TIM Division List Serve
Vol. 4, No. 4 (February 19, 2007)
Table of Contents:
- General Announcements
- Call for Submissions
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General Announcements:
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I noticed that Palgrave is looking for Technology Management book proposals so I am passing this along.
Collegially,
Charles Wankel
St. John’s University, New York
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Charlie,
Palgrave Macmillan is expanding its internationally renowned list in business books. Acquiring editor Aaron Javsicas is looking widely for new academic and professional projects, and would particularly like to see proposals in finance, international business, HR management, technology management, leadership, entrepreneurship, small business and family business, and knowledge management. Books may be single-authored, co-authored, or edited collections. Aaron can be reached at:
aaron.javsicas@palgrave-usa.com .
Aaron Javsicas
Editor
Palgrave Macmillan
175 Fifth Avenue, Room 200
New York, NY 10010
aaron.javsicas@palgrave-usa.com
tel: (646) 307-5031
fax: (212) 982-5562
www.palgrave-usa.com
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Call for Submissions:
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The Technology and Innovation Management Division is now accepting applications from Ph.D. students for its doctoral consortium to be held at the Academy of Management meeting in Philadelphia. The consortium will be held on Friday, August 3 from 3pm to 7pm (dinner following) and on Saturday, August 4, 2007 from 9am to 1pm.
The TIM doctoral consortium is most valuable to Ph.D candidates interested in conducting leading-edge research and teaching in technology management, innovation, and related areas. The consortium will be led by a panel of faculty members with proven research and teaching records who will address key issues in academic life such as publishing in top journals, managing your time for research, meeting teaching and institutional demands, managing research collaborations, and funding your research.
The coordinators of the 2007 consortium are Arvids Ziedonis (Michigan) and Robert Salomon (NYU). The faculty facilitators include: Andy King (Dartmouth), Rachelle Sampson (Maryland), Ajay Agrawal (Toronto), Glenn Hoetker (Illinois), and Gary Dushnitsky (Wharton).
The application deadline is Monday, April 2. Only electronic applications will be considered. To apply, please send a Curriculum Vitae along with a one-page statement containing the following information: (1) Your full contact information, (2) your stage in the doctoral program, (3) the name of your thesis advisor and one additional reference, and, (4) A 100-word abstract or summary proposal of your dissertation. Preference will be given to doctoral candidates at later stages of their career – those at or near the thesis proposal stage.
E-mail your complete application to:
Robert Salomon
Stern School of Business
New York University
robert.salomon@stern.nyu.edu
If you have any questions, please contact:
Arvids Ziedonis
Stephen M. Ross School of Business
University of Michigan
azied@umich.edu
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Call For Papers
Applied Business and Entrepreneurship Association International (ABEAI)
http://www.ijeb.com
Fourth Annual Meeting, November 16-20, 2007
Marriott Wailea Beach Resort, Maui, Hawaii
Submission Deadline: August 15, 2007
Submit papers to:
abeai@up.edu.
Please indicate your topic area and the area number in your email subject line. Electronic submissions (email attachments in MsWord) of research papers (including detailed abstracts) in all areas of business and economics, as well as the topic areas listed below, are invited for presentation. Proposals for cases, workshops, symposia, colloquia, tutorials on current issues, and other special sessions, are also welcome.
Submitted papers go through a double blind peer review process. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by email. Accepted papers will be published in the peer reviewed Electronic Conference Proceedings.
Presenting author(s) are required to register for and attend the conference, and present the paper at the time specified in the conference program. Publication of multiple papers by the same author will be subject to extra charges.
All complete papers will be considered for Best Paper Awards in their respective tracks. Student papers will also be considered for award in the Student Papers Track. Conference best papers are eligible for publication in the special issue of the Indian Journal of Economics and Business (indexed by both JEL and Cabell).
Organize a Session:
You can organize a session on a topic of interest to you. Sessions include a chair and two or more paper presenters. The organizer would need to contact the other participants. Organized sessions should be submitted to
abeai@up.edu for approval and scheduling. If you have any questions email
abeai@up.edu.
Organize a Table Discussion:
You can organize a Table Discussion group by inviting researchers in your area of interest. Authors exchange and prepare to discuss all papers. The objective is to provide each author detailed and helpful comments that may make their papers publishable in academic journals of their choice. Organized Table Discussions should be submitted to
abeai@up.edu for approval and scheduling. If you have any questions email
abeai@up.edu.
