The 79th annual conference of the Academy of Management took place in Boston/Mass. from August 9-13.
The field of management/organization was represented by Prof. Bach and his colleague Peter Galvin, Edith Cowan University Western Australia, at this conference, which is the largest in the world in the field of business administration with 10,000 participants.
The paper.
"How Firm Boundary Choices Alter Over Time: Building a Dynamic Model for the UK Pension Industry"
uses a dataset on the UK pension industry (1985-2014) to examine the so-called adaptation problem, i.e., under what circumstances firms reconsider their make-or-buy decisions and adapt their firm boundaries to new circumstances. The dynamic model derived in analysis of the qualitative data integrates theoretical explanations from transaction cost theory, resource-based view, and modularity theory.
The abstract of the paper was published in the Proceedings of the 2019 Annual Meeting: https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/AMBPP.2019.18004abstract
We would like to thank you for the numerous contributions to the discussion and suggestions we received at the conference regarding the empirically based papers!