Apologies for cross postings....
Colleagues-
A friendly reminder... the deadline for paper submissions for the PDW on
"Quality in Strategy Research" is July 1st. Please bring this to the
attention of your colleagues and doctoral students. It looks to be a great
session and we encourage your participation! The original call is posted
below; paper submissions to Brian Silverman (
Silverman@rotman.utoronto.ca).
Best regards-
Rachelle Sampson
Call for PDW Participants:
?What is quality in strategy research??
Academy of Management Meetings
Montreal, Canada
Saturday, August 7th
Part 1 (open to all): 1:30pm-3pm
Part 2 (requires pre-registration): 3pm-6pm
Le Palais Des Congres, 516A
Sponsored by the BPS Division
The strategy field encompasses a diverse set of research perspectives and
topic areas. This diversity is a strength of the field, but it also poses a
challenge to scholars in strategy: It is often unclear how various
literatures relate and why certain papers are considered exemplars of high-
quality strategy research. The upcoming article in Strategic Organization,
?Recognizing and Encouraging High Quality Research in Strategy,? puts forth
a framework for thinking about and evaluating the quality of strategy
research. Motivated by this call to action, this PDW has three central
goals: (1) to consider the question of what is quality in strategy research;
(2) apply the framework to current working papers as a means to provide
feedback on junior faculty work; and (3) critique and refine this framework.
This two-part, highly interactive PDW will bring together a group of junior
faculty and doctoral students with mid-career and senior strategy scholars
to both discuss and apply quality benchmarks. The first part of the PDW will
begin with a panel involving senior scholars in strategy to discuss and
debate the question of what is quality in strategy research and the value of
quality ?metrics? in evaluating research. (This panel is open to all Academy
attendees and requires no pre-registration. Confirmed panelists include
Witold Henisz, Anita McGahan, Hayagreeva Rao, and Jan Rivkin.) Following the
panel, registered participants will meet in ?roundtable? format to apply the
framework to their respective working papers. Each roundtable discussion
will be led by two of the PDW workshop facilitators, listed below. We will
conclude with a discussion of the framework and the value of such criteria
in moving the field forward. Our focal audience forthe paper workshop is
junior faculty with working papers close to journal submission. We also
welcome doctoral students who wish to participate in the discussion on the
quality criteria and gain experience in the review process.
We are now soliciting submissions for the paper development workshop. This
workshop will provide an opportunity to both receive high quality feedback
on working papers and to discuss and debate the merits of a framework to
think about quality in strategy research. Hands-on experience applying
quality criteria will both add structure to the paper discussions as well as
facilitate a richer discussion of the quality criteria, allowing greater
refinement. At the end of the session, participants will have not only a set
of comments and discussion on their working papers, but also exposure to a
set of tools that can be applied in both reviewing and writing future work.
In order to ensure high quality feedback and discussion, the paper workshop
component (3pm-6pm) will be limited to 30 participants. Submissions should
be sent via email to Brian Silverman (
Silverman@rotman.utoronto.ca), by July
1st, 2010. Papers should be full working papers, but need not be under
review. We encourage submissions from a diversity of theoretical and
disciplinary perspectives as well as both empirical and theoretical
contributions.
We look forward to your submissions and participation!
Rachelle Sampson & Brian Silverman
Part 1: PDW Panel (1:30pm-3pm)
Panelists:
-Witold Henisz, U Pennsylvania, Wharton
-Anita McGahan, U Toronto, Rotman
-Hayagreeva (Huggy) Rao, Stanford U, GSB
-Jan Rivkin, Harvard Business School
Part 2: PDW paper workshop (3pm-6pm)
Facilitators:
-Juan Alcacer, HBS
-Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, HBS
-Witold Henisz, Wharton
-Anne Marie Knott, Washington U
-Joanne Oxley, U Toronto
-Jan Rivkin, HBS
-Peter Roberts, Emory
-Michael Ryall, U Toronto
-Rachelle Sampson, U Maryland
-Brian Silverman, U Toronto
_______________________________
Rachelle C. Sampson
RH Smith School of Business
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-1815
Ph: (301) 405-7658
Fax: (301) 314-1023
rsampson@rhsmith.umd.edu
www.rhsmith.umd.edu/faculty/rsampson