Vol. 5, No. 16 (July 21, 2008)
Table of Contents:
- General Announcements
- Symposia and Other Annual Meeting Information
- Call for Submissions
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- General Announcements
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REMINDER: The deadline for the 2008 INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition is approaching
Submission Deadline: July 28, 2008
Call for Submissions
We invite you to submit your dissertation proposal to the INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition. Now in its 16th year, this competition is one of the most prestigious available to doctoral students studying organizations. Finalists will present their dissertation proposals in a workshop on Saturday, October 11, 2008 at the fall INFORMS Conference held in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Washington</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">DC</st1:state></st1:place>. During the workshop finalists will receive detailed feedback from a panel of respected organizational scholars who act as final judges for the competition. The all-day workshop also provides a good opportunity to interact with a small group of future colleagues. At the workshop, the judges will award a first and second prize. The First Prize winner receives a free trip to the Organization Science Winter Conference (registration, lodging, and $500 toward airfare and expenses). Second prize is a $250 honorarium.
To be eligible, students must have defended their dissertation proposal between August 1, 2007 and August 1, 2008, but have not yet defended their dissertation. We encourage all eligible doctoral students who are studying topics related to organization science to apply. Proposals addressing issues related to any aspect of organization theory, organizational behavior, strategy or entrepreneurship are welcome.
The dissertation proposals will be judged based on soundness of theory, methodological rigor, and contribution to the field of organization science. In keeping with the mission of the INFORMS College on Organization Science, boldness and innovation will be important criteria in the judging process.
The competition is being coordinated this year by Kyle Lewis from the <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Texas</st1:placename> at <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Austin</st1:place></st1:city>. We are fortunate again this year to be using Organization Science's ScholarOne manuscript submission system to manage manuscript submissions and reviews. The web address for submissions is http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/orgsci. If you do not already have an account you will have to create one. This is a quick and easy process.
Applications must be received by July 28, 2008. Proposals must be no longer than 15 double-spaced pages in 12-point Times font. Up to 7 additional pages containing references and exhibits may be included. Please follow these formatting instructions; proposals not meeting these formatting instructions will be returned. In addition to the proposal, each application must include a nomination letter from the applicant's advisor certifying that the student has advanced to candidacy and is likely to complete the
dissertation by December 31, 2009 -- we do not need a detailed recommendation letter.
Please follow Organization Science's instructions for submitting your proposal. A couple of important things to note:
. Your manuscript type is PROPOSAL
. Under section 2, Attributes, please select a few key words to aid in assigning reviewers
. Under Section 4, Reviewers and Editors, do not recommend any reviewers. However, you should indicate Kyle Lewis as your preferred SENIOR EDITOR.
. Under section 5, Details and Comments, Paste your cover letter into the window and use the browse attachment function to attach your COVER PAGE as well as YOUR ADVISOR'S NOMINATION LETTER
. Under section 6, Upload Files, upload a copy of your proposal WITHOUT ITS COVER PAGE OR OTHER IDENTIFYING INFORMATION. The first page should include
only your dissertation title and abstract.
Please direct any inquiries to:
Kyle Lewis, kyle.lewis@mccombs.utexas.edu
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Symposia and Other Annual Meeting Information
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AOM Symposium Announcement - Alliance Portfolios: The Questions We Ask
2008 Academy of Management Meeting
Anaheim, CA
Showcase Symposium
Time: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 10:30 am - 11:50 pm
Location: Hilton Anaheim, California Pavilion B
Symposium website: http://iew3.technion.ac.il/AOM2008/
Panelists:
Ranjay Gulati, Harvard Business School
Werner H. Hoffmann, Vienna U. of Economics and Business Administration
Prashant Kale, Rice University
Dovev Lavie, Technion & University of Texas at Austin
Jeffery J. Reuer, University of North Carolina
Harbir Singh, The Wharton School
Symposium Objectives and Focus:
The study of interfirm alliances and networks has drawn extensive attention in strategic management, organization theory, technology and innovation management, and related fields. In a first glance it seems that most questions have already been answered. In recent years, however, firms have become embedded in multiple simultaneous alliances, which raises new questions concerning the management and performance implications of
alliance portfolios. An alliance portfolio refers to a firm's collection of immediate alliance partners.
