[INNO] 2017 BAM Conference U.K.(3)

 

At the last day of 2017 BAM Conference, U.K., I had my second presentation at the track of organizational transformation, change, and development (OTCD). It was the 7^th session, held at the Warwick Business School, U.K. The title of my paper was “Learnings Are Relatively Managed in CoPS Innovation – the Case of SKT and KTF DRM innovation.” SKT and KTF were S. Korea mobile operators. CoPS is the acronym of a complex product and system. 

 

Unfortunately, I did not have a picture of Warwick Business School. I thought that I took a picture. But I did not. Instead, I posted a picture of Warwick Art Center, which was the venue for refreshment, launch, plenary session, and some ceremonies.

 

This study empirically examined the relationship between each firm’s choices of an organizational form and learnings in CoPS innovations, by conducting a qualitative two case-study on intensive research design through critical realism. It selected SKT and KTF innovation of open mobile alliance - digital rights management (hereafter, OMA-DRM) in South Korea. This study identified that, according to SKT and KTF’ choice of an organizational form, learnings were differently and relatively managed in DRM innovations. Two different degrees of an organizational-level change were featured: routinized organizational-level change by SKT and non-routinized organizational-level change by KTF. Finally, this study noticed that each firm’s leadership can facilitate learnings while administrative knowledge driven by an organizational-level change could slow down learnings of market and technology.

 

Prof. Mark Hughes at the Brighton Business School was my session chair. It was really nice to have him as my session chair. He did a lot of works on organizational change. While he really expressed his interests of my study, he demonstrated his passion of what he is studying-organizational change. At 2017 BAM Conference, he also presented his paper – “We Proceed with An Assumption That Leaders Have A Significant Influence on Organizational Change – That’s’ Interesting”. Anyway, through my presentation, my contributions were clearly identified and supported. In other hand, at the 7^th session, Reuther presented an interesting paper: “The Behavioral Model of Homo Cooperatives and its Value for Understanding Intrapreneurship.” There was a short but interesting discussion on intrapreneurship.

 

At the morning session, interesting studies looked into the impact of R&D subsidies on external collaboration for innovation, diffusion of innovation, and the impact of regulation on innovation. Those studies stand on the theme of ‘shaping innovation trajectories’. Interestingly, prof. Nakamura at Keio Univ. started his presentation by quoting what Roger, E. mentioned in his book – Diffusion of Innovation. Lastly, I attended the last session of innovation at the 2017 BAM Conference. The theme was about shaping innovation: policy, design and institutions. There were some interesting discussion on design and policy.

Regarding the 7th session of innovation, the theme was about service innovation. Fengjie investigated innovation in creative industries, which would be of interests to audience. Even though I attempted to hear her presentation, because of time conflict, I was not able to attend her session. Anyway, I should stop here.