Professor Clayton M. Christensen from Harvard Business School has been chosen as the 2011 recipient of the TIM Division Distinguished Scholar Award. This award recognizes Prof. Christensen's many contributions to the research and practice in the field of technology and innovation management.

Clayton M. Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and an author of several highly influential books in the area of technology and innovation management, including his seminal work "The Innovator's Dilemma." His work on disruptive innovation and its impact on established firms has greatly influenced scholars, students, and practitioners. He will be recognized for this award at the TIM Distinguished Scholar Session at the Academy of Management Meetings on Saturday August 13, 12:00PM - 1:30PM. The session which features Prof. Christensen's keynote address will be held in the San Antonio Convention Center Room 205.

Light lunch will be served. We hope to see you there.

Riitta Katila

PDW Chair, TIM Division

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Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Please join the exciting events planned by the Practice Theme Committee and the Strategic Doing Initiative of AOM at large.

Practice Theme Committee Lunch Meeting (306) Saturday, 1:30pm-3:00pm at Grand Hyatt: Seguin A & B. (PTC members and organizers/participants of recent PTC-sponsored symposia and PDWs are welcome to attend and contribute new ideas.)

Practice Theme Committee Welcoming Reception, Awards, and the 3 Videos from the Teaching Resource Library project (356) Saturday, 5:00pm-7:00pm at Grand Hyatt: Presidio B. Champagne will be served.

PTC will announce the winners of two prestigious awards: (1) The AOM Practice Impact Award, and (2) the AOM Practitioner Award. The selection committee includes: Denise M. Rousseau, Carnegie Mellon U., USA; Jane E. Dutton, U. of Michigan, USA; Patrick W. Thomas, Bayer Material Science, Leverkusen, Germany; Stewart R. Clegg, U. of Technology, Sydney, Australia; Tyrone S. Pitsis, U. of Newcastle Upon-Tyne, UK. Come cheer the judges and the winners!

NEW THIS YEAR: As part of its Strategic Doing Initiative, the Academy is excited to announce the development of an International Online Teaching Resource Library. The TRL project demonstrates how management scholarship can impact managerial practices through videos. This resource library will be available to all Academy members.

As part of the inaugural year, the review committee selected three video as finalists that will be shown during Practice Theme Committee Welcoming Reception and Awards Ceremony:

· De-Dica (Hints) Insper. Submitted by Marcos Hashimoto and his team at Insper Instituto De Ensino E Pesquisa, Brazil

· Creating online content for technology entrepreneurs. Submitted by Andrew Maxwell and his team at University of Waterloo, Canada

· Central Vermont Public Service Cow Power Video Case Study. Submitted by Jacob Park and his team at Green Mountain College, U.S.A.

Be the first to find out how you can access this International Online Teaching Resource Library at the PTC reception! The winning video will be announced afterward.

Best, Kuo Frank Yu

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Apologies for double posting

Dear colleagues:

I would like to share with you information about a site visit organized with the IM division that should be of interest to members of BPS, TIM, ENT and OMT as well. I've been working with Scuderi for 3 years now and it's a very fascinating company (www.scuderigroup.com), so the trip to their partner R&D lab should be exciting - there are still some places left and it would be a shame not to fill them!

Please see the following information from IMD Newsletter:

Visit to South West Research, San Antonio, & Scuderi Group Research Collaboration

The IM Division Outreach Committee is pleased to announce the following exciting opportunity: Visit of South West Research Institute, San Antonio & Scuderi Group research collaboration, as an off-site activity.

Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 Time: Depart at 1:40pm and return before 4:45pm Meeting place: Central Lobby of the San Antonio Convention Center Cost: US$12.00 per participant (for the bus transfer) to be paid in cash before departure Registration: Email event organizer, Cordula Barzantny at c.barzantny@esc-toulouse.fr, and please include passport information (e.g. a scan) because there is classified activity happening around our visit. You will receive an official confirmation following your registration.

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, is one of the oldest and largest independent, nonprofit, applied research and development (R&D) organizations in the United States. Founded in 1947, SwRI provides contract research and development services to industrial and government clients in the United States and abroad (www.swri.org).

This offers an exceptional opportunity to learn about international networks of technological innovation for the case of the Scuderi Group and also meet a Scuderi family member, a partner of SwRI for alternative combustion engines. The Scuderi Group is a very fascinating 20 person, family-business engine technology company based in the US with an office in Frankfurt, Germany, Nagoya, Japan and world-wide collaborations. They developed an alternative (combustion) engine based on their father's concept (who developed the CFC-free fridge) together with SwRI and some MNCs like Bosch, Mahle, Exceldyne and others. They already have a few hundred patents and are looking for first licensees before they go public. In terms of financing, they used family, friends and family offices to collect $85m - being pre-revenue. The company has recently been covered in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes and many other publications.

PS. Since space is limited, we take reservations on a first-come, first-served basis and request that you advice us - even at very short notice – if you cannot honor this visit in the last minute despite your registration at c.barzantny@esc-toulouse.fr.

Hope see many of you on this trip and look forward to meeting you in San Antonio,

Florian

Immer auf dem Laufenden sein: Der neue SIIE Newsletter ist da! - Mehr unter: www.ebs-siie.de

Oder einfach die automatische Zusendung anfordern per Mail an news@ebs-siie.de

Prof. Dr. Florian A. Täube

Assistant Professor of Growth Management

EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht i. Gr.

