TIM Division List Serve
Vol. 7, No. 04 (January 29, 2010)
Table of Contents:
· AOM Annual Meeting – Montreal 2010
o Call for nominations by February 12, 2010 for BPS Division's sponsoring the Wiley Blackwell Outstanding Dissertation Award in Business Policy and Strategy again in 2010. Any doctoral dissertation addressing the area of business policy and strategic management completed between February 1, 2009 and January 31, 2010.
· Call for Papers
| o Reminder - Submission Deadline for Conference: extended abstract (500-1000 words by January 31, 2010 Call for Papers An International Conference on Institutions and Work June 17-19, 2010 Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada & Special Issue of Organization Studies on Institutions and Work o Guest editing a special issue on "Innovations in India" of Technological Forecasting & Social Change journal. Call for Papers manuscripts must be received by Oct 1, 2010. | |
· Job Positions
o Track position open at George Mason University as Tenure-Line Position in Global Business (Rank Open)- reviews start February 15th, 2010
o Business Program of the University of Washington Bothell (UWB) full-time tenure-track opening at the Assistant Professor level in Organizational Behavior; appointment will become effective in September 2010; applications received by February 26, 2010 receive priority.
o February 26, 2010 send applications for - The Asper School of Business at the University of Manitoba is seeking applications to fill a Canada Research Chair in Entrepreneurship.
o Department of Strategic Management, Fox School of Business, Temple University, several positions in international business/strategy and entrepreneurship beginning Fall 2010, non-tenure track that may change with review of candidates
· Seeking Course Content Recommendations
o Entrepreneurial Projects and a technology entrepreneurship source
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AOM Annual Meeting – Montreal 2010
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CALL FOR 2010 BPS OUTSTANDING DISSERTATION AWARD SUBMISSIONS
The BPS Division will sponsor the Wiley Blackwell Outstanding Dissertation Award in Business Policy and Strategy again in 2010. Any doctoral dissertation addressing the area of business policy and strategic management completed between February 1, 2009 and January 31, 2010 not previously submitted for consideration may be entered. Completion date is defined as when the degree is completed and awarded. A dissertation can be submitted to BPS and other divisions simultaneously if it fits within each division's domain statement. The BPS domain statement can be found at: www.bpsdiv.org/html/domain_stmt.html. Interested persons should submit electronically (by e-mail) their entry to the competition with two attached Word documents: (a) a one-page abstract of the dissertation and (b) a ten-page, double-spaced summary of the dissertation. Please send the e-mail to:
Tammy L. Madsen
BPS Division Chair-Elect
Chair, Management Department
Leavey School of Business
Santa Clara University
tmadsen@scu.edu
Submissions must be received by Monday February 12, 2010. Submissions by fax will not be accepted. In order to facilitate compliance with the BPS conflict of interest policy and the blind review process, please remove any author identification from your dissertation summary and indicate in your e-mail your current university affiliation, the name of the university granting your degree, a list of your dissertation committee members, and the affiliation of any outside dissertation committee members. Entrants who make it through the first round of evaluations will be invited to submit their complete dissertation around the middle of March 2010.
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Call for Participation
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Apologies for cross-posting
Submission Deadline for Conference: January 31, 2010
Call for Papers
An International Conference on Institutions and Work
June 17-19, 2010
Simon Fraser University,
Vancouver, Canada
&
Special Issue of Organization Studies on
Institutions and Work
http://institutionsandwork.wordpress.com
Organizers:
Tom Lawrence, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. Email: tom_lawrence@sfu.ca
Tammar Zilber, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Email: mstbz@mscc.huji.ac.il
Bernard Leca, Groupe ESC Rouen, France. Email: Bernard.Leca@groupe-esc-rouen.fr
Aims of the Conference:
The notion of institutional work was introduced to embody and extend several streams of research on institutional processes. Defined as "the purposive action of individuals and organizations aimed at creating, maintaining and disrupting institutions" (Lawrence & Suddaby, 2006: 215), the idea of institutional work reflects a shift in focus from isomorphism to change (Dacin et al., 2002), deterministic effects of structures to actors' power and agency in manipulating and even transforming the institutional order (Battilana et al., 2009; Greenwood et al., 2008), and large scale, macro-level inquiries which concentrate on structures and practices to an interest in micro-level ideational dynamics (Zilber, 2008). The concept of institutional work also holds promise by connecting to a broader range of analytical tools and methodological avenues than have traditionally been employed to consider institutional dynamics and effects (Lawrence et al. 2009).
