TIM Division List Serve
Vol. 8, No. 10 (April 20, 2011)
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· Announcements
o Accepted on rolling basis through 15 May 2011 - Call for 2011 AOM TIM Junior Faculty Consortium
o Accepted on rolling basis through 8 May 2011 – Call for 2011 AOM TIM Doctoral Consortium
o Participation in Caucus Entrepreneurship and its context, 3:00 PM-4:30 PM on Monday, August 15, 2011; Room La Reina North & Center at Hilton Palacio del Rio
· Call for Papers
o Extension to 24 April for call for abstracts for "Discovering Creativity in Necessity" conference In September
o By 16 May 2011 for INFORMS 2011 College of Organization Science - Call for Submissions
o 1 August 2011 submissions deadline for Management innovation: a journey into the core of research in management EURAM Mini-Conference on Management Innovation(Strategy Special Interest Group) Rotterdam, The Netherlands November 24 - 25, 2011
o By 1 May Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of Business Ethics Sustaining Sustainability in Organizations
o April 30th deadline to submit for Strascheg Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship of the EBS Business School and the High-Technology-Park MikroFORUM (award for the Best-Paper-Award Innovation Management 2011 including prize money of € 5,000
· Participants
o Live, interactive, synchronous online course entitled Fundamentals of Using R
o Participants in online synchronous interviews conducted with or in text, videoconferencing, virtual worlds or meeting spaces for companion volume coming out next fall: Cases in Online Interview Research
· Books
o SAGE Handbook of Complexity and Management
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Announcements – AOM 2011
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Call for 2011 AOM TIM Junior Faculty Consortium
The Technology and Innovation Management (TIM) Division of the Academy of Management is pleased to invite applications for the 2011 TIM Junior Faculty Consortium to be held at the Academy of Management meeting in San Antonio, Texas (USA) on Friday, August 12th and Saturday, August 13th, 2011.
If you hold an assistant professor rank (or its equivalent) and teach or research in the TIM domain, this professional development workshop is for you. The workshop will make available the knowledge that you need to prosper in both the local and global academic environment. The workshop focuses on strategies for increasing your impact as a scholar and teacher, and on building a career in diverse professional settings.
This year's consortium will allow participants to learn how to publish 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 (or equivalent) in a post-Ph.D. academic institution and no more than three years experience by August 2011.
To apply, please email your vita to Corey Phelps at phelps@hec.fr. When you apply, please indicate the month and year you started your first assistant professor position (or equivalent). We will take applications on a rolling basis until May 15, 2011. We encourage you to apply early and please note that we require accepted applicants to attend the entire consortium.
Accepted applicants will be required to submit a working paper for the Paper Feedback Session by June 30, 2011.
If you have questions concerning these requirements, please contact one of the co-chairs below.
| 2011 TIM Junior Faculty Consortium Co-Chairs |
| Corey Phelps HEC Paris phelps@hec.fr | Keld Laursen Copenhagen Business School kl.ino@cbs.dk |
Corey Phelps, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Strategy and Business Policy
HEC Paris
1, rue de la Libération
78351 Jouy-en-Josas
France
Phone: (33) 1 39 67 74 15
Fax: (33) 1 39 67 70 84
http://tinyurl.com/phelps-hec
http://ssrn.com/author=341753
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TIM Doctoral Consortium – Call for applications (Due May 8, 2011)
The Technology and Innovation Management Division is now accepting applications from Ph.D. students for its 2011 doctoral consortium to be held at the Academy of Management meeting in San Antonio (TX), August 12-16. The consortium will be held on Friday, August 12 and Saturday, August 13
The TIM doctoral consortium is most valuable to Ph.D. candidates interested in conducting leading-edge research and teaching in technology and innovation management, strategy and organization.
The consortium will be led by a panel of faculty members with proven research and teaching records who will address key issues in academic life such as publishing in top journals, managing your time for research, meeting teaching and institutional demands, managing research collaborations, and funding your research.
The coordinators of the 2011 consortium are Andrea Prencipe (University G. d'Annunzio) and Marco Giarratana (UC3M). Confirmed faculty facilitators include: Ron Adner (Insead), Gautam Ahuja (Ross), Ashish Arora (Duke), Stefano Brusoni (Bocconi), Zhang Wei (Tsinghua University), Steven White (Tsinghua University).
The application deadline is Sunday, May 8, 2011. Only electronic applications will be considered.
To apply, please send to the following email timphdconsortium@gmail.com This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it :
a) An updated CV
b) A one-page statement containing the following information: (1) Your full contact information, (2) your stage in the doctoral program, (3) the name of your thesis advisor and one additional reference, and, (4) A 100-word abstract or summary proposal of your dissertation.
Preference will be given to doctoral candidates at later stages of their career – those at or near the thesis proposal stage. For any questions please contact Andrea Prencipe or Marco Giarratana at timphdconsortium@gmail.com
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Dear everyone,
With this letter we would like to call for your participation in our caucus on "Entrepreneurship and its context". Please find below the information pertinent to this caucus.
