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TIM Division List Serve

Vol. 9, No. 19 (July 9, 2012)

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·                     Announcements

None in this list serve

·                     Call for Papers

o   None in this list serve

·                     Call for Participants

o   PDW on Innovative Idea Management at the AOM meeting in Boston Friday, August 3rd, 10:15-1:45pm. Boston Park Plaza in White Hill Room

·                     Job Positions

o   The Department of Organization and Strategy of Tilburg University invites applications for Tenure Track Assistant Professors of Organization and Strategy

o   Universidad Adolfo Ibanez's Business School, Chile Faculty Positions – Strategy and/or Innovation

o   Department of Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology in the Lee Business School at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas invites applications for a full-time, 9-month, tenure-track faculty position in Entrepreneurship at the Assistant or Associate Professor rank to begin Fall 2013

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Call for Participants

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Apologies for cross-posting.

We will be hosting a Professional Development Workshop on Innovative Idea Management at the AOM meeting in Boston. We hope you will consider attending!

When: Friday, August 3rd, 10:15-1:45pm. Boston Park Plaza in White Hill Room

Who should attend: Scholars at all levels who would like to either learn from others' use of technology in managing their ideas or who would like to share their own approaches.

Why: As technology grows and our resources for managing scholarly ideas grow, our field can benefit from scholars coming together to share ideas for how to make the most out of the available resources.

Registration is not required, but in order to  focus large and small group discussions within the PDW we ask that potential participants reflect on the questions below and email responses to Tiffany Schroeder (tds38@case.edu) by July 20th:

1.      What system (could include use of technological tools, paper-based systems, or some combination) are you currently using to organize thoughts/ideas/article notes for use in the writing process?

a.       What about this system works well for you?

b.      How would you like to refine or enhance your system or use of systems?

2.      How do you manage the storage and retrieval of your ideas while working on a paper?
3.      What would you like to learn in this session?

Organizer: Tiffany Schroeder; Case Western Reserve U.; 
Organizer: Weylin Burlingame; Weatherhead School of Management; 
Presenter: Fabrice Cavarretta; ESSEC Business School; 
Presenter: Yochi Cohen-Charash; Baruch College & Graduate Center, CUNY; 
Presenter: Mary K. Foster; Morgan State U.; 
Presenter: Darja Gutnick; U. of Groningen; 
Presenter: Weylin Burlingame; Weatherhead School of Management; 
Presenter: Julia Eisenberg; Rutgers U.; 

Technological tools pervade our academic work lives, but we rarely get to see how colleagues incorporate these tools into their everyday work flow. This session will focus on sharing techniques for managing thoughts in the academic writing process. Presenters will demonstrate their own adaptation of various tools (e.g. note taking programs, citation managers, concept mapping technologies, task management resources, etc.) and discuss how these play into the larger work flow. All participants will then engage in table discussions on a specific aspect of the writing process, sharing their own approaches and brainstorming new possibilities for leveraging technology in service of that aspect of their work. Each table will then report out to the larger group. This PDW offers scholars a chance to build a collective knowledge store from which individual scholars can select and tailor ideas according to their own writing needs.

Tiffany Schroeder
Doctoral Student
Department of Organizational Behavior
Weatherhead School of Management
Case Western Reserve University
Room # 420-12
11119 Bellflower Rd.
Cleveland, OH  44106-7235

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REMINDER – PDW "A variety of theoretical approaches to address contractual issues: complementarities and overlaps"

Date:  Saturday, August 4, 2012

Time:  1:00 - 3:00 PM

Location:  Boston Hynes Convention Center, Room 108

Organizers: Valerie Duplat (EDHEC Business School) and Jason Pattit (University of St. Thomas)

Presenters: Valerie Duplat (EDHEC Business School), Fabrice Lumineau (University of Technology Sydney), and Bart Vanneste (INSEAD)

Facilitators: Michael J. Leiblein (The Ohio State University), Jason Pattit (University of St. Thomas), and Libby Weber (University of California, Irvine)

The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for scholars who study inter-firm contracts to engage in a dialogue about current and future research opportunities. In addition, scholars who are not currently conducting research in this area, but have an interest in doing so in the future, are invited to attend this PDW to obtain an overview of the field and to join the discussion.

