TIM Division List Serve
Vol.5 2, No. 18 (August 28, 2008)
Table of Contents:
- General Announcements
- Symposia and Other Annual Meeting Information
- Call for Submissions
- Book Announcements
- Position Announcements
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General Announcements:
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Greetings everyone:
Just a friendly reminder to please forward your submissions to the upcoming Fall newsletter by Friday 26 September. I will then have the newsletter out by the first week of October. I will issue a friendly reminder in mid-Sept.
The main emphasis of the Fall newsletter has been upon reporting about the past Academy meetings (much of which was covered at the TIM business meeting) and making certain that the TIM members will begin getting ready for the next Academy meeting. This second part includes discussions about the reviewer process, the paper/symposia/pdw submission processes, and the applications for the various TIM-run consortiums (doctoral and junior faculty).
Cheers from a breezy and sunny <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Montreal</st1:city></st1:place>,
Russ
Russell Fralich
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Management
HEC <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Montreal</st1:city></st1:place>
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Call for Submissions:
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The deadline has now been extended to Friday 19th September 2008
Technology and Humanity
The following is a call for articles for a forthcoming themed issue of eSharp, an established peer-reviewed journal publishing high-quality research by postgraduate students. eSharp is pleased to support new and early-career authors, and has actively encouraged emerging academic talent since 2002.
The twelfth issue of eSharp will consider the cultural and personal consequences of scientific and mechanistic innovation. We welcome articles which examine and engage with the effects, influences or application of technology in any area of the arts, humanities, social sciences and education, and we encourage submissions from postgraduate students at any stage of their research.
In keeping with the interdisciplinary nature of the journal the ideas of technology, innovation and culture can be interpreted as broadly as authors wish, and may consider, but are by no means limited to, themes such as:
* cyberspace and identity
* politics, surveillance and privacy
* the history, art and literature of the industrial and digital revolutions
* digital media and technologies of exhibition
* new technologies and the law
* cybernetics, gender and the body
* the movable type revolution
* digital narratives and virtual worlds
* education and innovation
* dystopias, dyschronias and utopias
* forensic and corpus linguistics
Submissions must be based on original research and should be between 4,000 and 6,000 words in length. Please accompany your article with an abstract of 200 to 250 words and a list of three to five keywords to indicate the subject area of your article. For more information, a full list of guidelines and our style sheet, please visit www.glasgow.ac.uk/esharp.
Please email submissions and any enquiries you may have to submissions@esharp.org.uk.
The deadline for submission of articles has now been extended to Friday 19 September 2008.
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Dear all:
We would like to draw your attention to the following Call for Papers for our sub-theme at EGOS 2009, July 2-4 in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Barcelona</st1:city></st1:place> (extended abstract submission deadline is January 11, 2009; full papers will be expected June 1st). We hope you find our sub-theme an appealing venue for presenting and discussing industry knowledge structures and new business ventures.
All the best,
Michel Ehrenhard, Shaker Zahra & Jeroen Kraaijenbrink
<st1:placetype w:st="on">U.</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Twente</st1:placename> / <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">U.</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Minnesota</st1:placename></st1:place>
EGOS Sub-theme 25: Energizing entrepreneurship: The role of industry knowledge structures in creating, assessing, and embedding new business ventures
Call for papers
Entrepreneurship has gained high prominence in the field of organization studies. It is also on top of the economic agenda of many regional and national governments as well as the European Union. Yet, our knowledge of the early stages of knowledge intensive entrepreneurship is still rather limited. Our aim for this sub-theme is to shed more light on these early stages by inviting scholars to submit papers that theorize and research the creating, assessing and embedding of new business opportunities.
Business opportunities emerge in the interaction between entrepreneurs and their industry environment. Whether these opportunities are primarily shaped by entrepreneurs or by the industry in which they operate is a key question currently open to debate. This sub-theme will consider an intermediate position in which entrepreneurs create new business opportunities by comprehending, interpreting, and reframing existing industry knowledge structures.
Industry knowledge structures refer to the different types and qualities of knowledge - and their linkages- that underlie an industry's products and technologies. This definition assumes that multiple and sometimes competing knowledge bases exist in an industry. This diversity sets the stage for competitive rivalry among companies that capitalize on different types of knowledge. It also creates opportunities for new firm creation to capitalize on convergence and divergence in the industry. Industry knowledge structures, as such, both enable and constrain entrepreneurs in their possibilities for creating new ventures. More specifically, industry knowledge structures influence the mobility, migration, and diffusion of knowledge; capability development; patterns of resource or skill accumulation; innovation regimes; the efficacy of different modes of exploitation; and the like.
