TIM Division List Serve
Vol. 4, No. 18 (August 27, 2007)
Table of Contents:
- Call for Submissions
- Book Announcements
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Call for Submissions:
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Organization Science Editor's Panel & Paper Development Workshop
Saturday, November 3, 2007
Seattle, WA
(In conjunction with the Informs Annual Meeting)
The Editorial Board of Organization Science in collaboration with the College of Organization Science is happy to announce an Editor's Panel and Paper Development Workshop to be held at the upcoming Informs meeting on November 3rd, 2007 in Seattle, WA (prior to the Organization Science cluster "Conference in a Conference" and in conjunction with the Informs annual meeting). The panel will take place in the morning and feature Organization Science Editor Linda Argote and other panelists who will discuss issues related to publishing in the journal.
The workshop will be held following the morning panel and is structured to provide detailed feedback from researchers working in similar areas and generate suggestions for developing the participants' work prior to journal submission. Workshop participants will discuss drafts of their papers in small discussion groups with Senior Editors, members of the Organization Science Editorial Board, and other workshop participants. It is essential that all participants read the manuscripts for their roundtable session in advance of arriving at the workshop. Each discussion group will be led by a Senior Editor or Senior member of the Editorial Board whose role is to manage the discussion and facilitate the provision of directed and developmental input on the manuscript. To date, confirmed discussion group leaders include Linda Argote (Carnegie-Mellon), Rich Burton (Duke U.), Tina Dacin (Queen's U.), Deborah Dougherty (Rutgers), Ann Marie Knott (Washington U.).
Workshop participants are also encouraged to attend the "College of Organization Science Conference in a Conference" to be held all day on Sunday, November 4th. Hotel space is extremely limited and information about conference hotel arrangements can be found on the Informs website (http://meetings.informs.org/Seattle07/hotel.html). You are encouraged to book your hotel as soon as possible.
Submission is as follows: The deadline for submission of your manuscript is September 21st, 2007 but papers can be submitted prior to the deadline. We anticipate accepting no more than 25 submissions so space is limited and early submissions are welcomed and desirable. Preference will be given to members of Informs with written work that is almost ready for submission to a journal (around 30 pages but no more than 45 pages).
Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format to Tina Dacin, (
tdacin@business.queensu.ca). Please indicate in your email the editorial area or keywords that best fit your paper. Papers should not exceed 45 pages in length and must be double-spaced, in 12 point font and should follow the format of Organization Science. Participants will be notified about acceptance for the workshop no later than Monday, October 1st.
Tina Dacin
E. Marie Shantz Professor of Strategy
& Organizational Behavior
Queen's School of Business
Queen's University
Kingston, ON, Canada K7L 3N6
Voice: 613.533.2366
Fax: 613.533.6589
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I am editing a special issue on work life initiatives and organizational change with Leslie Hammer and Sue Lewis. Please publicize this to your members.
Thanks
Ellen Ernst Kossek
Michigan State University
Here is the url and the call repeated below:
http://www.tavinstitute.org/humanrelations/special_issues/work_life_initiatives.html
Celebrating 60 years of research excellence
Special issues
Work-life initiatives and organizational change
Guest Editors: Ellen Ernst Kossek (Michigan State University, USA ), Leslie B. Hammer (Portland State University, USA), Suzan Lewis (Middlesex University, UK)
In order to adapt to a changing workforce with growing family and nonwork responsibilities, employers are devoting increasing organizational resources toward enhancing structural and cultural/relational support for work, family and personal life. Examples of structural support may include but are not limited to the adoption of work -life policies and practices (e.g., flexible work schedules, teleworking and virtual arrangements, reduced workloads, alternative work arrangements, job redesign, health initiatives to reduce job and family stress, and child and elder care benefits). Examples of cultural and relational support may include but are not limited to efforts to increase instrumental and emotional support of supervisors and co-workers for employees' nonwork demands, and changes in group and organizational values, norms and assumptions about the hegemony of relationships between work and personal life. These structural and cultural/relational change efforts are designed to create healthy work environments with reduced conflict and stress between work and nonwork role demands, and positive relationships between work, family and personal life. Despite increasing employer and scholarly attention to structural and cultural/relational initiatives