1. Abstract: The entrepreneurship literature suggests that entrepreneurship is shaped by its context and it can also alter its context. On the other hand, globalization has made it possible for entrepreneurs to move to another context, i.e. engage in international entrepreneurial activities or simply immigrate to another country to do business. To explore this phenomenon, this caucus offers a platform to discuss the relationship between entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial contexts. Participants will examine the topics that have been explored in the literature to pinpoint areas that need more attention. The result will be a research agenda with key research questions and directions for future inquiries for three major
themes: (1) Contextual factors affecting entrepreneurship; (2) The impact of entrepreneurship on the context; (3) Entrepreneurial migration: its characteristics, causes and effects.
2. Organizers: Mai Thi Thanh Thai and Ekaterina Turkina from HEC Montreal, Canada
3. Time and venue: 3:00 PM-4:30 PM on Monday, August 15, 2011; Room La Reina North & Center at Hilton Palacio del Rio
4. Publication opportunities: Journal of Enterprising Communities is committed to organizing a special issue for the theme "entrepreneurial migration"
(http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/call_for_papers.htm?id=3200
). We are still seeking sponsors for the other two themes and we are open to your suggestions.
5. Pre-caucus activities: To ensure that our caucus will be relevant and fruitful for all of us, we would like to ask you to do these tasks by April
30:
• Required task: Please submit to us a list of paper ideas you would
like to collaborate with other participants to write for the special issues.
Please limit your paper ideas to the 3 major themes of this caucus: (1) Contextual factors affecting entrepreneurship; (2) The impact of entrepreneurship on the context; (3) Entrepreneurial migration: its characteristics, causes and effects
• Optional task: If you have done some literature review for your
paper ideas, please send us a list of your literature. If you have complete papers and/or your work-in-progresses that you want to be considered for the special issues, please send them to us too.
We will arrange you into groups of collaborators with the same research topics and send you the list by May 10 so that people in each group will have time to communicate with each other to explore your ideas further. In that way, your meeting at the caucus will be more effective.
6. Activities at the caucus:
• 10 minutes: Warm-up activities so that participants know a little
more about one another
• 60 minutes: Round-table discussion in 5-6 groups. At the end of the
discussion, each group will summarize paper ideas that come out from the discussion and a draft of your future action plan (i.e. research collaboration, timeline for paper, etc.)
• 20 minutes: Conclusion with a summary of all paper ideas and action
plans after the caucus.
If you have any question or suggestion, please do not hesitate to contact us at mai.thai@hec.ca or ekaterina.turkina@hec.ca. We will be happy to be of your assistance.
We would like to thank you for your consideration and look forward to hearing from you.
Best regards,
Mai Thai, M.B.A., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of International Business, HEC Montréal 3000, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Montréal (Québec), H3T 2A7, Canada
Tel: (+1) (514) 340-6188; Cell: (+1) (514) 627 1569; Fax: (+1) (514) 340-6987;
Email: mai.thai@hec.ca; Webpage: www.hec.ca/en/profs/mai-thi-thanh.thai.html
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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Apologies for cross-listings
Dear Colleagues:
We are pleased to report that we have had a strong response to our initial call to abstracts for "Discovering Creativity in Necessity" conference. This has allowed us to make a strong case with our funders for additional funding for some level of travel assistance beyond the already committed accommodation and conference fee subsidies. We are awaiting final confirmation on the level of additional support that will be forthcoming.
We are bringing this to your attention because were contacted by individuals who wanted to participate but did not have sufficient funding for travel costs, and so did not submit abstracts. For this reason we are extending abstracts submission deadline until April 24, 2011. We have decided to announce a second (and final) adjudication process subject to our obtaining some travel assistance, extending our deadline until April 24, 2011. While we cannot commit to obtaining travel funding, we will attempt to do so, and thus wish to encourage as many submissions as possible subject to funding opportunities. We are all excited about what promises to be a very interesting and rewarding conference,
Dear Colleague,
We would like to draw your attention to a conference on 'Discovering Creativity In Necessity: Organizational Ingenuity under Institutional Constraints' which will be held at McMaster University, DeGroote School of Business, on the 9th and 10th of September, 2011. Keynotes include Bill Starbuck, former President at the Academy of Management and professor emeritus, NYU, and Teresa Cascioli, former Chair and CEO Lakeport Brewing Income Fund and former Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year.
The main purpose of this conference is to expand our understanding of innovation and creativity in contexts and environments where resources are scarce, and freedom of action is highly constrained. To meet the challenge of these situations actors often develop a set of skills, social tactics, and mental orientation that express 'organizational ingenuity': the ability to create innovative solutions within structural constraints using limited resources and imaginative problem solving.
The conference is organized in conjunction with a forthcoming special issue of Organization Studies. The conference is therefore a unique opportunity for participants who are interested in submitting to the special issue to share ideas and receive feedback prior to the Organization Studies deadline of February 28, 2012.
