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Reminder – Call for Papers: Digital Working Life

Special Issue of Management Revue
Digital Working Life

Guest Editors:
Mikael Ottosson, Lund University (Sweden)
Calle Rosengren, Lund University (Sweden)
Doris Holtmann, Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg (Germany)
Wenzel Matiaske, Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg (Germany)

Working life is undergoing a radical change in which new digital technologies are changing the nature of labour and its organizational forms in a pervasive manner, regardless of whether it concerns qualified professionals or labourers. The framework, which previously regulated the content of work, as well as when, where and how it would be conducted is being reconsidered. A process that presents both challenges and possibilities.

One fundamental aspect of ICT is that it can make employees more accessible to others and allow work to become more available to the employee. Easy access to ICT functions (e.g., email, text and voice messages), for example, enable employees to continue working after leaving the office for the day. This ease of access may have both positive and negative effects. Although much of the research focus to date has concentrated on how ICT may act as demands, stressors or certain characteristics of ICT can enhance work-life balance, employee satisfaction, well-being and productivity.

Another aspect of new digital technologies concerns the manner in which the work process is monitored and controlled. Surveillance in the workplace is not a novelty. Nor is it unreasonable to expect that employers have both rights and reasons to do so. To a certain extent, of course. However, increasing availability of relatively inexpensive and easy to use technology, for example software monitoring programs, enables employers to expand the range and scope of their control over their employees’ activities. The increase in potential methods to track and monitor employee behaviour poses questions that concern where the borders for personal integrity are drawn. Who has the right to personal details, and at what point? In what way does this monitoring affect the social relations between employer and employee in terms of control, autonomy and trust?

Digital technology, in computers, phones or in the “Internet of things” also provides tools that enable the standardization of work on a completely different level than previously. For some workers, we see a degradation and depletion of work, and also that the control of work is increasing; a development that is usually described using the concept of “Digital Taylorism.” How does this development affect the working man or the working class?

In the special issue we would like to discuss our topic in an appropriately broad and interdisciplinary manner. We are particularly interested in questions such as:

  • Virtual work and stress
  • Digital technologies and work-family boundaries
  • Virtual teams and E-leadership
  • Digital Taylorism
  • Virtual work and trust
  • Digital surveillance

This is not an exhaustive list.

Deadline
Full papers for this Special Issue of Management Revue must be submitted by September 30th, 2016. All contributions will be subject to a double-blind review. Papers invited to a ‘revise and resubmit’ are due January 31st, 2017. Please submit your papers electronically via the online submission system at http://www.management-revue.org/submission/ using ‘SI Digital Working Life’ as article section.

Looking forward to hearing from you!
Mikael Ottosson
Calle Rosengren
Doris Holtmann
Wenzel Matiaske

HSU-Doktorandenkurs: Combining Rigor and Relevance with Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA)

Institution: Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg

Lecturer: Jan Dul, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University

Date: 20.10.2016 – 10 a.m. to 15 p.m.

Place: Helmut-Schmidt-Universität, Holstenhofweg 85, 22043 Hamburg

Room: tba

Language of instruction: English

Registration: You can register for the course until 14.10.16 by email to Sven Hauff (hauffs@hsu-hh.de)

Contents:
Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA) is a novel methodology, recently published in Organizational Research Methods (Dul, 2016). Reactions of editors and reviewers of papers that use NCA are very promising. For example, an editor of a 4-star journal said:
“From my perspective, [this NCA paper] is the most interesting paper I have handled at this journal, insofar as it really represents a new way to think about data analyses”.

How does NCA work?
NCA understands cause-effect relations in terms of “necessary but not sufficient”. It means that without the right level of the condition a certain effect cannot occur. This is independent of other causes, thus the necessary condition can be a bottleneck, critical factor, constraint, disqualifier, etc. In practice, the right level of necessary condition must be put and kept in place to avoid guaranteed failure. Other causes cannot compensate for this factor.

Whom is NCA for?
NCA is applicable to any discipline, and can provide strong results even when other analyses such as regression analysis show no or weak effects. By adding a different logic and data analysis approach, NCA adds both rigor and relevance to your theory, data analysis, and publications. NCA is a user-friendly method that requires no advanced statistical or methodological knowledge beforehand. It can be used in both quantitative research as well as in qualitative research. You can become one of the first users of NCA in your field, which makes your publication(s) extra attractive.