The workshop will consist of two parts. Three short presentations about contractual issues that have been addressed by different theoretical streams (i.e., transaction cost, relational governance, and psychological theories) will open the PDW. Each presentation will be followed by a discussion between the audience and the presenters lead by a facilitator. This will enable us to explore how these theoretical streams overlap or complement each other, but also to derive new research questions and discuss novel empirical methods.

The second part of the PDW will be a paper development workshop. To participate, please pre-register (https://secure.aomonline.org/PDWReg) and submit your paper by Sunday, July 15th. A maximum of 30 submissions will be accepted. The papers will be discussed in small groups. Each participant will provide a brief synopsis of their submission to the roundtable that they are assigned to and then receive feedback from the presenters, facilitators and the other participants. Papers will be shared among the respective tables' participants before the PDW. Attendees without a submission will be invited to stay and take part in the discussions.

Overall, the aim of this PDW is to create a network of seasoned and nascent scholars interested in inter-firm contracts. Thus, this PDW provides a forum to communicate with researchers from diverse theoretical backgrounds, which may lead to interesting future collaboration opportunities.

Please put this session on your calendar. For any general questions about the PDW, or to receive the registration code and submit your paper, please contact us: valerie.duplat@edhec.edu or jmpattit@stthomas.edu.

See you in Boston!

Valerie Duplat and Jason Pattit

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS TO PDW:

Alliance Portfolios - Paper Development Workshop
Academy of Management Conference

Friday, August 3^rd from 10:15am – 12:15pm at Boston Hynes Convention Center in Room 202

Organizers/Panelists:

Dovev Lavie (Technion Israel Institute of Technology) and Olga Bruyaka (Virginia Tech)

Panelists: Jaideep Anand (Ohio State U.), Devi R Gnyawali (Virginia Tech), Koen Heimeriks (Erasmus U. Rotterdam), Werner Helmut Hoffmann (WU Vienna), Jeffrey J. Reuer (Purdue U.), Ulrich Wassmer (Concordia U.).

Pre-registration is required for this workshop by 1 August

Session  Description

The objective of this PDW is to offer personal feedback to scholars actively researching the topic of alliance portfolios. We seek to create a highly interactive environment where scholars in different fields, including strategic management, organization theory, and technology management can discuss their recent research on alliance portfolios, debate theoretical and empirical issues, and identify prospective directions for future research. This PDW will be of great interest to those broadly interested in the study of alliances and networks. In particular, the PDW will address themes related to the formation, composition, evolution, management and performance implications of alliance portfolios. 

Pre-registration is required for this workshop.

In order to ensure a fruitful discussion we ask interested scholars to upload a 2-page summary of a research project that they would like to discuss in the PDW. These summaries will be later forwarded to the panelists who will be assigned to the round table of that participant. We also ask each registered participant to indicate 3 panelists who in his or her opinion can provide the most relevant feedback on the participant's research based on shared research interests. An effort will be made to ensure that each participant will be assigned with at least one of the panelists that was indicated. The PDW participants will be also able to continue informal discussions in in a follow-up lunch at the La Voile restaurant.

Registration and Submission Instructions – Deadline August 1^st

Please complete the form at http://ie.technion.ac.il/AOM2012/AlliancePDW/

Once you complete this form and upload your research summary, the webpage will provide you with the approval code which you should then use for completing your registration on the AOM webpage https://secure.aomonline.org/PDWReg.

We look forward to seeing you at PDW on Alliance Portfolios!

For questions, contact the organizers: Dovev Lavie (dlavie@ie.technion.ac.il) or Olga Bruyaka (obru1723@vt.edu)

Olga Bruyaka, PhD.

