Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Strategic Management, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
The Strategic Management Area at Georgia Tech’s College of Management (COM) seeks Qualified Applicants for their Ph.D. program
Why in Strategic Management? As the integrative discipline in business management, strategy is both interesting and fun. The unifying element of strategy research is driven by answering the question of why do some firms outperform their competitors? To answer this critical question, researchers draw on different disciplines, such as economics and sociology, to study the critical roles that managers, technologies, and business relationships play in determining why some companies do better than others. The Strategy Area at GT focuses on strategy, innovation and entrepreneurship.
Why at Georgia Tech? GT’s Ph.D. program is strongly research oriented, and emphasizes the early involvement of students in research projects with world-wide leading faculty. The Ph.D. program places significant weight on learning outside the classroom. Given the small size of the program, the tutorial-mentor model is the primary educational approach employed. Thus, doctoral students experience significant attention and support by a diverse set of world-class faculty.
At Georgia Tech, the study of strategic management is interdisciplinary and integrative, providing focus in the areas of technology and innovation management, entrepreneurship, and international management. See http://mgt.gatech.edu/fac_research/acad_areas/stg_mgt.html for more information.
Application deadline is January 15th for admission in the following fall semester (August 15th). All relevant financial information, including the application package is online at http://mgt.gatech.edu/programs/phd.html?link=left_info_for.
Open Positions at the Research Assistant Level/PhD fellowships
The Institute of International Marketing and Management (IMM) at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien) is seeking to fill two Research and Teaching Assistant positions, with emphasis on international and cross-cultural management. The successful candidates are supposed to pursue their doctorate as well as support the IMM faculty in research, teaching and administrative work.
Requirements: Candidates must possess a university degree in business administration, psychology or related disciplines; be fluent in English; and have the potential to conduct top quality research. Individuals with an interest in international and cross-cultural management research (cross-border alliances, mergers & acquisitions; leading across cultures; global mindset; etc.) are particularly encouraged to apply. Proficiency in quantitative methods would be a plus.
About the Institute: IMM faculty are accomplished teachers and active researchers. Our colleagues have published in leading academic journals, such as Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, and Journal of International Business Studies, as well as more practitioner-oriented journals and the international business press (e.g., Financial Times). For details see http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/imm
Informal inquiries should be directed to Professor Günter K. Stahl, INSEAD/Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Tel. +33-(0)16072 4177, Email: guenter.stahl@insead.edu Applications should be sent to Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, HR Department, Augasse 2-6, 1090 Vienna, Austria. Ref. 119405
To be considered for the position, the full application (resume, letters of reference and copies of degree certificates) must be received by November 24 2008.
Article 13 is a strategic advisors on risk associated with business responsibility, typically in the areas of governance, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainable development. and is currently looking for senior individuals interested in being associates with economic or financial backgrounds, experienced in environmental and / or social economics.
If you are interested in working with Article 13 please see the areas of consultancy:
If you are interested in joining Article 13's associate base please send your details to: Jane Fiona Cumming at janefionac@article13.com or call +44 (0) 20 8840 4450
Call for Manuscripts – Special Issue of Business Ethics Quarterly
SI Guest Editors Bradley R. Agle, University of Pittsburgh
James J. Chrisman, Mississippi State University
Ronald K. Mitchell, Texas Tech University
Laura J. Spence, Brunel University
The manuscripts are due June 1, 2009.
Topic of the call
Family enterprises i.e., firms in which members of a family exert significant influence through controlling ownership and/or management, are the most common and pervasive form of business organization throughout the world. While most of the small and medium firms are family controlled, founding family members are active in some of the largest firms in the world such as Cargill, Ford, IKEA, and Wal-Mart. In the S&P 500 firms, family enterprises have been found to out-perform their non-family counterparts. Research indicates the long term orientation of family enterprises as these firms endure through multiple generations of leaders and industry life cycles.
Two distinct sub-systems of family and business co-exist in family enterprises, sometimes peacefully, and sometimes not so peacefully. The differences between the family and business systems are fundamental in nature, and as such cause problems in the ongoing social interface within these organizations and among their stakeholders. The incidence of misunderstandings, miscommunications, working at cross-purposes, increased politicization of the work roles, misuse of the natural environment, and other social misalignments increase the incidence of social friction providing a fertile field for ethical dilemmas, theory-of-the-firm-based problems, and environmental impact.
Although important advances have been made in each of these research arenas generally, limited attention has been devoted to exploring stakeholder/ ethics/ environment issues within family-enterprise research and therefore main focus of the call lies on the question: Does family involvement in the firm influence how a firm responds to its stakeholder, ethical, and environmental demands? .
