TIM Division List Serve
Vol. 9, No. 10 (April 10, 2012)
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· Announcements
o PRACTICE THEME COMMITTEE of the ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT, PRACTICE IMPACT AWARD (PIA)
o Strascheg Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SIIE) of EBS Business School and High-Technology-Park MikroFORUM awarding the Best-Paper-Award Innovation Management 2012
o Asia & Poverty: Closing the Great Divide Through Entrepreneurship & Innovation 5 page proposals due August 15, 2012.
o Celebrating the official publication of the inaugural issue of the South Asian Journal of Global Business Research, Emerald is inviting you to read the inaugural issue online.
o Celebrate the official publication of the inaugural issue of the South Asian Journal of Global Business Research (SAJGBR), Emerald is inviting you to read the inaugural issue online
· Call for Papers
o TECHNOVATION Special Issue on National Innovation Systems and Social Entrepreneurship Submission of abstract by April 25th, 2012
o The 23rd Gateway Entrepreneurship Research Conference, April 20-22, 2012
Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO
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· Call for Participants
o 2012 meeting of the Eastern Academy of Management at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel, Philadelphia, PA from May 9 to May 12, 2012.
o Handbook of Research on Techno-entrepreneurship, published in 2007, Edward Elgar Publishing has asked me to work on the edition of a second volume.
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· Job Positions
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Dear AOM Members
The PRACTICE THEME COMMITTEE of the ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT
proudly announces
the
PRACTICE IMPACT AWARD (PIA)
The AOM Practice Impact Award seeks to recognize and celebrate an outstanding scholar for her or his contribution to research and theory in practice based studies and overall impact on managerial and organizational practices. The nominee should have a track record of quality publications in academic journals and books, and preferably recognized practitioner relevant journals (e.g. Academy of Management Perspectives, Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan, etc.) as well as other outlets. To nominate an academic who you believe has had a major impact on practice based studies please send an email containing a cover letter listing the reasons for your nomination and the nominee's CV to the PTC Awards Committee.
2012 SELECTION COMMITTEE
Michael West, Lancaster University Management School
Elena Antonacopoulou, University of Liverpool
Richard Badham, Macquarie Graduate School of Management
Daniela Zuin - Head of Strategy Development, T-Systems (Deutsche Telekom Group)
Tyrone Pitsis, Newcastle University Business School
Jochen Schweitzer, UTS Business School, University of Technology, Sydney
2012 NOMINATION PROCESS
Who is eligible to nominate? Any member of the Academy of Management may nominate candidates.
Who can be nominated? Any scholar with a proven track record of advancing theory, research and practice from a practice based studies approach can be nominated.
How long is the period for nominations? The nomination period opens April 11th and closes May 30th, 2012. Award recipients will be contacted via email within three weeks of the closing date.
How to submit a nomination? Please send you nomination incl. a cover letter and the nominee's CV to ptcawards@uts.edu.au. Please use the following subject line: PIA 2012 [Name of nominee], e.g. PIA 2012 John B. Anacademic.
For further questions please contact the Practice Theme Awards Committee at ptcawards@uts.edu.au.
DR JOCHEN SCHWEITZER
Senior Lecturer, UTS Business School
University of Technology, Sydney
PO Box 123 Broadway NSW 2007 Australia
Phone + 61 2 9514 3641
Email jochen.schweitzer@uts.edu.au
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Dear colleagues,
I wold like to remind you of the upcoming deadline for our Best-Paper-Award for which submission are due in 6 days.
For the 7th successive year, the Strascheg Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SIIE) of EBS Business School (www.ebs.edu/siie) and High-Technology-Park MikroFORUM (http://www.mikroforum.de/
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Best-Paper-Award Innovation Management 2012 including prize money of € 5,000.
All journal articles with tangible managerial implications regarding Innovation or Technology Management, which have been published or accepted for publication after January 1, 2011, qualify for the award.
