The Technology and Innovation Management (TIM) Division of the Academy of Management is pleased to invite applications for the 2011 TIM Junior Faculty Consortium to be held at the Academy of Management meeting in San Antonio, Texas (USA) on Friday, August 12^th and Saturday, August 13^th, 2011.

If you hold an assistant professor rank (or its equivalent) and teach or research in the TIM domain, this professional development workshop is for you. The workshop will make available the knowledge that you need to prosper in both the local and global academic environment. The workshop focuses on strategies for increasing your impact as a scholar and teacher, and on building a career in diverse professional settings.

This year's consortium will allow participants to learn how to publish in top journals, meet the editors of prestigious journals in the field, and receive feedback on their working papers from their peers and senior faculty. The consortium will feature outstanding senior faculty members with a proven record of research and teaching. The consortium will provide participants with the opportunity for reflection and renewal, for networking with friends and colleagues, and for meeting new peers and senior colleagues with shared interests. Applicants must have at least one full year of experience as an assistant professor (or equivalent) in a post-Ph.D. academic institution and no more than three years experience by August 2011.

To apply, please email your vita to Corey Phelps at phelps@hec.fr. When you apply, please indicate the month and year you started your first assistant professor position (or equivalent). We will take applications on a rolling basis until May 15, 2011. We encourage you to apply early and please note that we require accepted applicants to attend the entire consortium.

Accepted applicants will be required to submit a working paper for the Paper Feedback Session by June 30, 2011.

If you have questions concerning these requirements, please contact one of the co-chairs below.

2011 TIM Junior Faculty Consortium Co-Chairs

Corey Phelps

HEC Paris

phelps@hec.fr

Keld Laursen

Copenhagen Business School

kl.ino@cbs.dk

Corey Phelps, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Department of Strategy and Business Policy

HEC Paris

1, rue de la Libération

78351 Jouy-en-Josas

France

Phone: (33) 1 39 67 74 15

Fax: (33) 1 39 67 70 84

http://tinyurl.com/phelps-hec

http://ssrn.com/author=341753

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Hello everyone,

I am looking for examples of PhD level courses in Innovation (and Technology Management) for students in Strategy. I would appreciate all suggestions (syllabus or reading list). Thanks.

Denisa
Denisa Mindruta
Assistant Professor of Strategy
HEC Paris- School of Management
1 rue de la Liberation
78351 Jouy-en-Josas, France
Phone: +33 1 39 67 94 45

http://ssrn.com/author=1220008

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Call for Papers

The 17th IBIMA Conference http://www.ibima.org - Milan, Italy 14-15 November 2011 Call for Papers

Multiple themes under: Creating Global Competitive Economies: A 360-degree Approach

The conference will be held in Milan, is the second largest city in Italy and a great European center for fashion, Finance, and industrial atmosphere.

Website: http://www.ibima.org (OR just type IBIMA is any search engine)

Submission deadline: Sept. 2, 2011

IBIMA conference proceedings are indexed by ISI Thomson Index

Major Tracks : Session en Français

High quality papers will be fast tracked to one of IBIMA Publishing 35+ journals (conditions apply). http://www.ibimapublishing.com IBIMA Publishing, publisher of open access journals to promote widest possible distribution of research work worldwide. All journals are now index by EBSCO and each article will receive DOI to ensure lifetime preservation.

IMPORTANT: Four types of Conference submissions:

1- Full Research papers

2- Short papers or abstracts

3- Organized sessions

4- Virtual presentation

Conference proceedings will be published as an e-book on a CD with an ISBN (978-0-9821489-6-9)

Visit the general conference website for complete details: http://www.ibima.org

We look forward to meeting you in Milan.

Sincerely,

Khalid S. Soliman

17th IBIMA Conference Chair

Dr. Khalid S. Soliman

IBIMA Publishing, USA

http://www.ibimapublishing.com

International Business Information Management Association, USA

http://www.ibima.org

Associate Professor of MIS

Hempstead, New York 11549 USA

http://www.ksoliman.com

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MCPC 2011 Call for Papers: Bridging Mass Customization & Open Innovation - San Francisco - Nov 2011 http://mcpc2011.com

The MCPC conference series is coming to the West Coast. Our 2011 theme will be "Bridging Mass Customization & Open Innovation".

Mass customization, personalization, and co-creation (MCPC) strategies aim to profit from the fact that people are different. Their objective is to turn customer heterogeneities into profit opportunities, hence addressing the current trend of long tail business models. Mass customization means to provide goods and services that best serve individual customers' personal needs with near mass production efficiency.

Open innovation is the idea that companies should make greater use of external ideas and technologies in their own business, and allow unused internal ideas to flow out to others for use in their business. It is the antithesis of a closed innovation process which relies on internal R&D and deep vertical integration.

While developed separately and founded in different theoretical and conceptual backgrounds, mass customization and open innovation are closely linked and can benefit from a broader exchange between both schools of thought. The MCPC 2011 wants to engage academics, business leaders, and consultants in fundamental debates on these themes through a set of plenary presentations, discussion panels, and paper presentations.

For more information on the topic, please refer to the full call for papers http://bit.ly/h0QC0O

The 2011 conference will be hosted and co-chaired by Prof. Henry Chesbrough form UC Berkeley. Together, we want to discuss the latest strategies, methods, practices, and technologies for mass customization, personalization, user co-creation and open innovation.

For the academic part of the conference (Nov. 17-19), we invite paper submissions. Download the Call for Papers here http://bit.ly/h0QC0O.

All submissions will be peer reviewed. The finale date to submit your proposal is April 7, 2011. To submit a paper or presentation proposal, please use the online submission system at http://submission.mcpc2011.com.

To learn more about the MCPC 2011, head here: http://www.mcpc2011.com

Best greetings,

Frank Piller and Mitchell Tseng,

MCPC 2011 Program Co-Chairs [http://mcpc2011.com ]

Frank T. Piller,

Professor of Management

RWTH Aachen University and MIT Smart Customization Group

piller@iimcp.org | piller@tim.rwth-aachen.de

http://tim.rwth-aachen.de | http://scg.mit.edu

www.open-innovation.com

http://mass-customization.blogs.com

www.mcpc2011.com

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Call for Papers for a Special Issue of

Long Range Planning

DOING MORE WITH LESS?

SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY IN CONSTRAINED ECONOMIC TIMES

Submission Due Date: December 1, 2011

Guest Editors:

Michael Barnett, Oxford University

Nicole Darnall, George Mason University

Bryan Husted, York University and Tecnologico de Monterrey

Introduction

Over the last few decades, there has been a growing movement toward environmentally and socially responsible enterprise. How has this movement continued in the face of the most serious recession since the Great Depression? Or have firms and governments reacted to difficult conditions by cutting environmental and social programs? Have stakeholders lost interest in social and environmental responsibility as economic struggles become more pressing? Or have stakeholders, organizations, and governments retained or even increased environmentally and socially responsible practices as a strategy for recovery?

