Prof. Marcus Asplund (Copenhagen Business School)
Program 1
Date: November 5, 2019
Time: 12.00 - 13.30 hrs
Place: Professor-Huber-Platz 2, Room V005
Title: Fast success and slow failure: Process efficiency of dispersed teams
Abstract
Teams often work together across geography and formal firm boundaries to reach successful outcomes such as innovative solutions. While prior work has recognized that this leads to coordination challenges, it is not clear how working together in such teams affects process efficiency outcomes, such as the speed with which team efforts come to a resolution. Process efficiency outcomes are important because, if the performance benefits associated with working in geographically and organizationally dispersed teams have a trade-off cost in terms of reallocating resources, then the net performance benefits from working in such teams may be seriously diminished or even reversed. While the literature on dispersed teams has explicitly acknowledged that coordination costs are present, the field has also struggled to measure efficiency constructs such as process speed. We fill that lacunae by examining 5,138 teams that work together in an open standard setting, and where the time to resolution of both failed and successful projects is observable. We find that teams that are organizationally or geographically dispersed are efficient in reaching success, but fail more slowly than teams that have low levels of dispersion. The latter finding suggests that there are coordination costs, which affect process efficiency by preventing project failure and has important practical implications given the opportunity cost of tying up resources in teams.
Program 2
Date: November 14, 2019
Time: 12.45 - 14.00 hrs
Place: Kaulbachstraße 45, 202
Title: Are you ready for the PhD job market marathon?
Abstract
Louise Mors and Marcus Asplund will give a joint session for PhD students on how to handle the academic job market. Marcus Asplund is currently a Professor of Economics at CBS. He has a PhD from the Stockholm School of Economics and prior to arriving at CBS he held positions at Columbia Business School, London Business School, Stockholm School of Economics, Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and Gothenburg University. With this broad international background, Marcus has extensive experience with the recruitment process in the international economics job market. Louise Mors is a Professor of Strategic Management and Globalization at CBS. She has a PhD from INSEAD and worked at the London Business School prior to arriving at CBS. At LBS she was actively involved in the recruitment process of junior faculty in the Strategy Department and at CBS she is a career mentor to PhD students going on the Strategy and Management job market. Louise and Marcus will each give an introduction to the job market in their respective fields and then take questions from the students.
Program 3
Date: December 12, 2019
Time: 10.00 - 11.30 hrs
Place: Kaulbachstraße 45, 202
Title: How not to write a paper!
Abstract
In this informal talk you are invited to learn from some of the many mistakes I made in writing a paper. My plan is to spend some 10 minutes presenting the final paper “Did the Swedish Tobacco Monopoly Set Monopoly Prices?” (Economica, 2018, 85:532-557) and then go back to some of the wrong turns I made in various dimensions (research question, hypothesis, framing, related literature, method, etc). Hopefully, hearing about some of my errors can prevent you from falling into the same traps.