For this special edition of Business Ethics Quarterly, research papers are encouraged that explore one or more points of intersection, that is, how family businesses, and their business families, deal with stakeholder and ethics challenges, some of which may also include implications for the natural environment. Although not exhaustive, questions of special interest center on the following:
What can stakeholder theory contribute to explaining the impact of family involvement in the firm?
How might stakeholder theory develop to clarify the diverse and often unpredictable demands of family involvement?
To what extent can stakeholder research illuminate the role of gender, family mix, differences among generations, in-law relationships, and different forms of family in family firms? For example, where all groups may consider themselves to be legitimate stakeholders - with high power and urgent needs, how does such added complexity among a so-called “definitive” stakeholder mix invoke new stakeholder theory development?
To what extent are there similar or different family- and non-family-enterprise- theories of duty to stakeholders?
What are the unique moral challenges that families in business face and what does extant research have to say about how these challenges are met?
How do existing theories and frameworks of business ethics or corporate social responsibility apply to firms where family members are involved?
What is the role of virtue in the public and private morality found in family enterprise?
How is the ethical blue-print of the founder replicated and evolved through succession in family firms?
To what extent is leaving an ethical legacy a motivator for founding members of family firms?
Do the ethical issues in family firms in developing country contexts differ from those in developed countries? What are the reasons for the difference or lack thereof?
Are family firms more or less ethical than non-family firms and if so in what ways? What are the reasons for the difference or lack thereof?
How do stakeholder, ethical theories and CSR frameworks relate to the environment and sustainable development in firms where family members are involved?
To what extent does being a family-intensive entity influence how environmental sustainability is addressed?
To address these questions, a broad range of submissions is sought, and conceptual and empirical (quantitative or qualitative) contributions that make use of the various perspectives emerging within the stakeholder, business ethics, corporate social responsibility, environmental, and other literatures in relevant fields of inquiry are explicitly encouraged. Normative/ philosophical/ critical and conventional social scientific manuscripts are welcome. Both quantitative and qualitative empirical research is encouraged. Manuscripts should ideally make a contribution that justifies their length, but in any event should not exceed 12,000 words including references, tables, figures, and appendices.
JBE Special Issue on Cross Sector Social Interactions
The Journal of Business Ethics announces the call for papers for a special issue on Cross Sector Social Interactions. The deadline for submission is May 31, 2009. The special issue is jointly edited by Dr. Maria May Seitanidi and Professor Adam Lindgreen.
Purpose
Interactions across sectorial boundaries have intensified over the last years. One of the more recent forms of interactions are cross sector social partnerships (Selsky and Parker, 2005), which involve organisations across different economic sectors—public, nonprofit, and business—that aim to address social issues by providing society with what was traditionally termed ‘public goods’ (Waddock, 1988) such as clean water, clean air, environmental protection, health care, and education.
The aim of this call for papers is to encourage researchers to look at the level of interaction rather than the form of interaction or frame of practice. Focusing on the interactions across organisations and sectors can allow for meaningful comparisons across different frames of practice, organisational forms, industries, sectors, and countries in order to observe emergent patterns.
Specific topics may include, but are not limited to:
A historical overview of cross sector social interactions in each of the four constellations
Theoretical frameworks of formation, implementation, and outcomes of any type of cross sector social interactions (on any of the three different levels of reality)
The role of social interactions across the different sectors as a way of delivering social goods
The measurement of cross sector social interactions on different levels of analysis
Managing cross sector social interactions across different contexts
Theoretical contributions on how best to analyse cross sector social interactions
Cross sector social interactions in different industries
The motivations, processes and dynamics of cross sector social interactions
Critical approaches to develop and assess the impact of cross sector social interactions
Preference will be given to empirical papers (both qualitative and quantitative) although theoretical papers that offer comprehensive frameworks of any type of cross sector social interaction are also welcome. As the Journal of Business Ethics appeals equally to academic and business audience, all submissions should include implications for practitioners.
Submission process
Papers submitted must not have been published, accepted for publication, or presently be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Submissions should be about 6,000 words in length. Copies should be submitted via email Word attachment (in one file including all figures and tables) to both guest editors. To be eligible for review papers must be set up according to the journal’s guidelines. For example, the first page must contain the paper’s title, as well as full contact information details of the authors. For additional guidelines, please see the "Notes for Contributors" from a recent issue of the Journal of Business Ethics, or see the home page. Papers must employ standard English. Suitable papers will be subjected to a double-blind review; hence authors should not identify themselves in the body of the paper.