What will be discussed in the seminar?
The seminar consists of two parts:

  1. The first part (one hour) is open to anyone who is interested in NCA and its potential value. We will discuss the method and its applications in different management fields.
  2. Immediately afterwards, in the second part (1-3 hours depending on the number of participants) we will discuss the method in more detail. In particular we will focus on the participants’ research areas and datasets. If you are interested in a demonstration of the method on your dataset, please bring your dataset (scores of the variables) on a USB drive (e.g., excel.csv file). Normally, an NCA analysis takes less than 5 minutes to get the main results.

More information:

  • www.erim.nl/nca
  • Dul, J. (2016) Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA): Logic and methodology of “necessary but not sufficient” causality, Organizational Research Methods, 19(1), 10-52.

WiSo-Graduate School UHH: MAXQDA Complete: Transkription, Datenaufbereitung und computergestützte Auswertung

Institution: Graduate School at Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences – Universität Hamburg

Lecturer: Dr. Thorsten Dresing (Audiotranskription Marburg)

Schedule:
Do., 01.12.2016, 09:00 – 15:30 Uhr
Fr., 02.12.2016, 09:00 – 15:30 Uhr

Place: Universität Hamburg, further information in Geventis

Registration: You can register for the course until 30.09.2016 (13 Uhr) via Geventis

Course description:
In diesem Kurs erhalten Sie eine vertiefte Einführung in die Transkription von Interviews, die Aufbereitung anderer Datenarten für und den Umgang mit dem qualitativen Datenanalyseprogramm MAXQDA. Der Fokus des Kurses liegt, neben dem Codieren und Arbeiten mit Memos, auf der Umsetzung von mixed methods Ansätzen im Rahmen wissenschaftlicher Forschungsprojekte. Dieser Kurs vermittelt, welche Funktionen MAXQDA offeriert und wie sich diese im Forschungsprozess für unterschiedlich methodische Vorgehensweise sinnvoll und pragmatisch einsetzen lassen. Es werden Fragen beantwortet wie:

  • Wie verschrifte ich meine Interviews regelgeleitet und synchronisiere die Aufnahmen mit den Transkripten?
  • Wie entwickle ich ein Kategoriensystem induktiv oder deduktiv, ordne Textstellen passend zu und differenziere das Codesystem aus?
  • Wie nutze ich Memos als Forschungswerkzeug sinnvoll für Interpretationsansätze, Case Summarys, Ankerbeispiele, Definitionen und Theorieideen?
  • Wie kann ich meine Analysedurchgänge mit dem Text-Retrieval und Suchwerkzeug gestalten und ggf. interessante Passagen automatisch codieren?
  • Wann helfen Variablen bei der qualitativen Datenanalyse und wie lassen sich selektive Aussagen von bestimmten Personengruppen herausfiltern, um sie bspw. zu kontrastieren?
  • Wie visualisiere ich meine Daten für die Auswertungsphase und den Ergebnisbericht?
  • Wie gestalte ich die Arbeit im Team?

Zielgruppe:

Dieser Workshop richtet sich an Studierende, Promovierende und ProjektmitarbeiterInnen aus den sozialwissenschaftlichen Disziplinen sowie an alle, die sich für die Auswertung qualitativer Daten interessieren. Vorkenntnisse zu MAXQDA werden nicht vorausgesetzt.

Zu beachten:

Bitte bringen Sie für diesen Kurs Ihr Notebook und eine aktuelle Version von MAXQDA mit. Sofern Sie MAXQDA nicht besitzen, können Sie mit der Demoversion arbeiten (allerdings nur einmalig 30 Tage, eine Verlängerung ist nicht möglich). Klären Sie dies bitte vor dem Kursbeginn, bei Fragen schreiben Sie uns eine kurze Nachricht.

Ablauf:

DO, 01.12.2016

09.00 – 09.30: Begrüßung und Vorstellungsrunde, u.a. Eruieren des Erfahrungshintergrundes und Wissenstandes der KursteilnehmerInnen, Aufbau der Rechner usw.