Entrepreneurs and internal and external stakeholders (venture capitalists, boards of directors, and the like) assess the chances of survival in the market and make use of the knowledge in their industry environment to improve these chances. Where new opportunities are created by diverting from threaded paths, entrepreneurs will also find a need to embed their businesses into their respective industries. This will lead entrepreneurs to attempt to transform industries' knowledge structures. This, in turn, will provide a basis for the development of other new business opportunities. Hence, our definition also underscores and reinforces the role of institutional entrepreneurship in creating new market areas, new organizational forms and business streams.
We invite papers that discuss the way ventures are created, assessed, and embedded as entrepreneurs comprehend, interpret and reframe industry knowledge structures. Questions in this domain include, but are not limited to:
· How are industry knowledge structures created, maintained and changed?
· How do entrepreneurs recognize industry knowledge structures?
· How do they interpret disconnectedness of, and linkages between industry knowledge structures?
· How do entrepreneurs convert this knowledge into a clear definition of opportunities?
· How do they convert these definitions of opportunities into prototypes for different types of firms?
· How do these different processes - comprehending, interpreting, and reframing - develop over time as knowledge structures change?
· What are the strategic implications of entrepreneurs' learning for changing well-established knowledge structures?
· How do these processes influence the various stages of new venture creation and opportunity recognition?
· How can industry knowledge structures be measured or observed qualitatively and quantitatively?
We are interested in papers that provide a strong theoretical contribution to the field of new business venturing and opportunity development. We welcome conceptual as well as qualitative or quantitative empirical papers. Specifically, we are interested in papers that further develop or apply the notion of industry knowledge structures.
Useful readings
Díez-Vial, <st1:place w:st="on">I.</st1:place> (2007): "Explaining vertical integration strategies: Market power, transactional attributes and capabilities." Journal of Management Studies, 44 (6), 1017-1040.
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Galunic</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">D.C.</st1:state></st1:place> and S. Rodan (1998): "Resource recombinations in the firm: Knowledge structures and the potential for Schumpeterian innovation." Strategic Management Journal, 19 (12), 1193-1201.
Hargadon, A.B. (2002): "Brokering knowledge: Linking learning and innovation." Research in Organizational Behavior, 24, 41-85.
Johnson, V. (2007): What is organizational imprinting? Cultural entrepreneurship in the founding of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Paris</st1:city></st1:place> opera." American Journal of Sociology, 113 (1), 97-127.
Ordanini, A., G. Rubera and M. Sala (2008): "Integrating functional knowledge and embedding learning in new product launches: How project forms helped EMI Music." Long Range Planning, 41 (1), 17-132.
Saka-Helmhout, A. (2007): "Unraveling learning within multinational corporations." British Journal of Management, 18 (3), 294-310.
Soubeyran, A. and H. Stahn (2007): "Do investments in specialized knowledge lead to composite good industries?" Small Business Economics, 29 (1/2), 119-135.
Zahra, S., E. van de Velde and B. Larrenta (2007): "Knowledge conversion capability and the performance of corporate and university spin-offs." Industrial and Corporate Change, 16 (4), 569-608.
About the convenors
Michel Ehrenhard is a Research Associate at NIKOS - the Dutch Institute for Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Twente</st1:placename></st1:place>. His research interests are at the crossroads of change management, institutional entrepreneurship and theories of action/practice theories. Currently he has a special interest in e-business and social media. He has participated in several EGOS colloquia in the past.
Shaker Zahra is the Robert E. Buuck Chair of Entrepreneurship at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Minnesota</st1:placename></st1:place> and 3TU Professor of International Entrepreneurship at NIKOS. His research centers on innovation and entrepreneurship and how they contribute to the creation of new skills and competencies. He has received several research awards including best papers from the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">Academy</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Management Journal</st1:placename></st1:place>, Journal of Management and Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice. He has served as program chair for the Entrepreneurship division of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">Academy</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Management</st1:placename></st1:place>.