EBS Business School

Strascheg Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SIIE)

Rheingaustraße 1

(Besucheradresse/ Visiting address: Burgstraße 5)

65375 Oestrich-Winkel

GERMANY

Phone: +49 611 7102 1375

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Don't Miss these Events Even if you are Vaguely Interested in South Asia

If you are conducting research or are interested in conducting research in South Asia- or just want to explore the opportunity of collaborating with researchers and practitioners focused on South Asia, please attend all or some of the following events.

South Asia is home to more than 1/5th of the world's population, and considered one of the fastest growing economies in the world. According to the World Bank, South Asia comprises of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Such a diverse mix of countries presents a plethora of cutting-edge business and management issues, including rise of third-world multinationals and frugal innovation as well as a hotbed of several challenges that the region faces in terms of population growth, corruption and cronyism.

We are highlighting the prominence of the South Asian region by hosting the following events:

1. Meet the Editor of the South Asian Journal of Global Business Research (SAJGBR)

SAJGBR is the only journal dedicated to advancing theoretical and empirical knowledge of business and management issues facing multinational and local organizations within South Asia. Here you will meet the Editor-in-Chief face to face and get to ask her questions about publishing for SAJGBR. She will also talk about the Editorial Objectives, Editorial Criteria, Scope of the Journal and discuss why you should publish in SAJGBR.

SAJGBR is published by Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

Saturday, Aug 13, 2011: 2pm-4pm at the San Antonio Convention Center, Room 206A

2. Official Launch of the South Asian Academy of Management (SAAM) and Celebration of the Partnership between SAJGBR and SAAM at a breakfast networking event

South Asian Academy of Management is a professional association for scholars dedicated to creating and disseminating knowledge about management and organizations in South Asia. This includes information about the South Asian diaspora in both the northern and southern hemispheres. Please visit http://southasianaom.org for more information.

Tues, Aug 16, 2011: 7am, San Antonio Convention Center, 210B

3. East Meets West Symposium- A South Asian Perspective on Management and Theories

In this Symposium, organizers and panelists take the lead from Cappelli et al's (2010) argument that American corporations need to look outside the U.S., in particular India, in order to incorporate new ways of thinking into their management practices and to guarantee success in today's intensely competitive environment, Hence, through this Symposium they encourage exploration of fresh and indigenous ideas and perspectives on managing organizations in South Asia. The emphasis is on critically examining the relevance of the mainstream (Western) management theories and practices in the South Asian cultural and institutional context, and reviewing the existing practices there with the objective of preparing an early groundwork for the formulation and propagation of new theories, concepts, and models with greater explanatory power than the existing management theories. They argue that this is relevant for addressing the complex management problems encountered by organizations in the U.S., South Asia and elsewhere; and critical for developing innovative approaches to managing organizations globally (Christie, 2010).

Papers included in this Symposium offer fresh, original and insightful perspectives in the management of organizations within contemporary South Asia.

Panelists include:

Shehla Riza Arifeen, Lahore School of Economics, Pakistan

Yasser Ahmad Bhatti, University of Oxford, UK

Naresh Khatri, University of Missouri, USA

Shaista E. Khilji, George Washington University, USA

Ujvala Arun Rajadhyaksha, Saint Mary's College, USA

Jawad Syed, University of Kent, UK

Please RSVP to Candice Matthews at: cmatthew@gwmail.gwu.edu by Monday, August 8th. Due to limited seating at the breakfast networking event and the SAJGBR and SAAM launch, RSVP is mandatory. Seating is offered on a first come, first serve basis.

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Dear members of TIM:

On behalf of all its members, I would like to take this opportunity to introduce to you the newly formed Diversity & Inclusion Theme Committee (D&ITC). The committee is tasked with ensuring that the Academy fully supports and leverages the scholarly contributions of its diverse members. As the present time, the committee includes Quinetta Roberson (Committee Chair), Yvonne Benschop, Bernardo Ferdman, Patrick McKay, Isabel Metz, Eddy Ng, Stella Nkomo, and Lynn Shore (PDW Chair).

To stay connected with D&ITC news and activities, please join the D&ITC listserv here: http://aomlists.pace.edu/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=DIVERSITYANDINCLUSION-L&A=1.

Come find out more about D&ITC mission and initiatives at the 2011 Annual Meeting in San Antonio. We invite you to participate and have your voices heard, at the following D&ITC events:

Inclusion There are two events on Inclusion in the AOM! The first session is a panel discussion, to be held on Friday, Aug 12 2011 1:00PM - 3:00PM at Grand Hyatt in Lone Star D, and will include a subset of eight leaders from five divisions and the AOM governing board. This session will focus on discussing inclusion-related efforts in the BPS, HR, OB, GDO, and International divisions as well as AOM as a whole. The second session, on Sunday, Aug 14 2011 11:30AM - 2:30PM at San Antonio Convention Center in Room 217 D, will occur in a town hall format with 13 topic tables facilitated by a broad array of faculty from institutions all over the world. The intent of this town hall on inclusion is to identify barriers to inclusion in AOM as well as specific actions to facilitate inclusion. Program Session #: 105 and 431

