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SUMMARY:ABRI Lunch Seminar Amber Geurts
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: We are happy to invite
you to the ABRI Lunch Seminar Getting a grip on Control Points: Rethi
nking strategic management in an era of intensifying geopolitical and
-economic competition by Dr. Amber Geurts (TNO Vector, Center for So
cietal Innovation and Strategy, NL) organized by ABRI and the KIN Cen
ter for Digital Innovation.
The seminar will take place on Tue
sday, March 17th, from 12:00 to 13:00 (HG-8A37). The same seminar on
Tuesday February 17 has been cancelled.
This is a lunc
h seminar; please register your attendance by accepting/declining you
r emailed invitation by Friday, March 13th, at 10 AM at the lat
est (for catering).
Abstract
A nation’
s competitiveness strongly depends on its industry and firms to innov
ate and improve. Nevertheless, the geopolitical dimension of competit
ive advantage has been far less visible in strategic management and i
nnovation studies literature. In the last few years, however, intensi
fying geopolitical and geo-economic competition have triggered debate
s among national governments how they can preserve their ability to a
ct strategically and autonomously (i.e. strategic autonomy) and produ
ce and use technological knowledge (i.e. technological sovereignty).
Against this background, we aim to further the debate by introducing
the concept of ‘control points’ - or unique and valuable firm act
ivities for a state’s capacity to act, upon which others in the geo
political context are dependent. Control points, we argue, thus mix f
irm-level strategic management concerns with state-level policy conce
rns. As such, control points not only include classical competitivene
ss characteristics such as a unique or leading position and a certain
degree of dependency. Rather, they also concern an element of positi
oning from a geopolitical and geo-economic point of view to sustain c
ompetitiveness in times of open strategic autonomy and technological
sovereignty. In this theoretical paper, we conceptualize the concept
and its implications further, and provide future research avenues in
line with our conceptual approach.
DESCRIPTION: The seminar will take place on Tuesday, March 17th, from
12:00 to 13:00 (HG-8A37). The same seminar on Tuesday February 17 has
been cancelled.
This is a lunch seminar; please regis
ter your attendance by accepting/declining your emailed invitation by
Friday, March 13th, at 10 AM at the latest (for catering).
Abstract
A nation’s competitiveness stron
gly depends on its industry and firms to innovate and improve. Nevert
heless, the geopolitical dimension of competitive advantage has been
far less visible in strategic management and innovation studies liter
ature. In the last few years, however, intensifying geopolitical and
geo-economic competition have triggered debates among national govern
ments how they can preserve their ability to act strategically and au
tonomously (i.e. strategic autonomy) and produce and use technologica
l knowledge (i.e. technological sovereignty). Against this background
, we aim to further the debate by introducing the concept of ‘contr
ol points’ - or unique and valuable firm activities for a state’s
capacity to act, upon which others in the geopolitical context are d
ependent. Control points, we argue, thus mix firm-level strategic man
agement concerns with state-level policy concerns. As such, control p
oints not only include classical competitiveness characteristics such
as a unique or leading position and a certain degree of dependency.
Rather, they also concern an element of positioning from a geopolitic
al and geo-economic point of view to sustain competitiveness in times
of open strategic autonomy and technological sovereignty. In this th
eoretical paper, we conceptualize the concept and its implications fu
rther, and provide future research avenues in line with our conceptua
l approach. We are happy to invite you to the ABRI Lunch Seminar Gett
ing a grip on Control Points: Rethinking strategic management in an e
ra of intensifying geopolitical and -economic competition by Dr. Ambe
r Geurts (TNO Vector, Center for Societal Innovation and Strategy, NL
) organized by ABRI and the KIN Center for Digital Innovation.
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