Organizations and Markets

| Nicolai Foss |

The Copenhagen Conference on Strategic Management 2006 ended late Wednesday with a wine reception and entertainment by a local (very local) jazz group, “Professors’ All-Stars.” Jay Barney observed that I should be up playing with the band, “playing the trombone. You are a trombone kind of person.” I still have to deconstruct that one!

Apropos Jay his opening talk was a hilarious performance and the great fun event of the conference, but in general, there were many good laughs, fine discussions, and many excellent papers.

I realize that quite a number of the conference participants are regular O&M readers, so this is probably an excellent place to thank once again all who participated. This year’s conference was quite significantly better than last year’s conference, and the average paper quality was above that of other conferences that could be mentioned, the likely exception being Rich Makadok’s Atlanta Competitive Advantage Conference.