Keynote Presentation
 

"Knowledge Creation and Knowledge Management in Inter-Organizational Innovation Networks" By Professor Dr. Claudia Loebbecke, Chaired Professor of Business, Media and Technology Management, University of Cologne, Germany

Abstract

Knowledge has become increasingly complex and costly to achieve. However, it sets a fundamental competitive requirement in knowledge-intensive industries. Organizations participate in inter-organizational innovation networks to achieve cost-effective access to specialized knowledge. This presentation investigates why and how organizations participate in such inter-organizational endeavors. It introduces major conceptual arguments along the lines of knowledge creation and management in the real world, i.e. under coopetition. Subsequently, it discusses the main conceptual arguments along the lines of two or three cases, from the pharmaceutical, the financial and the retailing industry. It shows how companies increasingly gain knowledge in inter-organizational networks and must share a common formative context with the specialized knowledge producing agents in order to internalize the knowledge effectively. The presentation identifies knowledge-related core competences as the ability to gather and internally re-combine knowledge and industry-wide innovation leadership. It concludes with relating the case studies back to a more theoretically oriented research agenda and hopes to open a discussion about the potentials and the limitations of innovation and knowledge management research activities.

Bio

Claudia Loebbecke holds the Chair of Business, Media and Technology Management and is Director of the Department of Media and Technology Management at the University of Cologne. She served the Association for Information Systems (AIS) as president (2005-2006). Previously, she worked at INSEAD, McKinsey & Co., Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the University of New South Wales, Erasmus University, and Copenhagen Business School. Her longer research visits brought her back to INSEAD and to CISR/Sloan School/MIT, Bentley University (MA, US), the London School of Economics, LUISS University in Rome and University of Paris-Dauphine. She is Senior Editor of the Journal of Strategic Information Systems (JSIS), Associate Editor of The Information Society (TIS) and on the editorial board of the Information Systems Journal (ISJ), the Journal of Information Technology (JIT), the Journal of Media Management (JMM) and Communications of the AIS (CAIS). Claudia Loebbecke received a Masters (1990) and a Ph.D. (1995) in Business Administration, both from the University of Cologne, Germany, and an M.B.A. from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA (1991). She was granted a Fulbright Scholarship (1986/87) and a DAAD Scholarship (1990/91) and is member of the European Academy of Sciences and of Beta Gamma Sigma. Her continued research focus is on business models and management aspects of digital and creative goods and on the innovative use of new media, information, and telecommunication technologies covering aspects such as electronic business, knowledge management, and new organizational forms. She has published over 150 internationally peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers and has contributed to the development of more than twenty in-depth case studies in eight different countries. In a recently published research ranking (www.vvenkatesh.com/ISranking), she ended up as number 24 for the top eight IS journals in the period 2005 to 2009. Further information can be found under www.mtm.uni-koeln.de/team-loebbecke-home-engl.htm .

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