THE TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION MANAGEMENT DIVISION of the Academy of Management is pleased to invite submissions for the 2012 TIM Best Dissertation Award.

We will accept submissions based on doctoral dissertations completed during calendar years 2010 and 2011.

We take a broad perspective on technology and innovation including aspects of the emergence, diffusion, adoption, commercialization, evolution and consequences of technologies and innovations.

The TIM Division's domain statement can be found at http://www.aomtim.org/.

As per the domain statement, we welcome dissertations from different disciplinary perspectives including management (strategy, organization theory, organizational behavior etc.) as well as economics, technology studies, sociology, etc. We are also happy to consider a broad range of methodologies.

The award process involves two stages.

In the first stage, each applicant submits a 5-page dissertation abstract along with supporting references and figures. A committee of experienced scholars then selects the finalists.

In the second stage, finalists are invited to submit a 30-page manuscript based upon their dissertation. The committee reviews these manuscripts, provides feedback, and selects the best dissertation, which will be announced at the 2012 Annual Academy of Management Meeting in San Antonio.

Finalists will be invited to present their work at a dedicated session during the conference, when the winner will be announced. The session will afford high visibility to the finalists' dissertations.

Please see the 2012 meeting information on the TIM division website (www.aomtim.org) for submission details.

Dissertation Award Co-Chairs:

Kira R. Fabrizio, Boston University

kfab@bu.edu

Sonali K. Shah, University of Washington

skshah@u.washington.edu

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Transnational Corporations Review (TNCR), established in 2008, is supported by the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment at Columbia University at the United States and The Investment Analysis Center at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). This periodical is edited by the Ottawa United Learning Academy (OULA) and published by Denfar Transnational Development (Denfar). It is a modern media journal dedicated to providing economic, policy, and business analysis of current issues related to transnational corporations (TNCs), foreign direct investment (FDI), institutional innovation, and international development.

The journal emphasizes China's and other emerging economies' growing involvement in the global economy. FDI by TNCs is the most dominant and dynamic element of the world economy in terms of production value; and TNCR fills the urgent need for a journal on the topic that is available in both English and Chinese. It is the only journal published in the West that addresses the topic from modern economic and business theory and practice including knowledge management perspectives. The journal serves the needs of globally dispersed young professionals and senior graduate students majoring in international economics and business.

For more information about this journal, please visit our website at www.tnc-online.net. Thank You!

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2012 ANNUAL MEETING CAUCUS PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS – NEW DEADLINE!!!!

The Caucus portion of the AOM Meeting Program has traditionally used a deadline later than regular submissions. For those of you that have submitted in the past and those of you considering a submission this year, we wanted to make certain that you are aware that this year, the submission deadline is the same date as the paper sessions and the PDW's, January 10, 2012 at 5:00 PM EST. Please see the Caucus Proposal Call for Submissions on the Annual Meeting Website at: http://annualmeeting.aomonline.org/2012/menu-program/menu-sub/submenu-caucus.

We look forward to a new and interesting set of caucus discussions proposals!

Theodore Brown, Cyndy Cycyota, Hui Liao

2012 AOM Caucus Committee

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IEEE International Technology Management Conference (ITMC) - 2012 - Call for Papers

Location: Dallas Texas

Date: June 24 - 27, 2012

Tracks include: Supply Chain Management; Sustainability; Globalization and its Implications; Entrepreneurship; and Management of Innovation

Deadline January 30, 2012.

Conference Website: http://www.ieee-itmc.org/ Call for Papers site: http://www.ieee-itmc.org/docs/cfp.pdf

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Dear Colleagues,

This is a reminder that the deadline for submissions to the Eastern Academy of Management (EAM) conference is quickly approaching (December 12th).

Please submit your papers, symposia, cases, exercises, and proposals for the conference in Philadelphia, PA that will be held May 9-12, 2012. This conference promises to be one that you will NOT want to miss! EAM 2012 will feature an exciting line up of speakers and presenters in 14 tracks:

organizational behavior, business strategy, careers, critical management studies, entrepreneurship, ethics and sustainability, gender and diversity, human resources, international management, leadership, management education, technology, works-in-progress, and discussion symposiums. The conference will also have doctoral student and faculty consortia as well as a variety of other opportunities to network professionally and socially.

To submit your manuscripts and proposals or to view the Call for Papers, please visit the submissions portal https://eamconference.org/

Submissions will be accepted until 11:59pm (Eastern Time) on December 12.

