TIM Division List Serve
Vol. 6, No. 14 (April 30, 2009)
Table of Contents:
- Symposia and Other Annual Meeting Information
- Call for Submissions
- Research Discussions
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- Symposia and Other Annual Meeting Information
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Call for 2009 TIM Junior Faculty Consortium
The Technology and Innovation Management Division of the Academy of Management is pleased to invite applications for the 2009 TIM Junior Faculty Consortium to be held at the Academy of Management meeting in Chicago (IL) on Friday, August 7th and Saturday, August 8th, 2009.
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 2009.
To apply, please email your vita to Juan Alcacer at jalcacer@hbs.edu. When you apply please indicate the month and year you started your first assistant professor position. We will take applications on a rolling basis until May 15, 2009, and we encourage you to apply early.
If you have questions concerning these requirements, please contact one of the co-chairs.
Juan Alcacer (jalcacer@hbs.edu), Harvard Business School
Anu Wadhwa (anu.wadhwa@epfl.ch), Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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Call for Submissions
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Dear Colleagues:
I would like to call your attention to following call for papers for the 2009 Technology Transfer Society Annual Conference on October 2, 2009. The Technology Transfer Society sponsors the only academic journal devoted to the managerial and policy implications of technology transfer/commercialization, the Journal of Technology Transfer (http://www.springer.com/business/journal/10961?detailsPage=journal), which was recently selected for inclusion in the Social Science Citation Index.
Best regards,
Don Siegel
CALL FOR PAPERS
THE ENTREPRENEURIAL ENTERPRISE
The Technology Transfer Society (T2S) will hold its 2009 annual conference at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Keynote Speakers: Professor Josh Lerner, Harvard Business School
Professor Howard Aldrich, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Plenary Speakers (partial list):
Professor David Audretsch, Indiana University and Max Planck Institute
Professor Fiona Murray, MIT Sloan School of Management
Professor Sean Safford, University of Chicago Booth Business School
Professor Donald Siegel, University at Albany, SUNY
Professor Mike Wright, Nottingham University Business School
The theme of this year's conference is The Entrepreneurial Enterprise. Thematic tracks are listed below (general papers on entrepreneurship and technology transfer are always welcome):
Private-Sector Entrepreneurship
- Role of small businesses - Patenting activity - Serial entrepreneurship - Social responsibility of entrepreneurs
Public-Sector Entrepreneurship
- Public policy (domestic and international) relating to technological entrepreneurship - Patent policies - Innovation policy and small businesses - Program evaluation
Academic Entrepreneurship
- The role of incentives and organizational culture - Technology transfer - Inside/outside impacts from spin-outs - University clusters - Regional economic development issues - Technology transfer and social and environmental responsibility
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Social Entrepreneurship
- Evolution of a definition - Sustainability issues - Social responsibility issues - Case studies
Those who wish to present a paper should submit an abstract by June 15, 2009 (revised date). Those who wish to organize and chair a session should submit a proposal also by June 15, 2009 (revised date). Proposal templates are on-line (see url below). Proposals and abstracts should be submitted electronically to all of the program organizers:
Professor Donald Siegel: dsiegel@uamail.albany.edu
Professor Albert N. Link: anlink@uncg.edu
Professor Dianne Welsh: DHWELSH@uncg.edu
Additional information regarding the 2009 T2S annual conference, including proposal templates, hotel, and registration information, will be posted on the BELL website of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (http://entrepreneur.uncg.edu/t2s.html).
Hope to see you in October,
Professor Donald Siegel, Dean, School of Business, University at Albany, SUNY President, Technology Transfer Society Editor, Journal of Technology Transfer
Professor Albert N. Link Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Technology Transfer (http://www.springer.com/business/journal/10961?detailsPage=journal)
Dr. Donald S. Siegel
Dean and Professor
School of Business
University at Albany, SUNY
1400 Washington Avenue
Albany, NY 12222
Tel: (518) 442-4910
DSiegel@uamail.albany.edu
http://www.albany.edu/business/
http://www.albany.edu/business/news_and_events/DonSiegel-CV.pdf
http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/psi32.htm
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Academy of Management members are invited to submit papers for the 4th SMU EDGE conference to be held in Singapore, 8-10 July, 2009. This is an exciting conference to present all kinds of new, cutting edge, and eclectic work on all kinds of themes related to entrepreneurship, as well as increase one's network in Asia.