This special issue seeks to assess the viability and implications of doing more with less. We welcome scholarly and practitioner papers that advance our understanding of how firms, in cooperation or confrontation with governments and stakeholders, are developing strategies to do more with less-strategies that cope with resource constraints while maintaining or improving ecological, societal and economic sustainability. We encourage submissions that address, but are not be limited to, the following topics and questions:

The pursuit of competitive advantage and sustainability in a tighter economy. The predominant lesson that most firms have learned from the recession is how to cut costs and do less with less. However, some firms have sought opportunities to do more with less by developing strategies that are ecologically sustainable, socially responsible, and economically profitable.

· How have organizations shifted their business models to thrive during constrained economic times while benefiting the environment and society? How did these companies develop the appropriate capabilities to make the transition?

· How can ecologically and socially responsible firms differentiate themselves from competitors on the basis of doing more with less?

· What kinds of firm-level resources and capabilities are needed to develop new sustainability business models (e.g., frugal innovation) that do more with less?

· Can sustainability business models (e.g., frugal innovation) based on doing more with less be replicated? Are the advantages of these models their inimitability, and if so, to what extent can these business models enhance firm competitiveness or social equity?

· Can sustainability strategies based on doing more with less increase social equity by making new products and services available to the poor? How can firms evaluate the impacts to social equity of these strategies?

· How can socially responsible business models based on doing more with less also enhance corporate environmental responsibility?

The actions of government, public policy, and markets in a tighter economy. The dominant government response to a tighter economy has been cost-cutting and austerity measures. Yet during times of economic downturns the public generally needs more assistance from the government.

· During tight economic times, are businesses fulfilling government's role as social benefactor? Are these actions effective?

· In economic expansions, some firms (particularly in developing countries) provide infrastructure where governments cannot. In downturns, are firms picking up additional slack, or is it the case that both government and corporate social spending fall?

· Can we rely on the market-driven voluntary corporate efforts to protect social welfare during tough economic times, or is formal regulation warranted?

· In an economic downturn, are government programs that encourage firms to pursue a sustainability agenda cut-back? Are these programs effective under austere conditions?

· In an economic downturn, how does the ratio of firm spending on government lobbying versus sustainability change?

· Increased availability of products worldwide, and especially to developing countries, encourages greater material consumption as a whole. In what ways are firms enhancing consumer well-being, and simultaneously reducing consumption and its related environmental impacts?

Stakeholder behavior in a tighter economy. To gain stakeholders' trust and support, more firms are publicly disclosing information about their ecologically and socially responsible activities. However, in an economic downturn, stakeholders face greater demands on their limited attention from a flurry of media and other stimuli present in their daily lives. Stakeholders, like firms, are also more likely to be constrained economically.

· In light of an increasing number of other demands on stakeholder attention during tight economic times, is the business case for sustainability – through which stakeholders reward and punish firms for their act of social (ir)responsibility – less viable?

· During tight economic times, how are stakeholders adapting their watchdog role? Are they forfeiting some activities in favor of others?

· As stakeholders are provided more information about firms' sustainability activities are they in fact better informed? During tight economic times, are stakeholders more or less likely to act on this information and make better decisions?

· How are consumers processing the significantly greater volume of information about firms' ecological and social activities? In what ways are consumers simplifying their decision-making?

· During tight economic times do consumers disregard firms' sustainability messages and focus more on price as a product differentiator?

· In an economic downturn, some firms eliminate a portion or all of their ecologically and socially responsible activities. To what extent (if at all) do these firms communicate information to stakeholders about their cuts? What are stakeholders' responses to firms' these cuts? How quickly do firms restore these activities in times of recovery?

Long Range Planning reaches a broader audience than most scholarly journals by publishing articles that inform both theory and practice. We thus welcome high-quality contributions from both academics and practitioners. For author guidelines see: www.lrp.ac/author_guidelines.html.

Submission and Review Process

The deadline for submissions is December 1, 2011. All papers will be externally reviewed according to the policies of Long Range Planning.

Timeline

December 1, 2011	Deadline for electronic submissions of papers to LRP special issue
May 1, 2012	First round reviews for authors
September 1, 2012	Deadline for papers with revisions
December 1, 2012	Final decisions on papers for LRP special issue

More Information

For additional information, please contact the special issue editors:

· Michael Barnett, Said Business School, Oxford University, michael.barnett@sbs.ox.ac.uk

· Nicole Darnall, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University, ndarnall@gmu.edu

· Bryan Husted, Schulich School of Business, York University, bhusted@schulich.yorku.ca

Michael L. Barnett

Professor of Strategy, Said Business School

Fellow, St. Anne's College

University of Oxford

http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/research/people/Pages/MikeBarnett.aspx

View my research on my SSRN Author page:

http://ssrn.com/author=414796

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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

9th International Conference on Information Science Technology and Management (CISTM 2011) www.cistm.org

Theme: Information Science and Technology in a virtualized world

May 13-14, 2011

Porto Alegre - Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Locally hosted by:

Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul - PUCRS, Brazil

Important Dates:

Conference: May 13-14, 2011

Submissions: OPEN

Submission System: http://www.cistm.org

Nature and Scope:

Submissions dealing with all aspects of Information Science Technology and Management are welcome. In particular, submissions that explore the multidisciplinary nature of the subject matter are encouraged. The nature and scope of CISTM is best described in the editorial of the inaugural issue of Journal of Information Science and Technology, where Steve Simon argues, "Practitioners and researchers have often held stereotypical views of each other, with practitioners viewing researchers as interested only in methodological rigor while failing to concern themselves with anything in the real world, and researchers damning practitioners for embracing the latest fads, regardless of theory or evidence."

Submission Instructions:

All submissions are DOUBLE BLIND PEER REVIEWED.

In the first instance, please submit an extended abstract of 500 - 1000 words. The abstract will be double blind reviewed for the conference. You will then have to submit the final version of the paper, typically around 5000 words, no later than one month after the conference. The conference proceedings will be published approximately one month after the conference.

In preparing your papers/abstracts, please use the APA referencing style. In text citations should be in an Author (date) format with the bibliographical list inserted at the end of the paper.

Please make your submission as one MSWord or RTF file. Include all figures and tables in relevant places in the text. The title page should indicate the title, author affiliations including telephone, fax and email, in case of multiple authors corresponding author details should be clearly identified. The title page should also identify the track for which you wish your paper to be considered. All submissions will be double blind peer reviewed

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The deadline (April 10^th) for the Southern Management Association's 2011 Annual Meeting is quickly approaching. I am writing to personally invite you to submit a paper, symposium, or something in a more innovative format for consideration to the Entrepreneurship / Information Technology / Innovation Track.

The SMA meeting will take place November 9-12 in beautiful and historic Savannah, Georgia. The meeting will be held at the Hyatt Regency Savannah (Two West Bay Street). Uniquely located directly on River Front Plaza, the Hyatt Regency offers access to Savannah's Historic District, shops, entertainment, and business centers.

How can you be involved? We need you to submit your manuscripts,

symposia, and/or innovative session ideas and volunteer to review. The

deadline for submissions is April 10th, 2011. Don't let it pass you by.

