Greetings,
We would like to invite you to join our symposium, sponsored by OMT,
on ‘Citing Behaviors, Ranking Games, and the Myths of Judging Academic
Merit’ on Tuesday, Aug 7 2012 1:15PM - 2:45PM at Sheraton Boston Hotel
in Independence West. Details can be found at:
http://tinyurl.com/JudgingMeritInAcademia
Our two discussants are: Howard Aldrich, U. of North Carolina; Ezra
Zuckerman, MIT.
We have five papers/presentations in this symposium and they are:
(1) The Skewed Few: Does high impact signal quality among journals,
articles and academics in management
Presenter: Joel A.C. Baum; U. of Toronto;
(2) Performance Inflation
Presenter: William H. Starbuck; U. of Oregon;
(3) Are Papers with More Citations of Greater Merit?
Presenter: Jerker C. Denrell; U. of Oxford;
Presenter: Chengwei Liu; U. of Warwick;
(4) How to Overcome Ranking Games
Presenter: Margit Osterloh; U. of Zurich;
Presenter: Bruno S. Frey; U. of Zurich;
(5) Status Multiplicity and Journal Rankings
Presenter: Balazs Kovacs; U. of Lugano;
Presenter: Chengwei Liu; U. of Warwick;
Furthermore, we will report the result of our survey regarding the
best article published in Management Jerker Denrell and I conducted
last summer. We look forward to having you joining our discussion!
Best regards,
Chengwei Liu (U. of Warwick)
Jerker Denrell (U. of Oxford)
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Liu, Chengwei
Assistant Professor of Strategy and Behavoural Scinece
Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
Email:
chengwei.liu@wbs.ac.uk
http://www.wbs.ac.uk/faculty/members/Chengwei/Liu
New research published in PNAS - why we should reward the second best,
ignore the best
More details: http://tinyurl.com/RewardSecondBest