The patron of the award is Hermann-Josef Lamberti, Chief Operating Officer, Deutsche Bank.
Important dates:
· Deadline for paper submissions: April 10, 2012
· Presentations of the three short-listed papers and award ceremony: June 28, 2012 at EBS Business School in Oestrich-Winkel (near Frankfurt)
For more information please visit: ">http://www.bestpaperaward.de/">www.bestpaperaward.de
In the last three years, the first prizes went to:
· Ella Miron-Spektor, Miriam Erez & Eitan Naveh: "The effect of conformists and attentive-to-detail members on team innovation: reconciling the innovation paradox" – Academy of Management Journal
· Oliver Alexy, Paolo Criscuolo & Ammon Salter: "Does IP Strategy Have to Cripple Open Innovation" – MIT Sloan Management Review
· Marc Gruber, Ian C. MacMillan & James D. Thompson: "Look before you Leap: Market Opportunity Identification in Emerging Technology Firms" – Management Science
Other finalists include:
· Pedro Oliveira & Eric von Hippel: "Users as Service Innovators: The Case of Banking Services" – Research Policy
· 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
We are looking forward to receiving your publications and your participation in this innovative and highly-anticipated event!
Best regards,
Florian
Prof. Dr. Florian A. Täube
Assistant Professor of Growth Management
EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht
EBS Business School
Department of Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship (IME)
Strascheg Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SIIE)
Rheingaustraße 1
(Besucheradresse/ Visiting address: Burgstraße 5)
65375 Oestrich-Winkel
GERMANY
Phone: +49 611 7102 1375
Fax: +49 611 7102 10 1375
florian.taeube@ebs.edu
www.ebs.edu/ime
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Dear Colleagues,
To celebrate the official publication of the inaugural issue of the South Asian Journal of Global Business Research (SAJGBR), Emerald is inviting you to read the inaugural issue online.
SAJGBR, the official journal of the South Asian Academy of Management and supported by founding regional host COMSATS Institute for Informational Technology in Pakistan, provides a unified platform to publish research that links scholarly communities in South Asia with the rest of the world. Please see below some examples of papers in the inaugural issue:
"Editor's Perspective: Does South Asia Matter? Rethinking South Asia as Relevant in International Business Research" by Shaista E. Khilji
In this paper, the Editor highlights the regional importance of South Asia in international business research. It places South Asian Journal of Global Business Research, with its emphasis on South Asian economies, organizations and people, as an important journal for developing knowledge relating to South Asian business practices, deepening our understanding of South Asia, and increasing the output of high impact research focused on the region.
"Great (Transformational) Leadership = Charisma +Vision" by Naresh Khatri, Klaus J. Templer and Pawan S. Budhwar
In this paper, the authors identify charisma and vision as two basic components of transformational leadership and aim to develop measures of charisma and vision and to examine their influences on follower-level outcomes in four countries, namely, India, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States
The full table of contents is as follows:
Editor's Perspective: Does South Asia Matter?
Rethinking South Asia as Relevant in International Business Research
Dr Shaista E. Khilji
CEO Perspective: Does South Asia Matter? An Interview With Hexaware's P. R. Chandrasekar
Kelly D. Harper & Ven Sriram
Personal Perspective: Reflections of the 2011 Academy of Management Meeting
Candice D. Matthews
Research Articles
Great (Transformational) Leadership = Charisma + Vision
Naresh Khatri, Klaus J. Templer, Pawan S. Budhwar
Market concentration and pricing behavior of Sri Lankan banks
Shrimal Perera, Michael Skully, My Nguyen
Macroeconomic factors determining FDI impact on Pakistan's growth
Khalid Zaman, Iqtidar Ali Shah, Muhammad Mushtaq Khan, Mehboob Ahmad
Policy Review
Reform Strategies in South Asia and China: A Comparative Analysis
Pradumna B. Rana
Country Perspective
Work-Life Balance in South East Asia: The Indian Experience
Ujvala Rajadhyaksha
Analyzing HRD & NHRD: The road ahead for Afghanistan
Walter Demartis, Candice D. Matthews & Shaista E. Khilji
Book Review
Is the "Indian way" the new answer?
