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Vol. 10, No. 16 (June 16, 2013)
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· Announcements
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· Call for Papers
o Economic inequality and management Guest Editors: Hari Bapuji (University of Manitoba, Canada) and Suhaib Riaz (University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA) Please submit papers between 1 and 30 June, 2013
o International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association (HETL) invites you to submit a paper or proposal for a presentation on Teaching and Administration Topics in Higher Education at its 2014 International HETL Conference, to be held in Anchorage, in partnership with the University of Alaska Anchorage, June 8-10, 2014.
o Quantitative Multidisciplinary Approaches in Human Capital and Asset Management Edited by Meir Russ, published by IGI Global Call for Book Chapter Proposals [by 1 August 2013)
o The State of the Field, Entrepreneurial Exit 2013 Conference, The Ratio Institute in Stockholm, Sweden September 27th–28th, 2013 Extended Conference submission deadline: July 10, 2013. The conference is intended to aid the development of manuscripts for a 2014 Special Issue on Entrepreneurial Exit, International Small Business Journal (ISBJ) and the 2014 Research Handbook of Entrepreneurial Exit, Edward Elgar Publishing
o Academic Entrepreneurship: Creating an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, Volume 16 of Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth, Due date: September 1, 2013, Editors: Andrew C. Corbett, Babson College; Jerome A. Katz, Saint Louis University; and Donald S. Siegel, University at Albany, SUNY
o XLVIII CLADEA CONFERENCE – RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL 2013 – FGV-EBAPE from October 20 to 22, 2013 Past, Present, and Future of Latin American Education and Research in Business and Public Administration in the Current Global Context Program Chair & Organizer: Ronaldo Parente; Program Co-Chairs: Flavio Vasconcelos and Alvaro Cyrino
· Call for Participants
o Architectural Strategy and Design Evolution in Business Ecosystems: Research Opportunities and Empirical Challenges Saturday, August 10 2013, 10:15AM - 12:45PM WDW Swan Resort in Swan 3 Organizers: Richard Tee (EPFL), Christopher Tucci (EPFL), Jason Woodard (SMU)
o Invitation to NLS on August 8 and 9 in Orlando to co-develop research ideas and to network with practitioners and academics
o Junior Faculty Workshop: BPS division Saturday, August 10: 8.30-11.30 (WDW Swan Resort in Osprey 1) What should I do with this paper? Organizers: Nandini Lahiri (UNC Chapel Hill), Caterina Moschieri (IE Business School), Ithai Stern (Northwestern University) and PK Toh (University of Minnesota) Deadline for submission: July 3rd
o Multilevel innovation networks PDW, 2013 Academy of Management Meetings; Orlando, FL, USA, Friday, Aug 9 2013 3:00PM - 7:00PM at WDW Swan Resort in Swan 7. Organizers: Corey Phelps (HEC Paris), Srikanth Paruchuri (Penn State), Martin Goossen (HEC Paris), Deadline for applications: June 30, 2013
o Call for Applicants for 11th Annual One-dayDoctoral Student Workshop on Technology Entrepreneurship, Foster School of Business, University of Washington sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Wednesday, September 4, 2013 (Research Symposium follows on September 5th and 6th)
o Professor Charles R. (Bob) Greer (Texas Christian University), Dean Chuck Williams (Butler College of Business), and Professor Sharon Oswald (Mississippi State University) will co-chair a PDW session on Being a Department Chair: Learning from Others 12:30 – 4:30 pm on Friday, August 9, 2013
o 2013 INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition Call for Submissions Deadline: July 1, 2013
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· Job Positions and Research Questions
o The new Inbev – Baillet Latour Chair in Error Management at Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) invites applications for two Post-Doctoral research positions
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Just to remind you that on 1 June the submission window opens for this Human Relations Special Issue – please submit papers online before 30 June.
If you would like to view journal performance statistics for Human Relations – please click on this link:
http://www.tavinstitute.org/humanrelations/Journal%20statistics.html .
Human Relations Special Issue Call for Papers
Economic inequality and management
Guest Editors:
Hari Bapuji (University of Manitoba, Canada) and
Suhaib Riaz (University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA)
Please submit papers between 1 and 30 June, 2013
This special issue focuses on the relation between economic inequality and management in organizations. Particularly, we are interested in (i) how economic inequality at the societal level affects management in organizations and (ii) how organizational practices influence economic inequality at the societal level.
Research in economics shows that economic inequality negatively affects human development, resulting in lower skills, low levels of trust, fewer opportunities for social mobility, lower physical and mental health, and contributes to a number of social ills, such as higher rates of infant mortality, homicide, percentage of population in prison, and teenage births (Wilkinson and Pickett, 2009). As a result, individuals in highly unequal societies make lower investments in developing their own human capital (Benabou, 1996; Mo, 2000). Further, to protect the system from the negative effects of high inequality-such as violence, crime and sabotage-more unequal societies employ more human resources in "guard labour" or monitoring roles (such as private guards, police, judicial and prison employees and supervisory labour), as opposed to productive roles (Jayadev and Bowles, 2006). In short, this body of research highlights the mechanisms through which economic inequality affects human development and increases other social costs. These findings at the societal level have not been extended to study specific effects at the organizational level.
Although social costs of economic inequality are well known, very little is known about the organizational costs of economic inequality. While pointing out the lack of research in this area, Cote (2011) argued that social relationships, morality, judgment and decision making in organizations are influenced by the socio-economic class of individuals; this raises the question of whether such effects are more pronounced in societies with higher economic inequality. For example, Neville (2012) has shown that behaviours related to academic dishonesty were higher in areas with high economic inequality. These recent studies highlight the need for studying the effect of economic inequality on management. For example, lower human development engendered by higher inequality might translate into higher costs of managing in organizations. Lower physical and mental health might result in higher healthcare costs and costs of absenteeism; lower education and skill levels might result in higher costs of recruitment, selection, induction, training and development; lower trust levels could lead to higher costs of building teams, maintaining their cohesiveness and managing workplace conflicts.
