TIM Division List Serve
Vol. 6, No. 34 (Special Issue – TIM Division 2010 AOM Annual Meeting (November 6, 2009)
Table of Contents:
· Annual Meeting
o Call For Papers and Reviewers 2010 AOM TIM Division
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- Annual Meeting
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Interested in being part of the 2010 Academy of Management Meeting's TIM program? If you are, we encourage you to submit your papers and symposia to the TIM division by January 14th, 2010 (see the call below). You can also be part of the program by signing up in the next few weeks to be a reviewer. Reviewing is one of the best contributions we can make to our profession. The quality of the papers and symposia, and of the overall program, greatly depends upon your good reviews. As an added incentive, we will again offer best reviewer awards and we will select session chairs and facilitators from the pool of reviewers. So please sign up (follow the instructions below). If you have any questions, please contact Paul Olk at (TIM.AOM@du.edu).
Technology & Innovation Management (TIM)
Program Chair: Paul Olk, University of Denver (TIM.AOM@du.edu)
2010 TIM Division Call for Papers and Symposia
The Technology and Innovation Management (TIM) Division encourages interdisciplinary scholarship and dialogue on the management of innovation and technological change from a variety of perspectives, including strategic, managerial, behavioral, and operational issues. This year's conference theme of "Dare to Care: Passion and Compassion in Management Practice and Research" calls attention to an important dimension of technology and innovation management. The passion of innovators in championing new products or in creating an invention, the involvement of users in creating material for Web 2.0 businesses (e.g., YouTube; Facebook), the commitment of customers to select technology-based products (e.g., Smartphones; videogames), as well as the innovations designed to help others (e.g., an all-terrain wheelchair) are but a few examples of how passion and caring influence technology and innovation management. You are encouraged to send in papers and symposia to the TIM division which are related to the conference theme as well as those listed below in the TIM division's domain statement for the Academy of Management's annual meeting in Montreal (August 2010). Our goal is to have papers and symposia that are as diverse, creative and interesting as our membership.
Specific Domain: TIM encourages interdisciplinary scholarship and dialogue on the management of innovation and technological change from a variety of perspectives, including strategic, managerial, behavioral, and operational issues. The problem domain includes the management of innovation, technology strategy, research and development, information technologies and the internet, technology-based entrepreneurship and process technologies. Participants in this broad academic endeavor come from a wide range of disciplines and draw on an extensive array of theoretical and research paradigms. We enter this complex problem domain in the spirit of dialogue, debate, and deepened understanding. Major topics include: studies of innovation processes; innovation diffusion and the development, implementation and use of new technologies; technology development trajectories; entry timing advantages; intellectual capital; competing in platform-mediated markets; organizational processes by which technically-oriented activities are integrated into organizations; product development strategies; technical project management; behaviors and characteristics of technical professionals; technological forecasting and policies; impact of information technologies and the internet; relationship between new technologies and organizational forms.
Special Instructions: The TIM division welcomes empirical or conceptual papers and symposia on topics dealing with any aspect of the management of technology or organizational innovation. Papers or symposia that relate to the domains of other divisions are encouraged; they may become candidates for cross-divisional sessions. Deadline for Submissions is January 14, 2010.
Division Awards: TIM offers two competitive awards as part of the Academy submission process: The TIM Best Student Paper Award, and the TIM Division Best Paper Award. To be eligible for the best student paper award, the student must be senior author or sole author and this should be clearly indicated on the title page of the paper. Papers considered for the Best Student Paper Award can also be considered for the TIM Division Best Paper Award. In addition to these two awards, we offer several Best Reviewer Awards to a number of reviewers whose reviews are particularly deep, complete and insightful.
Call for Reviewers
The Academy is calling for reviewers for its 2010 Annual Meeting Program, August 6-10, in Montreal, Canada.
If you are interested in being a part of the review process, we highly encourage you to sign up as a volunteer reviewer for the divisions or interest groups in which you are a member, planning to submit to, or are interested in. Divisions and Interest Groups will also be following up with those of you who have reviewed in the past. Please note that even if you have reviewed in the past, you still need to sign up again for the 2010 Annual Meeting.
You can sign up to review for up to three divisions and/or interest groups. You may be asked to review up to three submissions (papers and symposia) per division or interest group that is selected. So the maximum total number of review assignments that you could potentially receive from the divisions and interest groups that you select is nine.
As an added feature this year, you can also sign up to review for the All-Academy Theme (AAT) Program consisting of symposia that focus on the the 2010 Program Theme, "Dare to Care: Passion and Compassion in Management Practice and Research". The AAT Program Chair, Joshua Margolis, will make the review assignments based on matching keywords that relate to the theme. Being a reviewer for the AAT program is in addition to your review participation with the Academy divisions and interest groups.
The review period for the 2010 Annual Meeting is from January 14, 2010 (Submission Deadline) to February 12, 2010 (Review Deadline). However, you might be asked to review early submissions that come in before the submission deadline. Please check your work schedule to make sure that you will be able to review during this period.
Being a reviewer will add more visibility to you and your institution and give you an opportunity to be more involved in the Academy's program. We hope that you strongly consider reviewing for at least one division or interest group.
To sign up, please visit the reviewer sign up website and click the "Sign Up Now" button in order to create a profile and choose your areas of expertise (i.e. keywords) for the divisions or interest groups for which you want to review. The signup process is fast and easy and should not take longer than 5 minutes.
Thank you in advance for your participation. Without your "Passion and Compassion" as reviewers, there would not be an Annual Meeting Program.
Paul Olk at (TIM.AOM@du.edu).