Scholars and practitioners who are interested in attending the conference must submit abstracts by April 15, 2011 (extended to April 24). Authors selected for presentation will be notified by May 1st, 2011, with full paper expected by August 1st, 2011.
Registration fees will be waived for participating presenters. In addition, all hotel accommodations (not including incidentals) and conference meals will be covered for participating presenters.
Further details as they become available will be posted on the conference website: http://www.degroote.mcmaster.ca/TheIngenuityConference
Warmest Regards,
Benson Honig, Israel Drori, Joseph Lampel
Conference Chairs
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INFORMS 2011 College of Organization Science Call for Submissions
The College of Organization Science Section of INFORMS is now accepting submissions for sessions to be held during the INFORMS 2011 Annual Meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina November 13-16. The theme of this year's conference is TransfORmation. Today's world has fast-growing needs for natural resources, products and services – ranging from water and energy to nanotechnology and healthcare. Across the globe, industries are transfORming to create sustainable and innovative approaches to meet these needs. Our community is at the heart of this transfORmation, generating new ideas and technologies to enable this change.
We are particularly interested in sessions and papers examining the following topic areas but also welcome other ideas for sessions: New organizations and industries; Entrepreneurial teams; Organizational renewal (learning, change, knowledge acquisition/transfer); Relationships (inter- and intra-organizational).
The deadline for Submitting Abstracts to this year's conference is May 16, 2011.
Contact Mary Zellmer-Bruhn (zellm002@umn.edu ), Program Chair for the College of Organization Science section, with proposed papers or sessions.
Conference Website: http://meetings2.informs.org/charlotte2011/
The INFORMS meeting will be held at the Charlotte Convention Center, conveniently located between the two largest conference hotels, the Westin and the Hilton.
Please Don't Miss the Deadline!
Mary Zellmer-Bruhn
Associate Professor
Strategic Management & Organization
Carlson School of Management
University of Minnesota
612.625.2342
Noelle French
Executive Office & Administrative Specialist
Carlson School of Management
University of Minnesota
3-365 CarlSMgmt 321 19th Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55455
(612)626-1689
nfrench@umn.edu
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Management innovation: a journey into the core of research in management
EURAM Mini-Conference on Management Innovation
(Strategy Special Interest Group)
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
November 24 - 25, 2011
Organizing committee:
Prof. Dr. Henk W. Volberda, RSM, Erasmus University
Prof. Dr. Frans. A.J. Van Den Bosch, RSM Erasmus University
Key-note speakers include:
Prof. Dr. Julian Birkinshaw, London Business School, UK
Prof. Dr. Fariborz Damanpour, Rutgers Business School, USA
Deadline for submission: August 1, 2011
Papers will be selected for publication in a Special Issue of European Management Review and a Themed Section in Organization Studies
Deadline for submission: August 1, 2011
Purpose
As innovation is considered central to firms' competitive advantage, innovation research has become a cornerstone of strategic management inquiry. However, the vast majority of research attention is dedicated to understanding how firms can stimulate technological innovation. An emerging (or rather resurrecting) research trend espouses the benefits of management innovation. Management innovation refers to the introduction of management practices, processes and structures that are intended to further organizational goals (Birkinshaw, Hamel and Mol, 2008). The emergent dialogue consists of conceptual work (e.g., Birkinshaw et al., 2008), historical outlines of various management innovations (e.g., Mol and Birkinshaw, 2007) and empirical studies (e.g., Damanpour, Walker and Avellaneda, 2009; Vaccaro, Jansen, Van Den Bosch, and Volberda, 2010).
Background
Despite the recent surge in academic interest, management innovation remains an under-researched topic. As recent work emphasizes the importance of management innovation for firm performance, both as a complement of technological innovation (Damanpour et al., 2009) and as an independent phenomenon (Mol and Birkinshaw, 2009), reaching a better understanding of the issues surrounding management innovation should be high on the research agenda. For example, Feigenbaum and Feigenbaum (2005: 96) argue that "the systematization of management innovations will be a critical success factor for 21st century companies".
Research questions
The goal of this EURAM Mini-Conference and special issue is to stimulate academic enquiry by providing a platform to share ideas and state-of-the art research on management innovation. To this end, we invite paper submissions addressing, among others, the following topics:
- Conceptual contributions: What is the level of analysis at which management innovation should be considered? How to conceptualize management innovation as an outcome vs. management innovation as a process? How to describe and analyze management innovation as a process? How to define and describe the degree of newness of management innovation?
- Antecedents of management innovation: Who are the actors that drive management innovation? What is the role of top/middle/line managers in management innovation? Is the generation of management innovation a top-down or a bottom-up process? What is the role of internal and external change agents? What are the organizational conditions that stimulate the introduction of management innovations? How to develop conceptual frameworks focusing on the dynamics of co-evolutionary interactions at both firm and industry level of management innovation?
