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Justin Jansen
Erasmus U. Rotterdam, Netherlands
Gianluigi Giustiziero
IE Business School, Spain
Jingya You
U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
Recently there has been a growing interest in the topic of scaling from both academia and practitioners. However, our knowledge of the processes that lead to scaling, as well as their implications for organizational design, ecosystems, human capital management, and corporate strategies, remain significantly understudied. The proposed symposium addresses this pressing challenge by bringing together a set of scholars from diverse research streams to advance our understanding of how firms undertake scaling strategies by both enabling scalability in their businesses and mitigating constraints to scaling. The papers in this symposium have different foci with respect to the symposium theme, including one conceptual work, one theory-building case study, and two empirical studies. The papers are also different in their focal research problem, including issues related to the scaling lifecycle, challenges to scaling in less “hospitable” locations (e.g., outside Silicon Valley), human capital strategies for scaling, and scaling-related acquisitions by startups. We suggest that through a combination of complementary perspectives the proposed symposium advances a more comprehensive and nuanced view on the scaling phenomenon and creates a platform for further research on the topic.
Author: Gianluigi Giustiziero – IE Business School
Author: Thorbjoern Knudsen – Frankfurt School of Finance & Management gGMBH
Author: Deepak Somaya – U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Author: Esther Tippmann – U. of Galway
Author: Vanessa Bretas – Dublin City U.
Author: Jonathan Levie – U. of Galway
Author: J. Daniel Kim – The Wharton School, U. of Pennsylvania
Author: Liinus Hietaniemi – IESE Business School
Author: Jingya You – U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign