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2nd Paris International Conference on Education, Economy & Society

Paris (France), Hotel Concorde La Fayette, 21-24 July 2010

This Conference will be a forum, discussion and networking place for academics, researchers, professionals, administrators, educational leaders, policy makers and industry representatives interested in Education. All areas of Education are invited, as are economic, political, cultural and social themes relating to Education. The languages of the conference are English and French. The Conference will be held at the Hotel Concorde La Fayette, in central Paris. For further information and registration, please visit the conference website.
Contact: Paris-Conference@analytrics.org

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2010 Ethnography Conference

1st-3rd September in London at Queen Mary, University of London.

The theme is Work Organisations and Ethnography.

Please see the attached call for papers for more information or visit www.liv.ac.uk/ethnography where online registration is available.

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1st September 2010

Mark Freels Session will be part of our Introductory Session of our “Innovation for Growth Programme”. I attached a flyer specifically for this event and an overall brochure for the “Innovation for Growth” programme for the next couple of months. Further information on the day is also available on http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/departments/Entrep/Projects/ifg/innovationandsmes/
 

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Early Career Scholar Workshop: New Frontiers in Innovation

13th - 14th September 2010 at Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge

This is an intensive 1.5 day workshop for early career scholars working on the frontiers of innovation research. The aim of the workshop is to help researchers develop their work for journal submission or revision through presentation and discussion. The goal of the workshop is to improve work prior to publication, so papers must not be accepted by a journal.Attendees will benefit from feedback and comments provided by leading scholars in the field (e.g. Ammon Salter, Alan Hughes, Martin Kilduff, Bruce Tether, Paul Nightingale, Jaideep Prabhu, Andy Cosh, Mike Wright). There is also an opportunity to meet editors of top journals, as well as exchange ideas with fellow researchers who sharing common interests.
For further information please view the event flyer.

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A week of events bringing together leading academics, industrialists, policy makers to address the evolving challenges facing service education, research, practice and policy.

21 - 26 September 2010

The service sector now accounts for 75 percent of the labour force in the US and the UK and more than 50 percent in Brazil, Russia, Japan and Germany. The dramatic growth of the service sector is changing the nature of organisations. However, it is becoming apparent that there is a lack of research and knowledge in the area of service to help address the challenges these changes are bringing about.
For further information please visit IfM Website here.

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The Grand Challenge Summit Meeting

22 September 2010, 12.30 – 17.30, part of the Grand Challenge in Service week at the University of Cambridge

You and your colleagues are invited to join us in Cambridge, UK for the Grand Challenge Summit meeting on the afternoon of Wednesday 22 September 2010. The summit, which is designed to be the highlight of the Grand Challenge in Service week, will consist of three parts:
·         First international delegations will be exhibiting the latest developments in services research, policy and practice. Research groups, Government agencies and businesses will all be invited to participate in this poster display.
·         Second, we will hear from three plenary speakers, each of whom will focus on global trends in services from specific perspectives. Professor Andy Neely, AIM Research/Cambridge Service Alliance will talk about his latest research into the servitization of manufacturing, while senior speakers from BAE Systems and IBM will talk about international business developments in services.
·         Finally, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge will join the proceedings to launch officially the Cambridge Service Alliance. Following the Summit is the Grand Challenge week gala dinner at Christ’s College, limited places are available.

Please visit the website to book your place, or contact Nick Mann for further information T: +44 (0)1223 748263, E: nm402@cam.ac.uk.

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Roundtable and Townhall Meeting on Service Research

23 September 2010, part of the Grand Challenge in Service Week at the University of Cambridge

This one-day event will bring together academics, consultants and industry practitioners to ensure that service research continues to grow and impact upon practice and future research. It will be a valuable opportunity to discuss the key issues from a broad scientific perspective.

During the event, service scholars globally will be present key issues in knowledge production and knowledge transfer in service from their disciplinary perspectives. There will then be an interactive discussion with all participants after each presentation and in the afternoon during the Townhall meeting.