- Consequences of management innovation: What are the implications of management innovation for firm performance in different environmental conditions? How is management innovation related to technological innovation over time and under different conditions? For what outcomes other than financial performance may management innovation be important?
- Methodological contributions: How to measure management innovation? What are appropriate scales? How to obtain objective measures of management innovation?
Empirical, conceptual, and practitioner-oriented papers from a plurality of theoretical perspectives, units of analyses, contexts, and research designs are welcome, with particular encouragement for those integrating multiple theoretical lenses and/or methodological approaches. The focus is on high quality papers that potentially move the field of management innovation forward. Papers will be selected for publication in a special issue of European Management Review and a Themed Section in Organization Studies. Please send papers and address all correspondence to: Kevin Heij MScBA (kheij@rsm.nl ), Department of Strategic Management & Business Environment, RSM Erasmus University, P.O. Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The EURAM Mini-Conference is sponsored by the Strategy Special Interest Group of EURAM and the top institute INSCOPE – Research for Innovation (www.inscope.nl).
Deadline for submission of papers: August 1, 2011
Notification to authors: September 15, 2011
Location: Rotterdam School of Management,
Erasmus University
M-Building
Burgemeester Oudlaan 50
3062 PA ROTTERDAM
The Netherlands
(located near city centre)
Preliminary programme:
Thursday evening (November 24): Dinner and key-note
Friday (November 25): Key-note Julian Birkinshaw
Paper presentations
Lunch
Paper presentations
Key-note Fariborz Damanpour
Transfer:
By air: Arrival at Schiphol Airport Amsterdam: Direct train connection to Rotterdam Centre "Centraal Station" from the airport railway station, then take a taxi to the Erasmus University campus Woudestein (15 minutes).
Arrival at Rotterdam Airport (European flights only): Taxi to Erasmus University Rotterdam, Woudestein campus (approximately 20 minutes).
More information about travelling to the RSM Erasmus University can be found on the website: www.rsm.nl/home/about/contact
References
Birkinshaw, J., Hamel, G., Mol, M.J. (2008), 'Management innovation', Academy of Management Review, 33 (4): 825 – 845.
Birkinshaw, J., Mol, M. (2006), 'How Management Innovation Happens', MIT Sloan Management review, 47 (4): 81 – 88.
Damanpour, F., Schneider, M. (2006), 'Phases of the Adoption of Innovation in Organizations: Effects of Environment, Organization and Top Managers', Britisch Journal of Management, 17: 215 – 236.
Damanpour, F., Walker, R.M., Avellaneda, C.N. (2009), 'Combinative Effects of Innovation Types and Organizational Performance: A Longitudinal Study of Service Organizations', Journal of Management Studies, 46 (4): 650 – 675.
Feigenbaum, A.V., Feigenbaum, D.S. (2005), 'What Quality Means Today', MIT Sloan Management Review, 46 (2): 96.
Hamel, G. (2006), 'The Why, What, And how of Management Innovation', Harvard Business Review, 84 (2): 72 – 84.
Mol, M.J., Birkinshaw, J. (2007), Giant steps in management: Innovations that change the way we work. Financial Times Prentice Hall. Harlow UK.
Mol, M.J., Birkinshaw, J. (2009), 'The sources of management innovation: When firms introduce new management practices', Journal of Business Research, 62 (12): 1269 – 1280.
Vaccaro, I.G., Jansen, J.J.P., Van den Bosch, F.A.J., Volberda, H.W. (2011), 'Management Innovation and Leadership: The Moderating Role of Organizational Size', Journal of Management Studies (in press).
Walker, R.M., Damanpour, F., Devece, C.A. (2010), 'Management Innovation and Organizational Performance: The Mediating Effect of Performance Management', Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (in press).
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Reminder: Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of Business Ethics
Sustaining Sustainability in Organizations
Submissions Due May 1st, 2011
Guest Editors:
Timo Busch, ETH Zurich
Deborah E. de Lange, Suffolk University
Javier Delgado-Ceballos, University of Granada
Alfred Marcus, University of Minnesota
Jonatan Pinkse, University of Amsterdam Business School
With this call for papers, we invite research that advances a discussion relating to how sustainability is developed and maintained (sustained) in organizations with a particular emphasis on international organizations whether they are multinational corporations (MNCs), non-governmental organizations (NGOs), or international governmental organizations (IGOs). Please see the cfp [below] for full details.
To be considered for the special issue, "Sustaining Sustainability in Organizations", full papers must be submitted by May 1, 2011. All submissions will go through a double-blind peer review process. Full papers should be submitted to Deborah E. de Lange at ddelange@suffolk.edu. Please send the paper as a Word or pdf document without identifying information and a separate cover page having identifying information in the same email to Debbie.
Thanks!