The questions we ask concern: (a) Governance - how can a firm design an alliance program to coordinate multiple alliances and manage related tradeoffs? (b) Capabilities - how can a dedicated alliance function engage in learning and dissemination of partnering know-how as well as leverage its experience for repeatable success? (c) Configurations - how do partner composition and tie heterogeneity promote distinctive strategies? and (d)
Performance - how can a firm leverage its alliance portfolio to enhance its corporate performance?
In addressing these questions scholars may emphasize the nature of relationships or instead study patterns of ties in the firm's ego-network. Perhaps, scholars should question these perspectives, juxtapose them, or adopt new lenses. This symposium will gather a distinguished panel that will raise the above questions and discuss recent developments in this emerging field of research. The panel will (a) provide a coherent yet ultidisciplinary perspective on the phenomenon of alliance portfolios, (b) report recent findings and offer new insights that advance this research agenda, and (c) discuss the conceptual and empirical challenges and set directions for future research.
Symposium Format:
This symposium is designed to stimulate an interactive discussion and to help the audience identify emerging research opportunities and spark dialogue that can advance research on alliance portfolios. The first part of the symposium will feature four presentations on the following topics:
(a) Governance - how can a firm design an alliance program to coordinate multiple simultaneous alliances and manage tradeoffs? (Jeff Reuer)
(b) Capabilities - how can a dedicated alliance function engage in learning, dissemination, and utilization of partnering know-how? (Prashant Kale)
(c) Configurations - how do partner composition and tie heterogeneity promote distinctive strategies? (Werner Hoffmann)
(d) Performance - how can a firm leverage its alliance portfolio to enhance its corporate performance? (Dovev Lavie)
The second part of the symposium will feature two discussants who will integrate the previously presented themes from two perspectives:
(1) Relational perspective - examining the nature of relationships that emerge with and across partners in the alliance portfolio. (Harbir Singh)
(2) Structural perspective - analyzing consistent patterns and properties of ties in the alliance portfolio. (Ranjay Gulati)
The final part of the symposium will involve an interactive discussion on the key issues and challenges in the study of alliance portfolios following questions from the audience. In discussing these issues, the panelists will offer their comments and the floor will also be open for audience participation. We encourage you to submit your questions in advance so that the panelists will be able to give sufficient attention to them in their presentations and following discussion. The symposium will conclude by identifying "the key questions we should ask", to guide future research on alliance portfolios.
The Questions We Ask: Post Your Questions to the Panelists
If you would like to post a question to the panelists, please visit the symposium website at http://iew3.technion.ac.il/AOM2008/
We look forward to seeing you in Anaheim
Dr. Dovev Lavie
Landau Fellow - supported by the Taub Foundation
Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management
The Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Haifa 32000
Israel
Email: dlavie@ie.technion.ac.il
Tel: 972-4-8294435
Fax: 972-4-8295688
Sloan Industry Studies Fellow
Assistant Professor of Management
The University of Texas at Austin
McCombs School of Business
Management Department
1 University Station B6300
Austin, Texas 78712-0210
Tel: 512-471-5286
Email: dovev.lavie@mccombs.utexas.edu
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Dear TIM Discussion List members,
The 2008 AOM Local Arrangements Committee (LAC) needs your help to serve as
Roving Ambassadors and Roving Photographers on site at the <st1:placetype w:st="on">Academy</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Management Annual Meeting</st1:placename> in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Anaheim</st1:place></st1:city>.
