TIM Division List Serve
Vol. 3, No. 21 (September 12, 2006)
Table of Contents:
- General Announcements
- Call for Submissions
- Position Announcements
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- General Announcements
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At this time of transitioning from the Atlanta meetings to classroom and
other duties, it is becoming time for yet another exciting TIM Division
Newsletter. As part of that effort, I am requesting any announcements, brief
articles (editorial comments that may interest the division), or photographs
of activities in and around Atlanta you may wish to include to be sent to me
(
hatfield@vt.edu) with the subject heading "TIM Division Newsletter". Please
send all items that you wish to see included in this edition of the
newsletter by September 20th, 2006.
Thank you for your time,
Dr. Donald E. Hatfield
Associate Professor of Strategic Management
& Entrepreneurship
2007 Pamplin Hall (0233)
Pamplin College of Business
Virginia Tech (VPI&SU)
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0001
Phone: 540 231-4687
Fax: 540 231-3076
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- Call for Submissions
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**With the usual apologies for any cross-posting, please note that we have
come to the realization that academic time and calendar time are not the
same, and so we have extended the deadline for contributions to our special
issue on reputational interdependence until Dec. 1, 2006. Intended
contributors should send a brief abstract outlining their full submission as
soon as possible.***
CALL FOR PAPERS
Corporate Reputation Review
Special Issue:
BEYOND CORPORATE REPUTATION: MANAGING REPUTATIONAL INTERDEPENDENCE
Deadline for full-paper submissions: December 1, 2006
Guest Editors:
Michael L. Barnett, University of South Florida (
mbarnett@coba.usf.edu)
Andrew J. Hoffman, University of Michigan (
ajhoff@bus.umich.edu)
As may seem obvious or even tautological, corporate reputation research has
overwhelmingly concerned itself with the efforts of managers to influence
perceptions of the unique characteristics of their corporations. In bounding
reputation research in this way, though, we actually overlook important
determinants of corporate reputation. A corporation's reputation is a
function of perceptions of its unique attributes, but it is also a function
of perceptions of the common attributes of the industry or other groups of
which it is a part. For example, all chemical firms suffered reputational
(and market) losses following the 1984 poison gas leak at the facilities of
a single chemical plant owned by Union Carbide.
The notion that a firm's performance is dependent upon the characteristics
of a larger collective to which it belongs is not new. The roots of
strategic management are in industrial-organization economics, which notes
that industry characteristics are a substantial determinant of the financial
performance of all members of the industry. Ecological perspectives in
organizational theory have long noted that environmental selection
mechanisms act on populations, not individual firms. The widespread use of
trade associations in industry would seem to indicate that managers have
long been aware of the need to manage the attributes of their collectives.
It is time for reputation research to catch up.
In this special issue, we seek papers that demonstrate the existence of
reputation at the collective level, illustrate its dynamics, outline
specific instances of how it is managed, and link its management to the
performance and survival of both corporations and collectives. We encourage
submissions from both academics and practitioners. Papers may build or test
theory. Preference will be given to those papers that contain rich
qualitative or quantitative data.
Manuscripts should comply with Corporation Reputation Review's style and
format guide (http://www.palgrave-journals.com/crr/instructions.html) and be
submitted electronically as a Word or rich text format attachment to
mbarnett@coba.usf.edu. We encourage contributors to discuss ideas with
either guest editor prior to submission. We request a brief abstract that
outlines any intended contributions as soon as possible. All submissions
will undergo double-blind peer review. All submitting authors will be
placed in a pool of potential reviewers; others who wish to volunteer as
reviewers, please send an e-mail to
mbarnett@coba.usf.edu.
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Michael L. Barnett, PhD
University of South Florida
College of Business Administration
Department of Management & Organization
4202 E. Fowler Avenue, BSN 3527
Tampa, FL 33620-5500
Phone: 813-974-1727
Fax: 813-974-1734
Webpage:
http://www.coba.usf.edu/barnett
View my research on my SSRN Author page: <http://ssrn.com/author=414796>
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- Position Announcements
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Georgia Institute of Technology
College of Management
Tenure-Track Positions in Strategic Management, Entrepreneurship, and
International Business
The strategic management area at Georgia Tech's College of Management (COM)
seeks qualified applicants for several tenure-track or tenured appointments
for fall 2007 in three areas (1) strategic management; (2) entrepreneurship;
and (3) international business. Faculty rank is open. We seek
research-active individuals who address interesting and important real-world
phenomena using a theoretical lens grounded in economics or sociology, and
rigorous empirical methods. The ability to teach econometrics and/or game
theory is also desirable. Primary criteria for selecting candidates will be:
outstanding research, teaching capability, and excellent recommendations.