Pramila Rao
To view these papers please log on to: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/new_launch/index.htm. The free trial will begin on 1st April and end on 1st June 2012.
The Editor is inviting papers for inclusion in forthcoming issues. For more information on how to submit manuscripts please consult the journal's author guidelines.
If you would like to be notified about future issues, you can register to the journal table of contents alerts at www.emeraldinsight.com/2045-4457.htm. We have also made available an online recommendation form if you wish to recommend the journal to your librarian.
I hope you enjoy reading the first papers of SAJGBR and cite them as appropriate. We welcome your feedback and questions.
Kind regards,
Jamie
Jamie Allen
Assistant Publisher: New Launches
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Tel:+44 (0) 1274 515675
Email: jallen@emeraldinsight.com
www.emeraldinsight.com
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Call For Papers
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TECHNOVATION Special Issue on
"National Innovation Systems and Social Entrepreneurship"
Key Dates:
April 25th, 2012 Abstract Submission
May 25th, 2012 Submission of full papers for High Tech Small Firms Conference
http://www.utwente.nl/mb/nikos/events/htsf/2010/
Presentation and workshop (end of May/beginning of June)
Anticipated date of publication Mid-2013
We are very pleased to announce a Special Issue on "National Innovation Systems and Social Entrepreneurship". We aim to stimulate theory and understanding about national innovation systems and how these institutions can solve socio-economic problems endemic to the developing world. We provide some sample topics for you to review in the topic section below, but please do not limit yourself to the listed topics.
Increasing integration of East and West via boundary-crossing interactions aided by information and communication technologies has enabled developing economies to participate in world markets. However, the benefits of globalization have yet to reach the rural poor who lack access to education, healthcare, water, sanitation and employment opportunities. Most national systems in developing economies were established to promote modernization via the adoption of new technologies in strategic industries. Thus, the focus in industrialized countries was chiefly on large-scale industrial technologies that could be scaled efficiently with innovation largely conducted within the firm. This model was diffused to developing countries.
Moreover, national systems of innovation that were deliberately constructed beginning in the 1970s in economies like Brazil, Korea, India and China, had focused on replicating models. These models were borrowed from industrialized countries and emphasized large organizations in strategic industries. However, from the mid-1990s, the development of a new information infrastructure enabled participation by leading players of the developing world. But, larger problems of inclusion and access continued to exist. In the current context of high growth, rising aspirations and lagging rural regions, the promise of information technologies can be leveraged to adapt national innovation systems for the developing world.
We invite papers for a special issue on "National Innovation Systems and Social Entrepreneurship". Sample topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
· What are the ways we can provide clarity on the concept of social entrepreneurship?
· To what extent are national innovation systems ready for solving problems at the base of the pyramid? What are the current strengths and weaknesses of national systems in this regard?
· What innovative technologies and entrepreneurial models would enable rural populations to gain access to affordable education, healthcare and sanitation?
· How can existing innovation systems support social entrepreneurship? How should these systems be altered to facilitate access and distribution of services and products to outlying and rural populations?
· How should innovation systems be modified to enable rural populations to build capabilities and participate in markets?
· What kinds of support would new venture incubation in rural areas require? What systems exist to support such ventures? How should these systems be altered to promote entrepreneurship in these areas?
· What technologies can we take advantage of to promote agglomeration via social entrepreneurship in rural regions?
· What are the human capital implications of operating in a borderless world for national innovation systems? How should these be accommodated by national innovation policy?
· How have public-private partnerships addressed these challenges? Are they a useful mechanism for solving socio-economic problems in developing economies?
· What kinds of performance metrics should national innovation systems seek to incorporate to promote social entrepreneurship?