Race Relations In the workshop "Let's Get Real about Racism" Lee, Mun Wah from Stir Frys Seminar and Consulting the focus is on confronting some of the issues that keep people from talking to one another about race/racism. This workshop will emphasize the discovery of new ways to begin the conversation, create a bridge to talk about differences, explore what opens people up and closes them down, and finally, look at 101 ways to become culturally competent in relationships and workplaces. Friday, Aug 12 2011 2:00PM - 4:00PM at Grand Hyatt in Texas Ballroom A. Program Session #: 121

The Africa Academy of Management invites AOM members to participate in this PDW on "The Landscape of Management Education and State of Scholarship in Africa: Enlightenment for the East and West." The intent of the PDW is to share with members the state of management education and scholarship in Africa with the intent of exposing them to unique opportunities for research and supporting management education on the continent. Friday, Aug 12 2011 8:00AM - 11:30AM at Grand Hyatt in Lone Star A. Program Session #: 11

Action Learning in Action will demonstrate the use of Action Learning as a powerful problem-solving group process tool that can promote transformational learning in a variety of settings. It includes an interactive demonstration, as well as brief presentations on the technique's successful application in both classroom and business environments. Action Learning is a group process design that develops teamwork that honors diversity in the context of both the classroom and competitive business environments. Saturday, Aug 13 2011 8:00AM - 10:00AM at Grand Hyatt in Presidio B. Program Session #: 180

Using Food to Explore Diversity explores how food and culinary traditions can be used in management courses as a framework to teach diversity or to explore diversity and multiculturalism in the classroom. Participants will practice analyzing their family's cultural food traditions and learn how experiential exercises and assignments involving culinary differences across cultures can be used in a variety of classes. In the spirit of inclusion and to further the discussion we will invite participants to join us for an "appetizer crawl" after the session at local ethnic restaurants. Saturday, Aug 13 2011 2:45PM - 4:45PM at Marriott Rivercenter in Salon C. Program Session #: 329

If you would like to find out more about D&ITC, please contact D&ITC Chair, Quinetta Roberson [quinetta.roberson@villanova.edu] or attend the New Member Orientation on Friday, Aug 12 2011 5:30PM - 7:00PM at San Antonio Convention Center in Room 214 or Saturday, August 13, 2011 at 5:30 pm - 7:00PM (same venue). Program Session #: 155 and 363

Please note: you can find the Diversity and Inclusion Theme Committee sessions in the AOM program by browsing by "Division \ Interest Group \ Sponsor" using "D&ITC".

We look forward to seeing you at these sessions and to getting your views on barriers to inclusion in AOM as well as specific actions to facilitate inclusion.

Bernardo M. Ferdman, Ph.D. <bferdman@alliant.edu>

Professor, Organizational Psychology Programs

California School of Professional Psychology

Alliant International University (http://www.alliant.edu)

10455 Pomerado Rd., San Diego, CA 92131-1799, USA

Tel. +1 858 635-4408; Fax +1 858 635-4455

Webpage: <http://bernardoferdman.org>

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." -Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inclusion means everyone's voice matters. -B. Ferdman

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Workshop Report now available: National Science Foundation Workshop on Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Innovative Science and Engineering Fields

Science policymakers have increased funding for interdisciplinary collaboration as a favored mode of 'translational' and/or 'transformative' research. With the rise in interdisciplinary funding for science and engineering has come the analysis of interdisciplinarity itself, finding that interdisciplinary collaboration brings with it a variety of problems as well as promises of innovation. Ironically, although researchers from a host of disciplines have studied interdisciplinarity, there has been minimal communication across disciplinary boundaries.

In order to address these issues, a two-day National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored workshop titled 'Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Innovative Science and Engineering Fields' was held in November 2010. In total, 37 researchers representing such diverse disciplines as economics, psychology, sociology, organizational behavior, political science and public policy, anthropology, history, philosophy, gender studies, other sciences (biology, physics), and science and technology studies attended. Together, these scholars discussed the state of the study of interdisciplinarity in their individual disciplines and the barriers and opportunities facing the study of interdisciplinary collaboration. While these scholars did not agree on all issues, including the definition of interdisciplinarity itself, the workshop accomplished its goal of the cross-fertilization of ideas while engaging and informing a diverse group of researchers.

This workshop and its report are but a starting point for further conversation and research. Given that many members of this listserve also study interdisciplinarity and/or collaboration, we feel that dissemination of the final report is important. Please find the full workshop at: https://sites.google.com/site/interdisciplinary2010/

We hope that it serves as a useful resource for you.

Best regards,

Susannah Paletz, University of Pittsburgh, and Laurel Smith-Doerr, Boston University

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Dear AoM Colleagues,

I'd like to call your attention to a brand-new program at NSF called I-CORPS – designed to support initial steps towards commercialization of NSF-funded research. I-CORPS grants offer $50,000 over six months and focus on prospective entrepreneurship, involving a small team. The program also includes intensive instruction from Stanford's "Lean Launch Pad" program, originally developed as an entrepreneurship experience for engineering graduate students.

I-CORPS is a great opportunity to collaborate across different schools at universities that combine research and entrepreneurship. The principal investigator MUST have a current NSF grant (or have had one within the past five years) but the other team members can be students or University community members. All areas of NSF-funded research (including commercializable aspects of social, behavioral, and economic sciences) are eligible.

The submission window is both short and coming up fast – August 17 to September 9, with grants to begin immediately in Fall 2011. A maximum of twenty-five teams will be funded in the first cohort.