For full consideration please send the following documents in hardcopy:
curriculum vitae, current research paper(s), and three letters of
recommendation no later than Tuesday, October 31, 2006 to:
Denise Sharif
Attn: Strategy Area Recruiting
College of Management
Georgia Institute of Technology
800 West Peachtree, NW
Atlanta, Georgia 30308-1149
denise.sharif@mgt.gatech.edu
Tel 404-894-4375
Fax 404-894-6030
About Georgia Tech: Georgia Tech's College of Management is, when
considering all business schools, ranked 34th by U.S. News and top 50 by
Business Week, and top 25 in Forbes among public schools. The College of
Management is housed in a new, state of the art $55million facility, which
is part of the $260 million building complex of Technology Square in midtown
Atlanta, in addition to Georgia Tech's Business School, the GT Conference
Center and Hotel, the Global Learning Center, the Economic Development
Institute, and the Advanced Technology and Development Center (ADTC), one of
the leading incubators in the United States. COM is the home of an NSF
Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training program, Technological
Innovation: Generating Economic Results (TI:GER), as well as a U.S.
Department of Education funded Center for International Business Education
and Research (CIBER). Additional information about Georgia Tech's COM and
its faculty is available at:
http://mgt.gatech.edu/. The Strategic
Management area represents a strong community of active researchers pursuing
a diversity of interests (See
http://mgt.gatech.edu/fac_research/acad_areas/stg_mgt.html for more
information).
The Georgia Institute of Technology (http://www.gatech.edu) is one of the
nation's top research universities, distinguished by its commitment to
improving the human condition through advanced science and technology.
Georgia Tech's campus occupies 400 acres in the heart of the city of
Atlanta, where more than 16,000 undergraduate and graduate students receive
a focused, technologically based education. Georgia Tech consistently ranks
among U.S. News & World Report's top ten public universities in the United
States. In a world that increasingly turns to technology for solutions,
Georgia Tech is using innovative teaching and advanced research to define
the technological university of the 21st century.
About Atlanta: Atlanta, home to over 4 million people, is the 9th largest
metropolitan area in the U.S., and one of the fastest growing cities. It
serves as cultural and economic hub of the southeastern U.S., with
world-class shopping, outstanding restaurants, and five professional sports
teams. Compared to other large cities, Atlanta offers a lower cost of
living and excellent weather. About 120,000 companies have operations here,
and Atlanta is 3rd in the list of cities with the most Fortune 500
Headquarters. Atlanta is home to corporate giants like Home Depot,
Coca-Cola, CNN, Newell Rubbermaid, UPS, Georgia-Pacific, Equifax, and Delta
Air Lines. Atlanta is one of the top 10 places for business and careers (by
Forbes) and one of the top 3 U.S. cities for entrepreneurs (Entrepreneur
magazine and Dun & Bradstreet). Atlanta's international airport, the
world's busiest, makes Georgia Tech readily accessible to any part of the
world - 80% of the U.S. population is within a two-hour flight. Atlanta is
also one of the top 5 U.S. cities for singles (by Forbes), one of the top 40
cities for families (by Child.com), and the #1 city for African-Americans
(by Black Enterprise magazine). For more information, see
www.atlanta.net/movinghere/index.asp.
Georgia Tech is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, which
values diversity.
Frank T. Rothaermel [http://mgt.gatech.edu/rothaermel]
Sloan Industry Studies Fellow
Associate Professor of Strategy
College of Management
Georgia Institute of Technology
800 West Peachtree St, NW
Atlanta, GA 30308-1149
Tel. 404-385-5108
FAX 404-894-6030
frank.rothaermel@mgt.gatech.edu
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Drew Gold, Ph.D.
Founder and President
DTG Enterprises, LLC
8870 North Himes Ave, #329
Tampa, FL 33614
drew@dtgenterprises.com
813-579-5843 (ofc)
803-629-3546 (cell)