TIM Division List Serve
Vol. 5, No. 02 (January 19, 2008)
Table of Contents:
- Symposia and Other Annual Meeting Information
- Call for Submissions
- Research Questions
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Symposia and Other Annual Meeting Information
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Reminder for 2008 TIM Best Dissertation Award: Abstracts due Jan 31st
With apologies for cross-posting, this note is a reminder of the Technology and Innovation Management Division's 2008 TIM Best Dissertation Award, with abstracts due January 31st.
We accept submissions based on doctoral dissertations completed during calendar years 2006 and 2007 and take a broad perspective on technology and innovation, including aspects of the emergence, diffusion, adoption, commercialization, evolution and consequences of technologies and innovations.
The award process involves two stages. In the first stage, each applicant submits a 5-page dissertation abstract (with up to a further 5 pages of exhibits and 5 pages of references). A committee of experienced scholars then selects the finalists. In the second stage, each finalist is invited to submit a 30-page manuscript based upon their dissertation.
The winner will be announced at the 2008 <st1:placename w:st="on">Annual</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Academy</st1:placetype> of Management Meetings in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Anaheim</st1:place></st1:city>, and all finalists will be invited to present their work at a dedicated session during the conference and will receive a cash award of $250. Details on the submission process are posted at http://www.aomtim.org under the 2008 meeting information.
Dissertation Award Co-Chairs:
Victor Seidel
Said <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Business</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype></st1:place>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Oxford</st1:placename></st1:place>
victor.seidel [at] sbs.ox.ac.uk
David Hsu
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Wharton</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype></st1:place>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Pennsylvania</st1:placename></st1:place>
dhsu [at] wharton.upenn.edu
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Call For Submissions
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Dear TIM members,
Please see the attached call for papers for a upcoming special issue of SMJ on temporary advantages.
Please consider submitting a paper. Thanks for your attention and best wishes for the new year 2008..
Giambattista Dagnino
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR A SPECIAL ISSUE OFTH E STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
THE AGE OF TEMPORARY ADVANTAGE
Guest Co-editors: Richard A. D'Aveni, Giovanni Battista Dagnino, and Ken G. Smith
Special Issue Purpose
The aim of this special issue is to develop theory and empirical evidence about whether and why competitive advantages are becoming less sustainable, and how organizations can successfully compete using a series of temporary or dynamic competitive advantages. The primary goal is to ask: What would
the field of strategy look like if the sustainability of competitive advantage was very rare or nonexistent?
Background
Over the past decade and a half, two literatures have challenged the concept of sustainable competitive advantage, suggesting that firm-specific advantages are not sustainable and more temporary in nature due to endogenous and exogenous reasons. These two literatures are: 1) the literature on hypercompetitive, high-velocity, hyper-turbulent, and chaotic environments; and 2) the studies on competitive dynamics that focus on speed and aggressiveness of firm actions that may undermine the effectiveness of a firm's position and movements. Together these literatures have found numerous endogenous and exogenous competence destroying strategies, disruptions and discontinuities that have questioned the strategy fields core tenet that firms should seek out sustained advantages. And they have
identified how product positioning-, knowledge-, resource-, barrier to entry-, and deep pocket-based advantages have been deteriorating more quickly in the past, due to revolutionary new business models, disruptive technologies, fast diffusion and access to information, and more emphasis on growth through innovation, than on maintaining margins and stability. Yet the vast majority of strategic management scholarship has continued to assume that sustainable competitive advantage exists. Indeed, from the very
outset of the field considerable effort is still being dedicated to defining and empirically demonstrating the existence of sustainable advantages. The field's most current response to the challenges to unsustainable advantage is "dynamic capabilities"-again assumed to be a sustainable advantage that
enables continuous strategy innovation necessary in disruptive environments. However, there is no consistent body of evidence that dynamic capabilities are sustainable over extended periods of time and in different contexts, and many suspect that firms can either become exhausted by continuous
transformation and innovation or get complacent by success.