For more information, please refer to the fact sheet and the FAQ at http://www.nsf.gov/i-corps; there will be a webinar on August 2 with more information as well.

I'd be glad to talk about the proposal process more at the Academy meetings in San Antonio, including before and after the scheduled PDWs on NSF Funding and Data Resources on Saturday afternoon (1:30-3:30 and 3:45 -5:45 pm, respectively) in SACC 201.

David C. Croson, PhD

Program Director, Science of Science & Innovation Policy (SciSIP)

Division of Multidisciplinary Activities

Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences

National Science Foundation

dcroson@nsf.gov

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Dear AOM Members,

We call your attention to our PDW session, "Global Restructuring: Innovation and Organization in a Borderless World", on Saturday, Aug 13 2011 10:15AM - 12:15PM at San Antonio Convention Center in Room 210 B.

We bringtogether scholars from diverse disciplines and perspectives to focus on the following critical inter-linked areas: (1) innovation trajectories and alternative scenarios arising from West - East interactions; (2) organizing principles in the context of global innovation – West and East; (3) institutional and other mechanisms for integrating industrialized and developing economies (West and East).

The PDW panelists' presentations will incorporate Q&A and dialogue with participants. Panelists include David Audretschwho has pioneered research on entrepreneurship and written numerous articles in leading journals. His latest books are The Entrepreneurial Society and Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Economic Growth. Dan (Danny) Breznitz, an Industry Study Fellow of the Sloan Foundation (2008),has conducted comparative research on Rapid-Innovation-Based Industries and their globalization. His books include Innovation and the State:

Political Choice and Strategies for Growth in Israel, Taiwan, and Ireland (Yale University Press), (co-authored with Michael Murphree), and The Run of the Red

Queen: Government, Innovation, Globalization, and Economic Growth in China.

Felipe Monteiro focuses on knowledge sourcing by MNCs, open innovation, technology scouting and knowledge protection and emerging market multinationals and has published in Organization Science, MIT Sloan Management Review andBusiness Strategy Review. Michael Useem has authored many books and articles on leadership and decision making in Administrative Science Quarterly, California Management Review, Chicago Tribune, Fast Company, Fortune, Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, New York Times, Sloan Management Review, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal; he is also the editor of Wharton Leadership Digest. His latest book is "The India Way: How India's Top Business Leaders are Revolutionizing Management".Yanbo Wang's work spans economic sociology, technology entrepreneurship, venture capital, international strategy and the Chinese economy including competition dynamics between domestic and foreign firms in China. He focuses on factors shaping entrepreneurial behavior from both the positive perspective of knowledge creation and commercialization and the negative one of illegal activities such as financial fraud. Gita Surie's research focuses innovation, knowledge and technology transfer, distributed entrepreneurship and development and interactions between entrepreneurial firms and multinational organizations and includes a book, Knowledge, Organizational Evolution and Market Creation: The Globalization of Indian Firms from Steel to Software (Edward Elgar).

Pre-registration is highly recommended. You are encouraged to submit questions/issues prior to attending the workshop.

Contact: Gita SurieEmail: surie@adelphi.edu

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Greetings,

We would like to invite you to join a very timely caucus on 'Beyond learning from rare events: How to regulate the irregular?' at this year's AoM in San Antonio. The time and venue are: Monday, August 15 from 3-4:30 pm at Hilton Palacio del Rio (La Vista South).

The organisers are Chengwei Liu (Warwick Business School) and David Maslach (Ivey School of Business). The caucus will be focusing on three cases:

1. The recent Financial Crisis.

2. The Fukushima Nuclear Accident.

3. The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.

The cases can be downloaded here: http://tinyurl.com/reg-rare-events.

We are pleased to have Peter Madsen (BYU) and Shellwyn Weston (NYU, former VP at Goldman Sachs) as discussants. We are aiming to have a very intimate and high level discussion. We hope you can join us for this informal discussion about regulating rare events.

Yours sincerely,

Chengwei and David

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Dear Colleagues,

(Apologies for cross-posting)

We would like to invite you to attend the symposium on Innovation and Organizational Responses to Sustainability: An Institutional Perspective. This session brings together a series of papers focused on understanding the ways in which organizations devise and implement innovative new technologies as solutions to address the environmental challenges of our time. The symposium also features Professor Andrew Hoffman who will discuss future avenues of research at the intersection of innovation and sustainability. We hope that this session not only provides a forum for the exchange of ideas on these important topics, but also creates an opportunity to bring together a diverse set of scholars with interests in innovation, sustainability, and technology management.

We hope to see you in San Antonio!

Chad and Shon

Symposium Title: Innovation and Organizational Responses to Sustainability: An Institutional Perspective

Monday, Aug 15 2011 3:00PM - 4:30PM at San Antonio Convention Center in Room 206 B

Devising innovative solutions to the environmental challenges facing the world is one of the most pressing challenges of our time. Organizations are increasingly turning to new technologies as a path to a sustainable future, yet this path is fraught with a host of challenges beyond the mere effectiveness of the technology itself. In order for innovations to solve problems, they must be widely diffused and implemented as intended. However, new technologies are often not well understood, or valued. In some instances they may even be perceived as illegitimate or socially unacceptable. Furthermore, new technologies often confront regulatory obstacles and opposition from incumbents and other stakeholders. This symposium compiles a set of diverse, yet, related papers that address a variety of processes and mechanisms by which sustainable technologies and practices can emerge, spread, and become part of the taken-for-granted landscape of the broader global economy. Our hope is that this symposium will generate greater interest in the institutional context when examining business and the environment topics such as clean technology, climate change, and corporate sustainability.

