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  • 1.  TIM ListServe, Vol 7, No. 22

    Posted 07-21-2010 23:56

    TIM Division List Serve

    Vol. 7, No. 22 (July 21, 2010)

     

    Table of Contents:

    ·                     AOM TIM Division News - Newsletter

    ·                     AOM 2010 Montreal News

    o    Management Scholars and Singapore (ICW) Reception, 2010 AOM Annual Meeting (Montréal, Canada) Friday, August 6th, 7.30pm – 9.30pm Location: Lasalle room, Hilton Montréal Bonaventure

    o    Organizational and Social Impacts of IT" Conceptualizing IT Slack and its Conflicting Consequences on Organizational Effectiveness Program Session #: 1561 | Submission: 18562 |Sponsor(s): (OCIS)  Scheduled: Tuesday, Aug 10 2010 11:30AM - 1:00PM at Le Palais Des Congres in 511C

    o    Design-Based Innovation: Domains of Application Program Session #: 271 | Sponsor(s): (TIM, BPS, OM) Saturday, Aug 7 2010 11:15AM - 2:15PM Le Palais Des Congres in 515C

    o    PDW Towards a project based view of strategy, innovation and entrepreneurship: Moving beyond project management III – Project-based Entrepreneurship (Sponsors: TIM, OMT, BPS), Saturday, August 7 2010 3:45PM - 5:45PM at Le Palais Des Congres in 510D

    o    PDW) "Managing Alliance Portfolios on Saturday, August 7th at 8:00 – 11:00am at Le Palais Des Congres in 511B.

    ·                     Announcements

    o    Email-based discussion list (listserv) called MANAGING-FOR-SUSTAINABILITY

    o    Volume 4 of The Academy of Management Annals

    o    Published a book, entitled EXECUTIVE GREED

    o    announce the publication of 'Technology and Organization: Essays in Honour of Joan Woodward', volume 29 of the  series Research in the Sociology of Organizations

    o    University of Hamburg and Radboud University conducting four live, interactive, synchronous online structural equation modeling (SEM) workshops (with complete post-workshop recordings provided) in August and September

    o    Logo Press announces the publication of Building the Case for Biotechnology by Editors Mark Ahn, Willamette University, Michael Alvarez, Stanford Medical School, Arlen Meyers, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, and Anne York, Creighton University

    ·                     Job Positions

    o    Higher School of Economics (HSE) invites applications for the position of Assistant Professor in any area of Management including Business Policy and Strategy, Marketing, Human Resource Management, Project Management, Organizational Behavior, International Management, and Managerial Economics. Applications for Associate and Full Professorships will also be considered

    o    School of Strategy and Entrepreneurship (formerly the General Management Group at the Australian Graduate School of Management) seeks to fill at least one senior faculty position in Strategic Management or Entrepreneurship

     

     

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    AOM TIM Division News

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    Hello TIM members,

    A new TIM newsletter is now available. Please access at http://www.aomtim.org/ with the link on the left menu.

     

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    AOM Annual Meeting – Montreal

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    Dear colleagues

     

    We would like to invite Strategy, Innovation Management, Entrepreneurship and International Business scholars interested in Singapore to join us for this reception.

     

    Singapore presents an interesting case for scholarly analyses. It has many institutional arrangements and regulatory frameworks common to the developed economies of the Western, but also has decidedly Oriental cultural norms. It straddles many dichotomies and seeming contradictions - a cosmopolitan city with conservative values; an Asian financial hub which maintains a vibrant and substantial manufacturing industry; and a government that deliberately sets out to grow and socially engineer entrepreneurship, innovation, and a creative industry.

     

    This reception will provide connections and tools to further your research on case studies in Singapore. If you hope to interview business leaders in Singapore-based companies, visit infrastructural projects which are key to the development of Singapore's industries, or seek funding for research projects focusing on Singapore, this will be an opportunity to take your interest forward.

     

    Please RSVP for the event so that we can get a headcount for the food. Do also feel free to circulate this invitation with your peers who have a similar interest in Singapore.

     

    Best,

    Jay Chok

     

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    Management Scholars and Singapore (ICW)

    Reception, 2010 AOM Annual Meeting (Montréal, Canada)

    Friday, August 6th, 7.30pm – 9.30pm

    Location: Lasalle room, Hilton Montréal Bonaventure

    This reception is sponsored by Contact Singapore - an alliance of the Singapore Economcic Development Board and Ministry of Manpower. It aims to attract global talent to work, invest and live in Singapore.