to support the integration of work with personal life, greater knowledge is needed regarding their effectiveness, and their relation to work group and organizational change processes and outcomes. The goal of this special issue is to advance our understanding of the degree to which work-life initiatives that are designed to increase structural or cultural/relational support of the work-family - personal life interface benefit the health and well-being of employing organizations and work units, as well as employees on and off the job and their families. We welcome critical approaches to the study of organizational support of work and family. Potential structural and cultural/relational support of work, family and personal life and relevant processes and outcomes that may be addressed in studies for the special issue include the following as they relate to changes in organizations and work units:
* flexible or alternative work arrangements policies, and practices
* work-life benefits such as child and elder care
* supervisor and co-worker support for family and personal life
* organizational or work group culture and climate
* workload reduction, job design, control, and autonomy over workload
* schedules and locations
* life course approaches
* socio-historical influences and prevailing rhetoric surrounding work-life initiatives
* organizational stratification regarding access and use
* gender and social justice and multiple stakeholder perspectives
* globalization of work in a 24-7 economy
* interaction with basic employment and working conditions such as pay and performance and job security
* processes and models for achieving systemic changes (e.g., changes in structures, cultures and practices) to support a multiple agenda of benefiting employers and workers and their families
* work group and organizational demography
* individual employee and group diversity (e.g. men-women; older-younger workers; heterosexual-homo-sexual- bi-sexual relations, single- married workers, workers with dependent care responsibilities and those without;
majority- majority culture, parent company- subsidiary, local national-international employees)
* cross-cultural and comparative research
* variation across occupations and job groups
* variation across employer context, industry, and size
* economic, productivity, family, societal, and health outcomes, costs and benefits
Regardless of the specific methods utilized, a strong emphasis on theory development must be evident. We welcome critical approaches to research on organizational change and work life initiatives. Although the emphasis in this special issue is on empirical research, conceptual papers that make clear contributions to our thinking about work life initiatives and organizational change that have the potential to stimulate future empirical work will be given full consideration.
Contributors should note:
* This call is open and competitive, and the submitted papers will be blind reviewed in the normal way.
* Submitted papers must be based on original material not under consideration by any other journal or outlet.
* For empirical papers based on data sets from which multiple papers have been generated, the editors must be provided with copies of all other papers based on the same data.
* The editors will select five papers to be included in the special issue, but other papers submitted in this process may be published in other issues of the journal.
The deadline for submissions is 31 January 2008. The special issue is intended for publication in the first half of 2009.
Papers to be considered for this special issue should be submitted online via
www.humanrelationsjournal.org. Please direct questions about the submission process, or any administrative matter, to Alice Gilbertson at
editorial@humanrelationsjournal.org.
Ellen Ernst Kossek
kossek@msu.edu
Leslie B Hammer
hammerl@pdx.edu
Suzan Lewis
S.Lewis@mdx.ac.uk
The Tavistock Institute, Sage publications
Human Relations is published monthly by SAGE Publications on behalf of The Tavistock Institute, London
Copyright © 2006 The Tavistock Institute.
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Professor Ellen Ernst Kossek
School of Labor & Industrial Relations
433 South Kedzie
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1032
phone: 517-353-9040 (work), 517-388-0952 (cell)
FAX: 517-3557656
EMAIL:
kossek@msu.edu
http://www.msu.edu/~kossek/
http://flex-work.lir.msu.edu/
http://wfsupport.psy.pdx.edu/
http://www.worklifeflexibility.msu.edu/
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Dear TIM Netters,
Please find hereafter and in the attached file the abridged Call for Papers of the incoming Third EIASM Workshop on "Coopetition Strategy - Stretching the Boundaries of Coopetition", that my co-organizers and I would like you to consider for submitting your fresh and original research work.
Thanks for your kind attention.
Best regards,
Giambattista
3RD EIASM WORKSHOP ON COOPETITION STRATEGY
STRETCHING THE BOUNDARIES OF COOPETITION
MADRID, SPAIN, FEBRUARY 7-8, 2008
CALL FOR PAPERS
Important dates
September 15, 2007 Dead line for submission of a 5-page extended abstract all
inclusive (tables, references, notes, graphs and so on), single
spaced, 1 inch margins, 11 point font.