In this second international conference on institutional work, our aim is to revisit this concept by critically exploring new directions to develop (and problematize) it. In particular, our focus is on the relationship between institutions and work. Two sets of questions in particular motivate this conference:
· The consequences of applying the concept of work to the study of agency and institutions. The concept of work invokes notions such as effort, intentionality, coordination, roles, resistance, context and time. We aim to explore the implications of this metaphor for understanding the relationship between agency and institutions by addressing such question as: What is institutional work? What are its limits? How does it interact with that which is not workable? On which institutional levels does work take place and how do they interact? Can "institutional work" be performed toward any sort of institution, including those so naturalized that they are 'taken for granted', and if so under which conditions? Most generally, what are the costs and benefits of employing work as a metaphor to understand the relationship between agency and institutions?
· The relationship between institutional work and other forms of work, and discussions and treatments of "work" in other contexts and disciplines. Work has been a central topic of scholarly concern for a long time and across a broad range of disciplines and approaches. We encourage research that leverages and contributes to those traditions. How, for example, do ideas such as identity work (e.g. Alvesson et al., 2008) and emotional labor (Hochschild, 1983) connect to the concept of institutional work? What can we learn from such literatures as labor process theory (Braverman, 1974; Knights & Willmott, 1990), critical studies of work and resistance (Jermier et al., 1994), studies of the experience of work (Terkel, 1974), or gender studies and the treatment of reproductive/maintenance work and how gender as an institution is reproduced across life domains (e.g. West & Zimmerman, 1987), for example through discursive work (Butler, 1993)? Can research on institutional work learn from insights gained by looking at concepts close to the notion of work such as bricolage (Levi-Strauss, 1966)? Exploring the relationship between institutional work and others forms of work might also lead to question what is distinctive about institutional work, and to which extend it can be distinguished from other kinds of works and practices.
We welcome empirical research, as well as theoretical and methodological discussions that touch upon the potential of institutional work to reinvigorate institutional theory. We also encourage efforts to use the notion of institutional work to bridge institutional theory with other literatures and theoretical concerns within the discipline of Organization Theory and beyond.
Conference Structure
The conference is intended to provide the opportunity for high quality discussion and feedback for presenters. To achieve those ends, it will be structured as a set of parallel streams, with a set of plenary talks and panels connecting the streams. All presented papers will be given reasonable time slots to allow for meaningful discussion and development of ideas.
Participants
The conference is intended to host approximately fifty participants for intensive mutual discussions. Our aim is to secure participation from around the world and to give equal opportunity to newer as well as more established scholars.
Doctoral student workshop
Prior to the conference, we will hold a one-day workshop for doctoral students with the participation of leading scholars in the field. Any students interested in participating, whether or not they are submitting a paper for consideration at the conference, are encouraged to contact us.
Venue
Vancouver, Canada, (www.vancouver.ca) provides an extraordinarily beautiful and cosmopolitan setting for the conference. Bordered by the Coast Mountain Range and the Pacific Ocean, Vancouver is consistently recognized as one of the world's most beautiful and livable cities in the world. Its downtown is flanked by beaches and one of the largest urban parks in the world. The conference will be held in the outstanding facilities of the Segal Graduate School of Business (business.sfu.ca), in the heart of downtown Vancouver, a few minutes walk from the ocean, Stanley Park and historic Gastown.