Assistant Professor of Management

Pamplin College of Business

Virginia Polytechnic Institute

Tel.: (540)231-1414

e-mail: o_bruyaka@vt.edu

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TIM Division PDW on Conducting Interdisciplinary R&D research Saturday, August 04, 2012, 12:15:00PM to 2:15:00PM Boston Hynes Convention Center, Room 109

PDW on conducting interdisciplinary R&D research This PDW introduces theory, data sources, and methods for examining the growing phenomenon of interdisciplinary research and development (R&D).  In many industrial sectors ranging from cosmetics to electronics, advanced R&D is requiring the dismantling of disciplinary barriers to pool the best minds to push out the technological frontier.  Those attending the session will share a synopsis of their research projects so the group can brainstorm on their next steps.  The leaders of this PDW will frame the discussion by briefly touching on: 1) the theory behind knowledge pooling; 2) data sources targeting this line of inquiry such as NanoBank, COMETS, the NSF's Survey of Doctorate Recipients, the ISI Web of Science, and PubMed; and 3) research methods that have been employed.  The methods will include qualitative and quantitative approaches.  The intent is to foster a dialogue among workshop participants to share insights regarding theory, data, and methods to produce actionable research roadmaps.

Title: Theory, Data, and Methods for Examining Interdisciplinary Research & Development

Date:  Saturday, August 04, 2012, 12:15:00 PM - 2:15:00 PM Hotel &Room: Boston Hynes Convention Center, Room 109

PDW Leaders:

Melissa M. Appleyard (Portland State University) Christine M. Beckman (UC Irvine) Sarah Kaplan (University of Toronto) Erin Leahey (University of Arizona) Jade Y. Lo (UCLA) Beverly B. Tyler (North Carolina State University)

If you have not done so already, make sure to reserve lodging ASAP:

http://meetings.aomonline.org/2012/registration-housing/housing

and register by July 6:

http://meetings.aomonline.org/2012/registration-housing/105-registration-housing/68-prereg

Many thanks,

Melissa Appleyard

Melissa M. Appleyard, Ph.D.

Ames Professor in the Management

   of Innovation and Technology

http://www.pdx.edu/sba/fp-melissa-appleyard

School of Business Administration

Portland State University

P.O. Box 751

Portland, OR  97207-0751

T: 503-725-9581

F: 503-725-5850

E: MelissaA@sba.pdx.edu

NSF Lab2Market Initiative: http://www.lab2market.pdx.edu/

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Behavioral Strategy 3.0 Firms, Cooperation, Networks, Learning, Simulation, Big Data August 4, 12:15-4:00

see details at http://j.mp/BeStrat

Wayne Baker, U. of Michigan

Philip Bromiley, U. of California, Irvine

Richard Burton, Duke U.

Emilio J. Castilla, MIT

Jerker C. Denrell, U. Of Oxford

Teppo Felin, Brigham Young U.

David Lazer, Political Sci. & Computer Sci., Northeastern & Harvard U.

Hod Lipson, Creative Machines Lab, Cornell U.

Martin Nowak, Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard U.

Shayne Gary, Australian School of Business

Gerard P. Hodgkinson, U. of Warwick

Theresa K. Lant, Pace U.

Michael Lenox, U. of Virginia

Sheen S. Levine, Columbia U.

Joseph Porac, New York U.

Hart E. Posen, U. Of Michigan

Michael J. Prietula, Emory U.

Ray Reagans, MIT

Rhonda K. Reger, U. of Maryland

Violina Rindova, U. of Texas at Austin

Zur Shapira, New York U.

Edward J. Zajac, Northwestern U.

Researchers of strategy often think about organizations and markets, not individuals. Scholars who study individuals infrequently consider their behavior in aggregation. Yet the two are intertwined: If we understand individual behavior, we can develop realistic theories of organizations and markets. And by observing behavior in organizations and markets, we can understand individual behavior better.

Returning for the third year, Behavioral Strategy is a meeting place for an interdisciplinary group. Some of us study individuals, others research organizations, markets, and cultures. This year, we will engage and be engaged by three scientists who made discoveries and developed methods related to our interests: David Lazer, expert on computational social science (Science 2006; PNAS 2007; Science 2009); Hod Lipson, co-inventor of the robotic scientist (Nature 2005; Science 2009; PNAS 2010); and Martin Nowak, a mathematician and biologist whose discoveries unravel the evolution of human cooperation and language.

Advance your own work: Submit an abstract! The panelists can advise you on theory, method, and framing. If you wish, submit a 1,000-word summary by July 15. In it, identify how the research is related to behavioral strategy. One submission may win the Behavioral Strategy Prize.

