TIM Division List Serve
Vol. 3, No. 20 (August 30, 2006)
Table of Contents:
- General Announcements
- Call for Submissions
- Book Announcements
- Position Announcements
- Research Discussions
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- General Announcements
TIM members might be interested in perusing the program for the 2006
Technology Transfer Society Meetings, which are being held on 9/27/06
9/29/06 at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center in Atlanta.
Additional information on the conference can found at
http://www.t2society.org or
http://www.cherry.gatech.edu/t2s2006/.
Best regards,
Don Siegel
Professor of Entrepreneurship and Associate Dean-Richard J. Heckmann
International Center for Entrepreneurial Management
A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management
University of California at Riverside
e-mail:
donalds@ucr.edu
http://www.agsm.ucr.edu/faculty/pages/don.html
http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/psi32.htm
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Hi,
I am looking for current stories about how business education has had a
positive life altering impact on students. For example, an impoverished
student who struggles to pay for tuition, excels academically and then
starts a successful business. If you have similar stories, I would greatly
appreciate hearing from you. Thanks in advance.
Sincerely,
Eric J. Romero, PhD
Assistant Vice President for Knowledge Services
AACSB International
777 South Harbour Island Blvd., Suite 750
Tampa, Florida 33602-5730
813-769-6513 (direct)
813-769-6500 (main)
813-769-6559 (fax)
eric@aacsb.edu
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We are looking at the Journal of Product Innovation Management's impact in
various venues. We have 2 questions we plead you will answer for us.
To study the impact of JPIM on educational pedagogy, we need to know what
the "top," "most useful," "best," TEXTBOOKS are in the Product Development
and Technology Innovation Mangement areas:
1. Please list your functional specialty(ies) and the top 3-4 textbooks in
each of your specialty areas
2. When someone says an academic article is a "classic." What does that mean
to you? What are the characteristics that make it a classis? Please be as
broad and expansive as possible.
Please e-mail your answers to:
abbie.griffin@business.utah.edu. I will
compile them and make them available to the academic membership.
Many thanks in advance for your time.
Abbie Griffin
Wim Biemans
Rudy Moenaert
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- Call for Submissions
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We apologize in advance should the members receive multiple requests as this
is coming from one of four editors. Also, can you please forward the call
for chapters to anyone you think might provide a high quality contribution
in this area, it would be greatly appreciated.
CALL FOR CHAPTERS
Submission Deadline: Oct 15, 2006
Knowledge Management Strategies:
A Handbook of Applied Technologies
A book edited by
Miltiadis D. Lytras, Research Academic Computer Technology Institute, Greece
Meir Russ, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay, USA
Ronald Maier, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Ambjörn Naeve, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Introduction
Knowledge management has been used as a high-promise business concept. In an
era of business transition, the effective management of knowledge is
proposed as a strategy that exploits the organizational intangible assets.
However, the term of knowledge management has been used in order to describe
many different applications. In some cases the tag of knowledge management
product is attached to several software programs purely for marketing
reasons.
We recognize knowledge management as a socio-technical phenomenon where the
basic social constructs such as person, team and organization require
support from ICT applications. The ultimate objective of the book is to
provide practical guidelines for applied knowledge management through the
discussion of specific technologies. For this reason each chapter discusses
a specific Knowledge Management Strategy which is facilitated through the
employment of technology. More over we discuss in detail taxonomies of
Knowledge Management Applications and we concentrate on the practical aspect
of implementations.
This guides and the structure of the book. In each chapter there is a
detailed discussion of a major Knowledge Management Strategy in relevance
with a key Knowledge Management technology: After a short theoretical
discussion of the specific strategy and technology we provide two to three
well known platforms which are the dominant products or best cases for
discussion. The third part of the chapter provides a case study which
permits and a learning exploitation of the material available in chapter.
Finally each chapter will provide a how to guide for the implementation of
the specific strategy accompanied with several links for drilling down
information.
In fact this book will give answers in problems that business organizations
face when they try to implement knowledge management. Mainly two critical
issues are addressed:
Which technologies to use for specific KM problems?
