitkova – liliana.mitkova@univ-evry.fr

ST06_08 – Managing Creativity for Innovation

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 and mainly evolved in traditional workplaces. Today, organisational creativity faces new challenges linked to new technologies, ways of working, and forms of organising 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

Primary Contact

Christian Hoßbach – christian.hossbach@wiwi.uni-halle.de

INNOVATION SIG TRACKS

T01_09 / T06_09 – Innovating Pedagogy for Future Challenges in Management Education (co-sponsored B4S / INNO SIGs

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

List of SIGs

  • SIG 01: Business for Society (B4S)
  • SIG 02: Corporate Governance (COGO)
  • SIG 03: Entrepreneurship (ENT)
  • SIG 04: Family Business Research (FABR)
  • SIG 05: Gender, Race, and Diversity in Organisations (GRDO)
  • SIG 06: Innovation (INNO)
  • SIG 07: International Management (IM)
  • SIG 09: Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management (OB & HRM)
  • SIG 10: Project Organising (PO)
  • SIG 11: Public and Non-Profit Management (PM&NPM)
  • SIG 12: Research Methods and Research Practice (RM&RP)
  • SIG 13: Strategic Management (SM)
  • SIG 14: Conference theme

Conference Dates

ONSITE DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM
15-16 June 2026

Deadline for Submission to Doctoral Colloquium:
14 January 2026

Notification of Acceptance:
26 February 2026

Deadline for Registration:
16 April 2026

EURAM LABS & CONFERENCE
16-19 June 2026

Topic / Symposium Proposals:
10 July 2025

First Announcement of Call for Papers:
25 September 2025

Deadline for Paper Submission:
7 January 2026

Notification of Acceptance:
5 March 2026

Early Bird Registration Deadline:
9 April 2026

Authors and Panelists Registration Deadline:
16 April 2026

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