09.30 – 10.30: Grundprinzipien der Transkription und Arbeit in MAXQDA
Angemessene Aufbereitung qualitativer Daten: Transkriptionsregeln, Materialarten
Datensicherung, Datenschutz und rechtlich relevante Aspekte
Analogie zwischen Software- und Papieranalysearbeit
Vier Fenster zum Analysieren und Codieren

10.30 – 10.45: Kurze Pause

10.45 – 12.00: Einführung in die Arbeit mit Codes und Memos
Überblick über methodische Grundlagen und Vielfalt qualitativer
Textanalyse
Offenes Codieren an Beispieldaten
Sinn und Zweck von Memos im Forschungsprozess
Textretrieval als Perspektivenwechsel
Einübung aller Arbeitsschritte mit Aufgabenblatt und Ergebnissicherung

12.15 – 13.15: Mittagspause

13.15 – 14.30: Arbeit mit dem Codesystem
Codes ausdifferenzieren
Codes fusionieren
Einsatz von Farben und Visualisierungen bei der Auswertung

14.30 – 14.45: Kurze Pause

14.45 – 15.30: Suchfunktion und automatisches Codieren
Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer automatisierten, lexikalischen Suche
Code-Matrix-Browser und Segmentmatrix zur Ergebnisgenerierung
Einübung aller Arbeitsschritte mit Aufgabenblatt

FR, 02.12.2016

9.00 – 09.20: Kurzwiederholung und Tagesplan

09.20 – 10.30: Variablen und logische Aktivierung
Variablenliste, Variablen pflegen
Aktivieren via Dokumentvariablen
Sets zur Bündelung von Gruppen

10.30 – 10.45: Kurze Pause

10.45 – 12.00: Kreuztabellen und komplexes Textretrieval
Code in Variable umwandeln
Kreuztabellen nutzen
Ggf. komplexes Textretrieval zur Filterung von Codezusammenhängen

12.00 – 13.00: Mittagspause

13.00 – 14.30: Visualisierungen
MAXMaps, Codeline, Dokumentvergleichsdiagramm, Dokumentportrait
Farben zur Selektion nutzen
Export der Visualisierungen

14.30 – 15.00: Teamwork und Überblick
Organisation der Teamarbeit in MAXQDA, Vergleich von Codierern
Ggf. Summarys und Grid-Tabellen

gegen 15.00: Kursende

Der Referent Thorsten Dresing hat in Marburg Pädagogik und Soziologie studiert und an der Philips-Universität Marburg zum Thema „Entwicklung und Evaluation eines hybriden Onlineseminars zur Textanalyse“ promoviert. Hauptberuflich ist er geschäftsführender Gesellschafter der dr. dresing & pehl GmbH – audiotranskription.de und entwickelt die Transkriptions- und QDA-Software f4 und f4analyse. Freiberuflich ist er seit 14 Jahren Dozent für qualitative Sozialforschung mit dem Fokus auf f4, MAXQDA und qualitativer Inhaltsanalyse.

MREV – Call for Papers: Echoes of an Era – A Century of Organisational Studies

Special Stream of Management Revue (MREV)
Echoes of an Era – A Century of Organisational Studies

Managing Editor:
Wenzel Matiaske, Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg (Germany)

Hundred years ago, Henri Fayols “Administration Industrielle et Générale”, a milestone in the history of organizational thought, was published. This centenary motivates the editors of the Management Revue to launch a stream on the history of organiational studies. In the forthcoming volumes, and rather on an infrequent basis, we would like to publish contributions which not only introduce the reader to one or several, interrelated seminal works of organizational theory, but also provide accompanying commentaries and an analysis of their history of effects.

The reason for this format is, given our discipline’s forgetfulness of history, to provide orientation, which not only serves teaching and young management scholars. While reference to classic thought contributes to scientific advancement in other fields of the social sciences, in our field some research issues are being addressed over and over again – without putting the associated arguments and findings in an adequate historical context. In this respect, addressing the history of thought should be understood as a contribution to the advancement of management research.

We would like to avoid a strict delimitation of the era being addressed. Contributions on contemporaries of Fayol like Frederik Winston Taylor, Frank B. and Lillian Gilbreth or Henry L. Gantt und Karol Adamiecki are as welcome as contributions are on Fayol’s predecessors or successors. By  no means we are exclusively committed to the “engineers of the organisation”; economists, legal scholars and particularly the labour science community and psychologists should also be given due attention. A temporal upper boundary shall nevertheless be the 1970s, when, most notably induced by Alfred D. Chandler, strategic management and the reflection on it started to thrive.