CALL FOR PAPERS
"Sustaining Sustainability in Organizations"
Special Issue in the Journal of Business Ethics
With this call for papers, we intend to invite research that advances a discussion that
relates to how sustainability is developed and maintained (sustained) in organizations
with a particular emphasis on international organizations, whether they are multinational
corporations (MNCs), non-governmental organizations (NGOs), or international
governmental organizations (IGOs). We consider sustainability to be an approach to
business that considers economic, environmental and social issues in balanced, holistic
and long term ways that benefit current and future generations of concerned stakeholders.
The invited research may contribute on multiple levels: individual, organization, industry,
field or community, and international or global levels, to develop research about how to
sustain sustainability in organizations from management and ethical perspectives,
particularly using theoretical lenses of strategy and organization theory. The impact of
ethical, sustainable thinking and the associated deep rooted changes have enhanced
business and society. Now, managers and others need to ensure the sense of urgency is
sustained so that they do not lose ground and rather, ensure that ethical, sustainable
progress continues. We will consider both theoretical and empirical papers and suggest
particular subtopic areas below. This issue will publish high quality and progressive
scholarship that builds theory. Furthermore, the research included will develop the area of
sustainability so that it moves toward a more mature stage. Submissions may focus on,
but must not be limited to, one of the following domains:
Sustaining Sustainability in Organizations Subtopic Areas and Questions:
1) Types of Organizations: MNCs, NGOs, and IGOs
• How do concerned stakeholders maintain their ethical influence on MNCs so that
MNCs continuously improve in regards to sustainability and ethics?
• How do MNCs define and enact CSR? After this has happened, how do firms
maintain the focus on it over time so that they do not lapse into old bad habits?
• How do stakeholders, in comparison to MNCs, expect sustainability practices to
evolve; what outcomes do they expect? Will ethical, sustainable practices prevail
with stakeholders' support?
• How do the stakeholders and MNCs resolve differences and tensions these days
and how has it changed?
• What are the future plans of MNCs in terms of their sustainable transformation?
How fast do they plan to change and which stakeholders are they choosing to
satisfy? Which ones will be left unsatisfied and what will be the consequences? Is
this possible imbalance acceptable from an ethical standpoint?
• How does the presence of MNCs affect the progress of sustainability in developed
nations?
• How do MNCs transfer sustainability innovation from one subsidiary to others?
What is the role of the headquarters?
• What are IGOs and NGOs doing to continue to promote and maintain sustainable
practices and ethics in organizations globally?
• What are IGOs' and NGO's capabilities compared to MNCs', in respect of
promoting sustainability globally?
• What motivates IGOs and NGOs to promote sustainability and how impactful are
the actions? Which ones find long term success in their sustainability initiatives
and why?
• Are developing nations acting in a sustainable and ethical manner and can they? If
they are, how are they doing so and maintaining their progress?
• What are IGOs and NGOs doing to support or hinder sustainable development in
either developing or developed nations? What are the differences in their
approaches in these different environments?
• Are IGOs and NGOs providing continuing support through incentives to
environmental entrepreneurs for their sustainable technological developments and
is it working? Are these incentives and projects nationally strategic to the
countries in which the entrepreneurs reside such that there is beneficial economic
development? Does the support include emphasis on ethical decision making and
management practices?
• How do IGOs and NGOs coordinate and collaborate with each other, with
governments and with firms to influence sustainable practices?
2) Types of Activities: Environmental Innovation and Combating Climate Change
• How do firms harness creative destruction when pursuing environmental
sustainability efforts? What happens after the big changes? Does sustainability
innovation become incremental?
• What talents and special expertise are required for environmental innovation? Is
ethical character and behavior part of the talent profile? How has the labor pool
changed to support this special type of sustainable innovation e.g., full life cycle
designs and use or development of special reusable or recyclable materials.
• Is there a global model of firm sustainability innovation that has been sustained?
If there is, does/do the model(s) include subscription to a set of ethical values,
what are they, and how is the ethical culture sustained?
• How does green technology evolution and revolution affect the current and future
competitive landscape? Will competitive behavior amongst firms also become
more ethical because the technological shift is one towards sustainability?
• Which firms will survive the changes and will we experience an increase in
competition or more oligopoly due to the large investments required to develop
green technology and commercialize it?
• Who will be the winners and losers as we adopt green technologies and retire the
old ones? What are the ethical questions to consider under these circumstances?
• How will consumers benefit from green technology? Will life become cheaper
and will our standard of living improve overall? How will the benefits of green
technology be distributed?
• How do consumers need to change so as to support the green technology
revolution? Will they change and if so, how fast? Will demand increase for goods
and services produced in currently perceived ethical, sustainable ways and will
the related standards be maintained and improved? How will ethical, sustainable
standards be set so as to satisfy consumer tastes and expectations?
• How have firms responded to climate change and maintained their sustainable
performance? What processes of learning and change have they undergone in
order to find the right balance between seeking profitability and fighting climate
change?
• What kinds of organizational changes have helped firms to adapt to the
environmental changes that the world is experiencing?
