TIM Division List Serve
Vol. 10, No. 10 (May 12, 2013)
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· Announcements
o Call for 2013 AOM TIM Junior Faculty Consortium
· Call for Papers
o GSJ SPECIAL ISSUE ON "THE ROLE OF LOCATION IN ACHIEVING GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS" October 15, 2013
o 4TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON CROSS SECTOR SOCIAL INTERACTIONS "INNOVATIVE COLLABORATION FOR A COMPLEX WORLD: REACHING ACROSS INSTITUTIONAL DIVIDES" Suffolk University, Boston, May 29-30, 2014
o Cowboys, Culture and Creativity USASBE 2014, Fort Worth, Texas, January 9-12, 2014
o Marconi Institute for Creativity MIC Conference 2013 on the Science of Creative Thinking from Sep 29 to Oct 1 2013 in Bologna - Italy. Submissions due 15 May 2013
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· Call for Participants
o Are you working on automotive or mobility-related research? Would you like to discuss your work with other scholars in the field? Are you interested in submitting your work to a special issue of ICC - Industrial and Corporate Change? Apply by 1 June to join the PDW From (auto)mobile to mobility: technological change and innovation in the global vehicle industry, AOM Conference in Orlando, Saturday, Aug 10 2013 3:45PM - 7:45PM
o ACAC is May 21st – 23rd at the Robinson College Of Business Buckhead facility and the Buckhead Club, both in the Buckhead district of Atlanta GA; Final Program now available
· Job Positions and Research Questions
o Post Doc position on Information Systems for Crisis Management Networks NITIM Graduate School, La Salle - URL, Barcelona, Spain; Topic: Information Architectures in Crisis Management
o Meta-analysis on interorganizational product development at the team/project level of analysis
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Announcements
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Dear TIM supporter:
We are soliciting applications for the TIM Division's Junior Faculty Consortium, to be held at the Academy of Management on August 9-10. We still have a few spots available. We would appreciate if you could pass this message to junior faculty colleagues who might be interested in participating and encourage them to apply. The official announcement is below.
Thanks very much!
Aija Leiponen and Ammon Salter (co-chairs)
Call for Applications: 2013 TIM Junior Faculty Consortium, August 9-10, 2013
(Application deadline: May 15, 2013)
The Technology and Innovation Management Division of the Academy of Management is pleased to invite applications for the 2013 TIM Junior Faculty Consortium to be held at the Academy of Management meeting in Orlando (Florida) on Friday, August 9th and Saturday, August 10th, 2013.
If you are an early career academic (assistant professor or its equivalent) and teach or research in the TIM domain, this professional development workshop is for you. The workshop will provide you with insights that you need to thrive in the increasingly challenging academic environment. It focuses on strategies for impact as a scholar and teacher, as well as on building a career in diverse professional settings.
The consortium will feature outstanding senior faculty members with proven records of research and teaching, who lead interactive discussions about how to balance the competing pressures of teaching, research and service. They will provide first-hand and detailed advice about how to build a successful academic career in a range of different institutional settings. Participants will also learn about publishing in top journals, meet the editors of prestigious journals in the field, and receive developmental feedback on their working papers from their peers and senior faculty. The consortium will also provide participants with the opportunity for reflection and renewal, for networking with friends and colleagues, and for meeting new peers and senior colleagues with shared interests. This year we will also include a discussion of professional ethics in academia.
The senior faculty speakers and mentors committed to the consortium include:
Rajshree Agarwal (U. Maryland) Mary Benner (U. Minnesota)
Janet Bercovitz (U. Illinois) Stefano Brusoni (ETH Zurich)
Michelle Gittelman (Rutgers U.) Marc Gruber (EPFL Lausanne)
Joachim Henkel (TU Munich) Karim Lakhani (Harvard U.)
Francisco Polidoro (U. Texas Austin) Jasjit Singh (INSEAD)
Deepak Somaya (U. Illinois)
Applicants must have at least one full year of experience as an assistant professor or post-doctoral researcher in an academic institution and no more than six years of experience by August 2013. To apply, please email your vita to Aija Leiponen at aija.leiponen@cornell.edu. When you apply, please indicate the month and year you started your first academic position. We will take applications on a rolling basis until May 15, 2013. Please note that we require potential applicants to attend the entire consortium.
Accepted applicants will be required to submit a working paper for the Paper Feedback Session by June 30, 2013. If you have questions concerning these requirements, please contact one of the co-chairs below.
