Description
As the world changes rapidly, organizations are increasingly called upon to collaborate on critical societal challenges. Yet management literature often emphasizes competition over cooperation. The IOC track creates a space to explore inter-organizational collaboration by critically examining how partnerships can address social issues-often challenging traditional hierarchical and managerial structures. We focus on collaboration processes, their antecedents and outcomes, and strategies to manage negative externalities when plans falter.
Collaborations among diverse entities-including multinational corporations, state-owned enterprises, and alliances among for-profit, non-profit, and public organizations-are reshaping how organizations influence society. These evolving forms challenge established management frameworks and conventional notions of organizational boundaries.
Expanding our understanding requires embracing pluralistic frameworks that transcend traditional Western or Eastern perspectives. By exploring alternative views, we can develop new insights and refine models to support diverse forms of inter-organizational collaboration, particularly in disrupted institutional contexts.
We hope to support submissions offering insights into management practices for effective collaboration and alternative ways of organizing across boundaries, including critical examinations of existing theories to reshape our understanding for future applications.
Provider Information
BAM Inter-Organisational Collaboration Special Interest Group
Who Should Attend?
The event speaks to all sections, as detailed in the BAM Framework.
Academics that are planning to attend the BAM2025 Conference at Kent Business School, University of Kent.
Chair
Dr Claudio de Mattos
Claudio De Mattos is currently a Senior Lecturer in Management (International Strategy, Sustainability and Entrepreneurship Subject Group) at the University of Huddersfield. His current research interests are focused on international business cooperation, including alliances and M&As. It predominantly examines the context of large emerging markets and high technology sectors. Other topics of interest include cross-cultural differences and similarities in international negotiations, international entrepreneurship and international branding.
Claudio De Mattos completed his PhD at the University of Bradford under the supervision of Professor Peter Buckley. He has been publishing his work in internationally recognised journals such as the British Journal of Management, 'International Business Review', 'R&D Management', 'International Journal of Human Resource Management', 'International Journal of Operations and Production Management', ‘International Journal of Production Research’, and 'Journal of Marketing Management'. In addition, he has been presenting his work at a number of leading international conferences.
He has previously taught in several British Universities such as University of Bradford, University of Leeds, Aston University, the University of Manchester. He is regularly invited for external lectures (e.g., at the University of Leeds and at ISM University of Management and Economics, Vilnius, Lithuania) and has held a number of external positions such as Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for International Business University of Leeds (CIBUL) UK and External Examiner for the University of Bradford, Bradford UK. He was also a Jean Monnet Research Fellow and an EPSRC-BRITEST Research Fellow at Leeds University Business School. Prior to joining academia, he worked in the oil industry as well as in the defence industry.
Dr Sanne Bor
Sanne Bor holds a PhD in Management and Organization. Her work focuses on collaboration among organizations, particularly in situations where collaboration is essential to solve the big challenges we meet in today's world. She works on helping organizations to collaborate better, with the aim to find fairer, wiser and better solutions to these big societal challenges. At Hanken School of Economics she works on the STN-funded CORE project, where she helps finding tools for collaborative development of solutions to environmental challenges.
At LUT she works on the STN-funded PackageHeroes project, where she focuses on finding ways for overcoming barriers to stimulate collaboration between organizations to enhance the transition from plastic to non-plastic package solutions. Her research interests also include meta-organizations, organizations of organizations, and developing theory to understand this type of organization better. Sanne is also interested in topics related to self-steering and collective decision-making more generally. Sanne has published in Management Inquiry and Administrative Science.
Currently, she serves as co-chair of the Special Interest Group on Inter-Organizational Collaboration at the British Academy of Management.
Speakers
Prof Qile (Horace) He
Professor Qile He, also known as Horace, is a Professor of Strategy and Performance Management at the University of Derby, UK. He was previously a Reader in Operations Management and the Associate Head of School for Research of the School of Strategy and Leadership at Coventry University, UK, successfully leading the school research portfolio. His research expertise and interests are in the area of interfirm alliances and partnerships, innovation strategies and processes of organizations, as well as sustainable and responsible business, and inter-organizational knowledge transfer. He has published over 80 papers in refereed journals, books, and leading international conference proceedings.
Benefits of attending
> Get original ideas for conference papers;
> Discuss relevant issues with experts in the area;
> Ask questions to experienced academics in the field;
Contact
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Event Fee
BAM Members: Free
Non-Members: £30
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Booking Deadline
Registrations close on 16th February 2025 at 23:59 GMT.