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Vol. 5, No. 12 (May 22, 2008)

 

Table of Contents:

- Announcements

-  Annual Meeting

- Other Meetings and Call for Papers

- Books/Journals

 

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Announcements

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Hi everybody:

The May 2008 TIM newsletter is now available at the TIM website:  
http://www.aomtim.org

Suggestions for improvement are always welcome.

Russell Fralich
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Management
HEC <st1:city w:st="on">Montreal</st1:city>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Montreal</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Quebec</st1:state>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region></st1:place>
email: russell.fralich@hec.ca

 

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I am re-designing a post graduate course in innovation for the next
semester along with the Software Engineering department in our university.
In the course, groups of 4 students will join participants from a software
firm which is looking to develop a second product. The idea is to start
with specific content like TRM (technology road mapping) and take them
towards continuous inovation practice possibilities. The last time I used
the book Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation, by Burgelman,
Christensen and Wheelwright (2004) taking mainly the technology-business
strategy allignment lessons from there, along with a lot of readings.

I would appreciate any advice from persons who have been involved in such
courses on the content, design, and also any texts they might recommend. I
will of course circulate consolidated inputs.

<st1:placename w:st="on">Sanjay</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Bhowmick</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Auckland</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Business</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype></st1:place>

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Annual Meeting

 

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PDW on Corporate Venturing

Saturday, Aug 9 2008 2:30PM - 4:30PM at Anaheim Convention Center (210A)

Corporate Venturing is recognized as an important mechanism for creating innovation and new business in established firms and has received increasing academic attention. The purpose of this workshop is to take stock and further develop this line of research. The workshop will consists of a panel that will identify important research questions in corporate venturing and a developmental workshop in which key contributors to this research stream will provide feedback on draft manuscripts dealing with corporate venturing. 

Panel members include:

·        Gary Dushnitsky; U. of Pennsylvania;
·        Thomas Keil; Helsinki U. of Technology;
·        Riitta Katila; Stanford U;
·        Markku V. J. Maula; Helsinki U. of Technology;
·        Rita Gunther McGrath; Columbia U.;
·        Corey Phelps; U. of Washington;
·        Wim Vanhaverbeke; Eindhoven U. of Technology;
·        Rosemarie Ziedonis; U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor;

If you would like feedback on your corporate venturing related work please submit your paper by July 13 to Gary Dushnitsky, gdushnit@wharton.upenn.edu <mailto:gdushnit@wharton.upenn.edu> 

 Gary Dushnitsky
Assistant Professor of Management

Goergen Fellow, Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs
The <st1:placename w:st="on">Wharton</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:state w:st="on">Pennsylvania</st1:state>
3620 Locust Walk
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Philadelphia</st1:city> <st1:state w:st="on">PA</st1:state> <st1:postalcode w:st="on">19104-6370</st1:postalcode></st1:place>
(215) 898 6386  Phone  (215) 898 0401  Fax

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Dear all,

 

Please find below an invitation/reminder of a two-part PDW on the Origins of Competitive Advantage at the Academy next August. The general PDW session will take place between 10am and 12pm, while the paper development session will take place between 1.30pm and 3.30pm; both on Saturday August 9th.

 

We are soliciting papers or proposals from authors doing new work related in some way to if, when, or/and how firms can actually make money from resources and capabilities, especially if & when firms can profit from investments in new technologies. The submission deadline is the 1st of July.

 

Please write to FactorMarketPDW@yahoo.com for submissions or registration.

 

Best regards, and sorry for any cross-postings!

Ilgaz, Olivier, and Tunji.

 

 

Tunji Adegbesan, PhD

Assistant Professor of Strategy & Innovation

<st1:placename w:st="on">Lagos</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Business</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Pan-African</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>

Km 49, Lekki-Epe Expressway

<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Lagos</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Nigeria</st1:country-region></st1:place>

C: +234-803-3688885

T: +234-1-7740280 Ext. 1105

F: +234-1-4616173

E: tAdegbesan@lbs.edu.ng

 

AoM Annual Meeting 2008: Professional Development Workshop

WHEN AND HOW CAN FIRMS MAKE MONEY FROM RESOURCES? REVISITING THE ORIGINS OF COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

Motivation

Central to the origins of competitive advantage is the question of how and why firms can acquire resources and capabilities at a cost inferior to their value-creating ability. If superior performance is underpinned by valuable resources and capabilities, then it is very important to account for the costs of such resources and capabilities, in appraising firm performance.

In raising this issue for the first time, Jay Barney introduced strategic factor market (SFM) theory, and suggested that luck and superior expectations were necessary conditions for profiting from valuable resources and capabilities. Nevertheless, despite the absolute centrality of this issue to strategy research in general, and the resource-based view in particular, there has been very little further development of the theory beyond Barney's initial statements.

Furthermore, this theory becomes more important in fast-paced dynamic environments, because of the emphasis firms and scholars typically place on external linkages for organizational flexibility and renewal, in such contexts. Thus two decades after Barney's 1986 article, a large body of work has analyzed the importance of issues such as M&As, alliances, open innovation, markets for knowledge workers, outsourcing, offshoring, etc., for accessing valuable resources and capabilities. Unfortunately, however, our knowledge of how, when, and why firms might profit from such resources and capabilities has not developed correspondingly. As such, a new look at the question of how returns to firm strategic action get split with suppliers of the resources and capabilities required for such action, has become more, not less, critical.

The Questions We Ask

Consequently, in line with the conference theme, we wish to stimulate thinking and debate around a series of questions related to if, when, and how can firms can profit from resources and capabilities. What more can we say about when and how firms can make money from resources. What more can we say (and do) about strategic factor market theory? Are luck and superior expectations really the only mechanisms for profitably acquiring resources, or are there other mechanisms and contingencies that could provide us with traction for studying these issues? Can firms strategize in factor markets? How do real firms behave in strategic factor markets? How do firms and entrepreneurs cope with or exploit expectational asymmetries? What settings, methods and data might be useful for testing and extending the theory? Can insights from research into entrepreneurial opportunity recognition, executive compensation and mobility, M&As, or other areas shed new light on these questions?

Format

In addition to revitalizing interest in SFM and the origins of competitive advantage, we also seek to provide an opportunity for interested scholars to develop innovative new research projects in this area. Thus the PDW's two-part structure is explicitly designed to address these twin aims.

General PDW session (open admission). The first session in the morning will give participants an opportunity to meet and engage in a highly interactive discussion with other scholars with interests in the area, including some of those who have been at the forefront of theory development. Our confirmed panellists include Jay Barney, Rachel Croson, Allison Mackey, Joe Mahoney, and Rich Makadok, in addition to other well-known scholars who will be present in the audience. Our panellists will start with brief, candid, and hopefully provocative comments on some of the following issues:

a. Their understanding of SFM theory as currently articulated

b. Their personal views on the theory's current status and why it is not more prevalent or why its impact has not been more widely felt (assuming they agree with these assertions)

c. Their views on where we might go with it, or what kinds of studies, research questions, methodologies or applications might be interesting.

There will also be a substantial amount of time for audience participation, and so we expect a natural conversation to evolve as participants discuss various theoretical and empirical issues related to SFM theory. To register for the general session, please send an email to FactorMarketPDW@yahoo.com.

PDW paper-development session (competitive admission): The first session will be followed by a paper-development session that will provide a wonderful opportunity to receive high-quality developmental feedback, for authors doing work in some way related to if, how, and when firms can make money from resources. Theoretical, empirical, and/or methodological contributions are welcome, and we encourage submissions from multiple perspectives and/or theoretical traditions. Since we also seek to stimulate new research, we will be happy to receive either full work-in-progress papers, or well-developed paper proposals. Nevertheless, in order to guarantee high-quality feedback, we will only be able to accept a limited number of submissions, and as such, paper (or proposal) quality and creativity are important.

The submission deadline is July 1st 2008, and successful authors will be notified by mid-July. Submissions should be sent by email to FactorMarketPDW@yahoo.com. Full paper submissions should be about 25 double-spaced pages all-inclusive, while proposal submissions should have at least 3 single-spaced pages of text.

We look forward to your submissions and participation!

 

Organizers:

Tunji Adegbesan (<st1:placename w:st="on">Lagos</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Business</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Pan-African</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>)

Ilgaz Arikan (J. <st1:placename w:st="on">Mack</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Robinson</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">College</st1:placename> of Business, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Georgia</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">State</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>)

Olivier Chatain (The <st1:placename w:st="on">Wharton</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Pennsylvania</st1:placename></st1:place>)

 

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 AoM Annual Meeting 2008: Professional Development Workshop

 

WHEN AND HOW CAN FIRMS MAKE MONEY FROM RESOURCES? REVISITING THE ORIGINS OF COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

 

        Central to the origins of competitive advantage is the question of how firms can acquire resources and capabilities at a cost inferior to their value-creating ability. This issue was raised just over 20 years ago by Jay Barney, who suggested that luck or superior foresight were necessary to profit from valuable resources and capabilities. Since then, although external linkages have become more important for understanding resource acquisition/access and accumulation/reconfiguration, our knowledge of how, when, and why firms might profit from such resources and capabilities has not developed as speedily.