At this event, we also hope to initiate the first ever global alliance between service researchers, bringing individuals and centres around the world into a federated alliance to increase the dissemination and impact of our work, as well as develop an agenda for global collaborations. We believe that coming together, we can achieve a global impact and hope you will join us in the first meeting to make this vision a reality.

Featured speakers include
·         Professor Ralph Badinelli, Virginia Tech
·         Professor Robert Lusch, University of Arizona
·         Professor Linda Macaulay, University of Manchester
·         Professor Scott Sampson, Brigham Young University
·         Professor Stephen Vargo, University of Hawaii
·         Dr Paul Maglio, IBM Research

The event will be moderated and chaired by Professor Irene Ng, AIM Services Fellow.

The Roundtable and Townhall meeting is part of the Grand Challenge in Service week. Please visit the website for further details.
We hope to have the pleasure of welcoming you to Cambridge in September 2010. If you would like any further information, please Nick Mann T: +44 (0)1223 748263, E: nm402@cam.ac.uk.

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Forum on Markets and Marketing: Extending Service-Dominant Logic

September 2010

AIM Services Lead Fellow Professor Irene Ng will be co-chairing the Forum on Markets and Marketing: Extending Service-Dominant Logic (FMM 2010) with Professor Robert Lusch and Professor Steve Vargo which will be held between 23 and 26 September 2010 at the University of Cambridge.

Attached you may find a final call for proposals/papers for the Forum. Please be also advised that there will be three scholarships available for doctoral students that will pay for their registration fee and lodging.
See the website for further information.

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Call for submissions to a Gender, Work and Organization Special Issue on

Gender, diversity and inclusion in professions and professional organizations

30th September 2010

The professions have historically suffered from poor records on gender, diversity and inclusion, with many professional associations formally excluding women well into the 20th century. Of course, over the last 30 years, in the context of broader economic, social and legislative changes cross nationally, we have witnessed undoubted progress.

For further information please check the call flyer.

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The Role of Universities and Other Key Stakeholders in Knowledge Transfer by Thursday 30th September 2010

Although significant work exists in incremental innovation, research on radical innovation is not as substantial and there appears to be little synthesis of the research that does exist. Much research is focused on high-tech companies, however, the arts and other creative industries also have much to offer. There are also many links with the basic physical and biological sciences, and with disciplines such as economics, geography, psychology, sociology, and business/management that study the factors that inhibit/facilitate innovation.

For further information please check the call flyer.

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Lancaster University Management School Executive Masterclass: Linking HR strategy to Business Model Change

6th – 7th October  2010 (starting the evening of the 6th October)

This opening Masterclass acts as capstone module, introducing the strategic business issues that should also drive the two other modules.  Drawing upon the concepts introduced in the new book; Leading HR, the course aims to assist participants to develop a more strategic Human Resource function within their organisation.
Prior to attending the course participants will be provided with access to dedicated video resources and our bespoke analytical tools, and asked to audit their current business model and people strategy within their organisation. During the course participants will be provided with a range of audit tools that can then be used as a basis to determine how effective their current strategy is and what needs to be undertaken to improve the strategy. For further information please visit: www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/research/centres/hr/masterclass

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Call for papers Special Issue on Operations Management in the Public Sector

The pressure to improve the productivity and performance of public services has led to many calls from industrialists, management consultants and policy officers for the application of operations management practices to the public sector.

Papers should use empirical data to develop theoretical and conceptual ideas which, for example, help to explore the degree to which the concepts developed in operations management are really context-free.  Papers should challenge, empirical or theoretical, operations management, drawing if appropriate on other disciplines, to present new frameworks and models of operations management for public service.For further information please visit the Call Flyer.

 

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The Pfadkolleg Research Center, located at the School of Business & Economics of the Freie Universität Berlin and a member of the Dahlem Research School, offers scholarships for up to 15 doctoral students from April 2011, for a maximum period of three years.
 
