CCC Doctoral Conference

Welcome to the CCC Doctoral Conference

Now in its 30th year, the Consortium on Competitiveness and Cooperation (“CCC”) Conference for Doctoral Student Research is an annual conference dedicated to assisting doctoral students improve their dissertation research on topics related to organization and economic theory, technology management and firm strategy, entrepreneurship, and the co-evolution of industrial structure, organizational structure, and innovation.
The CCC Doctoral Conference emphasizes student mentoring by respected scholars, many of whom are consortium alums, through comments, constructive feedback, and dialogue. About 30 students each year give a succinct presentation of their dissertation followed by feedback a designated faculty expert and the entire assembled community of CCC scholars.
The Doctoral Consortium itself is preceded by the “Faculty Day,” where sessions are organized as discussions led by expert panelists on topics of interest to the community, to facilitate learning from each other.
Thus, the Conference has many opportunities for interactions between and among faculty and doctoral students.  This interactive structure of the conference encourages both faculty and student participants to cut across both disciplinary boundaries and individual research agendas.
The CCC Doctoral Conference typically held in the spring of each year.   Follow us on Twitter.

The 30th CCC Doctoral Conference hosted by the University of St Gallen will be held in June 2023.

The organizing committee for  2023 CCC, taking place on June 8 to 10,  is composed Peter Murmann and Nik Argyres.     The conference with start on June 8th at 11 am and go approximately to 1:30pm on June 10.

Travel info: In the basement of Zurich Airport a train leaves toward St. Gallen every 20 minutes. The ride takes 50 minutes. People who come from Munich are advised to take fast trains from main train station to St Gallen at 8.55 AM, 12.55 PM 2.55PM, 4.52PM and 6.52PM which takes 2 hours 30 min.

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The 29th CCC Doctoral Conference hosted by the University of Toronto will be held in June 2022.

The organizing committee for  2022 CCC, taking place on June 2 to 4,  is composed of Brian Silverman Peter Murmann and Aseem Kaul   

The 28th CCC Doctoral Conference hosted on Zoom by the University of Minnesota will be held in June 2021.

2021 Participant List ; 2021 Student Abstracts

CCC virtual Visiting PhD Student Program

The 27th CCC Doctoral Conference originally planned to be hosted by the University of Toronto will be held in June 2020 on Zoom.

The organizing committee for  2020 CCC, now taking place on June 7-9 on Zoom, is composed of Brian Silverman and Peter Murmann. CCC 2020 Agenda v3, CCC 2020 Participant List v2, ccc-2020 student-abstracts_edited

The 26th CCC Doctoral Conference will be held in June 2019 at Duke and University of North Carolina 

The organizing committee for CCC, taking place on June 7-9 at Duke and University of North Carolina, is composed of Wes Cohen, Isin Guler, and Mahka Moeen.  CCC 2019 Agenda  CCC 2019 Participant List  CCC 2019 Student Abstracts.

New: Photo album and the slides of the presenters of the faculty day honoring Ashish Arora and Wes Cohen Sidney are here: 2019 Faculty Day Honoring Ashish Arora and Wes Cohen

The 25th CCC Doctoral Conference was held in March 2018 at Hass UC Berkeley

The organizing committee for CCC, taking place on March 2-4 at Haas School of Business, UC Berkley, is composed of Kira Fabrizo, Jeff Furman, and Rob Seamans. The event will be hosted by David Teece and the Institute for Business Innovation at Berkeley-Haas at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business.  Thanks to the financial support from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation as well as The Institute for Management Innovation and Organization at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, we will provide meals during the conference, and hotel accommodations for all the doctoral students. CCC 2018 Agenda CCC 2018 Participant List Final.  2018 Student Abstracts

The 24th CCC Doctoral Conference was held in March 2017 at the Wharton School 

The organizing committee for CCC, taking place on March 24-26 at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, is composed of Rahul Kapoor and Saikat Chaudhuri. The event will be hosted by the Mack Institute. New: The program is now available here:  Agenda_CCC 2017.  The participants’ list is here: CCC_2017_Attendee List.  The slides of the presenters of the faculty day and a video of tributes to Sidney Winter are here: Faculty Day.   Here you find CCC 2017 Photo album.

The 23nd CCC Doctoral Conference was held in June 2016 at Bocconi University, Italy

The organizing committee for CCC, taking place  on June 10-12th, was composed of Charlie Williams and Franco Malerba (Bocconi) and Rahul Kapoor (Wharton). The program is available at 2016 CCC Agenda.  Photos from Event    Slides and Videos from faculty Day honoring the contributions of David Teece.

The 22nd CCC Doctoral Conference was held in April 2015 at New York University

The organizing committee for CCC 2015 included JP Eggers and Rob Seamans as the local hosts at NYU, and Charlie Williams (Bocconi).

The program is available at  2015 CCC Agenda Final and a list  of participants at Participant List CCC 2015.   New: Some information from the conference, including who won CCC Awards.   NYU Slide Show 2015.  Photos from the conference are here:  NYU 2015 Photos

The 21st  CCC 2014 was held at Boston University

The organizing committee for CCC 2014 included Samina Karim and Fernando Suarez as the local hosts at Boston University along with Rob Seamans at NYU).

The program is available at 2014 CCC Agenda Final and participants at CCC Participant List 2014. The videos from the Faculty Day and reflections can be accessed with the links below:

Presentation Videos from Faculty Day 2014

Reflections on CCC 2014            Tweet History  from CCC 2014         2014 Photo Gallery