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Clusters in the Context of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, Smart Specialisation Strategies & Regional Development

University of Flensburg – University of Southern Denmark– Curtin University (Perth)
Cluster Workshop 2014: Sept. 15-16, 2014 in Flensburg

WORKSHOP THEME

Clusters are still a hot topic for scholars from different disciplines. More recently, specific interestin the field was directed towards the establishment of entrepreneurial ecosystems, smart specialization strategies and regional development. Linking these topics into Public Policies and firm strategies in clusters is the central theme of this workshop.

The organisers of the workshop will organise an edited book or a special issue of a journal on the topic of the workshop theme. Participants at the workshop will have the possibility to submit their papers for refereeing for inclusion in the publication.

INVITATION TO ATTEND

The workshop will take place between September 15 and 16, 2014 at the International Institute of Management of the University of Flensburg (http://www.uni-flensburg.de) located in the very North of Germany at the border to Denmark.

Optional the participants may join a Work-in-progress workshop at the University of Southern Denmark in Sønderborg on September 17.

The workshop in Flensburg is held as a combination of keynote speeches, paper presentations, highly interactive session as well as a colloquium for doctoral students. The idea of the workshop/symposium in Sønderborg is to give the participants the possibility to present and discuss work in progress projects.

INVITED TOPICS

We are particularly interested in developing new knowledge in the area of firm clusters with regard to a resource-oriented perspective on clusters bringing together a wide range of multidisciplinary and cross sectoral approaches.

We invite papers from researchers and practitioners in the following topic areas:

  •  Smart specialisation strategies & clusters
  • Entrepreneurial ecosystems in clusters
  • Small business incubation in clusters
  • Cross-border clusters
  • The role of public policy in clusters
  • Firm resources, strategy and clustering
  • Cluster management and facilitation
  • Cluster mapping and evaluation
  • Best and worst practice cluster cases
  • Innovation networks

ORGANISATIONAL MATTERS

There will not be a fee for participation but it is expected that the participants pay for their transport, accommodation and meals during the conference.

ORGANISING TEAM

Professor Kerry Brown & Professor John Burgess, Curtin University, Perth, Australia
Professor Susanne Gretzinger, University of Southern Denmark
Professor Susanne Royer, University of Flensburg, Germany

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Management Revue: Call for Book Reviews

Management Revue is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary European journal publishing both qualitative and quantitative work, as well as purely theoretical papers that advances the study of management, organization, and industrial relations.

We would like to increase the range of books and reviewers included in the journal. We are interested in book reviews in current texts and books within the past five years. The book review should provide a critical assessment of the text and offer substantive commentary on the quality of the content and connection to other published work. Reviews should be between 800 and 1.500 words.

If you are interested in writing a book review please contact Mangement Revues Editor, Simon Fietze with the title of the book you wish to review.

MAXQDA Anwendertagung in Berlin

Das MAXQDA-Team macht per Newsletter auf die MAXQDA-Anwendertagung in Berlin aufmerksam:

“Am 6. und 7. März findet die diesjährige MAXQDA Anwendertagung (CAQD) in Berlin statt. Es erwartet Sie ein breites Angebot an Workshops zu MAXQDA und Forschungsmethoden, Vorträgen und Methodendiskussionen. Studierende und Promovierende zahlen einen ermäßigten Preis. Link zur CAQD-Homepage: http://www.caqd.de/

Auszug aus dem Workshop-Programm (17 Workshops an zwei Tagen)
# MAXQDA Starter
# Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse
# Mixed Methods
# Kategorienbildung
# Typenbildung
# Visualisierungen mit den Visual Tools
# Audio-, Video- und Bildanalyse & mobile Datenerhebung mit MAXApp

Hier finden Sie das vollständige Workshop-Programm: http://caqd.de/workshops-zur-caqd

Spannende Keynotes und Möglichkeiten zum Networking:
# Prof. Udo Kuckartz: “New Horizons for Mixed Methods Analysis”
# Clarence C. Gravlee (Ph.D.): “Using QDA software in the context of field work”

Die CAQD bietet neben Workshops auch einen Tagungsteil mit Vorträgen und Methodendiskussionen und dem bewährten User Forum. Profitieren Sie in angenehmer Atmosphäre von Austausch und Diskussionen über MAXQDA sowohl mit anderen Usern als auch mit den Entwicklern. Die Teilnahme am Tagungsteil ist kostenlos!