• Are firms changing adequately to help slow climate change and if not, what
more needs to be achieved?
• What aspects of supply chains are most impactful on climate change and how
should firms discover and adopt best practices in their global supply chains?
Should these best practices include ethics and how will they be explicitly
incorporated into them?
Timeline, Process & Standards
To be considered for the special issue, "Sustaining Sustainability in Organizations", full
papers must be submitted by May 1, 2011. All submissions will go through a doubleblind
peer review process. Therefore, all author-identifying information should be
removed from the paper except for a cover page sent separately. We advise all non-native
speakers to have their papers checked by a native speaker. The formatting of the paper
has to follow the guidelines of the Journal of Business Ethics. Publication of the Special
Issue is envisioned for late 2012.
Papers completed at the Academy of Management professional development workshop,
"Passion for Sustainability: A Continuance of Scholarship", will be considered for the
Special Issue. Additionally, an open call for papers through many academic channels
including the ONE, OMT, SIM, TIM and BPS Divisions of Academy of Management
and through the GRONEN community will be used to seek out papers to complete the
issue. Therefore, consideration of papers for the Special Issue is not bound to conference
participation.
Full papers should be submitted to Deborah E. de Lange at ddelange@suffolk.edu. Please
send the paper as a Word or pdf document without identifying information and a separate
cover page having identifying information in the same email to Debbie. Thank you.
Sample references:
Busch, T. and V. H. Hoffmann: 2009, 'Ecology-Driven Real Options: An Investment Framework for
Incorporating Uncertainties in the Context of the Natural Environment' Journal of Business Ethics 90(2):
295-310.
Dawkins, J. and S. Lewis: 2003, 'CSR in stakeholder expectations: And their implication for company
strategy', Journal of Business Ethics 44(2): 185-193.
de Lange, D. E. (ed.): 2010 forthcoming, Research Companion to Green International Management
Studies: A Guide for Future Research, Collaboration and Review Writing (Edward Elgar, Northampton).
Garriga, E. and D. N. Mele: 2004, 'Corporate Social Responsibility theories: Mapping the Territory'
Journal of Business Ethics 53(1-2): 51-71.
Husted, B. W. and D. B. Allen: 2007, 'Corporate social strategy in multinational enterprises: Antecedents
and value creation.' Journal of Business Ethics 74(4): 345-361.
Kolk, A. & J. Pinkse: 2008, 'A Perspective on Multinational Enterprises and Climate Change: Learning
from "An Inconvenient Truth"?', Journal of International Business Studies 39(8), 1359-1378.
Nicholson, N.: 1994, 'Ethics in Organizations - A Framework for Theory and Research', Journal of
Business Ethics 13(8): 581-596.
Oetzel, J. & J. P. Doh: 2009, 'MNEs and Development: A Review and Reconceptualization', Journal of
World Business 44, 108-120.
Teegen, H., J. P. Doh and S. Vachani: 2004, 'The Importance of Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs)
in Global Governance and Value Creation: An International Business Research Agenda', Journal of
International Business Studies 35(6), 463-483.
Tello, S. F. and E. Yoon: 2008, 'Examining Drivers of Sustainable Innovation', Journal of International
Business Strategy 8(3), 164-169.
Dr. Debbie de Lange
Assistant Professor of Strategy and International Business
Sawyer Business School
Suffolk University
8 Ashburton Place
Boston, MA
02108 USA
Tel. Phone: 617-573-8794
Fax: 617-994-6840
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Dear colleagues,
for the sixth successive year, the Strascheg Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SIIE) (www.ebs-siie.de) of the EBS Business School (www.ebs.edu) and the High-Technology-Park MikroFORUM (www.mikroforum.de) are awarding the Best-Paper-Award Innovation Management 2011 including prize money of € 5,000.
All journal articles or dissertation papers, with a focus on practical aspects of Innovation and/or Technology Management which have been published or accepted for publication (or in case of dissertations submitted) after January 2010, qualify for the award.
The patron of the Best-Paper-Award Innovation Management 2011 is Hermann-Josef Lamberti, Chief Operating Officer, Deutsche Bank, who will also be our dinner speaker for the award ceremony.
· Deadline for paper submissions: April 30, 2011
· Presentations of the three short-listed papers and award ceremony: July 26, 2011 at the EBS Business School in Oestrich-Winkel
For more information please notice the attached leaflet or visit: www.bestpaperaward.de
In the last two years, the first prizes went to Oliver Alexy, Paolo Criscuolo & Ammon Salter: "Does IP Strategy Have to Cripple Open Innovation" – MIT Sloan Management Review and
Marc Gruber, Ian C. MacMillan & James D. Thompson: "Look before you Leap: Market Opportunity Identification in Emerging Technology Firms" – Management Science.
