TIM Division List Serve
Vol. 5, No. 13 (June 9, 2008)
Table of Contents:
- Annual Meeting
- Other Meetings and Call for Papers
- Participation Invitations
- Research
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Annual Meeting
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*Call** for 2008 TIM Junior Faculty Consortium
The Technology and Innovation Management Division of the Academy of Management is pleased to invite applications for the 2008 TIM Junior Faculty Consortium to be held at the Academy of Management meeting in Anaheim, California on Saturday, August 9^th .
If you hold an assistant professor rank (or its equivalent), this professional development workshop is for you. The workshop tries to make available the knowledge that you need to prosper in both the local and global academic environment. The workshop focuses on strategies for impact as a scholar and teacher, as well as on building a career in diverse professional settings.
This year's consortium will allow participants to learn how to get published in top journals, meet the editors of prestigious journals in the field, and receive feedback on their working papers from their peers and senior faculty. The consortium will feature outstanding senior faculty members with a proven record of research and teaching. The consortium will provide participants with the opportunity for reflection and renewal, for networking with friends and colleagues, and for meeting
new peers and senior colleagues with shared interests. Applicants must have at least one full year of experience as an assistant professor in a post-Ph.D. academic institution and no more than three years experience by August 2008.
To apply, please email your vita to Therin Francois at Francois.Therin@euromed-management.com. When you apply please indicate the month and year you started your first assistant professor position. Although we will take applications on a rolling basis until July 1st, 2008, we encourage you to apply early.
If you have questions concerning these requirements, please contact one of the co-chairs.
Therin Francois
Euromed Marseille Ecole de Management
francois.therin@euromed-marseille.com
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Juan</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Alcacer</st1:placename>
<st1:placename w:st="on">Harvard</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Business</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype></st1:place>
jalcacer@hbs.edu
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We'd like to alert you to the following PDW.
PDW: Rethinking the Role of Technology in Institutional Theory
Friday, August 8, 1-3 p.m., <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Anaheim</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Convention Center</st1:placetype></st1:place>, 202A.
Organized by:
<st1:placename w:st="on">Sarah</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Kaplan</st1:placename> <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>
Michael Lounsbury University of Alberta School of Business
Neoinstitutionalists have aptly demonstrated how cognitive, normative and regulative forces facilitate organizational isomorphism across a wide variety of contexts (e.g., see Powell & DiMaggio, 1991). However, the development of much this body of work relied on a sharp distinction between technological/material factors and more cultural/institutional processes (Scott, 2001). This conceptual break is particularly vivid in neoinstitutional research on diffusion that emphasizes a two-stage process whereby early adopters are driven by technical considerations
and later adopters imitate each other in a way that is decoupled from rational calculation (e.g. Tolbert & Zucker 1983). In many ways, this conceptual apparatus was reflective of the scholarship at the time that understood technology as a kind of obdurate, exogenous force that consequently shaped organizational structure (e.g., Woodward, 1965; Thompson, 1967).
However, more recent ethnographic accounts inside organizations have tried to provide more endogenous, structurationist accounts of technology that emphasize the social processes by which technologies emerge and become socially organized (e.g., Barley, 1986; Kaplan, 2007; Orlikowski, 2000). In this PDW, we aim to initiate a conversation about how institutional research can usefully contribute to and extend such contemporary efforts by shifting the level of analysis to the field in
order to develop an understanding of how the development of technology importantly shapes and is shaped by broader institutional actors and processes (e.g., Lounsbury, Ventresca & Hirsch, 2003; Munir & Phillips, 2004; Zilber, 2006). By doing so, researchers may contribute to the development of a conceptualization of institutional dynamics that eschews a separation between technology and rationality on the one hand, and institutional and cultural processes on the other (see also Garud
and Karnoe, 2001; Garud and Rappa, 1994; Hargadon & Douglas, 2001; Kaplan and Tripsas, 2008; Lounsbury, 2007; Zilber, 2002). We hope to highlight key opportunities and tensions in making this integration and use these to outline a research agenda.
This 2 hour PDW session will include comments by Raghu Garud, Andrew Hargadon and Tammar Zilber who will present some provocative ideas as thought starters for our discussion. Introductory talks and discussions will focus on identifying the key questions for research on technological and institutional dynamics. The aim is to be generative, facilitating the identification of important research questions, the construction of a new research program and set of collaborations.
Our tentative schedule is as follows:
Introduction to session (5 minutes)
Opening Remarks on Technology and Institutional Theory (3 people, 10 minutes each)
Roundtable discussions (45 minutes)
Reporting of Roundtable discussions (20 minutes)
Final Group Discussion (20 minutes)
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Dear AOM Members,
We call your attention to our PDW session, "Globalizing Innovation with National Players: Identifying New Opportunities for Research and Practice", on Saturday, August 9th from 9 am to 11:30 pm in Room 202A of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Anaheim</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Convention Center</st1:placetype></st1:place>.