We are interested in a wide range of papers including quantitative, qualitative and case-based research. We welcome a variety of approaches to research that can direct us to innovative solutions. Abstract submissions are due to the editors on April 25th, 2011. A special session(s) of papers will occur at the High Tech Small Firms Conference at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Papers presented at this conference will be provided feedback to assist in preparing the papers for the special issue. However, participation in the conference is not required for consideration in the special issue. Additional information on scope and style requirements is available at:
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/422925/authorinstructions
Key Dates:
April 25th, 2012 Abstract Submission
May 25th, 2012 Submission of full papers for High Tech Small Firms Conference
http://www.utwente.nl/mb/nikos/events/htsf/2010/
Presentation and workshop (end of May/beginning of June)
Anticipated date of publication Mid-2013
Submissions can be made to any of the special issue editors below:
Dr. Gita Surie
Robert B. Willumstad School of Business, Adelphi University New York & Senior Fellow The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Email: surie@adelphi.edu
Dr. Aard Groen
Professor of Innovative Entrepreneurship Nikos: Dutch Institute for Knowledge Entrepreneurship University of Twente Enschede, Netherlands
a.j.groen@utwente.nl
Dr. Steven T. Walsh
Black Professor of Entrepreneurship Anderson School of Management,
University of New Mexico walsh@unm.edu
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The 23rd Gateway Entrepreneurship Research Conference, April 20-22, 2012
Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO
Primary sponsorship comes from the Kauffman Foundation with scholarship support from the Coleman Foundation and additional support from the Kern Entrepreneurship Education Network.
Since its start in 1987, Saint Louis University's Gateway Series for Entrepreneurship Research has promoted advances in scholarship on entrepreneurship and related disciplines. At the Gateway conference, a general foundation is laid by the keynote speaker. The keynote address starts the meeting and provides a common frame of reference and point of departure. Then work will take place in small to medium sized groups exploring research and techniques applicable to the theme. The goal is to create an environment that maximizes opportunity for informal group discussion and provides connections and research opportunities for the participants. Other than the keynote speaker, no other Gateway participant needs to submit a paper to attend the conference.
The topic for the 2012 conference is: Technology Commercialization: Have we learned anything? Keynote address will be given by Kathleen Allen, of the USC Marshall School of Business.
Economic growth happens when innovation meets entrepreneurship. With the passage of the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980, universities were permitted to commercialize their federally funded research. But it wasn't until the mid-1990's that universities began in earnest to develop programs to facilitate commercialization and technology entrepreneurship. Despite this effort, today we still have not figured out how to best move more of our research into the market to benefit society. In fact, the private sector struggles with many of the same issues as universities do. What have we learned? What is the role of education in facilitating technology entrepreneurship, commercialization, and economic development? Where are the gaps in research and where should we focus our efforts now? The entrepreneurship teaching and research communities have vital roles to play in the economic growth of any region and every country. We will identify what those roles are and how we can accelerate more effective technology commercialization going forward.
Kathleen Allen, PhD, is a professor of entrepreneurship at the USC Marshall School of Business and founding director of the Marshall Center for Technology Commercialization. Allen works with scientists and engineers to identify markets and applications for their technologies, develop commercialization teams, and prepare them to seek funding. She is on the advisory boards of the USC Center for Scientific Translation, the USC Regulatory Science Program, and the USC-CHLA Center for Technology and Innovation in Pediatrics. She is the author of more than 15 books in the field of entrepreneurship and technology commercialization including the leading texts Launching New Ventures, 6th Ed. and Entrepreneurship for Scientists and Engineers. Her personal entrepreneurial endeavors include two successful companies in commercial real estate brokerage, development, and investment, and two technology-based businesses. She is president and co-founder of N2TEC Institute, a nonprofit organization that was inspired by work she conducted under an NSF grant to develop a model for a technology commercialization ecosystem. The institute focuses on driving the launch of new technology ventures, particularly in life sciences and medical devices in rural and underserved regions of the U.S. Allen serves as an advisor to two life sciences companies, is entrepreneur-in-residence at a major aerospace company, and is director of a NYSE company.
