Conference Recap

Industry Studies Association hosted the 2021 Conference online, June 3-4. The conference theme – Work of the Future Redux: Technology, Innovation and Policy, highlighted scholarship that examined the changing nature of work and the workplace. COVID-19 dramatically altered many work processes and changed peoples’ relationships to their workplace. The conference provided an opportunity to explore the changed nature of work in this new environment from the different disciplines represented in ISA.

The virtual nature of the conference allowed scholars and practitioners from countries around the world (e.g., Russia and China), to join our usual contingent of attendees from North America and Europe. We had over 150 participants attending 40 research paper presentation sessions, four plenaries and four book author presentations.

This year’s conference featured two innovations. First, we included a Conference Theme Focused track that showcased the papers and panels from differing perspectives that centered on Work of the Future. This track featured several presenters from MIT and the Keystone Research Center that participated in the Work of the Future task force and their report.

Second, two panels highlighted the evolution of scholarship that has helped shape the central research questions from disciplines represented in ISA. Old Problems, New Research Generations featured prominent junior and senior scholars who have worked on interdisciplinary research projects focused on industry. Their presentations highlighted the contributions of this work to their respective disciplines, along with ongoing questions and challenges. Worker Voice and Representation: Past, Present and Future brought together junior and senior scholars from economics, political science, and management to discuss seminal work and emerging research on issues of worker voice and representation.

The pre-conference Professional Development Workshop (PDW) for early career scholars paired early career scholars with senior scholar mentors. These relationships help to support and build the next generation of ISA scholars. As always, PDW participants appreciated the opportunity to network with peers and senior scholars.

ISA honored 11 award winners and runners-up at our Annual Awards presentation. The awards recognize the best papers and dissertations that represent ISA values of rigorous research grounded in deep and nuanced understanding of context. Congratulations to our winners!

 
     

 

5:00-6:00pm
Virtual Cocktail Hour

Friday, June 4

9:00am-10:00am
ISA Research Sessions | Concurrent Sessions

Research Stream: Labor Markets, Organizations, & Employment Relations
Panel Title: Labor Market Institutions and Outcomes 
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Papers:

  1. “Employee Representation Institutions and Innovation - Disentangling the Effect of Legal and Voluntary Codetermination”, by Kornelius Kraft (TU Dortmund University) and Alexander Lammers (TU Dortmund University)
  2. “Unemployment and Unemployment Compensation under major structural breaks in US and UK Labor Markets”, by Anthony Andrews (Global Trade Research Institute)
  3. “Where is the Inspector?  The Unfulfilled Role of Regulation, Monitoring and Enforcement in New Zealand Migrant Worker Protection.”, by Danaë Anderson (Auckland University of Technology (AUT)), Felicity Lamm (Auckland University of Technology (AUT)), Erling Rasmussen (Auckland University of Technology (AUT)) and Swati Nagar (Auckland University of Technology (AUT))
  4. “Innovations in Collective Action in the Labor Movement Organizing: Workers Beyond the NLRA and the Business Union”, by Gabriel Nahmias (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Research Stream: Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Panel Title: Nascent Industries and Platforms
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Papers:

  1. “Platform-based Ecosystems”, by Abraham Song (George Mason University), Zoltan Acs (George Mason University), László Szerb (University of Pécs) and David Audretsch (Indiana University)
  2. “Lighting the Way: Illuminating How New Ventures in Nascent Industries Experiment”, by Hyeonsuh Lee (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Sonali K. Shah (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
  3. “Regulatory frameworks and new industry development: The Canadian recreational cannabis industry”, by John McArdle (Salem State University) and Alice de Koning (University of Calgary)
  4. “Failing To Emerge: An Empirical Investigation Of Why Industries Do Not Succeed”, by Mara Guerra (ETH Zurich) and Rajshree Agarwal (University of Maryland)
  5. “Collective expectations and the process of platform ecosystem creation: The case of Baidu in autonomous driving”, by Yurong Chen (Tsinghua University), Donghong Li (Tsinghua University) and Amit Kumar (Warwick Business School)