Could we therefore say more about when and how firms can make money from resources and capabilities? Are luck and superior expectations the only mechanisms for profitably acquiring resources? Can firms strategize in factor markets? How do real firms behave in strategic factor markets? How do firms and entrepreneurs cope with or exploit expectational asymmetries? What settings and methods might be useful for testing and extending the theory? Can insights from research into entrepreneurial opportunity recognition, executive compensation and mobility, M&As, or other areas shed new light on these questions?

This two-part PDW thus seeks to revitalize interest in the origins of competitive advantage, while providing an opportunity for interested scholars to develop innovative new research projects in this area. The first interactive session will allow participants to meet and engage other scholars with interests in the area, while the second paper-development session will provide successful authors with high quality feedback on new research projects. (Confirmed panelists for the general session include Jay Barney, Rachel Croson, Allison Mackey, Joe Mahoney, and Rich Makadok. To register, please send an email to FactorMarketPDW@yahoo.com.)

 

We are now soliciting submissions for the afternoon paper development session. The session will provide a wonderful opportunity to receive high-quality developmental feedback, for authors doing work in some way related to if, how, and when firms can make money from resources. Theoretical, empirical, and/or methodological contributions are welcome, and we encourage submissions from multiple perspectives and/or theoretical traditions. Since we also seek to stimulate new research, we will be happy to receive either full work-in-progress papers, or well-developed paper proposals. Nevertheless, in order to guarantee high-quality feedback, we will only be able to accept a limited number of submissions, and as such, paper (or proposal) quality and creativity are important.

The submission deadline is July 1^st 2008, and successful authors will be notified by mid-July. Submissions should be sent by email to FactorMarketPDW@yahoo.com. Full paper submissions should be about 25 double-spaced pages all-inclusive, while proposal submissions should have at least 3 single-spaced pages of text.

You can find more background and details in the attached flyer.

       

We look forward to your submissions and participation!

 

Organizers:

Tunji Adegbesan (<st1:placename w:st="on">Lagos</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Business</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Pan-African</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>)

Ilgaz Arikan (J. <st1:placename w:st="on">Mack</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Robinson</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">College</st1:placename> of Business, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Georgia</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">State</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>)

Olivier Chatain (The <st1:placename w:st="on">Wharton</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Pennsylvania</st1:placename></st1:place>)

 

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Offshoring of Knowledge Intensive Business Services: From Outsourcing to (Global) Open Innovation

 

Saturday, Aug 9 2008 2:00PM - 5:00PM at <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 211A

 

Organizer: Silvia Massini; <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Manchester</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Business</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype></st1:place>

Presenters: Tim Devinney; AGSM-Australian School of Business; Jeremy Howells; Manchester Business School; Martin Kenney; U. of California, Davis; Arie Y. Lewin; Duke U. ; Andrea Prencipe; U. G. d'Annunzio; Jeanne Beyer; Objectiva Software Solutions; Sam Kogan; GEN3 Partners

 

This PDW will debate a research agenda on offshoring of knowledge intensive business service, such as R&D, engineering processes, product design including software design. It will discuss the nature of innovative activities that companies offshore, strategies and challenges of offshoring KIBS, (e.g., models, locations, coordination issues), the evolution of service providers and destination countries. Four fundamental questions will be debated: (1) What kind of innovative activities are companies offshoring, routinized or high value adding tasks? (2) Do companies learn how to leverage knowledge from offshored activities, how to manage complexity due to increasing scale and scope of offshoring and move up the value chain of tasks offshored? (3) What are the main challenges of offshoring knowledge intensive/high value adding activities remotely? (4) How are service providers and locations evolving as a response to the increasing demand from foreign clients and competition from foreign service providers? It gathers together academics and practitioners sharing their knowledge from research and first-hand experience.

 

Pre-Registration is not necessary, but you are kindly invited to contact Silvia Massini if you are interested in participating (silvia.massini@mbs.ac.uk).

 

Dr. Silvia Massini
Senior Lecturer in Economics and Technology Management
Manchester Business School
University of Manchester
Booth Street West
Manchester M15 6PB
Phone: +44 (0)161 306 8794
Fax: +44 (0)161 306 8787
Email: silvia.massini@mbs.ac.uk

 

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AOM Professional Development Workshop
Measuring Knowledge Flows: Patent and Non-Patent Data Patent and
Non-Patent Data
          
Chair: Riitta Katila; Stanford U.; [E-Mail This Contact]
Chair: Kwanghui Lim; U. of Melbourne; [E-Mail This Contact]
Participant: Ajay K. Agrawal; U. of Toronto; [E-Mail This Contact]
Participant: Jasjit Singh; INSEAD; [E-Mail This Contact]
Participant: Jeffrey Furman; Boston U.; [E-Mail This Contact]
Presenter: Sharon Belenzon; -; [E-Mail This Contact]
Discussant: Scott Stern; Northwestern U.; [E-Mail This Contact]

This PDW focuses on the use of patent data for empirical management research. The primary goal of the PDW is to provide an introduction for researchers new to patents, balanced with a scholarly discussion of
current critical issues in patent research. This year, in addition to patent-based research, we are expanding the scope of the PDW to discuss how non-patent approaches can be combined with patent-based approaches
for conducting research on knowledge flows. Several participants will discuss ways of combining patent with non-patent based data. The discussant will then comment on the presentations and share his views on
future directions. The session concludes with an open discussion (Q&A) with the audience.

Program Session #: 172 | Submission: 10277 | Sponsor(s): (BPS, TIM, OMT, RM)
Scheduled: Saturday, Aug 9 2008 1:00PM - 3:30PM at <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 212B

 

Kwanghui Lim <k@kwanghui.com>

 

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(with apologies for cross-listings)

AoM 2008 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT  WORKSHOP

The "Hows" of Dynamic Capabilities: Building a Process-Based Research Agenda

Research on dynamic capabilities has gained traction with strategy and organization scholars as a way of illuminating how firms modify their resource bases and operative capabilities to create new sources of competitive advantage (Eisenhardt and Martin, 2000; Helfat and Peteraf, 2003; Teece, Pisano and Shuen, 1997). Much of the scholarship in this area has applied resource-based theoretical logic and examined how dynamic capabilities relate to organizational performance and competitive advantage. However, with an inherent focus on organizational change, the notion of dynamic capabilities invites close attention to the "process side" of organizational and strategy research. Recent conceptual work has taken such an approach, suggesting that organizational processes can be found in both the "development" and "deployment" of dynamic capabilities (Maritan and Peteraf, 2007).

This professional development workshop (PDW) seeks to take up this process side of dynamic capabilities research. As a point of entry into this endeavor, we suggest a number of broad research questions (see "Call for Proposals," below) that seek to unpack how firms develop and deploy their dynamic capabilities. Interactive roundtable discussions focused on these questions will be facilitated by Chris Bingham, Russ Coff, Steven Floyd, Yasemin Kor, Joe Mahoney, Cathy Maritan, Tom Moliterno, Jamal Shamsie, and Maurizio Zollo. A final group discussion and debrief will tie together the table-specific discussions and seek to establish a forward-looking research agenda. The PDW will take place between 2:00-4:00 pm on Friday August 8, 2008.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS:
To facilitate and organize the interactive round table discussions, we are soliciting proposals/abstracts for research on the following research questions. The proposal/abstract can be for either conceptual or empirical scholarship on one of these questions, and should discuss relevant conceptual ideas and develop preliminary thoughts on the topic. We are encouraging of early stage thinking.

1) How do cognitive, social, and/or political factors undermine or facilitate modification of resource and capability configurations?
2) How do firms balance exploration and exploitation in their dynamic capabilities?
3) How does the firm facilitate managerial learning and renewal, and how is this learning manifested in decisions to modify the firm's resource endowment and capabilities?
4) How do a firm's decision-makers make sense of the competitive environment and/or cooperative opportunities, and how does this sensemaking relate to subsequent decisions regarding the firm's capabilities and/or resource portfolio?
5) How does the firm recognize and evaluate technological innovations in the marketplace and factor them into capability development, acquisition, and/or integration?
6) How do scanning and learning processes function and feed input into key decisions about product development, (re)positioning, and elimination?
7) How does the firm adjust human resources practices and/or change allocations of human resources to effectively respond to environmental changes?
8) How does appropriability of rents generated by the firm's resource portfolio or capabilities impact a firm's tendency to modify and renew them?
9) How does a firm learn from internal and external performance feedback and factor such feedback into decisions to change the organization's capabilities and/or resource configurations?
10) How do a firm's stakeholder interactions drive modification of its resource configuration?