To view the Call for Papers and find out more about this year's meeting,

visit:

http://southernmanagement.org/meetings/2011/

Please plan to be a part of SMA's first visit to Savannah, which promises to be a great meeting site. We'd love to have you there!

Sincerely,

LaKami Baker

Entrepreneurship / Information Technology / Innovation Track Chair

LaKami T. Baker, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of Management

Auburn University

415 W. Magnolia, Ste 450

Auburn, AL 36849-5241

Phone: 334-844-6533

Fax: 334-844-5159

Email: Lbaker@auburn.edu

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Call for Research Articles are needed for Academic Exchange Quarterly

Featured Editors: Alys Jordan and Matt Buckley

We are looking for Research Manuscripts which are between 2000-5000 words that address some of the following questions:

1. What are the best methods for successful instruction in a virtual environment?

2. What are the most effective instruction practices, methods, and strategies for this environment?

3. What instructional design processes, techniques, and technology are the most successful in developing high quality Web-based distance education courses?

4. How do we support students' academic needs in this environment to ensure their success?

5. What are the most innovative uses of technology to deliver courses in this environment?

Who May Submit:

Ideal contributors will be those who teach Web-based distance education courses or who are responsible for various elements of these courses. This can include faculty, librarians, administrators, instructional designers, graduate students, and various other academic personnel. Please identify your submission with keyword in the subject heading of your email: DISTANCE-4.

Manuscript format and guidelines are available here: http://www.rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/rufen1.htm

Submit Manuscript to academicexchange@yahoo.com and in the subject heading indicate: DISTANCE-4

Deadline:

Winter 2012 edition deadline is November 30, 2011.

If you have additional questions contact: Alys Jordan

(alys.jordan@nova.edu) or Matt Buckley (mbuckley@nova.edu), http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/4distance.htm

Please feel free to forward to interested persons.

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HICSS-45 CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE MINITRACK ON:

"CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION IN TEAMS AND ORGANIZATIONS"

PART OF THE COLLABORATION SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGY TRACK OF THE FORTY-FIFTH ANNUAL HAWAI'I INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEMS SCIENCES (HICSS) MAUI, HI - JANUARY 4 - 7, 2012

Papers are invited for the minitrack on "CREATIVITY IN TEAMS AND ORGANIZATIONS" as part of the Collaboration Systems and Technology Track at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).

Innovation is a critical force in organizational performance and survival. Changes in technology, globalization, and increased competition have all created an environment in which creativity and innovation are needed in order to cope with situational and economic pressures and frequent changes. Designers and Developers of organizational systems must therefore innovate almost continuously to keep the organization aligned with such changes. Creativity is a critical pre-condition for innovation. Generating novel and creative ideas are the key to innovation and growth in every organization today. Providing employees, customers and partners with tools to think creatively has been proven to increase innovation in organizations.

Research shows that organizations which have established skill-bases and tools for creativity outperform the competition in terms of revenue, rolling out new products, innovation and growth. Though organizations deploy groups for most creative processes, there has been little research in the area of group creativity. Most creative research is focused on individual factors affecting creativity. Many challenges that arise from pursuing creativity in teams remain unexplored.

This minitrack provides one of the key international platforms on which the following issues can be discussed:

1. Methods & techniques to improve creativity in co-located and

distributed groups

2. Design and Evaluation of Systems and technology for enhancing creativity

3. Challenges and opportunities for creativity in teams

4. Theoretical foundations for creativity at individual, group and

organizational levels

5. Practical approaches to foster creativity at individual, group

and organizational levels

6. The creation and implementation of innovations in teams and organizations

7. Factors affecting creativity in teams and organizations

8. Building team-based organizations

9. Multi-level issues of creativity in teams and organizations

10. Research linking individual creativity to group level creativity and organizational level innovation 11. Multi-disciplinary approaches to creativity 12. Creative collaboration between business partners and customers (e.g. co-creation of products and services)

Thus, papers are welcome that contain original ideas on how to improve creativity and innovation through all phases of problem-solving:

Understanding a problem, devising potential solutions, evaluating alternatives, making choices, making plans, taking action, and after-action review. We seek papers that suggest methodical, technical, theoretical, or practical improvements for realizing creative ideas in the workforce as innovations, for an organization cannot benefit from its creativity until its ideas are implemented.

There are no preferred methodological stances for this minitrack: this minitrack is open to both qualitative and quantitative research, to research from a positivist, interpretivist, or critical perspective, to studies from the lab, from the field, design-oriented or developmental in nature.

Themes and topics of relevance to this minitrack include, but are not limited to (related topics not listed are especially welcome):

Creativity techniques and approaches

• Creativity methods & techniques to improve creativity in

co-located and distributed groups

• Measuring the effectiveness of creativity techniques and approaches

• Creativity in patterns of collaboration (divergence,

convergence, organization, evaluation, and consensus building)

• Reusability, trainability, predictability, and

transferability of creativity techniques and approaches

• Capturing best practices on creativity

• Analyzing the nature of the evolving artifacts

Tools, technologies, and contexts to support creativity

• Theories, guidelines, and strategies for designing creative

technologies and systems

• Proof of concepts – examples of breakthrough technologies

and systems supporting creativity

• Use of visualization tools for enhancing creativity

• Role of HCI in creativity processes

• Physical and electronic environments to support creativity

• Idea management tools

• Technologies that support creativity in specific critical

collaboration processes, e.g.

• Requirements specification & analysis

• Focus groups

• Delphi processes

• Collaborative planning

• Strategy building

• Collaborative writing

• Communities and Web 2.0

• Mobile Creativity

Creativity in teams and organizations

• Analyzing the nature of creative teams and its evolving processes

• Training work group members and work group leaders to think

and act creatively

• Innovation management in collaborative contexts

• Success factors for diffusing creativity techniques,

approaches, and technologies in organizations

• Factors affecting creativity in teams, organizations, and

value networks

• Building team-based organizations

• Challenges and opportunities for creativity in teams

• Practical approaches to foster creativity at individual,

group and organizational levels

• Theories on collaborative and organizational creativity

• Studies on the efficacy of interventions intended to

introduce creativity approaches and technologies in an organization

• Personal and group traits affecting creativity

• Enhancing creativity by appropriate knowledge management

• Creativity in communities and user-generated content

• Creativity in the "enterprise 2.0"

• Creativity in ad-hoc-groups

• Creativity in distributed work groups and processes

Theoretical issues in creativity and innovation

• Theories of creative problem solving

• Theories of creative decision making

• Creativity in different socio-cultural environments

• Effects of organizational culture on creativity

• Frameworks for evaluating creativity in the field and in the lab

• Theoretical approaches to understand the effect of

individuals, teams, organizations, and the broader environment on creativity

• Instruments and measurements for creativity and innovation

• Group tasks to study creativity

• Theoretical relationships between creativity and

organizational productivity

MINITRACK COORDINATORS:

Roni Reiter-Palmon

University of Nebraska at Omaha

Department of Psychology

Director of Research, Center for Collaboration Science 1110 South 67th street, Omaha, NE 68182-0116 USA

Phone: (402) 554-4081

E-mail: rreiter-palmon@mail.unomaha.edu

Triparna de Vreede (primary contact)

University of Nebraska at Omaha

Department of Psychology

Research Associate, Center for Collaboration Science 1110 South 67th street, Omaha, NE 68182-0116 USA

Phone: (402) 554-2557

E-mail: tdevreede@mail.unomaha.edu

Gerhard Schwabe

University of Zurich

Department of Informatics

Chair of Information Management

Binzmühlestrasse 14, CH-8050 Zürich

Tel: +41-44-63-5 43 05

Email: schwabe@ifi.uzh.ch

The purpose of HICSS is to provide a forum for the interchange of ideas, research results, development activities, and applications among academicians and practitioners in computer-based systems sciences. The conference consists of tutorials, advanced seminars, presentations of accepted papers, open forum, tasks forces, and plenary and distinguished guest lectures. There is a high degree of interaction and discussion among the conference participants because the conference is conducted in a workshop-like setting.

