TIM Division List Serve
Vol. 6, No. 11 (March 20, 2009)
Table of Contents:
Symposia and Other Annual Meeting Information
Call for Submissions
Journal Table of Contents
Position Announcements
Research Discussions
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- Symposia and Other Annual Meeting Information
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The Technology and Innovation Management Division is now accepting applications from Ph.D. students for its 2009 doctoral consortium to be held at the Academy of Management meeting in Chicago, August 7-11. The consortium will be held on Friday, August 7 from noon to 6 p.m. (dinner following) and on Saturday, August 8 from 8 a.m. to noon.
The TIM doctoral consortium is most valuable to Ph.D. candidates interested in conducting leading-edge research and teaching in technology management, innovation, and related areas. The consortium will be led by a panel of faculty members with proven research and teaching records who will address key issues in academic life such as publishing in top journals, managing your time for research, meeting teaching and institutional demands, managing research collaborations, and funding your research.
The coordinators of the 2009 consortium are Mary Benner (Wharton) and Preeta Banerjee (Brandeis). The faculty facilitators include: Philip Anderson (INSEAD), Benjamin Campbell (Ohio State), Sonali Shah (U. of Washington), Francois Therin (U21 Global), Mary Tripsas (Harvard Business School), and Chris Tucci (EPFL).
The application deadline is Friday, May 15, 2009. Only electronic applications will be considered. To apply, please send a Curriculum Vita along with a one-page statement containing the following information: (1) Your full contact information, (2) your stage in the doctoral program, (3) the name of your thesis advisor and one additional reference, and, (4) A 100-word abstract or summary proposal of your dissertation. Preference will be given to doctoral candidates at later stages of their career – those at or near the thesis proposal stage.
For any questions or to e-mail your complete application, please contact Mary Benner:
Mary Benner
The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
benner@wharton.upenn.edu
Preeta Banerjee
Brandeis International Business School
banerjee@brandeis.edu
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Announcement and Application Information
2009 Entrepreneurship Division Doctoral Consortium
The Entrepreneurship Division will sponsor its annual consortium for doctoral students during the 2009 annual meetings of the Academy of Management in Chicago, IL. The Consortium brings together doctoral students and experienced faculty to discuss opportunities and challenges as scholars in the field. This year, the program will include panels and discussions on dissertation strategies, first job and career path considerations, establishing research partnerships, and a host of other topics. Students will also receive detailed and constructive feedback on their work from an accomplished scholar in the field. The Consortium will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Friday, August 7, 2009 and continue until 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, August 8, 2009.
The Consortium is open to doctoral students who have completed approximately two years of their Ph.D. program. The ideal candidate will have finished his/her coursework and be engaged in preparing a dissertation proposal. To apply, please submit the following four separate documents electronically to both Ted Baker (ted_baker@ncsu.edu) and Sharon Alvarez (alvarez_42@fisher.osu.edu).
(1) An electronic file/Word document in which you furnish...
(a) Complete contact information (address, phone number, fax, and e-mail address),
(b) A statement of whether you have attended other doctoral consortia and, if so, which consortia and when, and
(c) A statement saying that if you are admitted to the Consortium, you commit to attend ALL sessions (including dinner Friday night).
(2) A recommendation letter from your dean, department chair, or major advisor that verifies your (a) status/progress and (b) year in your school's doctoral program.
(3) A current resume/CV.
(4) A "working paper." This paper must be on an entrepreneurship topic and is best a paper that you are moving towards publication or a detailed overview of your intended dissertation research. The paper must NOT (a) exceed 35 pages (all inclusive), (b) be an accepted-for-publication/published manuscript, or (c) be a defended dissertation proposal. The working paper is a key requirement for admission.
Applications must be received on or before June 16, 2009. Review of the application materials will begin on June 16, 2009. The consortium will be limited to 30 Ph.D. students, with slots allocated based on application materials. Questions should be sent to the Consortium Co-chairs, Ted Baker (ted_baker@ncsu.edu) and Sharon Alvarez (alvarez_42@fisher.osu.edu ).
Please note: Acceptance into the consortium is via application only. Please do not register online. We will notify all those accepted into the consortium, and they will be given a registration code to use.
