TIM Division List Serve
Vol. 9, No. 03 (January 9, 2012)
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§ Announcements
o Please sign up today to be a TIM reviewer for the 2012 Academy of Management Meeting in Boston
· Call for Papers
o The 39th OBTC - Teaching Conference for Management Educators June 20-23, 2012 – Brock University submissions due 15 January
· Call for Participants
o Inviting participants in AOM 2012 in Boston, MA, Caucus on "Value of trust in entrepreneurship development: institutional and interpersonal perspectives"
o University of Alabama Management Ph.D. Program
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Announcements
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Dear Friends:
Please sign up today to be a TIM reviewer for the 2012 Academy of
Management Meeting in Boston, and encourage your colleagues to do so as
well. We depend on you to create an exciting and engaging program for next
August!
Please note that even if you have reviewed in the past, you need to
sign up again for the 2012 meeting.
To sign up, please visit http://review.aomonline.org/
[review.aomonline.org] and click the 'Sign Up Now' button.
And, don't forget to submit your best work to the TIM division. TIM offers
two competitive awards as part of the Academy submission process: The Best
Student Paper Award, and the Division Best Paper Award.
In addition to these two awards, we present Best Reviewer Awards to a
number of reviewers whose reviews are particularly deep, complete, and
insightful.
Thanks in advance for your continued support of the TIM division.
Riitta Katila
TIM 2012 Program Chair
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Call For Papers
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The 39th OBTC - Teaching Conference for Management Educators June 20-23, 2012 – Brock University
https://obtc.org Submissions due 15 January 2012
Conference Theme: Sustainability: Sustaining Ourselves, Students, Community, and Global World
When we speak of sustainability, we often think of "green" or the environment these days, but truthfully, sustainability is all around us and impacts us daily at multiple levels, so much so that we often are not mindful of it when we act. If innovation fuels our fire, then sustainability ensures that fire continues to burn. How often do we engage in a new venture only to find that it is short-lived and its full potential is not achievable? In times of economic downturns and turbulence, we need to ask ourselves at what cost do we try to maintain our way of life? We as educators need to continuously ask ourselves how is it possible to sustain our passion for learning and teaching when a new idea can get old pretty quickly? How can we sustain our enthusiasm for teaching when we are bombarded with potential constraints or obstacles? Often the concept of sustainability goes unrecognized and untapped, due to our own oversight or lack of deep thinking. In this conference, we encourage participants to engage in an ongoing dialogue that has the potential to allow each of us to exchange new ideas, approaches, awareness, and practices to enhance our lives and our work.
A few of the possible areas we might explore are:
· How can we sustain our passion for teaching, given external constraints and obstacles?
· How can we sustain our enthusiasm for helping our students, given their changing needs and our changing demographics?
· How can we sustain our educational pedagogue (e.g., active learning, experiential learning) when alternative educational models (e.g., distance learning) move away from traditional classroom learning?
· As we find ourselves at different career stages, what do we need to do and who do we need to be as professionals to sustain us in our engagement?
· How can we effectively sustain our learning relationships in communities, given our diversity?
· What can we do to ensure our continued interaction of our local communities to enhance our students' learning, when their existence might be threatened?
· How can we help students to sustain their passion for learning beyond our classroom?
· How can we ensure that we can sustain our global connectedness and collaboration when potential human conflicts increase uncertainties?
· How can we sustain quality of our educational programs or institutions given potential budget reductions during our economic downturns?
These are only a few thoughts to stimulate sessions, but feel free to be creative and thoughtful about ways in which we can be open to areas yet unexplored by this conference or our field.
In alignment with the culture of the OBTC, we aspire to create a sense of ongoing community and caring as we share our best with each other, not only at the conference, but throughout the year as we stay in touch and depend on each other for support, advice, and friendship.
Conference Site
Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada and the Faculties of Applied Health Sciences and Business are pleased to host the 2012 Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference (OBTC) June, 2012. We recognize the importance of superior conference facilities for OBTS members and are committed to providing quality accommodations, food services, and event logistics for all OBTC delegates. In addition, we are excited to showcase Brock's programs and facilities to a national and international audience of management educators.