Abgerundet wird die Veranstaltung durch ein lockeres Get together und eine Poster Session, bei der Sie Ihre eigenen Projekte vorstellen und diskutieren können. Sie können Ihre Poster bis zum 31.01.2014 an cfp@caqd.de einsenden.

Veranstalter ist die Marburger Arbeitsgruppe für Methoden und Evaluation (magma e.V.).”

BAM2014 Paper Submission is Now Open

Paper submission for the BAM2014 Conference is now officially open! To submit a paper please go to:

Information Before You Submit

  • Before submitting a paper, please ensure that you have read all of thepaper submission requirements.
  • You can only submit a paper to one track. To choose, please find out more on the tracks available at BAM2014.
  • Please be aware that you can only submit a maximum of 3 papers to the BAM2014 Conference.

Deadline to Submit

The deadline to submit a paper to the BAM2014 Conference is the 26th of February.

We look forward to receiving your submissions.

3rd Potsdam PhD Workshop in Empirical Economics

der Lehrstuhl für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität Potsdam führt vom 24.-26. März 2014 den „3rd Potsdam PhD Workshop in Empirical Economics“ durch.

Der Workshop richtet sich an DoktorandInnen und Postdocs der Wirtschaftswissenschaften mit einem Interesse an empirischer  Wirtschaftsforschung. Neben Vorlesungen renommierter Wissenschaftler (Deborah Cobb-Clark/University of Melbourne und Bruno Crépon/CREST) bietet der Workshop den DoktorandInnen die Möglichkeit, ihre eigene Arbeit in Vorträgen zu präsentieren und mit den erfahrenen Wissenschaftlern zu diskutieren.

Die Bewerbungsfrist endet am 15. Januar 2014.

Weitere Informationen finden Sie unter www.uni-potsdam.de/empwifo/workshop

 

Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS) – Call for applications on International Doctoral Program 2014

The Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS) is calling for applications for its International Doctoral Program 2014, the European PhD in Socio-Economic and Statistical Studies, and the European Doctoral Program. Please finde more information in the following document: CfA-BGSS-SESS-EDPIII-2014.

SDU: PhD position in Business Administration/Global Business Economics

The Department of Border Region Studies (IFG) at the University of Southern Denmark, Faculty of Business & Social Sciences, invites applications for a PhD position in Business Administration/Global Business Economics. The position is vacant from 1. February 2013 or soon after. The position is located in Sønderborg.

Job description

This position is one of six full-time academic positions that form the newly established Danfoss Center of Global Business (DCGB) at the Department of Border Region Studies.
The Center is co-financed by a donation from the Bitten & Mads Clausen Fund and funds from the University of Southern Denmark.

The vision of the DCGB is to build a high profile, high quality research and teaching pole in the field ofglobal business (business administration and marketing). Formal and informal relations to similar international research centers are currently being established. The Center’s research focuses on the growing complexity and interdependence of global business tasks and decisions – involving customers, suppliers, government agencies and other actors in different markets and cultures.

Since the center focuses on global business and marketing issues that are related to international business-to-business markets (in contrast to consumer markets), you are expected to be interested in a thesis topic in this area. More specifically, one or several of the following areas should be of interest to you:

  • New ways to configure value chain activities and new types of international business models in a knowledge-based economy/ novel approaches to B2B marketing.
  • Innovation and customer relations/ innovation drivers in B2B markets.
  • Managing global distribution channels and sales forces in B2B markets.
  • Behavioral/ experimental economics applied to B2B markets.

The department is located in Sønderborg and rooted in the unique history of the Southern Danish border region. It has lively relationships with the business community and the cultural institutions of the region. The department constitutes of an international and interdisciplinary unit with scholars organised around three research groups focusing on (a) regional economics, (b) people & society in border regions and (c) global business relationships (GBR). The DCGB is hosted within the Department of Border Region Studies and is most closely related to the GBR research group. See also this website.

The Department offers teaching at all levels within Business administration, Business Relationship Management, European Studies and Regional Economics. There are approximately 800 students from about 50 countries enrolled at the department. Teaching is conducted in English. The department offers one of the most modern office and research facilities in Denmark. For information about Campus Sønderborg, please click here.