Interested? Please register now. Seating is limited! Regrettably, we cannot allow walk-ins.

http://program.aomonline.org/2012/Session_Details.asp?print=true&SubmissionID=11247

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Colleagues,

Are you interested in researching or teaching about clean technology or green product design?

Are you concerned about endocrine-disrupting chemicals and wondering from where cleaner substances will come and how they will move from bench scale discoveries to industrial scale production facilities?

Are you looking for interesting case studies of innovation, commercialization of environmental technologies or eco-preneurship?

Are you looking for interesting case studies of pollution prevention and environmental risk management?

Are you looking for a science-based framework for connecting issues as seemingly disparate as environmental health, climate change and resource efficiency, as well as for understanding the greening of individual firms or entire sectors?

If so, the Professional Development Workshop to be held at the Academy of Management's Annual Meeting in Boston, and described below, will be of interest to you.

50 Years after Silent Spring: The Past, Present and Future of the Global Chemical Enterprise

Friday, August 03, 2012 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place, Salon H

This PDW honors the 50^th anniversary of the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring by bringing "toxics" back to the fore of scholarship on organizations and the natural environment. It will introduce "green chemistry" to management scholars; describe its scientific, commercial and regulatory dimensions and place these into historical context; and illustrate green chemistry's central role in innovation for business sustainability.

Participants will explore the potential for interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of business sustainability and industry-scale chemistry by identifying ways to integrate perspectives on green chemistry into their own research and teaching. The PDW aims to develop a community of scholars that is interested in research that uses the chemicals sector as a site for developing knowledge about business sustainability and innovation; and in teaching business students and executives about green chemistry, its role in sustainable development and its importance for corporate environmental strategy.

Co-organizers:           Steve Maguire (McGill U)

Robert Peoples (American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Institute)

Facilitators:                Pratima Bansal (Western U)

Stephanie Bertels (Simon Fraser U)

Arthur Daemmrich (Harvard Business School)
Andrew Hoffman (U Michigan)

Andrew Nelson (U Oregon) 
Deborah Steketee (Aquinas College)

Who Should Attend: This PDW is designed for management academics with an interest in researching about sustainable development, corporate environmental strategy and innovation, i.e. scholars from ONE and TIM. It will also be of interest to OMT scholars interested in change in institutional fields; and to BPS scholars interested in the implications of technological and regulatory change on industries and firm strategies. On the pedagogy front, it will have great value for scholars interested in incorporating green chemistry into teaching of courses about business sustainability, corporate environmental strategy, strategies for sustainable development, etc., as it will direct them to relevant tools and materials (e.g. ppt slides for lectures, case studies, etc.).

For information on how to register:

http://program.aomonline.org/2012/Session_Details.asp?print=true&SubmissionID=16162

I look forward to seeing you there!

Cheers,

Steve

Steve Maguire

Director, Marcel Desautels Institute for Integrated Management

Desautels Chair in Integrated Management

Associate Professor of Strategy and Organization

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Hello Members of the Academy!

The Diversity & Inclusion Theme Committee (D&ITC) has organized and sponsored several sessions to provide learning and outreach opportunities across the Academy to foster a more diverse and inclusive community in which all members are involved in, and contribute to, the growth and success of our organization. Please look for all of our sessions, which promise to be excellent.  In particular, please join us for the following events:

1.                  Diversity & Inclusion Theme Committee - Open Meeting. Saturday, August 4. 8:30-9:30 AM, Boston Park Plaza, Cabot Room.  This meeting will provide a chance to meet the officers and members of the committee and to provide input into our agenda and plans for the coming year, during which we will be conducting and reporting on an important survey regarding inclusion in the Academy.

2.                  Diversity and Inclusion in the Academy: A Town Hall Meeting. Saturday, August 4, 3:00-5:30PM, Boston Park Plaza, Cambridge Room.  This highly interactive session will provide a chance to learn about the work of the committee and most importantly, to share inclusion experiences in the Academy, ideas about how to make AOM more inclusive, and best practices at AOM for diversity and inclusion.

