The conference aims to create a forum for discussion on issues related to the recent patterns of firms’ activity, the organization of production and firm’s financing, as well as their determinants, consequences and implications for policymaking. This year’s conference particularly welcomes...

The 2021 conference will continue to reflect and celebrate the achievements, challenges and development of the field of Innovation and Product Development Management through academic paper presentations, challenge sessions, industry engagement, academic keynotes and roundtable discussions on key...

This event has been cancelled. Conference tracks: Digital Transformation; Global Emergence; Organizations Redesigned; Entrepreneurship Reinvented; Strategic Leadership & Governance Redefined.

At the SMS 40th Annual Conference, we want the research community to take stock of the changes of the last two decades and then consider what the future holds and how firms can cope with a disrupted and disruptive world. The potential to learn new things in these times of change is enormous, and...

Topics: - Creativity in New Product Development - Design principles and practices - Innovation by Design - Engineering, Production and Supply Chain dynamics in Innovation and Product Development - Innovation and product development in Start-ups, Small Firms and Collaborative Enterprises -...

The conference aims to create a forum for discussion on issues related to the recent patterns of firms activity, the organization of production and financing decision, as well as their determinants, consequences and implications for policymaking. Topics: - The evolution of firm market power and...

Our goal in setting the conference theme and establishing the theme tracks is for the Society to explicitly address if we are missing economically and socially important phenomena. This will enhance our awareness of potential biases in our scholarship and biases within the general discourse of...

Both scholarly contributions and practice-oriented papers are welcome in all tracks. Conference theme tracks: Track A: Risky Choice and Luck, Track B: Innovation Under Uncertainty, Track C: Organizational Learning and Adaptation, Track D: Firm Scope and Governance. This Special Conference will...

The SMS will hold a Doctoral Workshop on June 13, 2019, preceding the SMS Special Conference in Frankfurt. The main objectives of the Doctoral Workshop are to foster interaction among leading faculty scholars and doctoral students on various aspects of research and on preparing for a...

The 2019 conference will continue to reflect the achievements, challenges and development of the field of Innovation and Product Development Management through academic paper presentations, challenge sessions, industry engagement, academic keynotes and roundtable discussions on key themes. The...