2013 TIM Junior Faculty Consortium Co-Chairs
Aija Leiponen Ammon Slater
Cornell University Imperial College London
Aija.leiponen@cornell.edu a.salter@imperial.ac.uk
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Call for Papers
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GSJ SPECIAL ISSUE ON "THE ROLE OF LOCATION IN ACHIEVING GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS"
We are writing to you to remember that time is approaching for GSJ special issue deadline on 'The Role of Location in Achieving Global Competitiveness'. The deadline is October 15, 2013.
The goal of this special issue is to advance new theoretical frontiers regarding the role of unique local resources, strategic practices, institutions, government support, as well as inter organizational synergies to explain firm success in global markets.
The details can be found in the web site:
http://www.giovannibattistadagnino.eu/en/research/scheda.php?id=25&per=&st=&k=Global-Strategy-Journal-Special-Issue
As special issue co-editors, we would like to invite you to consider submitting a research paper to this initiative.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Kind regards,
Giambattista Dagnino
Luiz Mesquita
Giovanni Battista Dagnino
Department of Economics & Business
University of Catania
Corso Italia, 55
95129 - CATANIA (Italy)
Tel: 39.095.7537-622
Fax: 39.095.7537-610
E.mail: dagnino@unict.it
Web site: www.giovannibattistadagnino.eu
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CALL FOR PAPERS
4TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON CROSS SECTOR SOCIAL INTERACTIONS
"INNOVATIVE COLLABORATION FOR A COMPLEX WORLD: REACHING ACROSS INSTITUTIONAL DIVIDES"
Suffolk University, Boston, May 29-30, 2014
Cross-sector partnerships have become an essential strategic tool for organizations around the globe. Business organizations, non-profits, governmental agencies, and communities increasingly realize the value of collaboration with organizations from other sectors as a means to access key resources they do not possess, and to pursue objectives they could not achieve on their own (Austin & Seitanidi, 2012; Dahlberg, 2007; Kolk, Dolen, & Vock, 2010; Kolk, Van Tulder, & Kostwinder, 2008; Parker, 2003; Seitanidi & Ryan, 2007; Waddock, 1988). At the same time, the vastly different organizational logics of these sectors make collaboration particularly challenging (Dahan, Doh, Oetzel, & Yaziji, 2010; Rivera-Santos & Rufín, 2011; Selsky & Parker, 2005).
Started in 2007, the symposia on Cross Sector Social Interactions (CSSI) aim to bring together academics and practitioners in the field of CSSI every two years in order to discuss and share insights from both theory and practice. Building on this momentum, the 4th International Symposium on Cross Sector Social Interactions will take stock of advances in CSSI since the previous symposium in 2012, and will bring together scholars and practitioners to develop not only knowledge and concepts, but also tools and methods.
In spite of a rapidly growing literature, many of the dimensions and implications of partnering across sectors still remain to be explored. In particular, we are only beginning to understand the specificities of innovation through cross-sector collaboration. For this Symposium, we would like to bring an innovation perspective to the study of CSSI, and to especially consider CSSI not only as innovative forms of collaboration that transcend institutional boundaries in themselves, but also as sources of specific innovations for complex problems (Le Ber & Branzei, 2010a; Le Ber & Branzei, 2010b; Murphy, Perrot, & Rivera-Santos, 2012). As recent and rapidly evolving forms of organizational architecture, CSSI can be usefully regarded as specific forms of innovation. Such an approach offers the potential to bring the rich scholarship on innovation to bear on the analysis of CSSI; conversely, it can also bring important new insights from CSSI to the scholarship and practice of innovation. For example, the innovation literature has paid a lot of attention to the development of teams composed by individuals of deliberately diverse backgrounds and capabilities (Cohen & Levinthal, 1990; Gruber, MacMillan, & Thompson, 2013), who can not only generate new ideas through the recombination and juxtaposition of previously unconnected concepts, but who can also examine innovative concepts from a variety of lenses, such as the social good perspective of non-profit organizations and the emphasis on scalability of many business firms, identifying blind spots and potential pitfalls. In our contemporary world, where "distance" is diminishing in more than just a physical sense, so that organizations of all kinds are coming into contact with other organizations that follow vastly different logics, cross-sector collaboration can help individuals and organizations make better sense of this growing complexity, as we further elaborate below.