3.                  Create Timeless Stories for Inductive, Reflective Learning: Native American Pedagogy. Friday, Aug 3 2012 1:30PM - 4:40PM, Boston Park Plaza, Stuart Room.  This unique and innovative PDW will be a story-writing and story-interpretation workshop allowing participants to experience a storytelling technique that has been the foundation of American Indian education for centuries. Native American storytelling pedagogy can be applied to business contexts as a way of invoking inductive, reflective, critical thinking in both educators and students.

4.                  More than Meets the Eye: Sharing Our Personal Stories to Facilitate a More Inclusive AoM. Saturday, August 4, 1:00-3:00 PM, Boston Park Plaza, Beacon Hill Room.  In this interactive session, AOM leaders and participants will share personal stories to go beneath the surface of external appearances and to illustrate the complexities each person brings to the profession. It will be a chance to connect at a deeper level than is often the case and to learn how this process can deepen inclusion in the Academy.

5.                  Balancing Acts: The Intersection of Motherhood and Scholarly Endeavors.  Saturday, Aug 4 2012 9:30AM - 12:00PM, Boston Park Plaza, Alcott Room.  This PDW will address work-life balance issues in the Academy, and support "scholar mommas" in finding support and navigating and addressing the challenges of walking the fine line between career opportunity, longevity, mobility, and productivity, particularly as it relates to motherhood at various stages of the academic career.

A complete listing of all our sponsored sessions, including date, time, and venue can be found here: http://groups.aomonline.org/ditc/. 

You can also subscribe to the D&ITC listserv to post and receive information on D&ITC initiatives here:
http://aomlists.pace.edu/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=DIVERSITYANDINCLUSION-L&A=1.

Ed Ng, PhD

Associate Professor, Organizational Behaviour

Dalhousie University

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Job Positions and Research Questions

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Apologies for cross-postings

The Department of Organization and Strategy of Tilburg University invites applications for Tenure Track Assistant Professors of Organization and Strategy. We are able to hire applicants to join the Department in any month during 2013; however ABD applicants are expected to have completed their doctoral dissertation prior to taking up employment.

The Department of Organization and Strategy is part of the School of Economics and Management at Tilburg University. It currently consists of 21 tenured or tenure track faculty members and 8 lecturers. Full Professors of the Department include Geert Duysters (entrepreneurship and innovation), Xavier Martin (strategy, international business and innovation), Niels Noorderhaven (international management and innovation), Tal Simons (organization theory), Bart Vos (operations and supply chain management) and Arjen van Witteloostuijn (organization and economics, department chair). Senior part-time, emeritus or equivalent faculty include Jean-François Hennart (international business), Bart Nooteboom (interfirm relations and innovation policy) and Roger Schroeder (also the Donaldson Chair in Operations Management Emeritus at the University of Minnesota). The Department also employs a vibrant group of junior faculty.

The department faculty work in the research areas of strategy, international business, organization theory, entrepreneurship, and innovation from a variety of theoretical and empirical methodological perspectives. (Another research area is operations/supply chain management; interested applicants in that area should refer to our separate position announcement.) Department members are drawn from leading universities in North America, Asia and Europe. The Department has a very strong research orientation with a focus on high-quality publications. The Department is associated with several research institutes, including as co-leader of the Center for Innovation Research, and with several large-scale research initiatives.

Faculty of the Organization and Strategy Department mostly teach in three bachelor programs, three MSc programs, a Research Master program and a PhD program. All programs except one of the bachelor programs are taught in English. Non-Dutch-speaking candidates will be asked to teach in English only. The working language of the Department and School is English. Further information about the Department is available at www.tilburguniversity.edu/os.

We aim to maximize the research time available to active faculty, and working conditions are otherwise comparable to major research universities in North America and Europe. The standard teaching load is two courses plus guidance of Bachelor and Master's thesis projects. Compensation is competitive with similar schools, and we provide support for conferences and other research related expenses.

Tilburg University is one of Europe's leading universities in the fields of economics and management - indeed it regularly ranks among Europe's top 3 by research productivity. Tilburg is a pleasant city located in the Southern Netherlands, within one of Europe's foremost high-tech regions and equidistant from Amsterdam (Netherlands), Brussels (Belgium) and the Dusseldorf/Cologne area (Germany).