Jeroen Kraaijenbrink is an Assistant Professor at NIKOS. His research focuses on high-tech entrepreneurship and business development in networks from a sociological perspective. Next to papers published in several books and international journals, Jeroen has co-authored a book on knowledge integration in knowledge intensive small and medium-sized enterprise
More information, on for instance submission guidelines, can be found at the EGOS website: www.egosnet.org
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Dear All,
we are happy to invite you to submit papers for the Springer Post-Conference Proceedings of the the 1st World Summit on the Knowledge Society, which will be held in the American College of Greece, from 24-26th of September 2008, http://www.open-knowledge-society.org/summit.htm
The Post Conference Proceedings will be entitled:
Strategies for the Knowledge Society: Advanced Informatics and Knowledge
Management for Governmental Consulting - Transforming Society through IT
Detailed info you can find at:
http://www.open-knowledge-society.org/cfpsummit.htm
Note: 157 papers were accepted and will be presented in the WSKS 2008,
Springer LNCS and CCIS official proceedings. All the papers included in
the Springer Post conference Proceedings will be also considered/and
published in one of the 14 International Journals that sponsor the summit.
Springer LNCS/LNAI 5288, Εmerging Technologies and Information Systems for
the Knowledge Society [http://www.open-knowledge-society.org/lncs5288.pdf]
Springer CCIS 19: THE OPEN KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY: A Computer Science and
Information Systems Manifesto
[http://www.open-knowledge-society.org/ccis19.pdf]
Program: http://www.open-knowledge-society.org/confprogram.pdf
Keynotes: http://www.open-knowledge-society.org/keynotes.htm
Tracks
I: Social & Humanistic Computing (36 papers)
II: Knowledge, Learning, Education, Learning Technologies and E-learning
(51 papers)
III: Information Technologies for the Knowledge Society (45 papers)
IV: Culture & Cultural Heritage - Technology for Culture Management -
Management of Tourism and Entertainment - Tourism Networks (16 papers)
V: Government and Democracy for the the Knowledge Society (9 papers)
The submissions can be from 6-10 pages maximum.
http://www.open-knowledge-society.org/submissions.htm
Dont hesitate to contact me for further info at:
athens-summit@open-knowledge-society.org
See you in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Athens</st1:city></st1:place>!!
Best Regards
Katerina Pitsa
Conference Secretariat
Open Research Society, NGO
http://www.open-knowledge-society.org
1st World <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Summit</st1:city></st1:place> on the Knowledge Society
http://www.open-knowledge-society.org/summit.htm
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Summer Internet Conference
Allied Academies just wrapped up the 10th annual Internet Conference in the month of July. The Internet Conference attracts more and more people each Summer due to its convenience and low cost. As with all of our conferences, we selected the top 25% of the conference submissions as award winners and for publication in one of our 15+ Journals (all of which are listed in Cabell's). This time the Summer conference produced a dozen award winning papers.
Fall Conference
We would like to announce that the Allied Academies Fall International Conference will be held October 15-17, 2008 at the Harrahs in beautiful downtown <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Reno</st1:city></st1:place>. The room rates for our guests will be a mere $70 per night, so we encourage you to book early. The conference submission form, as well as the registration form, are now online. We encourage you to submit your papers to us at your earliest convenience as the current deadline for submissions is September 1. You can find out more at the conference call page below.
Please keep in mind that if you are unable to attend the October meeting, we offer an Internet Division that will allow you to participate online. Therefore, your submissions will still appear in the program, proceedings, and be considered for awards; you just don't have to be physically present to win.
Member Feedback
We would like to thank all of you who participated in our online survey. Your responses have helped us know how to better serve you and we will work toward making your requests a reality. One of the key points mentioned was increasing the exposure of our journals. As you may know, we already have all of our journals listed with the big indexing firms, such as EBSCO, ABI, GoogleScholar, etc., and are working with some international lists as well. We also have all of our journals available on our website for member access.
Many people mentioned posting our calls on various list serves and web sites that have calls for papers for different organizations. To that end, we would like you to spread the word on our behalf. If you have sites you visit regularly to find conference calls, please take a minute to post a call for Allied Academies as well. We have been a best kept secret since 1994 when our first Academy was born. It is now time to spread the word to all of your friends and colleagues, as word of mouth seems to be the way most people hear about us.
One of the things about Allied Academies that seems to appeal to most of you is the friendly atmosphere created for sharing. Since we don't have discussants, there are not people assigned the duty of criticizing your work. Those who come to Allied Academies meetings feel like they are part of our extended family, and we would like you to help us grow that family by sharing this announcement with others who might be interested. If you would like to see what others are saying about us, please visit the link below:
We also hope that you will help make the Fall conference one of our best ever. It looks like this may be the last conference we have in the lovely town of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Reno</st1:city></st1:place>, so you don't want to miss it.
