The IfSTO Team will take part in the 2015 annual meeting of the Academy of Management in Vancouver with a total of five contributions.

In addition to the paper "What drives positive attention on firm-hosted user design platforms? An empirical study of the LEGO DesignByMe platform." of Prof. Christopher Lettl and the paper "Fly on the wings of R&D: Path dependence, path creation, and path separation" of Dr. Christian Garaus Professor Christopher Lettl is organizing a professional development workshop  in cooperation with Professor Thomas Ritter (Copenhagen Business School).

The workshop will be about the wider implications of business model research and feature renownd panelist from business model research.

Panel members:

• Raphael Amit (Wharton Business School, USA)

• Nicolai J. Foss (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)

• Christopher Lettl (Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria)

• Costas Markides (London Business School, Great Britain)

• Thomas Ritter (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)

• Charles Snow (Penn State University, USA)

• Christoph Zott (IESE, Spain)

Further Prof. Dr. Christopher Lettl will organize a symposium on "Linking Open Innovation to Business Models".

Panel Participants:

• Henry Chesbrough (Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, USA)

• Christopher Lettl (Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria)

• Thomas Ritter (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)

• Christoph Tucci (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
  
  

Aditionally, a paper of Dr. Steffen Keijl, titled "Research with Secondary Data: Different Matching Methods and is there a Difference?", will be presented.

Abstract"Our review of all SMJ studies of the last six years reveals that 63 percent use multiple secondary databases, but only 11 percent report how the connections between these databases were made. This limits the accumulation of knowledge on how information across secondary databases can be combined. In this paper, we report on four different methods of matching data across secondary databases. Through an investigation of the effects of different inter-organizational relationships on firms’ innovative performance, we show that reporting matching methods is important, because empirical results can differ due to different matching method used. This paper can support researchers, reviewers, and editors in making better-informed decisions about how different secondary databases can and should be matched."