Complete applications are due on October 1, 2012. Applications after the deadline will be considered only if a position is still available. Applicants should submit (1) a brief motivation letter, (2) a curriculum vitae, (3) a research statement and (as relevant) a dissertation summary, (4) examples of research, and (5) evidence of teaching ability (which may include a teaching statement). In addition they should ask three referees to submit their letters of reference directly. Applications and letters of reference should be sent to OS-recruiting@tilburguniversity.edu. Make sure to mention "organization and strategy" in the header and text of your e-mail.

Members of the Department will be attending the Academy of Management meeting in Boston, where we will schedule meetings with promising candidates. Applicants interested in such a meeting should send preliminary material at the earliest possible date, and no later than July 30, to the e-mail address OS-recruiting@tilburguniversity.edu. The partial application should contain (1) a brief motivation letter, (2) a curriculum vitae, (3) a research statement, (4) at least one example of research. Make sure to mention "organization and strategy" in the header and text of your e-mail. (Complete application packages as described in the preceding paragraph can then be submitted by October 1.)

Any further questions relating to these positions can be directed to Xavier Martin at x.martin@tilburguniversity.edu.

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Universidad Adolfo Ibanez's Business School, Chile Faculty Positions – Strategy and/or Innovation

Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (UAI)'s Business School seeks two candidates for full-time faculty positions in the areas of Strategy and/or Innovation starting March or July 2013. Rank is open. The positions are based in Santiago, Chile.

Requirements: Candidates must have been granted or nearly completed a PhD in Strategy, Innovation or a related field. Applicants must demonstrate excellent research and teaching skills. Proficiency in both English and Spanish is recommended. More senior candidates should have teaching experience and an acceptable research record.

Institution: Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez's Business School (http://www.uai.cl/negocios) is the oldest business school in Latin America. Its academic programs are consistently ranked among the best in the region. In the last two years, América Economía has ranked UAI's MBA program as #1 in Latin America (http://www.americaeconomia.com). UAI has four campuses, equipped with state of the art technology. Two of them are located in Santiago. Another one is in Chile's coastal city of Viña del Mar, which is close to the port of Valparaíso. The fourth campus is in Miami, Florida. UAI's Business School provides management education to more than 5,000 students enrolled in undergraduate and graduate programs. In 2006, UAI became the first Latin American university to open a business school in the U.S., offering a Multinational MBA (http://www.adolfoibanez.com) program for top executives from Latin America. In 2008, it created Chile's first Ph.D. Program in Management. More recently, UAI's Business School teamed up with UCLA to offer a dual degree Global Executive MBA (http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/x32927.xml) program with residential sessions in Los Angeles, Miami, Santiago and São Paulo.

Application process: Candidates should submit a cover letter, a current curriculum vitae, three letters of reference, publications, and a job market paper (identified as such). Applications should be sent to searchcommitteesei@uai.cl. Recommenders may submit letters directly. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the positions are filled.

If you are interested in the positions and will be attending The Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Boston, please contact Alvaro Espejo, alvaro.espejo@uai.cl

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The Department of Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology in the Lee Business School at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas invites applications for a full-time, 9-month, tenure-track faculty position in Entrepreneurship at the Assistant or Associate Professor rank to begin Fall 2013, subject to funding. Candidates must have a Ph.D. in entrepreneurship or closely related field from an AACSB accredited university, a strong research portfolio, and demonstrated teaching ability. Job duties include teaching in undergraduate and graduate Entrepreneurship programs and conducting research that leads to publication in premier journal outlets.

The Department of Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology was recently formed through the merger of the Management and Management Information Systems departments. The new department offers undergraduate degrees in Management, Entrepreneurship, and Management Information Systems, as well as a Master of Science in MIS. Current plans are to launch a Master of Science in Entrepreneurship. Researchers from the MET department have published in high quality journal outlets such as Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Journal of Applied Psychology, among others.

In conjunction with the UNLV Center for Entrepreneurship, the Lee Business School has recently partnered with the College of Engineering in a cross-disciplinary collaboration. In just two years, teams from this collaboration have won five of the six possible graduate division awards in the Nevada's Governor's Cup, and a first and second place in the annual Tri-State Competition in which Nevada competes against the winners of the respective Arkansas and Oklahoma Governor's Cup competitions. More importantly, and as direct outcome of this process, three product driven businesses have been created in the last year. Other recent initiatives include restructuring the undergraduate entrepreneurship curriculum, receiving a $115,000 naming sponsorship for the Southern Nevada Business Plan Competition run by the CFE, implementing a $500,000 student venture fund, and the development of an entrepreneurship certificate program.

