447: Private Equity and Alternative Ownership/Governance: Research Opportunities for Strategy Scholars (17148)

Building off the success of the inaugural PDW on this topic during the AOM 2023 in Boston, this PDW will bring together a community of scholars interested in issues of strategy and organizations to better understand forms of ownership and governance under the umbrella of private equity and private capital. These forms represent either alternatives or challenges to public corporate ownership. While many of the prominent scholars studying this topic have been from the finance discipline, we feel that: (1) a strategy and organizations lens would be of unique value in understanding alternative ownership and governance forms as phenomena; (2) the emergence and continuing evolution of various ownership and governance forms such as PE, VC, SPACs, etc., bear important implications for firm strategies and outcomes; and (3) using these contexts for research can help us more deeply understand key questions related to corporate scope, firm capabilities, corporate governance, alliances, ecosystems, and so on. In our view, there can and should be significantly more work on these topics in the mainstream strategy, organizations, and management journals. This PDW will serve as a “primer” for scholars interested in using this industry as a context for strategy research. We will have a panel of both senior and junior scholars who can speak to potential research directions and current work in this area, and will include a set of roundtable discussions for scholars interested in doing research in this domain. The ultimate goal is to continue to develop a vibrant research community oriented around these issues following the highly successful inaugural session of this PDW at AOM 2023 in Boston.

Pre-registration is not required, but strongly suggested, especially if you intend to participate in the roundtable discussions of your relevant research in process. To pre-register, please email us at aompepdw@gmail.com and include your affiliation and research topic of interest.