Yet the management of such diversity poses tremendous challenges for the innovation process. Likewise, CSSI initiatives bring together persons from very different backgrounds, and thus face significant obstacles regarding communication, development of trust, and other factors required for the success of these initiatives. In what ways do CSSI resemble other forms of innovation? What can the innovation literature tell us about how organizations should approach and structure initiatives that involve CSSI? What is unique about CSSI as innovations that can expand our understanding of innovation processes? How do specific innovations stemming from CSSIs tackle complex problems?
In our view, a fundamental element in searching for answers to these questions is the institutional diversity that is innate to CSSI. We are referring here not only to the institutional logics of different organizations of different sectors-business vs. non-profit vs. public-but also, the types of institutional divides encountered across the space of geography and level of economic development (Rivera-Santos, Rufín, & Kolk, 2012). These divides are growing more prominent as business organizations from the developed world increasingly interact with low-income communities in developing countries. In these communities, a complex and unstable blend of institutions-local, national, and supranational-frequently coexist side by side. How do the pre-existing innate institutional divides affect CSSI when they produce innovative ventures? What are the elements of innovative processes that are able to resolve institutional conflicts and contradictions? Can conflicting institutional logics be recombined to yield innovative and sustainable organizational forms? These are some of the questions that we invite scholars and practitioners to examine in the 4th CSSI Symposium.
Our intention is to consider a variety of forms of submission to the symposium in order to provide a forum for research at a variety of stages of development, and for researchers at different career stages. We particularly encourage proposals from doctoral and early career researchers. Reflecting this, the symposium welcomes both extended abstracts (600-1,000 words) and poster proposals (600 words - a physical poster will be required if selected, with further details to be provided to the selected abstracts). Abstracts should provide a brief overview of your work and/or present interim research findings. Accepted abstract submissions will be offered the opportunity to present their research (around 15 minutes of presentation time) in workshop sessions at the symposium. Accepted posters will be exhibited at the symposium space providing opportunities for scholars to interact and discuss their latest research with the symposium participants. We welcome academic and practitioner research on the symposium topic. Following the selection of papers and posters, authors will be invited to submit their full paper by late June 2014.
As in previous years, papers submitted to the Symposium will be eligible for the Routledge Best Paper Award in Social Partnership, comprising a certificate to the recipient, a voucher for £100 books by Taylor & Francis Group, and a one-year subscription to Academy of Management Annals.
The best papers will be candidates for inclusion in a Special Issue of a highly-ranked academic journal in a field related to CSSI, or/and in an edited volume.
The deadline for submission of paper and poster abstracts is February 28, 2014. Submissions should be sent as an attachment in MS Word or pdf format to cssi2014@gmail.com.
Organizers
Miguel Rivera-Santos Carlos Rufín
Associate Professor of Strategic Management Associate Professor of International Business
EMLYON Business School (France) and Suffolk University (USA)
Babson College (USA)
riverasantos@em-lyon.com crufin@suffolk.edu
References
Austin, J. E. & Seitanidi, M. M. 2012. Collaborative Value Creation: A Review of Partnering Between Nonprofits and Businesses: Part I. Value Creation Spectrum and Collaboration Stages. Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 41(5): 726-758.
Cohen, W. A. & Levinthal, D. A. 1990. Absorptive capacity: a new perspective on learning and innovation. Administrative Science Quarterly, 35(1): 128-152.
Dahan, N. M., Doh, J. P., Oetzel, J., & Yaziji, M. 2010. Corporate-NGO Collaboration: Co-creating New Business Models for Developing Markets. Long Range Planning, 43(2/3): 326-342.
Dahlberg. 2007. Business guide to partnering with NGOs and the United Nations: Dalberg Global Development Advisors.
Gruber, M., MacMillan, I. C., & Thompson, J. D. 2013. Escaping the Prior Knowledge Corridor: What Shapes the Number and Variety of Market Opportunities Identified Before Market Entry of Technology Start-ups? Organization Science, 24(1): 280-300.
Kolk, A., Van Tulder, R., & Kostwinder, E. 2008. Business and partnerships for development. European Management Journal, 26(4): 262-274.
Kolk, A., Dolen, W., & Vock, M. 2010. Trickle Effects of Cross-Sector Social Partnerships. Journal of Business Ethics, 94: 123-137.
Le Ber, M. & Branzei, O. 2010a. Value Frame Fusion in Cross Sector Interactions. Journal of Business Ethics, 94: 163-195.
Le Ber, M. J. & Branzei, O. 2010b. (Re)Forming strategic cross-sector partnerships: Relational processes of social innovation. Business and Society, 49: 140-172.