Which strategy can guide the implementation of KM that corresponds
to the answer of the above problem?
The Overall Objective of the Book
Our overall mission is to produce collaboratively a value adding
publication which will promote the discipline (both theory and practice) and
will be valued in the relevant target audiences as a reference edition.
This general mission inspires several objectives. The ultimate objective of
the book is to deliver a high quality practical-oriented book that will help
business units as well as organizations and institutions to deploy knowledge
management effectively.
We have a clear editing strategy.
To go beyond the traditional discussion on verbalisms of Knowledge
Management
To provide a reference book for the area with main emphasis to be
paid on practical aspects.
To make a learning oriented edition, in other words the proposed
book can be seen as a practical guide for everybody interested in applying
Knowledge Management.
The Target Audience
In the Learning Industry five sub-segments are highlighted:
Students enrolling in KM courses
Special Interest Groups on KM: e.g. Associations, Public Bodies etc
Adult Trainers
Educational Policy Makers (with special interest in KM )
Respectively in the Business Market five more sub segments are
distinguished:
Managers (interested in implementing KM)
KM Specialists
Knowledge Officers
Human Resources Management officers
Business Consultants
IT managers
Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
SECTION A: ARTIFACT LEVEL
Managing Documents
Managing Metadata and Semantics
Managing Taxonomies
SECTION B: INDIVIDUAL LEVEL
Constructing Yellow pages of experts
Managing individual profiles
Managing Tacit Knowledge
SECTION C: TEAM LEVEL
Managing Workflows
Managing Discussion Forums
Exploiting Collaborative Work Systems
Managing Team Dynamics
SECTION D: ORGANIZATIONAL LEVEL
Building Best Practices
Developing Knowledge Maps / Ontologies
Managing Competencies
Managing Organizational Memory
SECTION E: INTER - ORGANIZATIONAL LEVEL
Managing inter-organizational network
Managing Projects
Future Technologies
Appendixes:
Commercial Vendors of KM products
R&D funded projects in KM
Interviews of 2 Gurus of KM
Titles and descriptions of Team Assignments
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before Oct, 15,
2006, a 2-5 page manuscript proposal clearly explaining the mission and
concerns of the proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be
notified by November 1, 2006 about the status of their proposals and sent
chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be
submitted by January 31, 2007. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a
double-blind review basis. Revised chapters according to specific guidelines
are expected to be submitted by April 15, 2007. The book is scheduled to be
published by Idea Group Inc.,
www.idea-group.com, publisher of the Idea
Group Publishing, Information Science Publishing, IRM Press, CyberTech
Publishing and Idea Group Reference imprints.
Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document):
Miltiadis D. Lytras
Research Academic Computer Technology Insitute, Greece,
E-mail:
lytras@ceid.upatras.gr
Meir Russ
University of Wisconsin - Green Bay, USA
E-mail:
russm@uwgb.edu
Ronald Maier
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
E-mail:
ronald.maier@wiwi.uni-halle.de
Ambjorn Naeve
Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
E-mail:
amb@nada.kth.se
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- Book Announcements
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Dear AOM colleagues,
I think that you will find the following announcement interesting (see press
release below). The initiative brings novel ideas not only to the business
management body of knowledge, but to the process of idea dissemination as
well.
Please feel free to participate. Thank you.
Cristian
Cristian Mitreanu
Founder and Lead Researcher, RedefiningStrategy.com Founder, BizBigPic
3304 N Broadway 235
Chicago, IL 60657, USA
cmitreanu@redefiningstrategy.com
773-610-9132
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A FUNDAMENTAL THEORY OF BUSINESS HAS BEEN DEVELOPED AT LAST Press Release
CHICAGO--August 31, 2006--For the first time in business history, a
fundamental theory of business has been developed. Introduced under the
initiative BizBigPic, the theory provides a comprehensive and dynamic
picture of what happens in business at the fundamental level.