Topic Areas and Tracks:
1. Accounting I (Audit/Financial/Tax/ AIS)
2. Accounting II (Cost/Managerial)
3. Business Law and Business Ethics
4. Public Policy in Business / Business Strategy
5. Cases, Workshops, Special Sessions
6. E-Business
7. Economics I (Macro/ Micro theory)
8. Economics II (Applied and Empirical Research)
9. Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management
10. Finance I (Financial Market, Derivatives, Investments)
11. Finance II (Financial Institutions, Corporate Finance)
12. Innovative Teaching I (Curriculum Design, Electronic Resources)
13. International and Global Business/Economics
14. Logistics and Transportation
15. Management and Organizational Behavior
16. Management Information Systems
17. Marketing/ e-Marketing
18. Production and Operations Management
19. Quantitative Methods and Management Science
20. Student Papers in all Fields of Business and Economics
21. Supply Chain Management and Quality control
Instructions for Authors
Please submit your manuscripts, proposals, and other research material to
abeai@up.edu. Include your topic area and the topic area number in your email subject. All presentation materials should include the following on the first page:
• Title
• Topic area and the topic area number
• Author (s)
• Author address and email
• Institution address
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Minitrack Cross-Organizational and Cross-Border IS/IT Collaboration
CALL FOR PAPERS
Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2007)
August 9 - 12, 2007 Keystone, Colorado, USA
Additional details may be found on AMCIS 2007 primary web site:
http://www.biz.colostate.edu/amcis07/index.htm
and
http://www.biz.colostate.edu/amcis07/Mini_Tracks/Coll&KM-Cross_Organizational-Romano.htm
IMPORTANT NOTE: The best papers from the "Collaboration Issues in Cross-Organizational and Cross-Border IS/IT" minitrack will be invited to submit revised versions for review and possible fast-track publication in a special issue of the International Journal of e-Collaboration (IJEC) (http://www.idea-group.com - ISSN: 1548-3673 E-ISSN: 1548-3681.) to be co-guest edited by the minitrack co-chairs.
Description:
As globalization moves forward, many IS/IT investments are being deployed across organizations located in different countries and world regions.
Cross-system and inter-system integration and collaboration technologies play essential roles and often determine investment success or failure. However, economic, social and other factors outside the system must also be taken into consideration for global IS/IT projects to be successful and productive.
Academic literature has extensively focused on trying to explain IS/IT productivity, but has rarely examined the links between international and multi-national collaboration processes and the payoffs from IS/IT investments.
Despite the intensive research for more than two decades of different aspects of IS/IT collaboration, many findings are based on the cultural environment of North America or Western Europe. As corporate reality demands that firms cooperate across national, economic and social boundaries, collaboration models need to be constructed, validated, and further refined in terms of the global economy.
IS/IT collaboration in the global economy differs substantially from collaboration in any single country or region for several reasons. First, IS/IT infrastructures vary significantly in terms of stage of development and maturity. Second, regulatory, legal, social, and cultural environments may also vary substantially. Third, various stakeholders in global IS/IT projects often have different or even conflicting goals and ascribe to their own definitions of project success. In addition, managing globally distributed teams requires a very high level of coordination and collaboration that exceeds that needed for more typical virtual teams within one economy or region. For IS/IT projects to be successful and productive in the global economy researchers and practitioners need to address the aforementioned and other issues.
In summary, few studies have investigated the linkages between global collaboration and the business value of IS/IT investment. To address these issues and others in terms of the global economy, this minitrack focuses on global collaboration processes and projects and their potential impact on IS/IT productivity and success.
Possible contributions regarding the collaboration in global economy may include, but are not limited to the following:
- Processes of international/global IS/IT collaboration
- Effects of collaboration on IS/IT productivity
- Success factors of collaboration technologies
- Inter-organizational collaboration and IS/IT productivity
- Conceptual frameworks of IS/IT collaboration in the global economy
- Country-specific case studies on IS/IT collaboration
- Comparative cross-country research on IS/IT collaboration
- Collaboration during the IS/IT offshoring /outsourcing projects
- Cross-border and cross-organizational IS/IT project management
- Multinational teams and IS/IT productivity
- IS/IT productivity instrument development and validation
- Cross-border and cross-organizational value-chains and value-networks
We encourage both empirical (quantitative and qualitative) and theoretical papers.
IMPORTANT DEADLINES
Full Papers Due Monday, March 5, 2007
Minitrack Co-chairs
Nicholas C. Romano, Jr.