Ted Baker
Associate Professor
Management, Innovation & Entrepreneurship
College of Management
NC State University
Raleigh, NC 27695
919-513-7943
Ted_Baker@ncsu.edu
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Call for Submissions
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Summer School
" Economics and Management of Intellectual Property Rights"
University of Bologna, Bologna
8-12 June 2009
Program
The Summer School on the Economics and Management of Intellectual Property Rights intends to promote research in the field of intellectual property systems and intangible assets, by encouraging the work of Ph.D students and post-doc researchers regarding strategic, economic and financial aspects of IPRs. The Summer School is organized by the Department of Management of the University of Bologna and Alma Graduate School with the support of the European Investment Bank.The Summer School will combine lectures and seminars by internationally renowned scholars with presentations of working papers by Ph.D candidates and young scholars on issues related to the economic and strategic management of IPRs. Students will have the opportunity to present their research work in the form of working papers or research proposals, which will then be discussed by senior scholars.
Seminars will address the following topics:
- Patents and innovation
- Innovation and IP strategy
- The role of IPRs in open and distributed innovation
- Patents and knowledge flows
- Markets for technology and licensing
- New ventures creation and patent strategies
- Venture capital and innovation financing: the role of IPRs
- Patenting business methods
- The valuation of financial patents
- The valuation of patents through real options
- The analysis of patent data: survey-based methods
- The analysis of R&D and innovation: econometric issues
Lecturers
- Gautam Ahuja (University of Michigan)
- Stefano Breschi (Bocconi University)
- Paola Giuri (University of Bologna)
- Stuart Graham (Georgia Institute of Technology)
- Jaques Mairesse (Maastricht University)
- Myriam Mariani (Bocconi University)
- Federico Munari (University of Bologna)
- Raffaele Oriani (LUISS - Guido Carli)
- Ammon Salter (Imperial College London)
- Salvatore Torrisi (University of Bologna)
- Reinhilde Veugelers (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
- Stefan Wagner (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich)
Scientific Commitee
Federico Munari (University of Bologna)
Raffaele Oriani (LUISS Guido Carli)
Maurizio Sobrero (University of Bologna)
Salvatore Torrisi (University of Bologna)
Venue
The Summer School will take place in Bologna at http://www.almaweb.unibo.it/eng/index.html
Alma Graduate School from 8 June–12 June 2009.
Accomodation for participants will be provided at the
http://www.residenza.unibo.it/strutture/index.php?l=en
Residenza degli Studi Superiori of the University of Bologna
Admission requirements
The School will admit 25 participants. It will be geared toward to Ph.D students or post-doc researchers from all over the world, studying topics related to economics and management of innovation and intellectual property. Candidates already active in research or professional activities related to the protection, strategic management and valuation of IPRs could also be admitted to the School.
Applications should include:- the applicant's CV, including an outline of
her/his research interests and the current status/affiliation.
- abstract (max. 2 pages) of the paper or the research proposal to be presented. Papers should address topics in the fields of economics and management of innovation and IPRs.
Deadline for submission of applications: 24th April 2009
For further information and call for applicants, please visit the website: http://www.evpat.unibo.it/summer.asp
Federico Munari
CIEG - Dipartimento di Scienze Aziendali
Università di Bologna
Via Terracini 34
40131 Bologna
Tel: 051-2090208
Fax: 051-2090222
Email: federico.munari@unibo.it
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HICSS-43 Call for papers for the minitrack on:
"CREATIVITY IN TEAMS AND ORGANIZATIONS"
Part of the Collaboration Systems and Technology Track of the Forty-Third Annual
Hawai'i International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS)
Kauai, HI - January 5 - 8, 2010
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, customers and partners 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
· Research linking individual creativity to group level creativity and organizational level innovation
· Multi-disciplinary approaches to creativity
· Creative collaboration between business partners and customers (e.g. co-creation of products and services)
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, organizations, and value networks
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
Theoretical issues in creativity and innovation
Theories of creative problem solving
Theories of creative decision making
Creativity in different socio-cultural environments
Effects of organizational culture on creativity
Frameworks for evaluating creativity in the field and in the lab
Theoretical approaches to understand the effect of individuals, teams, organizations, and the broader environment on creativity
Instruments and measurements for creativity and innovation
Group tasks to study creativity
Theoretical relationships between creativity and organizational productivity
MINITRACK COORDINATORS:
Roni Reiter-Palmon
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Department of Psychology
Director of Research, Center for Collaboration Science
1110 South 67th street, Omaha, NE 68182-0116 USA
Phone: (402) 554-4081
E-mail: rreiter-palmon@mail.unomaha.edu
Triparna de Vreede (primary contact)
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Department of Psychology
Research Associate, Center for Collaboration Science
1110 South 67th street, Omaha, NE 68182-0116 USA
Phone: (402) 554-2557
E-mail: tdevreede@mail.unomaha.edu
Gerhard Schwabe
University of Zurich
Department of Informatics
Chair of Information Management
Binzmühlestrasse 14, CH-8050 Zürich
Tel: +41-44-63-5 43 05
Email: 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:
Triparna de Vreede
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Department of Psychology
Research Associate, Center for Collaboration Science
1110 South 67th street, Omaha, NE 68182-0116 USA
Phone: (402) 554-2557
E-mail: tdevreede@mail.unomaha.edu
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7th WEST COAST RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM ON TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURSHIP
SEPTEMBER 11th AND 12th, 2009
http://faculty.bschool.washington.edu/skotha/wcrs/index.html
Theme: Technology Entrepreneurship: New ventures, established corporations, and universities
Location: University of Washington
Date: September 11 and 12, 2008.