Please note that this year the deadline is firm (it is already a week later than EAM's traditional deadline).

Philadelphia will be an outstanding location! To learn more about the Eastern Academy of Management and how to get involved, please visit EAM's website at http://www.eaom.org/ .

We look forward to receiving your submissions and seeing you in Philadelphia!

Timothy Golden

EAM 2012 Program Chair

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Dear all,

Please find below a call for papers for a track of the 2012 annual conference of the European Academy of Management (EURAM) dedicated to "Organizational Evolution towards the Sustainable Enterprise". The deadline for the submission of the paper is 17 January 2012 (2pm, Central European time).

We look forward to your submissions and to a series of engaging discussions on such a central theme for management theory and practice.

Warm regards,

Maurizio Zollo

EURAM

6-8th June, 2012 Rotterdam, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University

TRACK 14. Organizational evolution towards the sustainable enterprise

Track Chairs:

Maurizio Zollo, Bocconi University, maurizio.zollo@unibocconi.it, phone +39 02 58362525

Carmelo Cennamo, Bocconi University, carmelo.cennamo@unibocconi.it, phone +39 02 58363459

Marta Maras, Bocconi University, marta.maras@unibocconi.it, phone +39 02 58365278

Kerstin Neumann, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, kerstin.neumann@wu.ac.at, phone +43 1 31336 4204

Abstract:

How do firms learn to integrate and manage sustainability in their business model?

Despite the significant (and increasing) amount of work on the learning and change challenges connected to embedding sustainability in business firms, the internal and the external dynamics that influence the ability of firms to change themselves towards sustainability are still largely unclear. We also have little understanding of the dynamics of system change that is needed if firms are to meet the sustainability challenges.

Moreover, the need for empirical foundations for a stakeholder-based view of the firm has been voiced by several authors in the CSR/SD field. Identifying the factors that influence firms' ability to affect core strategic or structural change consequent to stakeholder expectations is a key step for any progress in the future of CSR and sustainability research. Finally, learning about how firms develop capabilities for adapting to constantly evolving stakeholder expectations, requires a much better understanding of the micro-foundations of these evolutionary processes. In particular, we are interested in the development of conceptual and empirical work on the evolution of individuals' knowledge, motivation and values towards the traits that facilitate sustainable decisions, behaviour and outcomes.

With this track, we would like to tackle some of the key unanswered (and, in some cases, unasked) questions related to the organizational change and learning challenges that companies face as they identify, make sense and manage sustainability issues and rapidly evolving stakeholder expectations on corporate behaviour.

We thus invite theoretical development and empirical papers addressing these topics as related to the main components of a business model, including but not limited to: Purpose and History; Cultural and Systemic Change; Organizational Processes and Capabilities; Sensing and Strategic Decision-Making; and Governance and Organizational Structure.

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Information Systems Frontiers - Call for Papers

Green Information Systems & Technologies: This Generation and Beyond

See: http://www.som.buffalo.edu/isinterface/ISFrontiers/forthcoming1/Green_IT_CFP.pdf for detailed call for papers.

Deadline for Full Paper submissions is: Dec. 31, 2011.

Guest Editors:

Joseph Sarkis, Clark University

Chulmo Koo, Chosun University

Richard T. Watson, University of Georgia

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Colleagues –

You may find this minitrack call for papers interesting:

CALL FOR PAPERS

18th Americas Conference on Information Systems

Seattle, Washington, August 9-12, 2012

Minitrack: Trust in Information Systems

Description

A user's trust and distrust in information systems are important components in the interactive relationship between users and their systems. A user has to trust a technology before the technology is adopted and fully used. While there is a rich literature on interpersonal trust, trust in information systems has been under-researched and much of what we know about trust in IS contexts is derived from the interpersonal views promulgated through the organizational behavior research. Hence, the conceptualization of trust in information systems needs to be clarified and expanded to include not only the interpersonal view but also the intermediated views that arise from considerations of the source credibility paradigm from mass communications theory. In this way, the similarities and differences between interpersonal trust and trust in information systems will be better understood. Though concepts and theoretical frameworks from prior literature on interpersonal trust have investigated trust in information systems, the components of trust that are derived from combined source and media effects in the source effects paradigm can explain much of how users interact with and come to trust technology mediated sources in eCommerce, eBusiness and personal contexts. Designing more trustworthy technology requires well-informed research, and the expansion of our understanding of the concept of trust beyond the interpersonal context, for specific use in information systems. What we learn from applying new conceptualizations of the trust construct in information systems will also lead to better understanding of adoption and use of technology-mediated channels for business and personal purposes. From this, new contextual factors can be discerned which may have important moderating effects on key technology outcomes.