All submissions to be sent to:
Maria May Seitanidi
PhD Brunel Business School
Brunel University
E-mail: mmayseitanidi@yahoo.com
Call for Proposals: EUROPEAN MANAGEMENT REVIEW - Special Issue
Strategic Dynamics in Industry Architectures: The challenges of Knowledge Integration
Submission due date: January 15, 2009
Guest Editors Stefano Brusoni, Bocconi University Michael G. Jacobides, London Business School Andrea Prencipe, University G. d’Annunzio
Motivation Industries can no longer be taken for granted. As sectors dis-integrate and re-integrate, converge and transform, the question of how exactly economic activities are structured, and what determines the nature of firms’ and sectors’ boundaries evolution becomes more relevant than ever. Firms are increasingly trying to shape the nature of their environment and the ways in which labor is divided in the sector; they try to shape the “rules and roles” through which labor (and knowledge) is divided – i.e. their “industry architectures”.
Research questions
In terms of the existing theoretical apparatus, research has offered key building blocks that provide answers to partial questions to understand the evolution of industry architectures. Researchers from the New Institutional / Transaction Cost economics, for instance, have explained how firms may choose their boundaries. Scholars of technological change have considered how organizations and technologies co-evolve over time. Yet, only recently have we started understanding what shapes the nature of the sectors that we study, and in what are the forces that explain why and how sectors swing between integration and disintegration. Likewise, the link between the boundaries of organizations and the knowledge bases in the sector has been shown to be important in the strategy literature, and it is clear that the boundaries of knowledge and the boundaries of organization are not fully mapped onto each other. However, our understanding of how knowledge becomes integrated in a complex web of relationships in a sector is still in its early stages: we have yet to propose the micro-mechanisms that explain how the structures that integrate knowledge emerge, and how they affect the industries’ prospects, or how they change over time.
This special issue intends to extend and consolidate this growing area of interest. The main interest is on contributions which look at the micro-level processes of knowledge integration and coordination, through changes in the division of labor and power. Questions of interest include, but are not limited to:
Are sectors characterized by one or multiple “industry architectures”, i.e. ways to divide labour between firms and coordinate the knowledge production? How do such architectures emerge, stabilize, and change?
How do sectors get reorganized to accommodate for the diffusion of new bodies of scientific and technological knowledge?
How do the dynamics of knowledge integration relate to the challenges of sectoral change? Other than science and technologies, what role is played by the distribution of power, intra- and inter-organizational conflict in shaping the evolution of sectors?
How do firms get organized to integrate knowledge? How do they identify what to integrate? What are the different options available to them?
What does knowledge integration actually mean? Is there any empirically observable or theoretically relevant distinction between the concepts of knowledge integration and recombination?
Whether at the level of the sector or the firm (or both), who determines and drives the processes through which knowledge becomes integrated? How, when and why do these change?
The submission of empirical papers, whether qualitative or quantitative, exploratory or confirmatory is hereby explicitly encouraged. However, conceptual, theoretical, or modeling papers (with reference to the specific phenomena identified above) will also be considered.
Deadlines and Submission Instructions The deadline for submission of papers is January 15, 2009. Please submit your papers online on the European Management Review website and make sure to follow the Submission Guidelines available at: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/emr/archive/editorials.html
Review Process and Special Issue Conference Papers will be reviewed following the regular European Management Review double-blind review process. It takes an average of four weeks to obtain the first round of reviews.
More Information For additional information, please contact the special issue editors:
Call for Papers - Conference - Sustainable development: a challenge for EU R&D
The European Commission DG Research organises a conference on “Sustainable Development: A Challenge for European Research” on 26-28 May 2009, in Brussels.
For the preparation of this conference, a call for papers has been published with a deadline for submission on 15 January 2009.
Outline of the conference
One of the rationales for and purpose of funding R&D on the EU budget is to serve EU policy needs, while strengthening the scientific and technological basis of the European industry and reinforcing its competitiveness. In view of the strong political will expressed by the European Council to engage on a sustainable path and the priority given to climate change and clean energy, European research is bound to contribute to sustainable development.
Putting European R&D at the service of sustainable development is also needed from a societal point of view. Indeed, there is rising concern about the relationship between science and society. Today's surveys show that Europeans have become less attracted by science or less confident that science brings solutions. If the level of public funding for research is to be maintained and indeed increased, it must be ensured and demonstrated that research is bringing value to the citizens, on substantial and tangible issues beyond competitiveness and jobs.
Coming close to mid-term of FP7 implementation, this 3-day conference will take stock of the progress made so far and identify ways and means for putting the European research system at the service of sustainable development.
With this in mind, the conference will initiate a structured dialogue on how to reform European research to best respond to sustainable development challenges. It will also investigate ways for improving the science-policy link and the relationship between science and society.
Please download the full call for papers providing all necessary information regarding the profile of papers, authors and selection criteria and check the conference website for further updates.
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