Brock University is well equipped, ready, and eager to host OBTC in June 2012. With over 17,000 full-time students and nearly 600 faculty, we're small enough to be intimate, big enough to be world-class and in demand among international students. In addition, Brock University is known for its commitment to teaching and learning from both sides of the brain! Our campus and conference facilities are numerous, enabling all conference activities and accommodations to be located on site. In addition, Brock University is located in the Niagara Region, which is a premier tourism destination in Canada with an abundance of exciting attractions to ensure an enjoyable visit. The region has established a long history of meeting tourist and conference delegates' needs. Our university is 1.5 hours from the Lester B. Pearson International Airport in Toronto, Ontario and one hour (and a border crossing) away from the Buffalo International Airport. We're easy to get to and worth the travel for the 2012 OBTC.
For OBTC 2012, our intention is to develop a quality conference for all delegates and to share with them Niagara's cultural, environmental, recreational, and social gems including Niagara Falls and of course, our numerous award winning wineries! We will also endeavor to protect the natural environment during the hosting of OBTC 2012. Brock is located in a park-like setting atop the Niagara Escarpment and is the only Canadian university that is part of a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. As such, we will take every effort to ensure the natural environment is safeguarded for sustained use by the next generation. Every attempt to "green" OBTC 2012 and minimize waste and material use (i.e., use either reusable or biodegradable materials) will be implemented. Put OBTC at Brock University in your calendar for June 20-23, 2012!
Conference Submissions
Conference submissions (up to 5 pages, .doc or .docx format) should be uploaded to the central submission website (https://obtc.org) by the January 15, 2012, priority deadline. Acceptance notifications will be sent by February 15, 2012. For further information regarding the program, contact Kenneth Rhee at obtc@obtc.org, or for information regarding the site, contact Kirsty Spence at kspence@brocku.ca.
Brandon Taylor Charpied
Administrator
OBTS Teaching Society for Management Educators
OBTS.org
(843) 855.0301
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Call For Participants
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Dear everyone,
With this letter we would like to call for your participation in our caucus on "Value of trust in entrepreneurship development: institutional and interpersonal perspectives".
If you are interested in attending our caucus, please email us your name and contact information so that we can prepare a list of participants.
Please find below the information pertinent to this caucus
1. Abstract: This caucus seeks to achieve two objectives. The first one is to develop a network of intellectuals who are interested in or currently engaged in researching the relationship between trust and entrepreneurship from institutional and interpersonal perspectives. The second objective is to seek potential contributions for a special issue for a scholarly journal. We hope that participants will find research collaboration opportunities and form a platform for exchanging ideas and developing this branch of research.
2. Organizers: Mai Thi Thanh Thai and Ekaterina Turkina from HEC Montreal, Canada
3. Time and venue: TBA
4. Publication opportunities: The editor-in-chief of Journal of International Business and Entrepreneurship Development has expressed his interest in sponsoring a special issue for the outcome of this caucus.
5. Short description of the caucus
Entrepreneurship is one of the most important forces shaping the changes in the economic landscape (Baumol, 1968). Entrepreneurship literature with regional, industry, and country empirical evidence demonstrated that entrepreneurship plays a vital role in economic growth and labor demand (Praag & Ophem, 1995; Carree & Thurik, 2010; Thurik, Wennekers, & Uhlaner, 2002). Therefore, it is important to understand what factors drive entrepreneurship, especially the one with positive contributions to the society. To date, very little research has delved into examining the influence of social-psychological factors in general and trust in particular. Nevertheless, interpersonal and institutional trust have been found to be critical for a wide variety of social relationships to develop and for economy to grow since transactions costs are low in instances of mutual trust (Fukuyama, 1995). Interpersonal trust enhances collaboration, mutual supportiveness, shared norms and values and represents a 'synthetic force within society' (Simmel, 1950: 326). Additionally, interpersonal trust allows high tolerance of uncertainty and risk-taking (Newton, 1999: 4), which should be important for entrepreneurship. At the same time, institutional trust (Paxton, 1999) has been found to have a significant impact on economic development and economic growth (Zaheer and Venkatraman, 1995). Therefore, it is important to explore different aspects of institutional and interpersonal trust in relation to entrepreneurship.
This caucus seeks to achieve two objectives. The first one is to develop a network of intellectuals who are interested in or currently engaged in researching the relationship between trust and entrepreneurship from institutional and interpersonal perspectives. The second objective is to seek potential contributions for a special issue at a journal. We hope that participants will find research collaboration opportunities and form a platform for exchanging ideas and developing this branch of research.