Murphy, M., Perrot, F., & Rivera-Santos, M. 2012. New perspectives on learning and innovation in cross-sector collaborations. Journal of Business Research, 65(12): 1700–1709.
Parker, A. R. 2003. Prospects for NGO Collaboration with Multinational Enterprises. In J. P. Doh & H. Teegen (Eds.), Globalization and NGOs: Transforming Business, Government, and Society: 81-105. Wesport, CT: Praeger.
Rivera-Santos, M. & Rufín, C. 2011. Odd couples: Understanding the governance of Firm-NGO Alliances. Journal of Business Ethics, 94: 55-70.
Rivera-Santos, M., Rufín, C., & Kolk, A. 2012. Bridging the institutional divide: Partnerships in subsistence markets. Journal of Business Research, 65(12): 1721-1727.
Seitanidi, M. & Ryan, A. 2007. A critical review of forms of corporate community involvement: from philanthropy to partnerships. International Journal of Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Marketing, 12(3): 247-266.
Selsky, J. W. & Parker, B. 2005. Cross-Sector Partnerships to Address Social Issues: Challenges to Theory and Practice. Journal of Management, 31(6): 849-873.
Waddock, S. A. 1988. Building Successful Social Partnerships. Sloan Management Review, 29(4): 17-23.
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ANNOUNCING THE
USASBE 2014 CALL FOR PAPERS
Cowboys, Culture and Creativity
USASBE 2014 | Fort Worth, Texas | January 9-12, 2014
Presenting Sponsor: Texas Christian University
Make plans now to attend the premiere conference for entrepreneurship educators! The Annual International Conference of the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship brings together the foremost educators, scholars, and practitioners advancing the teaching, study, and practice of entrepreneurship. It hosts over 500 attendees through tracks for competitive papers, workshops, cases, and panels that highlight innovative developments in entrepreneurship education and pedagogy. In addition, the conference recognizes and makes awards each year to the model undergraduate, graduate, and international programs in entrepreneurship while also identifying excellence and innovation in research and teaching.
Download the full call for papers here
http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.usasbe.org/resource/resmgr/Conference_2014/USASBE_Call2014_Final.pdf
Don't miss the Sundance Registration Special through June 15
http://www.usasbe.org/?page=SundanceRegistration
USASBE 2014 Conference Website
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Baylor –USASBE Student Case Writing Competition
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Submissions open June 10
Submissions deadline August 30. See the full call for papers for more details.
Thank you to our presenting sponsor: Texas Christian University
Becky Gann, MBA|Executive Director
USASBE|United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship®
Belmont University|1900 Belmont Boulevard|Nashville, TN 37212
Phone: 615.460.2615 |Fax: 615.460.2614|Email: becky.gann@belmont.edu
Web: www.USASBE.org
USASBE is the Network Advancing the Art of Entrepreneurship Education
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(Apologies for cross-posting)
2013 The Marconi Institute for Creativity Conference
The Marconi Institute for Creativity (MIC) is pleased to announce the MIC Conference 2013, the first international conference on the Science of Creative Thinking, to be held from Sep 29 to Oct 1 2013 in Bologna - Italy. Submissions due 15 May 2013 Website: www.mic-conference.org
The event is organized by the Marconi Institute for Creativity (MIC) a recently born institute at the initiative of the University of Bologna and of the Fondazione Guglielmo Marconi, devoted to the study of Creativity and to the establishment of Creative Thinking as a Science.
The event will be held in conjunction with the celebration for the Marconi Prize 2013, the top international award for inventors in the field of Information and Communication Technologies, promoted by the Marconi Society. The 2013 Marconi Prize will be awarded to the cellphone pioneer Martin Cooper.
The MIC Conference 2013 aims to bring together multidisciplinary researchers, scientists, professionals, doctoral students, educators from all over the world to present their views, activities, results, open issues about all aspect related to Creativity and Innovation.
Topics of interest are multidisciplinary:
Creativity in Psychology and Education
• Human creativity and creative methodologies
• Theoretical aspects of creativity
• Divergent thinking processes
• Ideation process
• Neurological and physiological substrates of creativity
• Genius, creativity and talent
• Creativity and emotions
• Creativity and development
• Creativity education methods
• Innovation in methodology and education
Creativity in Science and Engineering
• History of Science
• Problem solving
• Mathematical Aspects of Creativity
• TRIZ
• Artificial creative intelligence
• Intuitive machines
• Complex Systems
• Discovery and Invention
• Design methodologies
Creativity in Economic and Social Sciences
• Creativity and society
• Individual and social creativity
• Innovative methods in economy and business
• Creative industry
• Human resource development
• Innovation Networks
• Intellectual Property Development
• Information Society Trends
Important dates:
Submission deadline: 15 May 2013
Acceptance notice: 15 June 2013
Final submission: 15 July 2013
The call for papers and further information on
the conference website.