INSTRUCTIONS TO CONTRIBUTORS:
Please email your 1-2 pages, single-spaced proposal/abstract to dc.process.pdw@gmail.com, attaching a Word or PDF file. Please clearly indicate which research question your abstract seeks to address. Deadline for written proposals is July 1, 2008. Space is limited, so please submit early. Early submissions will be given early consideration. Notification of selected proposals will be made by email.

Organizers: Yasemin Kor & Tom Moliterno, University of South Carolina


Thomas P. Moliterno
Moore School of <st1:placename w:st="on">Business</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">South Carolina</st1:state></st1:place>
moliterno@moore.sc.edu

 

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We call your attention to our PDW session, "Technoentrepreneurship: the questions we should ask", on Sunday, 10th from 9 am to 12 pm in Room 212A of the Convention Center.

We invite conceptual and empirical papers that focus on the demand-side determinants of technoentrepreneurship. Please mail your papers to Prof. Francois Therin [francois.therin@euromed-marseille.com]. Prof. Lalit Manral will lead the session with a presentation that will be followed by 5-10 minute presentations by the submitters. If you do not have a paper we encourage you to come with your research ideas on this topic and present them in our session! The idea of the session is to foster collaborative research in this area of scholarship. We hope to come out with a special issue of The International Journal of Technoentrepreneurship to publish the research that is motivated by this workshop.

The demand-side determinants of technoentrepreneurship

How does technology create its own demand and thereby establish the foundation of a new industry? Industries and/or markets are not created by 'technology push' alone or for that matter 'demand-pull' (Rosenberg, 1974; Scherer, 1982c). A new industry originates - inadvertently or intentionally - due to the new correspondence (or fit) between a technology and its co-evolving context (<st1:place w:st="on">Clark</st1:place>, 1995). This correspondence or fit is brought about by the path dependent investment actions of firms (Nelson and Winter, 1982). The process of industry evolution is therefore explainable in terms of the co-evolution of technology and demand structure. Temporally heterogeneous firm investment strategies that underlie the co-evolution of technology and demand structure influence the evolution of the industrial market structure. The temporal heterogeneity of firm investment strategy, which corresponds to the variation in rules of selection even though the logic of economic selection remains constant, conforms to the adaptive logic under conditions of high uncertainty. However, there is a missing link in the literature that prevents us from understanding industry evolution in terms of co-evolution of technology and demand structure. Basically, not much is known about the endogenous relationship between the continuously evolving demand structure and firm investment strategy.

Managers often underestimate the dynamic nature of heterogeneous consumer preferences, which underlie the demand structure. Managing consumer preferences is specifically relevant for firms who invest considerable resources to develop new products that involve a long gestation period. The initial breakthrough of an entirely new set of applications and continued success through its life cycle requires considerable investment in not only informing and persuading consumers but also learning about their evolving preferences. These investments are complementary to the various technology specific investments involved in developing and later managing the set of applications throughout its life cycle. The gap between the managerial belief set at the onset of a development project and the actual state of consumer preferences along the evolutionary path of the underlying technology often explains the initial or subsequent failure of block buster products. For instance, Intel's superior performance is usually attributed to the effectiveness of its R&D investment to (say) increase microprocessor speeds. However, the same needs to be attributed as much to Intel's complementary investments in either creating applications that require increased processing speed, and/ or influencing consumer preferences to adopt such applications. Finally, who can forget Watson's famous prediction about the total demand for five computers?

LALIT MANRAL, PhD
Assistant Professor of Management
College of Management
Long Island University - CW Post Campus,
720 Northern Boulevard, Roth Hall # 206, Brookville, New York, 11548
Tel # 1-516-299-2360 (o) Fax # 1-516-299-3917
e-mail: lalit.manral@liu.edu
web: http://myweb.cwpost.liu.edu/lmanral/ <https://webmail.euromed-marseille.com/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://myweb.cwpost.liu.edu/lmanral/>

 Dr. Francois Therin
Associate Professor, Euromed Marseille Ecole de Management
Editor, International Journal of Technoentrepreneurship
Euromed Marseille  Ecole de management (AMBA & EQUIS accredited)
Domaine de Luminy  BP 921  - 13288 Marseille cedex 9  France
tel +33(0) 491 827 779  -  fax +33(0) 491 827 983 - Mobile +33(0) 603 343 691
francois.therin@euromed-marseille.com
www.technoentrepreneurship.com

 

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Other Meetings and Call for Papers

 

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Dear colleagues,

I would like to draw your attention on the following call for papers:

Special issue on the journal Industry and Innovation

 'Offshoring of Intangibles and the Organization of Global Innovation'

Guest editors
Rosa Grimaldi, University of Bologna, Italy
Elisa Mattarelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Andrea Prencipe, University G. D'Annunzio, Italy and SPRU, University of Sussex, UK
Max von Zedtwitz, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing

The deadline to submit papers is November 30th, 2008.

The focus of the special issue is on organizing for innovation in firms involved in offshoring of intangibles.
For more details, please see the journal website at:
http://www.manuscriptmanager.com/main/help.php?option=edcom&PHPSESSID=rnm69aalehk8l9f4oleni3dlu2
Best regards,
Elisa Mattarelli
Department of Engineering Science and Methods
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Via Amendola 2, Pad. Morselli
42100 Reggio Emilia, Italy
Tel  +39 0522 522275
Fax +39 0522 522609
Email elisa.mattarelli@unimore.it

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(We'd very much appreciate if you would kindly circulate this Call for Papers to your members, faculty, students, colleagues, and other interested individuals. Thanks! V. Kothari, AOM member, (TIM), Regents' Professor Emeritus, SFASU. Please contact the Academy directly for more information)

CALL FOR PROPOSAL, PAPERS, PANELS

<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">WAIKIKI</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">HAWAII</st1:state></st1:place> - 9^th (2009) ANNUAL CONFERENCE

International Academy of E-Business (www.iaeb.org) (www.iaeb.info )
April 9-12, 2009

@ Hyatt Regency Waikiki Resort & Spa (www.waikiki.hyatt.com)

(right on the world famous <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Waikiki</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Beach</st1:placetype></st1:place>, upscale luxury resort, Special low conference rates available also 3 days prior to/after the conference)

Proposal Submission deadline, November 1, 2008

Topics on global healthcare & medical issues are especially encouraged.

Here are some items of interest:
 
1. November 1, 2008 -- Submission deadline of proposals.  Individuals should submit each proposal separately -- about 250 words for papers, workshops, seminars, etc... to conference@iaeb.org and (cc to: adm@iaeb.net ) with Subject line "Proposal 2009."  Outline briefly your objectives, methodologies, findings, etc and include each author's name, organization affiliation, email address, etc...

2.  For undergraduate student competition details, please contact Professor Nitish Singh of <st1:placename w:st="on">California</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">State</st1:placetype> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype>, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Chico</st1:place></st1:city>.  (His e-mail: ncsingh@csuchico.edu )

3.. Once again, the Academy plans to identify and honor top five outstanding conference papers. Winners of past conferences are listed on the Academy's web sites. Also, past conference programs are available online.

4. As in the past, all conference submissions will be considered for publication in the E-Business Review, Volume IX, (ISSN1550-7793) (ISBN 0-9707955-8-0). Manuscript guidelines will be furnished at a later date. Furthermore, authors will be invited to submit for consideration an expanded version of their paper for publication in the Journal of E-Business; (ISSN 1542-0846); this expanded version or revision should be based on the comments and suggestions received at the conference. Please note that both of these publications are peer-reviewed (refereed) and highly acclaimed.

5. For details, please visit the Academy's web site,  www.iaeb.org or www.iaeb.info or www.journalofe-business.org    (details already up or should be up shortly on each site)

6. For conference sponsorship, please write to: adm@iaeb.net .   

Warm regards,
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Planning</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Committee</st1:placename>
<st1:placename w:st="on">International</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Academy</st1:placetype></st1:place> of E-Business
www.iaeb.org, www.iaeb.info, adm@iaeb.net

 

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IntEnt 2008 - 18th Annual Global Conference

Internationalizing Entrepreneurship Education and Training

http://www.fsb.muohio.edu/intent

July 17th - 20th, 2008

<st1:placename w:st="on">Miami</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype>, <st1:city w:st="on">Oxford</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Ohio</st1:state>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">USA</st1:placename>
<st1:placename w:st="on">Marcum</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Conference</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Center</st1:placetype></st1:place>

 

Dear Colleagues,

 

Join us this summer for the 18th Annual IntEnt conference to hear, learn, and exchange ideas and perspectives on the latest trends and innovations from leaders like yourself in the field of entrepreneurship education and training.