Instructions for submitting papers:

1. Submit an electronic copy of the full paper, 10 pages including

title page, abstract, references and diagrams using the review system available at the HICSS site, make sure that the authors' names and affiliation information has been removed to ensure an anonymous review.

2. Do not submit the paper to more than one minitrack. The paper

should contain original material and not be previously published or currently submitted for consideration elsewhere.

3. Provide the required information to the review system such as

title, full name of all authors, and their complete addresses including affiliation(s), telephone number(s) and e-mail address(es).

4. The first page of the paper should include the title and a (max)

300-word abstract.

DEADLINES:

• May 15: OPTIONAL: Abstracts submitted to Minitrack Chairs

for guidance, indication of appropriate content and to receive instructions on submitting full paper.

• June 15: Full papers uploaded in the directory of the

appropriate minitrack.

• August 15: Notification of accepted papers mailed to authors.

• September 15: Accepted manuscripts, camera-ready, uploaded;

author(s) must register by this time.

Send all correspondence related to this minitrack to:

Triparna de Vreede

University of Nebraska at Omaha

Department of Psychology

Research Associate, Center for Collaboration Science 1110 South 67th street, Omaha, NE 68182-0116 USA

Phone: (402) 554-2557

E-mail: tdevreede@mail.unomaha.edu

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HICSS-45 Call for papers for the minitrack on:

"SOCIAL & PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES AND THEORIES IN COLLABORATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH"

Part of the Collaboration Systems and Technology Track of the Forty-Fifth Annual Hawai'i International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS) Maui, HI - January 4 - 7, 2012

Papers are invited for the minitrack on "Social & Psychological Perspectives and Theories in Collaboration and Communication Technology Research" as part of the Collaboration Systems and Technology Track at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).

One of the major assets of any organization is its people. Understanding of the people and their social, psychological, cultural, and emotional environment helps organizations develop systems and processes that can lead to a productive workplace. Changes in technology, globalization, and increased competition have all created an environment in which an understanding of people is the critical link that is needed in order to survive and thrive in today's competitive environment.

Technology supported collaboration and communication between individuals entails complex social and psychological situations. An understanding of social and psychological aspects of collaboration is essential to creating and sustaining productive work environments. The use of collaboration and communication systems and the consequences of such use are framed by the psychological and social factors concerning the users and their work environment. It is important to understand these factors to successfully facilitate the sustained implementation and use of these technologies.

Further, knowledge of the psycho-social aspects of technology-supported collaboration and communication also assists in detecting, avoiding, and effectively resolving the issues that may arise from using such technologies. Thus, it is essential to study the psycho-social issues surrounding the design and usage of these technologies.

Modern collaboration technologies, including but not limited to Social Media and Web 2.0, offer various ways to connect, collaborate, form communities, and share information and knowledge. As many organizations are figuring out productive ways to create value from collaborative networks, researchers have intensified efforts to understand and design ways in which communication technologies can support both work-related and pleasure related activities. Such research often involves or requires psychosocial perspectives.

Thus, this minitrack provides one of the key international platforms to host research papers and presentations that provide a social/psychological perspective on studying issues related to the dynamic interplay between people, their environment, and the collaboration technologies they use. Some examples of areas which can be a part of the minitrack include:

. Personality, behavioral, and social factors related to communication

and collaboration in co-located and distributed groups

. Social and psychological effects of using systems to support

collaboration

. Attractions and affiliations in groups arising from use of social

networks

. Team/group psychology and use of communication technologies

. Effects and consequences of personality on system design and use

. Psycho-social factors influencing acceptance and implementation of

collaboration technologies

. Virtual leadership and leadership at a distance

. Online aggression and violence

. Motivating employees to adopt, create, use collaborative work

practices

. Correlations between organizational performance and attention to

human capital

. Influence of communication technologies on perceptions of self and

others

. Emotion and networking technologies

. Social and interpersonal implications of communications over

cyberspace

. Internet dependencies and addictions

. Online evaluations and assessments of social and psychological well

being

. Interpersonal treatment with the use of online technologies

. Human Resource practices online (e.g. performance appraisal, hiring

and firing, job analysis)

. Altruism, conformity, and other social factors in online

communications

However, the above examples do not provide a comprehensive overview. We invite any paper that contains original research highlighting the human component in collaboration and communication technologies. There are no preferred methodological stances for this minitrack: this minitrack is open to both qualitative and quantitative research, to research from a positivist, interpretivist, or critical perspective, to studies from the lab, from the field, design-oriented or developmental in nature.

Broad themes and topics of relevance to this minitrack include, but are not limited to (related topics not listed are especially welcome):

. Social psychology (e.g. Motivation, Trust, Social learning, Self

efficacy, Behavioral theories)

. Organizational psychology (e.g. Self monitoring, Interpersonal

treatment, OCBs, Globalization)

. Cultural psychology

. Personality

. Leadership

. Prejudice and discrimination

. Attitudes and social intelligence

. Violence and aggression

. Attractions and affiliations in groups

. Group psychology (e.g. Social loafing,

. Mood and emotions

. Diversity

. Internet use and social/psychological well being

. Sexual harassment

. Performance appraisal

MINITRACK COORDINATORS:

Roni Reiter-Palmon

University of Nebraska at Omaha

Department of Psychology

Director of Research, The Center for Collaboration Science 1110 South 67th street, Omaha, NE 68182-0116 USA

Phone: (402) 554-4081

E-mail: rreiter-palmon@unomaha.edu

Triparna de Vreede (primary contact)

University of Nebraska at Omaha

Department of Psychology

Research Associate, The Center for Collaboration Science 1110 South 67th street, Omaha, NE 68182-0116 USA

Phone: (402) 452-6116

E-mail: tdevreede@unomaha.edu

Instructions for submitting papers:

1. Submit an electronic copy of the full paper, 10 pages including

2. Do not submit the paper to more than one minitrack. The paper should

contain original material and not be previously published or currently submitted for consideration elsewhere.