November 1, 2007 Selection of Participants
December 10, 2007 Deadline for the Submission of Full Papers
February 7-8, 2008 Workshop at Carlos III University.
Organizers
Daniela Baglieri, University of Messina, Italy
Giovanni Battista Dagnino, University of Catania, Italy
Marco S. Giarratana, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Isabel Gutiérrez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Submission procedure
At the EIASM Website
http://www.eiasm.org/frontoffice/event_announcement.asp?event_id=530
Guest Speakers
Javier Gimeno, INSEAD
Micheal A. Hitt, Mays Business School at Texas A&M David Hsu, Wharton School/Univ. of Pennsylvania Joan Enric Ricart, IESE Business School
Background
The concept of Coopetition, inaugurated by the 1996 Adam Brandenburger and Barry Nabeluff=92s celebrated executive book, proposes a new speculative approach in which competitive and cooperative standpoints are no more intended as separated strategies.
Over ten years after the introduction of the concept, we assist to a growing importance of coopetition strategy in a wide range of business activities and sectors and to an unexpected diffusion and extension to different management fields, such as Technology and Innovation Management, Marketing Strategy, Governance, Organizational Design, Entrepreneurship and Social Networks.
Notwithstanding that, the search for additional conceptual developments, empirical support and practical illustrations appears a required call for all academic scholars, managers and consultants genuinely interested in developing coopetition investigation and application.
To advance investigation on coopetition strategies and to expand its theoretical and practical bases and boundaries, both business practitioners and academics are invited to submit their contributions, which may be consistent with the following eight themes
a) Market Evolution and Coopetition;
b) Technology and Innovation Management and Coopetition;
c) Entrepreneurship and Coopetition;
d) Firm Governance and Coopetition;
e) Organizational Identity and Coopetition;
f) Coopetition and Social Networks;
g) Geographical and Spatial Advantages and Coopetition: Clusters and Districts
Thanks for your kind attention.
Best regards,
Giambattista
Giovanni Battista Dagnino
Professor of Business Economics & Management
University of Catania
Corso Italia, 55
I-95129 - CATANIA (Italy)
+39.095.7537.622
Fax: +39.095.7537.510
E.mail:
dagnino@unict.it
Universit=E0 di Catania - C.E.A.
Servizio di Posta Elettronica
http://www.cea.unict.it
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Dear Colleagues,
I thought the call for papers below may be of interest to you.
Yours,
Ernest
Ernest Frugé, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Departments of Pediatrics and Family & Community Medicine
Director, Psychosocial Programs
Texas Children's Cancer Center & Hematology Service
Houston, Texas, USA
Call for Papers for June 2008 Symposium
The Symposium theme for the 2008 Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations, to be held in Philadelphia on the University of Pennsylvania campus, is "Motivation and Meaning at Work." The Annual Meeting, which includes professional development workshops, members' day, and the symposium, will be held from June 16 to June 22. The symposium will be held from June 20 to June 22. Both the symposium and the professional development workshops are open to everyone. In this call for papers, we invite interested scholars, practitioners, leaders and managers to submit abstracts of papers they would like to present at the symposium.
The planning committee for the symposium has created a theme statement that describes what we see as some of the issues and questions the theme raises (see below). Interested contributors are encouraged to propose papers that take up one or another of these issues, or suggest how other perspectives, not considered in our theme statement, are responsive to the theme itself. Papers may advance theory, be based on case studies, or integrate the work of other authors and scholars.
The deadline for the submission of abstracts is November 23, 2007.
Abstracts will be evaluated on the basis of their;
n Clarity,
n Originality,
n Links to psychoanalytic thinking,
n Offer to bridge psychoanalysis with other theoretical perspectives,
n Contribution to theory, practice or both.
Guidelines for submission:
Abstract submissions must include:
1. A separate face sheet with the title of the paper, name(s) of the author(s), professional affiliations, telephone and fax numbers and email address (es).
2. An abstract in English. This should consist of two or three pages - i.e. 500-600 words only. It should also indicate clearly the paper's relevance to the symposium theme. It should include a list of 5 key words and references that the author proposes to use in developing the paper.
3. (Optional) A list of other published or unpublished articles the author has written on any topic relevant to the interests of ISPSO members.