We want to provide information to our attendees on a just-in-time basis and we need your help. Our goal is to recruit 200 volunteers. Please go to
http://meeting.aomonline.org/2008/index.php?
option=com_content&task=view&id=152&Itemid=133#call
for more information about how you can help.
If you enjoy taking candid pictures check out the information about becoming a Roving Photographer at
http://meeting.aomonline.org/2008/index.php? option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=11&Itemid=134
Take photos as you attend sessions and have them uploaded onto the Annual Meeting web pages!
I apologize for the repeat postings. Thanks for volunteering!
<st1:placename w:st="on">Jim</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Spee</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Redlands</st1:place></st1:city>
Local Arrangements Committee Chair
AOM Anaheim 2008
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Apologies for cross posting.
Dear AOM Members:
Your are cordially invited to the Business Meeting and Reception of the International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR) at the 2008 Academy of Management meeting in Anaheim! As usual, we will review our activities and achievements in the past year, listen to a well-known scholar about an impressive longitudinal study he recently completed, and catch up with old friends at a Chinese Dim Sum Station! Please join us in an evening of exciting reports, inspiring talks, and appetizing Asian foods! Here are the details of our program:
What: IACMR Business Meeting (IACMR status and 2008 IACMR Conference Report)
When: 5-530pm, August 9, Saturday
Where: Convention Center 206A
What: Keynote presentation by Prof. Victor Nee (Cornell University), recipient of the Distinguished Contribution Award of the IACMR 2008 Conference
When: 530-7pm, August 9, Saturday
Where: Convention Center 206A
What: IACMR Reception jointly hosted by IACMR/MOR/Wiley-Blackwell
When: 7-8pm, August 9, Saturday
Where: Convention Center 207A
Keynote Presentation Title: "Entrepreneurs and Firms: Report from the Yangzi Delta Survey"
Abstract: A report on preliminary findings from a large scale survey of private enterprises in the Yangzi Delta. The survey was conducted in 2007-08 in seven cities in <st1:state w:st="on">Zhejiang</st1:state> and <st1:state w:st="on">Jiangsu</st1:state> provinces and <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Shanghai</st1:place></st1:city>. The survey was part of a five-year study of the rise of entrepreneurial capitalism in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region>. I will present and interpret preliminary findings from the firm survey and face-to-face interviews with entrepreneurs.
See you at <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Anaheim</st1:place></st1:city>!
IACMR
originally submitted by xinevayao@GMAIL.COM
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Does our work matter? Has your research made an impact? What about your teaching? Are you confident that your classes are providing your students with relevant, evidence-based tools for their professional careers? What do businesses expect of us to consider our work more relevant?
(With apologies for cross-postings.)
If you are willing to give some serious thought to these questions, please join us in "Questioning for Relevance, A Dialogue of Scholarship and Practice;" a PDW that will take place on Sunday, August 10 from 9:00AM to 12:00PM at Anaheim Convention Center in the 210B room (pre-registration is NOT required but strongly encouraged; please email drolivaslujan@gmail.com to pre-register).
We will critically reflect on the recent initiatives to bridge the research-practice gap, and to inspire extensions of current efforts to increase the relevance of academic work. Presenters have volunteered based on their work, recent experience and research interests. We approach the research-practice gap from several perspectives, including those of the CEO of NSHMBA (a non-profit that has recently sponsored a journal and
increased its focus on business research), researcher, teacher, and practitioner perspectives. We seek to interactively explore with participants how each role contributes to the creation, translation, and dissemination of research that achieves relevance. Reports from founding participants in the Evidence Based Management Collaborative will be included. The panelists include the following: Lourdes Hassler, Chief Executive Officer of the National Society of Hispanic MBAs (NSHMBA). The organization is increasingly focusing on business research partly as a reaction to the dearth of research on Hispanics and businesses. Since 2007, the Business Journal of Hispanic Research has been sponsored by NSHMBA in response to this gap. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Lourdes</st1:place></st1:city> will share her perspective on relevant research for the business community.