Part 1: Pre-caucus activity
Participants send us list of research topics they wish to publish/see in the special issue
Part 2: Research round table discussion at AOM
Section 1: The concept of trust from institutional and interpersonal perspectives 30 min
Section 2: The role of trust on entrepreneurship development 30 min
Section 3: Identification of key research questions for the special issue 30 min
Part 3: Networking event after AOM caucus
Dinner or coffee session after the official session at AOM
Part 4: Development of papers in the topics discussed
If you have any question or suggestion, please do not hesitate to contact us at mai.thai@hec.ca or ekaterina.turkina@hec.ca. We will be happy to be of your assistance.
We would like to thank you for your consideration and look forward to hearing from you.
Best regards,
Mai Thai, M.B.A., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of International Business, HEC Montréal 3000, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Montréal (Québec), H3T 2A7, Canada
Tel: (+1) (514) 340-6188; Cell: (+1) (514) 627 1569; Fax: (+1) (514) 340-6987;
Email: mai.thai@hec.ca; Webpage: www.hec.ca/en/profs/mai-thi-thanh.thai.html
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University of Alabama Management Ph.D. Program
The Department of Management & Marketing in the Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration at the University of Alabama is now accepting applications for our Management PhD program for students starting in the fall of 2012. More information, including details about our admission procedures, is available at our website (http://cba.ua.edu/mgt/phd) or by contacting our doctoral coordinator, Jonathon Halbesleben, at jhalbesleben@cba.ua.edu.
We will accept applications at any time. All applicants are automatically considered for research assistantship appointments, which include a competitive financial stipend, tuition waiver, subsidized healthcare, office space, and a laptop computer.
Why should I get a Ph.D. in Management from the University of Alabama?
World-class faculty
We have a large and diverse group of faculty who are both internationally known for their research and for involving students in their work. General areas of faculty research expertise include: Entrepreneurship, Human Resources, Organizational Behavior, and Strategic Management. Specific faculty research interests include: dynamic capabilities, employee well-being, franchising, innovation, organizational citizenship behavior, strategic alliances, strategic human capital, strategic information technology management, and work-family issues.
Our faculty members are also highly visible in the field, with two former associate editors of the Academy of Management Journal, a former editor of the Journal of Management, current associate editors of the Journal of Small Business Management and Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, as well as representation the editorial boards of most top management journals. We have also recently further expanded our faculty dramatically with the goal of further raising the profile of the department and Ph.D. program.
The attention you need to succeed
We have an intentionally small program in order to foster faculty and student interaction. You will work closely with faculty from the moment you arrive on campus (and sometimes before!) to produce research for publication in high-quality journals. As a result, our students have published in the top journals in the field, frequently presented at conferences, and have won numerous awards for their research.
A vibrant, growing research university
The University of Alabama is the flagship campus in the state with over 30,000 students living and studying on one of the most beautiful campuses in the country. Recent growth in enrollment and an emphasis on research has given UA significant research resources. The Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration is the largest college at the university and frequently rated among the best in the South.
A great place to live
Tuscaloosa is a thriving community of just over 90,000 residents. It was recently named the "Most Livable City in America" by the U.S. Conference of Mayors. It has also been named one of the best cities to launch a small business and one of the best communities for young people in recent years. The city has a strong dedication cultural and performing arts, having recently completed a new amphitheatre and working to complete a new cultural arts center. The variety of shopping and restaurants is exceptional and Birmingham is just a short drive up the highway. If you are in the mood for a road trip, Tuscaloosa is a short drive to Atlanta, Nashville, Memphis, New Orleans, and the stunning Gulf coast beaches. And you haven't experienced college football until you have been in Bryant-Denny Stadium to see the 13-time national champion Crimson Tide!
For more information, please contact our Management Doctoral Program Coordinator, Jonathon Halbesleben, at jhalbesleben@cba.ua.edu or 205-248-2702.
Paul Louis Drnevich, Ph.D.
Department of Management & Marketing Work: (205) 348-0153
The University of Alabama Cell: (205) 799-8002
361 Stadium Dr., Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0225 Fax: (205) 348-6695
dren@ua.edu">www.cba.ua.edu/personnel/dren@ua.edu E-mail: dren@ua.edu
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Darlene Alexander-Houle
TIM Division List Serve Manager
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