Submissions
If you are interested in participating, please email an extended abstract (500-1000 words) of your proposed paper to the organizing committee by January 31, 2010. Please include contact information: name(s), affiliation(s) and e-mail address(es) of all authors. We also ask that you indicate who will attend the conference if your paper is accepted. PhD students who wish to participate in the pre-conference workshop should note this clearly on their submission. Authors will be notified on February 28, 2010 whether their paper is accepted for presentation. Full papers should be submitted by May 31, 2010. Following the conference we will consider possible avenues for publication.
Special Issue of Organization Studies
Following the workshop, a Special Issue on "Institutions and Work" will be announced in Organization Studies. Details of the special issue will be announced in Organization Studies and at the conference. The latest guidelines for submission and information on the review procedures can be found on the Organization Studies internet pages. It should be made clear that participation in the workshop is not a prerequisite to submit a paper for the Special Issue. Further details will be available at http://institutionsandwork.wordpress.com.
References
Alvesson, M., Ashcraft, K. L., & Thomas, R. 2008. Identity matters: Reflections on the construction of identity scholarship in organization studies. Organization, 15(1): 5-28.
Battilana, J. & D'Aunno, T. 2009. Institutional work and the paradox of embedded agency. In T. B. Lawrence & R. Suddaby & B. Leca (Eds.), Institutional work: Actors and agency in institutional studies of organizations: Cambridge University Press.
Braverman, H. 1974. Labor and monopoly capital: The degradation of work in the Twentieth century. Monthly Review Press.
Butler, J. 1993. Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex". Routledge.
Dacin, M. T., Goodstein, J., & Scott, W. R. 2002. Institutional theory and institutional change: Introduction to the special research forum. Academy of Management Journal, 45(1): 45-56.
Greenwood, R., Oliver, C., Sahlin, K., & Suddaby, R. 2008. Introduction. In R. Greenwood, C. Oliver, K. Sahlin & R. Suddaby (Eds.), The Sage handbook of organizational institutionalism: 1-46. Sage.
Hochschild, A. R. 1983. The managed heart: Commercialization of human feeling. University of California Press.
Jermier, J. M., Knights, D. & Nord, W. R. (Eds.). 1994. Resistance and power in organizations. Routledge.
Knights, D. & Willmott, H. (Eds.). 1990. Labor process theory. Macmillan.
Lawrence, T. B. & Suddaby, R. 2006. Institutions and institutional work. In S. R. Clegg, C. Hardy, W. R. Nord & T. Lawrence (Eds.), Handbook of organization studies. Sage.
Lawrence, T. B., Suddaby, R., & Leca, B. 2009. Introduction: theorizing and studying institutional work. In T. B. Lawrence, R. Suddaby & B. Leca (Eds.), Institutional work: Actors and agency in institutional studies of organizations. Cambridge University Press.
Levi-Strauss, C. 1966. The Savage Mind. University of Chicago Press.
Terkel, L. 1974. Working: People talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do. Pantheon/Random House.
West, C. & Zimmerman, D. H. 1987. Doing gender. Gender & Society 1(125-151).
Zilber, T. B. 2008. The work of meanings in institutional processes and thinking. In R. Greenwood, C. Oliver, K. Sahlin & R. Suddaby (Eds.), The Sage handbook of organizational institutionalism: 151-169. Sage.
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Dear Colleagues,
I am guest editing a special issue on "Innovations in India" of Technological Forecasting & Social Change journal. A list of suggested topics includes but is not limited to the following:
Environment for Innovations in IndiaØ
Special Issues in Indian contextØ
Innovations in GovernmentØ
Business Model InnovationsØ
Innovations bringing Social ChangeØ
Innovations in TechnologyØ
Bottom of Pyramid InnovationsØ
Challenges for Innovations Strategy in IndiaØ
Future of Innovations and its Strategic Management in IndiaØ
Kindly find attached the Call for Papers. Looking forward to receive submissions from you.
