War as a Phenomenon of Inquiry in Management
17 May 2024
12:30 -14:00
Times are shown in local time.
Open to: All
Room W2.01 (Cambridge Judge Business School)
Trumpington St
Cambridge
CB2 1AG
United Kingdom
Join our Strategy and International Business seminar
Speaker: Professor Fabrice Lumineau, HKU Business School
About the seminar topic
This paper argues for the importance of war as a phenomenon deserving more focused attention in management. We first provide an overview of the literature on war, and identify critical blind spots in management research. We then highlight several reasons why we should consider war an important and relevant phenomenon in management scholarship. It leads us to develop an integrative theoretical framework-structured around 3 building blocks:
- the nature of war from an organisational viewpoint
- the actors in the war ecosystem
- the war’s contextual factors – laying the foundations of a programmatic theory to analyse war as a specific area of inquiry in management
We next provide directions for management research at the intersection of each of these 3 building blocks and outline a roadmap to identify pressing questions that management can address. We also explain how wars can be used as a revelatory empirical context in management research. Finally, we highlight empirical challenges and offer specific recommendations to pave the way for future research by management scholars. This paper thus significantly contributes to establishing a forward-looking research agenda that can help scholars problematise key questions in the analysis of war.
Speaker bio
Fabrice Lumineau is a Professor in Strategic Management at HKU Business School, The University of Hong Kong. His research investigates inter-organisational partnerships, the interplay between contract and trust in collaborative strategies, opportunism and ethical issues, and blockchain governance. He has published more than 30 articles in the top management journals, such as Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Organisation Science, Organisation Studies, Research Policy, and Strategic Management Journal.
Professor Lumineau serves as an associate editor at the Journal of Management and on the editorial board of Strategic Management Journal, Organisation Science, and Strategic Organisation. He is an elected member of the AOM’s STR – Strategic Management Executive Committee and has served as the Program Chair of the Cooperative Strategies Interest Group at the Strategic Management Society.
He has received a number of scholarly awards such as the Best Paper Award from the Business Policy and Strategy division and the Most Influential Article Award from the Conflict Management division at the Academy of Management Conference, the Discovery Early Career Research Award from the Australian Research Council, and the Jay Ross Faculty Scholar Award at Purdue University.
So far, Professor Lumineau has taught in 6 main fields and has received numerous teaching recognitions: Inter-Organisational Relationships and Partnerships (PhD and MSc levels); Psycho-Cognitive Foundations of Strategy (PhD level); Strategic Management (MBA, Executive MBA, MSc, and BBA levels); International Strategy (MBA, Weekend MBA, MSc, and BBA levels); Channel Management (MBA and BBA levels); and programs in executive education. In 2017, Professor Lumineau was chosen by Poets & Quants as one of the “40 Under 40 Most Outstanding Business School Professors.” Professor Lumineau has lived in France, the USA, Germany, Canada, Switzerland, Australia, and China. Prior to receiving his PhD from HEC Paris, he worked as a project manager in the insurance and investment banking industries.
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