We welcome the submissions addressing all aspects of trust and distrust in information systems, credibility, deception, privacy violations, and the like. We welcome conceptual, theoretical or empirical research papers.

Suggested Topics

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

ü Conceptualization of trust and/or distrust in information systems that expands beyond the interpersonal view to include source effects models

ü Processes of trust and/or distrust development in information systems

ü Theories or empirical studies on the impact of user, task, technology, and contextual characteristics on trust/distrust in information systems

ü Theories or empirical studies on the impact of trust in information systems on technology adoption, decision making, website revenue, and customer relationships

ü Users' trusting perceptions of information systems in electronic or mobile business/commerce

ü Research on the formation and consequences of privacy concern or privacy violations caused by various information systems

ü Conceptual, theories or empirical studies on the impact of credibility or deception in information systems on technology adoption, decision making, website revenue, and customer relationships

IMPORTANT DATES

January 2, 2012 Manuscript Central will start accepting paper submissions

March 1, 2012 Deadline for paper submissions

April 2, 2012 Authors will be notified of acceptances on or about this date

April 20, 2012 For accepted papers, camera-ready copy due

SUBMISSION SITE

CHAIRS' CONTACT INFORMATION

Tom Stafford (Corresponding Minitrack Co-Chair)

MIS Department

Fogelman College of Business and Economics

University of Memphis

Memphis, TN USA 38152

Tel: (901)-336-2754

Fax (901)678-4151

Email: tstaffor@memphis.edu

Jack Zhenhui Jiang

School of Computing

National University of Singapore

Tel: (65) 6516-7371

Fax: (65) 6779-7365

E-mail: jiang@comp.nus.edu.sg

Sherrie Yi X. Komiak

Faculty of Business Administration

Memorial University of Newfoundland

St. John's, NL, A1B 3X5 Canada

Tel: (709) 737-2141

Fax: (709)737-7680

Email: skomiak@mun.ca

Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah

College of Business Administration

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Lincoln, NE 68588-0491 USA

Tel: (402) 472-6060

Fax: (402) 472-5855

Email: fnah@unlnotes.unl.edu

Thomas F. Stafford, Ph.D.

Editor, Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Fogelman College of Business and Economics

University of Memphis

Memphis, TN 38152

tstaffor@memphis.edu

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The PRACTICE THEME COMMITTEE seeks exciting, innovative, interdisciplinary workshops involving researchers and practitioners

for the

Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, August 3-7, Boston

(August 3-4, Friday-Saturday, for PDW presentations)

Online Submissions Due Date: January 10th, 2012 at 5:00 PM ET (New York time): http://submissions.aomonline.org/2012

PDW formats are highly flexible and can take the shape of workshops, panels, training sessions, etc. We seek creative and interactive proposals that would interest members of several academy divisions. It is a plus to include managers and/or consultants from firms, not-for-profit organizations, NGOs, and public sector organizations. While we encourage submissions on this year's theme, we are most interested in submissions that bring together presenters with deep experience in some arena of practice with researchers on the given area of practice for dialogue, learning from one another, and generating reflection and action among Academy members – whether or not they directly address the 2012 theme.

This year's conference theme, "The Informal Economy," provides a forum to address activities that are beyond the influence of the formal market, the regulations of official institutions, and the representations of authorized company flow charts or documents. Why and how does the informal economy matter, from the perspective of practice? In particular, we invite you to take the challenge that a practice perspective offers to engage with questions like:

1. What are the work practices that differentiate the formal economy from the informal economy? How do we bridge theory and practice in understanding the cross-economy differences?

2. How do volatility, uncertainty, and amorality in institutions encourage informal economic activities and practices? How do we co-create knowledge between practitioners and academics to understand the informal practices in relation to their environment?

3. How do we foster the moral and the sacred in the leadership and management practices of the informal economy? How can we better understand the role of the "phronesis" in addressing 'mal-practice' and 'mis-management' in advancing greater accountability in research and practice?

4. How do we advance management curricula, so that they address practice in a way that is relevant to both formal and informal aspects of the global economy?

The Practice Theme Committee was created by the Academy of Management to give practice a central focus in our deliberations, along with research and teaching. We aim to:

· Develop greater awareness of what practice means and how it can usefully inform our scholarship in terms of both research and teaching.

