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Open Call for Applicants to Join the SMS Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Committee

The Strategic Management Society seeks members to apply to serve on the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Committee of the SMS Board of Directors. The DEI Committee will focus on…

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Competitive Strategy and Climate Change

Release date: September 6, 2024 Panelists: Olga Hawn, Xia Li, Leandro “Leo” Pongeluppe, and Angelyn Fairchild Sponsor: The Competitive Strategy Interest Group Session Description: This interactive session helped attendees understand…

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Sticking with old technology can be a strategic move

Technological innovation — especially disruptive innovation — is often heralded as the best strategy for a company. But new research published in Strategic Management Journal found that as competitors adopt…

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For Some Companies, There’s Strategy (and Success) to Sticking with Older Technology

When many phone companies shifted to making smart devices, one firm in particular — Nokia — stuck by its flip phone design. This summer, the device saw a burst in…

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SMJ: Research Shows How Organizations Evaluate Whether to Imitate or Differentiate When a Competitor Adopts New Technology

How an organization reacts to a nearby competitor adopting an important innovation may be influenced by the type and difficulty of problems it handles for its customers, according to a new…

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SMJ: New Antitrust Study Shows Reining in Big Tech Doesn’t Spur Rival Profits

SMJ authors address the complexity of competition and innovation in platform ecosystems By J Katherine Bahr / Vanderbilt University In January, the Justice Department sued Google, claiming the tech company abused…

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SMJ Video Abstract | Who depends on why: Toward an endogenous, purpose-driven mechanism in organizations’ reference selection

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Competitive Strategy Interest Group

The Competitive Strategy Interest Group focuses on questions concerning firms and their interactions within product and factor markets over time.

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Focus on Customers, not Competitors, when Responding to First-Movers  

When a competitor adopts a new innovation, others in the market have two ways to respond: They can also adopt the technology to directly compete (imitation) or they can choose…

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New Antitrust Study Shows Reining in Big Tech Doesn’t Spur Rival Profits

This paper was nominated for a Concurrences Antitrust Writing Award. In January, the Justice Department sued Google, claiming the tech company abused a monopoly in online advertising by seizing control of…

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