     

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    Good day,

     

    On behalf of McGill University's Desautels Faculty of Management, we would like to inform you of the following Professional Development workshop featuring the following Desautels professor at the upcoming AOM meeting in Montreal.

     

    "Organizational and Social Impacts of IT"

    Conceptualizing IT Slack and its Conflicting Consequences on Organizational Effectiveness   

    featuring PhD Candidate, Yasser Rahrovani and Professor Alain Pinsonneault

    Program Session #: 1561 | Submission: 18562 | Sponsor(s): (OCIS)
    Scheduled: Tuesday, Aug 10 2010 11:30AM - 1:00PM at Le Palais Des Congres in 511C

     

    In addition, we'd like to extend a special invitation to a VIP Reception and Vernissage for Professor Nancy J. Adler's Art & Leadership Exhibition. No RSVP is required and all AOM members are welcome. Saturday, August 7th 5-8PM Galerie MX, 333 avenue Viger oust, Montreal (corner of Bleury.across from the Palais des Congres) Exhibition runs Aug 6-10 10am-6pm.

     

     

    To see the invitation online, click here.

    Version française

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    Dear Colleagues:

     

    You are invited to take part in the third-annual PDW on Design-Based Innovation: 

     

    Design-Based Innovation: Domains of Application

    Program Session #: 271 | Sponsor(s): (TIM, BPS, OM)

    Saturday, Aug 7 2010 11:15AM - 2:15PM

    Le Palais Des Congres in 515C

     

    PDW organizers:

    Celine Abecassis-Moedas (Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, Portugal),

    Sihem Ben Mahmoud-Jouini (HEC, Paris, France)

    Ileana Stigliani (Design London, Imperial College Business School, London, UK)

     

     

    PDW format

     

    A – Presentations

     

    1.      The making of form: exploring aesthetic knowledge in product design. Ileana Stigliani (Design London, Imperial College Business School)

     

    2.      Entrepreneurship in Creative Firms: the Case of Design Consultancies. Celine Abecassis-Moedas (Universidade Católica Portuguesa), Sihem Ben Mahmoud Jouini (HEC) and Delphine Manceau (ESCP-EAP)

     

    3.      When are design practices useful and when are they detrimental? Lessons from multidisciplinary design teams at Stanford and Babson. Sebastian Fixson (Babson College) and Victor Seidel (Oxford University)

     

    4.      Emotional reflexivity in the prototyping and design of computer games. Patrick Stacey (Design London, Imperial College Business School)

     

    5.      Cultural resources and design choices: drawing from Alessi, Davide Ravasi (Bocconi University)

     

    B – Interactive Discussion with audience  

     

    The audience will break out into groups to focus on each of the PDW questions and to share their own research interests related to the PDW topic. Then the facilitators will report their conclusions to the broader audience at the end of the discussion.

    Open questions:

    (i)     What is the role of design in innovation management? What is the difference between design-based innovation and technological-based innovation and market-pull innovation respectively?

    (ii)   What is the role of design firms/consultancies in the development process?

    (iii) What are the specificities of design in service innovation?

    (iv) What are the domains of application of design-based innovation?

     

     

    best wishes,

    Victor Seidel, University of Oxford

    victor.seidel@sbs.ox.ac.uk

     

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    Dear colleagues,

     

    We would like to draw your attention to the Academy of Management 2010 Professional Development Workshop (PDW) "Managing Alliance Portfolios", which represents an excellent opportunity to debate on existing theoretical and empirical challenges in alliance portfolio research. This PDW will be of great interest to those broadly interested in the study of alliances and networks. In particular, the PDW will address six main themes related to the formation, composition, evolution, governance, capabilities and performance implications of alliance portfolio.

     

    Co-organized by Dovev Lavie (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology) and Olga Bruyaka (Virginia Tech), PDW "Managing Alliance Portfolios" reunites such distinguished panelists as Jay Anand, Werner Hoffmann, Koen Heimeriks and Harbir Singh. In a highly interactive environment these scholars will discuss their recent and emerging research on the topic of alliance portfolios.

     

    PDW) "Managing Alliance Portfolios

    As a part of 2010 AOM in Montreal pre-conference events, the PDW will take place on Saturday, August 7th at 8:00 – 11:00am at Le Palais Des Congres in 511B.

