{"id":14134,"date":"2025-09-05T10:25:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T01:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/?p=14134"},"modified":"2025-09-24T09:27:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T00:27:55","slug":"forum-20251015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/2025\/09\/05\/forum-20251015\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Forum 2025.10.15 Cornelia Storz"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Date\uff1a<\/strong><\/span>
October 15\uff08Wednesday), 2025
from 16:00 to 17:30<\/p>

Topic:<\/strong><\/span>
\u201cBusiness Scholars on Boards and Firm Innovation\u201d<\/p>

Speaker:<\/strong><\/span>
Cornelia Storz
(Professor, Goethe University, Frankfurt)<\/p>

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<\/strong><\/span>Why do business\u00a0scholars-directors,\u00a0rather than STEM scholar-directors, drive firm innovation? This paper addresses this unexpected pattern through an abductive research design combining panel data, interviews, and publication analysis. Drawing on a hand-collected dataset of Chinese listed firms (2008\u20132018), we show that business scholars on corporate boards enhance innovation by contributing strategic knowledge – higher-order, portable insights rooted in\u00a0frameworks, heuristics, and theories\u00a0that help firms navigate the uncertainty inherent in innovation across market dynamics, organizational design, and competitive positioning. We theorize strategic knowledge as a distinct asset, whose impact is contingent on insider technology directors\u2019 presence and social validation. By challenging prevailing assumptions about scientific expertise, we contribute to the knowledge-based view and corporate governance literature, reframing how strategy-related higher-order expertise can support firm-level innovation.<\/p>

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Venue:<\/strong><\/span>
onsite<\/span>
IIR Laboratory 2 (Room#219) of the second floor of the IIR building<\/p>

Organizer:
<\/strong><\/span>Aoshima, Yaichi<\/p>

This forum is jointly organized by MIC (Management Innovation Research Center), Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study.<\/p>

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9:00, October 15, 2025<\/p>

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Date\uff1a October 15\uff08Wednesday), 2025 from 16:00 to 17:30 Topic: \u201cBusiness Scholars on Boards and Firm Innovation\u201d Speaker: Cornelia Storz (Professor, Goethe University, Frankfurt) Abstract: Why do business\u00a0scholars-directors,\u00a0rather than STEM scholar-directors, drive firm innovation? This paper addresses this unexpected pattern through an abductive research design combining panel data, interviews, and publication analysis. Drawing on a hand-collected dataset of Chinese listed firms (2008\u20132018), we show that business scholars on corporate boards enhance innovation by contributing strategic knowledge – higher-order, portable insights rooted in\u00a0frameworks, heuristics, and theories\u00a0that help firms navigate the uncertainty inherent in innovation across market dynamics, organizational design, and competitive positioning. We theorize strategic knowledge as a distinct asset, whose impact…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"common","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-forum","category-iir-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14134"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14196,"href":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14134\/revisions\/14196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}