Research Stream: Technology Management and Operations & Supply Networks
Panel Title: The Role of Investments and Environmental Practices on Technology Transitions   
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Papers:

  1. “Firm’s Perspective on Energy Transition: Energy Projects Portfolio Formation”, by Sofia Berdysheva (Technische Universität München) and Svetlana Ikonnikova (Technische Universität München)
  2. “Are Firms’ Mandatory and Voluntary Environmental Practices Complementary? An Evidence from China”, by Mengxi Xie (CIDEG, Tsinghua University) and Shin-Ren Pan (National Taiwan University)
  3. “Too Big to Succeed? Organizational Adaptation in the Face of Technological Change”, by Vijay Venkataraman (Indian Institute of Management Bangalore) and John Eklund (University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business)

Research Steam: Globalization: Management & Policy Implications
Panel Title: Global Trade Issues
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Papers:

  1. “The Role of the State in the Geographical Indications (GI) Process of Olive Oils:  A Case Study from Turkey”, by Pelin Bicen (Suffolk University)
  2. “The Dark Side of the Boom: The Impact of Foreign Competition on R&D and Technology Upgrading”, by Ricardo Laverde-Cubillos (Insper) and Lee Branstetter (Carnegie Mellon University)
  3. “The Failure of Manufacturing Policy: The Indonesian Story”, by Yohanes Mean Duli (Gadjah Mada University), Wihana Kirana Jaya (Gadjah Mada University), Samsubar Saleh (Gadjah Mada University) and Evita Hanie Pangaribowo (Gadjah Mada University)
  4. “The Data Economy: Market Size and Global Trade”, by Wendy Li (U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis) and Diane Coyle (University of Cambridge)
  5. “Cookie-cutter competition? Productivity and nonprice strategies under uniform pricing”, by Gianluca Antonecchia (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Ajay Bhaskarabhatla (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
  6. “The Market power of Superstar Products”, by Gianluca Antonecchia (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

Research Stream: Healthcare
Panel Title: Innovations in the Pharma Supply Chain
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Papers:

  1. “Battlements of Microbial Defense: How Policy Makers Incentivize Drugs that are Rarely Used?”, by Denise Dunlap (U Mass Lowell) and Joel West (KGI - Keck Graduate Institute)
  2. “The Role of Mediating Organizations to Address a Grand Challenge: The Multiple Roles of R&D Consortia to Affect Field-level Changes in the Study of Alzheimer’s Disease”, by Paul Olk (University of Denver) and Joel West (KGI - Keck Graduate Institute)
  3. “Is Grass Greener in the Gray Zone? Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Cannabis Market”, by Lucy Xiaolu Wang (Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Germany)
  4. “Procurement Institutions and Essential Drug Supply in Low- and Middle-Income Countries”, by Lucy Xiaolu Wang (Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Germany) and Nahim Bin Zahur (Queens University)
  5. “Vicarious Learning from Warning Letters”, by In Joon Noh (Pennsylvania State University), John Gray (The Ohio State University) and Aravind Chandrasekaran (The Ohio State University)

Research Stream: Futurology
Panel Title: Public Policy and The Future of Supply Chains 
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Papers:

  1. “Industry 4.0 and the future of manufacturing: A case study of the automotive and garment sectors in Morocco”, by Georgeta Vidican Auktor (German Development Institute)
  2. “The Next-Generation U.S. Industrial Base and National Security”, by Eleftherios Iakovou (Texas A&M) and Chelsea White (Georgia Tech)
  3. “Public policy-focused research in operations and supply chain management”, by Sue Helper (Case Western University), John Gray (Ohio State University), Suzanne de Treville (HEC Lausanne) and Tyson Browning (Texas Christian University)
  4. “China, Robotization, and the Future of Manufacturing”, by Lena Chen (Harvard Law School) and Dora Sari (Harvard Law School)

10:00am-11:00am
Welcome | John Paul MacDuffie, ISA President

Drug Shortages: Definitions, Causes, and Solutions

 

 

 
   

 

 

12:00-1:00pm
ISA Annual Meeting & Lunch