     

    You can learn more about this PDW and register for the event on the following web site:

    http://ie.technion.ac.il/AOM2010/index.html  

    Please, contact the co-organizers of the PDW if you have any questions.

     

    We look forward to meeting you at the Academy of Management Conference in Montreal!

     

    PDW "Managing Alliance Portfolios" Co-Organizers

    Dovev Lavie

    dlavie@tx.technion.ac.il

    Olga Bruyaka

    o_bruyaka@vt.edu

     

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    Apologies for cross-posting

     

     

    Dear Colleagues,

     

    We would like to invite you to the following PDW at the 2010 AOM Conference:

     

    Towards a project based view of strategy, innovation and entrepreneurship: Moving beyond project management III – Project-based Entrepreneurship (Sponsors: TIM, OMT, BPS), Saturday, August 7 2010 3:45PM - 5:45PM at Le Palais Des Congres in 510D

    This PDW is designed to facilitate interaction among Academy members interested in project-based organizations. It is an excellent opportunity to focus on how projects increasingly pervade business dimensions from R&D and new product development, to the production of complex capital goods and implementation of organizational change, and occur in diverse industries like engineering, professional services and cultural industries. The PDW investigates the business of project-based organizations (PBOs), in the growing middle ground between market and firm.

     

    Building on two past symposia/ PDWs (2008, 2009) we analyse PBOs as firms, units, or networks of firms set up to complete an assignment within a pre-set deadline. And we address the evolution from traditional operations-driven project management to the strategic role of projects in delivering innovation, organizational change and entrepreneurial opportunities – and the implications for research and teaching. The overall aim of the PDW is to identify promising research questions for the way ahead, e.g. the role of learning and capability building, entrepreneurship, or performance drivers at different levels, e.g. project venture, project team, organization, project network. Hence, two underlying questions to be discussed are: What theories are most suitable to investigate PBOs and how different theories can contribute? We believe that progress in management research often suffers from a lack of interaction between researchers from different theoretical camps that study the same phenomenon. The goal of the PDW is therefore to create a dialogue among members of the Academy over research opportunities in this area.

     

    Organized by Lars Frederiksen (Imperial College London) and Florian Täube (European Business School) the PDW brings together distinguished scholars from Europe and the US. These include: Candace Jones (Boston College), Mark Lorenzen (Copenhagen Business School), Andreas Schwab (Iowa State), Paul Skilton (Arizona State), Jonas Söderlund (Linköping), Bradley Staats (North Carolina), Gino Cattani (NYU), Andrew Davies (Imperial College), Andrea Prencipe (U. G. d'Annunzio), Robert Huckman (Harvard) and Fredrik Tell (Linkoping).

     

    To add this PDW to your customized program, please visit: http://program.aomonline.org/2010/submission.asp?mode=ShowSession&SessionID=336
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    Program Session #: 352)

     

    Looking forward to seeing you in Montreal,

     

    Lars & Florian

    Prof. Dr. Florian A. Täube

    Assistant Professor of Growth Management

     

    EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht i. Gr.

     

    EBS Business School

    Strascheg Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SIIE)

    Hauptstraße 31

    65375 Oestrich-Winkel 

     

    GERMANY

     

    Phone:  +49 6723 8888 332

    Fax:      +49 6723 8888 432
    silvia.bergmann@ebs-siie.de">florian.taeube@ebs-siie.de
    www.ebs-siie.de

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    Announcements

     

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    I have started a new email-based discussion list (listserv) called MANAGING-FOR-SUSTAINABILITY.  It is to discuss ecological, social and economic sustainability from the perspective of business management opportunities/threats and related decision-making.  To join/leave easily use the link:

    http://aomlists.pace.edu/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=MANAGING-FOR-SUSTAINABILITY&A=1


    Discussions of teaching and researching sustainability and calls for papers and other announcements will be featured.

     

    (I have discontinued the ONE-L list that I previously directed).

