Session Details
Special Session 1400
SMS Emerging Scholar Award Winner 2007: Jeffrey Reuer
| Track D | Date: Monday, October 15, 2007 |
| Time: 13:15-14:30 h | |
| Special Session | Room: Seabreeze |
New Research Directions in Organizational Economics and External Corporate Development
Session Presenter
- Jeffrey Reuer, University of North Carolina
Abstract
This session will offer some new research opportunities on alliances and acquisitions. We will begin by discussing the prospects of using other theories in organizational economics (i.e., information economics, real options analysis, etc.) to complement transaction cost analyses of firms’ market entry and organizational governance choices. Specifically, we will explore new ways of investigating the costs surrounding search and negotiations processes. We will also discuss how corporate strategy scholars might exploit the IPO context as a research setting in which to begin pursuing these theoretical ideas. The second half of the session will be devoted to small-group discussion on new research opportunities.