We focus on identifying frontier theoretical and empirical approaches to help us understand the implications of globaling innovation for (1) knowledge production and economic development, and (2) firm strategy and organization.
The panel consists of Eleanor Westney, an expert on the strategy and structure of the multinational corporation and the globalization of R&D. Her books include Organizational Theory and the Multinational Corporation (with Sumantra Ghoshal), Imitation and Innovation: The Transfer of Western Organizational Patterns in Meiji <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Japan</st1:place></st1:country-region> (2000).
David Audretsch's has pioneered research on entrepreneurship and regional innovation. His latest book is Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Economic Growth. Jeff Furman has published papers on academic science and the pharmaceutical industry, public and private spillovers, location and strategy and national innovative capacity.
Gerry McDermott's research focuses on problems of institutional and organizational learning in the formation of public-private governance institutions in emerging market and post-socialist economies, including a book, Embedded Politics: Industrial Networks and Institutional Change in
Postcommunism.
Anupam Khanna is a policy expert with over 25 years experience at the World Bank, first-hand understanding of state enterprise reform in China, infrastructure operations in East Asia, and economic policy issues as well as technology and industrial innovation in Eastern Africa, Latin America and Southern/Central Europe. He currently oversees analytical and policy work for the standing committees of the 24 –member Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Washington</st1:city> <st1:state w:st="on">D.C.</st1:state></st1:place>
Frits Pil has published extensively on high performance/high involvement work systems and organizational innovation; his book The Second Century deals with the global automobile industry.
Gita Surie's research focuses cross border innovation, technology transfer, entrepreneurship and economic development and includes a forthcoming book Knowledge, Organizational Evolution and Market Creation: The Globalization of Indian Firms from Steel to Software.
Following brief presentations by each of the panelists (5-7 minutes), we will have round table discussions on the topics above and debrief presentations by each table with the objective of developing a research agenda around the top priorities for future work. You are encouraged to discuss and submit themes/issues and work-in-process related to these topics in preparation for the
workshop - these should be emailed to the address supplied below. We plan to create a virtual community to continue the discussion and further the research agenda developed here through future publications, workshops and conferences.
Pre-registration is desirable, but is not a requirement.
Contact: Gita Surie
Email: surie@adelphi.edu
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2008 Academy of Management Meeting, Anaheim, CA
Showcase Symposium - Alliance Portfolios: The Questions We Ask
Time: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 10:30 am - 11:50 pm
Location: Hilton Anaheim, California Pavilion B
Symposium website: http://iew3.technion.ac.il/AOM2008/
Panelists:
Ranjay Gulati, Harvard Business School
Werner H. Hoffmann, Vienna U. of Economics and Business Administration
Prashant Kale, Rice University
Dovev Lavie, Technion & University of Texas at Austin
Jeffery J. Reuer, University of North Carolina
Harbir Singh, The Wharton School
Symposium Objectives and Focus:
The study of interfirm alliances and networks has drawn extensive attention in strategic management, organization theory, technology and innovation management, and related fields. In a first glance it seems that most questions have already been answered. In recent years, however, firms have become embedded in multiple simultaneous alliances, which raises new questions concerning the management and performance implications of alliance portfolios. An alliance portfolio refers to a firm's collection of immediate alliance partners.
The questions we ask concern:
(a) Governance - how can a firm design an alliance program to coordinate multiple alliances and manage related tradeoffs?
(b) Capabilities - how can a dedicated alliance function engage in learning and dissemination of partnering know-how as well as leverage its experience for repeatable success?
(c) Configurations - how do partner composition and tie heterogeneity promote distinctive strategies? and
(d) Performance - how can a firm leverage its alliance portfolio to enhance its corporate performance?
In addressing these questions scholars may emphasize the nature of relationships or instead study patterns of ties in the firm's ego-network. Perhaps, scholars should question these perspectives, juxtapose them, or adopt new lenses. This symposium will gather a distinguished panel that will raise the above questions and discuss recent developments in this emerging field of research. The panel will (a) provide a coherent yet multidisciplinary perspective on the phenomenon of alliance portfolios, (b) report recent findings and offer new insights that advance this research agenda, and (c) discuss the conceptual and empirical challenges and set directions for future research.
Symposium Format:
This symposium is designed to stimulate an interactive discussion and to help the audience identify emerging research opportunities and spark dialogue that can advance research on alliance portfolios.
