TIM Division List Serve
Vol. 7, No. 02 (January 16, 2010)
Table of Contents:
· Call for Participation
o Online, 'hands-on,' synchronous, interactive structural equation modeling (SEM) workshops in February, 2010 covering basic and intermediate techniques of partial least squares (PLS) path modeling
o Unpacking the Innovation-Performance Link: Challenges for Organisation Research, 26th EGOS Colloquium, Sub-theme 36, Lisbon, July 1-3, 2010.
· Call for Papers
o Call for Chapters , Current Topics in Management, Vol. 15 (2010) & Vol. 16 (2011) receive by March 1, 2010
o Project Management Institute Academic Resources Opens Call for Research Proposals, Preliminary proposals will be accepted between 1 February and 25 April 2010
o Extended deadline-2010 INBAM Conference Annual Meeting-indexed journals, INBAM submission portal will remain open until 28 February.
· Book Announcements
o Innovation and Change in Japanese Management Edited by Parissa Haghirian (Sophia University)
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Call for Participation
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SDI, George Washington University, Center for International Business Education & Research (GW-CIBER)
Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for the Summer Doctoral Institute (SDI) for research and study on Institutions & Development, sponsored by George Washington University's Center for International Business Education & Research (GW-CIBER).
Seven to ten doctoral students selected to participate in this program will spend two summer months, from June 1st to July 28th, 2010, conducting research in the nation's capital, home to many of the world's most influential institutions. This cross-disciplinary program will facilitate research related to Institutions & Development from the perspective of a broad range of social sciences.
Students selected for the summer 2010 SDI program will:
* Work with a specialist in their chosen field.
* Form a community of scholars with intersecting interests.
* Gain access to resources found only in Washington, DC.
* Participate in research seminars and brown bag lunches.
* Submit their work to be published in a top journal in their field.
The program is open to doctoral students in any discipline, enrolled in U.S. universities, with an interest in the underlying theme of Institutions & Development. Please pass the details of this initiative on to doctoral students in your University that have a research interest in this topic.
The application deadline has been extended to January 22, 2010. For more information and to access the program application, candidates should visit the SDI website:
http://www.gwu.edu/~business/CIBER/doctoral/index.htm
Thank you and let us know if you have any questions!
Best regards,
Jennifer Spencer
Director, GW-CIBER
Coelho Professorial Fellow and Associate Professor of International Business & International Affairs
George Washington University
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Call for Papers or Participation
Unpacking the Innovation-Performance Link: Challenges for Organisation Research
26th EGOS Colloquium, Sub-theme 36, Lisbon, July 1-3, 2010.
Submission via the EGOS website at www.egosnet.org
Stefano Brusoni, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy
stefano.brusoni@unibocconi.it
Dean A. Hennessy, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
hennessy@uvt.nl
Marius T.H. Meeus, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
m.t.h.meeus@uvt.nl
The idea that innovation leads to positive economic performance has become a sort of article of faith in recent years. Managers and policy makers consider innovation as the main strategy to react to increasing competitive pressures from fast growing economies. However, empirical evidence showing that innovating organisations outperform non-innovating ones remains scant and scattered. Due to measurement and data problems the link between innovation and performance is too often simply assumed. Though there have been insights from the economics literature into the link between the two, economic models have tended to focus narrowly on certain easily measurable aspects of innovation such as R&D effort and its effect on labour productivity. But such models fail to get at a deeper understanding of the micro-foundations of innovation and the behavioural processes that would, for instance, provide a more nuanced understanding of the link to performance. We therefore need models that go beyond the simple profit motive, and price signals, which drive most economic models of innovation.