Discussant: Andrew J. Hoffman; U. of Michigan
Chair: Shon R Hiatt; Harvard Business School
Organizer: W Chad Carlos; Cornell U.

What it Means to Be Sustainable: A Comparative Analysis of the Lay Models of Sustainability
Presenter: Klaus Weber; Northwestern U.
Presenter: Sara B. Soderstrom; U. of Michigan

Intermediaries in a Nascent Field: The Case of the Clean Development Mechanism
Presenter: Brandon H. Lee; London Business School

Innovation and Regulative Ambiguities in the U.S. Geothermal Power Sector
Presenter: Shon R Hiatt; Harvard Business School
Presenter: Sangchan Park; National U. of Singapore

The Evolving Influence of Social Movement Organizations on the U.S. Wind Power Industry
Presenter: W Chad Carlos; Cornell U.
Presenter: Wesley Sine; Cornell U.

W. Chad Carlos

PhD Candidate

Management & Organizations

Johnson Graduate School of Management

Cornell University

wcc22@cornell.edu

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Call For Papers

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Nicholas C. Mullins Award

The Nicholas C. Mullins prize is awarded each year by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) for an outstanding piece of scholarship by a graduate student in the field of Science and Technology Studies.

The winner receives a check for $US 1,000 and a plaque. The submission deadline is September 1, 2011. To submit a paper, send a PDF or Word file of the paper (or a functioning URL where it can be accessed). For further details on submission guidelines, please see the Mullins Prize page on the 4S website:

http://www.4sonline.org/prizes/mullins.

Members of the 2011 Mullins Award Committee are:

Laurel Smith-Doerr, Committee Chair

Boston University

Ldoerr@LdoerrbuLdoerr.LdoerreduLdoerr

Paul Mbatia

University of Nairobi

Stephen Zehr

University of Southern Indiana

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Dear Colleagues,

It appears that we still have space for a few more proposals for the Organization Science Winter Conference XVIII.

Just a quick reminder that panel proposals, posters and statement of interest in participation should be uploaded to the submission website at https://www.fuquaworld.duke.edu/open/fsc/OrgSciConfForm.html

(Call for Papers below)

I am looking forward to seeing many of you at the AOM.

Best Wishes,

Arie

Arie Y. Lewin
Professor Strategy and International Business

Director, Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER)
Duke University's Fuqua School of Business
100 Fuqua Drive, Box 90120, Durham, NC 27708-0120 USA
Tel +1.919.660.7654 | Fax +1.919.660.7769

Watch our video at www.fuqua.duke.edu/wakeup

Call for Papers

Organization Science Winter Conference XVIII

February 9 - 12, 2012

Formal Organizations Meet Social Networking

We are very pleased to announce the Eighteenth Annual Organization Science Winter Conference (OSWCXVIII).

OSWC-XVIII is sponsored by Organization Science in order to stimulate knowledge about organizations through experimentation and boundary-crossing conversation. It combines the leading-edge ideas of strategy and organization scholars, executives, entrepreneurs, and interested non-business scholars, in a community-enhancing

setting. The time and place are February 9 - 12, 2012 at the Sheraton Steamboat Hotel and Conference Center, Steamboat Springs Colorado.

The core theme revolves around the intersection of Formal Organizations and Social Networks. Specifically, how will formal organizations deal with and adapt to the next generation of employees who have grown up embedded in large-scale, ICT-enabled social networks? What will be the impact on organization structures, decision making, organization culture, routines, etc. when self organizing processes substitute for traditional top down by the book management?

There is a growing body of research and practice that touches on the proposed theme. Virtual organizations is an umbrella concept that encompasses research on groups of individuals whose members and resources may be distributed geographically and structurally who function as a coherent unit though the utilization of collaborative technologies. Virtual organizations include distributed workgroups, virtual teams, online communities or collaboratories. Virtual organizations often organize around flexible and resilient structures in contrast to predetermined hierarchical structures. The new reality facing today's managers is the need to not only understand virtual organizations but also to envision how to transform hierarchical organizations to function as an internal social network.. The early drivers involve the recognition that it is becoming increasingly rare that employees in the same department or unit work in a single location. Employees working together across different locations require special

coordination routines, expertise and problem solving capabilities. This trend to more virtual distributed structures in business organizations is now being joined by companies implementing social networking structures and processes in part as a response to pressure from new entrants steeped in social networking. This is likely to require adopting processes for searching information and arriving at decisions that are outcomes of self organizing processes more akin to interactions in social networks.

In recent years experience has accumulated with online communities and large-scale, ICTenabled social networks operating outside the boundaries of formal organizations.

As a practical matter, some formal organizations found it necessary to find an accommodation with, for example, open source software communities. Companies have had to address questions of customer defection, loss of control over intellectual property, employee contribution to these efforts, etc. Organization science scholars have studied open source software communities and the movement of innovative activity to the edges of organizations and into communities. .

