TIM Division List Serve
Vol. 6, No. 15 (May 14, 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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Professional Development Workshop (Sponsors: RM, BPS, OB, TIM, ENT, NDSC)
The Case Against Null Hypothesis Significance Testing: Flaws, Alternatives, and Action Plans
Academy of Management Meeting in Chicago, IL
Saturday, August 8, 2009 at 11:10 - 1:10 PM
Sheraton Chicago in Chicago 10
Organizers & Presenters:
William H. Starbuck, University of Oregon
Andreas Schwab, Iowa State University
Eric Abrahamson, Columbia University
Donald E. Hatfield, Virginia Tech
The purpose of this workshop is to increase awareness among management researchers of the severe limitations of Null Hypothesis Significance Testing (NHST) and to introduce alternative approaches based on effect size measures and confidence intervals.
NHST has been criticized by methodologists on various grounds (Cohen, 1994; Cortina & Folger, 1998; Schmidt, 1996; Starbuck, 2006; Thompson, 1996). Their criticism suggests that the extensive use of NHST in quantitative management research has led to the accumulation of deceptive findings in the management literature. In a field that
aspires to provide useful advice to managers, researchers need to focus on practically important effects that are robust across a wide variety of settings. To identify practically meaningful findings, methodologists have recommended the reporting of effect sizes and confidence intervals as an alternative to NHST. Recently, approaches
for estimating confidence intervals for effect size measures have also been introduced (Cummings & Finch, 2001; Kline, 2004). The application of alternatives to NHST by management researchers, however, has been limited by both a lack of sensitivity regarding the inherent problems of NHST and a limited familiarity with alternative approaches. Our two-hour workshop addresses these issues in the following three modules:
* Critique of NHST (2 speakers)
* Alternatives to NHST (1 speaker)
* Round-table discussion for hands-on advice
No pre-registration is required to attend this session.
For further information on this session, please contact Andreas Schwab
(aschwab@iastate.edu).
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Dear Colleagues of Technology And Innovation Management,
The following All Academy PDW aims to examine epistemological and innovation issues that arise from making our scholarship relevant in practices. In particular, we focus on knowledge co-creation through diverse modes of collaborative research. Please refer the PDW to other interested parties. To see other Practice Theme Committee sponsored PDWs, please see http://practicethemecommittee.wikispaces.com/.
Best, Elena Antonacopoulou and Kuo Frank Yu
Bringing Practice Back into our Scholarship: Delivering the Agenda for Action (#410)
Sunday, Aug 9 2009 11:30AM - 2:00PM at Hyatt Regency Chicago in Grand E
Organizers: Elena P. Antonacopoulou; Kuo Frank Yu
Distinguished Speaker: Anne S. Huff
Facilitators: Emmanuel A. Abegunrin; A. D. Amar; Thomas G. Cummings; Jean M. Bartunek; Philippe Nicolas Baumard; David Coghlan; Jay Conger; Craig D. Crossley; Murray Dalziel; Paul N. Friga; Wolfgang H. Guettel; Roger Klev; David Knights; Saku Mantere; Par Martensson; Alan N. Miller; Susan A. Mohrman;
Miguel R. Olivas-Lujan; Jone L. Pearce; Yvon Pesqueux; Andrew M Pettigrew; V Seshan; Georg Schreyogg; Torkild Thanem; Mary Uhl-Bien; Robin Wensley; Tom Cannon
The aim of this PDW is to shift the focus beyond debating issues of relevance and rigour in management research, towards actively collaborating with practitioners to ensure our scholarship is impactful. This PDW provides a unique opportunity to contribute towards shaping the development of five thematic priorities as part of the Practice Theme Committee (PTC) strategy to develop a practice-relevant approach to management scholarship. The five thematic priorities are: 1. Practice Research 2. The Epistemology of Practice in Management Learning 3. Leadership Development for a Practice Orientation 4. Exemplars of Impact 5. Knowledge Co-creation through diverse modes of Collaborative research These five themes will be brought to life through the round table discussions led by prominent scholars who will act as chairs and facilitators for each theme.
Search Terms: Practice-relevant scholarship , Actionable Knowledge , Co-creation of knowledge
From: Kuo-Hui Frank Yu <kuoyu@haas.berkeley.edu>
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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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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:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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).