We invite authors to submit papers to this research symposium, which offers a lively forum for the exchange of ideas among scholars interested in technology entrepreneurship. The location is the beautiful Pacific Northwest, a spectacular setting at this time of year. Papers focusing on entrepreneurship and innovation 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 sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation will precede the conference on Thursday, September 10.
The DEADLINE for submission is Monday, June 22, 2009.
Submit papers online at the WCRS conference website: http://faculty.bschool.washington.edu/skotha/wcrs/index.html
We hope to see you in Seattle!
CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Suresh Kotha, University of Washington
Kathy Eisenhardt, Stanford University
Alan Meyer, University of Oregon
Kaye Schoonhoven, University of California Irvine
Nandini Rajagopalan, University of Southern California
CONFERENCE SPONSORS:
Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of Washington
Stanford Technology Ventures Program, Stanford University
Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, University of Southern California
Charles H. Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship, University of Oregon
Don Beall Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, UC Irvine
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Alan Meyer, Charles H. Lundquist Professor of Management
Academic Director, Entrepreneurship Programs
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1208
Phone: 541.346.5178 Fax: 541.346.3341
Email: ameyer@uoregon.edu
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Corporate Governance: An International Review - Call for Papers
Special Issue on "Shareholder Activism"
Deadline for Paper Submissions: March 31, 2009
Guest edited by:
Huimin Chung, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
(chunghui@mail.nctu.edu.tw)
Till Talaulicar, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
(t.talaulicar@ww.tu-berlin.de)
Corporate Governance: An International Review (CGIR) invites paper submissions for a special issue on shareholder activism. Whereas the phenomenon of activist shareholders has a rather long tradition in Anglo-Saxon countries, shareholder activism has become more prevalent in other governance environments, too. The popular business press extensively discusses the pros and cons of shareholder activism, but scholarly thought
has yet to weigh in substantively. In particular, we are interested in learning more about the antecedents and effects of shareholder activism, as well as more in-depth understanding of the various forms and features of this phenomenon. Research questions that are of particular interest include the following:
* Do corporate governance proposals advanced by institutional investors lead to
better corporate governance and/or enhanced firm performance?
* Do other shareholders and/or stakeholders get ignored when activist investors
become more influential? What are the fiduciary duties of activist investors?
* How do shareholder activists pick and influence their targets?
* How do boards, and how should boards, respond to activist shareholders?
* Is shareholder activism more effective than traditional governance mechanisms such as involved and independent boards or formal rules and regulations?
* How do the laws vary from nation to nation regarding shareholder activism?
It is the tradition of CGIR to welcome a wide variety of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches. Since the overarching mission of the journal is to develop a global theory of corporate governance, international comparative studies are especially welcome. Both national and international topics are appropriate for consideration, but priority is given to research which spans multiple governance environments. We also
invite papers dealing with different types of activist shareholders such as pension funds, (socially responsible) mutual funds, hedge funds, sovereign funds, and private equity investors.
This list of topics is suggestive rather than exhaustive. We are open to a
wide range of approaches from different disciplinary backgrounds (e.g., finance, management, economics, or sociology). Both theoretical and empirical work will be considered. In accordance with CGIR's mission, we seek for research that is both rigorously done and relevant to practitioners and/or policy-makers.
Papers must be submitted via the CGIR website (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/corg) and should indicate that the manuscript is intended for this special issue. Contributors should follow the CGIR Author Guidelines (which can be found at www.cgir.org). The deadline for submissions is March 31, 2009. Papers will be subject to our standard double-blind reviewing process. It is anticipated that papers accepted for this special issue will be published in the last issue of 2009 or the first issue in 2010. For queries about this special issue, please feel free to contact the special issue guest editors, Huimin Chung (chunghui@mail.nctu.edu.tw) or Till Talaulicar (t.talaulicar@ww.tu-berlin.de).