     

    Best regards,

    Charles Wankel

    St. John's University, New York

    http://facpub.stjohns.edu/~wankelc
    Add me on LinkedIn:  http://www.linkedin.com/in/wankelc

     

     

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    As a subscriber to the Technology and Innovation Management list we believe the following articles from Volume 4 of The Academy of Management Annals may be of interest to you:

     

    What's Under Construction Here? Social Action, Materiality, and Power in Constructivist Studies of Technology and Organizing 

    http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a921406969~frm=titlelink

    Paul M. Leonardi and Stephen R. Barley
    Voucher Code: VRAMA0100011C27

     

    Exploration and Exploitation Within and Across Organizations 

    http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a921406479~frm=titlelink

    Dovev Lavie, Uriel Stettner and Michael L. Tushman

    Voucher Code: VRAMA080001B8A9

     

     

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    Dr. Vinay B. Kothari, regents' professor emeritus (retired) in the College of Business at Stephen F. Austin State University,  has published a book, entitled EXECUTIVE GREED (ISBN: 978-0-203-10401-3).The book is published by Palgrave MacMillan, the global academic imprint of St. Martin Press (New York) and MacMillan Publishers Ltd (United Kingdom.)

     

    This book examines the contribution of corporate CEOs and their top lieutenants toward business success and failure.  Based on his study of the three most recent economic crises –the S&L scandal, the dot-com bubble and the subprime mortgage disaster, Dr. Kothari pinpoints the reason for poor leadership performance: executive greed in pursuit of self enrichment.  In order to maximize their own compensations quickly, corporate executives undertake reckless behavior, make risky decisions and, if necessary, act unlawfully. 

     

    According to Dr. Kothari, there is a strong management tendency to focus on immediate sales increases and cost cutting while ignoring the development of long term corporate core competencies and competitive market strengths.

     

    Because rapid increases in corporate current profits, cash-flows and stock prices significantly influence executive salaries, bonuses and severance packages, the decision makers  focus on short term results,  and they deemphasize investments in R&D, plant and equipment maintenance and modernization, human resource training and development, service and product quality improvements, and other essential activities, which are important for the firm's long-term security and growth. Furthermore, cost cutting measures become the driving force, resulting in deteriorating work conditions and disastrous relationships with labor, customers, suppliers and distributors.  Lobbying, bribery and deception take precedence over ethics and effective competitive practices.

     

    In the book, Dr. Kothari underscores the destructive collaboration within the organization, across the industry, and between government and business.  Selfish personal interests lead corporate directors, management consultants, public accountants, rating agencies, legislators and regulators to ignore their fiscal obligations and duties. They fail to provide adequate supervision and control,  and knowingly or unknowingly,  they contribute to business disasters. 

     

    The book highlights the reality that a business firm can fail because of its CEO but it cannot succeed without the productive and cooperative efforts across the firm and throughout its supply and distribution networks.

     

    There are worldwide examples of executive greed and reckless conduct – not unlike the recent BP oil spill disaster, a result of cost cutting measures that show very little concern for social consequences. 

     

    When business failures occur, who pays the price? Employees, suppliers, distributors, customers and the community at large, of course! Not the decision-makers. Executives are rewarded for their management failure with huge severance packages, which financially secure them and their families for the years to come. .

     

    The book offers many useful suggestions on management issues, including compensation. 

     

    Dr. Juan C. Barrerra at the Center for Business and Economics, Elmhurst College in Illinois describes the author's work as "... an academic masterpiece of our time- very insightful and thought provoking.... Executive Greed will definitely engage the reader to reflection on misguided management practices & the uncertain future that lies ahead."

     

    Dr. Subhash C. Jain, Professor and Director of Center for International Business Education and Research, Universityof Connecticut, finds the book  "... highly relevant, scholarly and well-written."

    "An indispensable companion for any aspiring leader in today's globalized economy," according to Nicholas Grigoriou, Principal, Monash College Guangzhou Program, People's Republic of China.

    Professor John Hamilton, Director of E-Business, James Cook University, Australia writes: "Executive Greed is an excellent and thought provoking read. It is a reality check, and a must read for CEO's, corporate leaders, managers and business school academics. It analyses.... The book's innovative and competitive customer-focused solutions are highly suitable for... the ongoing growth in shareholder value."

    There are a number of other comments from many scholars from across the world describing the timeliness and scholarly analysis presented in the book by Dr. Kothari.