Organization scholars have addressed some of these shortcomings. In general, a behavioural theory of the firm suggests that the greater past performance is above certain goals/aspiration levels, the lower the likelihood of innovative efforts, which can feed forward to future (under) performance. And the more companies underperform relative to their aspirations, the more likely they are to invest in innovation. However some performance mechanisms can have an ambiguous effect on innovation as research has shown. Still, our grasp of the link between innovation and performance remains tenuous due in part to its complexity – there are too many intervening processes, time lags, feedbacks, incentive structures, agency problems etc.
In this track, we aim to reconcile conflicting results in prior research, and we also hope to open up a dialogue for promising future research directions in this area. We welcome papers that focus on organizational conditions - managerial, structural, cultural, and processual (especially knowledge processing/learning) that might stabilize the innovation-performance link. We invite both empirical and conceptual papers that deal with the behavioural, social and cognitive aspects of the link between innovation and performance, and that rely on different methodologies and deal with research topics such as:
· How can organization theories model and integrate performance cues and innovation?
· What mechanisms mediate between innovation and performance – especially in times of environmental instability and uncertainty: e.g. adapting aspirations, threat rigidity, temporal stability of R&D investments, planned alternation of exploration and exploitation?
· Strategic and managerial challenges such as:
- How is the processing of performance cues integrated with absorptive capacities and the dynamic capabilities of companies?
- How well can performance cues be processed and translated into effective innovation strategies, and R&D programs?
- Do underperformers indeed invest more in R&D and innovation?
- Do sectors in crisis adapt their innovation or learning targets
- To what extent do companies struggle with inconsistent performance cues, especially under conditions of environmental instability and uncertainty?
- To what extent do companies in sectors in severe crisis recoup their innovative efforts?
· Which alternative 'processes' (e.g. signal and information processing, incentive and governance mechanisms, learning processes of different kinds, capabilities and routines, etc.) moderate the innovation-performance link?
· What kinds of models and methods enable us to cope with the causal ambiguity in the relationship between innovation and performance?
Best regards,
Stefano, Dean and Marius
Dean Hennessy
Faculty of Economics and Business, and
The Center for Innovation Research (CIR)
Tilburg University
+31 13 466-3104
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Eight hour, online, 'hands-on,' synchronous, interactive structural equation modeling (SEM) workshops in February, 2010 covering basic and intermediate techniques of partial least squares (PLS) path modeling. Participants receive SmartPLS software, 'hands on' exercises and data sets, workshop slides and materials, several dozen relevant full-copy PLS path modeling research articles, numerous additional relevant PLS path modeling citations, and complete video- and audio- recordings of your workshop sessions at no additional cost. Participate anywhere on earth with no travel.
Produced by multiple International university sponsors and faculty, we utilize the award-winning Elluminate Live ! eDistance learning platform.
February PLS path modeling workshops using SmartPLS:
(copy and paste the URLs, do not click on them)
1) February 12-13 @ 9AM - 1PM EST (GMT-5):
https://www.regonline.com/smartpls-feb-12-13-2010
2) February 26-27 @ 6PM-10PM EST (GMT-5):
https://www.regonline.com/smartpls-feb-26-27-2010
Faculty/practitioners: $250 USD
Students: $150 USD (use discount code 'student7')
Detailed agenda, registration details, and more information available at pls-sem.com.
Geoffrey S. Hubona
Associate Professor
PLS path modeling workshops: http://www.pls-sem.com
Computer Information Systems
J. Mack Robinson College of Business
Georgia State University
Atlanta, Georgia
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Call for Papers
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Call for Chapters
Current Topics in Management
Vol. 15 (2010) & Vol. 16 (2011)
Current Topics in Management is an annual Series published by Transaction Publishers. If you have a full paper on Management (prepared according to the APA style guide) we will be glad to review it for publication. If you want us to review your paper for this year's Vol., I would like to receive it by March 1. We will complete reviewing your paper in 4-6 week, but if you want your review to be expedited, you should indicate this in your message.
If you want to receive a complimentary copy of CTM, please send me a self-addressed and stamped ($2.26) manila envelope.