 

Interest is indeed high with over 50 abstracts received from all over the world (over 25 countries), including topics that focus on:

*  The impact and effect of entrepreneurship programmes
*  Theoretical and methodological approaches in education and entrepreneurship training
*  The role of education in the venture creation process
*  Innovative ways of transferring education and training facilities
*  Innovative ways of teaching entrepreneurship inside and outside our 

   classrooms
*  The role of government and the private sector in fostering education/training
*  The didactic benefits of business simulations, role playing, case studies

And....hear also from our Keynote Speakers, including:

*  Donald F. Kuratko - <st1:placename w:st="on">Indiana</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype>
*  Stan Mandel - <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Wake</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Forest</st1:placetype> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>
*  Alain Fayolle - EM Lyon, France

*  Andrew Corbett - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

 

To register, you can go to:

 

http://www.fsb.muohio.edu/intent/register.html 
 
Please be sure to complete all of the registration information as it will assist us in the planning and coordination of your visit and stay at the conference.
 

Also, be sure to make your hotel reservations asap.  A block of rooms has been reserved at the Miami Inn for IntEnt 2008 attendees. The Miami Inn can be contacted by phone (513-529-2104); please let them know that you are with the "IntEnt 2008 Conference."  See also:

 

http://www.fsb.muohio.edu/intent/accomodations.html

Additional information regarding transportation and additional details of the conference can be found at: http://www.fsb.muohio.edu/intent

 

We will be continually updating the site with new information on the program and schedule very soon.
 
I look forward to seeing you in July!
 
Very Best, Jill

 

Jill Kickul, Ph.D.
Forsythe Chair in Entrepreneurship
Miami Institute for Entrepreneurship
Farmer School of Business
Miami University, 222 Upham
Oxford, OH 45056
(T) 513-529-9918
Email: kickuljr@muohio.edu

 

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The Atlanta Competitive Advantage Conference (ACAC) program is now available at: https://collaboration.bus.emory.edu/course/Richard_Makadok/ACAC/Shared%20Documents/ACAC-Program08.pdf

 

We have a limited amount of space available for people who are not authors, discussants, or faculty/students at our sponsoring schools. There is a modest registration fee of $160 to cover the cost of catered meals, beverages, and snacks. Note that participation in ACAC is free for authors of accepted papers, discussants, and speakers, as well as faculty and doctoral students at the three sponsoring schools.

 

If you are interested in attending, please e-mail the ACAC conference administrator (Carol Gee, at Carol_Gee@bus.emory.edu) by Monday May 26th. The program includes information about the hotels and ground transportation. Please be sure to make your reservations as soon as possible.

 

--Russ

Russell Coff (www.bus.emory.edu/RCoff/)

 

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EXTENDED DEADLINE: MAY 29

15th Annual International Conference: Promoting Business Ethics

To be held at the Manhattan campus of St. John's University, New York

October 22, 2008 - October 24, 2008 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM

<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Manhattan</st1:city></st1:place> Campus

Business Ethics: Back to Basics

Sponsored by The Vincentian Universities in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>

• <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">DePaul</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>
• <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Niagara</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>
• <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">St. John's</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>

The annual international conference promoting business ethics encourages a very broad-based approach to the discussion of ethical theory and practice and seeks contributions to that discussion from business and academic professionals who are promoting business ethics through:

• traditional business disciplines of accounting, finance, marketing, advertising, management, risk management, actuarial science
• related areas of interest: philosophy, theology, psychology, sociology and language arts

In addition to the general theme for keynote and plenary sessions, the conference is organized in broad topical areas based on proposed submissions. Formal academic sessions are interspersed with panel discussions, interactive conversations, keynote addresses and debates for dynamic participation among the conference attendees.

This is an opportunity for both contribution and growth throughout the formal and informal sessions. We anticipate critical discussion within this congenial conference setting.

Format for Proposals
We are looking for business professionals and academics who have an interest in business ethics (in its broadest and widest sense) to submit formal proposals. Final proposals will be selected through a blind referee process.

We require only a one page proposal, or an abstract. We will also need information to contact you (mailing address, e-mail address, phone and fax numbers). We invite proposals that:

• reflect timely, cutting-edge insight
• represent collaboration between academic professionals and business professionals (including practical case studies)

Since we will be facilitating the publication of select conference manuscripts, we expect the highest research quality and/or greatest business application from all papers.

E-mail proposals before May 29, 2008, to:
Patrick Flanagan, C.M.
flanagap@stjohns.edu

Important Dates

• May 29, 2008, Proposals due
• June 15, 2008, Decision date
• August 1, 2008, Registration and payment
• September 15, 2008, Completed paper and abstract for conference printing and distribution due

Conference Registration
The special conference registration fee ($300) includes two continental breakfasts, three lunches, a welcoming reception, daily morning and afternoon refreshments and electronic distribution of conference papers and abstracts.

Hotels and Accommodations
The Cosmopolitan Hotel Tribeca
125 Chambers St
<st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state>, NY 10007
or
95 West Broadway
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">New York</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">NY</st1:state> <st1:postalcode w:st="on">10007</st1:postalcode></st1:place>

A few short blocks from <st1:city w:st="on">St. John's</st1:city> <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Manhattan</st1:place></st1:city> campus, reasonably priced, basic services. Higher priced full service hotels in the area include:

Embassy Suites Hotel New York
102 <st1:address w:st="on"><st1:street w:st="on">North End Avenue</st1:street>
<st1:city w:st="on">New York</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">NY</st1:state> <st1:postalcode w:st="on">10282</st1:postalcode></st1:address>

New York Marriott
World Financial Center
<st1:address w:st="on"><st1:street w:st="on">85 West Street</st1:street>
<st1:city w:st="on">New York</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">NY</st1:state> <st1:postalcode w:st="on">10128</st1:postalcode></st1:address>

Holiday Inn Downtown
<st1:address w:st="on"><st1:street w:st="on">138 Lafayette Street</st1:street>
<st1:city w:st="on">New York</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">NY</st1:state> <st1:postalcode w:st="on">10013</st1:postalcode></st1:address>

Date
Wednesday, October 22-24, 2008

Time
12:00 pm

Location
<st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Manhattan</st1:place></st1:city> campus
<st1:address w:st="on"><st1:street w:st="on">101 Murray Street</st1:street>
<st1:city w:st="on">New York</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">NY</st1:state> <st1:postalcode w:st="on">10007</st1:postalcode></st1:address>

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Announcements

 

Kauffman Foundation-Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland--- Proposals are sought for conference papers to be featured in a special issue of the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking.  The abstracts for this upcoming conference are due on May 15^th. (Full call is below)

The Kauffman Firm Survey (KFS) is a panel study of 4,928 businesses founded in 2004 and tracked over their early years of operation. The survey focuses on the nature of new business formation activity; characteristics of the strategy, offerings, and employment patterns of new businesses; the nature of the financial and organizational arrangements of these businesses; and the characteristics of their founders. Currently, data from the baseline survey, first, and second follow-up surveys are available for analysis. The third follow-up data will be released in spring 2009.

• Update Metadata Report Available
  May 06,2008
  Download the report that researchers find most helpful to understanding the Kauffman Firm Survey in starting analysis of the data set.
• Just Released - Second Follow-up Survey
  April 17,2008
  Baseline, first, and second follow-up survey data are now available for download and in the NORC Data Enclave.
• Call for Proposals - Kauffman Firm Survey Research Development Projects
  April 16,2008
  Deadline: June 9th - Up to $10,000 for individual scholars and $20,000 for groups of scholars will be awarded to scholars doing research in the Data Enclave through the 2008-2009 program.

Information about all of these can be found on Kauffman's website:  www.kauffman.org/kfs

Call for Proposals

Kauffman Foundation-Federal Reserve Bank of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cleveland</st1:place></st1:city>
Conference on Entrepreneurial Finance

Although most scholars recognize the importance of understanding how new companies are financed, they have made relatively little progress in investigating this process empirically, largely because of the lack of available data. However, in recent years, some scholars have begun to examine entrepreneurial finance questions using large, representative databases, and new datasets are now available that permit the examination of these questions in ways not possible previously. To encourage the investigation of these databases, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the Federal Reserve Bank of <st1:city w:st="on">Cleveland</st1:city> are co-sponsoring a conference on entrepreneurial finance, to take place in <st1:city w:st="on">Cleveland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Ohio</st1:state> at the Federal Reserve Bank of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cleveland</st1:place></st1:city> on March 12-13, 2009. A pre-conference will be held at the Kauffman Foundation in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Kansas City</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">MO.</st1:state></st1:place>, on August 21-22, 2008. A subset of the papers presented at the conference will be published in a special issue of the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking.