Although business has been studied for over a hundred years, the field has
lacked its most important element, a fundamental theory. As a result, in
order to deal with the business big picture, practitioners and academics
alike have been using a collection of disparate concepts, commonly dubbed as
"business fundamentals," without the support of a unifying platform.
Anchored in the customer's problem solving behavior, a fixed reference
system in the dynamic business environment, the theory introduced by
BizBigPic solves this problem. It provides a unique framework capable of
describing in a wide variety of terms (financial: average margins, sales:
sales cycle length, organization: vertical integration, etc.) the variation
of an organization's business conditions under the influence of the two
fundamental forces, commoditization and innovation.
"An organization is fundamentally healthy when the intended business
approach and the approach resulting from daily operations are aligned
relative to the customer's problem solving behavior," says Cristian
Mitreanu, who developed the theory. "However, this is a highly unstable
state of affairs due to the powerful effect of commoditization. Therefore,
in order to sustain a healthy foundation, organizations must constantly
innovate and adjust their portfolio of offerings and markets. In some cases,
they might even have to change their intended business approach."
Another first is represented by the universal formula for success included
in the theory. A notion traditionally belonging to the domain of corporate
strategy, this formula represents a breakthrough. Its relativity to the
customer's problem solving behavior has facilitated for the first time in
business history the unification of the rational view ("strategy is planned
and implemented top-down") with the adaptive view ("strategy emerges
bottom-up from daily operations"), an unresolved issue that has rendered the
discipline of corporate strategy almost irrelevant over the years.
Rather than using a book as the main tool for idea dissemination, BizBigPic
takes a novel alternative route by using a web-based solution, where the
theory is introduced in 10 chapters (steps). However, unlike the narrated
chapters of a book, these chapters consist only of an axiom and a chart,
inviting readers to flesh out their own stories. To complement their own
business experiences and knowledge, and therefore making the most of the
BizBigPic experience, readers are encouraged to engage in the discussions
supported by the web-based solution (www.bizbigpic.com).
About BizBigPic
BizBigPic is intended to help individuals, entrepreneurs and employees,
achieve enduring success in business, part of their broader quest for a
successful existence. BizBigPic is a way of thinking, a place, and a
community. Its initial stage of development is driven by the introduction of
a fundamental theory of business, which provides individuals with a
comprehensive and dynamic big picture of the business environment.
Cristian Mitreanu, who previously founded the research initiative
RedefiningStrategy.com, founded BizBigPic in August 2006. Visit BizBigPic at
www.bizbigpic.com.
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- Position Announcements
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Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in International Strategic Management
Department of International Business
University of Auckland Business School
Vacancy Number A539-06
As part of the schools ongoing development in the strategy area, The
University of Auckland Business School invites applications for a tenure
track faculty appointment in the area of International Strategic Management
at the Associate Professor or Senior Lecturer level.
Applicants should have a doctoral qualification, with a proven track record
of effective research and teaching. An ability to teach quantitative
research methods at postgraduate level would also be an advantage. For
appointment at the Associate Professor level, a distinguished record of
publications and a well developed research programme would be expected.
The University of Auckland is New Zealands largest university with 40,000
students. Accredited with the AACSB International, Equis and AMBA, The
University of Auckland Business School is New Zealand's leading Business
School with a strong international emphasis and a highly active global
academic network. The School has a strong commitment to diversity and
internationalisation and this is reflected in our staff and student
profiles. The Department of International Business has the equivalent of 9
full-time staff and teaches a broad range of undergraduate, graduate and
executive international business and strategy courses.
The Department's homepage is at
www.intbus.auckland.ac.nz. Further
information is available from Dr. Siah Hwee Ang (email:
s.ang@auckland.ac.nz).
To apply online please visit
www.vacancies.auckland.ac.nz or alternatively
call 09-373 7599 ext 83000.
Please quote the vacancy number. Applications close 31 October 2006.
The University has an equal opportunities policy and welcomes applications
from all qualified persons.
