Call for Papers

The 3rd Annual Copenhagen Conference on Partnerships
Creating Value through Knowledge Sharing in Inter-organizational Partnerships

Firms and organizations may significantly improve their knowledge and innovative capabilities by leveraging the skills of others through the transfer and sharing of knowledge with external partners. However, inter-organizational knowledge management is a complex phenomenon and in practice, successful sharing of knowledge is often not easy to achieve. The focus of this year's conference is on how value is created through effective governance of knowledge sharing processes in inter-organizational partnerships.

This conference invites researchers and practitioners from a variety of fields to elaborate upon theoretical and practical issues related to the effective management of knowledge in strategic alliances and partnerships. While the focus will be on value-creation via knowledge management practices, we invite contributions within a range of related areas, such as (but not limited to):

Performance measurement in alliances; how do/should firms measure the outcome of knowledge transfer and sharing?
Motivation for knowledge sharing; how do/should firms and organizations encourage individuals and groups to share knowledge across organizational borders?
Knowledge governance; how do/should firms organize activities for effective knowledge sharing?
Trust and knowledge management; what is the role of social capital in inter-organizational knowledge sharing?

The purpose of the conference is to encourage dialogue between partnership professionals and academics. Both theoretical and empirical submissions are welcome. A cross-disciplinary and practical emphasis is particularly encouraged.

Confirmed keynote speakers are:

Professor Alice Lam, Director of Research, School of Management, Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom
ProfessorBernard Simonin, The Fletcher School, Tufts University, USA
Professor Ard-Pieter de Man, Eindhoven Center for Innovation Studies (ECIS), Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE), The Netherlands

Submission
Papers must be submitted to bn.smg@cbs.dk before August 1, 2009. Submitted papers should include a title page with name, affiliation and email information, followed by an abstract and the body of the text. Please use font 12 Times New Roman, double-spacing and do not exceed 35 pages all inclusive. Submission gives the organizers the permission to post the title and abstract on the conference website.

Special Issue
Selected papers will be published in a special issue of International Journal of Strategic Business Alliances (IJSBA).

Best Paper Award
We are happy to announce the "DEA Best Paper Award", sponsored by The Danish Business Research Academy (DEA). The award will be given to the presenter of the best paper appearing in the annual conference. The award consists of a certificate and a cheque of EUR 1,000.-.

Last updated by Kristine Olsen 12/03/2009