Best regards,
Rajesh.
Rajesh K Pillania.
Harvard,Boston
Technological Forecasting & Social Change
Call for Papers
Special Issue
Innovations in India
Guest Editor: Dr. Rajesh K Pillania.
Relevance and Importance of the Topic
India is one of the fastest growing economies and the role and significance of India in the global economy is continuously increasing. India offers enormous opportunities to both individuals and organizations. At the same time with a complex diversity, huge population and not so good performance on many non-economic aspects as reflected in various reports; India also provides and faces numerous challenges. Globally, scholars agree to the increasing need and importance of innovations for bringing positive change to individuals, companies, societies and countries. The concern for innovations is gaining voice in industry, government, civil society and academia in India. Innovations and its strategic management need to be harnessed for bringing overall development and progress of the country. Contributions are invited on various aspects of innovations in Indian context.
A Suggested List of Topical Areas: A list of suggested topics includes but is not limited to the following:
Environment for Innovations in India
Special Issues in Indian context
Innovations in Public Sector
Innovations in Social Sector
Innovations in Government
Business Model Innovations
Innovations bringing Social Change
Innovations in Technology
Bottom of Pyramid Innovations
Challenges for Innovations Strategy in India
Future of Innovations and its Strategic Management in India
Submissions
To be considered for publication in this Special Issue, manuscripts must be received by
Oct 1, 2010. Please submit your paper via Elsevier's on-line submission system (see: http://ees.elsevier.com/tfs) and indicate in the letter that they are for this Special Issue. Please also refer to TFSC's "Guide for Authors" for the styling and formatting guidelines (see:http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505740/authorinstructions).
Schedule
October 1, 2010 Manuscript submission deadline
January 1, 2011 First review cycle completed
March 1, 2011 Second review cycle and final acceptance
April 1, 2011 Final manuscript submissions to publisher
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Job Positions
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Dear List Members,
Please note that a Tenure track position is open at George Mason University with the following details:
Tenure-Line Position in Global Business (Rank Open)
The George Mason University, School of Management invites applications and nominations for a tenure-line position to enhance its research and instructional footprint in the area of global business. Candidates with an earned doctorate in any business discipline or a closely related field are eligible, as long as their research portfolio aligns with global business in a substantive way. The successful candidate will also support the development of a center of excellence in global/international business studies. Rank is open.
The successful candidate will be expected to:
- Teach appropriate courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels;
- Provide academic leadership by publishing in high-quality, peer-reviewed journals and working with others in international/global fields across the university;
- Work with colleagues to develop research skills in global/international business issues;
- Actively support the school's and university's mission to further enhance Mason's international standing and visibility;
- Serve on school and university committees, and actively participate in the life of the school and university; and
- Provide leadership in engaging the business community in activities in support of global business studies.
The School of Management is fully accredited by AACSB-International and has over 4,000 students in its undergraduate, MBA, EMBA, and Technology Management master's programs. Students are culturally diverse with over 40 percent speaking more than one language and representing over 200 countries.
George Mason University is an innovative, entrepreneurial institution with national distinction in a range of academic fields. Students are currently studying in 168 degree programs across the university's three campuses. Enrollment is over 30,000, with 5,000 students living on the main campus in Fairfax, Va. In 2008, George Mason was ranked number one in the country on the U.S. News & World Report list of "Schools to Watch."
The Washington, D.C., region is both a world political center, and an economic and technological center. It houses a high concentration of information technology, telecommunications and biotechnology companies; world-class arts communities; and is close to extensive park and recreational areas including the Shenandoah National Park, Blue Ridge Mountains, Eastern Shore and Atlantic coast.
Special Instructions to Applicants: Applicants must apply online for position number F9330z at http://jobs.gmu.edu where you will be asked to attach your letter of interest and curriculum vitae. Questions regarding technical aspects of the application process should be directed to Pat Rabb at 703-993-1875. Review of applications will begin February 15, 2010, and will continue on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
Thanks and Warm 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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University of Washington Bothell
Business Program
Assistant Professor, Organizational Behavior
The Business Program of the University of Washington Bothell (UWB) invites applications for a full-time tenure-track opening at the Assistant Professor level in Organizational Behavior. This appointment will become effective in September 2010.
