1044: Spaces and Places for Imagination and Innovation (14846)

Sunday, August 11, 2024

16:45 – 18:15 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

Location: Fairmont: Rouge Room

Session Number: 1044
Symposium (panel)
Orientation: Practice,Theme,Research
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/9WbBGR

Organizer(s)

PA

Paolo Aversa

King's College London, United Kingdom

Panelist(s)

AW

April L. Wright

Warwick Business School, United Kingdom

Organizer(s)

JR

Juliane Reinecke

Oxford U., Saïd Business School

Panelist(s)

EB

Eva Boxenbaum

Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
SF

Santi Furnari

City, U. of London, United Kingdom
EG

Elena Giovannoni

Birmingham Business School, U. of Birmingham, UK
GI

Gemma Irving

U. of Queensland, Australia
LM

Luis L. Martins

U. of Texas at Austin, United States
VR

Violina Rindova

U. of California-Irvine, United States
SS

Silviya Svejenova

Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

Spaces and places provide immersive experiences to foster imagination, creativity, and innovation. The material and immaterial features of spaces act as catalysts for the generation of new ideas, innovations, and industries. This symposium seeks to foster the creation of a global community of scholars who share a common interest in exploring and potentially contributing to the understanding of how spaces and places can foster or inhibit imagination and innovation, in order to jointly develop a comprehensive theorization. Our goal is to unite researchers who investigate the role of place, space, or imagination/innovation from various theoretical angles, embracing perspectives at micro, meso, and macro levels. We encourage diverse theoretical, methodological, and epistemological viewpoints. The symposium will feature a distinguished group of scholars spanning different disciplines, all of whom have, either implicitly or explicitly, delved into a theoretical understanding on the nature of spaces and places, the importance and role of imagination and innovation in organization and management theory, or both.