Dr. Till Talaulicar
Arcandor Chair of Corporate Governance & Board Dynamics
University of Witten/Herdecke
Alfred-Herrhausen-Str. 50
D-58448 Witten
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)2302 - 926-538
Fax: +49 (0)2302 - 926-512
E-mail: <mailto:till.talaulicar@uni-wh.de> till.talaulicar@uni-wh.de
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The 3rd Israel Strategy Conference (ISC 2009) – Call for Papers Be'er Sheva, Israel December 27-29, 2009 Submit a proposal at: www.isc.org.il Submission Deadline: June 15, 2009
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 3rd Israel Strategy Conference (ISC2009) to be held in Be'er Sheva, Israel, on December 27-29, 2009. The tentative program features several prominent keynote speakers including Jay Barney (Ohio State), Michael Hitt (Texas A&M), Anita McGahan (Toronto) and Harbir Singh (Wharton). ISC2009, sponsored by the Guilford Glazer School of Business & Management at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, offers a unique opportunity to explore recent developments and emerging issues in strategic management, as well as receive feedback on work-in-progress, and network with colleagues.
We invite paper proposals 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
ISC will consider unpublished original paper proposals relating to the above topics of interest. International and global perspectives are encouraged. Proposals can be conceptual or empirical, quantitative or qualitative. Published papers or papers that were accepted for publication prior to the submission deadline will not be considered for the conference. We seek to accept a relatively small number of high-quality papers that target top tier academic journals. Submitted papers will go through a double blind review. Submissions will be evaluated based on their academic rigor, relevance, and contribution to the field of strategic management. Accepted proposals will be assigned to paper sessions or interactive sessions based on this evaluation.
The deadline for online submissions of paper proposals is June 15th, 2009.
Paper proposals, written in English, should clearly identify the research questions and methodology. If available, the main results, implications, and contributions should be discussed. Paper proposals are limited to 2 pages of text and 1 page of references. Use double spacing with 1-inch margins and a font size no smaller than 11 pt. The title of your paper must be included in the header and should exactly match the title provided in the online submission form. Please do not include any author identifying information.
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 guidelines will be provided. Presenting authors must be available to present their papers any time during the conference. There will be no changes in the program to accommodate specific time preferences. 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.
Notices to authors will be sent in August, 2009, indicating whether the proposed paper has been accepted to a paper session or an interactive session.
ISC Best Paper Award
Select paper proposals which receive the highest assessment in the review process will be nominated as finalists for the ISC Best Paper Award and go through an additional blind-review process. 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 winning paper will be announced in the concluding session of ISC.
After-conference trip to Eilat
Conference attendees can sign up for a tour of the Negev desert and a trip to the city of Eilat, one of Israel's best tourist attractions. Special conference rates apply. Come celebrate the Sylvester in the Red Sea!
Conference registration
Registration to the conference will open on August, 2009 on the ISC website at http://www.isc.org.il/. The conference registration fee is as
follows:
Early registration fee: NIS 500
Early registration fee for students: NIS 400
Late registration fee: NIS 600
Late registration fee for students: NIS 500
Conference co-organizers
Niron Hashai (Hebrew University) - nironH@huji.ac.il Dovev Lavie (Technion) - dlavie@tx.technion.ac.il Ithai Stern (Northwestern University) - i-stern@kellogg.northwestern.edu
Advisory committee
Joel Baum (University of Toronto) - baum@rotman.utoronto.ca David Brock (Ben-Gurion University) - dmb@bgu.ac.il Avi Fiegenbaum (Technion) - avif@ie.technion.ac.il Zur Shapira (New York University) - zshapira@stern.nyu.edu Brian Silverman (University of Toronto) - silverman@rotman.utoronto.ca
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.
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Call for Papers: World Review of Intermodal Transportation Research
Special issue on: "Dynamics of Innovation and Competitive Strategy in Transportation Research"
Guest Editor:
Janet K. Tinoco, PhD.
Embry Riddle Aeronautical University
While innovation has been noted to be essential to sustained competitive advantage in many industry sectors, academic and practitioner research of innovation in transportation has been minimal. Yet transportation provides a unique context in which to examine the dynamics of innovation and its impacts to competitive strategy.
As industries age, innovations developed and implemented within organizations change in type and intensity. Product innovation and production process innovation, both highly examined in manufacturing sectors across industry life cycles, are not adequately researched in transportation industries. Additionally, there is an enormous gap in research with respect to less "visible" innovations, which include, but are not limited to, administrative and organizational innovations that focus on organizational structure, administrative processes and human resources; technical innovations that pertain to the technology used to produce products and render services; and marketing innovations that focus on the generation and implementation of new, novel elements in the marketing process, focusing on product, price, placement, and promotion as the variables of interest. These less "visible" types of innovations often provide sustained competitive advantage as they challenge competitors to discover and uncover an organizationally embedded rare and valuable innovation which is not easily imitated or substituted.
