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Dear Colleagues,

We are delighted to invite you to:

SMS 2016 FRANKFURT-WIESBADEN EXTENSION ON

"COORDINATION OF MODERN FORMS OF ORGANIZATIONAL WORK"

Wednesday, September 21, 2016 – 10am to 8pm

EBS Business School, campus Rheingau, Oestrich Winkel (close to Frankfurt-airport)

Organizers:

Markus Kreutzer and Christian Landau, EBS University

Panelists:

Laura B. Cardinal, University of South Carolina

Bart de Jong, VU University Amsterdam

Chet Miller, University of Houston

Nihar Patel, Opel Group (General Motors)

Beverly Tyler, North Carolina State University

The extensions are separate, topical workshops organized in cities that can be conveniently reached from the main conference location Berlin. The Frankfurt-Wiesbaden extension will be held the day after the main SMS conference, at EBS Business School at its picturesque Rheingau campus in the greater Frankfurt area. Wiesbaden is well connected to all main cities in Europe and it is a convenient stopover location for scholars travelling to Berlin from the US via Frankfurt. The School is easily accessible from Frankfurt international airport via cab in 30 Minutes and by rail. The workshop will include coffee breaks, luncheon, and dinner. In addition, participants are eligible to participate in the EBS Symposium "Design the Future" taking place in parallel at EBS Business School (ebs-symposium.eu/).

Overview

Driven by technological and societal changes, firms have changed their strategies and people have changed the way they live and work in a digital, fast changing world. Organizational work has moved away from traditional work characterized by bureaucratic authority in fixed hierarchies, lines of commands, and labor division with long-term organizational membership to more temporary, spontaneous, overlapping, interconnected, self-organized, open, and collaborative forms. Temporary organizations such as project teams, task forces, strategic initiatives, and other relatively autonomous groups replace or at least complement traditional organizational work. Companies collaboratively work together with partners, customers, and even competitors in business models and ecosystems to solve problems and find growth opportunities. This transition is embedded in an environment that is characterized by turbulence, uncertainty, rapid change, and complexity and that offers new technological opportunities thanks to digitization. While there is promising research that attempts to better understand these modern organizational forms, important questions on how to manage in this new reality remain unanswered. This SMS extension at EBS University aims to provide a forum for discussing a range of issues related to coordination and control of these modern organizational forms.

If you are fascinated by the topic and would like to build networks and/or explore research opportunities the trip to EBS will be worthwhile.

Register at: http://strategicmanagement.net/berlin/extensions/wiesbaden

Participants of this extension are also entitled to attend all sessions of the EBS Symposium: Design the Future! on September 21^st and are invited to extend their stay for the full EBS Symposium until September 23^rd at the young professional rate (ebs-symposium.eu). The EBS Symposium features more than 45 speakers from both the political and corporate worlds to discuss the role of innovation in designing the future.

If you have any questions please contact us.

Markus Kreutzer

Professor of Strategic and International Management

Vice Dean Research, EBS Business School

EBS University

Rheingaustr. 1

65375 Oestrich-Winkel, Germany

Phone + 49 611 7102 1413

Fax +49 611 7102 10 1413

markus.kreutzer@ebs.edu

www.ebs.edu