Here are the deadlines:
Submissions
Submission of abstracts (500-700 words): 10 June 2009 Abstract format
Notification of acceptance: 15 June 2009.
Submission of full papers: 30 June 2009 Full paper format
Rolling acceptance of abstracts: We will review abstract submissions and notify you of acceptance within two weeks of receipt of abstracts.
In brief:
4th SMU EDGE conference (http://www.research.smu.edu.sg/faculty/edge/)
"Bridging the Gap: Entrepreneurship in Theory and Practice"
Papers from all areas of Entrepreneurship and Family Business welcome!
Singapore, 8-10 July, 2009
More details on the following link: http://www.research.smu.edu.sg/faculty/edge/
Ranjan Karri, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Management
College of Business and Management, UHB 4060
University of Illinois at Springfield
One University Plaza, Springfield, IL 62703
Phone: 217-206-7917
Fax: 217-206-7543
karri.ranjan@uis.edu
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Call for Papers
Special Issue on "Social Psychological Perspectives on Power and Hierarchy"
The Administrative Science Quarterly is seeking papers for a special issue on Social Psychological Perspectives on Power and Hierarchy, guest edited by Francis Flynn, Deborah Gruenfeld, Linda Molm, and Jeffrey Polzer. While studies of power dynamics at the firm level of analysis have a rich history in organizational research, studies that focus on the individual and interpersonal level are noticeably absent. In particular, we lack insight on how power shapes
employee attitudes and behaviors as individuals and as members of workgroups. Does having power, authority, or influence alter an individual's cognitions, motives, and actions? More importantly, are such alterations good or bad for the organization and their less powerful members?
Power is a fundamental aspect of life in organizations, in the sense that any social structure is characterized by political activity. Further, managers must be able to diagnose organizational politics, anticipate others' political moves, and wield power in ways that benefit their constituents and advance their political goals. However, ideas about how power affects the way people perceive their environments, approach interpersonal relations, and make important decisions
are rarely discussed in the pages of ASQ. With this special issue we hope to address this gap, and, in turn, help develop and inspire sound theory around the social psychology of power in organizations.
This special issue is oriented toward social psychological perspectives on power and hierarchy. We invite contributions from social, sociological, and organizational psychologists that cover a range of themes, including the following:
a) How does power affect managerial decision making? Does power embolden people to make riskier decisions or encourage them to adopt a more conservative
approach?
b) How do the powerful interact with the powerless? Are powerholders unable to assume the perspective of their subordinates, or is it the subordinates who fail to appreciate the challenges that senior leaders confront?
c) How does power affect an individual's preferences for fair treatment, ethical norms, and socially responsible actions? Is power the root of all evil in organizations, or can power correct just as it corrupts?
d) How does power influence exchanges among members of organizations? Are
powerholders more or less prosocial than those who lack power?
e) How do emotions relate to power? Are powerholders more or less intense in
exhibiting their emotions? Are they more impactful when they are angry or jubilant? How skilled are powerholders at recognizing others' emotional difficulties?
f) What are the cognitive and affective processes that undergird power relations,
particularly group dynamics?
g) Are those with power more or less likely to leverage diverse points of view? How do hierarchical power differences affect other sorts of intergroup relations, such as those based in race or gender?
h) How does power affect individual creativity and group innovation? Are the powerful more or less tolerant of divergent thinking?
i) Are there interventions that can effectively "empower" members of organizations to take action in times of adversity and uncertainty?
Of course, this list of questions is meant to be provocative, rather than exhaustive. Our goal is to broaden and deepen theories of power and hierarchy in organizations. We prefer not to put limits on how scholars may go about doing that. Our openness applies to both the questions posed as well as the methods employed. The last date for submissions is March 31, 2010. Manuscripts in ASQ format can be submitted to asqsubmit@johnson.cornell.edu, with the subject-line heading "Psychological Perspectives on Power and Hierarchy Special Issue." See the Notice to Contributors on the ASQ Web page
(http://www.johnson.cornell.edu/publications/asq/) for information on preparing manuscripts.