The first part of the symposium will feature four presentations on the following topics:
(a) Governance - how can a firm design an alliance program to coordinate multiple simultaneous alliances and manage tradeoffs? (Jeff Reuer)
(b) Capabilities - how can a dedicated alliance function engage in learning, dissemination, and utilization of partnering know-how? (Prashant Kale)
(c) Configurations - how do partner composition and tie heterogeneity promote distinctive strategies? (Werner Hoffmann)
(d) Performance - how can a firm leverage its alliance portfolio to enhance its corporate performance? (Dovev Lavie)
The second part of the symposium will feature two discussants who will integrate the previously presented themes from two perspectives:
(1) Relational perspective - examining the nature of relationships that emerge with and across partners in the alliance portfolio. (Harbir Singh)
(2) Structural perspective - analyzing consistent patterns and properties of ties in the alliance portfolio. (Ranjay Gulati)
The final part of the symposium will involve an interactive discussion on the key issues and challenges in the study of alliance portfolios following questions from the audience. In discussing these issues, the panelists will offer their comments and the floor will also be open for audience participation. We encourage you to submit your questions in advance so that the panelists will be able to give sufficient attention to them in their presentations and following discussion. The symposium will conclude by identifying "the key questions we should ask", to guide future
research on alliance portfolios.
The Questions We Ask: Post Your Questions to the Panelists
If you would like to post a question to the panelists, please visit the symposium website at http://iew3.technion.ac.il/AOM2008/
We look forward to seeing you in Anaheim
Dr. Dovev Lavie
Landau Fellow - supported by the Taub Foundation
Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management
The Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Haifa 32000
Israel
Email: dlavie@ie.technion.ac.il
Tel: 972-4-8294435
Fax: 972-4-8295688
Sloan Industry Studies Fellow
Assistant Professor of Management
The University of Texas at Austin
McCombs School of Business
Management Department
1 University Station B6300
Austin, Texas 78712-0210
Email: dovev.lavie@mccombs.utexas.edu
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Other Meetings and Call for Papers
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I am pleased to send information on our 2nd annual conference on Global Security in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Washington</st1:city> <st1:state w:st="on">D.C.</st1:state></st1:place> on June 16-17, 2008.
Global Security: Challenges and Opportunities
http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/ciber/globalsecurity2008/
American corporations are now active in over 70 countries rated as medium to extreme risk, with tens of billions of dollars invested there. And, within the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>, a majority of the infrastructure, including the cyber infrastructure, is owned by private individuals and organizations, all of which is susceptible to security threats. In the post-9/11 digital world, global security is being increasingly recognized as a competitiveness issue by both business and government.
The 2008 Global Security Conference will bring together thought leaders, policymakers, scholars, corporate and government executives, and venture capitalists for an examination of security issues and approaches such as:
- Global security, enterprise resilience, and international competitiveness
- Opportunities arising from Congressional appropriations for homeland security
- Breaking through the barriers to government procurement and VC funding
- Organizational defenses against data security and cybersecurity threats
- Global security and technological innovation
- Organizational responses to security challenges arising from catastrophic and disruptive events
- Images of America abroad ? and implications for corporate America
Department of Homeland Security Under Secretary Jay Cohen is the opening keynote speaker on June 16th. And, the conference will feature several senior and top-level scholars and professionals in the homeland, international, and cyber security domains.
Conference registration fee has been kept extremely low due to the generous support of our co-sponsors ? twelve other universities/CIBERs, <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> Department of Education, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> Department of Commerce, etc., and a few scholarships are available.
For more information and to register, contact me or visit the conference
Website: http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/ciber/globalsecurity2008/
Best regards,
Karen
Karen R. Watts
Assistant Director
Center for International Business Education & Research
Professional Programs and Services
Robert H. Smith School of Business
2416 C Van Munching Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-1815
301-405-9477 TEL
kwatts@rhsmith.umd.edu
http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Organizational Research Methods
http://orm.sagepub.com
SPECIAL FEATURE TOPIC ISSUE ON
COMMON METHOD VARIANCE IN ORGANIZATIONAL RESEARCH
Common method variance (CMV), also known as mono-method bias, is often mentioned in lists of criticisms by reviewers of submitted manuscripts, particularly when those manuscripts report results from self-report surveys. The idea of CMV is that the method itself serves as a source of variation
among observed scores, and that two or more variables assessed with the same method will share variance due to method rather than construct of interest. CMV thus would serve as a methodological artifact that might render observed relationships among variables to be partially or even entirely spurious. The presumption, therefore, is that theoretical inferences from the observed
relationships are suspect. Despite the widespread beliefs about CMV among journal reviewers and researchers, and the publication of some papers on the topic in the researcher literature, there remains little consensus about its existence and if present, its true effects.
The primary goal of the issue is to raise the level of discourse so that reviewers' comments are more precise and thoughtful and researchers' research designs address likely biases instead of merely trying to explain away CMV. We are seeking manuscripts that deal with CMV from a variety of
perspectives including:
1. The precise conceptual and/or mathematical definitions of CMV.
2. Whether and under what conditions does CMV as defined truly exist and how does one know that to be the case,
a. What are the design issues?
b. What are the measurement issues?
c. What are the analysis issues?
d. What are the interpretation issues?