Oklahoma State University
Spears School of Business
344 North Hall
700 N. Greenwood Ave.
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74106-0700
Phone: (918) 594-8506
Fax: (918) 594-8281 (fax)
nicholas.romano@okstate.edu
James B. Pick
University of Redlands
School of Business
1200 East Colton Avenue
Redlands, CA 92373-0999
Phone: (909) 748-6261
Fax: (909) 335-5125 (fax)
james_pick@redlands.edu
Narcyz Roztocki
State University of New York at New Paltz School of Business
75 South Manheim Boulevard
New Paltz, NY 12561
Phone: (845) 257-2935
Fax: (845) 257-2947 (fax)
roztockn@newpaltz.edu
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CALL FOR CHAPTERS
Submission deadline: May 1, 2007
Information Communication Technologies and City Marketing:
Digital Opportunities for Cities around the World
A book edited by
Mila Gascó-Hernández (International Institute on Governance of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain), and
Teresa Torres-Coronas (Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain)
Introduction
City marketing means designing a city to satisfy the needs of its target markets. It succeeds when citizens and businesses are pleased with their community, and the expectations of visitors and investors are met. Indeed, city marketing as such is not a new phenomenon. However, nowadays, as a result of the global transformations that are deeply impacting the organization of the local level, cities have been compelled to actively compete with each other. More than ever, cities need to attract tourists, factories, companies, and talented people, as well as find markets for their exports, and this requires that cities adopt strategic marketing management tools and conscious branding. As a result, several city marketing methods, approaches and instruments have been designed to attract the attention of the city stakeholders. Nevertheless, despite the important investments of the last few years, there is still an important tool, brought about by the new era, which remains unexplored: the new information and communication technologies and, particularly, the Internet.
The Overall Objective of the Book
This book is aimed at understanding how ICTs can contribute to the development of city marketing strategies and, therefore, to enhance local socio-economic development . In particular, its overall objectives are to describe the concept of city marketing and to analyze its contribution to the city's competitiveness, to identify the potential applications of ICTs in city marketing, to provide insightful analysis about those factors that contribute to a successful use of ICTs by city marketers, to propose strategies to move forward and to address future challenges that involve the whole array of city stakeholders, and to identify and describe international successful experiences that explain the previous issues.
The Target Audience
This book will be useful to p oliticians and public sector officials (civil servants) who need a convenient source of information on what ICTs can do for city marketing and on what other local governments are doing in this field, to private companies executives, leaders and consultants who frequently liaise with government agencies to design and implement city marketing strategies, and to academicians, researches and students interested in the field of city marketing and/or in the field of the use of ICTs by local governments.
Recommended topics include but are not limited to any cases, experiences or best practices related to the issue of ICTs and city marketing. Also, manuscripts about the conceptual link between those two terms will be accepted.
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before May 1, 2007, a 2-5 page manuscript proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by June 1, 2007 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by September 30, 2007. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a blind review basis. The book is scheduled to be published by Idea Group, Inc.,
www.idea-group.com, publisher of the Idea Group Publishing, Information Science Publishing, IRM Press,
CyberTech Publishing, and Idea Group Reference imprints
in 2008.
Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) to:
Dr. Mila Gascó and Dr. Teresa Torres at (
citymarketingbook@gmail.com)
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Society of Entrepreneurship Scholars
Conference & Manuscript Boot-camp
August 16-19, 2007
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
The Society of Entrepreneurship Scholars (SES) invites you to submit your best work - work you believe will potentially merit publication in a top tier journal - to the 2007 SES Conference and Manuscript Boot-camp. The sole purpose of this conference is to increase the flow of manuscripts about entrepreneurship that are submitted to and published in top tier journals. Papers accepted for the conference will be reviewed in depth by at least two senior scholars who have a history of success publishing in top-tier scholarly journals. These scholars will work with you during three-hour sessions, both individually and in small groups, focusing upon measures that you can take to improve the manuscript and enhance its prospects for publication in a top tier journal.
Some sessions available at the conference will also offer a broader discussion of issues central to the mission of the Society of Entrepreneurship Scholars, enhancing the mainstream visibility of entrepreneurship research.
The anticipated scholar-mentors for the 2007 Conference include, among others;
* Howard Aldridge
* Jay Barney
* Jean Bartunek
* Jeff Covin
* Julio DeCastro
* Elaine Mosakowski
* Dean Shepherd
* William Schulze
* Charles Snow
Between twenty and twenty-five papers will be accepted for the conference. The sole competitive criterion for acceptance is the paper's perceived potential for publication in top tier journals. Because submitted papers will be judged based upon potential, they may be at any stage of development; i.e., working papers as well as papers that have already been reviewed and rejected by a journal. Papers may be conceptual or empirical. We encourage submissions from faculty in other genres who are interested in publishing about entrepreneurship, as well as from junior faculty and doctoral students in the field of entrepreneurship.