· Identify and profile exemplar initiatives that bridge the gap between theory and practice and engage practitioners and academics in the co-creation of knowledge.

· Create a platform for ongoing engagement with practitioners so that the knowledge we discover is relevant and has impact.

Please note that the "Rule of Three" applies for the 2012 PDW program. If you have any questions before submitting, please contact Kuo Frank Yu FrankYu@CityU.Edu.HK, PDW co-chair, and Kathryn Goldman Schuyler, kgschuyler@alliant.edu, PDW co-chair. Apologies for cross-posting!

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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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European Journal of Operational Research - Call for Papers

Special Issue on Eco-Efficient Based Green Supply Chain Management

See: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/european-journal-of-operational-research/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-eco-efficient-based-green-supply-chain-management/

Publication Schedule:

Deadline for submission: August 31, 2012

Special Issue Editors:

Kannan Govindan

Department of Business and Economics

University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

Yong Geng

Institute of Applied Ecology

Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. of China

Qinghua Zhu

School of Business Management

Dalian University of Technology, P.R. of China

Charbel Jabbour

The Sao Paulo State University

Faculty of Engineering at Bauru, Brazil

Joseph Sarkis

Graduate School of Management

Clark University, Worcester, MA

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The Academy of Management International Online Teaching Resource Library Second Annual Video Competition

CALL FOR ENTRANTS

Deadline for submission intent: December 15, 2011

Deadline for submission: March 7, 2012

Dear Colleagues:

We are delighted to announce that the Second Annual Video Competition of the AOM International Online Teaching Resource Library is now open. The Teaching Resource Library is a collaborative strategic doing initiative that houses video cases produced by and for members in their own languages (subtitles in English). It is intended to support business and management faculty in their classroom teaching, and so the videos demonstrate how theory informs, influences, and shapes practice

If you are interested in participating in this exciting initiative, please submit your "notice of submission intent" to Jimmy Le (jle@pace.edu) by December 15, 2011. This is the first step in a competitive process that will result in the selection of three finalists to be featured during the 2012 Annual Meeting, August 3-7, in Boston. The winning team will receive a $1,000 monetary prize, and the two other finalist teams will each receive $500.

For more information such as the submission rules, guidelines, and process, please visit the Teaching Resource Library website. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Jimmy Le (jle@pace.edu).

Good luck! We look forward to seeing all of the fantastic video entries.

Sincerely,

Christina Hannah (Chair, Teaching Theme Committee)
Tyrone Pitsis (Chair, Practice Theme Committee)
Rosa Nelly Trevinyo-Rodriguez (Past Chair, International Theme Committee)
Preeti Wadhwa (Past Chair, New Doctoral Student Consortium)

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Virginia Commonwealth faculty and the non-profit Georgia R School have scheduled two live, synchronous, interactive, 5-week online jan-feb courses: (1) Fundamentals of Using R; and (2) Introduction to Graphics with R. Each course is essential to anyone who intends to use R for any purpose whatsoever. Each course meets for 3 hours weekly for 4 weeks after an initial 'pre-session' orientation meeting. Early (thru Dec 16) registration cost per course (USD): $195 student; $250 faculty; and $295 practitioner, includes live participation, all slides, exercises, data sets, and class materials, and complete, permanent, desktop recordings of all audio and video from the live, online class sessions.

A PDF description of the Fundamentals of Using R course is here:

http://georgia-r-school.org/uploads/FUND-SUMMARY.pdf.

The AM and PM Fundamentals course informational / registration websites are here:

(AM): https://www.regonline.com/fund-jan-am-2012; and

(PM): https://www.regonline.com/fund-jan-pm

A PDF description of the Graphics course is here:

http://www.georgia-r-school.org/uploads/GRAPHICS-SUMMARY.pdf.

The Graphics course informational / registration website is here: https://www.regonline.com/graphicsam-jan-2012

Please note that it is our policy to allow no-cost training in R for underserved medical personnel in developing countries. Most of this training is arranged through our association with Statistics Without Borders (see below). Contact Geoff for details.

There is more information at http://georgia-r-school.org. Please email questions to ghubona@vcu.edu.

Geoff Hubona, Ph.D.

Information Systems Department

Virginia Commonwealth University

Statistics Without Borders

Statistics Without Borders is an non-profit organization under the auspices of the American Statistical Association, comprised entirely of volunteers, that provides pro bono statistical consulting and assistance to non-profit organizations and government agencies in support of health issues (broadly defined).