3. Assuming an existence, how and under what conditions it might or might not affect measurement and observed relationships among variables -- that is, how much CMV must be present and under what conditions to absolutely render inferences meaningless or questionable.
4. Assuming an impact,
a. What strategies may be undertaken both before and/or after data collection to deal with it?
b. What evidence exists to prove the effectiveness of such strategies?
5. Are there differential impacts given the type of hypothesis testing analysis (i.e., traditional regression using means to operationalize constructs vs. an SEM approach with constructs operationalized through measurement models).
6. While the above are empirical in nature, we also encourage attempts to develop a better theoretical explication of CMV including its antecedents, consequents, and mechanisms of operation.
The list above is not exhaustive. Collectively, therefore, we invite empirical and conceptual papers, and when empirical using either real or simulated data or both. Again, the goal here is to raise the level of discourse about CMV and what it represents by providing the readership with a strong sense of the nature and severity of the underlying issues, the conditions that make it more or less severe, what strategies may be undertaken to deal with the issues prior to and after data collection, and how to best design studies that allow for reasonably conclusive tests of hypotheses.. Doing so will provide an informed basis from which to judge whether CMV is present and how bad it is, and perhaps put a halt to the blanket use of the CMV excuse by researchers and readers/reviewers as an
automatic reaction to manuscripts using self-report measures.
All papers will undergo the standard double-blind Organizational Research Methods review process and must meet the standards of the Organizational Research Methods, Editorial Policy Statement (see http://orm.sagepub.com). All articles published in this feature topic must make strong contributions to improving our understanding of CMV.
The guest editors for this special issue are Michael Brannick (mbrannic@luna.cas.usf.edu) and Paul Spector (spector@shell.cas.usf.edu) at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">South Florida</st1:placename></st1:place>.
Please submit manuscripts to the special feature through the Organizational Research Methods manuscript central portal (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/orm). Be sure to indicate in the cover
letter that you are submitting the paper for the feature topic on common method variance. To be considered, manuscripts must be submitted on or before midnight (Eastern Standard Time) July 10, 2009.
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Department of Management
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">University of Georgia
Athens</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">GA</st1:state> <st1:postalcode w:st="on">30602-6256</st1:postalcode></st1:place>
Voice: 706-542-3720 (Brooks: Tues.-Thurs.-Fri) or
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Department of Management: http://www.terry.uga.edu/management/
Editor-in-Chief, Organizational Research Methods -- http://orm.sagepub.com
Fellow, Institute for Behavioral Research -- http://www.ibr.uga.edu/
Fellow and Short Course Instructor, Center for the Advancement of Research
Methods and Analysis -- http://www.pubinfo.vcu.edu/carma/
Lisa Schurer Lambert
J. Mack Robinson College of Business
Georgia State University
35 Broad Street, Room 1003
Atlanta GA 30303-4014
Phone: 404.413.7536
Fax: 404.413.7571
Email: lisalambert@gsu.edu
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From: Joseph Rottman rottman@umsl.edu
CALL FOR PAPERS
IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
Special Issue: "The Impacts of Global Information Systems Sourcing on Engineering, Technology and Innovation Management"
Guest Editors:
Leslie Willcocks, London School of Economics
Joseph Rottman, University of Missouri – St. Louis
Julia Kotlarsky, Warwick Business School
Ilan Oshri, Rotterdam School of Management
The special issue will focus on the topic of Global Information Systems sourcing with a specific interest in social, managerial and knowledge-related aspects of IS sourcing and how these aspects affect engineering, technology and innovation management. Managing a global team of software engineers is akin to managing a global team of engineers of other kinds. Global delivery of IS services encompasses both the relocation of effort as well as the utilization of talent located across the globe. This special issue aims to bring together viewpoints from various disciplines, including International Business, Strategy, Information Systems and Organizational Behavior.
We invite research articles and focus on practice papers that investigate social, managerial and knowledge-related topics in global outsourcing/offshoring relationships. In particular, the special issue will endeavor to present the view of managers from both the client and vendor perspectives. Some of the specific themes that are of interest in this special issue are:
- Critical issues in engineering and innovation management tasked with engaging a global supplier network and workforce
- Knowledge management systems, codification processes and their impact on outsourcing performance
- Emerging concepts such as Open Sourcing and their consideration from social, managerial and knowledge perspectives
- People retention issues and implications for success of global IT sourcing arrangements
- Retained management capabilities from a social and knowledge perspective
- Social capital in global sourcing arrangements
- Multi - cultural aspects in outsourcing/offshoring relationships
- Emerging sourcing markets such as <st1:country-region w:st="on">China</st1:country-region>, South America, Africa and <st1:place w:st="on">Eastern Europe</st1:place>.