Hope to see you in September!
With best regards,
Simone Ferriani
Università degli Studi di Bologna
Dipartimento di Scienze Aziendali
Via Capo di Lucca, 34
40126 Bologna - Italia
Tel: +390512098086
Fax: +390516390612
E-mail: simone.ferriani@unibo.it
Web: www2.sa.unibo.it/~simone.ferriani/index.html
Blog: http://almaventuring.blogspot.com/
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Apologies for cross-posting!
Are you working on automotive or mobility-related research? Would you like to discuss your work with other scholars in the field? Are you interested in submitting your work to a special issue of ICC - Industrial and Corporate Change?
Then apply to join the PDW From (auto)mobile to mobility: technological change and innovation in the global vehicle industry to be held at the AOM Conference in Orlando this year!
Saturday, Aug 10 2013 3:45PM - 7:45PM at WDW Swan Resort in Parrott 1&2
Primary Sponsor: Technology and Innovation Management (TIM)
Co-Sponsors: Business Policy & Strategy (BPS), International Management (IM), Asia Academy of Management (AAM), Indian Academy of Management (INDAM)
This PDW is designed to facilitate interaction among researchers interested in innovation and technological change in the context of the global automotive industry. The global automotive industry is undergoing a transition from being a product, sales and after-sales-service focused industry prioritizing customers and markets of developed economies to being a global sector for mobility, characterized by a larger variety of technologies, products, services, and business models than ever before. While the increasing importance of emerging markets and new customer needs are important drivers of this change, environmental considerations along with governmental regulations and the rapid development of new technologies are also having a major impact on the evolutionary trajectory of this sector.
The purpose of the ICC special issue is to provide a forum for articles exploring these themes, favoring submissions on topics that have been under-researched so far, and encouraging conceptual arguments and empirical data analyses that link well to related issues of significant academic and managerial interest. We expect all papers to be related to innovation, technology, and change in the global automotive and mobility sectors.
The PDW is organized as follows:
Part 1 (open part):
Presentations and discussion featuring research on changes in the global vehicle industry.
Panelist 1: Ram Mudambi (Temple U.), Emerging market firm responses to globalization in the Indian automotive industry.
Panelist 2: Rafael Corredoira (U. of Maryland), Pull or Push? Innovation and firm's adaptation to value chain transformation in the Argentinean autopart industry.
Panelist 3: Kevin Miceli (U. of North Carolina), Evolution of sustainable technologies: The case of hybrid-electric vehicles.
Panelist 4: Michael Jacobides (London Business School), When value sticks around: Why automobile OEMs still rule their sector.
Discussant: John Paul MacDuffie (U. of Pennsylvania)
Networking coffee break sponsored by the Program on Vehicle and Mobility Innovations (PVMI) at the Wharton School's Mack Center for Technological Innovation (the former International Motor Vehicle Program, IMVP).
Part 2 (paper submission and pre-registration):
Paper development workshop in preparation for a special issue with ICC – Industrial and Corporate Change
Introduction by the three special issue editors Florian Täube (EBS University), Anja Schulze (ETH Zurich), John Paul MacDuffie (U. of Pennsylvania) and by an ICC editor.
Key dates
Registration and paper submission to PDW: June 1, 2013.
(Please register at AOM Website https://secure.aomonline.org/PDWReg and please send paper submissions to: ICC.SI.Auto@gmail.com)
PDW:August 10, 2013, 3:45 pm – 7:45 pm
Paper submission to ICC Special Issue: December 31, 2013
For more details, please see below or have a look at the conference program:
http://program.aomonline.org/2013/Session_Details.asp?print=true&SubmissionID=12554
Note that we anticipate a follow-on activity in connection with the 2014 AOM Annual Conference, to be held in Philadelphia, for the authors of papers invited to a revise & resubmit for the ICC special issue. This paper development workshop will be held at Wharton adjoining the AOM conference. More details will follow after the ICC special issue submission date.
We look forward to seeing you in Orlando!