Organizational practices might have a role in perpetuating or increasing economic inequality at the societal level. Executive compensation has recently come under criticism because it is a major source of wealth accumulation in the West, besides inheritance (BCG Report, 2012). Organizational research on executive compensation and pay dispersion has so far focused on how these practices influence organizational performance (Bloom, 1999; Pfeffer and Langton, 1993; Fredrickson et al., 2010; Heyman, 2005; Riddell, 2011; Wade et al., 2006). However, even in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, very little scholarly research has examined how organizational practices such as executive compensation, dividend payment, debt management, risky lending, singular focus on stock market and cash accumulation might influence wider social issues, such as economic inequality at the societal level (Riaz et al., 2011).
Notwithstanding the lack of research on the effect of management practices on economic inequality in society, business research has a rich tradition of studying the role organizations can play in society. For example, research within the CSR (corporate social responsibility) (Carroll, 1991; Carroll, 1999; Campbell, 2007) and BOP (Base of the Pyramid) (Prahalad and Hammond, 2002; Prahalad, 2004; Karnani, 2007; Karnani, 2011) approaches has studied organizational practices that directly aim to impact societal issues such as environmental sustainability, poverty, etc. Research attention is warranted to understand how CSR and BOP initiatives, as well as other organizational practices, might impact economic inequality in society.
This special issue is interested in a wide range of questions focused around the core issues mentioned above. The questions listed below are aimed at serving as pointers to further illustrate the spirit of the special issue. These are, however, not meant to be exhaustive, and any other investigations of the topic are equally welcome.
Effects of economic inequality on management
· What are the mechanisms, e.g. lack of skills, lack of trust, lack of motivation, etc., through which societal level economic inequality impacts management and organizations? What counter mechanisms can organizations adopt to manage these effects of economic inequality?
· What are the direct and indirect costs, e.g. guard labor, supervision costs, legitimacy and reputation costs, etc., that organizations face due to increased economic inequality? How can organizations manage these costs, or find ways to obliterate them?
· Does economic inequality create demand for certain products and services? Do organizations need new products, services and practices for a world with rising inequality? What are the management and organizational challenges associated with this?
· How do the interactions of economic inequality and other forms of inequality (social status, gender, ethnic, racial) influence management and organizations?
· How does country context impact the relationship between economic inequality and management? For example, are the mechanisms and costs of economic inequality different in some Western countries, as compared to some Asian cultures that are collectivist, power-distant, and more tolerant of uncertainty? Are these effects easier to manage for organizations operating in some cultures as compared to others (e.g., are monitoring costs engendered by economic inequality lower because of collectivism)?
Effects of management on economic inequality
· How do management practices, such as executive compensation, employee stock options, dividend payment, and cash accumulation, impact economic inequality in society?
· How do certain practices in organizations provide legitimating mechanisms for economic inequality in society, e.g., beliefs concerning efficiency, reward allocation, equity and economic inequality in organizations?
· How do organizational practices aimed at CSR initiatives and BOP markets influence economic inequality in society? Do sustainable products and fair-trade practices decrease economic inequality? Do affordable products and services aimed at BOP markets reduce the effect of economic inequality on the poor?
· How are managerial and organizational resources used to create, maintain or disrupt societal institutions underlying economic inequality? For example, how do political lobbying, charity initiatives, professional training and rhetoric influence regulations, norms and cultural beliefs related to economic inequality?
This special issue is aimed at charting a new territory in management literature by examining the relation between economic inequality and management. This multi-faceted, multi-level and complex phenomenon has wide societal relevance and poses significant intellectual challenges. Accordingly, the guest editors invite high quality conceptual and empirical papers. A variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, including qualitative and quantitative techniques, examining any aspect of the relation between economic inequality and management, are encouraged. In line with the strengths of Human Relations, interdisciplinary approaches and studies that connect multiple levels of analyses (individual, organizational and societal levels) are particularly welcome. In particular, we expect that theoretical papers will demonstrate clear extensions or develop entirely novel ideas related to the relationship between economic inequality and management, rather than simply describe the rise in economic inequality or reiterate well known ideological positions. For empirical work, papers are expected to add value by addressing the linkages between economic inequality and management, rather than focusing solely on either one of these per se.
Contributors should note:
· This call is open and competitive, and the submitted papers will be double-blind reviewed as per the editorial policies of Human Relations.
· Submitted papers must be based on original material not accepted by, or under consideration with, any other journal or outlet.
· For empirical papers based on data sets from which multiple papers have been generated, authors must provide the guest editors with copies of all other papers based on the same data.
· The guest editors will select a limited number of papers to be included in the special issue. Other papers submitted to the special issue may be considered for publication in other issues of the journal at the discretion of the Editor-in-Chief.
To be considered for this special issue, submissions must fit with the Aim and Scope of Human Relations: http://www.tavinstitute.org/humanrelations/about_journal/aims.html as well as this call for papers.
Papers should be submitted online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/hr in accordance with our submission guidelines: http://www.tavinstitute.org/humanrelations/submit_paper.html. Please indicate in your covering letter that the paper is intended for this special issue.
The guest editors of the special issue are very happy to discuss papers in advance of submission and may be contacted directly:
Hari Bapuji - email: hari.bapuji@ad.umanitoba.ca
Suhaib Riaz - email: suhaib.riaz@umb.edu
The deadline for submission is 30 June 2013 and papers should not be submitted before 01 June 2013. The special issue is intended for publication in 2015.
Please direct questions about the submission process, or any administrative matter, to the Editorial Office: humanrelationsjournal@tavinstitute.org.
References:
BCG Report (2012) Global Wealth 2012: The Battle to Regain Strength. Accessed on June 19, 2012; available at: https://www.bcgperspectives.com/Images/BCG_The_Battle_to_Regain_Strength_May_2012_tcm80-106998.pdf.
Benabou R (1996) Inequality and growth. In Bernanke B & Rotemberg J (eds) NBER Macroeconomics Annual 11–74. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Bloom M (1999) The performance effects of pay dispersion on individuals and organizations. Academy of Management Journal 42(1): 25–40.
Bloom M and Michel J (2002) The relationships among organizational context, pay dispersion, and managerial turnover. Academy of Management Journal 45(1): 33–42.
Campbell JL (2007) Why Would Corporations Behave in Socially Responsible Ways? An Institutional Theory of Corporate Social Responsibility. Academy of Management Review 32(3): 946–967.
Carroll AB (1991) The pyramid of corporate social responsibility: Toward the moral management of organizational stakeholders. Business Horizons 34(July/August): 39–48.