Afzal Rahim
Editor, CTM
Center for Advanced Studies in Management
1574 Mallory Court
Bowling Green, KY 42103, USA
mgt2000@aol.com
phone/Fax: 270-782-2601
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2010 INBAM Conference Annual Meeting-indexed journals Dear colleague,
Because of the year end holidays in many countries, the INBAM submission portal will remain open until 28 February.
Once the Conference has concluded, the guest editors for each session will decide which papers are to be recommended for inclusion in the special issues of the corresponding publications. Depending on the quality of submissions, up to half of the best papers will be published in the special issues of these SSCI journals. This will make this and subsequent events organized by the Editor Network of the International Network of Business and Management Journals (INBAM) quite unique. The issues will be published the year following after the Conference.
The Conference will take place at the Faculty of Economics and the Faculty of Business Administration of these two institutions from June 1st (Tuesday) to June 4th (Friday), 2010. The following editors-in-chief have confirmed their presence and participation: Robert Blackburn (International Small Business Journal), David Audretsch (Small Business Economics), Theresa Welbourne (Human Resource Management), Slawek Magala (Journal of Organizational Change Management), Gary Akehurst (Service Industries Journal), Adrian Ziderman (International Journal of Manpower), Rick D.
Hackett (Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences), and Linda Canina (Cornell Hospitality Quarterly).
The overall theme of the Conference, "Creativity and Innovation in an International Context," will be broken down into subtopics, with a total of eight sessions (two are closed currently), one for each journal resulting in sessions on innovation and creativity in relation to small and medium-sized enterprises (for the ISBJ, it is closed), entrepreneurship (for SBE, it is closed), human resource management (for HRM), organizational change (for the JOCM), services (for the SIJ), the influence of managers and employees characteristics on creativity and innovation (for the IJM), the Virtuous Organization (for the CJAS), hospitality and tourism (for CHQ). In this way, the various areas can be adapted to the different streams of research and editorial policies of each journal and editor participating at the Conference.
The journal editor corresponding to each area will open the session with an outline of how to publish in that journal. Authors will then go on to present the papers chosen for each session.
One of the aims of the Conference is to select papers that, depending on the specialty of the journal and the quality of the papers, will constitute special issues of each of the eight journals.
The selection and review of articles will be carried out, firstly, by the INBAM and the Conference Scientific Committee. Those papers that do not reach the required standards of quality and rigour demanded by these journals, in terms of theoretical framework and methodology, will not be accepted for presentation at the Conference. Papers should be highly relevant, with a clear orientation to the overall theme of the Conference and/or the research focus favoured by the journals.
A maximum of 15 papers per session will then be selected for presentation at the Conference. A team of three will be responsible for each of the subtopics (presented in the sessions or areas) and they will serve as guest editors for the special issues.
With the best wishes,
INBAM (www.inbam.net)
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Special Announcement:
Project Management Institute Academic Resources Opens Call for Research Proposals
Preliminary proposals will be accepted between 1 February and 25 April 2010
Newtown Square, Pa., 11 Jan. 2010-Project Management Institute (PMI), the world's leading professional membership organization for project managers, is pleased to announce its 2010 request for proposals for 2011 research funding. PMI's Academic Resources Department annually solicits research proposals on any topic related to project, program, or portfolio management with funding provided to selected recipients.
Preliminary proposals will be accepted between 1 February and 25 April 2010, and those advancing to the second round will be notified by 10 July 2010. All grant recipients will be notified of awards up to US $50,000 by November 2010. Funded projects begin on 1 January 2011.
As a relatively young area of academic inquiry, project management is ripe for academic research that will advance knowledge and inform practice. Examples of topics on which little research exists include ethics and governance, project management as a career choice, portfolio prioritization, standards evaluation and development, the role of project management in government, non-profit organizations, non-government organizations, the health care industry and education. The current global financial crisis also offers an interesting and timely context in which to explore the use and utility of project management.
