Waseda Organizational and Financial Economics Seminar:
“Entrepreneurship as Strategic Network Creation and Design: Seizing Start-up Opportunities by Orchestrating Partners” (11/13)
講演者 / Speaker
SYDOW, Joerg (Professor, Freie Universität Berlin)
日 時 / Date & Time
2017年11月13日(月)13:00~14:30
会 場 / Venue
早稲田大学 早稲田キャンパス 11号館 11階 1111教室
主 旨 / Outline
“Entrepreneurship as Strategic Network Creation and Design: Seizing Start-up Opportunities by Orchestrating Partners”
As is well-known from research, entrepreneurship relies to a large extent on interpersonal and interorganizational networks. Respective relationships not only promote the discovery, creation and exploitation of opportunities by building an organization, but also help to overcome the liability of newness and smallness. With this paper, we go a step further, focusing on those startups that see the strategic creation and design of interorganizational networks less as being instrumental for, or as a mere complement to, organization creation, and more as the very core of entrepreneurship. We argue that some, if not an increasing number of startups even replace organization creation and design by means of what we call strategic network creation and design. Using a revelatory case study, we analyze how a science-based spinoff has created a strategic network and why this venture – after six years of growth and economic success – still lacks most constituents of an organizational design, in particular having no employees. Instead, the spinoff orchestrates an increasingly complex network of partners. We will analyze the network design practices, in particular those that are carried out in order to overcome issues of legitimacy, reflexivity and reciprocity prevalent in strategic networks.
プログラム / Schedule
13:00 開会の挨拶(宮島 英昭 早稲田大学 高等研究所長 / 商学学術院 教授)
13:05 講演
14:05 質疑応答
14:25 閉会の挨拶(宮島 英昭)
対 象 / Prospected Audience
学部生・大学院生・研究者・教職員 等
主 催 / Organizer
早稲田大学 産業経営研究所
早稲田大学 高等研究所
申込み / Registration
事前申込み不要です。直接会場にお越しください。