Carroll AB (1999) Corporate Social Responsibility. Evolution of Definitional Construct. Business and Society 38(3): 268–295.
Cote S (2011) How social class shapes thoughts and actions in organizations. Research in organizational behavior 31: 43–71.
Fredrickson J, Davis-Blake A and Sanders G (2010) Sharing the wealth: Social comparisons and pay dispersion in the CEO's top team. Strategic Management Journal 31(10): 1031–1053.
Heyman F (2005) Pay inequality and firm performance: Evidence from matched employer-employee data. Applied Economics 37(11): 1313–1327.
Jayadev A and Bowles S (2006). Guard Labour. Journal of development Economics 79(2): 328–348.
Karnani AG (2007) The Mirage of Marketing to the Bottom of the Pyramid. California Management Review 49(4): 90–111.
Karnani AG (2011) Doing Well by Doing Good – The Grand Illusion. California Management Review 53(2): 105-111.
Mo PH (2000) Income Inequality and Economic Growth. Kyklos 53: 293–316.
Neville L (2012) Do Economic Equality and Generalized Trust Inhibit Academic Dishonesty? Evidence From State-Level Search-Engine Queries. Psychological Science 23(4): 339–345.
Pfeffer J and Langton N (1993) The effect of wage dispersion on satisfaction, productivity, and working collaboratively - Evidence from college and university faculty. Administrative Science Quarterly 38(3): 382–407.
Prahalad CK and Hammond A (2002) Serving the World's Poor, Profitably. Harvard Business Review 80(9): 48–57.
Prahalad CK (2004) Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty through Profits. Wharton School Publishing.
Riaz S, Buchanan S and Bapuji H (2011) Institutional Work amidst the Financial Crisis: Emerging Positions of Elite Actors. Organization: The Critical Journal of Organization, Theory and Society 18(2): 187–214.
Riddell C (2011) Compensation policy and quit rates: A multilevel approach using benchmarking data. Industrial Relations 50(4): 656–677.
Wade J, O'Reilly C and Pollock T (2006) Overpaid CEOs and underpaid managers: Fairness and executive compensation. Organization Science 17(5): 527–544.
Wilkinson R and Pickett K (2009) The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone. London: Penguin Books.
We look forward to receiving your submission!
Best wishes, Claire Castle
Managing Editor, Human Relations
Email: c.castle@tavinstitute.org www.humanrelationsjournal.org
Human Relations 2011 Impact Factor:
2-year impact factor: 1.729
5-year impact factor: 2.376
Source: 2011 Journal Citation Reports® (Thomson Reuters, 2012)
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TIM List participants,
CALL FOR PAPERS AND PRESENTATION PROPOSALS
ON TEACHING AND ADMINSTRATION TOPICS IN HIGHER EDUCATION
The International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association (HETL) invites you to submit a proposal for a presentation at its 2014 International HETL Conference, to be held in Anchorage, in partnership with the University of Alaska Anchorage, June 8-10, 2014. Proposals are solicited on all topics related to higher education including those involving new technologies and globalization related issues. Both scholarly and practice reports are invited. Proposals are especially favored on the conference theme: Impacts of Social and Mobile Media on Higher Education. As in our January 2013 conference at the University of Central Florida, participants will be from the gamut of academic disciplines across the arts, sciences, and professions, as well as from other administrative and staff functions delivering and supporting new technologies and approaches to learning. As with every HETL conference, we support participation from around the world. Please submit your proposal for a presentation before the July 26, 2013, deadline or simply join us as a conference attendee by registering. No proposal is required if you are attending but not presenting.
To submit a presentation proposal go to https://www.hetl.org/2014-anchorage-conference-submission-form/ . Go to https://www.hetl.org/events/2014-anchorage-conference/ for more details on the conference.
It's More Affordable than You May Think
The Anchorage area has many features that you will find interesting, including glaciers, majestic mountains, and a wide diversity of wildlife. The average June temperature is 16C/62F with sunny days. Airfare to Anchorage is more reasonably priced than we anticipated. For example, we discovered by checking Kayak.com that roundtrip airfare from New York to Anchorage around the time of the conference might be about $350, from London $1000, and Tokyo $1100. We anticipate that hundreds of rooms at the University of Alaska will be available for well under $100 as well as rooms at partnering hotels in Anchorage.
We look forward to seeing you in Anchorage!
Patrick Blessinger and Charles Wankel, St. John's University, New York
Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association
patrickblessinger@gmail.com
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Quantitative Multidisciplinary Approaches in Human Capital and Asset Management
Edited by Meir Russ, published by IGI Global
Call for Book Chapter Proposals [by 1 August 2013)
In the 'knowledge economy' it is widely recognized that the effective engagement and utilization of human capital and the other facets of intellectual capital are critical, if not the only means to organizations' short-term success and long-term survival. Organizations and their officers realize that the critical sources of competencies, capabilities, and sustainable competitive advantage require the ability to attract, retain, develop, manage, and reward effectively their human assets. Yet, few are actually 'walking the walk' and even fewer are using quantitative tools to develop and manage this 'fuzzy' asset. A number of developments are making human assets, management and measurement increasingly more prominent to today's executives, including: changing demographics of the labor force, the increasingly rapid pace of technological innovation, rapidly changing global competition, greater attention to customers' changing needs, and experimentation with new intra and inter-organizational structures. At the same time, the lack of legal and institutional standardized frameworks and infrastructure, underlined by the lack of agreed-upon definitions and theories make such an attempt a difficult, if not impossible one. In response to this growing gap and escalating challenges, this book is envisioned as a manuscript that will provide a robust scientific and quantitative foundation for a multi-disciplinary, multi-level theory of human capital and human assets.
The study of human capital and assets originated in economics, and was later advanced by accounting, human resource, and strategic management (among many others). Lacking a comprehensive, unifying theory, it became agonizingly clear that a reliable, transparent and widely accepted measurement system for the valuation of human capital and assets at the organization level is missing. From the broader economic and legal perspectives, the focus on human assets might be even more important. The inability of the financial markets to monetize human (or for that matter any other intellectual) assets is resulting in a major market failure. This book calls for a multidisciplinary, multi-level discussion that is urgently needed. Quantitative research needs to be done at multiple levels, from numerous perspectives and disciplines, focusing on different and diverse units of analysis (country, region, organization, groups and individuals). Specifically, this call solicits chapter proposals from a multidisciplinary array of scholars that can contribute to one or more of (but not limited to) the following perspectives/disciplines: Economic, Financial, Accounting, Systems-Networks, Biological, Physics, Behavioral, Human Resources, Economic Development and Regional Development. Additional perspectives, if proposed, will be considered. Multi-level and multi-discipline chapters discussing quantitative research findings are strongly encouraged. When appropriate, pluralities of empirical methods from diverse disciplines are also encouraged.
