If you would like to contribute to the shaping of the 2012 Academy Program, sign up now to be a TIM reviewer. We depend on you to create an exciting and engaging program for next August!

The review period is from mid-January to February 9, 2012 (Review Deadline).

To sign up, please visit http://review.aomonline.org/ and click the "Sign Up Now" button.

For those that have reviewed for the TIM division in the past: thank you for your contributions! Note that even if you have reviewed in the past, you still need to sign up again for the 2012 Annual Meeting.

Best wishes.

Riitta Katila, 2012 TIM Program Chair

Associate Professor

Management Science & Engineering Department Stanford Technology Ventures Program Stanford University

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2011 INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition

It is my great pleasure to announce this year's finalists in the INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition. We received 83 proposals. The competition was extremely fierce, with many innovative and high-quality proposals submitted. Eight finalists were selected based on evaluations by three reviewers. If you know any of the finalists, please offer them your heartiest congratulations for this significant accomplishment. This year's finalists are:

Michael Bikard

MIT, Sloan School of Management

"Turning Science into Technology: Organizations and the Commercialization of Simultaneous and Independent Discoveries"

Andreea Gorbatai

Harvard University, Department of Sociology

"Social Structure and Mechanisms of Collective Production: Evidence from Wikipedia"

Shoko Kato

Syracuse University, Whitman School of Management

"Entrepreneurship as a Process of Self-Fulfillment: Well-Being, Affect, and Behavioral Strategies"

Jessica Kennedy

University of California - Berkeley, Haas School of Business

"Power and Dissent: Implications for Ethics in Organizations"

Kenji Klein

University of California - Irvine, Paul Merage School of Business

"Profound Institutional Change in the Face of Resistance: Identity, Entrepreneurship, and Opportunity Cascades"

Erin Scott

Washington University in St. Louis, Olin Business School

"The Impact of Regulation on Entrepreneurship and Innovation: The Case of Bail Bonds"

Daniel Smith

Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Psychology

"Investigating the Implications of Implicit Personality for Leadership in Stressful and Dangerous Situations: A First Step"

Jeffrey Treem

Northwestern University, Department of Communication Studies

"Technologically-Mediated Presentations of Expertise in Organizations"

These eight finalists will present their dissertation proposals at the INFORMS conference in Charlotte, NC on November 12th to the following distinguished panel of judges who will select the winner and runner-up:

Richard M. Burton, Duke University

Scott D. Graffin, University of Georgia

Donald E. Hatfield, Virginia Tech University

Benjamin Herndon, Georgia Institute of Technology

Candace Jones, Boston College

Anne S. Miner, University of Wisconsin

James B. Wade, Emory University

James P. Walsh, University of Michigan

Finally, I would like to thank the 91 scholars who generously volunteered their time to provide reviews of the candidate proposals. This competition would be nothing without them, and I am grateful to them for their willingness to provide thoughtful and timely feedback. The individuals who reviewed for this year's competition are:

