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Sub-theme 10:

Crises, Rare, and Oddball Events: Strategic Opportunity or Strategic Drift?

 

Convenors:

Renata Kaminska-Labbé
CERAM Sophia Antipolis (France)
renata.labbe@ceram.fr

Bill McKelvey
University of California at Los Angeles (USA)
bill.mckelvey@anderson.ucla.edu

Catherine Thomas
University of Metz (France)
thomas@idefi.cnrs.fr

 

Session I: Thursday, July 10 – 11:00–12:30
Decision Making and Learning from Rare Events

Dirk Martignoni, Daniela Blettner and Richard Bettis
Decision making and learning in a non-Gaussian world

Edward Deverell
Decision making and learning at Swedish public organizations under pressure

Claus Rerup and Jeremy Yip
Discovering rare opportunities: An attentional perspective on innovation
 

Session II: Thursday, July 10 – 14:00–15:30
Extreme Case Studies

David Versailles and Valérie Mérindol
Defense-related activities serving case study methodology

Renata Kaminska-Labbé, Catherine Thomas and Bill McKelvey
Organizational competence renewal in times of deconstruction: Lessons from polish firms during the economic transition

Beata Buchelt
The role of human capital in strategy formation in a post-rupture context: The case of Polish firms in the transition to the new market circumstances after entering EU
 

Session III: Friday, July 11 – 9:00–10:30
Crisis and Strategic Change

Pierpaolo Andriani and Frank Siedlok
The collapse and regeneration of complex clusters: Some evolutionary considerations

Gulsun Altintas and Isabelle Royer
Crisis stemming from the environment as opportunities to develop strategic resilience

Nassef Hmimda and Nicolas Pasquet
The 2001 e-crash and the evolution of the e-grocery industry in France: Inertia and bifurcation
 

Session IV: Friday, July 11 – 14:00–15:30
Crisis Management

Greg J. Hickey
The role of inquiries into crisis, rare and unusual events in shaping the approach to bushfire management and mitigation in Australia

Christophe Roux-Dufort
How unusual events reflect usual vulnerabilities? A processual theory of crisis

David Weir
An aviation disaster that killed an entire industry: The crash of the R101 and the demise of the British Airship Industry: A catalyst for governmental, organisational and personal strategic redirection
 

Session V: Friday, July 11 – 16:15–17:45
Crisis, Entrepreneurship and Leadership

Max McKeown and Sotirios Paroutis
The constrained variety of CEO sequences of action: Some propositions and observations

Jacqueline Fendt
Riding the Tiger: Thriving on crises for entrepreneurial success

Nicolas Rolland and Renata Kaminska-Labbé
On leadership, emergent distributed intelligence and strategic adaptation in high velocity markets: Lessons from complexity science
 

Session VI: Saturday, July 12 – 9:00–10:30

David Gillingham and Gabriele Suder
Protect or hide: Strategic choices for countering security risks

Chenwei Liu
Justification for luck
 

Session VII: Saturday, July 12 – 11:15–12:45
Crisis and Organizational Change

Heiko Breitsohl
Legitimacy crises and organizational behaviour

Min Liu
Resetting the inertia clock

Marleen Dieleman and Peter Post
Regime change, crumbling social capital and firm responses: A tale of two Indonesian giants

 

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