Subject Coverage
This special issue of WRITR is intended to present current research in the development and implementation of a broad spectrum of innovation types, their applications in transportation and supporting/related industries, changes in innovation across industry life cycles, and the resulting implications for strategy and competitive advantage. We encourage papers from all aspects of transportation and intermodal transportation where innovation has occurred or should occur, such as
Air cargo and passenger transportation
Alliances in the transportation industries
Brokering services
Cargo handling, equipment and facilities
Container development and evolution
Development of hubbing systems
Electronic Data Interchange
Future innovation trends in intermodal transportation
Ground transportation
Infrastructure development, maintenance, and upgrade
Intelligent transportation systems
Leasing companies
Network design
Ocean port development, facilities, and linkages
Pipeline operations
Railroad development and involvement in intermodal transportation
Security and safety of the transportation system
Supply chain innovation
Sustainability/transformational innovation
Transportation competition and cooperation
Transportation networks
Warehousing and inventory
Papers are not exclusively limited to the above fields. WRITR is listed in Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities.
Notes for Intending 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 Submissions of Papers web-page. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Author Guidelines page, WRITR.
Important Dates
Submission of full paper before: 31 May 2009
Editors and Notes
All papers must be submitted online. To submit a paper, please go to Submissions of Papers. If you experience any problems submitting your paper online, please contact submissions@inderscience.com, describing the exact problem you experience. Please include in your email the title of the Journal.
Prospective authors are welcome to submit an abstract to the guest editor for preliminary feedback on the appropriateness of their planned manuscript. Please clearly identify your submission in the email subject line "WRITR- Dynamics of Innovation and Competitive Strategy in Transportation Research - Special Issue."
Guest Editor:
Dr. Janet K. Tinoco
Embry Riddle Aeronautical University
College of Business
600 S. Clyde Morris Blvd.
Daytona Beach, FL 32114
USA
Email: tinocoj@erau.edu
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Re: Call for papers: Extended Dead Line MERC
Dear Colleagues
(My apologies if you receive this message more than once!)
Call for Participation
5th Annual Mason Entrepreneurship Research Conference (MERC 2009):
Theme of the Conference: Sustainability and Entrepreneurship
Date: Friday, March 27, 2009
Time: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM followed by a Reception
Location: Mason Hall, George Mason University Fairfax Campus 4400 University Dr., Fairfax, VA 22030 (20 miles form Washington DC) Extended deadline to submit a paper or abstract: March 15th, 2009
For several years George Mason University has been organizing an annual research conference to promote dialogue and collaborative research among scholars interested in the topic of Entrepreneurship spanning across many disciplines.
Our conference is open to all researchers in the field of entrepreneurship, because at MERC we firmly believe that research in Entrepreneurship is not the domain of any one academic discipline. Hence researchers from all academic disciplines are invited to participate in this fifth annual event.
You are invited to submit an ABSTRACT OF YOUR RESEARCH that is conceivably connected with any dimension of entrepreneurship such as international comparison of entrepreneurial efforts, regional development and role of government, risk taking, engineering and innovation, autonomy and leadership, entrepreneurship and cross cultural issues, HR issues as well as organizational behavior issues. Examples of such academic work include, but are not limited, to: creativity and innovation, new product or process development, examining the opportunities to change an industry, a community or our society through entrepreneurial activities, role of information technology in entrepreneurship, role of government in promoting entrepreneurial efforts across boarders.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: The fifth annual MERC is pleased to announce that our keynote speaker is a leading entrepreneur. Many faculty teaching and researching entrepreneurship may know him as the founder of the firm that introduced Business Plan Pro software.
Tim Berry, President and Founder of Palo Alto Software (Business PlanPro)
Please submit your fully developed papers/working papers with abstracts electronically to Nacef Mouri (nmouri@gmu.edu) or Mahesh P. Joshi (mpjoshi@gmu.edu) by March 15th, 2009 (extended dead line). Please visit MERC website for conference details and registration http://entrepreneurship.gmu.edu/conference.html
Thanks and regards,
Mahesh P. Joshi
Associate Professor
Global Strategy and Entrepreneurship
School of Management, George Mason University mpjoshi@gmu.edu
703 993 1761
School of Management: Celebrating 30 Years of Regional Roots with Global Impact http://som.gmu.edu
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Colleagues:
Reference: The 26th Annual Conference of the Association of Management, August 06-08, 2009, Bloomington, Minnesota, www.aom-iaom.org
Stressed out about the global financial, economic crises affecting institutional cutbacks imposed on scholar and practitioner professional conference attendance, the Association has reduced group attendance rates to meet cost-effectiveness for delegates seeking to attain/retain academic tenure and promotion via collegial participation, submission presentation, and publication in its August 06-08, 2009, Bloomington, Minnesota annual conference.
