On Innovating : an interview with Gautam Ahuja

Arzi Adbi, Andrea Contigiani, Gabriel Szulanski and Gautam Ahuja

At the 2016 SMS Foundations Session interview with Professor Gautam Ahuja, we explored the key insights of his research trajectory, with a special focus on how organizations successfully innovate. We discussed the major ideas, theories, and results that he and his co-authors generated throughout his successful career. The interview was conducted on September 18, 2016 at the Strategic Management Society Annual Conference in Berlin, Germany. This article discusses Gautam's role in the organizations' literature, reports excerpts of the interview, and concludes with a postscript from Gautam Ahuja written for the community of organization design scholars.

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Year of publication:	2020
Other Persons:	Ahuja, Gautam (interviewee) ; Adbi, Arzi (interviewer) ; Contigiani, Andrea (interviewer) ; Szulanski, Gabriel (interviewer)
Published in:	Journal of organization design : JOD. - [Cham] : Springer International Publishing, ISSN 2245-408X, ZDB-ID 2799265-2. - Vol. 9.2020, 1/16, p. 1-11
Subject:	Innovation \| Organizations \| Strategy \| Firm boundaries \| Inter-firm relationships \| Networks \| Acquisitions \| Unternehmensnetzwerk \| Business network \| Innovationsmanagement \| Innovation management \| Unternehmenskooperation \| Inter-firm cooperation \| Strategisches Management \| Strategic management \| Übernahme \| Takeover \| Lieferantenmanagement \| Supplier relationship management \| Strategische Allianz \| Strategic alliance