The purpose of this conference is to bring together scholars who are looking at issues in entrepreneurial finance by using data that are representative of a known population. In particular the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation would encourage researchers to examine the following databases, many of which it supports, including:

• Angel Investor Performance Project (www.kauffman.org/aipp)
• Federal Reserve Survey of Small Business Finances (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1022147)
• Federal Reserve Survey of Consumer Finances (www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/oss/oss2/scfindex.html)
• Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (www.icpsr.umich.edu)
• Integrated Longitudinal Business Database (www.ces.census.gov)
• Kauffman Firm Survey (www.kauffman.org/kfs)
• Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics I and II (www.psed.isr.umich.edu)
• Survey of Business Owners (www.census.gov/csd/sbo)

Abstract proposals are not limited to these data sets. Some of the possible research questions of interest for the conference are:

• What are the primary sources of financing for new businesses?
• When do start-ups use debt and when do they use equity financing?
• What characteristics of new firms are associated with certain types of financing?
• Are certain types of new firm founders more likely than others to obtain financing?
• What are the similarities and differences among different sources of informal financing (friends, family, and business angels)?

The Kauffman Foundation will pay an honorarium of $5000 for each paper presented at the conference and will pay for the travel expenses of one author to attend the conference and preconference. The Federal Reserve Bank of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cleveland</st1:place></st1:city> will host the 2009 conference and the Kauffman Foundation will host the 2008 pre-conference. Papers for the conference will be selected by Tim Dunne (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland), James Thomson (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland), Alicia Robb (University of California at Santa Cruz), and Scott Shane (Case Western Reserve University).

Abstract submissions of up to 2000 words are due May 15, 2008 and should be submitted electronically to scott.shane@case.edu. Invitations for papers to be presented at the pre-conference and conference will be issued by June 15, 2008.

Interested scholars may consult the Kauffman Foundation Web site at www.kauffman.org/datasymposium for information about many of these data sources and about Requests for Proposals for financial support to investigate some of the data sets.

Alicia Robb, Ph.D.

Senior Research Fellow, Kauffman Foundation

Senior Economist, Beacon Economics

Research Associate, UC <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Santa Cruz</st1:place></st1:city>

415.259.9009

arobb@ucsc.edu

 

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Dear Colleagues,

I apologize in advance for any duplicate postings.  Please see the
following Call for Papers for a special issue focus on the "Growth" of
Entrepreneurial Enterprises in IJOGVC.

Guest Editors:
Rainer Harms, <st1:city w:st="on">Klagenfurt University</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Austria</st1:country-region>
Joanne Scillitoe, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Michigan Technological University</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place>

International Journal of Opportunity, Growth and Value Creation (IJOGVC)

Call for Papers For a Focus Issue (no. 2, 2008) on
"Growth" Paper Submission Deadline: 15 August 2008


About the focus issue on "Growth":
This focus issue of IJOGVC spotlights the growth of entrepreneurial enterprises. Growth is at the core of entrepreneurial activities and subsequent development, and is reflected by the exploitation of
opportunities and subsequent organizational development. This focus issue of IJOGVC will thus draw attention to shedding new light on the sources, process, and outcomes associated with organizational growth, particularly in the context of entrepreneurial firms. As we acknowledge that growth is a multidimensional phenomenon, papers that address growth from multiple levels of analysis are very welcome.

Topics of interest to this IJOGVC focus issue include, but are not limited to:

- Influence of founder / team characteristics on growth
- Influence of strategy, particularly innovation and entrepreneurial, on growth
- Influence of the task / external environment on growth
- Management and control of fast / rapidly growing enterprises
- Measuring entrepreneurial growth across various stages of development
- The (temporal) relationship between growth and other performance indicators - Theory on growth: resources, capabilities, networks, and barriers - Role of institutions, such as government, incubators, and
agencies, in firm growth

IJOGVC publishes original papers, conceptual papers, empirical papers, review papers, case studies, relevant reports, book reviews, notes, commentaries, and news on topics from the perspectives of entrepreneurship and innovation management. Fresh, novel ideas and new ways of doing research are particularly welcome!

About the Journal
The IJOGVC proposes and fosters discussion on the organisational processes surrounding the concepts of opportunity, growth and value creation. Because the exploitation of opportunities, the subsequent growth of
organisations around these opportunities and the value created by both processes are so vital to the creation and redistribution of societal wealth, the development and the dissemination of more systematic knowledge
are required.

Whilst some preliminary and traditional efforts in this direction have been taken, IJOGVC is open to new, creative and innovative research approaches, designs and methods. In an attempt to bridge the gap between
research and practice, it emphasises the implications of this new knowledge for researchers, managers, public policy makers and business educators. The objective of IJOGVC is to provide an international forum in the field of management with the particular focus on the phenomena of opportunity, growth and value creation by publishing quality research articles. It also aims to promote and to coordinate developments in these fields of management. As these areas have both economic and societal implications, IJOGVC encourages the broadening and deepening of thought in these fields.

IJOGVC provides a vehicle to help academics, professionals, researchers and policy makers, working in the field of entrepreneurship, strategy, management, and business education, to create and to disseminate quality knowledge. The journal also provides a forum to allow interested parties to learn from each other's work.

Specific Notes for Authors
Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. All papers are refereed through a double blind process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Submission of Papers web-page (http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php? journalID=123). You may send one copy in the form of an MS Word file attached to an e-mail (details of file formats in Author Guidelines) to Rainer Harms or Joanne Scillitoe, below, with an email copy only to: IEL Editorial Office,
E-mail: ijogvc@inderscience.com

Please include in your submission the title of the journal
Guest <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Editors
Dr.</st1:address></st1:street> Rainer Harms
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Klagenfurt</st1:placename></st1:place>
Department of Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship
Universitätsstr. 65-67, A-9020 Klagenfurt, AUSTRIA
rainer.harms@uni-klu.ac.

Dr. Joanne Scillitoe
Michigan Technological University
School of Business and Economics
1400 Townsend Drive
Houghton, MI 49931
USA
jlscilli@mtu.edu

Joanne L. Scillitoe, PhD
Assistant Professor of Management
School of Business and Economics
Michigan Technological University
1400 Townsend Drive
Houghton, MI 49931
906-487-3267
jlscilli@mtu.edu

 

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CALL FOR PAPERS

6TH <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">WEST</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">COAST</st1:placetype></st1:place> RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM ON TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURSHIP
&
10TH ANNIVERSARY STANFORD TECHNOLOGY VENTURES PROGRAM
SEPTEMBER 5TH AND 6TH, 2008

Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), The Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (<st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Washington</st1:placename>), <st1:placename w:st="on">Lloyd</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Greif</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Center</st1:placetype> for Entrepreneurial Studies (USC), <st1:placename w:st="on">Lundquist</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Center</st1:placetype> for
Entrepreneurship (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Oregon</st1:placename></st1:place>) and the Kauffman Foundation are jointly sponsoring the 6th West Coast Research Symposium on Technology Entrepreneurship and the 10th Anniversary of STVP
(research) this year.

Theme:   Technology Entrepreneurship: New ventures and established    corporations.
Location:  <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Stanford</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>.
Date:       5th and 6th of September 2008.

We invite authors to submit papers to the research symposium. Our goal is an exciting forum for scholars interested in technology entrepreneurship research to exchange ideas. The location is <st1:placename w:st="on">Stanford</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> in the heart of <st1:place w:st="on">Silicon Valley</st1:place>. Papers focusing on entrepreneurship, innovation and corporate venturing in technology-based settings will be given preference.

We expect an intimate conference of about 40 leading scholars from around the world. The conference organizing committee invites the submission of unpublished working papers that advance the state of
knowledge on the above topics. A doctoral consortium will precede the conference on Thursday, September 4.

The DEADLINE for submission is Monday, June 23, 2008.
Submit online to  mailto:wcrs-entre@lists.stanford.edu>wcrs-entre@lists.stanford.edu.

We hope to see you at Stanford!

CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Kathy Eisenhardt, Stanford University
Suresh Kotha, University of Washington
Alan Meyer, University of Oregon
Nandini Rajagopalan, University of Southern California

CONFERENCE SPONSORS:

Stanford Technology Ventures Program, Stanford University
Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of Washington
Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, University of
Southern California
Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship, University of Oregon
Kauffman Foundation

 

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The 2nd Israel Strategy Conference (ISC2008) Tel Aviv, Israel December 28-30, 2008

Submit your proposal at: www.isc.org.il

Submission Deadline: June 15, 2008

In a continuous effort to build a thriving international community of strategic management scholars and promote the field of strategic  management in Israel, we are proud to announce the 2nd Israel Strategy Conference (ISC2008) to be held in Tel Aviv, Israel, on December 28-30, 2008. This year, the conference will include a doctoral consortium for which a separate announcement will follow. The tentative program features keynote speakers such as Joel Baum (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">U.</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Toronto</st1:placename></st1:place>), Joseph Lampel (Cass), Daniel Levinthal (Wharton), and Michael Tushman (Harvard). ISC2008, sponsored by the Eli Hurvitz Institute of Strategic Management at the Faculty of Management at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Tel</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Aviv</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>, offers you a unique opportunity to present your innovative ideas and explore recent developments, emerging issues, and trends in strategic management, as well as receive feedback on your work-in-progress, and network with colleagues from the field.