Best wishes,
Trey Carland
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Case Writing Workshop/Conference
October 24-26, 2008 in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Charleston</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">SC</st1:state></st1:place>
Presented by The CASE Journal, The CASE Association, and the <st1:placetype w:st="on">College</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Charleston</st1:placename> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Business</st1:placename></st1:place> and Economics
The Workshop
This workshop is designed to promote case writing as well as enhance the inventory of entrepreneurship related cases by offering a case writing workshop and conference for both novice and experienced case writers. Participants will be exposed to the process of writing publishable cases including case research, case reviewing, case editing, and case teaching using a "live case" process. A local entrepreneur will be used as a story board throughout the workshop and conference.
The registration form is available as a .doc file or a .pdf.
The Conference Site
Historical <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Charleston</st1:city></st1:place> is the perfect setting for a fall conference. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Charleston</st1:city></st1:place>'s historic heritage and vital economy has made it a destination of choice for tourists and entrepreneurs.
The Charleston-North Charleston metropolitan area jumped up 10 positions in the recently released Best-Performing Cities Index compiled by The Milken Institute, which ranked the area 12th in terms of economic performance among the nation's 200 largest cities partly because of its positive climate for location, relocation, and business.
<st1:city w:st="on">Charleston</st1:city> is a major tourist destination with air transportation connected to major cities such as <st1:city w:st="on">Atlanta</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">DC</st1:state>, <st1:city w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city>, <st1:city w:st="on">Charlotte</st1:city>, and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state></st1:place>. The international class hotels are walking distance from the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">College</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Charleston</st1:placename></st1:place>. Participants will have the opportunity to truly experience the Lowcountry.
Workshop Facilitators, Presenters & Instructors
· Margaret Naumes, University of New Hampshire, Editor of The CASE Journal, CASE Fellow, and co-author of the book The Art and Craft of Case Writing
· William Naumes, University of New Hampshire, CASE Fellow, Former Editor of CRJ and co-author of the book The Art and Craft of Case Writing
· Herbert Sherman, Editor of NEJE, CASE Fellow
· David Desplaces, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">College</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Charleston</st1:placename></st1:place>, President, The CASE Association
· Kelly Shaver, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">College</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Charleston</st1:placename></st1:place>, Past Editor of ET&P
David Desplaces, Ph.D.
International Business Director
Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Business</st1:placename></st1:place> and Economics
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">College</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Charleston</st1:placename></st1:place>
<st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">5 Liberty Street, Suite 300</st1:address></st1:street>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Charleston</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">SC</st1:state> <st1:postalcode w:st="on">29401-1400</st1:postalcode></st1:place>
Office: 307 Tate Center
Tel: 1 (843) 953-6446
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Call for Papers
Current Topics in Management, Vol. 14 (2009)
Current Topics in Management is an annual Series published by Transaction Publishers. If you have a full paper on <st1:place w:st="on">OB</st1:place>, OT, HRM, IB, or other related areas (prepared according to the APA style guide), please send it as as an attached file in Word. Our review process will be kept open until we have about 15-20 accepted papers.
Some of the distinguished scholars who contributed to the series are:
1. Iwan J. Azis, Cornell University
2. Robert A. Baron, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
3. William H. Glick, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Rice</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>
4. Robert T. Golembiewski, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Georgia</st1:placename></st1:place>
5. John F. Grant, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Colorado</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">State</st1:placetype> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>
6. William R. King, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Pittsburgh</st1:placename></st1:place>
7. Edwin A. Locke, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Maryland</st1:placename></st1:place>
8. Craig C. Lundberg, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Cornell</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>
9. Kenneth D. Mackenzie, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Kansas</st1:placename></st1:place>
10. Ian I. Mitroff, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Southern California</st1:placename></st1:place>
11. Edgar Schein, MIT
12. Robert M. Wiseman, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Michigan</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">State</st1:placetype> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>
13. Duane Windsor, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Rice</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>
If you want to receive a complimentary copy of CTM, please send me a self-addressed and stamped ($2.58) manila envelope.