Research Questions
The analysis of temporary and dynamic advantage can be partitioned into three main parts: (a) causes or antecedents, (b) management of temporary or dynamic advantages, and (c) consequences of temporary advantage. We seek studies of the many causes of the erosion of advantage including studies that focus on the following questions: What are the endogenous and exogenous antecedents of various kinds of temporary or dynamic advantages? Are controllable or uncontrollable causes more important? Answers to these questions are necessary to understand whether there are ways to slow the accelerating depreciation of advantages and which strategic solutions or strategies are possible.
We are also seeking articles on how to manage a series of temporary or dynamic competitive advantages. Specifically, we seek papers on: How do companies develop strategies to actively manage luck? How do organizational structure, culture, compensation, and processes vary to enable the concatenation a series of short-lived advantages? How are organizational decision-making and firm resource configurations different in a world of temporary or dynamic advantages?
Finally, we are looking for papers that answer how firms achieve high performance where advantages are fleeting? Do they intentionally cannibalize old advantages and transition to new ones to pre-empt the
competition? If so, when and under what conditions? Is there logic to the sequence and timing of moves deployed or is it a "random walk"? Do firm shift to advantages designed to reduce risk or increase growth at the expense of profitability? As the pace of change and disruption accelerates, will other forces arise to create stability/instability in markets? What economic, societal and collaborative actions and strategies, if any, are emerging to dampen the escalation of strategic turmoil, rivalry and fleeting advantage associated with dynamic, hypercompetition, high velocity and other chaotic environments?
In sum, we are looking for papers that examine the formulation and execution of very short-term dynamics of strategy, the use of temporary advantages in hyper-competitive environments.
Deadlines and Submission Instructions:
The deadline for submission of papers is October 1, 2008. Please submit your papers online on the Strategic Management Journal website and make sure to follow the Submission Guidelines available at:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/2144/home/ForAuthors.html.
Review Process and Special Issue Conference: The Guest Editors are seeking reviewers for this issue and are soliciting nominations and volunteers to participate in the review process. Reviewers are invited to contact the guest co-editor Giovanni Battista Dagnino, who is responsible for preparing the list of potential reviewers. Papers will be reviewed following the regular Strategic Management Journal double-blind review process. After the second round of reviews, the authors of the most promising submissions will be invited to a Special Issue Conference on "The Age of Temporary Advantages," to be held at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth in September 2009.
Guest Co-editors' contact details:
-Professor Richard D'Aveni, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, 100 Tuck Hall, Hanover, NH email: richard.a.d'aveni@tuck.dartmouth.edu;
-Professor Giovanni Battista Dagnino,School of Economics and Business, University of Catania, Catania, Italy; e-mail: dagnino@unict.it;
-Professor Ken G. Smith, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; e-mail: rhsmith@umd.edu.
Giovanni Battista Dagnino
Professor of <st1:placename w:st="on">Business</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Economics & Management</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:city w:st="on">Catania</st1:city>
Corso Italia, 55
95129 - <st1:city w:st="on">CATANIA</st1:city> (<st1:country-region w:st="on">Italy</st1:country-region>)
Ph: +39.095.7537.622
Fax: +39.095.7537.510
Email: dagnino@unict.it
Università di <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Catania</st1:place></st1:city> - C.E.A.
Servizio di Posta Elettronica
http://www.cea.unict.it
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Perhaps some of you are interested in this call for papers on intellectual property. See below for more details.
Best,
Marcel Bogers
EPIP 2008 : call for papers
The Chair of Economics and Management of Innovation at EPFL – Prof. Dominique Foray – would like to draw your attention to the following conference:
3rd EPIP Annual Conference
October 3-4, 2008
Bern – Switzerland
http://www.epip.eu/conferences/epip03
A call for paper has been launched recently (pdf attached).
Abstracts may be submitted online at http://www.epip.eu/conferences/epip03 by May 15, 2008.
Please feel free to forward this information to any potential contributor/participant.
Sorry for cross-postings.
Kind regards,
Tea Danelutti
Danelutti Tea [mailto:tea.danelutti@epfl.ch]
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How do we "hear" in the quest for Discovery? What do we notice? What surfaces in the verbal and visual symbols of communication? How do we discover capacity and make meaning through reflective practice in conversation? How do we both transcend and respect boundaries to achieve new levels of understanding?