ISC2008 Call for Papers

We invite individuals who engage in strategic management research to submit paper proposals relating to their ongoing research for possible presentation at the conference.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
A.         Strategy formulation and implementation
B.         Strategic planning and decision processes
C.         Managing risk and uncertainty
D.         Strategic control and reward systems
E.         Resource development and allocation
F.         Knowledge management
G.         Internationalization and multinational corporations
H.         Strategic alliances and networks 
I.          Diversification and portfolio strategies
J.          Competitive strategy
K.         Selection and behavior of general managers
L.         Corporate venturing
M.        Entrepreneurship 
N.         Corporate governance

Submission guidelines

The ISC will consider unpublished original paper proposals relating to the above topics of interest. International and global perspectives are encouraged. Submissions can be theoretical and/or empirical, quantitative or qualitative in nature. Published papers or papers that were accepted for publication prior to the submission deadline will not be considered for the conference. This year we seek to accept a relatively small number of high-quality papers that targets top tier academic journals. Submitted papers will go through a double blind review by a panel of several reviewers. Submissions will be evaluated based on their academic rigor, relevance, and contribution to the field of strategic management. Accepted papers will be assigned to paper sessions or poster sessions based on this evaluation.

The deadline for online submissions of paper proposals is June 15th, 2008.

Paper proposals, written in English, should clearly identify the research questions and the proposed/actual methodology used. If available, the main results, implications, and contributions should also be briefly discussed. Paper proposals are limited to 2 pages of text and 1 additional page of references. Use double spacing with 1-inch margins all around and a font size no smaller than 11 pt. The title of your paper must be included in the header of the proposal and should exactly match the title provided in the online submission form. Please do not include any author identifying information in the proposal. To submit the paper proposal, upload your proposal in a Word or PDF file format to the Submissions Section of the ISC website at: http://www.isc.org.il/ where additional guidelines will be provided. As part of the submission process you will be required to enter your contact details and affiliation, list your co-authors, and select a topic category that best applies to your paper. Presenting authors must be available to present their papers anytime during the conference. There will be no changes in the program to accommodate specific time preferences. If the presenting author cannot be available during December 29-30, please don't submit a proposal. An author may be designated as the presenter of only one paper, but can be listed as a co-author of up to 3 papers.

The Submission Section of the ISC is now open and will be available until June 15, 2008. Notices to authors will be sent in early August, 2008, indicating whether the proposed paper has been selected for inclusion in the conference program, and whether it has been accepted to a paper session or a poster session. Authors of accepted papers will be required to submit a short abstract and the full-length paper (for paper sessions) by November 1st, 2008. Presenting authors must register to the conference by September 1st, 2008. The conference program, with a detailed schedule of sessions and events will be released in mid November, 2008.

ISC Best Paper Award

A select group of papers which received the highest evaluation in the review process will be nominated as finalists for the ISC Best Paper Award. The finalists will be asked to submit a full paper for an additional round of blind-review process by a distinguished panel of reviewers. The selected winner(s) of the ISC Best Paper Award will receive a plaque and a $1,000 cash prize sponsored by Rotem Strategy, an Israeli- based strategy consulting firm. The wining paper will be announced in the concluding session of ISC.

Conference format

The conference will start with a reception and a special session which will be held on the evening of December 28th. Papers will be assigned to parallel sessions based on common themes, scheduled on December 29 and 30. Each author whose paper is accepted for presentation in a paper session will be given 15 minutes to present the paper. Following the presentations, designated discussants who have carefully read the papers will present their main comments and provide suggestions for improving the papers and getting them ready for publication. Discussants will also offer an integration of the papers presented in their sessions, which will be followed by questions from and general discussion by the audience. In addition, the conference will feature themed poster sessions which will offer authors the opportunity to interactively present their papers and discuss them with the audience. The conference will also feature keynote speeches and special sessions to be noted in the conference program.

Conference location and accommodation

ISC2008 will be held at the Faculty of Management, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Tel Aviv University</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Israel</st1:country-region></st1:place>. The following hotels are in proximity to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Tel</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Aviv</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place> and offer a special rate to conference attendees:

1. Sheraton Moriah Tel Aviv
Hayarkon 155, Tel Aviv 63453, Tel: 1-888-625-5144 or (972)(3)6213322, Fax:
(972)(3)6213350,
Email: Itzik.Doanis@Sheraton.com, Website: www.starwoodhotels.com Mention
SET Code 357874 when making your reservation (Cut-off date:
October 27, 2008)

2. Tal Hotel Tel Aviv
Hayarkon 287, Tel Aviv 63453, Tel: (972)(3)5425500, Fax: (972)(3)5467687,
E-mail: reservations@atlashotels.co.il, Website: www.atlas.co.il Mention
ISC. Limited availability (Cut-off date: November 27, 2008)

3. Alexander Suites Tel Aviv
Havakuk 3, Tel Aviv 63505, Tel: (972)(3)5452222, Fax: (972)(3)5469346,
Email: hotel@alexander.co.il,  Website: http://www.alexander.co.il/
Mention ISC. Limited availability of family suites (Cut-off date: October
27, 2008)

Attendees are responsible for making their own travel and accommodation arrangements. Transportation will be arranged between the above hotels and conference sites per the program schedule.

Conference Registration

Registration to the conference will open on August, 2008. Attendees are advised to register early. Please visit the ISC website to register during the registration period at http://www.isc.org.il/. Payment instructions will be posted on the conference website.

The conference registration fee is as follows:
Early registration fee:                    <st1:city w:st="on">NIS</st1:city> 400
Early registration fee for students:       NIS 250
Late registration fee:                     <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">NIS</st1:place></st1:city> 500
Late registration fee for students:        NIS 300                        

Early registration fee will be accepted by November 1st, 2008. Late registration fee will be applicable after November 1st, 2008 and on-site. Attendees are nevertheless advised to register online by November 1st. Students must present valid student ID upon admission to the conference.
An additional fee will be applicable for those registering to a social event.

Conference co-organizers

Niron Hashai (Hebrew University) - nironH@huji.ac.il
Dovev Lavie (Technion & UT Austin) - dlavie@ie.technion.ac.il
Ithai Stern (Northwestern University) - i-stern@kellogg.northwestern.edu

Advisory committee

Shmuel Ellis (Tel Aviv University) – sellis@post.tau.ac.il
Avi Fiegenbaum (Technion) - avif@ie.technion.ac.il
Avi Meshulach (Hebrew University) - msavim@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il
Zur Shapira (New York University) - zshapira@stern.nyu.edu

For additional information, visit the ISC website at
http://www.isc.org.il/ or contact one of the conference co-organizers at info@isc.org.il.

We look forward to seeing you in Tel Aviv!

Dr. Dovev Lavie
Sloan Industry Studies Fellow
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

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From: http://www.3inconf.pwsbijo.pl/

"Management of Meaning in Organizations"

(international conference organized by International Association of Cross-Cultural
Competence & Management, in partnership with Rotterdam School of Management RSM/EUR and Poznan University College of Business and Foreign Languages PWSBiJO)

Poznan, June 25-26, 2008
and
3 x IN = Inventing + Innovating + Interpreting

<st1:city w:st="on">Poznan</st1:city>, June 27, 2008

Accompanied by

"<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Malta</st1:place></st1:country-region> 2008", the annual Poznan International Theatre Festival (June 23-28, 2008)

The Management of Meaning in Organizations

Contemporary flows of immigrants, tourists and professional expats contribute to the emergence of multiculturally patterned interaction chains and to the emergence of a multilayered and negotiable concept of culture as a resource and playground rather than a ready-made software to be installed in individual minds during partially enforced socialization. Some of these patterned interactions will evolve into rituals and institutions, but not all of them, and most will require a continuous investment in maintenance and reengineering of relations and interaction processes.

Most of the professionals expedited by their companies and agencies to far away places are forced to dive into a cultural shock and re-adjustment. They develop their own cultural competence. In order to understand what they are doing and how they cope, we have to start with the study of re-tooling of cultures and subcultures (including the so called national ones managed by state bureaucracies, including ours) and of the consequences of individualization and hybridization of the ongoing process of identity formation, reformation and counterreformation. Studying the revolutionary consequences of reshaping of national cultures under the pressure of accelerated globalization and increase of unmanageable inequalities are at the core of our scientific programme.

 3 x IN (Inventing – Innovating – Intrepreting)

Breeding, facilitating and sustaining entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial initiatives requires approaching management as if it was a gerund rather than a noun. Innovating means seeing realities as flows and processes, streams and currents rather than bricks or blocks of organizational structures neatly displayed in solid organi-grams. Non-hierarchic, network-oriented and self-managed-teams-based matrixes of future forms of organizing call for research attention of academic and non-academic communities of practice. Dealing with manageable inequalities, minding and mining diversities or breaking with bureaucratic routines without getting rid of traceable responsibilities – those are the new skills and insights which call for inventions, innovations and continuous self-reflexive interpretations (and re-interpretations, and re-re-interpretations and more). 3 x IN focuses on breeding cross-cultural competence and on eVolving. Competent scanning of organizational windows of opportunities and practical adjustment of managerial narratives and academic discourses to changing realities of postglobalized, de-communized and post-Chindianized interactions are among challenges ahead. Let us start tackling them

A group opf researchers spanning cross-cultural studies, critical management studies and sciences of organization invite you to discuss theoretical landscape of comparatiove studies in cultures and organizations. Selected papers submitted to both conferences will appear in European Journal of International Management, Journal of Organizational Change Management, Journal of Cross-Cultural Competence & Management and International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management. The mission of IACCM members is to promote scholarly work of young scholars in <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>.