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IMPACT: JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH IN WORKPLACE E-LEARNING
A publication of the E-learning Network of Australasia (ElNet)
Call for Papers: Inaugural issue
(PDF version available at http://journal.elnet.com.au/files/Impact_InauguralIssue_CFP_FINAL.pdf)
Impact: Journal of Applied Research in Workplace E-learning has been established to address the paucity of research publication avenues with a particular emphasis on e-learning in organisational and workplace settings. It will be a fully online journal, publishing refereed and non-refereed contributions from both researchers and practitioners relating to the design, implementation, evaluation and management of workplace e-learning across a range of sectors and industries.
Submissions are invited for the special, inaugural issue of the journal, the theme of which is "Current issues and future directions in workplace e-learning: Mapping the research landscape". This issue will include peer-reviewed articles that address one or more of the following areas:
1. Summary and synthesis: Where are we now?
- Identification and analysis of major issues, themes and trends in the field of workplace e-learning research
- Review of key studies and seminal pieces of literature in this field, and how future research efforts might build upon the work already done
2. Gap analysis: What do we need to know more about?
- Discussion of areas have been under-emphasised or neglected in the field of workplace e-learning research
- Exploration of how these areas/gaps might be addressed
3. Planning and designing: How should we move forward?
- Setting the research agenda for workplace e-learning
- Future directions for workplace e-learning research and its application to practice
In addition, case studies / best practice examples and position or commentary articles may be submitted to be either peer or editor reviewed. Non-refereed contributions in the form of technical/application notes (eg tools, how-tos) and book/Web site reviews are also invited.
The Editorial Policies section of Impact's Web site (http://journal.elnet.com.au/impact) contains general information on the journal's focus and scope, including topics of interest and types of articles accepted. For specific style guidelines and advice to authors, please see the Submissions section of the site.
Prospective authors for the inaugural issue are strongly encouraged to submit proposals or expressions of interest to the Editor-in-Chief well in advance of the manuscript submission deadline, in order to allow time for feedback and discussion. This may be done via email to impactjournal@elnet.com.au, however full manuscripts are to be submitted via the online submission system on the journal's Web site, and not via email.
Key dates:
- Manuscript submission deadline: 1 June 2009
- Notification of acceptance: 1 July 2009
- Submission of final articles for publication: 1 August 2009
- Publication of inaugural issue (online): 1 September 2009
Editorial team:
Editor-in-Chief- Mark J.W. Lee, Charles Sturt University, Australia
President, ElNet- Clint Smith, Learnworks, Australia
Manager – Publications, ElNet- Position vacant
Manager – Branding and Promotion, ElNet- Marianne Cini, Evolve Studios, Australia
Editorial Board
- A.Y. Al-Zoubi, Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Jordan
- Zane L. Berge, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, United States
- Marcus S. Bowles, Institute for Working Futures, Australia
- John G. Burgoyne, Lancaster University Management School and Henley Business School, United Kingdom
- John Clayton, Waikato Institute of Technology, New Zealand
- Jay Cross, Internet Time Group, United States
- Rabelani Dagada, Wits Business School and Royal Bafokeng Administration, South Africa
- Margaret Driscoll, IBM Global Solutions, United States
- Wellesley R. ("Rob") Foshay, Texas Instruments, United States
- David A. Guralnick, Kaleidoscope Learning, United States
- John G. Hedberg, Macquarie University, Australia
- David H. Jonassen, University of Missouri, United States
- Angela Lewis, Angela Lewis Consulting, Australia
- Kin Chew Lim, SIM University, Singapore
- Joha Louw-Potgieter, University of Cape Town, South Africa
- Terry Marler, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand
- John G. Mitchell, John Mitchell and Associates, Australia
- Pam Moule, University of the West of England, United Kingdom
- Anna Peachey, The Open University, United Kingdom
- Clark N. Quinn, Quinnovation, United States
- Hanna Risku, Danube University Krems, Austria
- Andrée Roy, Université de Moncton, Canada
- Roderick C. Sims, Capella University, United States
- J. Michael Spector, University of Georgia, United States
- Marcel van der Klink, Open University of the Netherlands, Netherlands
- Jelke van der Pal, National Aerospace Laboratory NLR, Netherlands
- Douglas R. Vogel, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- David Young, University of Derby, United Kingdom
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STRATEGIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP JOURNAL
Call for Papers for a Special Issue
Knowledge Spillovers and Strategic Entrepreneurship
Submission Due Date: November 15, 2009
Guest Editors:
Rajshree Agarwal, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
David Audretsch, Max Planck Institute, Germany and Indiana University
MB Sarkar, Temple University
Background and Special Issue Purpose
The non-rival nature of knowledge as a productive asset creates the possibility of knowledge spillovers, defined as the external benefits from the creation of knowledge that accrue to parties other than the creator. Occurring at multiple levels of analysis, be it within or across organizations and networks, the idea of spillovers has been pervasive in scholarship in multiple literature domains. A few among these are: technology transfer, spatial agglomeration, networks, employee mobility, real options, organizational learning, and evolution of innovations, firms and industries.