3. Provide the required information to the review system such as title,

full name of all authors, and their complete addresses including affiliation(s), telephone number(s) and e-mail address(es).

4. The first page of the paper should include the title and a (max)

300-word abstract.

DEADLINES:

. May 15: OPTIONAL: Abstracts submitted to Minitrack Chairs

for guidance, indication of appropriate content and to receive instructions on submitting full paper.

. June 15: Full papers uploaded in the directory of the

appropriate minitrack.

. August 15: Notification of accepted papers mailed to authors.

. September 15: Accepted manuscripts, camera-ready, uploaded;

author(s) must register by this time.

Send all correspondence related to this minitrack to:

Triparna de Vreede

University of Nebraska at Omaha

Department of Psychology

Research Associate, The Center for Collaboration Science 1110 South 67th street, Omaha, NE 68182-0116 USA

Phone: (402) 452-6116

E-mail: tdevreede@unomaha.edu

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Call for Abstracts / Papers – Business & Economics Society International Conference – Split, Croatia July 6^th – 9^th, 2011

The July 2011 Business & Economics Society International (B&ESI) Conference, http://www.besiweb.com, will be held in Split, Croatia, July 6th to 9th, at the Le Meridien Lav Hotel. You may participate as a panel organizer, presenter of one or two papers, chair, moderator, discussant,
or observer.

All papers will be evaluated for publication consideration in the Society's four peer reviewed journal publications (please see details below.)

For more information, please contact the B&ESI through regular mail, telephone, fax or email:
B&ESI, 64 Holden Street, Worcester, MA 01605-3109, USA
Telephone: 508-852-3937, Fax: 508-595-0089, Email: <hkan@besiweb.com>.

Follow us on Twitter: < http://twitter.com/BESI_Conference>

• Global Business & Economics Review (GBER)
Published 4 times per year, 25% acceptance rate
Publisher: Inderscience < www.inderscience.com/gber>

Abstracting & Indexing Services (GBER)

• Business ASAP International

• EconLit

• Google Scholar

• Materials Business File

• RePEc

• Scirus

• Scopus

Journal Ranking Lists & Directories (GBER)

• Association of Business Schools (UK) Academic Journal Quality Guide 2010

• Aston Business School list 2009

• Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities

• Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) Australian Research Council: Ranked journal list 2010

• University of Queensland Business School Journal Rankings 2009

• International Journal of Economics & Business Research (IJEBR)
Published 6 times per year, 35% acceptance rate
Publisher: Inderscience < www.inderscience.com/ijebr>

Abstracting & Indexing Services (IJEBR)

• EconLit

• Google

• Inspec

Journal Ranking Lists & Directories (IJEBR)

• Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities

• Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) Australian Research Council: Ranked journal list 2010

• ESSEC Research Center list 2009-10

• International Journal of Behavioural & Healthcare Research (IJBHR)
Published 4 times per year, 35% acceptance rate
Publisher: Inderscience < www.inderscience.com/ijebr>

Abstracting & Indexing Services (IJBHR)

• CAB Abstracts - Hygiene and Communicable Diseases

• CAB Abstracts - Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews Series A

• CAB Abstracts - Tropical Diseases Bulletin

• Embiology

• Emcare

• Global Health

• Google Scholar

• Scirus

Journal Ranking Lists & Directories (IJBHR)

• Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities

• Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) Australian Research Council: Ranked journal list 2010

• Global Business & Economics Anthology (GBEA)
Published 2 times per year, 50% acceptance rate (selected B&ESI Conference papers)
Publisher: B&ESI < http://www.besiweb.com/Anthology.htm>

Abstracting & Indexing Services (GBEA)

• EBSCO

• Google Scholar

• Swets

Journal Ranking Lists & Directories (GBEA)

• Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities

• Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) Australian Research Council: Ranked journal list 2010

Best Regards,

Mark M. Lennon, Ph.D.

Visiting Assistant Professor

Department of Management and International Business

Sellinger School of Business and Management

Loyola University Maryland

4501 N. Charles Street

Baltimore, MD 21210

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Call for Participants

Apologies for cross-posting.

Reminder of Medical Technology Innovation Symposium.

June 10-11, 2011

Richard Ivey School of Business, The University of Western Ontario London, Ontario

Join us in London, Ontario for the Ivey Medical Technology Innovation Symposium (MTI 2011). A two day meeting to explore the business and management issues related to the commercialization, innovation, and adoption of medical technologies, organized by the Ivey Entrepreneurship Cross-Enterprise Leadership Centre and the Ivey Centre for Health Innovation and Leadership. The program features speakers Lawton Robert Burns (Wharton), Jeffrey Macher (Georgetown U), and Manuel Trajtenberg (Tel Aviv U).

Expected practitioner speakers include senior level managers and scientists from Ernst and Young, Robarts, Davol, MaRS Innovation, BDC, SciSense, LHSC, 3M Healthcare, GE Healthcare, Medtronic, HTX, and the Conference Board of Canada. MTI 2011 will offer a unique opportunity to: explore the entrepreneurial and strategic issues related to the commercialization and management of medical technologies; network with academic colleagues; and provide a forum for dialogue with practitioners.

Conference Rate

MTI 2011 will be held at the London Convention Centre. Registration fee will be $375 (CAD) for both days. The student rate will be $100 for both days. For overnight stay, the Hilton London has a reserved conference rates for $119 per night (available to April 1st).

Registration

Registration is found at www.tinyurl.com/IVEYMTI.

A limited number of bursaries are available for Ph.D. students travelling more than 100 km to cover travel costs. To apply for the Ph.D.

reimbursement, please email to the organizer (Dr. David Maslach:

dmaslach@ivey.ca a CV plus a short paragraph explaining why you should be selected.

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21st EUROPEAN DOCTORAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT
Technology Management Crossing Boundaries

Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey – September 5-9, 2011

Supported by radma (www.radma.org) & Creativity and Innovation management
(www.blackwellpublishing.com/caim)

The Summer School is a valuable experience for anyone involved in doctoral work in the area of technology and innovation management. It provides a unique opportunity for doctoral students in technology management to learn from presentations of leading academics in the field and to meet colleagues with similar research interests. During the intensive one-week course, the participating students have the opportunity to discuss their research programs with senior professors and with other PhD students in interactive workshops, and to meet the editors of the journals R&D Management, and Creativity and Innovation Management.

"Technology Management Crossing Boundaries

The theme of the summer school is to highlight the similarities and differences in the technology management practices across countries. For example, nearly one fourth of the literature in 2007 was created with the contribution of researchers in developing countries. However, TM literature created in developing countries mostly differs from its counterpart generated in developed world. The PhD students who are the next generation researchers in the field should be aware of the variety and richness of technology and innovation management. The lectures are organized to lay the ground in key research areas where attendees will benefit from the intellectually challenging environment.

The seminar will be held at the Sabanci University, Turkey.
The programme will start on September 5, 2011 and is scheduled to end on September 9, 2011.