Afzal Rahim
Senior Editor, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">CTM</st1:placename>
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Call for Papers & Workshops Global Forum on Business as an Agent of World Benefit:
Managing as Designing in an Era of Massive Innovation
June 3-6, 2009
(500 word abstracts due November 1, 2008)
What is the Global Forum for Business as an Agent of World Benefit
On October 22nd 2006 the United Nations Global Compact, with its 4,000 corporations from around the world, and the <st1:placetype w:st="on">Academy</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Management</st1:placename>, with its 19,000 business school professors from over 90 countries, partnered with <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Case</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Western Reserve</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place> to establish The Global Forum for Business as an Agent of World Benefit. The B.A.W.B Global Forum was the largest summit of its kind, bringing together companies such as Alcoa, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Toyota</st1:city></st1:place>, and Unilever and over 1,000 of the worlds visionary business executives, management scholars, policy makers, and young leaderstudents.
In the field of sustainability and corporate citizenship, the Global Forums niche is unique. Drawing inspiration from Peter Druckers special insight that every global and social issue of our day is a business opportunity in disguise, the Global Forum is designed around one distinguishing premise:
Sustainable value creation is the business opportunity of the 21st century. Its an innovation engine unlike anything we have ever seen in managementand its a lens which will dominate the management agenda for the next generation of thirty to fifty years. Even more important, the outcomes will define the next episode in creative capitalism and, ultimately, will determine the wellbeing of our imperiled planet.
Hence the forums foremost question is this: How do leading companies, associations, and markets turn pressing global and social issues, for example the Millennium Development Promises or climate change and energy concerns, into business opportunities, in ways that vitally and consistently benefit both business and the world
This Years Theme and Call for Papers and Workshops
It is in this context that the Second Global Forum for Business as an Agent of World Benefit has chosen its theme for the 2009 summit: Management as Designing in an Era of Massive Innovation. It is a forum (see full concept paper at globalforum2009.com) that explores the primacy and potency of design thinking as the vortex for creating a new breed of stars, showing how the creative designers attitude can transform 21st century corporate citizenship into a source of business opportunity and innovation. It is also, as the words massive innovation suggest, about scaling up, about amplifying. Indeed, the changes rippling across the fields of design, sustainability, and business citizenship are nothing short of revolutionary. However, it is increasingly clear that were no longer lacking in isolated product exemplars or surprising sustainability solutions. Todays greater challenge lies in systemwide design. This is the task of discovering ways of overcoming the systemic challenges of collaborative innovation and applied human creativity in not only large multinational corporations, but across multistakeholder supply chains, whole regions, entire industries and professions, and across economies and geographies where billions continue to be locked in debilitating poverty.
Ours is a moment where the magnitude of change has amplified in globally critical ways where everything reverberates, acts on and interacts with, everything else. An era of massive change is, therefore, an opportunity for magnified innovation. It is a call for a steppedup human creativity on a scale of purpose that represents a new order of magnitude. To value innovation in systemic design terms is to value one of the most abundant, renewable resources we can draw upon.
Listed below are three theme tracks, including topics and questions that are suggestive, not exhaustive, providing a starting point for those interested in submitting abstracts (500 words or less) for papers, workshops or showcase stories.
Theme Track #1: Management As Designing: What Can Management Learn from the Field of Design and How Might the Design Attitude Help Us Turn Social and Global Issues into Bonafide Business Opportunities
This theme would include:
What can managers learn from designers
How might we ignite more innovation in management if we turned to architects, product designers, natures design genius, information designing, and the performing arts to inspire new approaches to corporate citizenship and the creation of sustainable value
What do we know about the ethos and culture of design (e.g., the enabling metaphors, vocabularies, and designerly ways of knowing)
Whats next as we peer into the future of designing What is the role of the visual Emerging new design skills and design environments
What do we know about collaborative design Cheap and rapid iteration Imaginative competence and foresight
How about the relationship of values and valuing, or the role of aesthetic appreciation in design, including the role of positivity, inquiry into the good and the possible, optimism, and emotions such as hope, inspiration, and joy
Theme Track 2: Massive Innovation: What Do We Know About Change at the Scale of the Whole
In the realm of sustainable innovation in business, it is increasingly clear that were no longer lacking in isolated sustainability solutions. Everyone, in some manner or another, is going green or socially responsible. Our greater challenge lies in systemwide design for creating more widespread commonwealth and for discovering the ways of overcoming the challenges of collaborative creativity across multistakeholder supply chains, entire industries, and larger whole systems. In the domain of change at the scale of the whole many conceptual and practical questions assert themselves:
What today are new leverage points for system wide innovation, for example, megacommunities and social networking
Can we develop better typologies and distinctions for the study of design projects with systemic aims
What about new modalities for global gatherings and industry forums, global management meetings, and summits
What do we know about complex multistakeholder forums, global summits, and large group dynamics especially those (e.g. the Appreciative Inquiry Summit and Future Search Conferences) that move beyond dialogue to design in multistakeholder groups ranging in size from threehundred people to several thousand
Or how about small action type change emerging from everywhere: what are the roles of social entrepreneurs, citizenled initiatives, grassroots organizing, webenabled communities, and social networking applications in raising consciousness about sustainability, devising glocal innovations, igniting popular movements that press for change
And in terms of large scale innovation for sustainability, what about the concept of the corporation itself How might corporations be designed so as to blend social, environmental, governance and financial mission at their very core Could it be that corporate design is the macrodesign challenge of the 21st century
Theme Track 3: Redesigning Management Education for the Future: If Anything Imaginable Were Possible How Might We Imagine and Design Responsible Management Education
Along this dimension, of envisioning a truly strategic mindset toward global citizenship, the question must be asked:
When judged in relationship to the needs and opportunities of our times, how well is management education doing and, more importantly, where are the
innovations in curricula, values, methods, research agendas, partnerships and interdisciplinary dialogues
If anything imaginable were possible, how might we reimagine and design a new kind of responsible management education one that enables every manager to turn social and global issues into bonafide business opportunities (actually creating the business case) while simultaneously building a more inclusive and sustainable global economy
How might we better unite the strengths of management education with reallife action learning opportunities for partnering on the world agenda as portrayed in international initiatives such as the United Nations Global Compact and the worlds millennium development promises of eradicating extreme poverty
How might we, in truly concrete terms, mobilize the newly emerging Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) as global platform for linking universities, think tanks, and leadership institutes into networks of sharing and learning and scaledup impact
And returning to our theme of design, what might BSchools look like if they were designed to draw on the best of our DSchools, and how might a crossfertilization between the two for example the exciting collaborations emerging at Stanford University between the Design School and Business School serve to inform, strengthen, and enliven interdisciplinary education in the arenas of sustainability, social entrepreneurship, and global citizenship
An Invitation to Join in a Task of Historic Significance
The 2009 Global Forum will bring together leading executives, designers, management scholars, civil society leaders, government policy makers, and visionary students to identify and leverage new solutions with the potential to change 21st century society for the better. The format and content will encircle the globe and include both facetoface and virtual venues. The Forum is designed to inspire conferees to push the boundaries of what is known and to accept Toynbees challenge to dare in scholarship.
We invite papers, essays, workshop proposals from professors, students, executives, managers and leaders in the field of practice. A peer review process will select submissions for presentation at the Forum, with outstanding papers considered for a book as well as for a special journal issue. Innovative workshops on the strategic aspects of sustainable value creation, including leadership approaches and management methods for advancing business as an agent of world benefit, are also invited. Especially welcome are reallife profiles of CEOs, managers, companies, and public private partnerships that have dared to view social and global challenges not as burdens but as compelling business opportunities, new sources of innovation, and the basis for longterm fiscal success.
Specifically, we invite papers that fall under one of the three following categories:
1. Conceptual, empirical, and theoretical papers
2. Workshops focused on application and the practical how tos
3. Indepth case studies or story narratives
Like the content, the format of the Forum will encircle the globe, with delegates coming from around the world to attend the Forum in person, and an additional 1,000 delegates expected to participate virtually. Speakers at the Forum will include such leaders as Jeffrey Sachs, Director of The Earth Institute and Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development at Columbia University; Mary Robinson, Director of Realizing Rights and Former Prime Minister of Ireland; and worldrenowned architect and designer Bill McDonough.
Please submit a 500 word (maximum 1page) abstract of your proposed paper online at globalforum2009.com by November 1st 2008 or sooner if possible. Your abstract must identify: (1) to which of the three tracks you are submitting, (2) under which of the three categories conceptual papers, workshops, and case studies listed above does your paper belong, and (3) your topic area. Also, please include a conceptual frame, question(s), and methodology (if applicable). In addition to the abstract, we also need to have such contact information such as: (1) name and coauthor names, (2) title, (3) organization, (4) address, (5) phone, and (6) email address.