Strategic entrepreneurship, however defined, clearly relates to initiatives grounded in the search for competitive advantage and which lead to new entry into products, markets, processes or technological innovations by both incumbents and new ventures. Knowledge spillovers thus represent a powerful lens through which to investigate questions that are central to strategic entrepreneurship, namely the formation of new ventures, the origin and development of firm capabilities, strategic renewal efforts of incumbents, the dynamics of innovation and macro-economic growth.
In spite of a rich legacy, there exist exciting avenues for further development in the theories and empirical frameworks surrounding knowledge spillovers and strategic entrepreneurship, with several tensions unresolved. For example, while the traditional view has emphasized the leakage of knowledge (spillovers) as dis-incentivizing R&D, spillovers can be a strategic lever through which a firm engages in distributed innovation, thereby also enhancing global competitiveness. Moreover, the spillover of knowledge through the mobility of human capital has profound implications for entrepreneurial activities, be it at the level of firm, region or nation. For example, while employee mobility traditionally has been considered a conduit through which tacit knowledge is transferred between firms or from firms to start-ups, recent accounts of reverse migration of scientists from developed countries to emerging economies demonstrate the importance of knowledge spillovers as critical to entrepreneurial resurgence in those countries.
This special issue provides an opportunity to advance our understanding of the inter-linkages between knowledge spillovers and strategic entrepreneurship. Accordingly, we call for papers that help achieve one or more of the following objectives:
a) Enhancing our understanding of how knowledge externalities link to literature in strategic management and entrepreneurship to identify boundary conditions relating to value creation and appropriation.
b) Creating inter-linkages between knowledge spillovers and theoretical lenses such as networks, real options, technology and innovation strategy, spatial agglomeration, organizational learning and diffusion of innovations among others in order to explore issues fundamental to strategic entrepreneurship
c) Developing insights into mechanisms that facilitate or inhibit knowledge spillovers across or within organizational boundaries, including but not limited to individual level mobility, employee entrepreneurship, co-location in geographical or technological space, inter-firm and intra-firm networks, and investments to facilitate vicarious learning
d) Identifying the potential of knowledge spill-ins, where incumbent organizations may effectively benefit from knowledge spillovers that originate from entrants, and in the process enhance their own competitiveness.
e) Exploring the linkages between intellectual property, organizational learning and knowledge spillovers to explain innovation outcomes in inventor networks, and growth dynamics in emerging technology clusters, or across national borders.
Research Questions
We seek papers that suggest new theoretical perspectives or provide fresh empirical insights on issues related to knowledge spillovers and strategic entrepreneurship. The articles may cover different levels of analysis in the broad spectrum from economy wide to individual level. We especially encourage, though do not require, articles that link across multiple levels of analysis. A few questions and topics of interest include but are not limited to:
a) What role does the institutional knowledge context have on subsequent spillovers of knowledge? What factors have an impact on knowledge spillovers and strategic entrepreneurship within and across organizational contexts (e.g. academic institutions, and organizations occupying competing, complementary or vertical supply chain relationships)?
b) What are the underlying mechanisms that relate knowledge spillovers and strategic entrepreneurship, and how might individual, organizational, strategic, institutional (including but not limited to level of intellectual property protection) or environmental factors affect these mechanisms? For example, how might employee entrepreneurship/mobility affect the strategy and performance of both the source and recipient organizations? What factors moderate these relationships? What win-lose or win-win scenarios may be created due to knowledge spillovers across organizational boundaries, particularly as they relate to entrepreneurial activity?
c) What factors have an impact on knowledge spillovers and strategic entrepreneurship in academic or scientific knowledge settings? What are the underlying mechanisms that enable or inhibit the transfer of "basic" knowledge to "applied" domains?