CALL FOR ARTICLES
This issue of Appreciative Inquiry (AI) Practitioner will venture into the domain of technology to find the answers to these questions. We intend to explore the possibilities for collecting, sharing, visualizing,
reflecting, and collectively understanding stories of success uncovered in the Discovery phase of AI. The aim is twofold: first, to support the ways in which people variously perceive, communicate and learn; second, to add rich texture to the insights gleaned about the best of what is.
The integration of online and computer-based software for one-to-one and broadcast messages is a vital link among people. For some AI consultants and practitioners, the touch-points of meaningful inquiry in a wired world have inspired exploration with new digital tools and schemes. If you are one of those adventuresome practitioners, we are looking for your experiences, suggestions and lessons learned. Join us in creating an issue of AI Practitioner that encourages novices to begin to use technology, helps occasional users to deepen or enrich their experience, and supports early adopters to see the full-range of options as they lead or engage others in positive change initiatives.
TO CONTRIBUTE
We invite you to send a proposal of not more than 300 words for an article for the May '08 edition of Appreciative Inquiry Practitioner Journal (AIP) by Friday, February 1 to: Loretta Donovan loretta.donovan@gmail.com and Gabriel Shirley gabriel@bigmindconsulting.com.
We are looking for articles that highlight technology uses which:
- Focus on delivering an experience online, rather than adhering to a model required by the technology.
- Integrate planning for a parallel online stream to the face-to-face AI process.
- Foster the social relationships of AI by connecting people before and after an event.
- Offer the opportunity to reflect, individually and as a group – for people who have interacted directly in the inquiry process or others outside the immediate story sharing.
- Help us understand the work of stewards of technology who model and support online relationships, reflection, and sharing of insights.
- Use alternative or multiple media (sound, graphics, photos, video) to convey stories and themes.
- Apply social web / Web2.0 techniques and technologies for co-creation in an online environment.
TIMETABLE
When you send us your proposal for an article, please be sure that you can meet the other dates in the timetable, if your article idea is selected.
The timetable is
Proposal for an article (300 words max) by February 1, 2008
Final article due by March 7, 2008 preferably before
Any further edits to be completed by March 21, 2008
WHAT PROMPTED THIS ISSUE IN RELATION TO APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY?
An October 2006 posting to the AI Annotations Blog asked:
" . . . what would happen if the positive question was not only answered in words. What would happen if stories were shown as video clips (caught on cell phones?) or sketches, or shared as song, or expressed in dance? How would that impact the mind and emotions of the storyteller? Would there be new insights? Less constraint? More transparency? And how would this be received by others who listen/watch/take in the story?"
That question has been the catalyst for this issue of AIP. Over the last 20 years, deep understanding of the principles and practices of Appreciative Inquiry have largely come from working in close proximity. Enhancements to AI have included visual and sound media built into the in-person experience. The shift of web-based communication media to more generative, democratic models has inspired new levels of participation. And so, we are poised to find the convergence of AI within this context.
OVERALL INTENT/AUDIENCE
This issue is for: AI practitioners and consultants who are using or are interested in understanding technologies that enhance the AI process. Secondly, it is for designers and hosts of online environments who are interested in the application of AI online.
INFORMATION ABOUT THE GUEST EDITORS
Loretta Donovan has interwoven a passion for exploring the human spirit with an understanding of how organizations thrive as they create value. She explains, "I advocate for and facilitate engaged processes via action-oriented inquiry for businesses meeting critical challenges. With globalization, a maturing workforce, and free agent workers, my imperative is involving managers in focused dialogue." She is a co-owner in Appreciative Inquiry Consulting, founder of the Worksmarts Group, and an adjunct at Teachers College, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Columbia</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>.
www.aiconsulting.org, www.socialtext.net/digitldialog
loretta.donovan@gmail.com
Gabriel Shirley is an organization designer and technologist interested in the convergence of people, technology, and nature. He seeks solutions to complex issues through local action and collective learning. Currently, he is asking the question, "What do organizations and employees need to be and do in order to be relevant to the world in the next 20 years?" http://bigmindconsulting.com gabriel@bigmindconsulting.com
Sue Anderson operates her own consulting practice, Clockwork Communications in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Toronto</st1:place></st1:city> specialising in organisational communications. Also a partner in The SuMo Experience, Sue helps organisations engage stakeholders in possibility focused dialogue to create and sustain momentum. Sue is an associate faculty member at the Schulich Executive Education Centre, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">York</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>.