This stream will be open to submissions until the end of 2017 in the first place. It will be maintained and edited by Wenzel Matiaske (Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg, Germany). Submissions shall accord with the formatting guidelines of the Management Revue. Please submit your manuscripts electronically via our online submission system using “SI Organisation Studies” as article section.

Looking forward to your contribution!
Wenzel Matiaske

Management Revue – Socio-Economic Studies – Vol. 27, Issue 3

3rd Issue 2016
Management Revue – Socio-Economic Studies, Volume 27

Open Issue
Contents

Per V. Freytag, Pia Storvang
Dynamics of a facilitator’s role: Insights from the Danish construction industry
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Christiane Rau, Anne-Katrin Neyer, Agnes Schipanski, Fiona Schweitzer
A long way home: How an intra-organizational innovation network overcomes its political boundaries
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Gary Florkowski, Miguel R. Olivas-Luján
Predicting HR’s involvement and influence in strategic decision-making
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Thorsten Jochims
Social reciprocity as a critical success factor for small and mid-size enterprises: Work relationships as reflections of social exchange structures
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Call for Papers

Digital Working Life
Guest Editors:
Mikael Ottosson & Calle Rosengren, Lund University (Sweden)
Doris Holtmann & Wenzel Matiaske, Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg (Germany)

Demands in the modern workplace
Guest Editors:
Sascha Ruhle, Johannes Siegrist, Stefan Süß & Eva-Ellen Weiß, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (Germany)

Post-Growth Organization
Guest Editors:
Matthias Rätzer & Ronald Hartz Technical University Chemnitz (Germany)
Ingo Winkler, University of Southern Denmark

VHB ProDok: Experimental Research in Accounting (October 31-November 3, 2016)

Institution: VHB ProDok

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Markus C. Arnold (Universität Bern)

Date: 31. Oktober – 3. November 2016

Place: Harnack-Haus, Tagungsstätte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Ihnestr. 16-20, 14195 Berlin, http://www.harnackhaus-berlin.mpg.de/

Registration: Please send your registration by Email to doktorandenprogramm@vhbonline.org

Abstract:
The purpose of this course is to provide broad exposure to the research opportunities available using experimental data to explore management and financial accounting topics. Therefore, this course covers recent experimental studies from financial and managerial accounting areas that apply behavioral decision theory, psychology, and economics to address a variety of accounting research questions. This includes published research, as well as working papers, mainly from leading accounting researchers in the field.

The goals of this course are

  • to familiarize students with recent experimental research in accounting,
  • to help students develop the skills necessary to critically evaluate such research,
  • to help students find the right research method for their question and to challenge the limits of the experimental research method
  • to help students develop rigorous experimental designs for conducting their own research.

Further information

VHB ProDok: Design and Application of Modern Heuristics (October 10-13, 2016)

Institution: VHB ProDok

Lecturer: Franz Rothlauf (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Information Systems and Business Administration)

Date: 10.-13. Oktober 2016

Place: Johannes-Gutenberg-University, Jakob-Welder-Weg 9, 55128 Mainz

Registration: Please send your registration by Email to doktorandenprogramm@vhbonline.org

Abstract:
Modern heuristics like evolutionary algorithms, genetic programming, variable neighborhood search, tabu search, simulated annealing, and others are widely applied to large, difficult, or realistic optimization problems, for which efficient classical optimization methods are not available. Unfortunately, many text books teach such methods by providing detailed descriptions of the functionality of single examples of modern heuristics neglecting the underlying and common concepts. As a result, the design and application of modern heuristics is often not a systematic task but a result of repeated trial and error. Applicants apply textbook approaches and are wondering why they do not perform well when used for problems of realistic size or complexity.

This course takes a different approach. It teaches the basic, method-independent principles and design guidelines of modern heuristics and how they can be used to systematically develop superior heuristic optimization methods for problems of choice.

Further information

VHB ProDok: Empirical Accounting Research (September 13-16, 2016)

Institution: VHB ProDok

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Joachim Gassen (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Date: 13. bis 16. September 2016 in Berlin

Place: Berlin

Registration: Please send your registration by Email to doktorandenprogramm@vhbonline.org

Abstract:
This course focuses on empirical archival accounting research, covering theoretical, methodological and technical aspects of this research program. The course concentrates on financial accounting issues but also touches on some auditing topics. After this course, participants should

  • have a clear understanding about the theoretical foundations of positive and capital market-based financial accounting research,
  • understand the methodological approaches to and common pitfalls of empirical archival research designs,
  • have acquired information about how to execute empirical archival studies, including the concept, usability and inter-operability of different data sources, like Compustat, CRSP, Worldscope, Datastream and I/B/E/S,
  • and, based on their own research proposal, have received constructive feedback on how to design and execute a viable study in the area of empirical financial accounting research.

