Hi there: could you please circulate the message below? Thank you. Stefano
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Dear all
The AOM submission system will open up next week. Please see below the call for Professional Development Workshops prepared by the TIM Division. We all look forward to receiving your applications. For information, please contact me at timdivision@ethz.ch
Regards,
Stefano Brusoni
2016 TIM PDW Chair
timdivision@ethz.ch
2016 TIM Division Professional Development Workshops: Call for Proposals
The Technology and Innovation Management (TIM) Division invites innovative proposals for its pre-conference Professional Development Workshops (PDWs) within the Academy of Management's annual meeting in Anaheim, CA, in August 2016. PDW sessions provide excellent opportunities for exploring emerging research questions or methods, trying out new workshop formats, and kindling conversations on important but understudied phenomena. They can take a variety of formats – methods workshops, tutorials, debates, roundtable discussions, town hall meetings, to name a few – and address ideas or phenomena that might not (yet) fit in the regular program. PDW sessions are also intended for professional development of the participants, so their engagement is essential. We aim for a program of highly innovative and interactive, and diverse PDWs. Past TIM workshops have delved into such topics as technological disruption, employee mobility, alliance agreements, globalization of innovation, MOOCs, patent research methods, business modeling, and corporate spinoffs.
We particularly seek proposals that are related to the conference theme, "Making Organizations Meaningful." The conference theme description explicitly mentions several TIM topics such as entrepreneurial ventures; new, changing and emerging markets; identity and innovation; technology, sustainability and ethics. In addition, various governance choices related to innovation (including but not limited to platforms, emergent and designed organizational forms such as communities and networks, hybrid organizational forms) are central to the conference theme. Last, micro-level processes related to innovation and change, such as the cognitive, behavioral and affective mechanisms through which individuals and organizations make and give sense to novelty, lie at the core of the 2016 conference theme. TIM scholars have much to offer here in terms of emerging trends both in research and in practice.
Acceptance of proposals for TIM PDWs will be based on (a) relevance to the interests of the Division's membership; (b) novelty and creativity; and (c) plans for creating an interactive and engaging session. We also welcome proposals that identify other Divisions and Interest Groups as co-sponsors but this is not required.
PDW sessions will be held on Friday and Saturday, August 5-6. We encourage you to submit a proposal by using the PDW form available at the AOM submission site http://aom.org/annualmeeting/submission/ . The submission deadline is January 12, 2016, 5:00pm EST (US Eastern Standard Time).
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