d) What are the positive or negative consequences of knowledge spillovers and "legacy effects" on subsequent recipient organization performance? i.e., do knowledge spillovers always enhance competitive advantage for recipient firms, or could they result in negative effects? What factors potentially moderate the knowledge spillovers-performance relationship?
e) What role do knowledge spillovers play in translating "failure" at one unit of analysis for "success" at another unit of analysis? For example, to what extent does a firm level focus on performance consequences underestimate or overestimate the overall performance consequences at another level, say the individual, industry or regional level?
f) Given that innovations are becoming increasingly more complex and recombinant in nature, how do organizational strategies that differ on the continuum of open vs. closed systems of innovation affect knowledge spillovers and strategic entrepreneurship? Can knowledge spillovers become the source of growth options, and thereby affect investments under uncertainty?
g) What effects do knowledge spillovers through returning diasporas have on entrepreneurship in emerging economies? How do ethnic ties contribute to transfer of tacit knowledge among inventor networks? How can existing firms use intra-firm mobility of employees to benefit new cross-border initiatives?
h) Are there differences between the effect of market and non-market channels of knowledge transfer on strategic entrepreneurship? How does geographic proximity matter for market-based transactions and for non-compensated spillovers? Do these differences in the outcomes between the two types of transactions dissolve over time? Do firm and industry characteristics matter?
i) How do positional characteristics in knowledge networks interact with type of knowledge spillovers to affect innovation outcomes? What are some of the boundary conditions that either mitigate or accentuate such relationships?
j) What is the relationship between organizational type and the ability to access and absorb external knowledge spillovers? Are some organizations more capable of benefiting from knowledge spillovers?
k) How might spillovers of non-technical knowledge, such as information about markets, alliance partners, funding, or potential acquirers affect strategic entrepreneurship?
Deadlines, Submission and Review Process:
The deadline for submission is November 15, 2009. Please indicate that the manuscript is for consideration in the special issue when submitting your manuscript online at Wiley's Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal website and ensure that it follows the guidelines available at http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/113412125/home/ForAuthors.html. Papers will be reviewed using the normal double-blind process at Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.
Special Issue Conference:
After the first round of reviews, authors of manuscripts that receive a revise and resubmit will be invited to attend a conference associated with the Special issue. The conference will most likely be held in late Spring or early Summer of 2010 (date and location to be announced at a later time).
More Information:
We welcome queries regarding the special issue. Please contact the special issue guest editors at the following email addresses:
Rajshree Agarwal, University of Illinois, agarwalr@illinois.edu
David Audretsch, Max Planck Institute and Indiana University, daudrets@indiana.edu
MB Sarkar, Temple University, mbsarkar@temple.edu
Or, please contact the managing editor of Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Ms. Lois Gast, lgast@wiley.com
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
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There will be a 3-day intensive Research Methodology workshop on July 12-14, 2009 at Hilton Cancun Golf & Spa Resort at Cancun, Mexico (ICAM1990.COM). The objective of the workshop is to help doctoral students and faculty write papers for publication in scholarly journals in the U.S.
1. Phase 1 (July 12): Formulation of hypotheses and 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.
2. Phase 2 (July 13): Pearson correlations, Internal Consistency Reliabilities, Regression Analysis, Hierarchical Regression Analysis, estimating and plotting interaction effects, ANOVA, and Analysis of Covariance.
3. Phase 3 (July 14): Elementary, intermediate, and some 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 professionals.) PowerPoint presentations will be used to show step-by-step analysis of data and results and how to report results in your paper that you want to submit to a scholarly journal for publication.
Participants will receive a Research Methodology Manual which will show you how to use SPSS and LISREL to run various analyses and how to interpret and report results.
Inquiries should be addressed to:
Afzal Rahim
Distinguished University Professor
Western Kentucky University
Phone/Fax: 270-782-2601
Email: mgt2000@aol.com
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Dear TIM members,
I am hereby sending you a call for participation for a PhD summer school on "Organizing participation in user-driven innovation". The summer school is organized by the SPIRE Centre for Participatory Innovation (www.sdu.dk/spire), in cooperation with the Design & Innovation research school and the PhD school at the faculty of the Humanities, University of Southern Denmark (SDU). The summer school will be held from August 10-14, 2009 in Sønderborg, Denmark. (As this partly overlaps with the Academy of Management Meeting in Chicago, it might be of particular interest to students not going there.)
