JC Spender

Papers

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Draft of a long paper on the Quants' Impact on Management Education for the EFMD 1st Research Conference on Higher Education, Zurich, February 2012.

Powerpoint on the occasion of our celebration of the life and work of Max Boisot at ESADE, Dec 1st, 2011

Visit to the University of Ferrara, great group of students who really did sit through my long ppt on the Agentic Theory of the Firm.

New draft of 'New Theory of What?' for IESE, September 2011

New draft of 'Herbert A. Simon: Philosopher of the Organizational Life-World' September, 2011

ISM IeMBA KM 645 2011 Day 1 - Day 2 - Day 3

New version of the piece on bureaucracy for Kessler, Eric H. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Management Theory (Sage).

Powerpoint presentation at MSKE 2011 - Managing Services in the Knowledge Economy - at the Universidade Lusiada de Famalicão, July 2011.

Powerpoint presentation at 6th Annual IFKAD Conference 2011, Tampere, Finland, June 17th.

Spender, J.-C. (2011) Agentic Collaboration in a Secular Age. In E. Bonet, B. Czarniawska, D. McCloskey & H. S. Jensen, (eds.) Second Conference on rhetoric and Narratives in Management Research: Proceedings (pp. 53-66). ESADE.

Spender, J.-C. (2011) Human Capital and Human Agency. In A. Burton-Jones & JC Spender (Eds.) Oxford Handbook of Human Capital (pp. 186-217). Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Spender, J.-C. (2011). The Problems and Challenges of Researching Intellectual Capital. In G. Schiuma (Ed.), Managing Knowledge Assets and Business Value Creation in Organizations: Measures and dynamics (pp. 1-12). Hershey PA: IGI Global.

Spender, J.-C., & Kraaijenbrink, J. (2011). Why Competitive Strategy Succeeds - and With Whom. In R. Huggins & H. Izushi (Eds.), Competition, Competitive Advantage, and Clusters: The Ideas of Michael Porter (pp. 33-55). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Spender, J.-C. (2011). On Green Business and Green Values. In C. Pitelis, J. Keenan & V. Pryce (Eds.), Green Business, Green Values, and Sustainability (pp. 141-154). London: Routledge.

Remarks on the occasion of Professor Richard Whitley's retirement - Manchester Business School, January 28th 2011.

Finally - the Spender and Strong piece on 'strategic conversations' appears in the Wall Street Journal - August 2010.

Note on Theories or Frameworks for the ESADE Seminar May 2010.

Spender, J.-C. (2010) Technology: Discourse and Possibility. In VK Narayanan & G O'Connor (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Technology & Innovation Management (pp 3-8), John Wiley & Sons, Chichester.

ESADE GRACO Seminar Imagining Organization - February 22nd 2010

ISM DBA KM Day 3 - Feb 20 2010 / ISM DBA KM Day 2 - Feb 19 2010 / ISM DBA KM Day 1 - Feb 18 2010

ESADE Methodology discussion PowerPoint February 15 & 16 2010.

Kraaijenbrink, Spender & Groen (2010) The Resource-Based View: A Review and Assessment of its Critiques. Journal of Management, 36, 1, pp. 349-372

PowerPoint for the LUSEM Workshop Imagining Organization - December 2nd 2009.

PowerPoint for the Monieson Knowledge Exchange Seminar Human Capital and Leadership - November 2009.

Spender, J.-C. (forthcoming 2010) The Way Forward: Theorizing Knowledge-Based Development? - Forthcoming in Metaxiotis, Carrillo & Yigitcanlar (Eds.) Knowledge-Based Development of Cities and Societies, IGI Global.

Ppt prepared for the Lund Routines and Capabilities workshop - Routines as the Rhetorics of Organization - June 2009

Working paper on organizational routines - Routines and Microfoundations - April 2009

First draft of another paper on the future of BSchools - BSchools and the Crisis - April 2009

Paper for 3rd Rhetoric & Narrative in Management Research conference ESADE - Business? It's All Rhetoric - February 2009

Spender, J.-C. (2009). Organizational Capital: Concept, Measure or Heuristic? In A. Bounfour (Ed.), Organizational Capital: Modelling, Measuring and Contextualising (pp. 5-23). London: Routledge.

Draft of the first part of a two-part paper on a new view of knowledge management - Revisiting KM's Origins and Objectives - February 2009

Felin, T., & Spender, J.-C. (2009). An Exchange of Ideas about Knowledge Governance: Seeking First Principles and Microfoundations. In N. J. Foss & S. Michailova (Eds.), Knowledge Governance: Processes and Perspectives (pp. 247-271). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Spender, J.-C. (2008). Review: From Higher Aims to Hired Hands by Rakesh Khurana, Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press 2007. Academy of Management Review, 33(4), 1022-1026.

Complete pre-editor-slashed version of the Khurana book review above - Jan 2008

Spender, J.-C. (2008). Can Simon's Notion of `Bounded Rationality' Give Us New Ideas About Leadership? Leadership, 4, 95-109.

A Note on Methodology for the Lund PhD students - October 2008

Paper for the IESE conference on Humanizing the Firm - What Man in Man-agement? - June 2008

A Note on KM for the Queen's PhD students - April 2008

Spender, J.-C. (2008). Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management: Whence and Whither? Management Learning, 39(2), 159-176.

Spender, J.-C. (2007). Management as a Regulated Profession: An Essay. Journal of Management Inquiry, 16(1), 32-42.

Spender, J.-C., & Scherer, A. G. (2007). The Philosophical Foundations of Knowledge Management: Editors’ Introduction. Organization, 14(1), 5-28.

Spender, J.C. (2007) Structural Adjustments and Conflicting Recipes in the US Auto Industry. In T. Hamalainen & R. Heiskala Social Innovations, Institutional Change and Economic Perforamance (pp. 123-158) Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

then a whole bunch of papers, books and things that you can find on my CV

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And finally, for those interested in the history of the RBV, a 1983 UCLA Working Paper Strategic Management, A Property-Rights Approach.

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