Florian Täube, EBS Business School
Anja Schulze, ETH Zurich
John Paul MacDuffie, U. of Pennsylvania
Further PDW details
The global automotive industry is in a state of greater uncertainty than ever before. In addition to turbulence in technologies and markets, established players in the West (and Japan) are now facing new competition from two sides. Firstly, there are newcomers from emerging markets, such as China or India that are quickly appearing on the global stage. Secondly, the heart of the car – engine technology – is rapidly changing and new players from previously unrelated sectors of electricity generation and storage are entering the stage, e.g. Evonik (Germany) or Samsung (Korea) or start-ups based on business models with electric cars like Tesla or Better Place. The global automotive industry is undergoing a transition from being a product, sales and after-sales-service focused industry prioritizing customers and markets of developed economies to being a global sector for mobility, characterized by a larger variety of technologies, products, services, and business models than ever before. This emerging global mobility market (offering solutions to people to get from A to B) is influenced by factors such as the rise of emerging markets, urbanization and urban growth (in particular in emerging markets), emission regulation, and scarce (fossil) and new (renewable) energy resources. This implies changes to the industry as a whole as well as to corporations.
- New technologies and product architectures allow new firms to enter the market and become part of the supply chain.
- Technological changes affecting the engine (or drive train), the core of automotive dominant design, significantly impact not only car components, but also the product architecture, the operator model, and the entire supply chain.
- Emerging markets bring new customers with particular needs as well as new entrants that quickly appear as competitors on the global stage. Firms such as Tata, BYD and Geely are emerging as global players through acquisitions of western firms such as Jaguar and Land Rover or Volvo as well as by the growth opportunities presented by the sheer size of the Chinese and Indian domestic markets; .likewise, the Latin American market is booming.
- The shift of environmental consciousness and related governmental regulations provide potential for new business models to be introduced into the market as well as opportunities for new technologies to be developed and diffused, even though the market for so-called "green" vehicles is so far growing more slowly than expected.
These industry changes have far reaching implications. A number of value creating areas of the traditional (auto)mobile industry are undergoing significant change as a result of the emergence of new technologies, competitors, and markets as well as environment-concerned governmental regulations. Mobility markets are experiencing significant and at times radical changes to the way they do business. For example, a number of OEMs now engage in car sharing activities in larger cities in addition to selling cars, for instance car2go by Daimler/smart rolled out in selected cities in Europe and North America or Mu by Peugeot in France and the UK. How the sector organizes engineering, supply chain and operations, marketing, and retail management has started to change as well, although the direction of that evolution is not yet known. In this PDW we will speak about how organizations and institutions hailing from different geographies and sectors are becoming increasingly connected and interdependent. In particular, this PDW will touch upon:
- how novel business models will generate competitive advantage
- how supply chains, industry networks, and forms of collaboration change (the shift to completely different powertrain technology brings with it a very different set of new competitors – or collaborators. For instance, leading supplier Bosch of Germany is working with Samsung on battery technology.
- how firms manage the transition induced by new technologies and business models (German OEM Daimler teamed up with Chinese BYD and Tesla, as well as competitor BMW in advanced research to catch up with Japanese hybrid technology; on the other hand Nissan and GM are playing more independent strategies and electric-focused strategies.)
- what industry structures will persist despite the turbulence
- what role does standardization play for the diffusion of new technologies and business models
- what types of products will traditional and new companies produce in the future, with what portfolio of existing and new technologies
- how this new competitive and institutional environment affects the product architecture
- how the industry deals with environmental issues and greater regulation
- how do companies size up and realize business opportunities that are offered by new business fields
- how companies respond to but also contribute to changing consumer wants and needs
- how firms in conjunction with government and industry associations contribute to re-conceptualizing mobility (e.g., from owning a car to sharing a car)
The first part of the PDW comprises a brief introduction and four presentations on the main research themes and discussion topics related to changes in the global vehicle industry. For example, more and more emerging economy MNEs are materializing in world markets. Firms like Tata Motors, Bajaj Auto, Mahindra & Mahindra and Bharat Forge have sprung, seemingly fully grown into the global competitive landscape. However, prior to appearing on competitors' radar screens, such firms typically undertook a series of strategic actions that enabled them to become capable players in global value chains. These presentations will familiarize the audience with the context showing parallels and differences in terms of macro variables such as market evolution and consumer preferences as well as more micro ones of firm strategy, such as technology and product development, sourcing, (international) acquisitions or modularization. Also covered will be current research on issues such as the internationalization of (emerging economy) firms, the management of technological innovation, and strategic management in times of industry disruption and (re-)emergence. The final presentation will touch upon factors that underpin stability in the automobile sector and that may, at times, outweigh forces of change. The first part of the PDW will be concluded by a discussant, integrating the different features and relating them into a larger picture.