A Ph.D. degree in organizational behavior or a related discipline is required. Candidates near completion will be considered. The successful candidate will teach undergraduate and MBA-level courses, must have an active research program with the potential for publication in leading academic journals, and will be expected to engage in service activities.
The University of Washington Bothell was established in 1990 as an upper-division and graduate campus. Freshmen were admitted for the first time in 2006. Faculty and students have full access to the computing and library resources of the University of Washington multi-campus system. Our faculty are devoted teachers and active scholars whose work is published in leading peer-review journals.
A decade ago, we became the first business program in the Puget Sound region to offer an MBA focused on technology management. In 2009, we began to offer a Leadership MBA in our new Eastside Leadership Center in Bellevue. In a recent Business Week ranking of part-time MBA programs, our program was ranked 51st in the nation and 3rd in the Pacific Northwest. Both Bothell and Bellevue campuses also offer undergraduate business degrees. The successful candidate should expect to teach at both campuses.
We are located in the Pacific Northwest's exciting high-technology corridor (near Microsoft and Boeing) and have state-of-the-art facilities. We work closely with industry leaders as well as smaller, innovative, and rapidly growing companies in software, electronic commerce, medical equipment, biotechnology, electronics, and aerospace.
To Apply: Send a letter describing your qualifications, research interests and teaching philosophy. Include your curriculum vitae, evidence of teaching effectiveness (if available), and one paper that best represents your research capabilities. Please provide contact information for three professional references. Position will remain open until filled. Complete applications received by February 26, 2010 will receive priority consideration.
Please send your application materials in electronic form (Adobe or MS Word)
to: Chair, OB Search Committee at basearch@u.washington.edu .
If you are unable to send your material electronically, our mailing address is:
Chair, Management Search Committee
Business Administration Program
University of Washington, Bothell
Box 358533, 18115 Campus Way NE
Bothell, Washington 98011-8246
Phone: 425.352.5394 / fax: 425.352.277
This position is contingent on adequate funding. For additional information, please see our website at http://www.uwb.edu/business/.
The University of Washington, an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer, is building a culturally diverse faculty and strongly encourages applications from women, minorities, individuals with disabilities and covered veterans.
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Dear innovation scholars,
An exciting opportunity for those who obtained their PhD in the last 10 years. The Asper School of Business at the University of Manitoba is seeking applications to fill a Canada Research Chair in Entrepreneurship. The position will have minimal teaching requirements and a sizable annual research budget. Applications need to be received by February 26. If you are interested, please read on.
Best wishes,
Nathan Greidanus, Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship Asper School of Business University of Manitoba
The University of Manitoba seeks to recruit and to nominate a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. The CRC program was established by the Government of Canada to enable Canadian universities to foster world-class research excellence (http://www.chairs.gc.ca). The University of Manitoba is committed to becoming the university of choice for those who wish to study business innovation, technology commercialization, and entrepreneurship. The University has the Stu Clark Centre for Entrepreneurship
(http://www.umanitoba.ca/entrepreneur/) to encourage the development of new businesses and entrepreneurial thinking, a vibrant Technology Transfer Office focusing on University intellectual property (http://www.umanitoba.ca/research/tto/), a 40 hectare research and technology community known as SmartPark (http://umanitoba.ca/research/smartpark/vision/index.html),
and an incubator for entrepreneurs
called the Eureka Project
(http://umanitoba.ca/research/smartpark/theeurekaproject.html).
Candidates must have an established research record with demonstrated potential of becoming a world leader in entrepreneurship or technological innovation. A PhD in a social science or business-related discipline will be required and candidates must be 10 years or less as of November 2010 from PhD graduation. They should have a demonstrated commitment to interdisciplinary research and to teaching.