     

    Those who are further interested in the book's detailed synopsis, reviewers' comments and author's background would find the following website useful: www.executivegreed.com

     

    TABLE OF CONTENTS:

    List of Tables * Preface * Acknowledgments

     

    Part I General Overview

    Introduction

     Nature of Management Failure

     

    Part II Role of Management Leadership: Realities and Myths

    Realities of Leadership Contribution

    Leadership Myths

     

    Part III Underlying Causes of Management Failure

    Executive Compensation-Unsound and Unjustifiable Practice

    Corporate Board Governance-Fiduciary Neglect

    Regulatory Climate-Power of Money

    The Management Club-Collusive Team-Playing and Players

     

    Part IV Failure of Strategic Management

    Absence of Strategic Thinking and Outlook

    Slanted Management Intelligence Acquisition

    Lack of Marketplace Competitive Excellence

    Inadequate Product and Market Innovations

    Unhealthy Work Environment

    Reckless Strategic Financial Behavior

     

    Part V Conclusion and Recommendations

    Concluding Remarks and Recommendations

     

    Appendix 1 Suggested Readings

    Appendix 2 Bad Economic News-Some Recent Examples and Facts.

     

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    Emerald is pleased to announce the publication of 'Technology and Organization: Essays in Honour of Joan Woodward', volume 29 of the  series Research in the Sociology of Organizations. For full information please see below

     

    Editors: Nelson Phillips, Graham Sewell, Dorothy Griffiths

     

    ISBN 9781849507462

    Format Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 320pp

    Publication Date 7th June 2010

     

    Professor Joan Woodward, one of the founding figures of organization studies, died in 1971 at the age of 54 after a relatively brief but highly distinguished career as a management researcher and teacher, and just six years after the publication of her landmark book Industrial Organization. At the time of her death, Professor Woodward was the Chair in Industrial Sociology at Imperial College London, having been elected as only the second female professor at the College in 1970. She joined the Production Engineering and Management Section of Imperial in 1958 and the majority of her most important work was published during this period. Prior to this she spent a number of years at the South East Essex College of Technology where she conducted much of the empirical work that informed her significant contributions to the field.

     

    Professor Woodward was instrumental in bringing technology to the fore in organizational sociology and her ten-year research program was one of the most influential projects ever carried out in the field of organization and management studies. Charles Perrow argues that Joan Woodward's work is "the most ambitious and stimulating comparative study using technology as an independent variable." The significant number of citations her work continues to receive across many disciplines is testament to its originality and importance.

     

    This special volume of Research in the Sociology of Organizations critically re-engages with Joan Woodward's contributions to organizational scholarship, while carrying forward the spirit of her thinking on the complex interactions between the social and technical realms. It also takes stock of recent developments in the themes, issues, and theories that she introduced.

     

     

    TOC

     

    Preface

    Nelson Phillips, Graham Sewell & Dorothy Griffiths

                                       

    Section 1 - Introduction                                  

     

    Joan Woodward and the Study of Organizations  

    Graham Sewell & Nelson Phillips           

                                       

    Section 2 - Personal Reflections on Joan Woodward

                                       

    Joan Woodward: A Personal Memory     

    Dorothy Griffiths

     

    From Medieval History to Smashing the Medieval Account of Organisations           

    Charles Perrow             

     

    Joan Woodward: A style fit for the task   

    Sandra Dawson

     

    Working with Joan Woodward    

    Lisl Klein                      

     

    The Contribution of Joan Woodward: A Personal Reflection           

    C. R (Bob) Hinings        

                                       

    Section 3 - Studies in Technology and Organization

                                       

    We are what we do (and how we do it): Organizational technologies and the construction of organizational identity    

    Anna Canato & Davide Ravasi    

     

    Letting users into our world: some organizational implications of user-generated content     

    Shahzad Ansari & Kamal Munir 

     

    Entrepreneurship and the construction of value in biotechnology

    Sarah Kaplan & Fiona Murray    

     

    Institutional Sources of Technological Knowledge:A Community Perspective on Nanotechnology Emergence

    Tyler Wry, Royston Greenwood,  P. Devereaux Jennings & Michael Lounsbury

     

    Project-based innovation: the world after Woodward

    Andrew Davies & Lars Frederiksen         

     

    Taking time to understand: articulating relationships between technologies and organizations          

    Jennifer Whyte              

                                       

    Section 4 - Short Essays in Technology and Organizations    

                           

    Technology and Organisation: Contingency All the Way Down      

    Wanda Orlikowski         

     

    Textualising Technology: Knowledge, Artefact and Practice          

    Cynthia Hardy               

     

    Technology, Institutions and Entropy; Understanding the Critical and Creative Role of Maintenance Work     

    Graham Dover & Thomas B. Lawrence

     

    What are Business Models? Developing a Theory of Performative Representations 

    Markus Perkmann & Andre Spicer          

     

    The Role of Structured Intuition and Entrepreneurial Opportunities 

    Gerard George & Adam J. Bock 

     

    The Organisation of Technological Platforms        

    Annabelle Gawer           

     

    The book is available as part of Emerald's Business, Management and Economics eBook collection.