Other finalists include:
· Juan-José Ganuza, Gerard Llobet & Beatriz Domínguez: "R&D in the Pharmaceutical Industry, a World of Small Innovations" – Management Science
· Matthias Weiss, Martin Hoegl & Michael Gibbert: "Makin virtue of Necessity: The Role of Team Climate for Innovation in Resource-Constrained Innovation Projects" – Journal of Product Innovation Management
· Vareska van de Vrande, Wim Vanhaverbeke & Geert Duysters: "External Technology Sourcing: The Effect of Uncertainty on Governance Mode Choice" – Journal of Business Venturing
· Andrea Fosfuri & Marco S. Giarratana: "Masters of War: Rivals´ Product Innovation and New Advertising in Mature Product Markets" – Management Science
We are looking forward to receiving your publications and your participation in this innovative and highly-anticipated event!
Sincerely,
Florian
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Prof. Dr. Florian A. Täube
Assistant Professor of Growth Management
Strascheg Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SIIE)
European Business School (EBS)
InternationalUniversity Schloss Reichartshausen
Wiesbaden/Rheingau
EBS Campus Rheingau
Hauptstraße 31
65375 Oestrich-Winkel
Greater Frankfurt
GERMANY
Phone: +49 6723 8888 332
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Live, interactive, synchronous online course entitled Fundamentals of Using R –
EARLY REGISTRATION ENDS APRIL 22
The non-profit organization Information Institute (http://www.information-institute.org) and faculty from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) are offering a live, interactive, synchronous online course entitled Fundamentals of Using R. The early registration cost (through April 22) for the 14-hour, 5 week course is $195 (student); $250 (faculty); and $295 (practitioner).
This course is designed for people who are curious about R, new to R, and who would like to obtain a basic knowledge of R capabilities that apply to any ultimate intended use of R. This course instructs about the R environment: using workspaces; importing and exporting data; R data types, data structures, and objects; writing simple and complex scripts; essential R functions and packages; writing your own R functions and packages; programming with R; publication-style 2-D and 3-D graphics capabilities using special R packages, and many other essential topics. The course is designed to serve as a useful knowledge foundation regardless of one's ultimate use of R (for example, statistical and data analyses, programming, writing scripts or creating packages, using graphics, etc.). There is more information at the URLs below.
The informational (and registration) site for the AM version (AM by US Eastern Time) is here: https://www.regonline.com/R-fund-may-AM This course runs on five consecutive Fridays from May 27 to June 24, from 11AM until 2PM ET (GMT-4).
The informational (and registration) site for the PM version (PM by US Eastern Time) is here: https://www.regonline.com/R-fund-may-PM This course runs on the same five consecutive Fridays (May 27-June 24), but in the evenings from 6PM until 9PM ET (GMT-4).
Feel free to email ghubona@vcu.edu with any questions or for more information.
Geoff Hubona
Information Systems Department
Virginia Commonwealth University
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Hello colleagues,
Last year I wrote a book called Online Interviews in Real Time, available from Sage (See: http://tinyurl.com/einterview ). This book focuses on synchronous interviews conducted with or in text, videoconferencing, virtual worlds or meeting spaces. I've edited a companion that is coming out next fall: Cases in Online Interview Research. (See: http://tinyurl.com/e-interview2 ) The new book contains 10 multi-disciplinary cases of research with data collected from mostly synchronous interviews. Each case is followed by two commentaries-- one by another book contributor and one from me, using an "E-Interview Research Framework" as the basis for my analysis.
The "E-Interview Research Framework" is a collection of models and key questions; I created this framework to further develop and organize materials introduced in Online Interviews in Real Time. My purpose is to offer some guiding principles for people who are designing research or who are reviewing proposals for, or completed studies that include, online interviews.
In mid-April I want to convene 2-3 online focus groups with people who a) teach research methods (qualitative), b) serve on doctoral committees or c) are on IRB or other review boards. I want to see what others think about this "Framework" and the key questions I've identified so far and learn about additional questions or concerns they would have about a research proposal or study that uses online interviews for data collection.
I am looking for a diverse group of maybe 20 people altogether. Once I see who is participating I will schedule based on time zones. The focus groups will be held in Adobe Connect. If you are interested please contact me off-list: jsalmons-at-vision2lead.com.
Thanks!
Janet
(Apologies for cross-posting)
Janet Salmons Ph.D.
Core Faculty, Capella University School of Business and Technology &
Founder/Principal Consultant, Vision2Lead, Inc.
Site- http://www.vision2lead.com
Follow Twitter at /einterview
PO Box 943
Boulder, CO 80306-0943
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Colleagues,
The SAGE Handbook of Complexity and Management is the first scholarly work to provide a map of state of art research in the growing field emerging at the intersection of complexity science and management studies. Edited and written by internationally respected scholars from management and related disciplines, the Handbook will be the definitive reference source for understanding the implications of complexity science for management research and practice. Please find a more detailed description and ordering instructions attached as well as at http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book233046 .
Cheers.
Steve Maguire, Prof [steve.maguire@mcgill.ca]
Peter Allen
Cranfield University, U.K.