For further information contact Peter Odrakiewicz odrapeter@hotmail.com

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HICSS-42 Call for papers for the minitrack on: "CREATIVITY IN TEAMS AND ORGANIZATIONS"
Part of the Collaboration Systems and Technology Track of the Forty-Second Annual
Hawai'i International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS)
Waikoloa, HI - January 5 - 8, 2009

Papers are invited for the minitrack on "CREATIVITY IN TEAMS AND ORGANIZATIONS" as part of the Collaboration Systems and Technology Track at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).

Innovation is a critical force in organizational performance and survival. Changes in technology, globalization, and increased competition have all created an environment in which creativity and innovation are needed in order to cope with situational and economic pressures and frequent changes. Designers and Developers of organizational systems must therefore innovate almost continuously to keep the organization aligned with such changes. Creativity is a critical pre-condition for innovation. Generating novel and creative ideas are the key to innovation and growth in every organization today. Providing employees with tools to think creatively has been proven to increase innovation in organizations. Research shows that organizations which have established skill-bases and tools for creativity outperform the competition in terms of revenue, rolling out new products, innovation and growth. Though organizations deploy groups for most creative processes, there has been little research in the area of group creativity. Most creative research is focused on individual factors affecting creativity. Many challenges that arise from pursuing creativity
in teams remain unexplored.

This minitrack provides one of the key international platforms on which the following issues can be discussed:

Methods & techniques to improve creativity in co-located and distributed groups
Design and Evaluation of Systems and technology for enhancing creativity
Challenges and opportunities for creativity in teams
Theoretical foundations for creativity at individual, group and organizational levels
Practical approaches to foster creativity at individual, group and organizational levels
The creation and implementation of innovations in teams and organizations
Factors affecting creativity in teams and organizations
Building team-based organizations
Multi-level issues of creativity in teams and organizations

Thus, papers are welcome that contain original ideas on how to improve creativity and innovation through all phases of problem-solving: Understanding a problem, devising potential solutions, evaluating alternatives, making choices, making plans, taking action, and after-action review. We seek papers that suggest methodical, technical, theoretical, or practical improvements for realizing creative ideas in the workforce as innovations, for an organization cannot benefit from its creativity until its ideas are implemented.

There are no preferred methodological stances for this minitrack: this minitrack is open to both qualitative and quantitative research, to research from a positivist, interpretivist, or critical perspective, to studies from the lab, from the field, design-oriented or developmental in nature.

Themes and topics of relevance to this minitrack include, but are not limited to (related topics not listed are especially welcome):

Creativity techniques and approaches
Creativity methods & techniques to improve creativity in co-located and distributed groups
Measuring the effectiveness of creativity techniques and approaches
Creativity in patterns of collaboration (divergence, convergence, organization, evaluation, and consensus building)
Reusability, trainability, predictability, and transferability of creativity techniques and approaches
Capturing best practices on creativity
Analyzing the nature of the evolving artifacts

Technologies to support creativity
Theories, guidelines, and strategies for designing creative technologies and systems
Proof of concepts – examples of breakthrough technologies and systems supporting creativity
Technologies that support creativity in specific critical collaboration processes, e.g.
Requirements specification & analysis
Focus groups
Delphi processes
Collaborative planning
Strategy building
Collaborative writing
Communities and Web 2.0
Mobile Creativity

Creativity in teams and organizations
Analyzing the nature of creative teams and its evolving processes
Training work group members and work group leaders to think and act creatively
Innovation management in collaborative contexts
Success factors for diffusing creativity techniques, approaches, and technologies in organizations
Factors affecting creativity in teams and organizations
Building team-based organizations
Challenges and opportunities for creativity in teams
Practical approaches to foster creativity at individual, group and organizational levels
Theories on collaborative and organizational creativity
Studies on the efficacy of interventions intended to introduce creativity approaches and 

   technologies in an organization
Enhancing creativity by appropriate knowledge management
Creativity in communities and user-generated content
Creativity in the "enterprise 2.0"
Creativity in ad-hoc-groups

MINITRACK COORDINATORS:

Roni Reiter-Palmon
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Department of Psychology
Director of Research, Institute for Collaboration Science
1110 South 67th street, Omaha, NE 68182-0116 USA
Phone: (402) 554-4081
E-mail: rreiter-palmon@mail.unomaha.edu

Triparna Gangopadhyay (primary contact) (information at end of posting)

Gerhard Schwabe
Chair of Information Management
Department of Informatics
University of Zurich
Binzmühlestrasse 14
CH-8050 Zürich
Tel: +41-44-63-5 43 05
Fax: +41-44-63-5 68 09
http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/im
E-mail: schwabe@ifi.uzh.ch

The purpose of HICSS is to provide a forum for the interchange of ideas, research results, development activities, and applications among academicians and practitioners in computer-based systems sciences. The conference consists of tutorials, advanced seminars, presentations of accepted papers, open forum, tasks forces, and plenary and distinguished guest lectures. There is a high degree of interaction and discussion among the conference participants because the conference is conducted in a workshop-like setting.

Instructions for submitting papers:
Submit an electronic copy of the full paper, 10 pages including title page, abstract, references and diagrams using the review system available at the HICSS site, make sure that the authors' names and affiliation information has been removed to ensure an anonymous review.

Do not submit the paper to more than one minitrack. The paper should contain original material and not be previously published or currently submitted for consideration elsewhere.

Provide the required information to the review system such as title, full name of all authors, and their complete addresses including affiliation(s), telephone number(s) and e-mail address(es).

The first page of the paper should include the title and a (max) 300-word abstract.

DEADLINES:
May 15:  OPTIONAL: Abstracts submitted to Minitrack Chairs for guidance, indication of appropriate content and to receive instructions on submitting full paper.
June 15:  Full papers uploaded in the directory of the appropriate minitrack.
August 15:  Notification of accepted papers mailed to authors.
September 15:  Accepted manuscripts, camera-ready, uploaded; author(s) must register by this time.

Send all correspondence related to this minitrack to:

<st1:placename w:st="on">Triparna</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Gangopadhyay</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:state w:st="on">Nebraska</st1:state> at Omaha
Department of Psychology
Research Associate, Institute for Collaboration Science
Roskens Hall, Room 512J, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Omaha</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">NE</st1:state> <st1:postalcode w:st="on">68182</st1:postalcode> <st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place>
Phone: (402) 554-2557
E-mail: tgangopadhyay@mail.unomaha.edu

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Dear TIM members:

I call your attention to the attached call for papers for a special issue of Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal on "International Entrepreneurship: Managerial and Public Policy Implications" (text reproduced below, in case you can't read the attachment)
Best regards,
Don Siegel

on behalf of
Douglas Cumming, Donald Siegel, and Mike Wright-Guest Co-Editors and SEJ Advising Editor-Harry J. Sapienza
SEJ special issue on "International Entrepreneurship: Managerial and Public Policy Implications"

----------------------------------------------
(as of 7/1/08)
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

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal

INTERNATIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP:
MANAGERIAL AND PUBLIC POLICY IMPLICATIONS
Submission Due Date: December 31, 2008
Guest Editors:
Douglas Cumming, York University
Donald Siegel, University at Albany, SUNY
Mike Wright, Nottingham University Business School

SEJ Advising Editor
Harry J. Sapienza, University of Minnesota

Introduction
        Entrepreneurship is increasingly viewed as a key determinant of firm, regional, and national economic performance.  To enhance competitive advantage, national and regional governments in many countries have implemented programs and regulatory changes to stimulate entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial governance. Not surprisingly, there is a growing, but nascent, academic literature on the managerial and policy implications of international entrepreneurship.
        As in other embryonic fields of research, numerous topics in international entrepreneurship remain to be explored.  These include the critical issue of how to synthesize the diverse streams of policy and strategy research.  A central challenge is to build on existing theoretical and empirical evidence on environmental and strategic factors influencing international entrepreneurship, such as institutional, regulatory, industry, and national characteristics. Furthermore, our knowledge of the "strategic" aspects of international entrepreneurship also merits expansion and refinement. We need more research on the internationalization of new ventures, as well as the antecedents and performance consequences of specific functional, business, and corporate strategies.
A major goal of this special issue is to help establish a comprehensive framework for studying international entrepreneurship.

