Brown Bag: Prof Cardinal

Prof. Laura Cardinal from University of South Carolina will give a Brown Bag seminar on 9 June 2016.

by Yash Raj Shrestha

Prof. Laura Cardinal - Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina

Seminar details: 

Date: 9 June, 2016

Time: 12:00-14:00

Location: WEV H326, Weinbergstrasse 56/58

 

The Genesis of Control Configurations During Organizational Founding

 

Abstract: 

We examine the evolution of control configurations during organizational founding in a ten-year case study. We seek to answer the questions: “What makes a configuration a configuration?” and “Why does the configuration exist?” Classic control theory discusses the technical and environmental requirements for control based on various contingencies. However, our configurations were not predicted by contingency theory: the control configurations did not change based on dominant theory. Instead our results support three different theories (institutional theory, upper echelon theory, and life cycle theory) for the three of the four control configuration changes. Our findings lead to questions about how much of control theory applies to organizational founding, early organization evolution, and to stable situations where other factors might predict control configuration shifts.

 

 

About the speaker: 

Dr. Laura B. Cardinal is the SmartState Endowed Chair and Director for the Center for Innovation and Commercialization at the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. Previously, Dr. Cardinal was a faculty member at the University of Houston, Tulane University, UNC, Duke University, and SMU. While at the A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University she served as the Director of the Burkenroad Institute for the Study of Ethics and Leadership and the Area Coordinator for Strategy and Entrepreneurship. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin where she was a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant recipient. Her areas of expertise include managing innovation and R&D capabilities and understanding the evolution and adaptation of control systems and strategy in founding firms. Dr. Cardinal has published articles in the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Global Strategy Journal, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and the Journal of Product Innovation Management

 

Dr. Cardinal sits on the Board of Governors of the Academy of Management (AOM). She is an Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Annals (AMA), and serves on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal (AMJ), Organization Science (OS), the Strategic Management Journal (SMJ), the Academy of Management Discoveries (AMD), and the Journal of Organization Design (JOD). Prior to sitting on the AOM Board, she sat on the Board of Directors of the Strategic Management Society (SMS). She has served on grant panels at the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the Innovation and Organizational Change Division. She previously served as the Chair for the Competitive Strategy Interest Group of the SMS and as the Program and Division Chair for the Technology and Innovation Management Division of the AOM. 

 

As Director of the Burkenroad Institute, Dr. Cardinal was responsible for the Annual Symposium on Business and Society. The 17th Annual Symposium addressed “The Quest for Fool’s Gold: The Risks and Rewards of Emerging Technologies.” The 16th Annual Symposium addressed “Leadership and the Eye for Innovation.” And the 15th Annual Symposium addressed “Critical Moments in Leadership: Changing the Rules of the Game.” 

Dr. Cardinal has been an invited keynote or plenary speaker at a range of venues. Noteworthy speaking engagements include: Athens University of Economics and Business Distinguished Public Lecture Series of the MBA Program at the Aueb; Vienna University of Economics and Business Empirical Research in Management Accounting & Control Conference; The Industrial Research Institute (The IRI is a non-profit organization of some 260 leading industrial companies that carry out over 75 percent of the industrial research effort in the United States and abroad); The China-U.S. Joint Conference in Beijing on Technological Innovation Management sponsored by the National Science Foundations of China and the U.S; The Center for Innovation Management Studies; The Consortium for Corporate Entrepreneurship; The Epoxy Plastics Division of the Society of Plastics; The Center for the Study of Work Teams; KPMG’s Ph.D. Project; and the KPMG-John M. Olin Conference on Organizations, Incentives and Innovation. She is an annual speaker at the Strategic Management Society and the Academy of Management. 

 

Dr. Cardinal is an award-winning teacher. She teaches classes on managing innovation and technology, strategic management, and sustainable enterprise (social and environmental entrepreneurship). While at Tulane she won teaching awards in both the evening professional MBA and the full-time MBA programs for the strategic management core and the managing innovation and technology elective courses. Past consulting and executive education clients and business advising partners have included Sara Lee, Xerox PARC, Rockwell, Reichold Chemicals, Human Systems Innovators, Inc., and the United States Postal Service. She served on the advisory board for Cincinnati Drum and Bugle Corps. She co-developed a CD-ROM product called “Career Paths in Management” with Convergence Multimedia (distribution by Prentice-Hall). The series won the NewMedia Gold Award and the Comdex Education Award for new products in 1996. Her book, Organizational Control (with S. Sitkin and K. Bijlsma-Frankema), was published by Cambridge University Press in September 2010. 

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