Since the design of the conference restricts the number of participants, only one author (who should identify themselves as the submitting author) will be invited to participate in the conference. You may submit multiple co-authored papers to the conference, but each submitting author must be unique. If the submitting author is unable to attend the conference, the invitation will be withdrawn. Co-authors may not attend in the submitting author's place. All papers will be blind reviewed.
The 2007 Conference and Manuscript Boot-camp will be held on Friday and Saturday, August 17-18 at Ohio State University. The conference chair for the 2007 conference is Sharon Alvarez, Ohio State University. The conference co-chair is Bill Schulze, University of Utah.
Questions can be directed to Sharon Alvarez at
Alvarez_42@cob.osu.edu.
Submissions should be sent as an attachment to
SES@cob.osu.edu <mailto:
SES@cob.osu.edu> no later than March 30th, 2007. The submitting author should be identified on the title page.
The mission of the Society of Entrepreneurship Scholars is to enhance the quality of scholarship in the field of entrepreneurship. Its operational goal is to increase the flow of manuscripts about entrepreneurship that are submitted to and published in the top tier journals. The Society sponsors an annual conference and manuscript boot-camp, as well as other activities aimed at increasing scholarly discourse about entrepreneurship. Our metric for success is the number and quality of papers about entrepreneurial topics appearing in the top tier journals. The Society is organized and governed by its membership. The Society is not affiliated with any journal, other scholarly organization, or academic institution.
Society Officers:
Conference Chair: Sharon Alvarez, The Ohio State University
Co-Chairs: Bill Schulze, University of Utah.
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Apologies for multiple list postings:
2007 AMLE Professional Development Workshop for Writers
Sunday, August 5
Part 1: 8:00-10:00 (Open to all)
Part 2: 10:00-12:00 (Open only to those with approved proposals)
Organizers/Presenters: David Waldman, Ben Arbaugh, Nancy Adler, Tim Peterson, Don Siegel, and Kurt Kraiger
There appears to be a need for a professional development workshop for writers seeking to publish in the research and reviews (R&R) section of AMLE. Prospective writers for AMLE could use guidance in determining appropriate areas of study, as well as proper methods to pursue their research. The general purpose of this workshop is to provide such guidance.
The notion of workshops for prospective writers is not a new concept within the Academy. For years, AMR held such workshops on the weekend prior to an Academy conference. A number of early drafts of papers that were reviewed as part of these workshops ended up in later volumes of AMR. As outlined below, we believe that similar positive outcomes could be achieved for AMLE. Moreover, by providing this workshop for writers, the journal is helping to satisfy the developmental aspect of its mission.
The workshop will be 4 hours in length, held on Sunday morning, prior to the beginning of the 2007 convention. In essence, the workshop will have two parts: (1) presentations and discussion relevant to the publication of articles in the R&R section, and (2) small group discussions of selected research proposals of workshop participants. The first part of the workshop will last for 1 hour and 45 minutes and will be open to all Academy members – without advanced sign up or screening. We will include the following in this time period:
Stories on the part of authors who have actually published in AMLE with regard to their experiences in the process,
The Editor’s and Associate Editors’ thoughts about things that we see in submitted papers that cause delight, versus things that we see that are not so delightful (perhaps in line with David Letterman’s top 10 listings)
The second half of the workshop (around 2 hours or so) will be primarily devoted to receiving specific feedback on proposals submitted by respective participants in advance of the workshop. Thus, only participants with proposals selected in advance of the workshop will be invited to attend this 2nd part. The proposals should be brief (i.e., 5-10 double-spaced pages of text). Ideally, they should reflect research in the formative stage. Thus, prospective authors should outline a research concept, why the concept is important, specific research questions or hypotheses, and proposed methodology. Alternatively, proposals could represent research in more advanced stages, or research for which data have already been collected. Proposals will be due to the AMLE office by April 2, 2007(
amle@gwu.edu), and notification of acceptance will occur on or before May 1, 2007. Please note that accepted proposals and authors will not be listed in the Academy program.
During the 2nd half of the workshop, participants will get feedback in 3 or 4-person groups, each facilitated by one of the panel experts -- an associate editor, or somebody from the editorial board. For each person in a respective group, 20 or so minutes of the session will be devoted to receiving feedback from the other two or three participants, as well as the facilitator. We expect that the final 10-15 minutes will be spent conducting a wrap-up discussion involving all participants of the 2nd half of the workshop. It should be noted that participation in the workshop does not guarantee subsequent publication, but it should help along that path.
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Drew Gold, Ph.D.
Recovering Former Assistant Professor
Moore School of Business
University of South Carolina
813-226-7630 (business)
813-226-7631 (personal)
drew.gold@moore.sc.edu
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