Sub-theme 42: Managing without Managers in Complex Knowledge-based Organizations

Convenors:
Agustí Canals, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya & The I-Space Institute, Spain
Martin Ihrig, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, & The I-Space Institute, USA
Session I: Thursday, July 07, 09:00 to 10:45, S-D240
Knowledge Management and Performance
Chair: Max Boisot
Cláudio Reis Gonçalo, Luciano Vignochi, Maria Borges and Fabio Junges
Knowledge sharing structure and or organizational performance evaluation in socially complex environments
Fabio Junges, Cláudio Reis Gonçalo and Ivan Garrido
Strategic perspective to promote knowledge and organizational performance: A study on small and medium-size companies in the IT sector
Session II: Thursday, July 07, 14:00 to 15:30, S-D240
Universities
Chair: Agustí Canals
Stella Kounelaki
The university as an incubator of entrepreneurial activity: Cultural frameworks and the diffusion of entrepreneurship through student club activity
Angela Sansonetti and Marco De Marco
Cluster of innovations in open environments: The Italian TIGs
Caroline Hussler, Paul Muller and Patrick Rondé
Universities as a community of heterogeneous communities? A challenge for university governance
Session III: Thursday, July 07, 16:00 to 17:30, S-D240
Collaborative Knowledge
Chair: Martin Ihrig
Giovan Francesco Lanzara and Aleksi Aaltonen
Building collective capability in online social production: The evolving governance of Wikipedia
Dominik Böhler, Anne-Katrin Neyer and Kathrin M. Möslein
On the nature of distributed organizing: Sensemaking, cognitive maps and ontologies
Session IV: Friday, July 08, 09:00 to 11:00, S-D240
Scientific Research Organizations
Chair: Max Boisot
Carlos Martín-Ríos
Process of change management and organizational innovation in a public science organization
Maria Ester de Freitas
Organizational lessons from Antarctica
Christelle Robin and Nicolas Battard
Boundaries within an unbounded area: Alignment and unalignment in nano laboratories
Session V: Friday, July 08, 14:00 to 16:00, S-D240
Open Innovation
Chair: Agustí Canals
Sergio Albertini and Caterina Muzzi
Communities and managerial competencies supporting SMEs innovation networking: A longitudinal case study
Dirk Schneckenberg and Michael Heiss
Moving to an open innovation culture – The case of Siemens
Hyeyoon Park
Open innovation and corporate network
Session VI: Saturday, July 09, 09:00 to 10:30, S-D240
Scientific Research Dynamics
Chair: Martin Ihrig
Simone Santoni
Scientist-environment fit in knowledge-based firms: Implications for design and project selection
Agustí Canals, Max Boisot, Martin Ihrig, Markus Nordberg and Christopher Mabey
The 'intangible hand' in a knowledge-based organization: The case of the ATLAS experiment at the LHC
Session VII: Saturday, July 09, 11:00 to 12:30, S-D240
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