For doctoral students and faculty facing travel hardships, there are scholarships available from the Coleman Foundation. Those who need a formal role in order to receive institutional support can serve as facilitators or correspondents. If either of these apply to you, please contact us as soon as possible to make arrangements.
If you have questions about the registration process or Coleman scholarship, please contact Jeanne Rhodes: rhodesja@slu.edu or 314-977-3850. If you have questions regarding conference content, please contact Conference Organizers Jintong Tang (jtang3@slu.edu), Sridhar Condoor (condoor@slu.edu) or Jerome Katz (katzja@slu.edu).
Registration and hotel information can be found at: http://www.slu.edu/x57745.xml
Sincerely,
Jintong
Dr. Jintong Tang
Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Management
Coleman Fellow, VOICES Faculty Fellow in Ethics, & Innovative Teaching Fellow
Saint Louis University
3674 Lindell Blvd., DS 469A
St. Louis, MO, 63108
Tel: 314-977-3811
Fax: 314-977-1484
Email: jtang3@slu.edu
http://www.slu.edu/eweb.xml
http://sites.slu.edu/jtang/
| -------------------------------------------------------- Asia & Poverty: Closing the Great Divide Through Entrepreneurship & Innovation 5 page proposals are due August 15, 2012. APJM Guest Editors*: David Ahlstrom – The Chinese University of Hong Kong Garry D. Bruton, Texas Christian University and Tongji University Steven Si, Tongji University and Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania Over the past two decades, many Asian economies have grown dramatically with an average growth of about 8% per year throughout the region. This dramatic economic growth has allowed large numbers of people to move out of poverty. However, it is increasingly clear that while there has been dramatic improvement in the overall rates of poverty in many nations in Asia, there are large numbers of people still in poverty in spite of the fast economic growth. For example, China continues to have over 300 million people that live in severe poverty while India has over 600 million. The large number of the severely poor people has increasingly been recognized as an issue for both governments and for business throughout Asia. Governments and business understand for continued economic growth that there needs to be political stability. For governments the presence of large numbers of the severely poor whose lives do not seem to be able to improve despite rapid economic growth offers a potential challenge to the needed political stability. However, business increasingly also sees the large number of people in severe poverty are not only as a social issue for concern, but also a very large potential untapped market of consumers for goods and services. This ability to provide products to those desperately poor may in fact be easiest for firms in Asia as they internationalize as they understand these markets. Asian multinational and entrepreneurial firms environmental setting includes such potential customers where major North American and European firms typically have no major access or understanding of this setting that is immediately at hand. The recognition by business of the desperately poor as a potential market will lead to not only new sales for these firms but also offers a means for to help those individuals in desperate poverty to create assets and prosperity. As a result there is a fresh recognition that business in fact may offer the greatest single potential means to move individuals out of poverty. The generation of greater economic activity among the desperately poor may provide the means for the poor to change their own lives rather than the government or other groups doing. This has lead to a focus by both governments and business to seek to encourage greater economic activity among the desperately poor. This activity includes not only business seeking to enter these settings but governments also looking to support other activities by non-profit organizations that generate business among the poor. Management scholars have been slow to identify and examine an array of questions associated with the increasing entry of international business into settings of desperate poverty and the actions of government to support economic activity among the desperately poor. We believe that through poverty-business focused research scholars can better understand businesses' role in both helping Asia reduce poverty, and also generate profit for companies as they reach out to serve these large untapped communities of consumers.
This APJM Special Issue seeks to provide a robust analysis of poverty and business in the Asian context. We want to generate new insights on poverty in the Asian context and how business can help to move people out of desperate poverty. Overall, the editors belief is that as business helps to generate greater economic activity in settings of severe poverty they will help to solve poverty as individuals in severe poverty are able to both generate greater incomes and accumulate greater assets as they participate with those large firms in those activities. Thus, a rich range of topics can be included in the special issue as we look at new and innovative activities that help to address these issues.
