Call for papers
Joint Workshop on Incentives, Management and Organization (IMO) &
Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Firm Dynamics (ESF)
ION Management Science Lab, SDA Bocconi, Milan
18-19 September 2025
The ION Management Science Lab and the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) invite you to a joint conference by the CEPR research areas Incentives, Management and Organization (IMO) and Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Firm Dynamics (ESF). The conference will be held in person at SDA Bocconi, Milan, 18-19 September 2025.
This Project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No. 101021061).
The two groups have joined forces to explore issues of common interest and facilitate exchanges between researchers with overlapping interests. All papers will be considered for joint and parallel sessions.
The papers should be submitted by Sunday 27 April 2024, 6PM CEST. Please indicate in your submission if you are willing to act as a discussant.
Funding
Accommodation expenses will be covered for successful applicants. Participants are encouraged to fund their travel expenses from other sources, as only limited funding is available. Please indicate on your submission if you require travel funding. Where financial support is offered, this will be in accordance with CEPR Guidelines.
Submission instructions
Authors who already have a CEPR HUB profile can upload their submission by:
1. Going to http://hub.cepr.org/ and logging in
2. After you have logged in, go to http://hub.cepr.org/event/4470
3. Click on "Step 1: Apply"
4. Under "Apply to Attend" click "Yes"
5. Tick the boxes that apply to you
6. Tick "Would you like to submit a paper?", upload your paper and supply the requested information
7. Click "Submit form" to make the submission.
Authors who do not have a CEPR HUB profile can upload their submission by:
1. Creating a new profile here http://hub.cepr.org/user/register
2. After you have logged in, go to http://hub.cepr.org/event/4470
3. Click on "Step 1: Apply"
4. Under "Apply to Attend" click "Yes"
5. Tick the boxes that apply to you
6. Tick "Would you like to submit a paper?", upload your paper and supply the requested information
7. Click "Submit form" to make the submission.
If you have any difficulties registering for this meeting please contact Bao Khanh Le at [email protected].
Incentives, Management and Organization (IMO) covers areas such as organizational economics, personnel economics, management and productivity, incentives and contracts, bounded rationality, and behavioural economics.
Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Firm Dynamics (ESF) covers entrepreneurial strategy; entry, exit, experimentation and firm dynamics of young firms; entrepreneurship in the theory of the firm; and entrepreneurship from an industrial organization perspective.
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE FOR INCENTIVES, MANAGEMENT AND ORGANISATION (IMO)
- Ghazala Azmat, Sciences Po and CEPR
- Oriana Bandiera, London School of Economics and CEPR
- Morten Bennedsen, University of Copenhagen, INSEAD and CEPR
- Jordi Blanes i Vidal, London School of Economics and CEPR
- Florian Englmaier, LMU Munich and CEPR
- Guido Friebel, Goethe University Frankfurt and CEPR
- Maria Guadalupe, INSEAD and CEPR
- Marco Ottaviani, Bocconi University and CEPR
- Andrea Prat, Columbia University and CEPR
- Catherine Thomas, London School of Economics and CEPR
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP, STRATEGY AND FIRM DYNAMICS (ESF)
- Alfonso Gambardella, Bocconi University and CEPR
- Danielle Li, MIT Sloan School of Management
- Juanita Gonzalez-Uribe, London School of Economics and CEPR
- Ramana Nanda, Imperial College London and CEPR
- Luana Zaccaria, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance and CEPR
- Lars Persson, Research Institute of Industrial Economics and CEPR
- Ricardo Alonso, London School of Economics and CEPR
- Sara Moreira, Kellogg School of Management - Northwestern University and CEPR
- Fabiano Schivardi, LUISS, Rome
- Joacim Tag, Research Institute of Industrial Economics
- Scott Stern, MIT Sloan School of Management
ORGANISERS
Ghazala Azmat, Sciences Po and CEPR
Florian Englmaier, LMU and CEPR
Alfonso Gambardella, IMSL, Bocconi and CEPR
Maria Guadalupe, INSEAD and CEPR