The anticipated table of contents is listed below:
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part A - Disciplinary discussions [has following sections under each topic
a. An introduction to the current state of knowledge
b. Multi-level inquiries
1. Economic perspective
2. Financial perspective
3. Accounting perspective
4. Systems-Networks perspective
5. Biological perspective
6. Physics perspective
7. Behavioral perspective
8. Human Resources perspective
9. Economic Development perspective
10. Regional Development perspective
Part B – Cross-Disciplinary discussions
a. An introduction to the current state of knowledge
b. Multi-disciplinary studies i. ....
Part C – Illustrative case studies using:
a. at least two perspectives
b. at least two levels within a discipline
Conclusion
Schedule for publication of the book:
· Book chapter proposals received: August 30, 2013
· Notification of accepted chapter proposals: October 1, 2013
· Receipt of full book chapters: February 1, 2014
· Review book chapters and revision feedback: March 15, 2014
· Receipt by editors of final draft of book chapters: May 1, 2014
· Anticipated publication: SEPTEMBER 1, 2014
Submit your chapter proposal as a Microsoft Word email attachment. We would most appreciate a one-to-two page proposal outlining your chapter and identifying your theoretic discipline, theories, and, when applicable, empirical method approaches related to human capital and assets. You should plan 7000-10000 words for a chapter. Each chapter should commence with a broader scope summary of the perspective to underpin the chapter within (or between) perspectives. For a case study, you should plan 4000-7000 words and each case should clearly state the dilemmas and the perspectives illustrated. Each case also should provide the data needed to test alternative methods or interpretations. Include, as a separate file, a brief biography covering your current institutional affiliation and position, a listing of your relevant publications and educational background, and any other pertinent information on your qualifications for contributing to this manuscript.
Each chapter will undergo a double-blind peer review process by anonymous reviewers.
Send proposals and inquiries to
Dr. Meir Russ
Professor, Management, Frederick E. Baer Professor in Business
Austin E. Cofrin School of Business, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay
Wood Hall 460; 2420 Nicolet Drive, Green Bay, WI 54311-7001; USA
Tel + 1 (920) 465-2757 Fax +1 (920) 465- 2660 russm@uwgb.edu
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The State of the Field, Entrepreneurial Exit 2013 Conference, The Ratio Institute in Stockholm, Sweden September 27th–28th, 2013
Extended Conference submission deadline: July 10, 2013
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Howard Aldrich, Kenan Professor of Sociology, Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina
Susan Marlow, Editor, ISBJ, Nottingham University Business School
The conference is intended to aid the development of manuscripts for a
2014 Special Issue on Entrepreneurial Exit, International Small Business Journal (ISBJ) and the 2014 Research Handbook of Entrepreneurial Exit, Edward Elgar Publishing
We are accepting submissions to a focused research conference on entrepreneurial exit sponsored by the Ratio Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. Travel and lodging will be paid for in full by the Ratio institute for accepted papers.
As evidenced by its impact on the entrepreneur, the family, the firm, the industry, and society, entrepreneurial exit has emerged as a critical component of the entrepreneurial process and a distinctive domain of entrepreneurship researchers. Exit is complex because it is both multi-level and multi-faceted. It is multi-level in that exit can refer to exit of the founder or exit of the firm from the market or both. It is multi-faceted in that it can be applied to both low and high performing founders and firms and its impact on institutions varies depending upon the context.
Despite its importance, research in entrepreneurial exit is sparse compared to other components of the entrepreneurial process such as opportunity identification, new venture creation, or growth. Yet, exit is the culmination of all that the firm is and a reflection of previous goals, decisions, activities, and resources. Because of its wide-ranging impact, entrepreneurial exit research has the capacity to make significant contributions to leading theoretical perspectives including (but not limited to) population ecology, resource-based view, theory of planned behaviour, threshold theory, psychological ownership, and theories of leadership, change, affect, and cognition.
We welcome submissions from disciplinary oriented research in strategy, finance, accounting, sociology, psychology, organization theory, economic geography, etc., as well as interdisciplinary studies of entrepreneurial exit. Both conceptual and empirical work will be considered. Examples of themes, topics, and problems:
· The development of exit strategies and processes
· An examination of psychological / cognitive barriers to exit both internal and external to the firm
· Studies of founder succession
· International / comparative studies
· Studies which disentangle exit and failure
· An examination of the uniqueness of portfolio or habitual entrepreneurs
· Studies which examine exit differences among industries, countries, and cultures
· Understanding valuation from both seller's and acquirers' perspective
· The impact and implications of exit on institutions, philanthropic infrastructure or economic development
· Studies which explore unique methods and databases for studying entrepreneurial exit
Extended Conference submission deadline: July 10, 2013
If you wish to submit a conference paper, please email karl.wennberg@ratio.se listing "Entrepreneurial Exit 2013 Conference" as the subject heading of the email. Decision on conference submissions will be made by July 20th, 2013.
Informal enquiries on the research handbook and the special issue can be forward to Dawn DeTienne (Dawn.DeTienne@business.colostate.edu) or Karl Wennberg (karl.wennberg@ratio.se).
Dawn R. DeTienne, PhD, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship
2013-2014 Fulbright Scholar, Dublin, Ireland, Faculty Director, Institute for Entrepreneurship
Communications Committee Chair, AOM, Entrepreneurship Division
Associate Editor, Academy of Management Learning & Education
Colorado State University, FT Collins, CO 80523 (970) 491-6446
dawn.detienne@business.colostate.edu
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CALL FOR PAPERS
ACADEMIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP:
CREATING AN ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEM
Volume 16 of Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth
Due date: September 1, 2013
Editors: Andrew C. Corbett, Babson College; Jerome A. Katz, Saint Louis University;
and Donald S. Siegel, University at Albany, SUNY
What policies, infrastructure, and capabilities are necessary to commercialize university research? What are the foundational components necessary to build a thriving university-based entrepreneurial ecosystem? The latest volume of Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth will examine these issues and all others related to academic entrepreneurship.
Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth provides an annual examination of the major current research, theoretical, and methodological efforts in the field of entrepreneurship, and its related disciplines, including firm emergence and growth research. The Advances series also publishes papers from other fields, such as strategy, organizational behavior, or sociology that use entrepreneurial samples or make a contribution to entrepreneurial theory or research.
Volume 16 will consider the central issue of academic entrepreneurship: the factors, constructs, concepts, and relationships that underpin the fostering of university based entrepreneurial ventures and their broader ecosystem. Both theoretical and empirical manuscripts that consider all aspects of how university stakeholders create, incubate, accelerate and spin-out ventures will be considered. A representative, but by no means exhaustive, listing of relevant topics includes:
Ø University-industry partnerships
Ø Necessary infrastructure to stimulate academic entrepreneurship
Ø Individuals, scientists, and the psychological aspects of academic entrepreneurship
Ø Teams, networks, and sociological factors of academic entrepreneurship
Ø Economic factors and the financial performance of academic entrepreneurship efforts
Ø Knowledge flows between actors in the academic entrepreneurship ecosystem
Ø Patents, licenses, grants, and other components of the academic entrepreneurship model
Ø Cross-cultural comparative studies of academic entrepreneurship
Ø Outsourcing and spillovers associated with academic entrepreneurship
Ø Government support for academic entrepreneurship
Ø Theoretical and conceptual models of academic entrepreneurship
Ø Outcomes and impacts of academic entrepreneurship
Ø Implications of academic entrepreneurship for academia or the discipline of entrepreneurship
The papers in Advances reflect many state-of-the-art topics and approaches, and are written by leading researches in the field, making each volume an important source of information for virtually all entrepreneurship researchers. The distinctive competence of research volumes such as Advances is that the chapters can be published without page restrictions allowing for greater detail in the background, development, and implementation of ideas than is possible in journal articles. This provides authors with the opportunity to fully express their key ideas, provide much more complete support, and include relevant multi-page appendices. In effect, the Advances series provides authors the opportunity to publish an "article of record" of their major theoretical or empirical ideas, and see it disseminated to a wide audience. Today, the series is in the libraries of virtually all of the schools with active Ph.D. programs in entrepreneurship, as well as the majority of AACSB accredited schools with MBA concentrations in entrepreneurship and related fields.
We welcome the opportunity to discuss paper ideas with interested researchers. Contact information for the editors: Andrew Corbett, acorbett@babson.edu; and Jerry Katz, katzja@slu.edu; and Don Siegel, dsiegel@albany.edu.
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XLVIII CLADEA CONFERENCE – RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL 2013 – FGV-EBAPE from October 20 to 22, 2013 Past, Present, and Future of Latin American Education and Research in Business and Public Administration in the Current Global Context
Program Chair & Organizer: Ronaldo Parente
Program Co-Chairs: Flavio Vasconcelos and Alvaro Cyrino
CALL FOR PAPERS – CLADEA 2013
We are pleased to invite the academic community to participate in the XLVIII CLADEA Annual Assembly 2013 on the Past, Present, and Future of Latin American Education and Research in Business and Public Administration in the Current Global Context to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This year, the conference will be hosted by the Escola Brasileira de Administração Pública e de Empresas (EBAPE) of Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV) from October 20 to 22, 2013. The deadline for submissions is June 15, 2013.
Latin America's rise in the global economy has generated interest among executives worldwide, as well as among management scholars. Over the last two decades, there has been continuous economic growth and institutional evolution in emerging economies, especially with regard to trade liberalization. Unfortunately, there have been some imbalances in Latin America on how different countries engage in liberalization. Despite some fallbacks, the region has recently gained prominence as a destination for FDI and bilateral trade – particularly for North American firms with close ties to the region, as well as for European and Chinese firms. Academics and practitioners are beginning to recognize the huge differences between their civil societies, institutional infrastructure, and cultural nuances that should have an impact for strategy making, entrepreneurship, innovation, and individual and firm behavior in the current global context. The aim of this conference is to highlight recent trends and developments in the fields of business and public administration in Latin America and other emerging areas. This year's theme seeks to contribute to the understanding of recent trends and developments in Latin America by creating a scholarly forum for the discussion of current issues involving academics and practitioners from Latin America and other parts of the world. We hope to attract a select group of scholars, government officials, and executives as well as specialists in the political and legal environment from several sectors of the economy. This intimate setting will allow participants to share perspectives and examine rigorous research based upon real-world experiences and provide a better understanding of the future role of Latin America in the context of the global economy.
We are inviting proposals in the form of extended abstracts rather than completed papers. Those interested in submitting their research should read the Guidelines for Submissions for detailed explanations on the technical specifications and guidelines in terms of format and structure. Proposals can be submitted in Spanish, Portuguese, or English. If submitted in a language other than English, the authors must also include the title, abstract, and key words in English.
The submitted papers will be evaluated by specialists in each of the thematic areas through a "blind review" process. Make sure you submit your proposal to the track that best fits your paper topic.
Use the Online Submissions System to submit your proposal. Before submitting your proposal, you must create a profile on our Web site to have access to thesubmission/paper management system.
Conference Tracks/Thematic Areas:
1. The Internationalization of Business Schools, Accreditation, and Educational Quality
2. Economic, Financial Management and Accounting
3. Leadership and Management of Human Capital
4. Ethical, Social, and Environment Responsibility
5. Entrepreneurship and SMEs
6. Operations and Supply Chain Management
7. Technology and Innovation Management
8. Marketing
9. Strategy, Corporate Governance, Sustainable Development, and General Management
10. International Business, Multinationals, and Emerging Markets
11. Politics, Conflict, and Social Movements
12. Learning Processes and Challenges for Management Education
More information is available at http://cladea-ebape.strategicmanagement.net/. For questions, please contact Ronaldo Parente, Program Chair & Organizer, at rcparent@fiu.edu.