Applications: Students will be selected according to the novelty and the quality of their research interests and by an indication that they will be able to benefit and learn effectively from their participation. Students should at least have finished their first PhD year in order to be eligible. They must show that they will be able to contribute to the event.
Interested doctoral students should apply on-line via www.eiasm.org no later than June 15th, 2011

For detailed information and programme: http://www.eiasm.org/frontoffice/event_announcement.asp?event_id=802

For more information, please contact the organisers through:

Prof. Dilek Cetindamar

Faculty of Management, Sabanci University

Tuzla, 34956, Istanbul, Turkey

Tel: 90 216 4839661 Fax: 90 216 4839699

Email: Dilek@sabanciuniv.edu

Okan Pala

Faculty of Management, Sabanci University

Tuzla, 34956, Istanbul, Turkey

Tel: 90 216 4839653 Fax: 90 216 4839699

Email: okanpala@su.sabanciuniv.edu

Contact person at EIASM:
Ms. Nina PAYEN
EDEN Manager, EIASM - PLACE DE BROUCKÈRE-PLEIN - 31 - 1000 BRUSSELS - BELGIUM
Tel: 32 2 2266661 - Fax: 32 2 5121929
Email: payen@eiasm.be

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Dear Colleagues:

You are cordially invited to attend the 2011 meeting of the Eastern Academy of Management at the Omni Parker Hotel and Suffolk University, Boston, MA from May 11 to May 14, 2011.

After hours of exhaustive discussions and deliberations, ensuring that all parties had a hearing or at least an airing, the Program Committee has left the table, but not before putting together a program that already has people talking! There will be more talking in Boston, and presentations literally unseen anywhere else. You can attend sessions devoted to 1) teaching – methods, cases, experiential exercises; 2) research – theoretical and empirical studies in twelve fields of study; 3) consortia and development – a) doctoral, b) junior faculty, and c) mid-career/senior faculty; 4) preconference workshops in CASE writing and a "teaching boot camp," and 5) Special events – a Keynote from the Superintendent of the United States Coast Guard Academy, a Plenary session describing the vanguard work of Eileen Fisher, Inc. to integrate practice and the Academy, with corporate and academics sharing the stage, and 6) Conversation and Collegiality sessions – what EAM does best – our after-hours discussion times. So, whether you are presenting or not, or whether you are a tea party patriot or a patriot in the tea party state, you'll want to be part of the four days/three nights to consume the fruits of all the collective bargaining that created EAM2011. Come to Boston, leave Learned!

In addition to traditional academic sessions, this year's conference features distinguished panels, professional developmental workshops, and three open-enrollment Consortia focused on career issues of doctoral students, junior faculty, and mid-career/senior faculty. Information about the Consortia can be found at https://eamconference.org/EAM2010Consortia.pdf. You will also find information on The CASE Association's case writing, publishing and teaching pre-conference, professional development workshop at http://www.caseweb.org/index.php. And finally, this year we will offer a Teaching Boot camp sponsored by EAM and OBTS on Wednesday afternoon from 1pm – 6 pm prior to our annual Welcome dinner. Both events require

preregistration. For more information on the EAM-OBTS Teaching Boot camp –

please contact: Roy Lewicki, Ohio state University:

Lewicki_1@fisher.osu.edu, We are putting the final touches on our full program schedule, please visit the Program Summary page at:

https://eamconference.org/programschedule.asp - the full program schedule will be available on the conference website in the coming weeks.

HOTEL ROOMS

The Local Arrangements Committee is working diligently to prepare for the

upcoming EAM 2011 conference at Suffolk University (www.suffolk.edu) and the

historic Omni Parker House (http://www.omnihotels.com). We look forward to

offering all attendees an excellent conference experience and an exciting

visit to Boston. Members of the committee are in the final stage of securing

the Wednesday dinner arrangements at a local restaurant in Faneuil Hall

(http://www.faneuilhallmarketplace.com) On Thursday, after the conference

sessions, in addition to a Special Event sponsored by the Experiential

Learning Association, you may enjoy a variety of Boston favorites, such as a

Duck Tour (http://www.bostonducktours.com) or Freedom Trail Guided Tour

(http://www.thefreedomtrail.org). We are excited to also offer a wonderful

opportunity to see the Blue Man Group performance (http://www.blueman.com)

at the Charles Playhouse on Thursday at a discounted group rate. Please

consider joining other conference attendees for this fun performance

(advanced registration will be required). Finally, on Friday all conference

attendees are invited to an early evening reception following the plenary

session. See you this May in Boston!

MEETING REGISTRATION

Online registration for the meeting is now open. For registration

information, please go to https://eamconference.org/reg.asp

I hope you chose to join us for this exciting meeting, and I look forward to

seeing you in Boston!

Sincerely,

John Ogilvie - EAM President

EAM2011 - Scholar+Practitioners, Unite!

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Friends:

As you are thinking about your Academy plans we want to inform you of a unique event hosted by the Network of Leadership Scholars:

Save the date, August 10^th & 11^th, 2011 in San Antonio, Texas

The First Academy/Industry Conference on "Leadership, Sustainability and Innovation: Bridging the Academic-Practitioner Divide"

You can find more information about the conference (and the Network of Leadership Scholars) on our web site (http://nls.aomonline.org/) and in the text below.

The Network of Leadership Scholars was founded in 2005 to provide an interdisciplinary forum for leadership scholars of various disciplines, perspectives and nationalities to share ideas and knowledge for the advancement of leadership research and practice. The Network currently has approximately 800 members from all over the world, and draws more broadly from multiple divisions of the Academy of Management. The international conference on Leadership, Sustainability, and Innovation will be our inaugural Academy/Industry conference, and is designed to serve as a platform for bringing together the world's leading researchers and business school professors with top business and government leaders. The objective is to create a dynamic environment for exchange of information, generation of contacts, and creation of joint industry/government/academic projects that address the pressing leadership needs of companies and governments.

We recognize sustainability and innovation as two indispensable elements of current and future business and public leadership. At the same time we observe a gap between scientific research and the needs of companies and governments in the field of leadership. Therefore, the purpose of this conference is to address the leadership, sustainability and innovation-related issues that companies and public institutions are currently facing and are likely to face in the future, and to align the research accordingly. Further, the aim of this conference is not only to discuss these issues but to find solutions and initiate necessary actions. We will attain our purpose by providing a "project incubator" using the knowledge and research of the world's best leadership and sustainability scholars. Members of academia, industry, and government will analyze in open discussion sessions specific topics, problems, and issues presented by both for-profit and non-profit institutions, and as an outcome will generate possible solutions and create projects to test and implement these solutions. We are fortunate to have commitments from leading companies such as Google, Infosys and Lockheed Martin, and are in discussion with others. The sessions are designed around the companies/government organizations presenting their leadership and sustainability challenges, pairing them with an academic partner(s) and a trained "design thinking" facilitator, who run a discussion about how we can design effective research studies to meet the organizational and research needs. We believe this will be an interesting experience, and are excited about the possibilities for this kind of a meeting.

This meeting will be "registration fee-free" to make it as accessible as possible. Space will be limited due to the adoption of a design thinking format, and participants should be willing to share ideas, contribute to joint problem-solving, and engage in collaborative research efforts. We therefore expect all the participants to both benefit from and meaningfully contribute to the outcomes of the conference.