sue@thesumomexperience.com
MORE ABOUT AI PRACTIONER ISSN 1741-8224
www.aipractitioner.com
The AI Practitioner, formerly known as the AI Newsletter, began in May 1998. The publication is for people interested in making the world a better place using Appreciative Inquiry theory and methodology.
The publication carries articles, case studies and examples highlighting where and how Appreciative Inquiry has been used to bring about positive change. The articles highlight various aspects of the thinking and methodology of Appreciative Inquiry such as the life giving forces in a system, compelling images of the future, designs for living that future and ways to sustain the relationships and systems necessary for positive change.
Subscribers receive four issues a year in February, May, August and November. Subscribers and purchasers of single issues have a choice of downloading a high-resolution copy for printing or a lower solution copy for screen reading.
Any questions about the AI Practitioner can be directed to Anne Radford editor@aipractitioner.com
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OPEN RESEARCH SOCIETY: OPEN KNOWLEDGE - OPEN LEARNING - OPEN RESEARCH
The Open Research Society (ORS) is a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) and is not depending on any government, political party, political or religious organization or entities representing financial interests.
Dear all,
We are happy to invite you to join our worldwide initiative.
Please visit our site and learn more: http://www.open-knowledge-society.org
AT A GLANCE:
OUR TEN NEW INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS - 100 JOURNALS PLANNED FOR 2008-2010: http://www.open-knowledge-society.org/journals.htm
OUR THREE SPONSORED WORLD SUMMITS AND FORUMS http://www.open-knowledge-society.org/summits.htm
And also: DOWNLOAD OUR CALENDAR 2008: http://www.open-knowledge-society.org/ors2008.pdf
ORS PROJECTS Brochure [Download]: http://www.open-knowledge-society.org/ORS-PROJECTS.pdf
ORS Poster [Download]: http://www.open-knowledge-society.org/ORS-english.pdf
WE WOULD BE HAPPY TO HAVE YOUR SUPPORT. A GREAT THANK YOU TO THE 1000S PEOPLE WORLDWIDE THAT FROM THE FIRST MOMENT GAVE A HUG AND A HAND TO OUR EFFORT.
LETS SAY NO MORE TO:
- Barriers to Knowledge Diffusion
- Copyrights Dynasty of Publishers
- Closed Eyes to Knowledge based Social Exclusion
- Poor Exploitation of Scientific Research Outcomes
- Poor Peer Reviewing in Academic Journals
- Slow Publication Schedules
- A Silent Academic Community FOR THE AGENDA FOR A BETTER WORLD
LETS TOGETHER:
- Social & Humanistic Vision
- Worldwide Initiatives
- Think Tanks
- Open Research Journals
- Open Editions
- Antipoverty and Sustainable Development
- Knowledge Dissemination and Openness
- Knowledge Networking
- THESIS for a better world
With best Regards.
Drop a mail at openresearchsociety@gmail.com, share
with us your thoughts on this initiative
Miltiadis D. Lytras
President of the OPEN RESEARCH SOCIETY, NGO
Submitted by mdl@AUEB.GR
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FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">ATLANTA</st1:place></st1:city> COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE CONFERENCE (ACAC)
http://www.bus.emory.edu/Rmakadok/ACAC/
CALL FOR PAPERS * CALL FOR PAPERS * CALL FOR PAPERS
June 12-14, 2008 (Thursday to Saturday), at the Roberto C. Goizueta Business School, Emory University
CONFERENCE CHAIRPERSON:Rich Makadok, Emory University
CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
- Russ Coff & Rich Makadok, Emory University
- Asli Arikan, Ilgaz Arikan, Bill Bogner, Irene Duhaime, & Greg Henley, Georgia State University
- Marco Ceccagnoli, Vivek Ghosal, & Frank Rothaermel, Georgia Institute of Technology
ACADEMIC SPONSORS:
- Emory University's Roberto C. Goizueta Business School
- Georgia State University's J. Mack Robinson College of Business
- Georgia Institute of Technology's College of Management
CO-SPONSORS:
- Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation of Kansas City
- Herman J. Russell Sr. International Center for Entrepreneurship
The "big picture" strategy questions...