Ronaldo Parente, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Strategy and International Business, Florida International University, Department of Management & International Business
"The only thing necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing"
Author: Edmund Burke
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Architectural Strategy and Design Evolution in Business Ecosystems: Research Opportunities and Empirical Challenges
Sorry about cross-posting to all our sponsor divisions
Organizers: Richard Tee (EPFL), Christopher Tucci (EPFL), Jason Woodard (SMU)
Panelists: Elizabeth Jane Altman (HBS), Carliss Baldwin (HBS), Arnaldo Camuffo (Bocconi), Rahul Kapoor (Wharton), Johann Peter Murmann (ASB), Andrea Prencipe (LUISS Guido Carli)
Sponsors: TIM, BPS, ENT, OMT
Scheduled: Saturday, August 10 2013, 10:15AM - 12:45PM WDW Swan Resort in Swan 3
In the last few years, we have seen increased attention to business ecosystems and related phenomena such as industry architectures, platforms, and value networks. While these phenomena present exciting research opportunities, they also raise daunting challenges. For example, business ecosystems are often characterized by complex structures (e.g., intricate links, nested layers, and fuzzy boundaries), as well as complex dynamics (e.g., co-evolution of strategic behavior, technology, and competitive outcomes). Reasoning about strategic design choices in such turbulent environments is difficult and uncertain. Yet, the way an ecosystem's participants shape the artifacts they produce and their relationships with each other can profoundly affect the ecosystem's evolutionary trajectory. And while the significance of these design choices has been recognized, the theoretical and methodological tools needed to study them rigorously remain underdeveloped. This PDW aims to address this gap in two ways. First, we will examine the existing body of scholarship that bears on the topic of how firms navigate and strategize in business ecosystems, with an eye toward identifying open research questions that hold particular promise. Second, we will discuss how the emerging research community on business ecosystems can begin to address these questions, with an emphasis on the required advances in architectural representation techniques, data collection, and empirical analysis.
Main questions to be addressed by panelists and roundtable participants
1) What are you working on that is related to the structure or dynamics of business ecosystems?
2) Where have you personally gotten stuck? To what extent has the bottleneck been related to theory, methods, or empirical data?
3) How can we as a community focus our efforts to achieve deeper and more rapid progress?
Program overview
Welcome and introduction: Christopher Tucci and Jason Woodard
Panelists: Andrea Prencipe, Arnaldo Camuffo, Rahul Kapoor, Richard Tee
Discussants: Johann Peter Murmann and Carliss Baldwin Roundtable breakout sessions Plenary discussion: Elizabeth Jane Altman (moderator) Closing and wrap-up: Christopher Tucci
[Contact organizers for] The attached PDF document provides further background information about this PDW.
We encourage participants to pre-register and indicate their research interests at:
http://smusg.asia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_eKy3fAT2Zfuhn01
Christopher L. Tucci, Ph.D.
Professor of Management of Technology
Chair in Corporate Strategy & Innovation École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL-CdM-CSI Odyssea 1.04 Station 5, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
+41.21.693.0121 <christopher.tucci@epfl.ch> http://csi.epfl.ch
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Dear Friends,
We invite you to join us on August 8 and 9 in Orlando to co-develop research ideas and to network with practitioners and academics. Together we will address the challenge of enabling cross-sector collaboration to alleviate homelessness in Central Florida. People from all disciplines interested in cross-sector partnerships, complex social challenges, and leadership would benefit from this program.
For details please visit http://nls.aom.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=71:announcing-the-third-annual-nls-research-practice-conference-a-pdw&catid=44:2013-nls-conference&Itemid=66
Register here:
http://program.aomonline.org/2013/Session_Details.asp?print=true&SubmissionID=17761
Questions: Please contact Chris Dembek - kdembek@gmail.com
We look forward to seeing you in Orlando.
Organizing Committee NLS Research/Practice Conference
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Junior Faculty Workshop: BPS division
Saturday, August 10: 8.30-11.30 (WDW Swan Resort in Osprey 1)
What should I do with this paper?
Organizers: Nandini Lahiri (UNC Chapel Hill), Caterina Moschieri (IE Business School), Ithai Stern (Northwestern University) and PK Toh (University of Minnesota) Deadline for submission: July 3rd.
Senior Participants: Gautam Ahuja (University of Michigan), Africa Arino (IESE Business School), Rich Bettis (UNC Chapel Hill), Stefano Brusoni (ETH Zurich), Bob Hoskisson (Rice University), Xavier Martin (Tilburg University), Margie Peteraf (Dartmouth), Jeff Reuer (Purdue University), Aks Zaheer (University of Minnesota) and Anthea Zhang (Rice University).
Do you have a great paper that seems to be going nowhere? A paper that has been rejected from a journal or two, is under R&R, or almost ready for submission but there is a conceptual and/or empirical issue that you would appreciate getting advice from a senior faculty member? Do you have a great empirical result but a theoretical contribution that does not seem to be sufficient for an A-level journal? Are you having trouble deciding how to develop your paper because you received contradicting reviews? Are there any outlets you did not consider? Is there a potential theoretical contribution that you have missed? Or is it time to put the article in the back of your file drawer and stop throwing good time after bad?
If you answered YES to any of these questions, this PDW is for you!
Several senior, highly experienced scholars will help you make this decision, and give you some direction.
This Professional Development Workshop is addressed to junior scholars who seek to further improve their research. Specifically, it seeks to help scholars who are struggling with the development of a paper and need to decide whether and how to continue and invest time in the paper or bite the bullet and let it go.
Please email your materials to the following email address: pdw@kellogg.northwestern.edu
Deadline for submission: July 3rd.
Multilevel innovation networks PDW, 2013 Academy of Management Meetings; Orlando, FL, USA, Friday, Aug 9 2013 3:00PM - 7:00PM at WDW Swan Resort in Swan 7
Organizers: Corey Phelps (HEC Paris), Srikanth Paruchuri (Penn State), Martin Goossen (HEC Paris), Deadline for applications: June 30, 2013
For more information and the application form please visit:
http://tinyurl.com/multilevelnetworks
PDW Description
The purpose of this professional development workshop is to stimulate research into the multilevel nature of knowledge transfer and knowledge creation within and between organizations. While research has examined the influence of social networks on innovation at different levels of analysis – the micro, meso and macro - we know little about how these levels interact. Specifically, an understanding of the micro-foundations of higher-level innovation networks is largely missing. This workshop aims to bring together doctoral students and faculty from multiple topical domains who share a common interest in innovation networks and who wish to contribute to innovation network research, in general, and multilevel innovation networks research, in particular. The workshop will consist of two modules: (1) short presentations by experienced scholars who are investigating the multilevel nature of innovation networks, followed by general Q and A; and (2) small group discussions of participants' interests in and research efforts on the topic of multilevel innovation networks, facilitated by PDW presenters.