Since the first social networking site opened its doors in 1999, usage of these communities for social interaction has skyrocketed. Increasingly, companies are experimenting with social networking for internal knowledge sharing.

Especially interesting are leading edge companies which have implemented companywide social networking tools such as Chatter (by salesforce.com). Dell for example has released Chatter to its entire workforce of over 100K employees. Turner Broadcasting is in the process of implementing another social networking tool throughout the organization. Similarly Cisco has also such an initiative underway involving a new model, the Dynamic Networked Organization (DNO). All three companies claim that they had to leapfrog into this "new world" in response to

pressure from new employees. Undoubtedly these companies and other early adopters

experience many instances of unanticipated outcomes and discover daily challenges affecting middle and senior managers as they adjust to an emerging managerial practice anchored in the self organizing processes of intra social networks.

It is all together clear that the phenomenon involving the intersection of the formal organization and social networking is underway with major implications for interdisciplinary organization science scholarship.

In the tradition of OSWC, we invite 2-3 page proposals for plenary panels and interactive poster papers on the theme of the conference. If you are interested in attending OSWC-XVIII but not as participant on the program please submit a statement expressing your desire to participate and describing your interest in the intersection of formal organizations and social networking.

The application deadline for proposals or individual applications to attend is November 4, 2011.

As has been the case in the past, much of the plenary program is created from proposals and suggestions received from scholars wishing to participate in OSWC. Most authors will be invited to join another highly acclaimed OSWC tradition-the open-ended evening-long (7–10pm) Interactive Poster Sessions accompanied with finger food, wine, soft drinks and desserts.

Historically, 50% of the OSWC attendee roster is reserved for participants new to the conference. Invitations to attend will be extended by the program committee for OSWC-XVIII, Janet Fulk, Arie Lewin, Lee Sproull and Tony O'Driscoll. Panel proposals, posters and statement of interest in participation should be uploaded to the submission website at https://www.fuquaworld.duke.edu/open/fsc/OrgSciConfForm.html.

Individuals having substantive questions are invited to contact the program co-chairs for OSWCXVIII:Janet Fulk (fulk@usc.edu); Arie Lewin (ayl3@duke.edu); Tony O'Driscoll (to15@duke.edu); or Lee Sproull (lsproull@stern.nyu.edu).

The co-conveners of OSWC XVIII are Professor Dan Levinthal (Levinthal@wharton.upenn.edu), Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and Professor

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Call for papers

Special issue of Technovation

Honoring the life's work of Bruce Kirchhoff

Submission deadline: December 1, 2011

Guest editor: Scott Newbert, Villanova University

Bruce A. Kirchhoff, Ph.D., one of the entrepreneurship field's true pioneers, passed away on May 1, 2011 at the age of 73. Bruce served as distinguished professor of entrepreneurship and Director of the Technological Entrepreneurship Program at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). Over the course of his decades-long academic career, Bruce published more than 100 articles on entrepreneurship, economic development, and strategy in a variety of academic journals, books, trade publications, and popular media and was cited by Inc. magazine as one of the top 16 entrepreneurship researchers in the United States.

Prior to joining NJIT, Bruce served on the faculties of Babson College, California Polytechnic State University, Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Jönköping International Business School of Sweden, Purdue University, the University of Nebraska at Omaha, and the University of Utah. Bruce also served the profession as a founding member of the Entrepreneurship Research Consortium, which conducted the first Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics (PSED I), and as president and executive vice president of the International Council for Small Business. Bruce's success as a scholar was due in no small part to his vast professional experience, which included service as Chief Economist and President of the USA office for the United States Small Business Administration, Assistant Director of the Minority Business Development Agency in the United States Department of Commerce, an economic development consultant with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Peru and Guatemala and with the Peace Corps in Moldova, as well as founder of two successful technology businesses. In total, Bruce consulted for more than 200 small businesses throughout the Americas, earning six awards for excellence in small business consulting from the United States Small Business Association. Bruce was also instrumental in developing the highly acclaimed Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program, which have been among the most influential US government policies for facilitating research and development in small, high-technology firms.

As a scholar, Bruce spent his career researching how new and small independently-owned firms contribute to job creation and wealth redistribution. He referred to this process as "dynamic capitalism" in order to reflect the changing nature of the business community (Kirchhoff, 1994). Bruce held a largely Austrian view of economics, arguing against the general equilibrium model and in favor of Schumpeter's view of capitalism as a cyclical process of creative destruction (Kirchhoff, 1991) for which he found compelling empirical evidence to support (Kirchhoff, 1989). Bruce further believed that among entrepreneurial firms, those that sought to exploit disruptive technologies (either through basic research or via technology transfer partnerships) had the greatest effect on economic development and growth. As a result, Bruce was a strong advocate for government policy that facilitated new firm entry in general (Kirchhoff and Phillips, 1988) and high-tech new firm entry in particular (Kirchhoff et al., 2007; Romig et al., 2007).

In the spirit of Bruce Kirchhoff's scholarly achievements, this special issue seeks manuscripts that focus on the intersection of entrepreneurship, technology, and economic development and growth. As it was important to Bruce, it is also important to this special issue that contributions have substantive implications not only for academics seeking to extend theory, but also for both practicing entrepreneurs seeking to build new and/or small organizations and policy-makers interested in promoting the welfare of local and/or national communities. The following is a list of potential topics for the special issue:

 Do small firms contribute to economic growth and development in the same way that new firms do?

