congrats JC!

Teppo

Congratulations to JC Spender  –  former orgtheory.net guest blogger (who is always welcome back) – for getting the Strategic Management Society (retrospective) best paper award in Vienna last week for his highly-cited 1996 Strategic Management Journal piece: “Making Knowledge the Basis of a Dynamic Theory of the Firm.” Well deserved – JC’s work has been path-breaking in developing the knowledge-based view of strategy and organization (plus he is among the best-read social scientists that I know). While I don’t agree with some of the epistemological premises of this paper (and JC has been kind enough to entertain many a friendly discussion and debate on these matters), nonetheless there is absolutely no question that this paper [and the associated special issue that JC edited] has shaped strategy in important ways.  You can find a copy of his short ‘acceptance’ speech here.