We are interested in including papers that are both conceptual and empirically based. In terms of empirical data, we seek papers that report on outsourcing/offshoring arrangements from regions that have so far been poorly represented in the existing literature such as Latin American, Eastern Europe, Caribbean countries, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region> and others. In terms of conceptual papers and theoretical frameworks, we seek to contribute to theory building by both reapplying existing frameworks and developing new constructs that help explaining social, managerial and knowledge-related aspects in global sourcing.
In addition to the standard double blind review process at IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, authors may select to use the presentation of their papers at the Third Annual Information Systems Workshop on Global Sourcing (http://www.globalsourcing.org.uk/ March 2009) as part of the preparation of their papers for the special issue. However, the workshop and the special issue are not connected and participation in the workshop is not required for consideration for the special issue.
Submission Deadline: August 31, 2009. Submit papers to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tem-ieee and indicate in the cover letter that they are for the Special Issue on "The Impacts of Global Information Systems Sourcing on Engineering, Technology and Innovation Management."
Dr. Joseph W. Rottman
Assistant Professor of IS
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Missouri</st1:placename></st1:place> - <st1:address w:st="on"><st1:street w:st="on">St. Louis
One University Boulevard</st1:street>
<st1:city w:st="on">St. Louis</st1:city> <st1:state w:st="on">MO</st1:state> <st1:postalcode w:st="on">63121</st1:postalcode></st1:address>
314-516-6288
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FIRST MINI CONFERENCE ON SEMANTIC WEB AND WEB 2.0 FOR THE KNOWLEDGE
SOCIETY
http://www.open-knowledge-society.org/miniconf1.htm
10 Special Issues - 4 in ISI SCI Journals
2 Main Tracks
Deadline: 30th June 2008
Proceedings: Springer LNCS -
CHAIRS
Ernesto Damiani, University of Milano, Italy,
Miltiadis Lytras, University of Patras, Greece,
Ambjorn Naeve, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden,
Gottfried Vossen , University of Muenster, Germany
At a glance:
Sponsoring Journals of the Event: All accepted papers will be invited for consideration in one of the 10 sponsoring journals of the event
IEEE Transactions on Man Systems And Cybernetics PART A: Systems and Humans
Special Issue on: The Human Semantic Web Personalization, Management of Personal Knowledge and Identity, Systems for the Knowledge Society
http://www.open-knowledge-society.org/IEEE-TSMC.pdf
Journal of Computer Assisted Learning
Special Issue on:
Advances of Semantic Web and Web 2.0 for Computer Assisted Learning: Towards Personalized and Adaptive Learning http://www.open-knowledge-society.org/JCAL.txt
International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems Special Special Section on
Semantic Web and Ontologies: Applications http://www.open-knowledge-society.org/issue5.pdf
IMPORTANT NOTE:
THE FOLLOWING JOURNALS WILL PUBLISH ALSO SELECTED PAPERS FROM THE
MINICONFERENCE:
IJ of Knowledge and Learning http://www.inderscience.com/ijkl
Special Issue on SEMANTIC WEB AND WEB 2.0 FOR KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
IJ of Social and Humanistic Computing http://www.inderscience.com/ijshc
Special Issue on SEMANTIC WEB AND WEB 2.0 FOR HUMANISTIC COMPUTING
IJ of Electronic Democracy http://www.inderscience.com/ijed
Special Issue on SEMANTIC WEB AND WEB 2.0 FOR ELECTRONIC DEMOCRACY
AND ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT
IJ of Digital Culture and Electronic Tourism http://www.inderscience.com/ijdcet
Special Issue on SEMANTIC WEB AND WEB 2.0 FOR DIGITAL CULTURE
IJ of Electronic Trade http://www.inderscience.com/ijetrade
Special Issue on SEMANTIC WEB AND WEB 2.0 FOR E-BUSINESS
IJ of Electronic Banking Special Issue on http://www.inderscience.com/ijebank
SEMANTIC WEB AND WEB 2.0 FOR E-BANKING
DETAILED CALL FOR PAPERS
TWO THEMES:
The Human Semantic Web: Personalization, Management of Personal Knowledge
and Identity, Systems for the Knowledge Society�
Web 2.0 for the Knowledge Society: Social Netowrking, Collaboration,
Management of Knowledge in Social Networks
EDITORS/CHAIRS
Ernesto Damiani, University of Milano, Italy, E-mail: damiani@dti.unimi.it
Miltiadis Lytras, University of Patras, Greece, Email:
Lytras@ceid.upatras.gr
Ambjorn Naeve, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden,
E-mail:amb@nada.kth.se
Gottfried Vossen , University of Muenster, Germany, Email:
vossen@helios.uni-muenster.de
Program Committee Members
William Grosky, Professor and Chair. Department of Computer and
<st1:placename w:st="on">Information</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Science</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:state w:st="on">Michigan</st1:state>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region>
Hend S. Al-Khalifa, Assistant Professor, Information Technology Department, CCIS, <st1:city w:st="on">King Saud University</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Saudi Arabia</st1:country-region>
John Davies, PhD, Next Generation Web Research IT Futures Research <st1:city w:st="on">Centre</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region>
Christopher Brewster, Ph.D. Department of Computer Science, <st1:city w:st="on">University of Sheffield</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">UNITED KINGDOM</st1:country-region>