You will be notified by December 31st 2008 as to whether your proposed paper, session, or workshop has been selected for inclusion at the Forum. Authors of successful proposals will be invited to submit a paper or workshop materials and join in the deliberations and dialogue.
MARK THE DATES: The Forum will be held June 3rd to 6th, 2009 at <st1:placename w:st="on">Case</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Western Reserve</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype>, in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Cleveland</st1:city> <st1:state w:st="on">Ohio</st1:state>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place>. It is organized by the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">Academy</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Management</st1:placename></st1:place>s ODC Division, the UN Global Compact, and the Weatherhead School of Management at Case. For more information on this exciting opportunity as well as university and company partnership or cosponsorship opportunities, contact globalforum2009.com
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Apologies for cross postings.
Sage Publications has released a three volume scholarly analysis and collection of research edited by Jeffrey A. Krug (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Virginia</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Commonwealth</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>) entitled Mergers & Acquisitions. The three volumes are entitled (1) Mergers & Acquisitions, (2) The Merger & Acquisition Process, and (3) Integration, Governance, and Performance.
The objective of this three volume work is to provide students and scholars with an overview of research on the soft issues of M&As such as postmerger integration, organizational fit, postmerger governance, and best practices. It includes 58 articles written by 100 different authors and published in 32 different journals and four books.
A major objective was to provide scholarly examples from a broad range of authors and journals worldwide. Therefore, the collection includes research from authors who may be well known in their own countries but less known outside, but nevertheless have made significant contributions
to the field. The collection will be sold to libraries worldwide.
A table of contents and editor's introduction are attached. Additional information can be found on Sage's web site at:
http://www.sagepub.com/booksProdDesc.nav?contribId620647&prodIdBook232293
With kind regards,
Jeffrey A. Krug
Associate Professor of Strategic Management
Virginia Commonwealth University
School of Business Administration
301 West Main Street, Box 844000
Richmond, VA 23284
Phone: (804) 8288410
Email: jakrug@vcu.edu
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Georgia Tech <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">College</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Management</st1:placename></st1:place>
TenureTrack Position in Strategic Management, Entrepreneurship, or International Business
The strategic management area at Georgia Techs College of Management (COM) seeks qualified applicants for a tenuretrack or tenured appointment for fall 2009 in one of the following areas: (1) strategic management, (2) entrepreneurship, or (3) international business. Faculty rank is open. We seek researchactive individuals who address interesting and important realworld phenomena using a theoretical lens grounded in economics or sociology, and rigorous empirical methods. Expertise in econometrics, industrial organization, or game theory is also desirable. Primary criteria for selecting candidates will be: outstanding research, teaching capability, and excellent recommendations. The faculty will begin reviewing applications September 15, 2008.
To be assured full consideration, please send the following documents electronically to recruitstrategy@mgt.gatech.edu no later than November 15, 2008.
- A cover letter and vita indicating your education, relevant experience, research publications and research interests.
- Three letters of recommendation with your name in the filename (e.g., Smith, John Letter of Recommendation 1.pdf). Please make sure that your name also appears in the body of the letter of recommendation.
- Two (2) samples of your research; either research papers and/or your dissertation proposal; with your name in the file name (e.g., Smith, John Research Sample 1.pdf). Please make sure that your name also appears on the title page of the research sample.
*Packages sent by mail will not be accepted. All documents must be in Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF format.
As part of our recruiting process, we seek to obtain statistical information on our applicants. This part of the process is voluntary. Please complete the form found at: http://mgt.gatech.edu/downloads/ga_tech_disclosure.doc, and email it to vdf_email@mgt.gatech.edu.
About Georgia Tech: Georgia Techs College of Management is, when considering all business schools, ranked 29th by U.S. News and top 50 by Business Week, and top 25 in Forbes among public schools. The College of Management (COM) 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 (including in addition to Georgia Techs Business School, the GT Conference Center and Hotel, the Global Learning Center, the Economic Development Institute, and the Advanced Technology and Development Center (ATDC), 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 US Department of Education funded Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER). Additional information about Georgia Techs 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 nations top research universities, distinguished by its commitment to improving the human condition through advanced science and technology. Georgia Techs campus occupies 400 acres in the heart of the city of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Atlanta</st1:city></st1:place>, 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 <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region></st1:place>. 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.
Sloan Industry Studies Fellow
The Deedy Associate Professor of Strategy
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Georgia Institute of Technology
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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>
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