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Innovative research environment at CBSEuropean Management Review higlights CBS' Center for Strategic Management and Globalisation (SMG) in its coming issue. The profile is the third in a series about innovative management research environments in Europe. Under the heading 'Knowledge governance in a dynamic global context' Professor Nicolai J. Foss describes the story of SMG: "SMG is the main (if not the only) embodiment of a distinct perspective on international business and strategic management theory, a perspective that has developed on the basis of the economic theory of the firm for almost two decades. Specifically, the scholars who constitute SMG as well as the extensive network of scholars within and outside Copenhagen Business School that is associated with the SMG are cultivating an emerging distinct perspective called 'knowledge governance'." (p. 1-2) 'Guided evolution' "[Thus] the story of the emergence of the SMG and its research agenda is also to a large extent the story of the 'guided evolution' (Ghoshal and Løvas, 2000) of the organization and strategy of the CBS during the last two decades, in itself constituting a lesson in knowledge governance. Of course, organizational entities only act and work through their members, and hence unavoidably these stories are also stories of key persons. The following narrative weaves together these different stories. I shall focus on CBS' efforts on creating research around the study of the firm and its governance, including the many manifestations of this research in strategic management, international business, corporate governance, and knowledge management, but with particular emphasis on the SMG attempt to carve out a distinct research program on the governance of knowledge in the context of international business. A number of implications for organizational learning in a university setting emerge from this narrative. Thus, the narrative underscores the crucial importance of key entrepreneurial persons and of their initial imprinting, that is, it emphasizes entrepreneurship in the context of path dependence. It also underscores the importance of a context that stimulates academic entrepreneurship and allows it to adopt an organized form (e.g., in the form of research centers). However, the narrative also indicates that it may take a very long time for perspectives to coalesce and become articulate, even though the basic ideas may have 'been there' from the beginning." (p. 2) Want to read the rest of the story? The article is soon to appear in European Management Review (Access for CBS students and staff only). For a preview please download the proof: Knowledge governance in a dynamic global context (uncorrected proof, 9 p./PDF) Questions: Nicolai J. Foss, ph. 3815 2562.
Sidst opdateret af Insights@CBS 13.11.2007 | November - 2007, nr. 31 |
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