David Denyer (Cranfield U, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Management</st1:placename></st1:place>) is also a Scholar of the Advanced Institute for Management (AIM); he will discuss the ways that evidence-informed management bridges the gap. He is an associate of the Research Methods Group of the Evidence Network (funded by ESRC and based at Queen Mary College, University of London), a multi-disciplinary community of senior scholars from the natural sciences (medicine) and social sciences to promote and investigate Evidence-based policy and
practice in the UK. David was one of only two management scholars invited to attend a series of seminars funded by the health development agency (HDA) and delivered under the auspices of the Evidence Network Research Methods Group.
Melanie P. Cohen spans the boundary of the academic and practitioner worlds, in her roles as the Information Technology Strategist for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD); and as an adjunct Assistant Professor at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Maryland</st1:placename></st1:place> (University College Graduate School of Management and Technology). Previously, she was the Chief of the Strategic Planning Unit at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Her experience includes organizational restructuring, change, and culture and her research focuses on public management and the 21st century organization. She will share her observations on the connection between theory and practice, specifically how theory informs practice and practice implements theory.
Joy Beatty (U of Michigan – Dearborn) reflects on the relationship between our research questions and teaching. If we are looking at having direct impact on practice, how does teaching serve that in relation to discipline-based research? Are we there to translate or transmit the "real" work from other areas into plain English? Or are we preparing the students to receive new ideas by opening their minds and teaching topics like critical
thinking? And whose needs do we serve when we form our research questions?
Chad Smith (Clarion U of Pennsylvania) sold his manufacturing company –a firm in ten industries with annual sales of ten million dollars that employed eighty individuals within three different internal divisions and two distributorships in <st1:state w:st="on">Florida</st1:state> and <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Texas</st1:place></st1:state>. <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Chad</st1:place></st1:country-region> has been in the manufacturing industry for the past fourteen years and owned his business
throughout the latter twelve years. Simultaneously, he earned his Doctorate of Science in Information Systems and Communications and entered academia as a member of the Business Faculty at Clarion's <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">College</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Business Administration</st1:placename></st1:place>. His presentation will highlight differences that these worlds present.
Josetta Mclaughlin (Roosevelt U) addresses the problem of translating research, based on her work with journalists. She has studied how psycho-metricians are presenting the data associated with standardized testing and the problems the journalists face in interpreting the numbers. Her perspective about these professionals will encourage the audience to ask the questions that make their work more translatable for non-specialists.
Miguel R Olivas-Luján (Clarion U of Pennsylvania and Tecnológico de Monterrey –<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Mexico</st1:place></st1:country-region>) is Liaison to Practice for the MED division in 2007-08 and organizer of this session. He represents MED in the Evidence-Based Management Collaborative (EBMC) convened by Denise Rousseau since 2007. Miguel's contribution is twofold: report on the progress of the EBMC and make a presentation on "Holographic writing," a writing style suitable for reporting research to non-technical audiences in layers of gradual and
increasing complexity.
After a first set of presentations, a 45-min discussion period has been scheduled to allow exercises facilitated by the presenters to engage the audience through discussions in round tables. The second set of presentations is scheduled to think about concrete ways in which our research can be made more accessible and relevant to practitioners.
This Professional Development Workshop was organized on behalf of the MED division and is sponsored by PTC, <st1:place w:st="on">OB</st1:place>, TIM, MOC, PNP, MEN, and CM.
For more information and to pre-register, contact Miguel R. Olivas-Luján (drolivaslujan@gmail.com).
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We have two PDWs for the upcoming 2008 AoM conference in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Anaheim</st1:place></st1:city> of particular technology and communication concerns. Scholars and practitioners will learn to make sound IT and communication decisions in the face of risk and weak signals. Please forward the information to interested colleagues and students.
