INFORMS Sessions on Knowledge, Learning and

Intellectual Capital

INFORMS MeetingPittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Technology Management ClusterNovember 5 and 6, 2006

Session SC08: KLIC-ISunday, Nov. 05, 13:30 - 15:00

Chair:  Nile Hatch, Brigham Young University

• Exploration and Exploitation in Complex Networks: Learning Rates and Interpersonal Networks– Melissa Schilling, Stern School of Business, NYU

• Cross-Training, Social Identity and Knowledge Sharing– Enno Siemsen, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign– Sridhar Balasubramanian, UNC Chapel Hill, Kenan-Flagler – Aleda Roth, Arizona State University, Carey School of Business

• Dissecting Organizational Knowledge: Multimodal Apprenticeship in Vascular Surgery– Curtis LeBaron, Brigham Young University

• Fractal Knowledge and Technological Change in Semiconductors and Disk Drives– Roger Bohn, University of California - San Diego

Session SD08: KLIC-II Sunday, Nov. 05, 16:30 - 18:00

Chair:  David Moore, Klicnet.org

• Pharmaceutical-Biotechnology R&D: Implications for Alliance Performance– Jongwook Kim, Western Washington University

• Patents in Practice: Systemic Failures of Knowledge Representation in the US Patent System– Tony Briggs, Paul Carlile, Boston University

• Social Capital and the Creation of Knowledge– Claudia Gonzalez-Brambila, Business School, Instituto

Technologico Autonomo, Mexico, D.F. – David Krackhardt, Francisco Veloso, Carnegie-Mellon U.

• Organizational Learning in Distributed Innovation Planning– Edward Anderson, U. of Texas, McCombs Business School– Nitin Joglekar, Boston University

KLIC Business Meeting

• Sunday, Nov. 05, 18:00 - 19:30

• Discussion Leader:  Nile Hatch

• We shall meet in the room in which the KLIC II session will have been held.

• Please see www.klicnet.org for proposed agenda.

Session MB08: KLIC-IIIMonday, Nov. 06, 10:00 - 11:30

Chair:  Anita Tucker, Wharton School, U. Penn.

• Knowledge Management for Product and Process Design Teams– Cheryl Gaimon, Gulru Ozkan, Georgia Institute of Technology,

College of Management• Myopia of Selection: Does Organizational Adaptation

Limit the Efficacy of Population Selection? – Hart Posen, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan– Daniel Levinthal, Wharton School - University of Pennsylvania

• Knowledge and Learning in Complex Business Systems– Ram Akella, UC Santa Cruz, Kristin Fridgeirsdottir, London

Business School, Arvind Vidyarthi, Eric Wang, Zuobing Xu • Learning While Sourcing: Productivity Gains While

Coordinating Software Development– Paulo Gomes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa – Nitin Joglekar, Steve Rosenthal, Boston University

Session MC08: KLIC-IVMonday, Nov. 06, 13:30 - 15:00

Chair:  Charles Weber, PSU-ETM

• Exploring Unique Learning in Bio-Pharmaceutical Innovation– Deborah Dougherty, Danielle Dunne, Rutgers University

• The Effect of Information Technology on Knowledge Retention in Organizations– Linda Argote, Michael Ashworth, Tridas Mukhopadhyay,

Carnegie Mellon University • Choices and Outcomes: The Effects of Improvement

Project Portfolio Choices– Anita Tucker, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, – Richard Bohmer, Ingrid Nembhard, Harvard Business School

• Managing Pre-Technological Knowledge: A Multi-Dimensional Approach– Charles Weber, Portland State University-ETM