4. 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
Triparna de Vreede
MBA-HRD, MS-MIS
Department of Psychology & Center for Collaboration Science
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Office: RH 512 J
Phone: 554-2557 (Work)
452-6116 (Cell)
Email: tdevreede@mail.unomaha.edu
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CALL FOR PAPERS
International Journal of Global Management Studies (IJGMS) Print ISSN: 1945-3876 Online ISSN: 1945-3884 http://www.IJGMS.org
International Journal of Global Management Studies Quarterly (IJGMSQ) Print ISSN: 1945-385X Online ISSN: 1945-3868 http://www.IJGMSQ.org
For a quick review of the abstracts of the current issue, please visit:
http://ijgms.org/ and http://ijgmsq.org/
IJGMS and IJGMSQ are listed in all four directories of Cabells (www.cabells.com), and their content recently licensed to EBSCO Publishing.
SCOPE OF PUBLICATION
Quality scholarly and practitioner research articles on Contemporary and Global Issues in various business disciplines are invited:
Accounting
Challenges in Corporate Governance
Contemporary Research in eLearning
Ethics
Global Cultural Issues
Geographic Information Systems
Organizational Issues in Management
Global Outsourcing and Management
Information Systems Security
International Business
International Economics and Finance
Management of Information Systems
Management Science and Operations Management Marketing Project Management Social Networks Strategic Management Technology Management and Innovation General topics in Management Studies
IJGMS and IJGMS-Q are supported by the Association of Global Management Studies (www.association-gms.org). It is a multidisciplinary international association committed to the development of theoretical and practice knowledge pertaining to the global issues in all business and related fields, and advances the dissemination of knowledge through its activities.
For author guidelines please visit the following link:
http://www.association-gms.org/Journals/Information_authors.html
The topics envisioned for the upcoming issue are broad and they can be tied to the global/systemic issues of management studies.
Please submit your paper to the editor Dr. Mukesh Srivastava at editor@ijgms.org. Papers will be double-blind peer, and acceptance decisions will be based on the standards described in the information for authors with a quick turnaround from reviewers.
Kind regards,
Mukesh
Dr. Mukesh Srivastava
Editor-in-Chief
Int'l Journal of Global Management Studies
email: editor@ijgms.org
[1] www.ijgms.org
[2] www.ijgmsq.org
[3] www.association-gms.org
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CALL FOR APPLICANTS: DOCTORAL STUDENT WORKSHOP
SEVENTH WEST COAST RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM
ON TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURSHIP
A one-day Doctoral Student Workshop will be presented in conjunction with the 7th West Coast Research Symposium on Technology Entrepreneurship. The workshop's sponsor is the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation; the Research Symposium is sponsored by The Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (University of Washington), the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (Stanford University), the Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship (University of Oregon) the Lloyd Greif Center of Entrepreneurial Studies (USC), and the Don Beall Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (UC Irvine).
Event: Doctoral Student Workshop on Technology Entrepreneurship
Location: University of Washington
Date: 10th of September 2009 (Research Symposium held September 11-12)
We invite doctoral students to submit applications to attend this workshop. Sessions will focus on technology entrepreneurship, with an emphasis on contemporary work in the field. The workshop will be led by Riitta Katila, Stanford Univ.; Andrew Nelson and Taryn Stanko, Univ. of Oregon; and Sonali Shah, Univ. of Washington. Faculty presenters include Kathy Eisenhardt, Stanford Univ.; Suresh Kotha , Univ. of Washington; Alan Meyer, Univ. of Oregon; Nandini Rajagopalan, Univ. of Southern California; Kaye Schoonhoven, UC Irvine; and others.
The application deadline for the Doctoral Student Workshop is Friday, July 31, 2009. If you wish to be considered, please complete the online application at: https://catalysttools.washington.edu/webq/survey/skotha/75619
The workshop aspires to provide an intellectually stimulating experience, map the theoretical domain of technology entrepreneurship, and build community. Students will read several articles on entrepreneurship and come prepared to discuss them. Workshop participants will have opportunities to present their own research interests, to interact with each other, and to get acquainted with faculty members.
Students selected for the workshop will be invited to attend the two-day Research Symposium that follows on Sept. 11-12. The symposium will showcase cutting-edge work by technology entrepreneurship researchers from the Northwest and around the world. Details on the research symposium are available at the WCRS website: http://www.wcrs2009.org
Applicants focusing on the nexus of technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship will be given preference. Each attendee will be provided with a $250 travel stipend, as well as all meals and 3 nights lodging (double occupancy).