Aldag, Ramon

Amburgey, Terry

Anderson, Marc

Bakker, Rene

Beckman, Christine

Benner, Mary

Bigelow, Lyda

Boal, Kim

Boyle, Elizabeth

Brickson, Shelley

Bromiley, Phil

Broschak, Joe

Burton, Rich

Byabashaija, Warren

Cannella, Albert

Cater, James

Certo, Trevis

Dane, Erik

Deephouse, David

Dietz, Graham

Dukerich, Janet

Elms, Heather

Gardener, William

Garnett, Flannery

Giambatista, Robert

Glynn, Mary Ann

Gong, Yan

Graffin, Scott

Greenwald, Jessica

Haleblian, Jerayr

Hatfield, Donald

Hmieleski, Keith Mark

Hoetker, Glenn

Holzinger, Ingo

Jain, Sanjay

Jones, Thomas

Joshi, Amol

Kim, Phillip

Kim, June-Young

Kim, Jay

Kluemper, Don

Kraatz, Matthew

Kristof-Brown, Amy

Labianca, Giuseppe

Lampel, Joseph

Lang, Peter

Lee, Thomas

Lewicki, Roy

London, Ted

McGuire, Jean

Menon, Tanya

Mitchell, Marie

Moliterno, Thomas

Moore, James

Mumford, Mike

O'Connor, Kathleen

Okhuysen, Gerardo

Orlikowski, Wanda

Perez-Nordtvedt, Liliana

Phelps, Corey

Pollock, Timothy

Poppo, Laura

Priem, Richard

Reid, Erin

Rerup, Claus

Rockart, Scott

Seidel, Marc-David

Shipp, Abbie

Shrader, Brad

Skilton, Paul

Smith-Crowe, Kristin

Sonenshein, Scott

Stajkovic, Alex

Sullivan, Bilian

Szulanski, Gabriel

Taeube, Florian

Taylor, Shannon

Toffel, Michael

Trevino, Linda

Uhl-Bien, Mary

Uhlenbruck, Klaus

Van Auken, Howard

Wade, James

Washington, Marvin

Werbel, James

White, Robert

Zellmer-Bruhn, Mary

Zhang, Jing

Zuckerman, Ezra

Andreas Schwab

aschwab@iastate.edu

2011 INFORMS Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition Chair

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Call For Papers

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The Tilburg Conference on Innovation: Recombining Innovation Research

June 15-17, 2012

Center for Innovation Research (CIR)

Tilburg University, The Netherlands

Innovation is a highly complex process in which managers juggle technical,

organizational, economic, social, and psychological aspects, each having distinct effects on innovation inputs, processes, and outcomes. All these aspects are contingent on time and space and affect the innovation process and outcomes at multiple levels. Due to this diversity of factors and contingencies the field of innovation research is populated by scholars from many disciplines studying a wide range of questions. While this richness is an asset, it can also result in fragmentation and losing "the big picture" about how innovation unfolds in and around organizations. Together, we will aim to build bridges

between the various subfields, topics and disciplines, with quality of research being the predominant goal.

Following the highly successful conference held in 2010, the second international conference of the Center for Innovation Research at Tilburg University will bring together exemplary scholars who study how innovation relates with the strategy, organization, learning and performance of corporate and other entities. We are open to a variety of theoretical perspectives and welcome papers that incorporate various levels that can affect innovation – e.g. nations, sectors, networks, clusters, single organizations, business units, teams or individuals – as long as the papers recognize and contribute to the understanding of innovation as an organizational phenomenon. We are looking

mainly for empirical papers, but strong, forward-looking theoretical contributions are also welcome. Please join us for two days of intensive discussion and dialogue in the lush atmosphere of "De Rosep" resort.

The conference will take place at the Rosep Resort that also offers ample possibility for accommodation. We encourage all conference participants to stay at the conference venue due to co-location benefits and scarcity of alternative hotels nearby. An added attraction of the conference is the opportunity to visit the southern Netherlands in spring and sample the best local beers Belgium and the Netherlands have to offer. For all conference information, see the conference website:

www.tilburguniversity.edu/research/institutes-and-research-groups/cir/conferences/june2012.

Confirmed speakers/special guests include:

Dan Levinthal, Will Mitchell, Andrew van de Ven, Joe Lampel

Submission process: Please submit a full paper to cir@uvt.nl by February 15, 2012. The authors of selected papers will be notified by March 30, 2012.

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Call for Participants

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Job Positions

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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 December 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.

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Department of Management Science & Innovation

University College London

We are seeking applications for one or more faculty positions at any level in the areas of management science, operations research or operations management, with an anticipated start of 1 September 2012.

University College London (UCL) is London's leading multi-disciplinary university and one of the world's foremost research universities. UCL has 21,000 students and 4,000 academic staff in 54 academic departments. Academic staff and former students of UCL have won 20 Nobel Prizes.

The Department of Management Science & Innovation offers BSc, MSc and PhD programmes in management, technology entrepreneurship, information management for business and management science & operations.

Candidates should have a focus on publishing articles in top journals. We are looking for people with both a theoretical and empirical research focus, in all areas of operations management and management science, but we are particularly interested in research focusing on technology and innovation management.

Salary is competitive with top US business schools, and research facilities and support are excellent.  The teaching load is light and designed to maximize research time: two courses per year.

See www.ucl.ac.uk/msi for more information about the Department of Management Science & innovation.

If interested, please send an e-mail with an expression of interest to Jackie Sheehan (jacqueline.sheehan@ucl.ac.uk), with a CV. We will then invite shortlisted applicants to submit a formal application.

Bert De Reyck

PA Jackie Sheehan | +44 (0)20 7679 0446 | jacqueline.sheehan@ucl.ac.uk
www.ucl.ac.uk/msi | London's global university

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Darlene Alexander-Houle

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