2025 ANNUAL MEETING

The 2025 TOM Society Annual meeting was organized by Oliver Baumann, Chengwei Liu, Maciej Workiewicz, Marlo Raveendran, and Scott Ganz.  The meeting will be held in Odense, Denmark, and hosted by Oliver Baumann at Southern Denmark University.

Event program

July 23, 2025

08:30-09:00 Welcome

09:00-11:00 Plenary Presentations

• Carolyn Fu (HBS): Experimental Pas de Deux: Coupled Firm and Audience Learning at the Ballet

• Constantin Prox (INSEAD): Scaling tail-dependent performance

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-12:30 Keynote Speech: Henrik Jensen

12:30-14:00 Lunch & Poster Session 1

• Sanghyun Park (NUS): Learning-byallocating: When broad exploration hampers knowledge development

• Kim, Hyun Joong (SDU): On Exploitative Homophily in Venture Capital Markets

• Ekin Ilseven (Católica Lisbon): Relativity of Complexity: Quantifying Simon’s Scissors

• Mohammad Mojtaba Nouri (Bocconi): Coherence in learning strategic choices

• Scott Ganz (UC Riverside): Heavy Tails, Happy Surprises

14:00-15:00 NK Competition Briefing: Axel Zeijen, Jerker Denrell, Maciej Workiewicz

15:00-16:00 Plenary Presentation

• Veronica Roberta Cappelli (IESE): Incorporating Uncertainty and Attitudes in NK Models

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

16:30-18:30 Plenary Presentations

• Juha Uotila (Warwick): Platform Competition: An Agent-Based Model

• Madison Singell (Stanford): Not All Roads Lead to Rome: Why Causal Order May be Essential in Searching for Successful Strategies

19:30- Conference Dinner

July 24, 2025

08:30-10:00 Summer School Group Presentations

10:00-11:00 Plenary Presentation

• Mads Kock Skøtt (Aarhus): Adapting Coupled Policies in Strategic Decision-Making

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-12:30 Plenary Presentation

• Arkadiy Sakhartov (UIUC): Real options reasoning, real options pricing, real options...nothing: Twenty years after the real options debate

12:30-14:00 Lunch & Poster Session 2

• Arkadiy Sakhartov (UIUC): Resource Redeployment in Multi-business Firms: Centralized or Decentralized?

• Stefano LiPira (Warwick): Developing an LLM Classifier for Identifying Stereotypes in TV Series

• Jiwon Byun (Stanford): Organizational Agency in Referral-Based Hiring: An Agent-Based Model of Workforce Diversity

• Enlan Wang (Missouri): Imagination Augmented Search

• John Chen (Baylor): Alignment Structures and Ecosystem Performance: A Complexity-based Approach

• Chengwei Liu (Imperial): Curiosity saved the cat

14:00-16:00 Plenary Presentations

• Daniel Schliesmann (Wharton): The Where of Search

• Phebo Wibbens (INSEAD): Rents and Resources Revisited: Defining Firm Performance in Strategic Management

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

16:30-17:30 Plenary Presentation

• Helena Miton (Stanford): Cultural evolution: a guide to formal models for theoretical organization modelers

17:30- Closing remarks and TOM Society business