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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.

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

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.

HSU-Doktorandenkurs: “Open Access und Forschungsdatenmanagement in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften” (Herbst 2016)

Institution: Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg/Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften (ZBW)

Lecturer:
Olaf Siegert, Open-Access-Beauftragter der ZBW
Sven Vlaeminck, ZBW-Forschungsdatenmanager

Date: 03.11.2016, 10:00-15:00 (incl. lunch break)

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

Language of instruction: German

Registration: Der direkte Kursbeitritt erfolgt unter diesem Link. Wer nicht Angehöriger der Helmut-Schmidt-Universität ist, lege sich zuvor bitte unter diesem Link ein Konto auf dem Ilias-System der HSU an.

Contents:
Der erste Teil des Doktorandenkurses behandelt das Thema Open Access. Da dieser Bereich je nach Wissenschaftsdisziplin bestimmte Besonderheiten aufweist, wird neben der grundsätzlichen Einführung in das Thema und seiner wichtigsten Aspekte zunächst speziell auf die Publikationskultur in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften eingegangen. Darüber hinaus wird die wissenschaftspolitische Debatte rund um das Thema beleuchtet. Des weiteren geht es um die praktische Relevanz und das Ausmaß von Open Access in der derzeitigen Publikationslandschaft. Abschließend werden die Open-Access-Angebote der ZBW kurz vorgestellt.

Der zweiten Teil des Kurses beschäftigt sich mit dem Thema Forschungsdatenmanagement – einem Thema, was für Forschungsförderer und Fachgesellschaften zunehmend an Wichtigkeit gewinnt. Nach einer Klärung, was unter Forschungsdaten und Forschungsdatenmanagement zu verstehen ist, thematisiert der Vortrag wie Datenmanagementpläne aufgebaut sein sollten und geht dabei auch auf aktuelle Richtlinien von Forschungsförderern ein. Darüber hinaus werden Hinweise für eine sinnvolle Dokumentation von Forschungsdaten gegeben und dargelegt, was für Möglichkeiten derzeit existieren um selbst erstellte Forschungsdaten sicher zu speichern und ggf. für eine Nachnutzung zur Verfügung zu stellen.

Reminder – Call for Papers: Post-Growth Organization

Special Issue of Management Revue
Post-Growth Organization

Guest Editors:
Matthias Rätzer, Technical University Chemnitz, Germany
Ronald Hartz, Technical University Chemnitz, Germany
Ingo Winkler, University of Southern Denmark

For a couple of years now growth-driven societies have been in a permanent state of crisis. Since 2007 the global financial crisis and its aftermath are challenging our ideas of growth, well-being, consumption and work within global capitalism. Consequently, critical scholars in management and organization studies have begun to advocate alternative forms of organization and to problematize the collective imagination that ‘there is no alternative to growth’ (Parker et al. 2014; Atzeni 2012).

One important analytical dimension within the search for alternatives relates to the limits of growth in its economic, ecological and social dimension. For example, Meadows et al. (2004) explicate that a finite (world) system cannot handle an everlasting orientation toward growth without running into a collapse. Hirsch (1976) argues that social rise in a stratified society smolders, leading to social imbalances in the long term. Several authors discuss economic restrictions under the name of de-growth (Georgescu-Roegen 1977; Latouche 2009; Martínez Alier et al. 2010; Schneider et al. 2010; Kallis 2013). Schneider et al. (2010) point towards unfulfilled expectations in the context of creating win-win-situations and question the possibility of sustainable growth through technological and efficiency improvements. Relative to the social context, others discuss the label steady-state-economy, which challenges the relationship between growth and labor, solvency and consolidated public finances (Daly 1972, 1973; Lawn 2011; Blauwhof 2012).

However, there exist only few contributions discussing organizational alternatives to an orientation toward growth (Cheney et al. 2014). Some authors address growth neutral enterprises (Bakker et al. 1999; White/White 2012). Others note that neither governments nor private sector executives have any incentives supporting the development of a post-growth environment (e.g. Latouche, 2006; Ayres, 2008; Martínez Alier 2009). Therefore, the specific aim of this special issue is to substantiate the debate on post-growth, steady-state and de-growth from an organizational perspective. How can organizations respond to the limits of economic growth? How can organizations, from a post-growth perspective, promote their social worth as opposed to their monetary worth? How can organizations implement the elements of a post-growth economy, such as cutting-down and slowing down, a balance between sufficiency and dependency on consumption, institutional innovations for the society, the environment and regional economy (Paech, 2016)?

In addressing post-growth organizations (PGOs), we assume alternative organizations, featuring individual autonomy and respect, an orientation towards solidarity and cooperation, and responsibility to the future (Parker et al., 2014) to constitute a fertile ground for PGOs. Furthermore, we could imagine PGOs to develop from associations, growth neutral enterprises, co-operations, solidarity organizations, grass-root movements or even ‘traditional’ enterprises. Eventually, we do not restrict our focus on PGOs to the economic domain, but also take social and ecologic concerns, such as social entrepreneurs, into account. We call for contributions discussing different perspectives on PGOs, investigating their characteristics and limits. Furthermore, we embrace contributions investigating the range and coverage of PGOs as an organizational possibility in a future, post-growth society.