Details on pre-registering for the conference and the individual sessions will be posted to this list by the end of this month as well as on the NLS website, so stay tuned for more information from us.

We hope you will consider participating in this conference and help shape research and practice in Leadership, Innovation and Sustainability.

Sincerely,

--Nagaraj

Nagaraj Sivasubramaniam

On behalf of NLS Organizing Committee:

Krzysztof Dembek, Monash University (kdembek@gmail.com)

Mary Uhl-Bien, University of Nebraska (mbien2@unl.edu)

Nagaraj Sivasubramaniam, Duquesne University (sivasubr@duq.edu)

Mary Sully de Luque, Thunderbird School of Global Management (mary.sullydeluque@thunderbird.edu)

Kim Jaussi, Binghamton University (kjaussi@binghamton.edu)

Nagaraj Sivasubramaniam

Associate Professor of Leadership

Department of Management

Palumbo-Donahue Schools of Business

Duquesne University

600 Forbes Ave.

Pittsburgh, PA 15282

http://mba.sustainability.duq.edu/

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Professor/Associate Professor Strategy Department of Strategy and Human Resource Management which resides in the Waikato Management School, New Zealand – Apply by 31 March

Applications are sought from individuals who share a passion for strategy teaching and scholarship. We are an eclectic group of strategy scholars with the shared belief in the transformative nature of our discipline. We are open to a range of strategy applicants including specialists in innovation, entrepreneurship or leadership. Success in winning external research grants would be advantageous, as well as the ability to develop strong relationships with key stakeholders. Strategy is one of four disciplinary areas in the Department of Strategy and Human Resource Management which resides in the Waikato Management School.

New Zealand is often described as at "the edge of the world," but the Waikato Management School is situated in more than a beautiful location and wonderful place to live, we are globally recognised with our triple crown accreditation (AACSB, EMBA and EQUIS) and ranked first among New Zealand Business Schools in the most recent national research assessment.

Current salary range for Associate Professors is NZ$105,598 to $120,300 per year and for Professors is minimum NZ$122,974 per year. This position is available from June 2011.

Enquiries of an academic nature should be directed to Associate Professor Michèle Akoorie, email: mema@waikato.ac.nz

Closing date: 31 March 2011 (NZ time) Vacancy number: 310027
For more information and to apply, visit www.jobs.waikato.ac.nz

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NIFU (Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education) aims to be a leading European research organization for studies of education, research and innovation. To further strengthen research on innovation we are looking to hire senior researchers/ researchers with strong academic records and interest in quantitative and/or policy-related innovation studies.

The full announcement is found at http://www.nifu.no/English/SitePages/Fullstory.aspx?ItemId=25&ID=1946

Queries concerning the vacant positions, expression of interests and CV can be sent to Head of Research Taran Thune taran.thune@nifu.no

Please forward this announcement to anyone you think might be interested.

Med vennlig hilsen / Yours sincerely

Taran Thune/ NIFU

Forskningsleder / Head of research

+47 22 59 51 21 (00) / +47 93 06 95 94 (m)

Nordisk institutt for studier av

innovasjon, forskning og utdanning

Nordic Institute for Studies in

Innovation, Research and Education

www.nifu.no

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The University of Washington Bothell

Business Administration Program

Lecturer in Management

The Business Program of the University of Washington Bothell invites applications for a full-time non-tenure track Lecturer in Management. The appointment will begin in September 2011, with a possible appointment term of one to three years.

Candidates with a Ph.D. or equivalent preferred. The successful candidate will teach eight courses each academic year (3 quarters). For this position we seek a versatile individual who can teach courses such as OB, OT, strategy, and entrepreneurship/innovation. Assigned courses will be based on the successful candidate's background. Lecturers are expected to excel at teaching and service, work closely with students, and contribute to program development and campus life. The successful candidate should expect to teach courses at both our Bothell and Bellevue campuses.

Business Program faculty are devoted teachers and active scholars whose work has been published in leading management and organization journals. Our Bothell and Bellevue campuses are located in the Pacific Northwest's exciting high-technology corridor, between Microsoft (in Redmond) and Boeing (in Everett). We work closely with industry leaders as well as smaller, innovative, and rapidly growing companies in software, electronic commerce, medical equipment, biotechnology, electronics, and aerospace.

A decade ago, the Business Program became the first school in the Puget Sound region to offer an MBA program focused on technology management. In 2009, we began offering a Leadership MBA in our new Eastside Leadership Center in Bellevue. In a recent ranking of part-time MBA programs, we were ranked 51st in the nation and 3rd in the Pacific Northwest.

The University of Washington Bothell was established in 1990 as an upper-division and graduate campus, and is located 15 miles northeast of downtown Seattle. Freshmen were first admitted in 2006. We have a new state of the art high-tech campus and full access to the computing and library resources of the University of Washington system.

To Apply: Send a letter describing your qualifications, your curriculum vitae, and teaching-related material including but not limited to course evaluations, syllabi, and a statement of teaching philosophy. Three letters of reference will be required to officially complete the application package. The position will remain open until filled, although complete applications received by March 15, 2011 will receive priority consideration. Please send materials to:

Chair, Management Lecturer Search Committee Business Administration Program University of Washington Bothell Box 358533

18115 Campus Way NE

Bothell, Washington 98011-8246

Phone: 425.352.5394 / fax: 425.352.5277

For additional information, please see our website at http://www.uwb.edu/business/

This position is contingent upon available funding. University of Washington faculty members engage in teaching, research and service. Candidates should expect to teach at all levels of the undergraduate and graduate curriculum.

Successful candidates must be committed to working with diverse student and community populations.

The University is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. The Business Program is dedicated to the goal of building a culturally diverse and pluralistic faculty and staff committed to teaching and working in a multicultural environment and strongly encourages applications from women, minorities, individuals with disabilities and other eligible veterans.

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ROBERT H. SMITH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND

MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATION DEPARTMENT

TEACHING FELLOW POSITION IN STRATEGY

The Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, College Park invites applications and nominations for a Lecturer/Tyser Teaching Fellow in Strategy to teach 18-24 credits per year, depending upon compensation and service responsibilities. Candidates must be able to teach courses in one or more of the areas of Strategic Management, Management Consulting, Global Strategy, Industry and Competitor Analysis or Implementing Strategy, Entrepreneurship and/or Innovation at MBA and EMBA levels. Evidence of teaching quality and ability to provide leadership in teaching excellence are the most important qualifications. This is a full time, non-tenure track faculty position, specializing in teaching and service. PhD or other terminal degree required.

The Robert H. Smith School of Business (www.rhsmith.umd.edu) is recognized as one of the world's leading business schools for its strong track record in both research and teaching. The school is also known for a highly collaborative culture at the faculty as well as student levels. Within the business school, the Management & Organization department is particularly proud to be viewed as one of the strongest departments. We expect our new hire to help make an already strong M&O department even stronger.