Individual and group submissions may be of a variety of topics which fall into the general realms of management, higher education, leadership and information technology, to mention a few. Of course submissions do not have to address interrelated topics, rather they will be placed in the conference program thematically. All submissions will undergo a regular peer review process.
For more information regarding the conference, please view www.aom-iaom.org.
Willem A. Hamel, PhD., CEO
Association of Management and International
Association of Management (AoM/IAoM)
920 Battlefield Boulevard South, Suite 100
Chesapeake, Virginia 23322 USA
1-757-482-2273
Email:aomgt@inter-source.org
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Dear Colleague,
The Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration has now transitioned from Biomed Central to U of Illinois. Please bookmark the new site: http://journals.uic.edu/jbdc/.
As before, all articles will be peer-reviewed with a fast turnaround (initial reviews in 3 weeks), immediate publication upon acceptance, and open-access (no subscriptions or registration needed). However, we will now have NO mandatory article fees. This should greatly reduce the barrier to contributing from authors whose work is not grant-supported.
Prospective authors should be reassured that papers do not need to be explicitly biomedical in order to be appropriate for the journal. As it says on the journal website:
"Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration (DISCO) is an Open Access, peer-reviewed online journal that will encompass all aspects of scientific information management and studies of scientific practice. Currently, many scattered disciplines study aspects of scientific practice, including informatics, computer science, sociology, cognitive psychology, scientometrics, rhetoric, public policy and history and philosophy of science. The journal will connect these disparate perspectives with each other, and with contemporary scientific practice."
Neil Smalheiser
Editor-in-Chief
discovery@psych.uic.edu
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Journal Table of Contents
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Please find below the Table of Contents of the International Journal of Technology Marketing.
Best regards
Alexander Brem
International Journal of Technology Marketing (IJTMKT), 2009, Vol. 4 No. 1 ISSN (Online): 1741-8798 - ISSN (Print): 1741-878X
Title: On the remedies to the traditional innovation life cycle model
Author: Ping Lan
URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=23553
Title: Marketing mixes for digital products: a study of the marketspaces in China
Author: Y. Wang, K.L. Wang, J.T. Yao
URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=23554
Title: Agent-based modelling of software market share evolution: the factors and simulations
Author: Liguo Yu, Srini Ramaswamy
URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=23555
Title: Show me the money: the business models of Linux players
Author: Roger Migdow, Sanjit Sengupta, Sameer Verma
URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=23556
Title: The impact of gender on the perceptions of and preferences for technology-based games
Author: Anne M. Brumbaugh
URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=23557
Journal Website: https://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=116
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Position Announcements
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Please excuse cross postings.
The School of Strategy and Entrepreneurship (formerly the General Management Group at the Australian Graduate School of Management) seeks to fill at least one senior faculty position and a junior level position in Strategic Management or Entrepreneurship. Candidates with an international orientation to their research are also encouraged to apply. Potential senior colleagues should possess a proven capacity to publish their research consistently in tier-1 refereed journals, to provide leadership for junior faculty and doctoral students in strategy and entrepreneurship, and to teach students in a leading business school. (We would also consider 5-year contracts with research-active senior scholars who are attracted to the wonderful setting of Sydney). Junior scholars are expected to have the potential to develop a quality research program and have the desire to play on a global stage. Junior position applicants are expected to have recently completed their PhD or to be in the position to complete that degree by the time they take up the position.
The Australian School of Business at UNSW was recently formed as a union of the AGSM and Faculty of Commerce and Economics at the University of New South Wales. The school, located in Sydney with an MBA program in Hong Kong, is the premier business school in Australia, and a leader in management research and graduate education throughout Asia and Oceania. We offer a range of graduate programs, including full-time and executive MBA's, a Master of Commerce, a doctoral program, and we are quite active in executive education. Forbes Magazine rated us as the fifth best non-US business school in the world. Our full time MBA program is ranked No. 32 in the world by the Financial Times.