Further information

VHB ProDok: Behavioral Decision Making in Business Research (September 27-30, 2016)

Institution: VHB ProDok

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Christian D. Schade (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Date: 27. bis 30. September 2016 in Berlin

Place: Harnack-Haus, Berlin, Ihne-Str. 16-20, 14195 Berlin, www.harnackhaus-berlin.mpg.de

Registration: Please send your registration by Email to doktorandenprogramm@vhbonline.org

Abstract:
Part of business research is moving away from the assumption of homo economicus and rational decision making. Consequently, decision making of consumers, investors, managers, entrepreneurs etc. is now often modelled differently than it has been only few years ago. Whereas applying approaches of normative decision theory has been the standard and still is in some fields, many researchers are now taking into account replicable and systematic features of actual behavior that are underlying the models of behavioral decision and game theory.

After this course, participants will understand this shift in paradigm, know the basic approaches of behavioral decision and game theory, will be able to understand research papers in those fields, and will be able to develop research ideas in their fields of interest, based on behavioral approaches.

Further information

HSU-Doktorandenkurs: Measuring Preferences using Conjoint Analytic Methods and Advanced Compositional Approaches

Institution: Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg/Syddansk Universitet, Sønderborg (SDU), Denmark

Lecturer: Prof. Martin Meißner, Department of Environmental and Business Economics, SDU

Date: 01.12.2016, 09:00-17:00 (incl. breaks)

Place: Helmut-Schmidt-Universität, Holstenhofweg 85, 22043 Hamburg, Aula-Gebäude, Raum 3

Language of instruction: English

Registration: Non-members of the Helmut-Schmidt-Universität may click here firstly to create an HSU-Ilias-account, and secondly here to join the course.

Contents:
The participants of this course develop a sound understanding of the benefits of using conjoint analytic preferences measurement approaches and alternative advanced compositional approaches. Participants gain practical experience of using conjoint-analytic methods, and develop a better understanding of the value of measuring preferences.

The course starts with introducing the basic concepts behind the measurement of stated preferences, specifically focusing on conjoint analysis. The most often used approaches, i.e. traditional conjoint analysis, adaptive conjoint analysis and choice-based conjoint analysis are introduced. We deliberate on advantages and disadvantages of the approaches and also discuss advanced compositional approaches, like pairwise-comparison based preference measurement and the adaptive self-explicated approach. During the workshop we will further talk about all the important stages of designing a preference measurement study. We pay special attention to the types of research questions that conjoint analysis can answer. We also discuss the most important questions you should answer before setting up your preference measurement/conjoint study: What is the optimal choice of attributes and attribute level? What is a good experimental design? How should I design my survey design and present potential choice scenarios? How do I analyze the results?

Participants will have the opportunity to use Sawtooth Software on their own laptops and build their own conjoint analysis survey during the course. Based on this experience, participants will be able to improve the planning of their own future experiments.

Recommended literature and pre-readings:

  • Bradlow, Eric T. (2005), “Current Issues and a ‘Wish List’ for Conjoint Analysis,” Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, 21 (4-5), 319-323.
  • Hauser, John R. and Vithala Rao (2003), “Conjoint Analysis, Related Modeling, and Applications,” in Advances in Marketing Research: Progress and Prospects, in Marketing Research and Modeling: Progress and Prospects, Wind, Jerry and Paul Green (eds.), New York: Springer, 141-168.
  • Huber, Joel (1997), “What We Have Learned from 20 Years of Conjoint Research: When to Use Self-Explicated, Graded Pairs, Full Profiles or Choice Experiments,” Sawtooth Software Conference Proceedings, Sequim, WA., 243-256.
  • Scholz, Sören W., Martin Meissner, and Reinhold Decker (2010), “Measuring Consumer Preferences for Complex Products: A Compositional Approach Based on Paired Comparisons,” Journal of Marketing Research, 47 (4), 685-698.