For example, we hope to receive research that will expand the limited research on major corporations serving the 'bottom of the pyramid" or "subsistence markets' and how firms create such innovative new methods to serve these markets. In addition, we are also interested in seeing articles that address how brining business skills and ideas to settings of severe poverty can address the issues of poverty. There are also new technologies that help to solve the issues of poverty such as cell phone banking. How do firms developing such technologies ensure that their products meets the needs of very different customer been typically be addressed. In addition, how government policy can encourage more economic activity in settings of severe poverty, micolending by governmental and NGOs, and the role of informal firms are also encouraged. All else being equal, we encourage interdisciplinary teams to explore the above issues and also encourage diversity of thinking to create the path breaking insights that we seek. Research questions of potential interest for the special issue could include, but are not limited to: 1. There are numerous enterprising individuals in Asia living in severe poverty with innovative ideas but without sufficient access to financial resources. What can be done to facilitate the transition of these innovative ideas to a generate growth businesses venture in Asia? What is the role of microfinance in the effort to address this shortage of financial resources? 2. Many individuals in poverty form informal firms – firms that do not conduct legal activities but which do not register with the government. What is the nature of these firms? How does being an informal firm enable or restrict the ability of such firms for both survival and growth. 3. What is the role of networks and alliances by individuals in Asia living in severe poverty as they seek to either found or grow a business? 4. When firms seek to serve those that live in desperate poverty what are the strategic actions of the business that generate the greatest success? What are the ethical issues a firm must address as they seek to serve and compete in this domain in Asia as they pursue those activities? 5. What are the actions governments that help to generate the greatest success as firms both seek to address issues of poverty and to serve and compete in markets characterized by desperate poverty? 6. What alliances between for profit firms and non-profit organizations help to generate the greatest reduction in poverty? In such alliances what are the factors that generate the greatest success for business? 7. How do the issues of poverty and business differ across Asia? Particularly, as we consider the two largest economies in the region, China and India, what are the substantive differences how business competes to serve the desperate poor in these two markets? 8. How do the innovation processes of firms differ as they seek to address those living at the bottom of the pyramid? Are Asian firms that come from these settings able to develop unique or more appropriate solutions than are firms from richer countries? Submission Process The submission process for this special issue shall be different tan those typically pursued by APJM. Individuals are encouraged to submit a proposal to the special issue conference prior to submission of the article to the journal. This proposal should be 5 pages in length and submitted by August 15, 2012. Those proposals found to be relevant to the special issue will be asked to make a short presentation of their proposal to a conference focused on the special issue. The selection of those for the conference will be by September 30, 2012. Th especial issue conference will be held at Tongji University in Shanghai, China December 19-20, 2012. All proposals will receive brief comments at the conference. From the larger set of proposals presented a smaller subset of papers will be encouraged to be submitted to the special issue. This subset will receive more extensive comments from the editor son how the paper should be developed for submission to the special issue. The papers in this subset of selected proposals will be sent for peer review. While those who cannot attend the proposal conference may submit to the special issue authors are strongly encouraged to participate in this conference and the proposal systems that is established. The submission of papers for the special issue is May 30, 2013. The expected publication date is 2014. Deadlines 5 page proposals are due August 15, 2012. Proposal conference December 19-20, 2012. Paper submissions May 30, 2013. For questions regarding the conference and the special issue and the submission, please contact the guest editors: David Ahlstrom ahlstrom@baf.msmail.cuhk.edu.hk, Garry Bruton g.bruton@tcu.edu" target="_blank">g.bruton@tcu.edu and/or Steven Si ssi@bloomu.edu |
| Editors are in alphabetical order. |
Garry D. Bruton, Ph.D.