- Where do competitive & distinctive advantages come from, and how are they sustained?
- Why do some companies & new ventures consistently outperform their competitors?
- Why do some businesses succeed in the same industry environments where others fail?
- And what, if anything, can managers and entrepreneurs actually do about it?
The aim of this annual conference series is to improve our ability to answer these "big picture"
questions and other related questions by engaging some of the world's top researchers on competitive advantage in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Atlanta</st1:place></st1:city> for 3 days each year.
We expect to:
- Share cutting-edge research, ideas, and theories.
- Foster collaborative research efforts.
- Build a worldwide association and network of researchers who are dedicated to advancing the
state of knowledge about competitive advantage.
The conference organizers invite the submission of unpublished working papers that advance the
state of knowledge about competitive advantage.
- Conference registration fee will be WAIVED for all authors of papers selected for presentation at the conference. Authors of papers selected for presentation will also receive conference proceedings, catered meals, and deeply discounted hotel rates (but will be expected to pay for their own hotel, airfare, & other travel expenses).
- Submitted papers will undergo a selection process, NOT a formal review process – so we will not provide reviews or other feedback on any submitted manuscript.
- Submitting to ACAC represents a COMMITMENT that at least one author will participate in WHATEVER session the paper gets assigned to, WHENEVER that session is scheduled (from Thursday June 12 to Saturday June 14), and WHICHEVER format that session is. There are two session formats -- regular paper presentations OR research-development workshop roundtable discussions (which require authors to give feedback to each other on their papers). If you are uncomfortable with these requirements -- e.g., if you cannot commit to present on ANY of the three days or are unwilling to participate in a workshop format -- then please DO NOT submit. Authors who commit to participate but then fail to do so, for any reason other than a genuine emergency, may be excluded from future ACAC meetings.
- Papers must be submitted via the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) conference submission system at http://hq.ssrn.com/conference=Atlanta-Comp-Advantage
Submitters must create a SSRN account. Any technical problems with the SSRN submission system should be reported by e-mailing UserSupport@SSRN.com or calling 877-SSRNHELP (877.777.6435 or 585.442.8170).
- Papers must be submitted in PDF format, but documents can be converted to PDF format for FREE (with no software required) by using any of five on-line file-conversion web sites -- see the
submission web page above for links and details.
- When submitting a paper, please select 3 to 5 topic codes from the ACAC topics list that best describe your paper's topic. These codes are listed under topic headings in the Classification section of the submission process.
- The DEADLINE for submissions is Tuesday February 19, 2008.
Additional information about the <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Atlanta</st1:place></st1:city> Competitive Advantage Conference is available on-line at:
http://www.bus.emory.edu/Rmakadok/ACAC/
For any questions or technical problems about the SSRN submission system, please e-mail UserSupport@SSRN.com or call 877-SSRNHELP (877.777.6435 or 585.442.8170).
For any questions or comments about the conference or its policies, please e-mail ACAC@MAKADOK.COM
Richard J. Makadok
Associate Professor
Goizueta Business School
Emory University
1300 Clifton Road
Atlanta, GA 30322-2710
voice (404) 727-8639
fax (404) 727-6313
Rich_Makadok@bus.emory.edu
http://www.bus.emory.edu/Rmakadok/Professional/
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
-- Herman Melville
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Research Questions
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Dear Colleagues
I was wondering whether any of you has any idea regarding modeling the evolution of networks in response to the multiple changes in the environment?
Thanks
Navid
David Asgari
navid@NUS.EDU.SG
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Darlene
Darlene Alexander-Houle
Global Program Manager, Hewlett-Packard
Adjunct Global Business and Management, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Phoenix</st1:placename></st1:place>
281-514-0111 (office) 281-851-3924 (mobile)
dahoule@sbcglobal.net
dahoule@email.phoenix.edu