The location is the beautiful Pacific Northwest, a spectacular setting at this time of year. This is a great opportunity for doctoral students to learn from leading scholars and contemporary work in the field.
We hope to see you in Seattle!
CONFERENCE SPONSORS:
Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Univ. of Washington
Stanford Technology Ventures Program, Stanford University
Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship, University of Oregon
Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, USC
Don Beall Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, UC Irvine
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
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12th COGNITION IN THE ROUGH WORKSHOP
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Are you working on cognition-related research? Would you like to discuss your work with major scholars in the field?
Now is the time to prepare for the 12th annual "COGNITION IN THE ROUGH"
workshop to be held at the Academy of Management conference in Chicago this August.
The Cognition in the Rough workshop (CIR) provides an excellent opportunity to discuss your research in an informal, collegial roundtable setting. Each roundtable will have 2-3 scholars and 2-3 researchers, allowing plenty of time for discussion. Regardless of whether you are a more senior or a more junior researcher, this workshop offers you an invaluable opportunity to receive detailed feedback from scholars who are often editors or on the editorial board of top journals.
In particular, many past CIR participants have emphasized how much they have benefited from their participation in the workshop in terms of developing their theoretical models and their planned methodology. This feedback has been instrumental in helping them further develop and polish their research for publication in top academic journals.
Whether this is your first major research project or your fiftieth, this is a chance you won't want to miss!
We are very pleased that the following scholars agreed to participate:
Fran Ackermann, Neal Ashkanasy, Andrea Casey, Janet Dukerich, Colin Eden, Marlena Fiol, Raghu Garud, Elizabeth George, Gerard Hodgkinson, George Huber, Lynn Isabella, Gerry Johnson, Chet Miller, Frances
Milliken, Rhonda Reger, Majken Schultz, Mary Waller
Sponsored by the Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division at the annual Academy of Management Meeting in Chicago, the workshop will be held on Saturday, August 8th from 8:30 AM - 12 PM.
We look forward to seeing you in Chicago!
Daniel Gruber, University of Michigan, Ross School of Business Morela Hernandez, University of Washington, The Foster School of Business Sucheta Nadkarni, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, College of Business Administration Nils Plambeck, HEC School of Management, Paris David M. Wasieleski, Duquesne University
12TH ANNUAL "COGNITION IN THE ROUGH" WORKSHOP Academy of Management conference, Chicago, Illinois Saturday, August 8th, 2009, 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
WHO: This roundtable workshop is open to junior and senior scholars who are doing research related to managerial and organizational cognition.
WHAT: Your submission should include the following four sections:
I. Brief abstract (not to exceed 150 words) and up to four keywords
II. Overview of research (not to exceed 1500 words) Research topic Conceptual framework Research questions Methods Anticipated contributions to research/practice - key findings (if research is complete)
III. Challenges (the area on which you would like to focus discussion) (not to exceed 250 words)
IV. References
KEY DATES & LOCATIONS:
Submissions due: June 25th, 2009
Send to: cirpdw@gmail.com
Acceptance notices sent: July 1st, 2009
Workshop: Saturday, August 8th, 2009, 8:30 AM - 12 PM
Dr. Nils Plambeck
Assistant Professor
Department of Strategy and Business Policy HEC Paris 1, rue de la Libération
78351 Jouy-en-Josas
France
Phone: (33) 1 39 677275
Fax: (33) 1 39 677084
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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.
ISC is a family friendly conference!
The timing between Christmas and New Year, combined with Israel's warm weather and tourist attractions, is perfect for bringing your family to Israel. To make the conference more enjoyable to all involved, ISC will be family friendly and offer family members excursions during the conference. On Monday, December 28th, families will be offered a half day guided tour to a Bedouin museum, a Bedouin craft shop, and the Biblical City of Be'er Sheva where Abraham dug his famous water wells. In the evening, families are welcome to join the conference's social event. On Tuesday, December 29th, families will be offered a full day excursion to the Dead Sea and Masada. These excursions will be offered at net cost and require advance registration.
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.
Dr. Dovev Lavie
Sloan Industry Studies Fellow
Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Tel: 972-4-8294435
Fax: 972-4-8295688
Email: dlavie@ie.technion.ac.il
Website: http://ie.technion.ac.il/dlavie.phtml
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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