The contributions to this special issue should address one or more of the following questions:

  • What characterizes the organization and the management of ‘post-growth organizations’ (PGOs)?
  • Which role do the principles of autonomy, solidarity and responsibility play in PGOs? What kind of problems, contradictions and conjoint amplification are observable regarding these principles?
  • Do PGOs enable us to cure some of the organizational ills created by a narrow focus on economic growth?
  • What are the limits and prospects of PGOs in the transformation of capitalism?
  • What organizational practices, tools and instruments are important in PGOs (e.g. accounting practices, compensation practices, decision making, regulations of working time, work-life balance, forms of participation etc.)?
  • Is it possible to turn traditional organizations into PGOs?
  • Which strategies (e.g. overcoming of externally defined difficulties, internal processes of storytelling, micro politics, adjustment of power) can be identified in the constitution and management of PGOs and which practices in PGOs are working well and which are not?
  • This is not an exhaustive list.

Deadline
Potential contributors to the Special Issue of Management Revue are encouraged to submit an abstract of 1-2 pages before 30 September 2016 electronically via the online submission system at http://www.management-revue.org/submission/ using ‘Post-Growth Organization’ as article section. Contributors will receive feedback and an invitation to submit a full paper by the end of October 2016.

Full papers must be submitted by 31 March 2017. All contributions will be subject to a double-blind review. Papers invited to a ‘revise and resubmit’ are due 31 August 2017.

Looking forward to hearing from you!
Matthias Rätzer
Ronald Hartz
Ingo Winkler

UniWiND-Tagung: 22. & 23.09.2016 an der TU Dresden: Karrieren nach der Promotion. Übergänge zeigen, gestalten, ermöglichen“

Eine Promotion eröffnet viele Karrierewege – sowohl in der Wissenschaft als auch im nicht-wissenschaftlichen Bereich. Für die akademische Laufbahn ist die Promotion unverzichtbar. Aber auch auf dem nicht-akademischen Arbeitsmarkt genießt die Promotion in Deutschland einen hohen Stellenwert, insbesondere wenn die Ansprüche an forschungs- und wissenschaftsbasiertes Denken und Arbeiten hoch sind. Die UniWiND-Tagung 2016 bietet eine Plattform für Austausch und Vernetzung zu beruflichen Perspektiven für den promovierten wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs in Deutschland. Im Vordergrund stehen unter anderem folgende Fragen: Wofür bilden Universitäten Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen und Nachwuchswissenschaftler aus? Wie sehen Promovierte ihre Karriereperspektiven? Gibt es zu viele Promovierte in Deutschland? Welche Rolle kommt den Universitäten beim Aufzeigen und bei der Gestaltung von Karriereverläufen zu? Welche bewährten Unterstützungsangebote im Sinne von Good-practice-Beispielen gibt es bereits, die Promovierten den Übergang in unterschiedliche Berufsfelder (universitär und außeruniversitär) nach Erreichen des
Qualifizierungsziels „Promotion“ ermöglichen?

Die Tagung findet in diesem Jahr an der Technischen Universität Dresden statt und wird gemeinsam von der UniWiND-Geschäftsstelle und der TU Dresden organisiert. Bereits im Voraus herzlichen Dank an die Gastgeber!

Das vorläufige Tagungsprogramm sowie weitere Informationen zur Tagung finden Sie auf unserer Tagungs-Website, siehe unten.

Die Tagung ist offen für alle Interessierten. Bitte melden Sie sich über unser Online-Anmeldeformular an. Anmeldungen zur Tagung sind ab sofort bis zum 22. August 2016 möglich unter http://www.uniwind.org/tagung2016

PhD-Courses at the Hamburg Business School, Universität Hamburg, 2016

Institution: Hamburg Business School, Universität Hamburg

Lecturer: Various, see blow

Date: Upcoming months; see below

Place: Various, see the links below for details

Language of instruction: English

Registration: See the links below for details

Course offerings:

  • Addressing Endogeneity in Marketing (12.-13.07.2016)
    Harald van Heerde  (click here for further information)
  • Impact of Social Networks on Consumer Behavior and Marketing (2.-4.08.2016)
    Martin Spann (click here for further information)
  • Behavioral Management: Theory and Experiments (6.-9.09.2016)
    Guido Voigt (click here for further information)
  • Causal Inference in Statistics, Social, and Biomedical Sciences and Economics (20.-23.09.2016)
    Martin Spindler (click here for further information)
  • Paper course: Audit market research and publication strategies (22.-24.02.17)
    Nicole Ratzinger-Sakel (click here for further information)

For an overview of the course offerings of the Hamburg Business School for phd-students, please click here.

HSU-Doktorandenweiterbildung 2016: Lecture on nonparametric statistical methods

Institution: Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Hee-Young Kim, Department of Applied Statistics, Korea University, Sejong, South Korea

Date: Herbstrimester 2016, dates will be announced in due course

Place: Helmut-Schmidt-Universität, Holstenhofweg 85, 22043, Hamburg, places will be announced in due course

Language of instruction: German

Registration: No registration required

Contents:
In the upcoming trimester (Herbstrimester 2016), Prof. Hee-Young Kim (Department of Applied Statistics, Korea University, Sejong, South Korea), visiting professor at the Chair of Quantitative Methods in Economics (Prof. Christian Weiß), will hold a lecture on nonparametric statistical methods. Although this lecture is directed at students in the first place, scientific staff is nevertheless, within the framework of the “HSU-Doktorandenweiterbildung”, cordially invited to attend. Among the issues being addressed are:

  • Nonparametric statistical methods for dichotomous data,
  • for one-sample and two-sample location problems,
  • for two-sample dispersion problems and other two-sample problems,
  • for location problems under a one-way or two-way layout,
  • for analyzing the cross-dependence of bivariate data,
  • and for regression analysis.

The lecture will be held in English; dates and places will be announced in due course. The lecture concludes with an optional oral assessment for which, if requested, 6 credit points can be awarded (in accordance with the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System).