4. Pease use Times New Roman 12-point, double-spaced.
Please send your abstract to Deborah Bing at
Dbing@cfar.com with a cc to Larry Hirschhorn at
Lhirschhorn@cfar.com
ISPSO members are strongly urged to submit an abstract.
The Symposium Theme
The 2008 ISPSO Symposium Annual Meeting, to be held in Philadelphia, will explore meaning, motivation and the links between them from a psychoanalytic point of view. In a groundbreaking paper, "Beyond the Surrogate of Motivation," Burkard Sievers argued that we become preoccupied with motivation when people cannot find meaning in their work. The question is how do people achieve meaning? Is it something they are given, something they wrestle out of their situation, something that is imposed, or something that flows naturally from the work itself?
In exploring this theme we don't want to reject out of hand the role that money may play in generating meaning. While money is an instrument for acquiring something else, it is also a symbol in its own right and so by definition possesses meaning. It can for example stand for the honor people accord those who are successful, the measure of one's capacity to emerge as a victor in a competition, the means for exercising agency in the world, the source and the basis for reparative gift giving. The apparently sensible distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation breaks down when the meaning of money is generated in the traffic between our culture and our internal fantasies.
At the same time intrinsic meaning is not without its burdens. When people get pleasure from the work itself, when it puts them in what Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi calls a state of 'flow" they may neglect the wider purpose, for good or for evil, which sanctions the work. This is when people may without forethought drift into unethical work because the process, the craft, rather than product, becomes paramount.
We also want to explore how group life shapes a context within which people extract meaning from work. When people share an identification with a charismatic leader, or participate in a group that is ready to "fight the world," they enter a drama, a story that is rich in meaning. Moreover, in both these cases the meaning of work is potentiated by the social connections, real or fantasized that work provides. The story is social.
But while the story is social, people's capacity to benefit from it may differ. Perhaps only the organization's elite participates in the story of the organization's success. They come to represent not just success, but as Howard Schwartz has suggested, perfection. This myth of perfection protects them from the stresses and psychological injuries that others, not in the elite, experience.
We are also interested in exploring how in consulting to organizations, we face the dilemmas of meaning and motivation. In helping organizations improve their effectiveness, when and how do we come up against issues of meaning? How do we evaluate various organization development tools, such as vision and mission statements as methods for helping people create meaning? When and how does the use of data, for example a financial statement, help people create meaning, and when does it become a tool in the contest over meaning? When in consulting to organizations do we find that we are calling into question a group myth and therefore undermining how people make meaning? What makes an interpretation, whether expressed in a diagnostic report, a working note or a verbal statement, meaningful? Is a measure of its meaningfulness its ability to connect people with one another, or release energy for work?
Papers that address any of these issues and their implications, or others on related issues will be most welcomed for consideration by the symposium planning committee.
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Accra Ghana - 2008
Leadership and Management Studies in
Sub-Sahara Africa
2008 Conference
LMSSSA2008 will be held in Accra, Ghana, 7-9 July 2008. Please see
http://www.crossculturalcentre.homestead.com/LMSSSA2008.html
Apologies, you may receive the announcement from multiple listservers.
LMSSA2008
7-9 July 2008
GIMPA Conference Centre
Achimota Road, Legon, Accra, Ghana
Email:
lmsssa2008@yahoo.com
Fax, New Zealand: +64-9-921-9990
Tel., New Zealand: +64-9-921-9999x5805
Post: Romie F. Littrell
LMSSSA2008, AUT Business School
Private Bag 92006,
Auckland 1142, New Zealand
Sponsored by the KNUSTm Business School of Kwame, Nkrumah University of Science
and Technology,
http://www.knust.edu.gh/
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
LMSSSA2008 will provide an opportunity to hear and present academic work that can build and inform good management practice in Sub-Sahara Africa. Emphasis will be upon indigenous African approaches, dissemination of best practice information, discussions of the values and pitfalls of emulation of Western practice. The conference will offer paper presentations, round table discussions on management education and training, focusing on some of the issues of cultural differences and indigenous African resources.
Key-note speakers from industry and academia will showcase current problems, successes, and research as a stimulus to further research. The conference will also focus on developing less experienced academics in groups and networks and research practice and publication.