Best, Karlene Roberts and Kuo Yu
"Confronting Risk: Examining Its Acceptability, Short Sightedness, Blind Sightedness, and Prevention." (#291) This session will be held on Sunday, August 10, from 8:00AM - 12:00PM at the Hilton <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Anaheim</st1:place></st1:city> in Pacific Pavilion C.
Errors and mishaps, whether human, system, or natural in origin, generate risk and uncertainty which organizations confront, manage, and accept. The <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">Institute</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Medicine</st1:placename></st1:place>'s 2000 and 2004 reports on medical errors, for example, set forth generative dialogues about risk awareness and risk acceptability. The participants of this PDW examine the error rates, error origins, and risk acceptability of various industry contexts. Furthermore, we examine how confronting risk forces organizations to self-reflectively shift questioning from performance and efficiency to reliability and prevention. In particular, we examine the short sightedness and blind sightedness of risk management in the hope that we can rethink risk acceptability and prevention differently. The PDW participants would help organizations teach the general principles and abstractions behind the highly reliable practices developed to manage risk. Following the format of the above-mentioned PDW, audience members will have the opportunity to interact with panelist experts in break-out groups.
Organizers and Chairs include Kuo Frank Yu, Karlene H. Roberts and William H. Starbuck. Participants include John S. Carroll, Timothy J. Vogus, Claus Rerup, James Douglas Orton, Rangaraj Ramanujam, Daved Van Stralen, Gary Provansal, Dwayne Thomas, Frank J. Barrett, Sotirios Paroutis, Klaus Weber, Greg Bigley, Phil Hanlon, Pete Sarna, Philipe Baumard, Estella Hernandez Gillette, Febra Johnson, Anne Washington, Debra Andersen, and Jim Holbrook.
"Weak Signals? But I Thought They Were Noise!": Highly Reliable Practices in Action." (#181) This session will be held on Saturday, August 9, from 1:00PM - 4:00PM at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Anaheim</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Convention Center</st1:placetype></st1:place> in 204B.
This PDW shifts focus from major trends to detecting weak signals. Many new questions surface as a result of this change in obsession. Why might today's institutional environments, technical advances, rapid information exchanges, and inter-organizational interdependence make detecting weak signals crucial? How might we unlearn the old mindsets that focus on large trends and explore new practices that detect minutiae? How do we amplify weak signals so that they can be noticed more easily? How do we organize ourselves, so relevant details noticed by front-runners are not prevented from reaching the top echelon? How do we contextualize and interpret weak signals in a timely manner, so they can assist organizational responses? How do we design policies, rules, and procedures in such a way that fosters a friendly institutional environment for weak signal detection? Through highly interactive break-out groups with our panel of experts, we will dialogue on these questions with audience members.
Organizers and Chairs include Kuo Frank Yu, Karlene H. Roberts and Gregory A. Bigley. Participants include Claus Rerup, John S. Carroll, Timothy J. Vogus, James Douglas Orton, Daved Van Stralen, Dwayne Thomas, Pete Sarna, Gary Provansal, Charles Watson, Febra Johnson, Debra Andersen, Dave Thomas, Mary Sally Matiella, and Philipe Baumard.
