Dear Colleagues,
The tension between transparency and security is one of the most difficult tensions in global governance today. Companies, governments, and private citizens alike must all resolve the tension in a dynamic way.
This year's AoM IM division Corporate Outreach PDW will examine this tension, bringing together corporate technology executives with IM scholars.
Please contribute to the dialogue: click here to answer this 5-minute survey: (http://northeastern.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_0cDFcm3gkcoXzUh).
We will present the aggregated responses at the AoM PDW session, and also report them on this listserve.
Feel free to forward to others off this listserve who are interested in this issue.
Thanks for your input!
Best regards,
Martha Maznevski, IMD
Allan Bird, Northeastern University
P.S. Details on the PDW are below. Please register here -- https://secure.aom.org/PDWReg/logon.asp -- if you'd like to join the session in person. It is being held at Simon Fraser University's Segal Graduate Business School, a quick walk from conference hotels and the Vancouver Convention Centre.
PDW Session # 57
Opening Governance in an Unstable and Insecure World:
How can we, as academics, help technology companies create the right utopia?
Primary SPONSOR: International Management Division
Other sponsors: D'Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University
Center for Workforce Strategy, Simon Fraser University
When: August 7, 2015; 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 Noon
Overall objective:
Develop practice-theory partnership approaches for supporting the role of technology firms in resolving a difficult governance tension: fostering transparency while protecting privacy in managing the suddenly ubiquitous resource of data for value creation.
Summary:
In this Corporate Outreach session, we will connect scholars with executives from major technology companies who are involved in data transparency and security. Together, we will explore the dilemmas and opportunities for good governance, particularly in international business. Scholars will leave the session with inspiration and perspectives on how their research could shape companies' roles in managing the tension constructively, and managers will leave the session with inspiration and perspectives on what kinds of questions they should be asking and answering to best play their role in shaping the future.