Final Call for Papers for the 2007 DRUID Conference

5 February 2007 at 3:35 pm Nicolai Foss Leave a comment

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The annual conferences of the Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics (of which this blogger is a founding member) are characterized by their hopeless names and their increasingly high quality level.

This year’s conference on “Appropriability, Proximity, Routines and Innovation” (no less) takes place at the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, June 18 at 1 pm to June 20 at 5 pm, 2007. Among the confirmed participants are Allan Afuah, Gautam Ahuja, Keith Aoki, Ron Boschma, Thomas Brenner, Bo Carlsson, Kathleen M. Eisenhardt, David Hsu, William Ocasio, Joanne Oxley, Chris May, Orietta Marsili, Anita M. McGahan, Mariko Sakakibara, Olav Sorenson, Michael Storper, Joel West, and Sidney Winter.

To cite from the DRUID site: “In addition to the paper sessions the conference will include plenary panel debates where internationally merited scholars take stands on contemporary issues within the overall conference theme.” One such event is a debate between Peter Abell, Giovanni Dosi, Sidney Winter and yours truly over the issue of whether strategy research needs to become more methodologically individualist.

Deadline for full paper submission: February 28, 2007 (Twelve noon, Pacific time (GMT -8). See instructions for submission at the conference site.