Session Details
Session 1602
Competitive Strategy
| Track R | Date: Sunday, October 14, 2007 |
| Time: 13:00-14:30 h | |
| Panel Session | Room: Seabreeze |
Strategy and Corporate Responsibility
Session Chair
- Maurizio Zollo, University of Bocconi
Panelists
- Jay Barney, Ohio State University
- Jared Harris, University of Virginia
- Joe Mahoney, University of Illinois
Abstract
This panel will debate questions related to the interdependence between business and society and its implications for business strategy leveraging on recent theoretical insights and empirical evidence emerging from the RESPONSE project, the largest empirical effort to date on these issues. Maurizio Zollo will present the wide range of findings from the project and the panelists will provide their reaction based on their own work and ideas, before engaging the participants in a broader debate about what these results mean for the strategy field. The challenge of developing a comprehensive model of strategic interaction that includes the responsibilities of the firm towards its environment will be then put forth for small group discussion and reporting to the plenary. A final discussion among panelists will try to distill the insights emerged during the day and converge on the content of a possible “call for papers” that will be presented to SMJ for consideration.