Scientific Underpinnings of Inter Organizational Entrepreneurship
The ultimate challenge for organizations and businesses around the world in the coming decade will be on how to be flexible in meeting the requirements of supply and demand in a global market. This is especially important now that technology is no longer a limitation for operating in a global market. The main question to be addressed is how to organize and control suppliers and partners, while focusing on the core business and successfully responding to innovations and obtaining knowledge on new applications. Crowd sourcing and social media has complicated this even more.
As a result of these developments there will be a shift of the top-down control of each individual supplier to a facilitating role towards all network partners as a group, so a shift from cq. Managing to Director. Directing organizations in order to develop working relationships which will benefit all , will be the key to success in the coming decades.
This workshop will be focus on an applied scientific approaches to the "network economy", i.e. corporate deployment of trends such as social media, crowd sourcing, open innovation, outsourcing/off-shoring. Relevant theoretical economic frameworks are e.g. transaction economics, network governance, social networks, innovation, intercultural competences, etc.