Fehmi Zeko Faculty Fellowship
Neeley School of Business at TCU
Fort Worth, Texas 76129
Phone: (817) 257-7421
Co-director - Institute for Global Innovation
and Chinese Entrepreneurship at Tonji University – China
Honorary Professor - Department of Business
Administration at Sun Yat-sen Business School (SYSBS)- China
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Call For Participants
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Dear Colleagues:
You are cordially invited to attend the 2012 meeting of the Eastern Academy of Management at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel, Philadelphia, PA from May 9 to May 12, 2012.
Our conference this year offers a host of opportunities – scholarship in research and teaching, a superb location in the heart of downtown Philadelphia, and the collegial atmosphere that characterizes EAM meetings.
This year the research and teaching sessions are organized into 14 tracks, covering the range of traditional management disciplines. We also have an exciting and challenging conference theme, "Implications of Technology for Today's Managers: Opportunities and Challenges", that includes symposia, a keynote presentation, panel discussions, traditional research, professional development sessions, exercises and cases. With the traditional sessions and theme-related presentations, the EAM conference this year promises to be one you will not want to miss.
In addition to traditional academic sessions, this year's conference features distinguished panels and presentations by both academic and corporate leaders, as well as a variety of professional development workshops interspersed within the traditionally scheduled research sessions (ranging from topics such as grant writing to teaching methodologies). The conference also offers three open-enrollment Consortia focused on career issues of doctoral students, junior faculty, and mid-career/senior faculty.
Information about the Consortia can be found at https://eamconference.org/EAMConsortia2012.pdf . This year we will also be offering a Teaching Boot Camp sponsored by EAM and OBTS on Wednesday afternoon from 1pm – 6 pm. Information on this can be found at http://obts.org/workshops. Both of these require preregistration.
Finally, our evening welcoming buffet held in the hotel ballroom offers a fun way to start of the conference (pre-payment is required, please see the conference registration page). We are putting the final touches on our full program schedule, and you can see the preliminary program at:
https://eamconference.org/programschedule.asp.
HOTEL ROOMS
The EAM has negotiated a significantly discounted room rate for meeting attendees at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel in downtown Philadelphia (http://philadelphia.doubletree.com ). We strongly recommend that you book your hotel room as soon as possible, as the hotel rate is guaranteed until April 9th. Information on hotel bookings can be found through the conference website at https://eamconference.org/hotel/.
MEETING REGISTRATION
Online registration for the meeting is now open. For registration information, please go to https://eamconference.org/reg.asp
Come see why EAM's motto is "Where Scholarship and Collegiality Meet". I hope you chose to join us for this exciting meeting, and I look forward to seeing you in Philadelphia!
Sincerely,
Liz Davis - EAM President
and
Tim Golden – EAM 2012 Program Chair
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Dear colleagues,
After a very successful first edition of the Handbook of Research on Techno-entrepreneurship, published in 2007, Edward Elgar Publishing has asked me to work on the edition of a second volume.
Back in 2007, the idea was to get a snapshot of the research in this field. Five years later, we want to keep the same connecting thread, to witness how the field has evolved, what we did learn, and what questions are still to be discussed.
Many of the original contributors have accepted to provide an update so we expect a larger volume than the first one.
We are now calling for chapters from new contributors. There is not restriction in the sub-topic covered inside the field of technoentrepreneurship.
Chapters can be:
. literature reviews, or
. focused on key points,
. using qualitative or quantitative methodologies
. case studies
...
The length should be between 6000 and 8000 words but longer or shorter chapters can be accepted depending on the topic.
Deadline for submissions is August 31st, 2012. The publication will be in 2013.
If you are interested, please contact me to discuss the type and content of your potential submission.
Thank you and Best Regards,
François
Prof. Francois Therin, D.B.A.
Dean, School of Business
Curtin University, Sarawak Malaysia
Tel | +60 85 443939 (GMT +8)
Fax | +60 85 443838
Twitter | @ftherin
Skype | francoistherin
Email | therin@curtin.edu.my
Web | www.curtin.edu.my
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