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Dear Friends,

The ongoing [survey] CEEMAN/PRME Global Survey on The Issue of Poverty in Management Education has already received submissions from at least 54 countries from all continents. Let me express our thanks to all of you who have contributed to this!

Following requests received from different parts of the world, the survey questionnaire was translated also in several languages, with links available at: Survey Questionnaire , while the deadline for new submissions has been extended to 12 December.

A wider participation will enable regional clustering of the survey results, as well as a broader intra-regional and international collaboration on fighting poverty through management education. The results of the survey (WG Report on Fighting Poverty through Management Education: Challenges, Opportunities and Solutions, and the Collection of Best Practices and Inspirational Solutions) will be presented at the 3^rd PRME Global Forum in June 2012 in Rio.

Thank you very much for your participation and contribution!

With best wishes on behalf of the PRME Anti-Poverty Working Group,

Milenko

Milenko Gudic

IMTA Managing Director, CEEMAN

Presernova 33, 4260 Bled, Slovenia

T +386 4 57 92 521

F +386 4 57 92 501

E milenko.gudic@ceeman.org

www.ceeman.org

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Dear Colleagues,

Please see information below about the 2012 OBTS New Educator Award (NEA) nomination process and criteria for selection. Nominations are officially open for the 2012 New Educator Award. Please carefully consider the criteria for this special award and nominate someone you know who fits the "letter and spirit" of what the NEA is all about!

Purpose of the Award: The purpose of the OBTS New Educator Award is to recognize a person who has shown early promise to make a difference in the field of management education. They are the new voices who promise to bring new ways of thinking about and practicing management education.

Criteria for Selection: To be eligible, nominees are to be at an early stage of their teaching careers. This includes a recent Ph.D. (within the past 5 years) who takes a full time, tenure track position following completion of their degree, or a Ph.D. who spends several years in a non-academic position, has very limited or no adjunct teaching experience during that time, and then (within the past 5 years) takes a full time, tenure track position. The New Educator Award recognizes an early-career person who is an exceptional classroom instructor and educational innovator and who has shown cutting-edge promise and creativity in his or her teaching, conference presentations, or publishing in the area of management education. Nominees need not be current OBTS members but should demonstrate Society involvement in some way (e.g., past conference attendee or presenter, published author in the Journal of Management Education, committee volunteer, etc.)

Requirements: Official nomination of individual by oneself or others is required. Once formally nominated, the initial application is to document commitment and contributions to teaching and learning. Materials must be submitted electronically and should include:

1. a personal statement of teaching philosophy (2-5 pages);
2. an up-to-date CV;
3. several course syllabi that reflect teaching philosophy in action;
4. sample feedback materials (peer reviews, student evaluations, or other documentation) on teaching commitment and effectiveness;
5. a writing sample, such as an article or chapter on aspects of pedagogy, is desirable but optional, as is involvement in other professional or service activities that focus on teaching.

Deadlines associated with the NEA: Electronically submitted nominations are due to Micheal Stratton (mstratto@unca.edu), Chair of the NEA Selection Committee by January 15, 2012, The nominee's application package is due (also to Micheal Stratton, mstratto@unca.edu) by January 31, 2012. The deadlines are set up such that the winner may have ample time to prepare to attend OBTC 2012 at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario from June 20-23, 2012 (www.obtc.org). As Chair, Micheal will be glad to discuss with anyone a potential nominee or answer any questions you may have about this award.

Reviewers on the Selection Committee for the OBTS New Educator Award seek to receive from the nominee a focused, succinct presentation of self-as-educator. Reviewers do not seek volumes of material; rather, the file should speak to the candidate's merits and teaching strengths in a focused manner. Finalists may be requested to submit a more complete teaching portfolio as needed.

The Society: The OBTS Teaching Society for Management Educators is the oldest international professional organization dedicated to teaching and learning excellence in the organizational and management sciences. Society members are faculty at universities and colleges throughout the world, as well as business educators and management consultants. Through our annual teaching conference, regional professional development activities, strategic alliances, and publications (including the peer-reviewed Journal of Management Education), OBTS continuously strives to be a premiere provider of critical resources that impact the quality and future of management education.