The Management & Organization (M&O) department consists of 30 core faculty. The group's interests and responsibilities cover the following areas: organizational behavior, human resources, strategy, globalization, and entrepreneurship. Research excellence serves as the foundation of the M&O department. A recent analysis of publications in the most prestigious journals related to the above areas indicated that, on a worldwide basis, M&O ranked among the leading five over the past five years. M&O faculty also believe in teaching excellence. Over the last several years, M&O faculty have earned the highest teaching ratings among all departments. Along with excellence in research and teaching, there is a strong culture of collaboration and intellectual synergy. The Smith School has leading edge MBA and undergraduate programs, a rapidly expanding portfolio of executive education programs including EMBA programs in both the US and China, as well as a strong doctoral program. In the most recent surveys, U.S. News & World Report ranked the Smith Undergraduate Program as #19 (Management as #10) while Financial Times ranked the Smith MBA Program as #18 in the U.S and the Smith EMBA program as #15 in the US (#1 for Corporate Strategy).

Given the Smith School's location in the Washington DC Metropolitan Area, faculty and staff at Smith enjoy not only a strong institutional environment but also the pleasures of living in a vibrant and leading global city which is very cosmopolitan, rich in world-class museums and the performing arts, architecturally delightful, full of greenery with the beautiful Potomac River flowing right through the city, within one to two hours of driving distance from not only beaches but also ski slopes, and home to some of the country's best public and private schools.

For full consideration, we encourage applicants to submit a complete set of materials by April 8, 2011.

Candidates should send a CV, a listing of recently taught courses along with evidence of teaching effectiveness (e.g., teaching ratings, teaching awards), and a statement of teaching philosophy and/or teaching portfolio along with a brief cover letter highlighting their specific strengths relative to this position. Nominations of qualified candidates will also be appreciated. Please send application materials to Ms. Erica Scarpulla (escarpulla@rhsmith.umd.edu), who is administratively assisting Dr. Gerald Suarez, Professor of Practice, Chair, Tyser Teaching Fellow Search Committee.

University of Maryland is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, and encourages applications from women and minority candidates.

Rajshree Agarwal
Professor and Dean's Chair in Strategy and Entrepreneurship
Department of Management and Organization
Robert H. Smith School of Business
4512 Van Munching Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742

email: rajshree@umd.edu
phone: 301-405-2250
fax: 301-314-8787

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DEPARTMENT CHAIR AND PROFESSOR OF MANAGEMENT: The School of Business at the College of Charleston is seeking a Chair for the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship. This is an 11 month position, with a target start date of August 16, 2011. Candidate must have an outstanding record that will support tenure and promotion at the rank of Professor. The Department is comprised of 11 full-time faculty, and offers a BS in Business Administration as well as a minor, and concentrations in Entrepreneurship and Leadership, Change, and Social Responsibility. We are seeking a dynamic and collegial individual with a record of sustained scholarship and teaching excellence who is committed to supporting the School's increasingly global orientation. Furthermore, the ideal candidate will have a management background and be able to integrate entrepreneurship into the fabric of the Department. Founded in 1770, the College is the thirteenth oldest institution of higher education in the United States. The School is accredited by AACSB in business as well as accounting undergraduate and graduate programs. The College is located in Charleston, South Carolina, a premier heritage city and a popular tourist destination. Ph.D. or D.B.A. in related field required.

Send a letter of application including vita, three letters of reference, and graduate transcripts to: Dr. Kent Gourdin, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs, School of Business, College of Charleston, 66 George Street, Charleston, SC 29424-0001. Applicants should also include a statement explaining their tentative plans for moving the Department forward and how entrepreneurship will be enhanced. Search will remain open until position is filled. Screening of applications will begin immediately. Visit the College website at www.cofc.edu.

The College of Charleston is an Equal Opportunity /Affirmative Action Employer and encourages applications from women and minorities.

For more information, contact:

Dr. Kent Gourdin, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs

Henry Tecklenburg Chair in Intermodal Transportation

School of Business

College of Charleston

66 George Street

Charleston, SC 29424

Phone: 843-953-5327

Fax: 843-953-5697

Email: gourdink@cofc.edu

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The School of Business at Pacific Lutheran University invites interested and qualified individuals to apply for the following visiting positions:

1) Visiting assistant/associate professor in Technology and Innovation Management for the 2011-12 academic year. Applicants should be able to provide instruction at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Education: Ph.D. in Management or Technology/Innovation, or Master's Degree with high level executive experience. The position is September 2011 to May 2012.

2) Visiting assistant/associate professor in Management for the 2011-12 academic year. Primary responsibilities are teaching in and coordinating the entry level undergraduate business course, and in area of expertise. Education: Ph.D. in a Management discipline or Master's Degree with substantial executive experience. We seek a dynamic teacher.

The School's BBA and MBA programs have been continuously accredited by AACSB-International since 1971. The faculty and staff seek to advance the University's vision of academic distinction through enhanced global focus, student-faculty collaboration in research and service projects, and by helping students find their own paths to meaningful as well as successful lives. The School has an explicit teaching mission with the goal of producing graduates with both the character and competence to be leaders in the enterprises they serve as well as in the greater community we all share. Faculty are expected to engage in service that benefits the university, their profession, and the community through lives of thoughtful inquiry, work, leadership, and care.

We seek collegial faculty who view themselves foremost as educators and possess a commitment to scholarship. There is a preference for corporate and international experience. Only candidates who would be deemed academically or professionally qualified in accordance with our AACSB International accreditation will be considered. There is a preference for candidates with Ph.D. from an AACSB International accredited institution.

Pacific Lutheran University (PLU) is a comprehensive university with an enrollment of about 3600 students, including international students from two dozen countries. Located in a uniquely scenic region on the Pacific Rim, the university's campus is 40 miles south of Seattle in suburban Tacoma, Washington. PLU's academic program is an integration of the liberal arts and professional programs, and the university's mission is to educate students for lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership, and care. PLU enjoys a healthy and progressive relationship with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). The university is committed to exploring, affirming and enriching dignity and diversity in the campus community and endorses the goals of equal opportunity and affirmative action. PLU actively seeks applications from women and persons of color.

Application Process: Review of application materials will begin April 20, 2011, but the position will remain open until filled. For the Technology and Innovation Management position, please submit by e-mail a cover letter and vitae to Dr. Catherine Pratt, Associate Dean, School of Business, Pacific Lutheran University, misosrch@plu.edu. For the Management position, please submit by e-mail a cover letter and vitae to Dr. Catherine Pratt, Associate Dean, School of Business, Pacific Lutheran University, mgmtsrch@plu.edu. For more information, please call 253-535-7250 or visit www.plu.edu/employment and www.plu.edu/busa.

Kory Brown, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Business
Pacific Lutheran University
Email: kory.brown@plu.edu
Office: 253-538-6257

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Darlene,

Darlene Alexander-Houle

TIM Division List Serve Manager

Adjunct, University of Phoenix

Global Program Manager, Hewlett Packard

dahoule@sbcglobal.net

dahoule@email.phoenix.edu