The second part of the PDW comprises a paper development workshop related to a special issue by ICC on the theme. It will be opened by the special issue editors, introducing the primary themes and range of potential topics to be covered in the special issue. In addition, one of the ICC editors will join the PDW, introducing the scope of the journal and clarifying expectations for contributions and submissions. This will be followed by round table discussions involving all participants in the first part of the PDW in addition to the special issue editors and the journal's editor. Submitting a paper and pre-registration will be required to participate in part 2.
Prof. Dr. Florian A. Täube
Assistant Professor of Growth Management
EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht
EBS Business School
Department of Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship (IME)
Strascheg Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SIIE)
Rheingaustraße 1
(Besucheradresse/ Visiting address: Burgstraße 5)
65375 Oestrich-Winkel
GERMANY
Phone: +49 611 7102 1375
Fax: +49 611 7102 10 1375
florian.taeube@ebs.edu
www.ebs.edu/ime
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The final Program for this year's Atlanta Competitive Advantage Conference (ACAC) is now up in pdf form at:
http://robinson.gsu.edu/acac/program.html
ACAC is May 21st – 23rd at the Robinson College Of Business Buckhead facility and the Buckhead Club, both in the Buckhead district of Atlanta GA.
Registration Fee is $290 and includes all lunches, receptions, breaks and dinner at the Buckhead
Club on Tuesday the 21st. Here is the link to the registration web page:
http://robinson.gsu.edu/acac/registration.html
There is still limited space for both the conference and at the conference hotel.
If you are interested, you are welcome!
The conference hotel is the InterContinental Buckhead, which is within easy walking distance of all events and the Atlanta MARTA rail system. The conference rate is $159 per night, plus tax. This rate includes a full buffet breakfast (one per room) and free Internet access in the hotel. (If the staff member you contact is not familiar with this special ACAC rate, then please ask to talk to the reservations manager.)
Here is the contact information for the hotel:
InterContinental Buckhead
3315 Peachtree Rd. NE,
Atlanta, GA. 30326,
phone: 404-946-9000.
We look forward to seeing you in Atlanta later this month!
Bill Bogner
ACAC Program Chair
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Job Positions and Research Questions
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Dear TIM members,
Please find below the announcement of our Post Doc job opening.
Thank you,
Regards,
Gabriela Balladares
Innova Institute
La Salle -URL
Post Doc position on Information Systems for Crisis Management Networks.
NITIM Graduate School, La Salle - URL, Barcelona, Spain
Post Doc Research Topic: Information Architectures in Crisis Management
Research of NITIM (www.nitim.org) is positioned at the interface of management, specifically entrepreneurship, innovation and technology management, computer science and information systems. NITIM research is scientifically rigorous and practically relevant. Engaged scholarship as preferred methodological orientation builds on the cooperation of industrial and academic partners.
Information has been recognized as a primary factor in disaster or crisis relief operations. Information is needed to allow for the communication with the public and stakeholders and also to improve effectiveness of coordination and collaboration efforts among heterogeneous actors. New information and communication technology
(ICT) waves pose new challenges for design, implementation and usage of technological solutions for crisis management agents.
Taking into consideration the challenges that risk management, governance structures, new technological waves, and stakeholders pose for coalitions of heterogeneous organizations in crisis management situations, this research project aim is to empirically test informational architecture aspects that improve the understanding of effective and efficient choices in today's disaster situations.
The position is open for immediate recruitment but no later than October 2013.
This position is supported by Europe's Marie Curie Program and will participate in a portfolio of related research projects from multiple disciplinary backgrounds on the phenomenon of Crisis Management Networks. Crisis Management Networks emerge and are reconfigured rapidly after a disaster, like Hurricane Katrina, a Tsunami, or a terror attack.
With the
rapidly growing number and increasing cost of worldwide disasters this phenomenon is theoretically interesting and a benign object of study because of the scale, the impact and the dynamics of crises.
What do we expect?
We are looking for excellent and highly motivated junior researchers from around the world, who are interested in developing an academic or professional research career in the domain of NITIM, notably related to the theoretical foundations and/or application domain. Applicants should have a background in one or more of the following fields:
information systems, innovation management, technology management, information management, business administration, entrepreneurship, engineering, computer science, informatics, media informatics, management sciences and/or sociology and should fulfil admission requirements for a Post Doc position.