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PDW for the upcoming 2008 AoM conference in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Anaheim</st1:place></st1:city> of particular technology and communication concern where mentoring provides a common framework. Scholars and practitioners will experience using academic research on mentoring to evaluate how we can better communicate the results of our research. Experimenting with new technology, this PDW will explore the help, and hindrance, of computer networking advancements in evaluating research design and communicating practitioner questions within the researcher's model. Please forward the information to interested colleagues and students
Faculty and Practitioners Design Research in Cross Cultures Career Mentoring - Live, in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Hollywood</st1:place></st1:city>
Program Session #206, Saturday, 9 August 2008 2:00PM - 4:00PM Hilton <st1:city w:st="on">Anaheim</st1:city>, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Huntington</st1:place></st1:city> C
Coordinator: Jo Ann Duffy; Sam Houston State U.; mgt_jxd@shsu.edu
Coordinator: Darlene Alexander-Houle; Hewlett Packard/U. of <st1:city w:st="on">Phoenix</st1:city>; dahoule@sbcglobal.net
Facilitator: Ann Gregory; <st1:placename w:st="on">American</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">U.</st1:placetype> in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Bulgaria</st1:country-region>;
Facilitator: Miguel R. Olivas-Lujan; <st1:placename w:st="on">Clarion</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">U.</st1:placetype> of PA & Tecnológico de Monterrey;
Facilitator: Silvia Ines Monserrat; U. Nacional del Centro;
Facilitator: Yves R. F. Guillaume; <st1:city w:st="on">Aston U.</st1:city> <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region>;
Facilitator: Felix Brodbeck; <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Aston U.</st1:city> <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place>;
ABSTRACT: Mentoring is commonly viewed in academic research and by practitioner coaches as a key influence on success in careers; particularly for women. This innovative PDW develops faculty researchers' appreciation for practitioner challenges and practitioners' use of mentoring research and practices, encouraging provocative self-awareness. PDW facilitators from diverse countries, including <st1:country-region w:st="on">Mexico</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Argentina</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region>, US, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Singapore</st1:country-region>, and the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United Kingdom</st1:place></st1:country-region> offer stimulating material for an inclusive session where attendees will learn and integrate the practitioner's perspective. The workshop will segregate into small groups, each with two facilitators who have conducted research on mentoring in different countries. Non-academic practitioners from multinational companies such as Hewlett Packard, DreamWorks, Financial Planning, Athletic Coaching, Transwestern, publishing and aerospace will ensure the relevance of the research questions and will evaluate if the implementation of shared research appears actionable.
Evidence-based mentoring will be briefly presented and discussed within personal experiences and interest in each group. Groups will synthesize their discussion into a revised research model to further understanding of actionable mentoring. A network of tablet PCs will be provided to explore technology's assistance in revising and integrating the groups' real-time rough-draft models of mentoring while McCaffry's privilege exercise will be administered to incite participants experiencing the relevance of personal antecedents as triggering mechanisms. The groups will reconfigure around any changed perceptions and to develop a research plan that allows attendees from different countries to address the same mentoring issues within the context of their culture.
Pre-registration is required only to gauge the mentoring faculty researchers to attendees. Send your name, affiliation and interests to mgt_jxd@shsu.edu.
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Call for Participants
SMS Competitive Strategy Junior Faculty and Paper Development Workshop
Saturday, October 11, 2008
1:00 pm-6:00 pm
The Competitive Strategy Interest Group is offering a research focused junior faculty and paper development workshop at the 2008 Strategic Management Society meetings in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Cologne</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region></st1:place>. Although all members are invited to participate, preference will be given to junior faculty who defended their dissertations after September 2003.
This workshop will include panel discussions and breakout sessions. Senior faculty panels will discuss critical aspects of the research and publication process, ways to craft a successful research program and future directions in competitive strategy research. A breakout session will provide opportunities for participants to discuss and receive feedback on their work in an informal setting.
The co-chairs of the faculty panel are Michael Leiblein (<st1:placename w:st="on">Ohio</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">State</st1:placetype>) and Xavier Martin (<st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Tilburg</st1:place></st1:city>). The distinguished faculty panelists include Phil Bromiley (UC-Irvine), Javier Gimeno (INSEAD), Don Hambrick (<st1:placename w:st="on">Penn</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">State</st1:placetype>), Will Mitchell (Duke) and Margie Peteraf (<st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Dartmouth</st1:place></st1:city>). The senior faculty panel may be rounded out to reflect the interests of consortium attendees.
Please note that space will be limited in order to ensure a high level of interaction among all participants. In order to participate, individuals should email one *five-page abstract* proposal to Nienke Boelhouwer (nienke@uvt.nl) by *July 31, 2008* as attachment in a message with the header "Competitive Strategy Workshop Application". In the body of this e-mail please include a statement committing to attend the workshop if accepted, permission to distribute submitted works to session participants, and a commitment to prepare a one-page review of other papers in your assigned breakout session.