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Tanaka Business School
Imperial College London
Chairs, Readerships, or Lectureships in Finance, Accounting, Organisational
Behaviour, Strategy,
Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Health management, Economics
Imperial College London, recognised as a global leader in science,
technology and medicine, is continuing to make substantial investments to
establish its Tanaka Business School as one of Europes leading providers of
management education. As a result, the Business School is hiring across a
range of subject areas and at all levels. Imperial College London is one of
the world's leading universities, currently ranked 13th in the world top 200
(Times Higher Educational Supplement, October 2005). In 2005, the Imperial
MBA program moved into the top 50 of the worlds MBA programs (2005
Financial Times Ranking of Fulltime MBA Programs).
Tanaka Business School offers a range of postgraduate programs including an
MBA, an EMBA, and a large doctoral program in addition to a growing suite of
executive education programs. Members of the Faculty also teach into various
undergraduate programs in the College. The Business School has three areas
of particular strength. First, building on the Colleges excellence in
engineering and science, the School has a strong focus on innovation and
entrepreneurship including a large and highly successful Innovation Centre
and an Entrepreneurship Centre ranked 2nd in Europe. Second, building on
Imperial Colleges world class medical school, the Business School has a
strong health management group and Health Management Research Centre. Third,
the School has one of the largest groups of finance faculty in Europe with
special expertise in risk and quantitative finance.
Imperial College London is located is located in London, UK, one of the
worlds most important business centres providing faculty with extensive
opportunities for research and consulting. It is served by four major
airports making travel very convenient. The Tanaka Business School is
located at the South Kensington Campus of Imperial College London, one of
the most beautiful areas of London near to Kensington High Street, Hyde
Park, Royal Albert Hall and a range of museums and other facilities.
Successful candidates will have a proven record of international research
excellence and be excellent teachers. Competitive salaries will be offered.
Teaching loads are attractive and teaching activity concentrated to allow
maximum time for research. Applicants with research interests that are
complementary to one of the areas of excellence listed above are
particularly encouraged to apply.
If you are interested in applying for a position please contact Prof. Nelson
Phillips by e-mail at
n.phillips@imperial.ac.uk. Faculty will be available
for informal interviews at the Academy of Management Meetings to discuss
opportunities at Imperial College London.
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Dear Colleagues of the TIM Division,
It was great seeing many of you at the Academy of Management (AOM) meetings
in Atlanta and having the opportunity to THANK YOU in person for all the
support that you are providing to Organizational Research Methods (ORM) as
authors, reviewers, and readers. Those of you who attended the Research
Methods Division business meeting were able to receive updated information
regarding ORM's operations and recent successes. Overall, ORM was highly
visible at the AOM meetings and the number of submissions, prestige, and
reputation of the journal are improving constantly. For example, ORM was one
of only six journals (AMJ, AMR, ASQ, JoM, OBHDP, & ORM) represented at a
panel of editors at the New Doctoral Student Consortium including over 150
doctoral students from all AOM disciplines. Also, ORM had a strong presence
at the OB, HR, Strategy, and Gender and Diversity in Organizations Divisions
Consortia (junior faculty, doctoral students).
Let me provide you with some specific information and updates regarding
ORM:
1. In calendar year 2005, we received about 120 new submissions. In calendar
year 2006, we already received more than 100 new submissions. Please join
me in thanking associate editors Mark Gavin, Dave Ketchen, Chuck Lance,
Karen Locke, and Bob Vandenberg, and editorial assistant Barb Stephens for
countless hours of conscientious and highly professional work.
2. ORM has achieved great visibility as evidenced by its placement in the
top-10 list of most prestigious journals (Zickar & Highhouse, The
Industrial-Organizational Psychologist, 2001). The July 2005 ISI Web of
Knowledge Journal Citation Report placed ORM 27th out of 71 Management
journals with an impact factor of 1.10. Several colleagues told me in
Atlanta that ORM is now being placed in the A-category for journals at
several research-oriented universities. The speed at which ORM has
positioned itself among the group of elite scholarly journals is an
achievement that few publications can claim.