    It can also be purchased separately from the usual book retailers, as well as the Emerald Book store

     

    For further information contact the series Commissioning Editor, Kim Foster at kfoster@emeraldinsight.com

     

    Best Regards

     

    Rebecca

     

     

     

    Rebecca Forster
    Assistant Commissioning Editor
    Emerald Group Publishing Limited

    Phone: +44 (0)1274 785012
    Fax: +44 (0) 1274 785204

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    In cooperation with University of Hamburg and Radboud University, we are conducting four live, interactive, synchronous online structural equation modeling (SEM) workshops (with complete post-workshop recordings provided) in August and September: (1) Introductory PLS path modeling (SEM) using SmartPLS (August 2-3 @ 11AM-3PM ET and Aug 20-21 @ 6PM-10PM ET). Registration fees are: $295 USD faculty/practitioner; $225 full time students (using registration discount code 'student6'); and (2) Intermediate PLS path modeling (SEM) using SmartPLS (September 10-11 @ 12 Noon-4PM ET and Sept 17-18 @ 6PM-10PM ET). The early registration fees (through July 31) are $250 USD faculty/practitioner (using registration discount code 'early' through July 31), and $175 full time students (using discount code 'earlystudent' through July 31).

     

    Each of the four  live, interactive, synchronous workshops are conducted on two consecutive days for four hours each day.  The workshops are taught using the award-winning Elluminate Live ! electronic classroom which is free to use for participants. You simply point your browser to the URL for the electronic classroom.

     

    All workshops present instructional material and demonstrate exercises (with provided data sets) appropriate for the beginner and intermediate PLS Path Modeling (SEM) users, respectively. Participants receive: (1) live, synchronous, online, interactive participation in the workshop; (2) all workshop slides, exercises and data sets; (3) relevant literature and citations; (4) SmartPLS software; and (5) complete, high-fidelity audio- and video- Internet-based recordings of the workshop, when completed, for unlimited, repeated reviews of the workshop for three months following each workshop.

    These workshops are being produced in cooperation with faculty from multiple universities. In addition, workshop revenues are returned to the academic institutions and to the SmartPLS software development team to keep SmartPLS free to use for academics.

    For more information about each workshop, or to register, please visit the following sites:

    August Workshops: Introduction to PLS Path Modeling Using SmartPLS - August 2-3 (for North America, South America and Europe) and August 20-21 (for Pacific Rim countries):

    There is an introductory SmartPLS workshop on August 2 and 3, 2010, from 11AM until 3PM. The timing of this workshop is meant to be convenient for participants in North and South America and in Europe: Click here for more information about the content, cost, instructor, and/or to register for this August 2-3 SmartPLS workshop.

    We have also scheduled an introductory SmartPLS workshop on August 20 and 21, 2010, from 6PM until 10PM ET. The timing of this workshop is meant to be convenient for participants in the Pacific Rim countries, including Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan, Vietnam, Singapore and the rest of Malaysia: Click here for more information about the content, cost, instructor, and/or to register for this August 20-21 SmartPLS workshop.

    You may view a detailed PDF agenda for these Introductory SmartPLS workshops.

    September Workshops: Intermediate PLS Path Modeling - September 10-11 (for North America, South America and Europe) and September 17-18 (for Pacific Rim countries):

    There is an Intermediate PLS Path Modeling workshop on September 10 and 11, 2010, from 12 Noon until 4PM ET. The timing of this workshop is meant to be convenient for participants in North and South America and in Europe: Click here for more information about the content, cost, instructor, and/or to register for this September 10-11 Intermediate PLS Path Modeling workshop.

    We have also scheduled an Intermediate PLS Path Modeling workshop on September 17 and 18, 2010, from 6PM until 10PM ET. The timing of this workshop is meant to be convenient for participants in the Pacific Rim countries, including Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan, Vietnam, Singapore and the rest of Malaysia: Click here for more information about the content, cost, instructor, and/or to register for this September 17-18 Intermediate PLS Path Modeling workshop.

    You may view a detailed PDF agenda for these Intermediate PLS Path Modeling workshops.