Research Questions
Some research questions that contributors to the special issue might address are:
•       How do government policies impact incentives to form strategic alliances among entrepreneurial firms in domestic versus foreign settings?
•       What is the role of laws and public policy in stimulating transnational and returning entrepreneurs?
•       What is the role of social networks in international entrepreneurship?
•       What factors lead to the success of immigrant entrepreneurs in different countries?
•       What is the interaction between public policy and foreign investment in entrepreneurial ventures?
•       What explains international differences in governmental policies regarding intellectual property, entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurial finance?
•       How does international entrepreneurship affect firm performance?
•       How important is product and geographic focus for entrepreneurial success within different public policy settings?
•       What are the implications of corporate entrepreneurship for multinational companies?
•       How do corporate governance regulations impact international entrepreneurship?
•       How do venture capitalists and private equity firms make decisions in an international context, including the decision to make cross-border investments and how to enter international markets?
•       What is the role of academic entrepreneurship in various nations? Is their convergence or divergence in policies to stimulate academic entrepreneurship?
•       How do universities stimulate international technology transfer and commercialization?
•       What is the relative importance of patenting, licensing, and property-based institutions, such as science parks and incubators in stimulating entrepreneurship in various nations?

Papers on related issues not explicitly listed above are also welcome.

Submission and Review Process
The deadline for submissions is December 31, 2008.  All papers will be externally reviewed according to standard policies of Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.

Conference Details and Time Line
To aid in the development of papers, a special issue conference will be held at the Schulich School of Business, <st1:placename w:st="on">York</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype>, in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Toronto</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region></st1:place> on April 17-18, 2009.  Accommodation and meals will be provided for all authors and discussants attending the conference.  Financial support will be provided by the Schulich School of Business, <st1:placename w:st="on">York</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype>, the <st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Business</st1:placename> at the University at <st1:city w:st="on">Albany</st1:city>, and the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Nottingham</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> <st1:placename w:st="on">Business</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype></st1:place>.

December 31, 2008       Deadline for electronic submission of papers to the SEJ special issue

March 15, 2009  Deadline for notification to authors regarding acceptance to the
SEJ Special Issue Conference
April 17-18, 2009       SEJ Special Issue Conference at York University
Late September 2009     Final decisions on papers for SEJ Special Issue

More Information
For additional information, please contact the special issue editors:
•       Douglas Cumming, Schulich School of Business, York University, dcumming@schulich.yorku.ca
•       Donald Siegel, School of Business, University at Albany, SUNY, DSiegel@uamail.albany.edu
•       Mike Wright, Nottingham University Business School, Mike.Wright@nottingham.ac.uk
•       Harry Sapienza, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, sapienza@umn.edu

Call for Papers for a Special Issue

INTERNATIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP:

MANAGERIAL AND PUBLIC POLICY IMPLICATIONS

Submission Due Date: December 31, 2008

Guest Editors:

Douglas Cumming, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">York</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>

Donald Siegel, University at <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Albany</st1:place></st1:city>, SUNY

Mike Wright, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Nottingham</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> <st1:placename w:st="on">Business</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype></st1:place>

SEJ Advising Editor

Harry J. Sapienza, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Minnesota</st1:placename></st1:place>

 

Introduction

Entrepreneurship is increasingly viewed as a key determinant of firm, regional, and national economic

performance. To enhance competitive advantage, national and regional governments in many countries

have implemented programs and regulatory changes to stimulate entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial

governance. Not surprisingly, there is a growing, but nascent, academic literature on the managerial and

policy implications of international entrepreneurship.

 

As in other embryonic fields of research, numerous topics in international entrepreneurship remain to be

explored. These include the critical issue of how to synthesize the diverse streams of policy and strategy

research. A central challenge is to build on existing theoretical and empirical evidence on environmental

and strategic factors influencing international entrepreneurship, such as institutional, regulatory, industry,

and national characteristics. Furthermore, our knowledge of the "strategic" aspects of international

entrepreneurship also merits expansion and refinement. We need more research on the internationalization of new ventures, as well as the antecedents and performance consequences of specific functional, business, and corporate strategies. A major goal of this special issue is to help establish a comprehensive framework for studying international entrepreneurship.

 

Research Questions

Some research questions that contributors to the special issue might address are:

• How do government policies impact incentives to form strategic alliances among entrepreneurial

firms in domestic versus foreign settings?

• What is the role of laws and public policy in stimulating transnational and returning entrepreneurs?

• What is the role of social networks in international entrepreneurship?

• What factors lead to the success of immigrant entrepreneurs in different countries?

• What is the interaction between public policy and foreign investment in entrepreneurial ventures?

• What explains international differences in governmental policies regarding intellectual property,

entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurial finance?

• How does international entrepreneurship affect firm performance?

• How important is product and geographic focus for entrepreneurial success within different

public policy settings?

• What are the implications of corporate entrepreneurship for multinational companies?

• How do corporate governance regulations impact international entrepreneurship?

• How do venture capitalists and private equity firms make decisions in an international context,

including the decision to make cross-border investments and how to enter international markets?

• What is the role of academic entrepreneurship in various nations? Is their convergence or

divergence in policies to stimulate academic entrepreneurship?

• How do universities stimulate international technology transfer and commercialization?

• What is the relative importance of patenting, licensing, and property-based institutions, such as

science parks and incubators in stimulating entrepreneurship in various nations?

Papers on related issues not explicitly listed above are also welcome.

 

Submission and Review Process

The deadline for submissions is December 31, 2008. All papers will be externally reviewed according to

standard policies of Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.

 

Conference Details and Time Line

To aid in the development of papers, a special issue conference will be held at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Schulich</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype></st1:place> of

Business, <st1:placename w:st="on">York</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype>, in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Toronto</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region></st1:place> on April 17-18, 2009. Accommodation and meals will be

provided for all authors and discussants attending the conference. Financial support will be provided by

the <st1:placename w:st="on">Schulich</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype> of Business, <st1:placename w:st="on">York</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype>, the <st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Business</st1:placename> at the University at <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Albany</st1:place></st1:city>,

and the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Nottingham</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> <st1:placename w:st="on">Business</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype></st1:place>.

 

December 31, 2008 Deadline for electronic submission of papers to the SEJ special issue

March 15, 2009 Deadline for notification to authors regarding acceptance to the

SEJ Special Issue Conference

April 17-18, 2009 SEJ Special Issue Conference at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">York</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>

Late September 2009 Final decisions on papers for SEJ Special Issue

 

More Information

For additional information, please contact the special issue editors:

• Douglas Cumming, Schulich School of Business, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">York</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>, dcumming@schulich.yorku.ca

• Donald Siegel, <st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Business</st1:placename>, University at <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Albany</st1:place></st1:city>, SUNY, DSiegel@uamail.albany.edu

• Mike Wright, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Nottingham</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> <st1:placename w:st="on">Business</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype></st1:place>, Mike.Wright@nottingham.ac.uk

• Harry Sapienza, Carlson School of Management, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Minnesota</st1:placename></st1:place>, sapienza@umn.edu

• or the Managing Editor of the SEJ, Lois Gast, lgast@wiley.com

• or visit http://sej.strategicmanagement.net

 

The SEJ is a Strategic Management Society (SMS) journal. The Society is unique

in bringing together the worlds of reflective practice and thoughtful scholarship.

The Society consists of more than 2,000 members representing over 50 different

countries. Membership, composed of academics, business practitioners, and

consultants, focuses its attention on the development and dissemination of

insights on the strategic management process, as well as fostering contacts and

interchange around the world.

SMS Executive Office

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Hi Everyone,

We thought you might be interested in looking at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Aspen</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Institute</st1:placetype> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Center</st1:placetype></st1:place> for Business Education's May 2008 E-Newsletter. The issue can be viewed here: http://www.aspencbe.org/newsletterarchive/May08.html.  Enjoy, and do let me know if you'd like to be signed up for this monthly publication.

I also want to let you know that the Aspen Institute has launched a redesigned and easy-to-use version of CasePlace.org (www.caseplace.org<http://www.caseplace.org/>), the leading website for MBA teaching materials that incorporate social and environmental issues.  A more detailed press release for the site launch can be found here: http://www.aspencbe.org/documents/Press%20Release%20for%20CasePlace.doc.

Aspen CBE works in several ways to help ensure that business education prepares future leaders for the social and environmental complexity of mainstream, for-profit, enterprise. The Aspen CBE E-Newsletter spotlights notable programs and partnerships and provides readers with the latest in innovative teaching materials and thought leadership from a variety of resources.

Thanks,
Alex Roberts
Program Manager
Center for Business Education
Business and Society Program
The Aspen Institute
(212) 895-8005
www.AspenCBE.org<http://www.AspenCBE.org>
www.CasePlace.org<http://www.CasePlace.org>
www.BeyondGreyPinstripes.org<http://www.BeyondGreyPinstripes.org>

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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>

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