The appointment will be tenured or tenure track at the Assistant or Associate Professor level and the successful applicant will have limited teaching responsibilities and generous research funding available for the duration of the five-year CRC appointment.
The successful candidate will be expected to develop a research program and maintain a highly productive research agenda, provide effective teaching and supervision to graduate research students, and play a leadership role in entrepreneurship initiatives in the Asper School of Business. The primary focus of the proposed CRC will be comparative, inter-disciplinary and collaborative research on current and emerging issues in entrepreneurship and technological innovation, drawing on one or more foundational social scientific disciplines (e.g., psychology, sociology, economics, applied mathematics).
The Asper School of Business has a rich and diverse research culture with working groups focusing on research and teaching excellence in a number of areas including Financial Markets, Human Resource Management, Consumer Behaviour, Transportation and Supply Chain Management, and Entrepreneur- ship and Innovation (http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/management/research/activities.html). The University of Manitoba has about 26,000 students and 90 degree programs. It is situated in Winnipeg, a culturally diverse city of almost 700,000 people. Winnipeg offers a high quality of life and affordable, easy access to some of the most beautiful lake country and recreational facilities in North America.
The University of Manitoba encourages applications from qualified men and women, including members of visible minorities, Aboriginal peoples, and persons with disabilities. Women are particularly encouraged to apply or to be nominated. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.
Applicants should send a covering letter, curriculum vitae, brief (1-3 page) five-year research program, and the names and contact information for three references to Dr. Nick Turner, Associate Dean, at nick_turner@umanitoba.ca or Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 5V4, Canada. Applications, including letters of reference, will be handled in accordance with The [Manitoba] Freedom of Information and Privacy Act. Application deadline is February 26, 2010.
All CRC nominees are subject to review and final approval by the CRC Secretariat. The anticipated start date is July 1, 2011.
Nathan Greidanus, PhD Candidate, MBA, BComm Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship Asper School of Business University of Manitoba
Phone: (204) 474-7325 Fax: (204) 474-7545
E-mail: Nathan_Greidanus@umanitoba.ca
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The Department of Strategic Management at the Fox School of Business, Temple University, seeks to fill several positions in international business/strategy and entrepreneurship beginning Fall 2010. Candidates are expected to have a Ph.D. in business or related discipline. Temple University is a Carnegie Research 1 institution, so a strong research record will be a significant asset. Teaching experience is highly desirable. Current lines are non-tenure track. However, exceptional candidates may be offered tenure-track appointments. Women and minority candidates are particularly encouraged to apply.
Salary is competitive. Research conditions are excellent. The Fox School has hired over 30 new faculty over the last 2 years. Growth in student numbers and faculty retirements will require significant numbers of new hires in the coming years.
To apply, email a detailed CV and references to:
Ram Mudambi
Professor and Perelman Senior Research Fellow
Dept of Strategic Management
Fox School of Business
Temple University
Philadelphia PA 19122, USA
Http://astro.temple.edu/~rmudambi
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Seeking Course Content Recommendations
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I am teaching an undergraduate business plan class this summer called Entrepreneurial Projects. Half of the business plans I expect will be about microfinance, and thus I am requiring Yunus' book Banker to the Poor. The students already own a general Entrepreneurship text (Barringer & Ireland) from the previous course. I am looking to balance the Yunus book with something equivalently inspiring and easy-to-read that would speak of technology entrepreneurship. A biography would be fine. Although I am open to movie suggestions, these students have already seen 'Pirates of Silicon Valley', 'Startup.com,' and the 'Flash of Genius.' I think MyStartUpLife (being written by a 19 year old) would not go over well with a 25-30 year old undergraduate audience who are paying for their own education. Any ideas?
Geoff Archer, PhD
Associate Professor on the Faculty of Management
Royal Roads University
Victoria, BC Canada
geoff.archer@royalroads.ca
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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