Best regards,

~Micheal

Dr. Micheal T. Stratton

Assistant Professor of Management / OBTS 2012 NEA Chairperson / OBTC 2013 Site Coordinator

University of North Carolina at Asheville

Department of Management & Accountancy / Facebook

115 Owen Hall / One University Heights, CPO 1850 / Asheville, NC 28804
828.251.6850 / mstratto@unca.edu / mstratto (Google-iChat)

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Georgia Institute of Technology – College of Management

Ph.D. program in Strategic Management, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship now accepting applications

Why at Georgia Tech? GT's Ph.D. program is strongly research oriented, and emphasizes the early involvement of our students in research projects with world-wide leading faculty. The Ph.D. program placessignificant weight on learning outside the classroom. Given the small size of the program, the tutorial-mentor model is the primary educational approach employed. Thus, doctoral students experience significant attention and support by a diverse set of world-class faculty.

At Georgia Tech, the study of strategic management is interdisciplinary and integrative, providing focus in the areas of technology and innovation management, entrepreneurship, and international management. The Strategic Management area represents a strong community of active researchers pursuing a wide variety of interests. See http://mgt.gatech.edu/fac_research/acad_areas/stg_mgt.html for more information.

GT Strategy Ph.D. students are successful. They have published in leading academic journals and strategy Ph.D. students have presented research at prestigious conferences held in the U.S. and Europe. They have been included in by-invitation-only conferences an. A current student has won a competitive Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship and College of Management Teaching Award. Another student holds one of the coveted GT's Presidential Fellowships. Job placements continue to be strong.

The COM at Georgia Tech is the home of an NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training program, Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results (TI:GER, see http://tiger.gatech.edu/), as well as a US Department of Education funded Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER, see http://www.ciber.gatech.edu/). The strategy area at Georgia Tech hosts and co-sponsors leading annual research conferences like the Roundtable for Engineering Entrepreneurship Research (REER) and the Atlanta Competitive Advantage Conference (ACAC), which provide an opportunity to mingle with world-wide leading scholars in entrepreneurship and strategy.

How do I finance the program, and how do I apply? If admitted to the program, you will be fully funded to go to school to get your degree. Your tuition will be waived, and you will receive a generous stipend. Application deadline is December 6^th for admission in the following fall semester (August 15^th). All relevant financial information, including the application package is online at http://mgt.gatech.edu/programs/phd.html?link=left_info_for The strategy area will consider applicants that took either the GMAT or the GRE.

Contact the strategy Ph.D. coordinator, Professor Danny Breznitz at tbvb@gatech.edu for any remaining questions.

About Georgia Tech: The Georgia Institute of Technology (http://www.gatech.edu) is one of the nation's top research universities, distinguished by its commitment to improving the human condition through advanced science and technology. Georgia Tech's campus occupies 400 acres in the heart of the city of Atlanta, where more than 16,000 undergraduate and graduate students receive a focused, technologically based education. Georgia Tech consistently ranks among U.S. News & World Report's top ten public universities in the United States. In a world that increasingly turns to technology for solutions, Georgia Tech is using innovative teaching and advanced research to define the technological university of the 21st century.

About Atlanta: Atlanta, home to over 4 million people, is the 9^th largest metropolitan area in the US, and one of the fastest growing cities. It serves as cultural and economic hub of the southeastern U.S., with world-class shopping, outstanding restaurants, and five professional sports teams. Compared to other large cities, Atlanta offers a lower cost of living and excellent weather. About 120,000 companies have operations here, and Atlanta is 3^rd in the list of cities with the most Fortune 500 Headquarters. Atlanta is home to corporate giants like Home Depot, Coca-Cola, CNN, Newell Rubbermaid, UPS, Georgia-Pacific, Equifax, and Delta Air Lines. Atlanta is one of the top 10 places for business and careers (by Forbes) and one of the top 25 U.S. cities for entrepreneurs (Entrepreneur magazine and Dun & Bradstreet). Atlanta's international airport, the world's busiest, makes Georgia Tech readily accessible to any part of the world – 80% of the U.S. population is within a two-hour flight. Atlanta is also one of the top 5 U.S. cities for singles (by Forbes), one of the top 40 cities for families (by Child.com), and the #1 city for African-Americans (by Black Enterprise magazine). For more information, see www.atlanta.net/movinghere/index.asp.

Henry Sauermann

Assistant Professor of Strategic Management

Georgia Institute of Technology

College of Management

800, W. Peachtree St.

Atlanta, GA 30308

Phone: 404-385-4883

http://mgt.gatech.edu/directory/faculty/sauermann/index.html

SSRN Author page: http://ssrn.com/author=1142729

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Darlene,

Darlene Alexander-Houle