Miguel Angel Sicilia, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">University of Alcala</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Spain</st1:country-region></st1:place>
Prof.. Jos. Enrique Armend.riz-I.igo, Universidad P.blica de Navarra, Spain
Prof. Rajkumar Kannan, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia
Prof. Jose Emilio Labra Gayo, University of Oviedo, Spain
Prof. Claudio Sartori, Universita' di Bologna, Italy
Prof. Luis .lvarez Sabucedo, University of Vigo, Spain
Dr. Karim Mohammed Rezaul, Centre for Applied Internet Research, University of Wales, UK
Prof. Luis .lvarez Sabucedo, University of Vigo, Spain
Prof. Raquel Trillo, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Maria Vargas-Vera, Knowledge Media Institute (KMi), The Open University, UK
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Human Semantic Web: Personalization, Management of Personal Knowledge
and Identity, Systems for the Knowledge Society�
Workshop for a Special Issue on an IEEE Transactions Special Issue
The mini-conference; Semantic Web and Web 2.0 Collaboration Technologies for the Knowledge Society- will promote a knowledge transfer channel where academics, practitioners, and researchers can discuss, analyze, criticize, synthesize, communicate, elaborate, and simplify the more-than-promising technology of the semantic Web in the context of information systems. This
mini-conference aims to establish value-adding knowledge transfer and personal development channels in three distinctive areas: academia, industry, and government.
Within the Conference there are two pillars:
The Semantic Web vision has evolved in the last years as a blueprint for a knowledge-based framework aimed at crossing the chasm from the current Web of unstructured information resources to a Web equipped with metadata and oriented to delegation of tasks to software agents. Ontologies are the key piece of this framework in that they provide shared semantics to metadata, thus enabling a degree of semantic interoperability. The requirements of large-scale deployment and interoperability of the Semantic Web vision represent a major challenge to data and knowledge engineering, which raises a number of issues and requirements regarding how to represent, create, manage and use both ontologies as shared knowledge representations, but also large volumes of metadata records used to annotate Web resources of a diverse kind. The special issue aims at helping in communicating and disseminating relevant recent research in knowledge and data engineering as applied to the context of Information Systems. The scope of the call includes Knowledge Engineering for organizational applications, Semantic Web approaches to Information
Systems and Ontology-Based Information Systems research, as well as the diverse underlying Database and Knowledge Representation aspects. Papers dealing with aspects that touch both aspects are especially sought. This is intended to initiate a dialog between the organizational and more technical views of the field.
Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
1. Applications of the Human Semantic Web to the Knowledge Society:
- Potentially large-scale applications (e.g. to Personal Knowledge Management, Semantic Desktop, Knowledge Portals)
- Data Semantics and Web Semantics in peer-to-peer systems, grids, multimedia
- Communication, dialogue and argumentation models
- Mediation, negotiation and conflict resolution
2. Representing and Managing Semantic Web Data and Services:
- Languages, Tools, Methodologies, Rules
- Database, IR and AI technologies
- Integration, Analysis and Visualization
- Robust and scalable logics, knowledge management and reasoning
- Machine learning and information extraction
- Semantic Interoperability, Workflows, Web Mining
- Semantic Web Services and Processes (description, discovery, invocation, composition, choreography, cleaning, assurance, trust, provenance, etc.)
- Middleware and services for Personalization and User Modeling
- Semantic matching of user needs and web resources
3. Ontologies:
- Ontology Alignment (mapping, matching, merging, mediation and reconciliation)
- Ontology Learning and Metadata Generation (e.g. HLT and ML approaches)
- Ontology Management (creation, evolution, evaluation, etc.)
- Ontology Modeling, reuse, extraction, and evolution
- Searching and Ranking ontologies
4. Social Semantic Web:
- Social networks and processes on the Semantic Web
- Semantic web technology for collaboration and cooperation
- Representing and reasoning about Trust, Privacy, Security and Intellectual Property Rights
- Tools and processes for sense-making, analysis and decision-making
- Supporting strategic communication
5. User Interfaces:
- Interacting with Semantic Web Data
- Semantic Web content creation and annotation
- Mashing up Semantic Web data and processes
CALL FOR PAPERS
Web 2.0 for the Knowledge Society: Social Netowrking, Collaboration,
Management of Knowledge in Social Networks
EDITORS/CHAIRS
Ernesto Damiani, University of Milano, Italy, E-mail: damiani@dti.unimi.it
Miltiadis Lytras, University of Patras, Greece, Email:
Lytras@ceid.upatras.gr
Ambjorn Naeve, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden,
E-mail:amb@nada.kth.se
Gottfried Vossen , University of Muenster, Germany, Email:
vossen@helios.uni-muenster.de
The key objective of the miniconference is to advancing the knowledge on design variables and conditions for social networks. Knowledge Management and Semantic Web are used as the technological lenses for the specification and analysis of these variables towards a new era of social
interactions and human experiences with computers.