The School of Strategy and Entrepreneurship's faculty is internationally recognized for its research excellence. Over the last few years, we have published consistently in such leading journals as Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Research Policy, Industrial and Corporate Change, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Harvard Business Review, and California Management Review. Faculty have also published prize winning books. Current members of the strategy group include: Timothy Devinney (PhD Chicago), Graham Dowling (PhD UNSW), Geoff Eagleson (PhD Sydney), Shayne Gary (PhD London), Anna Gunnthorsdottir (PhD Arizona), Elizabeth Maitland (PhD Melbourne), J Peter Murmann (PhD Columbia) (Head of School), Peter Moran (PhD Insead), Salih Ozdemir (PhD Chicago), Yue Wang (PhD Melbourne), and Phil Yetton (PhD CMU).
We have no dominant philosophical orientation and would consider candidates for any position (junior or senior) with strong training in strategy, entrepreneurship, economics, psychology, sociology, innovation studies and other related disciplines. Candidates with a less direct 'management' orientation with a desire to move into management applications of basic disciplinary approaches will also be considered.
The remuneration package is globally competitive and teaching loads are very attractive for supporting research productivity. Teaching loads generally offer the opportunity to spend half the year in undisturbed research activities, with the potential of a sabbatical break after only three years of employment.
Sydney is recognized as one of the most livable, beautiful, and vibrant cities on the planet. (For photos of the city and the region, go to http://professor-murmann.net/pictures/australia/). Sydney plays a major part in Australia's economy, accounting for over 25% of Australia's total economic activity. The city is Australia's undisputed financial centre, with 65% of Australia's finance industry located here, including the Reserve Bank, the Australian Stock Exchange and the Sydney Futures Exchange. Of the nation's top 100 companies, 60% have headquarters in Sydney. Financial and business services accounts for 47.1% of the city's workforce. Multinationals with Asian-Pacific headquarters in Sydney include 3M, American Express, AMP, Boral Ltd, BT, Coca-Cola Amatil, Compuserve, HJ Heinz, IBM, Microsoft, Mastercard, Price Waterhouse Coopers, TNT Ltd and Unilever. Sydney was also recently named by the LA Times as the world's most innovative city with respect to culinary arts and those with a penchant for wine, opera, sailing and any of a host of other activities need look no further than their front door.
The positions are open immediately and will remain open until filled. For more information, please visit our web site at http://www2.strategy.unsw.edu.au/
Interested senior applicants should send their CV and the names of three referees or completed letters of reference (electronically). Interested junior candidates should also include a representative working paper.
Please send all materials to the attention of Associate Professor Peter Murmann at recruiting@strategy-and-entrepreneurship.net.
Johann Peter Murmann
Associate Professor of Strategic Management
Academic Director of the Strategic Management Year of the AGSM MBA (Executive)
Academic Director of the Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Head, Strategy and Entrepreneurship
Australian School of Business, Level 5
University of New South Wales
Sydney NSW 2052
Australia
Address for Courier Deliveries:
Australian School of Business, Room 576
UNSW Building E12, College Road
Sydney NSW 2052
Australia
New Phone: +61 (0) 2 9385 9733 Fax: +61 (0)2 9385 5722
Web: http://professor-murmann.net
Working Papers: http://ssrn.com/author=375099
My recent book: http://knowledge-and-competitive-advantage.info/
Assistant: Avis Wong +61 (0) 2 9385 5641 avisw@agsm.edu.au
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Research Discussions
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A note from Jacqueline Meszaros at NSF:
Dear Colleagues:
NSF issued a revised solicitation on Virtual Organizations as Sociotechnical Systems last week. Proposals are due 26 May.
Further information and a link to the solicitation itself can be found at:
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09540/nsf09540.htm?org=NSF
This is a wonderful opportunity for US-based social scientists working on topics pertinent to virtual organizations, broadly construed. A synopsis and list of some potential topics is provided below. This should not be construed as a complete list. Additional pertinent research topics are welcome, so long as the work would yield sound, generalizable advances in knowledge.
We look forward to receiving your strong proposals.
Feel free to distribute this notice widely.
Best regards.
Jacqueline R. Meszaros, Ph.D.
Program Director
Innovation and Organizational Sciences
Decision, Risk and Management Sciences
National Science Foundation
4201 Wilson Blvd., Suite 995
Arlington, Virginia 22230
Synopsis
A virtual organization is a group of individuals whose members and resources may be dispersed geographically, but who function as a coherent unit through the use of cyberinfrastructure. Virtual organizations are increasingly central to the science and engineering projects funded by the National Science Foundation. Focused investments in sociotechnical analyses of virtual organizations are necessary to harness their full potential and the promise they offer for discovery and learning.