Steve Maguire
McGill University, Canada
Bill McKelvey
University of California, Los Angeles
Hardcover: $140.00,
Convention Price: $112.00
ISBN: 978-1-8478-7569-3
February 2011, 648 pages
The SAGE Handbook of Complexity and Management will be the first substantive scholarly work to provide a map of the state of art research in the growing field emerging at the intersection of complexity science and management studies. Edited and written by internationally respected scholars from management and related disciplines, the Handbook will be the definitive reference source for understanding the implications of complexity science for management research and practice.
Part One: Foundations introduces complexity science and its implications for the foundations of
scientific knowledge, including management knowledge
Part Two: Applications presents the numerous ways in which complexity science models and tools,
as well as complexity thinking, are being applied to management and organizational phenomena
and the insights gained as a result
Part Three: Interfaces highlights how complexity science is transforming various non-management
fields and, in so doing, creating exciting interfaces for bridging between management and related disciplines
Table of Contents
Allen: The SAGE Handbook of Complexity and Management
Convention Price: $112.00
ISBN: 9781847875693
Introduction : Steve Maguire, Peter Allen, and Bill McKelvey
PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS
A. Key Concepts
1. Complexity and Systems Thinking: Yasmin Merali and Peter Allen
2. Complexity Science and Organization: Raymond-Alain Thietart and
Bérnard Forgues
3. Emergence in Complex Systems: Jeffrey Goldstein
4. Constructing and Appreciating Complexity: Steve Maguire
5. Thoughts on Complexity and Computational Models: Michael J. Prietula
B. Epistemological Perspectives and Considerations
6. A Scientific Realist Epistemology for Complexity Science: Bill McKelvey
7. Exploring Organizational Effectiveness: The Value of Complex Realism as
a Frame of Reference & Systematic Comparison as a Method :David Byrne
8. Complexity, Poststructuralism and Organization: Paul Cilliers
9. Causality and Explanation: Alicia Juarrero
10. Complexity and Limits to Knowledge: The Importance of Uncertainty:
Peter Allen and Jean Boulton
11. Complex Thinking: Towards an Oblique Strategy for Dealing with the
Complex : Robert Chia
C. Methodological Implications and Tools
12. Applications of Kauffman's Coevolutionary NKCS Model to Management
and Organization Studies: Richard Vidgen and Larry Bull
13. Using Genetic Algorithms to Model Strategic Interactions: William Martin
Tracy
14. Organizing at the Edge of Chaos: Insights from Action Research: Donald
MacLean and Robert MacIntosh
15. From Skew Distributions to Power-law Science: Pierpaolo Andriani and
Bill McKelvey
PART TWO: APPLICATIONS
A. Complexity and Organizing
16. Complexity and Organization-Environment Relations: Revisiting Ashby's
Law of Requisite Variety: Max Boisot and Bill McKelvey
17. The Complexity of Industrial Ecosystems: Classification and
Computational Modelling : James S. Baldwin
18 . Complexity and the Dynamics of Organizational Change: Glenda H.
Eoyang
19. Complex Thought, Simple Talk: An Ecological Approach to Language-
Based Change in Organizations: John Shotter and Haridimos Tsoukas
20. Organisational Learning and Complexity Science: Exploring the Joint
Potential: Eve Mitleton-Kelly and Ben Ramalingam
21. Complexity and Management: A Pluralistic View: Kurt A. Richardson
B. Complexity and Managing
22. Implications of Complexity Science for the Study of Leadership: Russ
Marion and Mary Uhl-Bien
23. A Complexity Perspective on Strategic Human Resource Management :
Barry A. Colbert and Elizabeth C. Kurucz
24. Complexity and the Rise of Distributed Control in Operations
Management : Arash Azadegan and Kevin J. Dooley
25. Knowledge Management and Complexity: Max Boisot
26. Complexity and Innovation: Pierpaolo Andriani
27. Complexity Science Contributions to the Field of Entrepreneurship :
Benyamin B. Lichtenstein
28. Complexity and Competitive Advantage :Oliver Baumann and Nicolaj
Siggelkow
29. Complexity Theory and Corporate Strategy: Kathleen M. Eisenhardt and
Henning Piezunka
30. More than a Metaphor: Complexity and the New Rules of Management :
James K. Hazy
PART THREE: INTERFACES
31. Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Applications to Psychology and
Management : Stephen J. Guastello
32. The Value in Between: Organizations as Adapting and Evolving Networks:
César A. Hidalgo
33. The Use of Complexity for Policy Exploration :Steven Bankes
34. Complexity, Habits and Evolution : Geoffrey M. Hodgson
35. Economics , Management and Complex Systems: Paul Ormerod
36. How Complexity Science Is Transforming Health Care : Brenda
Zimmerman
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Darlene,
Darlene Alexander-Houle
TIM Division List Serve Manager
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Adjunct, University of Phoenix
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Global Program Manager, Hewlett Packard
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