Design Thinking: Exploring Interfaces between Design and Management

Conveners: Martin Kornberger, University of Technology, Sydney; Copenhagen Business School and Marianne Stang Vaaland, Copenhagen Business School

We'd be delighted if you considered submitting an extended abstract (5-7 pages) for our track on 'Design Thinking'. Deadline for submission is December 15 2009.

In this track we invite both empirical and conceptual papers that explore the interface between design thinking and management practice. Building on the growing interest in the topic of "managing as designing" (Boland and Collopy 2004) this track explores emerging research agendas, alternative ways of teaching and innovative ways of working and experimenting with organizations.

We would like to facilitate a dialogue between scholars of different institutions that have embarked on an explorative journey into the world of design thinking and offer an open platform for critical and frank discussion of experiences and future ambitions. While we will have time allocated for individual paper presentations, we also have planned a panel discussion on design thinking with Dick Boland and other eminent scholars.

NOTE: SUBMISSION OF EXTENDED ABSTRACTS IS CLOSED