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Please join us for a lively panel discussion Saturday, August 7^th, on "What is Quality in Strategy Research?" 1:30-3pm, featuring Witold Henisz, Anita McGahan, Huggy Rao & Jan Rivkin. (Le Palais Des Congres, 516A)

This panel is open to all interested Academy members- no registration required.

See our original call below for a more detailed description.

'What is quality in strategy research?'
Academy of Management Meetings Montreal, Canada

Saturday, August 7th

Part 1 (open to all): 1:30pm-3pm

Part 2 (requires pre-registration: FULL): 3pm-6pm

Le Palais Des Congres, 516A
Sponsored by the BPS Division

The strategy field encompasses a diverse set of research perspectives and topic areas. This diversity is a strength of the field, but it also poses a challenge to scholars in strategy: It is often unclear how various literatures relate and why certain papers are considered exemplars of high-quality strategy research. The article, "Recognizing and Encouraging High Quality Research in Strategy," currently under review, puts forth a framework for thinking about and evaluating the quality of strategy research. Motivated by this call to action, this PDW has three central goals: (1) to consider the question of what is quality in strategy research; (2) apply the framework to current working papers as a means to provide feedback on junior faculty work; and (3) critique and refine this framework.

This two-part, highly interactive PDW will bring together a group of junior faculty and doctoral students with mid-career and senior strategy scholars to both discuss and apply quality benchmarks. The first part of the PDW will begin with a panel involving senior scholars in strategy to discuss and debate the question of what is quality in strategy research and the value of quality 'metrics' in evaluating research. (This panel is open to all Academy attendees and requires no pre-registration. Confirmed panelists include Witold Henisz, Anita McGahan, Hayagreeva Rao, and Jan Rivkin.) Following the panel, registered participants will meet in "roundtable" format to apply the framework to their respective working papers.

Part 1: PDW Panel (1:30pm-3pm)
Panelists:
-Witold Henisz, U Pennsylvania, Wharton
-Anita McGahan, U Toronto, Rotman
-Hayagreeva (Huggy) Rao, Stanford U, GSB
-Jan Rivkin, Harvard Business School

We hope to see you there!

Rachelle Sampson & Brian Silverman