10525: Organizations in the New Space Era: A New Frontier for Organizing, Technology, and Power Dynamics

Tuesday, July 29, 2025

08:30 - 10:00 CEST (GMT+2)

Location: Bella Center: MR178

Session Type: Symposium (panel)
Orientation: International,Research
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/d6nRrx

Organizer(s)

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Ashley Metz

Tilburg University, Netherlands
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Georg Reischauer

WU Vienna & JKU Linz, Austria

Panelist(s)

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Marc Ventresca

University of Oxford, United States
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Petteri Leppänen

IE Business School, Spain
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Stewart R. Clegg

The University of Sydney, Australia
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Renee Maria Rottner

U. of California, Santa Barbara, United States

Research on the prior era of space activity has advanced our understanding of learning from failures, project management, and new forms of innovation. The new space era is upon us - distinguished by new forms of organizing where private sector organizations like Elon Musk's SpaceX are partners with government agencies, not only suppliers and contractors. The new era raises many fascinating organizational questions from the unprecedented new technologies and organizational forms that create them, to new power dynamics of public-private-partnerships, to the ideologies in play from wealthy entrepreneurs with unprecedented influence. It also invites us to revisit non-market strategies of corporations and implications for grand challenges and sustainability. This symposium aims to advance understanding of organizations in the new space era and inspire future research.