 What role do new/small firms play in the transfer of disruptive technologies? How can public policy facilitate that commercialization process?

 How has the post-recession environment affected new firm births and/or small firm growth? Are these effects more or less pronounced in high-tech industries and what are the implications of such an effect?

 How can public policy promote new firm births and/or small firm growth in general? How effective are existing programs of this nature? Does program effectiveness vary by geographic region (i.e., states, nations)? Upon what additional factors (i.e., institutional environment) is the success of such programs contingent?

 Is there a connection between high-tech and high growth entrepreneurial firms? Does that connection (if it exists) warrant increased public support given the relatively low incidence of high-tech firms?

 Does the nature of public support for new and small high-growth firms differ from that required by other types of firms? What is the optimal mix of public support for new and small firms by firm type?

These are just a sampling of the topics that could be addressed, and submissions on other related topics, provided they draw upon the general research interests of the late Bruce Kirchhoff, are welcome. Please submit manuscripts to http://ees.elsevier.com/technovation/ by December 1, 2011. Authors should indicate that they would like to the submission to be considered for this special issue by designating the Article Type as "Special Issue: Bruce Kirchhoff Memorial." Questions regarding any aspect of this special issue may be directed to the guest editor, Scott Newbert, at scott.newbert@villanova.edu.

Cited references

Kirchhoff, B.A. 1989. Creative destruction among industrial firms in the United States. Small Business Economics 1 (3), 161-174.

Kirchhoff, B.A. 1991. Entrepreneurship's contribution to economics. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 16 (2), 93-112.

Kirchhoff, B.A. 1994. Entrepreneurship and Dynamic Capitalism: The Economics of Business Firm Formation and Growth. Praeger, Westport CT.

Kirchhoff, B.A, Newbert, S.L., Hasan, I., Armington, C. 2007. The influence of university R&D expenditures on new business formations and employment growth. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 31 (4), 543-559.

Kirchhoff, B.A, Phillips, B.D. 1988. The effect of firm formation and growth on job creation in the United States. Journal of Business Venturing 3 (4), 261-272.

Romig, A., Baker, A., Johannes J., Zipperian, T., Eijkel, K., Kirchhoff, B., Mani, H.S., Rao, C.N.R., Walsh, S. 2007. An introduction to nanotechnology policy: Opportunities and constraints for emerging and established economies. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 74 (9), 1634-1642.

Scott L. Newbert, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Management

Villanova School of Business

Villanova University

2077 Bartley Hall

800 Lancaster Avenue

Villanova, Pennsylvania 19085 USA

Tel.: +1 610-519-5440

Fax: +1 610-519-6566

Email: scott.newbert@villanova.edu

Web: www.homepage.villanova.edu/scott.newbert

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First, It is our pleasure to let you know that we have received the confirmation of inclusion of 14^th and 15^th IBIMA Proceedings in Thomson Reuters (ISI) index. For your records, you can download the letter of confirmation at IBIMA website www.ibima.org

17^th IBIMA Conference - Call for papers

The 17th IBIMA Conference http://www.ibima.org - Milan, Italy 14-15 November 2011

Multiple themes under: Creating Global Competitive Economies: A 360-degree Approach

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Greetings. I am interested in the question of when valuable and rare human capital may lead to a sustained competitive advantage. I'd like to get your opinion in the form of a survey that offers some brief scenarios and asks the nature of the advantage (if any).

Please help out – I kept it quite short recognizing the constraints on people's time. Here is the link:

https://buswisc.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_7VBYZGInfJHNWFS

Thanks so much!

-Russ

Russell Coff, Wisconsin Naming Partners Professor of Strategic Management

University of Wisconsin, 975 University Ave., 4259 Grainger Hall, Madison, WI 53706

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Apologies for cross-posting:

Colleagues-

I would like to invite you to participate in an exciting research project - the Entrepreneurship Education Project (see www.entrepeduc.org for more information). To date we have collected roughly 15,000 responses from hundreds of universities around the world, which would provide you access to some great data to understand what is happening in entrepreneurship education, how it impacts students' and their career choices and progression, and also access to a wonderful group of like-minded scholars!

I have tried to make this process as easy as possible for you:

I would ask you to complete a short survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ented to gather information about your university.

I would then develop a web-based (or paper-and-pencil if preferable) survey that you can ask students at your university to complete. We would like you to ask as many students from the following groups to participate: 1) entrepreneurship undergraduate students, 2) business undergraduate students not taking entrepreneurship courses, and 3) non-business undergraduate students

If you are interested in participating, or if you have any questions or concerns, please let me know.

Thank you again for your time, and have a great day!

Doan

Dr. Doan Winkel

Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship

Illinois State University

Campus Mailbox 5580

Normal, IL 61790

(309) 438-2736

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Job Positions

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With apologies for cross postings:

The Department of Management & Marketing at Western Illinois University in Macomb, IL, USA will be conducting a national search for several positions this year.

A search for a Professor and Department Chair has been approved, and the announcement for this position is attached.

In addition, approval is anticipated to search for four tenure-track faculty members, at the assistant/associate rank, with teaching specialties in the following areas:

Business Law / Business Ethics & Social Responsibility Human Resources Management Organizational Behavior / Organization Development & Change Operations Management

The ability to teach in one or more other management areas such as business strategy, organization theory, organizations and the natural environment, supply chain management, international management and/or general management is also a plus. The standard teaching load within the department is three courses per semester.