More details about the summer school and the application procedure (deadline June 15) can be found on the following website: http://www.sdu.dk/Om_SDU/Institutter_centre/C_SPIRE/Calls/summerschool.aspx?sc_lang=en
Best regards,
Marcel Bogers
Post doc researcher in Innovation Management (starting June 2009)
MCI-SPIRE, University of Southern Denmark
Sønderborg, Denmark
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Please find enclosed useful information on ISC 2009 Doctoral Consortium (www.isc.org.il).
We would be thankful if you could share this information with relevant PhD candidates at your departments.
Israel Strategy Conference 2009 - Doctoral Consortium
The Israel Strategy Conference (ISC) will be holding a Doctoral Consortium at the ISC2009 meetings. The consortium will be held at Ben-Gurion University on Sunday, December 27 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
As the world of research tends to be about communicating with a community of scholars with overlapping interests, doctoral consortia generally are most valuable in providing an intimate setting for a cohort of doctoral students to get to know each other and to meet senior scholars in the field. The ISC Doctoral Consortium will be most valuable to Ph.D. students interested in conducting cutting-edge research in strategy and related areas. The consortium will be led by an international panel of senior faculty members with proven research records who will discuss promising areas for research and insights into the publication process.
The consortium coordinators are Gary Dushnitsky (Wharton) and David Brock (Ben-Gurion University). Additional faculty include: Jay Barney (Ohio State), Avi Feingenbaum (Technion), Michael Hitt (Texas A&M), Sarah Kaplan (Wharton), Anita McGahan (Toronto), Brian Silverman (Toronto), and several others TBA.
The Consortium will be comprised of three components.
- "Current and future themes in Strategy" – panelists will present their views of emerging "hot" topics in the general management field, and students will be invited to suggest ideas and jointly speculate how they may play in the wider audience of strategy research.
- "Getting published in top journals" -- a panel discussions aimed at conveying to students some proven techniques of (1) framing research questions, (2) research design, (3) packaging, (4) dealing with editors and reviewers.
- "Thesis Development workshop" – a select group of doctoral students will have an opportunity to present their research and receive guidance and commentary from senior faculty. Selection for this workshop is highly competitive. Students admitted to this program will receive a 50% discount on the ISC registration fee (the doctoral consortium will be offered at no charge to all attending students).
Application and admission
Admission preference will be given to students whose research is at the dissertation proposal stage. Doctoral students who do not wish to present their research at the thesis development workshop are still invited to apply and attend the doctoral consortium. Only those students wishing to present their research will be required to submit an abstract and a nomination letter. The dissertation ideas should be sufficiently developed to allow for a clear presentation of the theory and research design, but leave significant room for revision based on comments received at the consortium. A nomination letter by a faculty member relating to the state of the applicant's dissertation research is required as part of the application process.
To apply, please visit the doctoral consortium page of the ISC website at www.isc.org.il, complete the application form and upload the following documents:
· An updated Curriculum Vita.
· A brief abstract of your dissertation research. The abstract should be no longer than two pages of text and one page of references (adhering to the ISC proposal submission guidelines).
· A nomination letter from a supervising faculty member attesting that the student is in good standing and referring to the progress of the applicant's dissertation research.
The application deadline is Wednesday, July 15, 2009. Acceptance notification will be sent in early August.
Students attending the doctoral consortium must register to the Israel Strategy Conference (ISC). Student discount rates apply. An additional 50% discount will be offered to students presenting their research at the Thesis Development workshop.
If you have questions regarding the doctoral consortium, please contact Gary Dushnitsky at gdushnit@wharton.upenn.edu or David Brock dmb@bgu.ac.il.
We look forward to seeing you at the 2009 ISC!
Gary Dushnitsky
Assistant Professor of Management
Goergen Fellow, Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs
The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
3620 Locust Walk
Philadelphia PA 19104-6370
(215) 898 6386 Phone
(215) 898 0401 Fax
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Regards,
Darlene
Darlene Alexander-Houle
TIM Division List Serve Manager
Adjunct, University of Phoenix
Global Program Manager, Hewlett Packard
dahoule@sbcglobal.net
dahoule@email.phoenix.edu