As semantic technologies prove their value with targeted applications, there are increasing opportunities to consider their application insocial contexts for learning and human development. Knowledge management has been accepted as a critical enabler aiming to increase knowledge-related performance by better use of intellectual assets, in addition to which many governments are forced to increasingly deal with knowledge services that form larger parts of the global economy and society. Thus there are recent examples of applications of semantics for empowering knowledge management or better supporting knowledge services for social networks.
The special issue aims at communicating and disseminating recent research and success stories that bring the power of semantics to improve upon traditional knowledge management approaches, or realize emerging requirements of knowledge services for social networks.
In the context of knowledge management, social and human issues are of equal if not higher importance than the technical issues that have tended to receive the bulk of attention in the past. Consequently, papers that touch these aspects, or those that extend technical and domain knowledge
to social and human issues are especially sought. This is intended to initiate a dialog between the social, psychological and technical views of the field.
References:
[1]. Lytras M. (2005), Semantic Web and Information Systems: An Agenda Based on Discourse with Community Leaders, in International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems, Inaugural Issue, 1(1), pp: i-xii
[2]. Sheth, A. Ramakrishnan C., Thomas C., (2005). Semantics for the Semantic Web: The Implicit, the Formal and the Powerful, in International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems, Inaugural Issue, 1(1), 1-18.
[3] Downes S. (2005). Semantic networks and social networks, in The Learning Organization Journal, Vol. 12 No. 5, pp. 411-417
[3] Finin T., Ding L. and Zou L. (2005), Social networking on the semantic web, in The Learning Organization Journal, Vol. 12 No. 5, pp. 418-435
[4] Lytras M., Sicilia M.A., Kinshuk, Sampson D. (2005), Special Issue on semantic and social aspects of learning in organizations, , in The Learning Organization Journal, Vol. 12 No. 5,
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContainer.do?containerType=Issue&c ontainerId=22676
Topics:
Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
* Design variables and conditions for social networks
* New forms of interaction in social systems
* Blogging as a social activity and approaches to semantic blogs
* Collaborative filtering in social settings
* Analysing social interaction for finding knowledge on Web users
* Semantic Desktops
* Social Network Analysis enabled by the Semantic Web
* Learning and Knowledge Communities
* Analysis of Large Online Communities Web Communities of Practice
* Network Analysis for Building Social Networks
* Implicit, Formal, and Powerful Semantics in Communities
* Semantic Social Networks Metadata and Annotation Techniques
* Metadata schema describing individuals and social ties
* Folksonomies, tagging and other collaboration-based categorization systems
* Wikis, semantic Wikis and other collaborative knowledge creation systems
* Online Social Networking
* Applications of Online Semantic Networks
* Knowledge Management with Semantic Networks
* Emerging Human Experiences in Social Networks
* Analysis of Human Behaviour in Semantic Social Networks
Please feel free to contact Lytras@ceid.upatras.gr if you have any questions.
International Journal of Semantic Web and Information Systems (included in SCI, Thompson Scientific) and Information Sciences (included in SCI) + One more IEEE Transactions Issue.
Deadline for Paper Submission
Deadline for full paper submission is June 30, 2008.
Click here to submit your article, More information about the Summit Website: http://knowledge-summit.org/
Sponsor of the Summit: The Open Research Society (ORS)
www.open-knowledge-society.org/
A GREAT THANK YOU TO THE CONTRIBUTORS OF PAPERS IN THE GENERAL CALL OF THE FIRST WORLD SUMMIT ON THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY: 150+SUBMISSIONS FROM 51 COUNTRIES.
MORE INFO AT: http://www.open-knowledge-society.org/wsks2008update.pdf
Note: If you are interested in publishing your article in the special issues please contact Dr. Miltiadis D. Lytras at miltiadis dot lytras at gmail.com
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WE ARE HAPPY TO ANNOUNCE THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WEB SCIENCE - A
SPECIAL EVENT AND EB FORMATION AT MINICONFERENCE
International journal of Web science
(Print) ISSN 1757-8795
(Online) ISSN 1757-8809,
COEDITORS IN CHIEF ERNESTO DAMIANI, MILTIADIS LYTRAS
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Writers' Workshop, July 13–15, 2008 (http://icam1990.com or http://icsi2007.com)
Hyatt Harborside Hotel, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Boston</st1:place></st1:city> (www.harborside.hyatt.com)
You are invited to attend a 3–day Writers' Workshop to help faculty and doctoral students publish papers in scholarly journals. The three phases of the workshop are as follows:
Phase 1 (July 13): Formulation of hypotheses, creative ways to develop psychometrically sound measures that are free from method variance and social desirability responding, and preparing data for Exploratory Factor Analysis with SPSS.