Corey Phelps, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Strategy and Business Policy, HEC Paris, 1, rue de la Libération, 78351 Jouy-en-Josas, France
Phone: (33) 1 39 67 74 15 Fax: (33) 1 39 67 70 84
http://www.hec.edu/Faculty-Research/Faculty-Directory/PHELPS-Corey-C
http://ssrn.com/author=341753
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CALL FOR APPLICANTS: DOCTORAL STUDENT WORKSHOP
11th WEST COAST RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM ON TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURSHIP
A one-day Doctoral Student Workshop will be presented in conjunction with the 11th West Coast Research Symposium on Technology Entrepreneurship. The workshop is sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
Event: Doctoral Student Workshop on Technology Entrepreneurship
Location: Foster School of Business, University of Washington
Date: Weds. September 4, 2013 (Research Symposium follows on September 5th and 6th)
We invite doctoral students to submit applications to attend this workshop. Sessions will focus on technology entrepreneurship, with an emphasis on contemporary work in the field. Faculty mentors include Kathy Eisenhardt, Warren Boeker, Glenn Hoetker, Dev Jennings, Suresh Kotha, Kyle Mayer, Alan Meyer, Phil Phan, Nandini Rajagopalan, Alicia Robb, and Anthea Zhang.
The workshop offers an intellectually stimulating experience, maps the theoretical domain of technology entrepreneurship, and builds community. Workshop participants will have opportunities to present their own research interests, to interact with each other, and to get acquainted with faculty members. To apply, see the website:http://faculty.bschool.washington.edu/skotha/wcrs/doctorialconsortium.html
The doctoral student workshop offers two separate tracks. Track 1 is designed for doctoral students who have not yet defended a dissertation proposal and who may still be in the process of selecting a dissertation topic. This track will devote attention to the selection of a dissertation topic, research design, and sources of data. Track 2 is intended for students who have defended dissertation proposals (or who are close to doing so). This track will devote attention to completing the dissertation, publishing the dissertation, and early career considerations. The two tracks will join together for selected workshop sessions/panels and for all meals.
All students chosen for the workshop will be invited to attend the two-day Research Symposium that follows on September 5th and 6th. The symposium will showcase cutting-edge work by technology entrepreneurship researchers from the West Coast and around the world. Details on the research symposium are available at the WCRS website:http://theWCRS.org. Each student attendee will be provided with a $250 travel stipend, as well as all meals and three nights lodging (double occupancy). Applicants focusing on the nexus of technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship will be given preference.
The 2013 conference will be hosted by the Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship, at the University of Washington, Seattle. This is a great opportunity for doctoral students to learn from leading scholars and contemporary work in the field. We hope to see you in Seattle!
The Doctoral Workshop organizers are:
Andrew Nelson, Emily Cox Pahnke, Chuck Eesley, Nan Jia and Vibha Gaba.
CONFERENCE SPONSORS:
Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship, University of Washington
Stanford Technology Ventures Program, Stanford University
Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship, University of Oregon
Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, University of Southern California
Don Beall Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, University of California at Irvine
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
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Following reminder for Dean Williams' PDW session at the August AOM conference. Thank you.
Professor Charles R. (Bob) Greer (Texas Christian University), Dean Chuck Williams (Butler College of Business), and Professor Sharon Oswald (Mississippi State University) will co-chair a PDW session on Being a Department Chair: Learning from Others. The PDW will run from 12:30 – 4:30 pm on Friday, August 9, 2013. It will begin with a plenary session highlighting the key challenges and issues that department chairs face today. The plenary session speakers will be Tom Cummings, University of Southern California, and Steve Barr, North Carolina State University. Breakout sessions will focus on the following topics: (1) Evaluating and Mentoring Faculty on Research, (2) Evaluating and Mentoring Faculty on Teaching, (3) Low Performing Faculty, (4) Faculty Recruiting (tenure track, clinical, and adjunct), and (5) Managing Time and Conflict. The topic chairs for the breakout sessions are Tim Barnett (Mississippi State University), Pam Barr (Georgia State University), Steve Barr (North Carolina State University), Tom Cummings (University of Southern California), Hettie Richardson (Louisiana State University/Texas Christian University), and Jim Jawahar (Illinois State University). Each of the Breakout Sessions will be conducted by one or two topic chairs: the three PDW co-chairs, and the plenary speakers. Participants for this workshop should be department chairs or incoming department chairs. Pre-registration is required for this workshop. Please register for this pre-conference by using the Academy's registration system before the August 7th, 2013 deadline. The session and link to the registration system may be found in the program at the following link: http://aom.org/meetings/sess2013.asp?id=10352
Gina Head, Administrative Secretary to Dean Chuck Williams
College of Business, Butler University 317.940.9652 vhead@butler.edu
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2013 INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition
Call for Submissions
Submission Deadline: July 1, 2013
We invite you to submit your dissertation proposal to the INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition. Now in its 21st year, this competition is one of the most prestigious available to doctoral students studying organizations. Eight finalists will be chosen, based on reviews by experienced referees. Finalists will present their dissertation proposals in a workshop on Saturday, October 5, 2013 at the fall INFORMS Conference held in Minneapolis, MN. During the workshop finalists will receive detailed feedback from a panel of respected organizational scholars who act as final judges for the competition. The all-day workshop also provides a wonderful opportunity to interact with a small group of future colleagues. At the workshop, the judges will select a winner and a runner up.
In order for their dissertation proposals to be considered for this competition, students must meet the following eligibility criteria:
1. Students must have defended their dissertation proposal between August 1, 2012, and August 1, 2013, but not yet defended their dissertation.
2. The expected completion date for students' dissertations should be on or before July 1, 2014.
3. No part of the dissertation or dissertation proposal may be accepted for publication, provisionally or otherwise, at an academic journal prior to submission for this competition.
We encourage all eligible doctoral students who are studying topics related to organization science to submit summaries of their dissertation proposals. Dissertation proposals addressing issues related to any aspect of organization theory, organizational behavior, strategy, business ethics, or entrepreneurship are welcome.