3. In the past year, the number of institutional subscriptions to ORM has
increased from 521 to 836 (about 60% increase). This means that more
researchers are likely to find an ORM article when they conduct an
electronic search via their library's portals.
4. Since January 1, 2005, the average turnaround time from manuscript
submission to authors receiving a decision letter is approximately 50 days
(yes, you read this correctly, turnaround time is just over 6 weeks!). The
vast majority of authors submitting papers to ORM receive comments from 3
reviewers. The acceptance rate is about 10-20%.
5. Starting with the 2007 volume, ORM will increase the number of pages from
the current 500 to about 800. This means ORM will increase the number of
articles published each year from about 20 to about 30. The increase in page
numbers is such that the time lag between acceptance and publication can be
about 1 year or less.
6. We have five special issues underway that are attracting substantial
attention: (a) Nonresponse to Organizational Surveys (guest editors:
Rogelberg & Stanton; to be published in thean, & Ployhart; to be published
in the October 2007 issue), (b) Mediational Inferences (guest editors:
Bergh, DeShon, & Mathieu; to be published in 2008), (c) Determining the
Quality of Qualitative Research (guest editors: Locke, Golden-Biddle, &
Easterby-Smith; to be published in 2008), and (d) Methodological Issues in
Strategic Management Research (guest editors: Ketchen, Boyd, & Bergh; to be
published in 2008). These special issues reflect the broad interests of
ORMs readership including qualitative and quantitative approaches as well
as micro- and macro-level issues.
7. You may have noticed that starting with the January 2006 issue, ORM has
had a new look. First, in order to increase the visibility of each article
published in ORM, the complete citation for each article ap we want to make
sure that citation information is as visible as possible.
Second, as the future of publishing is in many ways electronic, we want to
increase ease of onscreen viewing. So, the new look includes a change of
font to Times, which is easiest to view onscreen as well as easy to transfer
to XML format online.
8. We have revamped ORM's web site (see
http://orm.sagepub.com). If your
library subscribes to ORM, you can download full-text articles (in pdf
format) and conduct searches using various parameters (keywords, author,
etc.). If your library does not subscribe to ORM, please forward the
following link to your librarian showing various subscription options:
http://www.sagepublications.com/2006subscriptioninfo.htm
9. You can receive ORM's table of contents via email about 1 month prior to
the publication of each issue FREE OF CHARGE. For information on how to do
this, please visit
https://online.sagepub.com/cgi/register
10. After a very careful process involving the entire ORM editorial board,
the 2005 Best Article of the Year Award went to Gilad Chen (U. of Maryland),
Paul D. Bliese (U.S. Army Medical Research Unit-Europe), and John E. Mathieu
(U. of Connecticut) for their article titled Conceptual Framework and
Statistical Procedures for Delineating and Testing Multilevel Theories of
Homology (vol. 8, pp. 375-409). Also, after careful deliberations with the
associate editors, the Best Reviewer of the Year Award went to Alex Stewart
(Marquette U.) and Neal Schmitt (Michigan State U.). Both decisions were
extremely difficult given the very large number of highly deserving
nominees.
11. If you are not currently serving as a reviewer for ORM and would like to
serve in this capacity, please fill out the reviewer expertise and contact
form available at:
http://www.sagepub.com/orm_survey
In sum, ORM is doing very well. Please feel free to disseminate the
information included in this message to colleagues and doctoral students.
Also, I encourage you to submit their work to ORMs regular and special
issues. Given our turnaround time of about 6 weeks and increasing
visibility, reputation, and impact, I hope prospective authors will find it
very appealing to continue to send their best methodological work to ORM.
As always, do not hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions of
ideas on how to improve ORM. Thank you again for all your support.
All the best,
Herman Aguinis, Editor
Organizational Research Methods
http://orm.sagepub.com
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Herman Aguinis, Ph.D.
Mehalchin Term Professor of Management
Editor, Organizational Research Methods
http://orm.sagepub.com
The Business School
University of Colorado at Denver and
Health Sciences Center
http://www.cudenver.edu/~haguinis
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