Phase 2 (July 14): Pearson correlations, Cronbach alpha, Regression Analysis, Hierarchical Regression Analysis, estimating and plotting interaction effects, ANOVA, and Analysis of Covariance. Introduction to LISREL.
Phase 3 (July 15): Elementary, intermediate, and advanced data analysis and interpretation with LISREL.
If you want to attend this workshop, you will be required to pre-register for it and bring your laptop with SPSS and LISREL and the data file and questionnaires that you receive from us. (There will be no walk-in registration for the Workshop & is limited to 25 participants). We will use PowerPoint presentations to show step-by-step analysis of data and results. We will also show you how to report results in your paper that you want to submit to a scholarly journal for review.
If you bring data for your own research, our instructors will help you in your data analysis and interpretation of results.
Registration fees (Professionals, $850, Faculty, $650, Students, $450) for self-sponsored scholars many be reduced by 25-50% depending on the availability of scholarships.
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Final Call for Papers - Deadline Approaching
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@tx.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
Landau Fellow - supported by the Taub Foundation
Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management
The Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Haifa 32000
Israel
Email: dlavie@ie.technion.ac.il
Tel: 972-4-8294435
Fax: 972-4-8295688
Sloan Industry Studies Fellow
Assistant Professor of Management
The University of Texas at Austin
McCombs School of Business
Management Department
1 University Station B6300
Austin, Texas 78712-0210
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Dear Colleagues;
I am looking for anyone who is interested and has an advanced knowledge of
writing script in the second Life for a chapter on Change. Should you be
interested or know of another colleague who can assist in this venture
please email me at: kazeroonyh@wmpenn.edu
Regards-Hamid
Life is a Journey NOT a Destination,
Enjoy the Journey of Life,
Dr. Hamid H. Kazeroony
Associate Professor of Business Leadership
College For Working Adults
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Regards--Hamid
Life is a Journey NOT a Destination,
Enjoy the Journey of Life,
Dr. Hamid H. Kazeroony
Associate Professor of Business Leadership
College For Working Adults
William Penn University
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We are currently doing research on the Technology Management programs being offered. In particular we are interested in any "Leadership" courses that are considered either core or electives for such programs.
If you would consider sharing the syllabus for such courses, we would be grateful. If you would consider sharing the program particulare (core and elective courses), we would be interested in that as well.
Naturally, when are study is complete we will share our findings within this forum and the TIM Division.
Best regards,
Mike
Michael R. Ryan
Stevens Institute of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Technology</st1:placename>
<st1:placename w:st="on">Babbio</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Center</st1:placetype></st1:place> - Room 4426
Phone: 201-216-8968
Cell: 973-886-9061
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Sanjay Bhowmick asks for a recommendation regarding texts related to technology management. I have found Melissa Schilling's "Strategic Management of Technological Innovation" to be an outstanding book, both for my MBA and my executive education/customized course development efforts. It is to the point and concise, which is what the students love, and it is tied to cutting edge research, which is what I appreciate. I have also used the mini-cases in the start of each chapter very fruitfully as before-class assignments, and these very topical and easy to read real-world examples set up the motivation for the concepts being covered. Indeed, I have found the book to be a very good reference point for my own searches for research articles in topics that I am not very familiar with.
Hope that helps!
Rajshree
Rajshree Agarwal
John Georges Professor of Technology Management and Strategy
Director, Innovation and Technology Management Initiatives
Scholar in Residence, Academy of Entrepreneurial Leadership
College of Business
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Phone: 217-265-5513
Fax: 217-244-7969
URL: www.business.uiuc.edu/agarwalr<http://www.business.uiuc.edu/agarwalr>
Sanjay Bhowmick asks for a recommendation regarding texts related to technology management. I have found Melissa Schilling's "Strategic Management of Technological Innovation" to be an outstanding book, both for my MBA and my executive education/customized course development efforts. It is to the point and concise, which is what the students love, and it is tied to cutting edge research, which is what I appreciate. I have also used the mini-cases in the start of each chapter very fruitfully as before-class assignments, and these very topical and easy to read real-world examples set up the motivation for the concepts being covered. Indeed, I have found the book to be a very good reference point for my own searches for research articles in topics that I am not very familiar with.
Hope that helps!
Rajshree
Rajshree Agarwal
John Georges Professor of Technology Management and Strategy
Director, Innovation and Technology Management Initiatives
Scholar in Residence, Academy of Entrepreneurial Leadership
College of Business
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Phone: 217-265-5513
Fax: 217-244-7969
URL: www.business.uiuc.edu/agarwalr<http://www.business.uiuc.edu/agarwalr>
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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.
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Darlene Alexander-Houle
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