Submissions should meet the following formatting criteria:
1. Proposal summaries must be no longer than 15 double-spaced pages in 12-point Times font with 1-inch margins. Up to 7 additional pages containing references and exhibits may be included.
2. Because this is a dissertation proposal competition, empirical results should not appear in the dissertation proposal summary or appendices.
Dissertation proposals will be judged based on soundness of theory, methodological rigor, and contribution to the field of organization science. In keeping with the mission of the INFORMS College on Organization Science, boldness and innovation of the dissertation will be important criteria in the judging process.
The competition is being coordinated this year by Emily Block of the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business. We are fortunate to again be using Organization Science's ScholarOne Manuscripts submission system to manage dissertation proposal submissions and reviews. The web address for submissions is http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/orgsci. If you do not already have an account you will have to create one. This is a quick and easy process.
Applications must be received by July 1, 2013. Dissertation proposal summaries that do not meet the formatting criteria will be returned to students without review. In addition to the proposal summary, each application must include a nomination letter from the applicant's adviser certifying that the student is likely to complete the dissertation by July 1, 2014 and the date when the student advanced to candidacy – there is no need for a detailed recommendation letter.
Please follow Organization Science's instructions for submitting your proposal. A couple of important things to note:
• In step 1, select the manuscript type "Proposal."
• In step 2, Attributes, please select a few key words to aid in assigning reviewers.
• In step 4, Reviewers and Editors, do not recommend any reviewers. However, you should indicate Emily Block as your preferred SENIOR EDITOR.
• In step 5, Details and Comments, paste your cover letter into the window and use the browse attachment function to attach your COVER PAGE as well as YOUR ADVISER'S NOMINATION LETTER.
• In step 6, Upload Files, upload a copy of your proposal WITHOUT ITS COVER PAGE OR OTHER IDENTIFYING INFORMATION. The first page should include only your dissertation title and abstract.
Please direct any inquiries to:
Emily Block, eblock1@nd.edu
Emily S. Block, PhD, Chair, INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition
Assistant Professor, Department of Management, University of Notre Dame
360A Mendoza College of Business, Notre Dame, IN 46617
eblock1@nd.edu 574 485 4021
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Job Positions and Research Questions
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The new Inbev – Baillet Latour Chair in Error Management at Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
invites applications for two Post-Doctoral research positions
ABOUT the Chair
Pushing the frontier of Error Management
There has never been a greater abundance of theoretical and practical lessons on how to "manage successfully" and "do the right thing". Yet , management errors continue to be part and parcel of organizational life. While short-term consequences can be benign, leaving managerial errors unaddressed in the longer term can imply severe financial underperformance or even wholesale bankruptcy. Unfortunately the causes of managerial errors often are deep-seated and hard to control. Emotional conflict, managerial hubris, bandwagon behaviour, a dysfunctional culture and organizational politics are amongst the most resilient sources of flawed decision-making; including the failure to consider all relevant information and the neglect of long-term consequences.
Given the impossibility to avoid managerial errors altogether, the objective of the Chair is to focus attention on "managing errors once they've been made". Research produced by the Chair will benefit managers, businesses and society at large by raising awareness about the importance of early stage error detection, and by building an action-oriented agenda on how to remediate managerial errors efficiently and effectively.
ABOUT Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (SBSEM)
SBS-EM is the school of economics and management of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), with a century-old tradition of excellence in higher education. SBS-EM has 56 full-time faculty members and more than 150 affiliate faculty members from other departments or from practice. It offers 2 bachelor degrees, 4 masters (economics, business & economics, management sciences, business engineering), a Ph.D. program in economics and management, an MBA and a full range of executive education programs. About 3000 full-time students are enrolled in our programs. The school has a strong research focus with four research centres (Centre Emile Bernheim, DULBEA, ECARES and iCite) and several more thematic research units. It is Equis and AMBA accredited. The school benefits from ULB's strategic partnerships with top institutions around the world, including for instance Berkeley, Oxford, Cambridge, and Waseda, to facilitate international research collaborations.
ABOUT the candidates and selection process
The post-doctoral fellows will be expected to cross disciplinary boundaries to perform first class research on the management of errors in organizations. Researchers holding a PhD in any relevant discipline are welcome to apply, provided their research programme directly addresses the topic of the Chair. Examples of fields of studies that could be drawn upon include: sense-making, organizational attention, organization design, organizational learning, entrepreneurship and innovation, information systems, risk management, systems design, impact assessment, corporate governance, operations management, complexity, international expansion, cognitive biases and many more.
While it is entirely the responsibility of the research team to develop the research methodology and agenda, illustrative streams of analysis might include:
- Definition of errors, recognizing that decisions in any environment imply trade-offs and that information is incomplete;
- Detection of errors, by third parties (governance or regulation bodies) or the decision makers themselves;
- Management of errors, to build a robust analytical framework based, a.o., on real life cases.
Appointments are for three years, followed by a two 2-years contract (hence, 3+2), depending on evaluations, starting as early as possible between October 2013 and February 2014.
In addition to the quality of the research proposal, applicants should demonstrate their ability to publish in internationally recognized peer-review journals. The ability to work closely with organizations and conduct case studies will also be assessed. Next to a convincing theoretical outline and research design, the proposal should include a plan for the diffusion of findings to both academics and practitioners. For instance, diffusion efforts could involve the organization of international workshops or the preparation of innovative course material.
An international scientific committee will select the candidates on the basis of following criteria: quality of the research project, scientific publications, commitment, international experience, and networking capabilities.
To apply, send a cover letter, full CV and research proposal (maximum 5 pages) to Prof. Carine Peeters: carine.peeters@ulb.ac.be.
The deadline for sending the application material is August 30, 2013.
Shortlisted candidates will be invited for an interview at the end of September 2013.
Dr. Carine Peeters
Professor of International Business and Strategy, Université libre de Bruxelles
Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management
50 Av. F.D. Roosevelt CP 114/3, B – 1050 Brussels, BELGIUM
Phone: +32 2 650 4462, Email: carine.peeters@ulb.ac.be
Offshoring Research Network – Belgium: www.solvay.edu/offshoring
Workshops for successful outsourcing: http://www.solvay.edu/workshops-successful-outsourcing
European Outsourcing Association - Belgium: http://www.eoa-belgium.be/
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