Further information on these positions can be obtained by contacting Dr. Gordon Rands, Interim Chairperson of the Department of Management and Marketing, whose contact information is below. Dr. Rands will be attending the Academy of Management meetings in San Antonio, and will be glad to answer questions about the positions and the university there. Feel free to e-mail him at GP-Rands@wiu.edu or contact him via the Academy of Management meetings messaging service.

Please feel free to forward this message to colleagues and professional networks.

Dr. Gordon Rands, Interim Chair

Department of Management & Marketing

Stipes 414

Western Illinois University

1 University Circle

Macomb, IL 61455 USA

phone: 309-298-1535

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Entrepreneurship: The Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh invites applications for an open rank, non-tenure stream position in Entrepreneurship to help develop and scale up the emerging Entrepreneurship program at the Katz School starting Fall 2012 (subject to budgetary approval).

We seek an academically qualified individual (PhD required) with an interest in teaching, curriculum development, and research. Successful candidates will show evidence of interest and ability to publish in peer reviewed journals. The position offers an opportunity to work with the various University centers that assist University inventors and local start-ups in commercializing new technologies and establishing new businesses. Applicants should provide a curriculum vita, three letters of reference, evidence of teaching effectiveness, and examples of working papers and/or publications. Electronic submission of applications (to drfagan@katz.pitt.edu) preferred but hard copies of application materials may be sent to Entrepreneurship Search Committee, c/o Danean Fagan, Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA 15260. The application deadline is October 1, 2011.

The University of Pittsburgh is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and members of minority groups under-represented in academia are especially encouraged to apply.

Gee Chin

Katz Graduate School of Business

University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, PA 15260

Tel: 412.648.1569

Fax: 412.648.1552

geechin@katz.pitt.edu

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The Strategic Management Department at the Fox School of Business, Temple University, is seeking to recruit two [2] Non-Tenure-Track [NTT] faculty (this is in addition to the 2 Tenure-Track faculty also announced, we have 4 positions total). The ideal candidate will possess a proven record of strong teaching and earned Ph.D., and will be able to teach a variety of courses, such as Strategy and International Business [IB], or Strategy and Entrepreneurship, preferably at both the Undergraduate and Master's levels.

The Fox School has made major strides in recent years, and we are among the top-ranked programs in IB and Entrepreneurship. Philadelphia is an extremely attractive city, and we offer a competitive salary and an immediate starting date or for the next academic year. Temple University is an equal opportunity employer.

Kindly submit cover letter, CV, and three recommendation letters along with samples of your working papers to the department chair, Professor Arvind Parkhe, at aparkhe@temple.edu. The position will remain open until filled. However, we will start looking at candidates starting this fall.

If you wish to meet informally with members of the recruitment committee at the Academy meeting in San Antonio to find out more about the positions, please email MB Sarkar at mbsarkar@temple.edu as soon as possible.

Apologies for cross-posting.

Robert C. McNamee

Academic Director / Assistant Professor

Innovation & Entrepreneurship Institute (IEI)

Fox Business School, Temple University

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We are recruiting for multiple Tenure Track and Non-Tenure Track Faculty positions.

Job Description: Karachi School of Business and Leadership (KSBL) Seeks Tenure-Track and Non-Tenure Track Faculty

With support from University of Cambridge's Judge Business School, the Karachi School for Business and Leadership is currently in development and will commence the KSBL MBA in September 2012.

Located in the largest city in Pakistan and the commercial, trade and banking capital of the country, KSBL intends to become the premier business school in the region. More information about KSBL

and KEI can be found on their website: www.KSBL.org.

KSBL is seeking several tenure track faculty members (research‐active), as well as a number of non tenure‐track ones (whose primary responsibility will be teaching) in the areas of Strategy,

Organizational Behaviour, Marketing, Finance, Entrepreneurship, Operations Management and Economics.

Tenure track faculty members will be expected to contribute substantially to research by publishing work of high intellectual standard. In most cases, this will mean that a person appointed to a

tenure‐track teaching position will already have a PhD degree and either an established publication record, or have sufficient work in the pipeline to display clear potential for such a pathway. The

typical teaching load will be highly reasonable.

Research expectations from non‐tenure track candidates will be lower but they will be expected to contribute to teaching and curriculum development in their respective area and to KSBL Executive

Education programmes. Student project administration and advising are also expected. Up to 20% of work time may be spent on outside work, except, of course, that any such outside

commitments must not interfere with the professor's performance in his/her academic work. There is an entitlement to sabbatical leave, accumulated on the basis of one year's leave for every six years

in office.

Finally, faculty members will have opportunities to spend time at Cambridge University and to interact with Cambridge faculty.

This is a highly attractive opportunity to be part of an emerging business school, which will soon make its name in the region. The salaries will be globally competitive and faculty members will be

located in a brand new custom built building designed by one of the world's leading architects, William McDonough.

Appointment will be from June 1, 2012, or as soon as possible thereafter. If you are interested, please write to:

Dean

Karachi School for Business and Leadership

Dawood Centre

M.T. Khan Road

Karachi 75530

Pakistan

Dean@KSBL.org

www.KSBL.org

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Darlene,