    Please address questions to Geoff Hubona at ghubona@gmail.com. Also, there is more information available at http://www.pls-seminars.com (please copy and paste URL)

    Geoffrey Hubona

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    Logo Press announces the publication of Building the Case for Biotechnology by Editors Mark Ahn, Willamette University, Michael Alvarez, Stanford Medical School, Arlen Meyers, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, and Anne York, Creighton University.

     

    This volume helps to fill a void in life science entrepreneurship and management casebooks, and provides faculty and students with 22 in-depth cases in the exciting and turbulent biomedical industry as it seeks to create significant value for patients, shareholders, and society.

     

    Building the Case for Biotechnology features:

    ·                     An introductory chapter on how to teach bioscience using the case method

    ·                     22 case studies in science; laws, regulations, politics; and business in startups to leading companies such as Genentech, Amgen, and Biogen-Idec

    ·                     Cases are across biopharmaceuticals, diagnostics, and medical devices, as well as domestics and international

    ·                     All cases have Teaching Notes (available online to instructors only), as well as resources for further reading 

    Table of Content and more info at: http://www.buildingbiotechnology.com/casebook/

    Building the Case for Biotechnology is designed to be a companion volume to the fourth edition of Building Biotechnology, with original cases that address the above issues.  While these cases will parallel the areas highlighted in Building Biotechnology, they can also be used as stand-alone cases.

    Building the Case for Biotechnology is targeted for programs in areas such as the management of technology, technology commercialization, biomedical engineering, technology entrepreneurship, consulting and strategic management.

     

     

    Mark J. Ahn, PhD

    Associate Professor, Global Management

    Atkinson Graduate School of Management

    Willamette University

    900 State Street, Rm. A202

    Salem, Oregon  97301

     

    Phone: +1-503-370-6883

    Mobile: +1 503 961-4466

    E-mail: mahn@willamette.edu

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    URL: www.willamette.edu/agsm/


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    Mark J. Ahn, PhD

    Associate Professor, Global Management

    Atkinson Graduate School of Management

    Willamette University

    900 State Street, Rm. A202

    Salem, Oregon  97301

     

    Phone: +1-503-370-6883

    Mobile: +1 503 961-4466

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    Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

     

    The Higher School of Economics (HSE) invites applications for the position of Assistant Professor in any area of Management including Business Policy and Strategy, Marketing, Human Resource Management, Project Management, Organizational Behavior, International Management, and Managerial Economics. Applications for Associate and Full Professorships will also be considered.

     

    The HSE is a major Russian university which aspires to become an internationally recognized research university. The HSE is the only Russian university in the social sciences to receive the status of a "National Research University" in 2009 by the Russian federal government. The candidate would be expected to participate in the research activities of the university's Centre for Advanced Studies – a collaborative endeavor with Moscow's New Economic School. The appointments are for permanent positions and will be made for three years in the first instance, starting in September 2011, with reviews of teaching and research at the end of the first year and third year.

     

    JOB QUALIFICATIONS:

     

    Candidates must possess a Ph.D. in a field of management, economics, or related discipline. All degree requirements must be complete at the commencement of the appointment. The degree must be from a taught Ph.D. program with a strong research orientation.

     

    Priority will be given to those candidates with a proven ability to conduct high-level research. Applicants with experience of teaching advanced courses for graduate students are especially welcomed.

     

    EXPECTATIONS:

     

    The successful applicant will be expected to publish scholarly research in high quality academic journals, demonstrate superior teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and advise bachelor and master students.

     

    The salary will be competitive and comparable to other European universities. Exceptional candidates will be considered for a higher position and salary. Additionally, travel support, individual and joint research grants can be provided.

     

    APPLICATION PROCEDURE:

     

    Review of applications will be ongoing and will continue until the position is filled. Preliminary interviews will be held at the Academy of Management conference in Montreal. To be considered for one of these interview slots, please submit your application by July 31, 2010.

     

    Applicants should provide their CV, at least 2 letters of reference, a statement of research interest and job market paper. All materials, and any questions, should be addressed to Alexander Settles, Professor, Faculty of Management at asettles@hse.ru.