Las Vegas has a vibrant entrepreneurship community including the recent downtown revitalization project led by Tony Hsieh of Zappos.com. In conjunction with the downtown project, Vegas Tech holds weekly "Jelly" events designed to bring together software developers and designers. These events now regularly host over 250 attendees. Switch communications, which runs the world's largest and most powerful data center and technology ecosystem, has recently opened the Innevation Center to help foster innovation in Nevada. Las Vegas also has an active angel investment community, including the newly created vegastechfund.com. Given these and many other recent initiatives, Las Vegas provides an exciting environment for individuals interested in entrepreneurship research and practice.

UNLV is a comprehensive research university of approximately 27,000 students and 2,800 faculty and staff dedicated to teaching, research, and service. The university has internationally recognized programs in hotel administration and creative writing; professional degrees in law, architecture, and dental medicine; and leading programs in fine arts, sciences and education. UNLV is located on a 332-acre main campus and two satellite campuses in dynamic Southern Nevada.  For more information, visit us on-line at:   http://www.unlv.edu.

Persons interested in the position should send a cover letter and curriculum vitae to andrew.hardin@unlv.edu. Representatives from the MET Department will be scheduling preliminary interviews at the AOM Conference in Boston, and the AMCIS Conference in Seattle. Once funding has been approved, selected applicants will be asked to formally apply through the university employment system.

Andrew Hardin, PhD

Director, UNLV Center for Entrepreneurship

Associate Professor of MIS

Lee Business School, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Phone (702) 895-0447 Fax (702) 895-0802

Email: andrew.hardin@unlv.edu  

Website: http://andrewhardinresearch.com

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The University of Washington Information School is broadening and deepening its program in information management. We seek a creative, energetic, forward-thinking individual to catalyze this growth. This individual should have a strong commitment to excellence in both research and teaching and be excited by and able to thrive in a diverse, intellectually stimulating, multi-disciplinary environment.

All areas of information management and related fields are welcomed. Specializations of particular interest include:

• Data analytics including business intelligence, data mining, and information visualization

• Management of information organizations, technology, and innovation

• Enterprise systems analysis and design

• Information economics

• Strategic planning and evaluation of information systems

• Social, cultural and global aspects of information management

• Social media in organizations

Our new colleague will join a broad-based, inclusive information school. Faculty members teach across programs. University of Washington faculty engage in teaching, research and service. Candidates should show a commitment to bridging research and practice. This is a full-time 9 month appointment anticipated at the rank of Associate Professor commensurate with qualifications and experience. Applicants must have a Ph.D. or equivalent degree by date of appointment.

Review of applications will begin September 15, 2012 and continue until the position is filled. Selected candidates will be invited for campus visits. The University of Washington is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. The University is building a culturally diverse faculty and staff and strongly encourages applications from women, minorities, individuals with disabilities and covered veterans.

Applicants may find further information about the Information School at www.ischool.uw.edu. Application packages should include: CV, a letter of intent, statement of research and teaching as well as a diversity statement (see below), names and contact information for three referees, and one sample of the applicant's publications in PDF. These should be sent via email, with "Information Management" in the subject line, to:

Dr. Hazel Taylor (iApply@uw.edu )

Chair, IM Search Committee

UW, Information School

Box 352840

Seattle, WA 98195-2840

206-543-3396

DiversityStatement

The UW iSchool seeks top scholars in its faculty searches. Diversity is a core value and foundational concept in the Information School, and we are committed to building an inclusive and diverse faculty, staff, and student community. Please describe your experiences with diversity in your research, teaching and service, and/or your potential to bring diversity to the iSchool and the information field. Discuss your potential to mentor and educate students who will serve diverse populations.

For your reference please consult the UW iSchool's diversity webpages: http://ischool.uw.edu/diversity/statement

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Darlene,

Darlene Alexander-Houle

TIM Division List Serve Manager

dalexhoule@att.net