Giovanni Battista Dagnino

University of Rome LUMSA

Giovanni Battista Dagnino is Chair of Management and Professor of Digital Strategy at the University of Rome LUMSA, Palermo Campus, Italy, where he is founding director of the MSc Program in Economics and Management, and Visiting Professor at the University of Mannheim, Germany. He is faculty member of the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management in Brussels, fellow of the Strategic Planning Society in London, and friend of the European Investment Bank Institute in Luxembourg, and the Strategic Management Society. He has held visiting positions at the Harvard Business School, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, Wharton School, London Business School, IESE Business School, Grenoble Ecole de Management, University of Mannheim, and IAE Business School. He is widely known for his pioneering work on coopetition, a management area that he contributed to set off. His current research revolves around the study of coopetition strategy dynamics, the management of temporary competitive advantage, and the relationship between strategy, governance and entrepreneurship. He has been Associate Editor of Long Range Planning seats on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Review and Strategic Management Journal and seven other international journals. He has authored/edited thirteen books and several articles in leading management journals, such as Academy of Management Perspectives, Global Strategy Journal, Organization Studies, and Strategic Management Journal, and is Chair of the Cooperative Strategies IG at the Strategic Management Society and has been member of the Executive Committee of the Strategic Management (formerly BPS) Division at the Academy of Management.

Werner Hoffmann

WU Vienna

Werner Hoffmann is a professor for Strategic Management and Management Control at the WU Vienna since 2009. He founded the ISM in August 2011 and has been ISM head since then. Since 2016, Werner Hoffmann is also a Managing Partner of Contrast EY Management Consulting, former Contrast Management Consulting, of which he has been a founder and CEO (1991-2015). He has also been the President of the Supervisory Board of the Austrian Controller Institute since 2012. As such, Werner Hoffmann brings considerable practical experience in strategy development as well as in the implementation and advancement of strategic and operational controlling systems of well-known Austrian and international organizations. His research work has been published in various international outlets, including Strategic Management Journal, European Management Review, and Long Range Planning.

Dovev Lavie

Bocconi University

Dovev Lavie a Professor of Management at the Department of Management and Technology of Bocconi University. Formerly, a Professor and Vice Dean of MBA Programs at the Technion and Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He earned his Ph.D. in Management at the Wharton School and held visiting positions at the London Business School, University College London, and BI Norway. Dovev Lavie is a Sloan Industry Studies Fellow, a recipient of the Strategic Management Society's Emerging Scholar Award, and winner of the INFORMS TMS Best Dissertation Award and the Academy of Management Newman Award. His research interests include the evolution and performance implications of alliance portfolios, the balancing of exploration and exploitation, and applications of resource-based theory in interconnected technology-intensive industries. His work has been published in leading journals, such as the Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Organization Science. He has served as an Associate Editor at Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal and sits on the boards of other leading journals. He also a member of the Strategic Management Society Board of Directors, and held leadership positions at the Strategic Management Society Cooperative Strategies IG and the Academy of Management Strategy Division, and served as a Strategic Management Society Conference Track Director and as a Program Chair of the Special Strategic Management Society Conference in Tel-Aviv.

Laura Poppo

University of Nebraska

Laura Poppo is the Donald and Shirley Clifton Chair in Leadership at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She received her PhD from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and has been on the faculty of Washington University, Virginia Tech, and University of Kansas. She is known globally as a thought leader for her research in strategy, which has influenced scholars in many disciplines, including, economics, law, accounting, marketing, supply chain management, and strategic management, and has generated over 8000 Google citations. Her research interests include: outsourcing, alliances, vertical integration, contracting, and trust, including the context of doing business in China. Her current research examines problem-solving, creativity, innovation, identity, and trust-repair. She published several articles in leading management journals, such as Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, and Administrative Science Quarterly.

Ram Ranganathan

University of Texas

Ram Ranganathan is an Assistant Professor in the Management Department at the McCombs School of Business. His scholarship examines the influence of two contemporary institutional trends that are shifting the locus of strategic management outside the traditional boundaries of firms. One sub-theme studies how escalating earnings pressures from Wall Street investors and financial analysts heighten the challenges firms face as they must deal with disruptive technological change in their industries. Another focuses on the increasing importance of coordinating technology decisions across an entire ecosystem of interdependent organizations, and the underlying tensions and tradeoffs firms experience in this pursuit. Ram’s work has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, the Strategic Management Journal and Organization Science and he is a recipient of the Academy of Management’s TIM Division Emerging Scholar Award, the Stephen M. Schrader Best Paper Award and the SMS’ Best PhD student paper and SRF Dissertation grant awards. Ram also serves on the Editorial Review Board of Organization Science. He holds a PhD in Managerial Science and Applied Economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management and an undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Computer Engineering from Karnatak University, India.

Frank Rothaermel

Georgia Institute of Technology

Frank Rothaermel is a Professor of Strategy & Innovation, holds the Russell and Nancy McDonough Chair of Business in the Scheller College at the Georgia Institute of Technology (GT), and is an Alfred P. Sloan Industry Studies Fellow and received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER. Frank’s research focuses on the intersection of strategy, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Based on having published papers in the top 1% based on citations, Thomson Reuters identified Frank as one of the “world’s most influential scientific minds.” He is listed among the top-100 scholars based on impact over more than a decade in both economics an+d business. Frank has received several recognitions for his research, including the Sloan Industry Studies Best Paper Award, the Academy of Management Newman Award, the Strategic Management Society Conference Best Paper Prize, the DRUID Conference Best Paper Award, the Israel Strategy Conference Best Paper Prize, and is the inaugural recipient of the Byars Faculty Excellence Award. Frank currently serves (or served) on the editorial boards of the Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Strategic Organization.