Throughout the year 2019, the IfSTO team traveled to the USA and around Europe to take part in a number of academic conferences, presenting new projects and ongoing research in the areas of crowd sourcing, idea generation, innovation management, strategic management and online communities. Below you will find the complete list of presentations:

OMT Paper Development and Writing Workshop, 31.01.2019 - 01.02.2019, London (UK)

Participation:

• Garaus, Christian - The role of analogy in the implementation of distant alternatives for path-breaking change (co-authors: Koprax, Irina & Güttel, Wolfgang H.)

Research Seminar - Global Center Entrepreneurship & Innovation, 29.03.2019, St. Gallen (CH)

Presentation:

• Lettl, Christopher - Strategic behavior in contests with heterogenous agents: Evidence from the field

Strategic Management Society (SMS) Special Conference, 13.06.2019 - 15.06.2019, Frankfurt (DE)

Research presentations:

• Abolfathi, Niloofar

  • Innovation by Competitors and Firm Performance: The Influence of Demand Side Heterogeneity (co-authors: Phene, Anupama)

  • Demand-side Frictions and Competitive Positioning: Evidence from Gobal Telecommunications Markets

DRUID19, 19.06.2019 - 21.06.2019, Copenhagen (DK)

Research presentations:

• Abolfathi, Niloofar - Innovation by Competitors and Firm Performance: The Influence of Demand Side Heterogeneity (co-authors: Phene, Anupama)

• Grad, Tom - The role of knowledge similarity for self-selection and evaluation quality in crowd evaluation (co-authors: Garaus, Christian & Lettl, Christopher)

17th Open and User Innovation (OUI) Conference, 08-10.07.2019, Utrecht (NL)

Research presentations:

• Deimel, Markus - The recognition of technological knowledge: Investigating the nexus between disclosed information types and the individual (co-authors: Lettl, Christopher)

• Grad, Tom - Wisdom of crowds under self-selection (co-authors: Garaus, Christian & Lettl, Christopher)

• Staub, Alexander - Level Up: How non-monetary incentives affect online community members‘ contributions (co-authors: Grad, Tom & Lettl, Christopher)

• Wandres, Carola  - Who copes better with crowding: experts or novices?  The role of task experience on attention allocation during idea screening (co-authors: Garaus, Christian & Lettl, Christopher)

Session chairs:

• Lettl, Christopher & Joachim Henkel - Open software, open hardware and makers

NBER Summer Institute, 08.07.2019 - 26.07.2019, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

Research presentations:

• Grad, Tom - Strategic behavior in contests with heterogeneous agents: Evidence from the Field (co-authors: Riedl, Christoph & Lettl, Christopher)

2019 PDMA Doctoral Consortium, 05.08.2019 - 08.08.2019, Champaign, Illinois (USA)

• Staub, Alexander -  Participation & research presentation: Level Up: How non-monetary incentives affect online community members‘ contributions

79th Academy of Management Annual Meeting, 09.08.2019 - 13.09.2019, Boston, Massachusetts (USA)

Consortia participation:

• Staub, Alexander - Strategic Management Division, Doctoral Consortium

• Wandres, Carola - Technology and Innovation Management Division, Doctoral Consortium

research presentations:

• Grad, Tom - Strategic behavior in contests with heterogeneous agents: Evidence from the Field (co-authors: Riedl, Christoph & Lettl, Christopher)

• Garaus, Christian - The role of analogy in the implementation of distant alternatives for path-breaking change (co-authors: Koprax, Irina & Güttel, Wolfgang H.)