PMI is looking for proposals from scholars, both within and outside the field of project management, including management, organizational psychology, sociology of formal organizations, education, linguistics and others. Proposed research must have a direct application to any aspect of the project management body of knowledge or its practice. In addition, PMI encourages proposals on research involving multi-disciplinary teams of investigators or teams consisting of academics and practitioners, who bring new ways of thinking and related bodies of literature to the field.
For detailed information on the RFP timeline, the application process and submission guidelines, please visit the PMI Sponsored Research Submission Page. Questions should be addressed to the Research Coordinator at research.program@pmi.org.
About Project Management Institute (PMI)
The world's leading professional membership organisation for project managers, PMI shares knowledge with nearly 500,000 members and credential holders in over 185 countries. Since 1969, PMI has impacted more than one million practitioners, businesses, governments, students and training organizations. Today, PMI's products and services range from world-class standards for project, program and portfolio management to five professional credentials, including the gold standard Project Management Professional (PMP)®. PMI's exclusive Global Corporate Council and European Corporate Networking Group engage large multinationals and government organizations in endorsing the value of project management. The only project management association with an established academic research program, PMI has invested more than US$14 million in support of dozens of research projects since 1997. Learn more at PMI.org.
Kind Regards,
Brianne
Brianne Bangma
Research Coordinator
Academic Resources Department
Project Management Institute
14 Campus Boulevard
Newtown Square, PA 19073-3299 USA
Ph: +610.356.4600 ext. 5061/ Fax: +610.356.4647
E-mail: brianne.bangma@pmi.org
Internet: www.pmi.org
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Books
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From: parissahaghirian@gmail.com Parissa Haghirian
Dear friends and colleagues
I would like to introduce a new book, which I edited.
Innovation and Change in Japanese Management
Edited by Parissa Haghirian (Sophia University)
With an introduction by Makoto Abe (Tokyo University)
Palgrave Macmillan (2010)
Hardcover: 240 pages
ISBN-10: 0230216676
Price: 95 US$
http://us.macmillan.com/innovationandchangeinjapanesemanagement
The Book
The mystic image of Japanese management changed during the recession of the 1990s. Japanese corporations had problems adapting to the restructuring measures. They were economic challenges and were slow in the implementing reforms and expected to develop more shareholder value and become more like their Western counterparts. Western observers and media criticized Japanese corporations and managers for being too consensus and harmony oriented and not being able to deal with crisis or rapid changes. But Japan and Japanese management did change.
In many cases these changes were not as radical or as spectacular as expected. Western suggestions and business models were not completely ignored, but many of them are not applicable in a Japanese context. Japan and Japanese management changed in its own way, in a Japanese Way. Innovation and Change in Japanese Management shows which transformation processes and changes can be observed in Japanese companies in reaction to the economic challenges of the past decade. The book presents new research results and investigates the variety of changes Japanese corporations and managers have experienced in recent years.
The Editor
Parissa Haghirian is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Liberal Arts at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan. She obtained her Master's in Japanese Studies from Vienna University (1998) and was awarded a Master's Degree (2000) and PhD in International Management (2003) by Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. Parissa is also a visiting professor at Groupe HEC in Paris, Helsinki School of Economics, Keio Business School and an adjunct professor at Temple University in Tokyo. Parissa's research and consulting interests include Japanese management, market entries of Western firms into the Japanese market, and Japanese consumer behavior. www.parissahaghirian.com
Dr. Parissa Haghirian
Associate Professor of International Management
Sophia University
7-1 Kioi-cho, Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo 102-8554, Japan
Phone (direct): 0081-3-3238-4038
Office phone (Secretary): 0081-3-3238-4004
Office fax: 0081-3-3238-4076
e-mail: p-haghir@sophia.ac.jp
Homepage: http://www.parissahaghirian.com
J-Management Podcasts: http://parissahaghirian.com/category/podcasts/
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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