The Virtual Organizations as Sociotechnical Systems (VOSS) program supports scientific research directed at advancing the understanding of what constitutes effective virtual organizations and under what conditions virtual organizations can enable and enhance scientific, engineering, and education production and innovation. Levels of analysis may include (but are not limited to) individuals, groups, organizations, and institutional arrangements. Disciplinary perspectives may include (but are not limited to) anthropology, complexity sciences, computer and information sciences, decision and management sciences, economics, engineering, organization theory, organizational behavior, social and industrial psychology, public administration, and sociology. Research methods may span a broad variety of qualitative and quantitative methods, including (but not limited to): ethnographies, surveys, simulation studies, experiments, comparative case studies, and network analyses.
VOSS funded research must be grounded in theory and rooted in empirical methods. It must produce broadly applicable and transferable results that augment knowledge and practice of virtual organizations as a modality. VOSS does not support proposals that aim to implement or evaluate individual virtual organizations.
Critical challenges and prominent themes that scientific inquiries might address under VOSS may include (but are not limited to):
* Units and frameworks of analysis-both social and technical: Social units of analysis may be individuals, teams, scientific disciplines, individual or multiple organizations. Technical units of analysis may include specific tools or objects, virtual or immersive environments or 'worlds,' specialized niches, or collections of such virtual environments. What are the conceptual and comparative frameworks of analyzing virtual organizations? What theoretical, methodological, and empirical approaches can be applied, what need to be adapted, what need to be developed?
* Organizational life cycles: What are the stages and causes of virtual organization evolution, including, for example, formation of new organizations, organizational change or transformation, and organizational crisis or decline? How do they vary across task, domain, population, and/or stage of organization lifecycle?
* Production and innovation: What technological, social, and legal arrangements support intellectual production and innovation in virtual organizations? How do these arrangements interact? How do they vary across task, domain, population, and/or stage of organization lifecycle?
* Organizational structure, scope, and scaling: Are there levels of connectivity, diversity, and interactivity at which scientific production and innovation can be optimized in virtual organizations? How does optimization on these dimensions vary across task, domain, population, and/or stage of organization lifecycle?
* Individual and collective motivation: What are the social and technological barriers to and/or enablers of participation in a virtual organization? What are the social and technological forces of coordination, competition, and/or collaboration? How do these forces vary across task, domain, population, and/or stage of organization lifecycle?
* Management, Governance, and Leadership: What are models of governance agreement, and what should they address? How do they interact with the cultures, structures and arrangements governing the participating individuals and institutions? How do virtual organization and participants understand, negotiate, and prioritize multiple and what might be conflicting memberships?
* Measurement and assessment: What are the tests of efficiency, equity, and effectiveness that can be applied to different types of virtual organizations? How do these conditions vary across task, domain, population, and/or stage of organization lifecycle?
* Comparative performance: Under what conditions do virtual organizations outperform co-located organizations? What tasks or processes can be done or done better by virtual organizations that cannot be done or done as well in co-located organizations, and vice versa? What are the advantages and disadvantages of technological-mediation? Under what conditions (and how) might virtual organizations be instrumented to advance our understanding of certain phenomena better than co-located organizations?
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My name is Edgar Jordan. I am a doctoral student of business administration with the School of Advanced Studies of the University of Phoenix. My research interest is focused on how the semiconductor manufacturing industry may be reacting to emerging technologies beyond the current materials in use such as silicon dioxide. I intend to use a qualitative research method with a modified Delphi data collection technique. Once the Delphi panel is selected I will ask the members three open ended questions: when can it be expected that sub-10 nanometer devices will become commercially viable; will organizational changes be necessary when these devices become available; and what leadership approaches would best facilitate those changes? Qualitative methods will be used to identify the underlying themes of the responses from the panel to these questions and descriptive statistical analysis will be used to characterize the panel's responses to the importance of those themes.
I would enjoy hearing from others with similar research interests. I would particularly like to hear from those who have conducted similar research and share recommended sources. Please contact me at the following email addresses:
eajordan@email.phoenix.edu
eajordan@msn.com
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Share with your learners!
From the Honda channel on YouTube,
Failure: The Secret to Success
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiaPNlR5A4I&feature=channel_page
Failure. The mere thought can paralyze even the most heroic thinkers and keep great ideas off the drawing board. But is failing really that bad? We get an inside look at the mishaps of Honda racers, designers and engineers to learn how they draw upon failure to motivate them to succeed. From poor color choices to blown race engines, these risk-taking individuals provide an honest look at what most people fear most. Watch the film and discover the upside of failure.
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Best regards,
Charlie
Charles Wankel
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wankelc@stjohns.edu
Add me on LinkedIn using that email address, Facebook too!
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Darlene Alexander-Houle
TIM Division List Serve Manager
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