REGISTRATION FEE: BY 7 APRIL 2008, US$325.00, AFTER 7 APRIL 2008,
US$375.00; participants working for local organisations in Sub-Saharan
Africa: by 7 April 2008, US$300.00, after 7 April 2008, US$325.00
WEBSITE:
http://www.crossculturalcentre.homestead.com/LMSSSA2008.html
DUE DATE, COMPLETED PAPERS 14 January 2008
OPEN NOW for paper submissions.
Submissions will be blind reviewed by two reviewers. Early papers may be offered an opportunity to revise and resubmit. Some presentations will be by invited speakers. All papers accepted by reviewers will be published in the conference proceedings CD. Selected papers will be included in an edited book.
Regards,
Romie Littrell
Romie F. Littrell, BA, MBA,PhD, FIAIR, An fánaí fiáin
AUT Business School N.Z.,
romie.littrell@aut.ac.nz
http://www.romielittrellpubs.homestead.com/
http://www.crossculturalcentre.homestead.com/
Facilitator, Leadership & Management in Sub-Sahara Africa Conferences
Contents copyright Romie F. Littrell
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Book Announcements:
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* apologies for cross-posting *
The Kauffman Foundation just released a press announcement pertaining to a forthcoming literature review and synthesis article on University Entrepreneurship (analyzing all academic papers published pertaining to University Entrepreneurship since 1980); see
http://www.kauffman.org/items.cfm?itemID=903 If you are interested in the full-length article, please email me and I will send it you. The full reference is:
Rothaermel, F.T., Agung, S., Jiang, L. 2007. University entrepreneurship: A taxonomy of the literature. Industrial and Corporate Change, 16 in press.
Frank T. Rothaermel [http://mgt.gatech.edu/rothaermel]
Sloan Industry Studies Fellow
Associate Professor of Strategy
College of Management
Georgia Institute of Technology
800 West Peachtree St, NW
Atlanta, GA 30308-1149
Tel. 404-385-5108
FAX 404-894-6030
frank.rothaermel@mgt.gatech.edu
SSRN Author's Site:
http://ssrn.com/author=391625
The publisher's announcement:
University entrepreneurship: a taxonomy of the literature
Frank T. Rothaermel, Shanti D. Agung and Lin Jiang
Correspondence: Frank T. Rothaermel, College of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0520, USA. e-mail:
frank.rothaermel@mgt.gatech.edu
Correspondence: Shanti D. Agung, College of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0520, USA. e-mail:
shanti.agung@mgt.gatech.edu
Correspondence: Lin Jiang, College of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0520, USA. e-mail:
lin.jiang@mgt.gatech.edu
The literature on university entrepreneurship is rapidly expanding, in both the United States and Europe. Since the literature is also fairly fragmented, however, we submit that it is time to take stock of the current knowledge to provide directions for future research and guideposts for policy makers. To accomplish this, we present an unusually comprehensive and detailed literature analysis of the stream of research on university entrepreneurship, now encompassing 173 articles published in a variety of academic journals. Four major research streams emerge in this area of study: (i) entrepreneurial research university, (ii) productivity of technology transfer offices, (iii) new firm creation, and (iv) environmental context including networks of innovation. We inductively derive a framework describing the dynamic process of university entrepreneurship based on a synthesis of the literature. We submit that this framework is useful in guiding future research on this important, yet complex and under-researched topic.
A fuller description,
http://www.kauffman.org/items.cfm?itemID=903
Best, Frank
Frank T. Rothaermel [http://mgt.gatech.edu/rothaermel]
Sloan Industry Studies Fellow
Associate Professor of Strategy
College of Management
Georgia Institute of Technology
800 West Peachtree St, NW
Atlanta, GA 30308-1149
Tel. 404-385-5108
FAX 404-894-6030
frank.rothaermel@mgt.gatech.edu
SSRN Author's Site:
http://ssrn.com/author=391625
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Darlene
Darlene Alexander-Houle
Global Program Manager, Hewlett-Packard
Adjunct Global Business and Management, University of Phoenix
281-514-0111
281-851-3924 (mobile)
darlene.alexander-houle@hp.com
dahoule@email.phoenix.edu