     

    More information about the Faculty, University, and the Centre is available at the http://management.hse.ru/lingua/en/, www.hse.ru/eng and www.cas.hse.ru

     

    Email for Applications: asettles@hse.ru

    Informational URL: http://www.hse.ru/eng

    For more information, email: asettles@hse.ru or phone: +7-495-628-7784

     

    Alexander Settles

    Professor, Corporate Governance and Strategic Management

    Faculty of Management

    Higher School of Economics

    Moscow, Russia

    asettles@hse.ru

     

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    The School of Strategy and Entrepreneurship (formerly the General Management Group at the Australian Graduate School of Management) seeks to fill at least one senior faculty position in Strategic Management or Entrepreneurship.  Candidates with an international orientation to their writing are also encouraged to apply.  Although we prefer to fill the position at the Full Professor level we will also consider strong candidates at the Associate Professor level.  Potential senior colleagues should possess a proven capacity to teach in world class MBA and educative education programs. Administrative experience is also desirable. We would be happy to make five-year appointments for faculty who may have already retired and would like to pursue in new challenge in Australia.  Half-time appointments for candidates who want to spend part of the year in Sydney are also possible.

    The Australian School of Business at UNSW was recently formed as a union of the AGSM and Faculty of Commerce and Economics at the University of New South Wales. The school, located in Sydney with an MBA program in Hong Kong, is the premier business school in Australia, and a leader in management research and graduate education throughout Asia and Oceania.  We offer a range of graduate programs, including full-time and executive MBA's, a Master of Commerce, a doctoral program, and we are very active in executive education. Forbes Magazine recently rated us as the fifth best non-US business school in the world. Our full time MBA program is ranked within the world's top 40 business schools by the Financial Times. Similarly, our custom executive programs have been ranked No 1. in Australia by the Financial Times.

    The School of Strategy and Entrepreneurship's faculty is internationally recognized for its research excellence. Over the last few years, we have published consistently in such leading journals as Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Research Policy, Industrial and Corporate Change, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Harvard Business Review, and California Management Review. Faculty have also published prize winning books. Current members of the strategy group include: Martin Bliemel (PhD Simon Fraser University), Graham Dowling (Emeritus - PhD UNSW), Geoff Eagleson (Emeritus - PhD Sydney), Shayne Gary (PhD London), Anna Gunnthorsdottir (PhD Arizona), Elizabeth Maitland (PhD Melbourne), J Peter Murmann (PhD Columbia) (Head of School), Peter Moran (PhD Insead), Salih Ozdemir (PhD Chicago), George Shinkle (PhD Purdue University), Yue Wang (PhD Melbourne), and Phil Yetton (PhD Carnegie Mellon).

    We have no dominant philosophical orientation and would consider candidates for the professor position(s) with strong training in strategy, entrepreneurship, economics, psychology, sociology, innovation studies and other related disciplines.  

    The remuneration package is globally competitive. Sydney is recognized as one of the most livable, beautiful, and vibrant cities on the planet. (For photos of the city and the region, go to http://professor-murmann.net/pictures/australia/  ). Sydney plays a major part in Australia's economy, accounting for over 25% of Australia's total economic activity. The city is Australia's undisputed financial centre, with 65% of Australia's finance industry located here, including the Reserve Bank, the Australian Stock Exchange and the Sydney Futures Exchange. Of the nation's top 100 companies, 60% have headquarters in Sydney. Financial and business services accounts for 47.1% of the city's workforce. Multinationals with Asian-Pacific headquarters in Sydney include 3M, American Express, AMP, Boral Ltd, BT, Coca-Cola Amatil, Compuserve, HJ Heinz, IBM, Microsoft, Mastercard, Price Waterhouse Coopers, TNT Ltd and Unilever. Sydney was also recently named by the LA Times as the world's most innovative city with respect to culinary arts and those with a penchant for wine, opera, sailing and any of a host of other activities need look no further than their front door.

    The position is open immediately and will remain open until filled.  For more information, please visit our web site at http://www2.strategy.unsw.edu.au/
    Interested senior applicants should send electronically their CV, teaching ratings for MBA courses and executive education programs, and the names of three referees or completed letters of reference. Please send all materials to the attention of J. Peter Murmann at recruiting@strategy-and-entrepreneurship.net.

    Members of the faculty will be at the AOM and please feel free to discuss this with us directly.

    Johann Peter Murmann
    Associate Professor of Strategic Management
    Academic Director of the Strategic Management Year of the AGSM MBA (Executive)
    Academic Director of the Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship
    Head, Strategy and Entrepreneurship
    Australian School of Business, Level 5
    University of New South Wales
    Sydney NSW 2052
    Australia
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