「Business Scholars on Boards and Firm Innovation」
| 日時 | 2025年10月22日（水）12:10～13:10 |
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| 開催方法 | ①対面 ＊11号館4階第3会議室にお越しください。 ②Zoom＊お申込み完了の自動返信メールにて、参加用URLをお知らせいたします。 |
| 対象 | 学生・教職員・一般 |
| 講演者 | Cornelia Storz 氏 （Professor, Faculty of Economics and Business, Goethe University Frankfurt ） |
| 要旨 | Why do business scholars-directors, rather than STEM scholar-directors, drive firm innovation? This paper addresses this unexpected pattern through an abductive research design combining panel data, interviews, and publication analysis. Drawing on a hand-collected dataset of Chinese listed firms (2008–2018), we show that business scholars on corporate boards enhance innovation by contributing strategic knowledge – higher-order, portable insights rooted in frameworks, heuristics, and theories that help firms navigate the uncertainty inherent in innovation across market dynamics, organizational design, and competitive positioning. We theorize strategic knowledge as a distinct asset, whose impact is contingent on insider technology directors’ presence and social validation. By challenging prevailing assumptions about scientific expertise, we contribute to the knowledge-based view and corporate governance literature, reframing how strategy-related higher-order expertise can support firm-level innovation. |
| 世話人 | 山野井 順一（早稲田大学商学学術院 教授） |
| 参加申し込み方法 | 参加はこちらからお申込みください。※10月20日（月）17:00締切 |
| その他 | 早稲田大学商学部・産業経営研究所・山野井順一分科会・早稲田大学イノベーション研究所 |