Candidates are expected to take initiative and responsibility in their career development, in shaping their research, in teaching, in designing and participating in international research projects, and in engaging in the NITIM network and the academic community. Previous experience in fields directly related to the specific position is a plus. Excellent research skills and analytical abilities, proficiency in English (both spoken and written), and proactive communication behaviour are required.
Successful candidates will join a cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary group of researchers who are developing their activity under the umbrella of the NITIM network. The Post Doc position will be hosted at the Innova Institute at La Salle - Ramon Llull University in Barcelona (Spain) and will be affiliated with the research group on Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Technology Management (GRIM) (Prof. Miralles). The Post Doc fellow will become a member of the EU funded NITIM ITN on Crisis Management Networks.
What do we offer?
1. Labor contract
Post Docs will be employed for a period of 20 months. Salaries for Post Docs candidates are about 4.000 Euro per month depending on marital status. (refer to the file 'The People Work Programme 2012').
2. A European Post Doc program
We view Post Docs as young colleagues, who are building their own research profile while enjoying distinct institutional and personal support. The program is designed for career development and allows you to hone your research and leadership skills on-the-job in an international research program.
3. The NITIM Graduate School
Since 2005 the NITIM graduate school is a European-wide academic cooperation for Ph.D. education that emerged from collaboration with CEMS, the Community of European management Schools. It has been studied by EUA the European University association as a model for a networked European Ph.D. program and is recognized by Europe's Marie Curie people development program.
How to apply?
Eligibility and Selection Criteria:
Applicants for the Post Doc positions should have a PhD degree in engineering, computer science, business administration, management of technology, or related fields and should have less than five years of full-time equivalent research experience.
Applicants need a high level of proficiency in English, the program's working language.
For all applicants the EU rules of mobility will apply: The applicant may not have lived for more than 12 cumulative months in the hosting country during the 36 months preceding the recruitment date. Short holiday stays are not counted. Candidates may be of any nationality.
Candidates are selected based on academic merits and the criteria set out in this position offering.
NITIM's diversity policy aims at gender equality and a sustained global international mix of the team.
Application:
Send your application no later than May 15th 2013 by email, to Prof. Katzy, chairman of NITIM, Prof.Katzy@CeTIM.org, and Prof. Miralles, fmiralles@salleurl.edu, the education dean of NITIM.
The application in English language should at least consist of the
following:
- Motivation letter outlining previous research experience,
research interests and career perspective,
- Curriculum Vitae,
- Scanned copies of degree certificates and transcripts of records,
- Proof of proficiency in English, e.g. TOEFL test, if English
is not your native language,
- At least one letter of reference and a list of three
individuals who are willing to provide a letter of reference.
Inquiries about the post should be sent to either Prof. Katzy or Prof.
Miralles.
Web links:
www.nitim.org - NITIM graduate school
www.CEMS.org - The Global Alliance in Management Education www.eua.eu - European University Association http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/ - European Commission Marie Curie Program ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/docs/wp/people/m-wp-201201_en.pdf - The People Work Programme 2012 (FTP-PEOPLE-2012-ITN)
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Dear colleagues,
my co-authors and I are in the final stages of conducting a meta-analysis on interorganizational product development at the team/project level of analysis. We have completed an extensive search of the published literature and are now seeking unpublished empirical studies and data in this topic area.
In order to ensure that the meta-analysis is as comprehensive as possible, we are looking for any conference papers, dissertations, working papers, or forthcoming papers that examine antecedents / success factors (e.g. trust, partner's knowledge and competence etc.) that potentially influence the performance of interorganizational new product development projects. Papers should be at the group or project level of analysis. If you have data that you are willing to share, please send copies of any documents to backmann@bwl.lmu.de with information how you would like to have the study cited in the manuscript.
Thank you in advance for your assistance in this research.
Kind regards
Julia
Julia Backmann
Research Assistant
Institute for Leadership and Organization
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Fakultät für Betriebswirtschaft
Edmund-Rumpler-Str. 13/Zi B178, 80939 München
E-Mail: backmann@bwl.lmu.de Tel.: 089 / 2180 - 72040
http://www.ilo.bwl.uni-muenchen.de
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Darlene
Darlene Alexander-Houle
TIM Division List Serve Manager
dalexhoule@att.net