The object of the Research Center is to explore the processes of path dependence, path breaking and path creation within and between organizations in the context of the theory of path dependence. A particular focus for the next cohort of students will be the investigation of path-dependent development of individual as well as systemic competences. The director of the Center is Prof. Georg Schreyögg.

The scholarships will be awarded to domestic and foreign graduates of business studies as well as other social sciences with an interest in persistent processes.

Please visit the homepage of the Center at www.pfadkolleg.de for further information. Complete applications must be submitted by October 31, 2010 to pfadkolleg@wiwiss.fu-berlin.de

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Lancaster University Management School Executive Masterclass: Building Organisation Design Capability

10th- 11th November 2010 (starting the evening of the 10th November).

This Masterclass aims to help participants determine what is required to integrate organisation design into their business model to become a robust company with the ability to adapt and restructure effectively and efficiently to meet the demands of a changing environment. For further information please visit: www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/research/centres/hr/masterclass
 
 

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Journal of Management Studies: Professions and institutional change

Guest Editors: Daniel Muzio (University of Leeds), David Brock (Ben-Gurion University) and Roy Suddaby (University of Alberta)

There is a growing awareness of the critical role that professions play in advanced economies. Professionals and professional service firms are key advisors, analysts, defenders and developers of the major institutions that underpin capitalist economies. As gatekeepers to key financial institutions, the professions influence both the success and failure of capital markets.

For further information regarding this call please check the call flyer

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Lancaster University Management School Executive Masterclass: Engaged to Perform

12th -13th January 2011 (starting the evening of the 12th January).

This Masterclass aims to help participants identify and address the gaps in their employee engagement strategy and determine how to sustain engagement in a changing environment.  The Centre has been involved in advanced work in this area, using both survey analytics and the design and conduct of engagement strategies.  In addition to building a better understanding of the current measures of employee engagement scales, the Masterclass is designed for those who know they need to dig beneath the rhetoric and develop robust engagement strategies. For further information please visit: www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/research/centres/hr/masterclass
 

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2ND International Conference on Path Dependence

March 3-4, 2011

The theory of path dependence is attracting increasing attention. A considerable number of scholars have been using the theory for the study of historical imprints, escalating dynamics and organizational inertia in different fields and on different levels. The conference is organized by the Path Dependence Research Centre (Pfadkolleg) of the Freie Universität Berlin. It aims at providing a platform for the discussion of most recent path-related research. The discussions are expected to focus on issues of extending path theory as well as studies of path-dependent phenomena. Conceptual as well as empirical papers from different fields are welcome: organization theory, organizational behaviour, strategic management, human resource management, marketing, innovation and entrepreneur¬ship. Apart from the field of business studies, the organizers encourage contributions from related disciplines, such as economics, geography, sociology or business history.

For further information please check the call flyer.

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Fifth Global Sourcing Workshop

14 - 17  March 2011

Courchevel 1850, France

Following the success of the past Global Sourcing Workshops, we are pleased to release this Call for Papers for the Fifth Global Sourcing Workshop which will be held March 14-17, 2011 in Courchevel 1850, France.

The workshop will focus on Global Sourcing with a specific interest in practices that improve firm’s performance and those that affect communities and societies. This workshop aims to bring together viewpoints from various disciplines, including IB, Strategy, OM, OB and IS on global sourcing of IT, Business and Knowledge Processes and Innovation.

For further information please check the call flyer.

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29th International Labour Process Conference: University of Leeds, 5th - 7th April 2011

The International Labour Process Conference is one of the longest established and best known forums for the analysis of all aspects of work and employment. As it approaches its 30th anniversary, ILPC has earned a reputation as a cornerstone of empirical research and cutting edge theoretical debate within the labour process and sociology of work. Every year, the conference brings together academics and policy makers from sociology, business and management studies, industrial relations, organizational analysis and a range of other disciplines to discuss developments in the field, present their research and initiate new collaborations. 

For further information please check the call flyer.

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