Applicants will be informed by August 20, 2008 whether their proposal was accepted. The workshop organizers will group accepted proposals with others that are similar in topic and/or methodology and distribute them to conference participants. Prior to the workshop, participants in each group will prepare written comments and feedback on the other papers in their group. They will exchange feedback during the paper development portion of the workshop, with each group's discussion being facilitated by one or more
experienced scholar(s) familiar with the topic or method in question.
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The below was noted too late for Call for Papers but included to inform you of the meeting
Dear Colleagues:
Please see the call for papers below for the Technology Transfer Society (T2S) Annual Conference, which will be held at the University at <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Albany</st1:place></st1:city>, SUNY on Friday, October 17 - Saturday, October 18, 2008.
Best regards,
Don Siegel
Donald S. Siegel, Ph.D.
Dean and Professor
School of Business
University at Albany, SUNY
1400 Washington Avenue
Albany, NY 12222
Tel: (518) 442-4910
Fax: (518) 442-4975
DSiegel@uamail.albany.edu
http://www.albany.edu/business/
http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/psi32.htm
http://ssrn.com/author=33607
President-Technology Transfer Society
Call for Papers
Entrepreneurship and INNOVATION CLUSTERS
Technology Transfer Society (T2S) Annual Conference
Hosted by the School of Business and the College of Nanoscale Science
and Engineering at the University at Albany, SUNY
Friday, October 17 - Saturday, October 18, 2008
The Technology Transfer Society (T2S) will hold its 2008 annual conference at the University at Albany's College of Nanoscale Science and Technology.
Keynote Speaker: Professor Marie Thursby, Georgia Tech
"Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results (TI:GER)"
The theme of this year's conference is Entrepreneurship and Innovation Clusters. Areas of particular interest include (but are not limited to):
* Innovation Clusters and National and Regional Competitiveness
* Innovation Clusters and Technology Transfer
* Best Practices in University Patenting and Licensing
* Technology Commercialization at Federal Labs
* Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy
* Corporate Strategy and Innovation Clusters
* Social Networks and Innovation Clusters
* Employment Benefits from Innovation Clusters
* Technology Incubators
* Research/Science Parks
* University-Based Startups
* The Entrepreneurial University
* Social Entrepreneurship in Innovation Cluster Industries
* Public Policies and Innovation Cluster Formations
* Economic Impact of Innovation Clusters
* Innovation Clusters as a Technology Infrastructure
* Innovation Clusters and New Entrepreneurs
Those who wish to organize and chair a session should submit a proposal (title of the session, brief description of the session's focus, and names and affiliations of three confirmed paper presenters) by Friday, July 18, 2008.
Those who wish to present a paper should submit an abstract (title of the paper and a 100 to 150 words description) by Friday July 18, 2008.
Proposals and abstracts should be submitted electronically to all five of the program organizers:
Professor Donald Siegel: DSiegel@uamail.albany.edu
Professor Albert N. Link: anlink@uncg.edu
Professor Pradeep Haldar: PHaldar@uamail.albany.edu
Professor Edward Cupoli: ECupoli@uamail.albany.edu
Professor Laura Schultz: lschultz@uamail.albany.edu
Additional information regarding the 2008 T2S annual conference, including hotel and registration information, will be posted on the website of the School of Business, University at Albany, SUNY (http://www.albany.edu/business/) and the Society's website: (http://www.t2society.org <http://www.t2society.org/> )
Sincerely yours,
Professor Donald Siegel, Dean, School of Business, University at Albany, SUNY President, Technology Transfer Society
Editor, Journal of Technology Transfer
Professor Albert N. Link, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Technology Transfer
(http://www.springer.com/business/journal/10961?detailsPage=journal
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