Once the PhD project is initiated, you would be enrolled in the relevant PhD programme at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU). As part of the PhD study, an individual education programme within the relevant discipline of the candidate has to be completed. You would be expected to complete a six-month stay at a research institution abroad and/or at a project partner, and over the period of the programme, to acquire experience of teaching or dissemination activities. You would also be expected to participate in the various activities at the department and – apart from your stay abroad – to be regularly present at the department.

Further information can be obtained from Professor Bodo Steiner, phone: +45 6550 1221, www.sdu.dk/staff/bsteiner, or e-mail bsteiner@sam.sdu.dk.

Application, salary, etc.

Your employment as a Salaried PhD Research Fellow is governed by the agreement of October 1, 2008 on Graduate Employees in government appendix 5 – protocol on PhD Research Fellows. The scholarship runs for three years.

An application must include:

  • Detailed CV
  • A certified copy of your master’s degree certificate including all examination results
  • Application form (please see below)
  • A project description (max 5 pages)
  • An abstract for the above project description of no more than 250 words
  • List of publications
  • MSc Thesis
  • At least two references

When applying for a PhD scholarship, please fill in the application form available on our web page. On the webpage of the PhD-school, you can find the guidelines for preparing your project proposal within the PhD programme in Business Administration.

Certificates for national exams based on a national grade system should be associated by a document that translates the national grade system into the European Credit Transfer System. For further information please click here.

All non-Danish documents must be translated into English.

Applications will be assessed by a committee. When the evaluation committee has submitted its report, the applicant will receive the part of the evaluation that concerns him/her. Applications that are incomplete with regard to the above requirements will not be assessed by the committee. The University encourages all interested persons to apply, regardless of age, gender, religious affiliation or ethnic background. As part of the overall assessment of the applicant’s qualifications, an interview may be applied. Applications must be submitted electronically using the link below. Uploaded files must be in Adobe PDF (unlocked) or Word format. Read the guideline for applicants. Each field can only contain a single file of max 10 Mb.

Application deadline: 06/12/2013

Further information: http://www.sdu.dk/en/servicenavigation/right/ledige_stillinger

Band 7: Conjoint-Analyse

band7-conjointTim Kaltenborn, Harald Fiedler, Ralf Lanwehr & Torsten Melles:

Conjoint-Analyse.

Mit der Conjoint-Analyse werden Fragestellungen nach wichtigen Merkmalen sowie dem Potential von Neu- und Weiterentwicklungen von (Produkt-)Konzepten und der Preisbereitschaft beim Kunden beantwortet. Der Vorteil der CA als dekompositionelles Verfahren gegenüber anderen, direkten Methoden der Relevanzmessung ist, dass Gesamtbeurteilungen von ausgewählten Objekten erfragt werden, die anschließend in Einzelurteile bezüglich der Merkmale und Ausprägungen dieser Objekte zerlegt/dekomponiert werden.
Das Buch ist eine anwenderorientierte Einführung in die CA. Es beschreibt die wichtigsten Verfahrensvarianten, führt mit Praxisbeispielen in die typischen Anwendungen ein und entwickelt ein Verständnis für die häufigsten Fallstricke. Die Praxisdurchführung der CA wird zusätzlich an drei Computerprogrammen (SSI Web von Sawtooth Software, CAM von NORDLIGHT research, Conjoint in R) erläutert.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Schlüsselwörter: Multivariate Statistik, Datenanalyse, Präferenzmodelle, Sozialwissenschaftliche Methodik, Marktsegmentierung, Schätzverfahren, Urteilsbildung

Tim Kaltenborn ist Leiter der Abteilung Hochschulbeziehungen und Studierendenforschung bei UNIVERSUM Communications und Dozent für Marktforschung an verschiedenen Hochschulen. Seine Forschung liegt überwiegend im Bereich Kunden- und Trendbefragungen, Präferenzstrukturen und Conjoint-Analysen .

Harald Fiedler ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der BiTS Iserlohn. Seine Interessensschwerpunkte sind adaptive Verfahren auf Grundlage der Item Response Theorie, MCMC-Verfahren und die Behandlung fehlender Werte (missing data) mit Hilfe Multipler Imputation

Torsten Melles ist geschäftsführender Gesellschafter von NORDLIGHT research. Er ist Diplom-Psychologe und hat sich im Rahmen seines Studiums und der Dissertation mit methodischen Fragestellungen der Conjoint-Analyse beschäftigt, und verfügt über langjährige Erfahrung in der Durchführung von Marktforschungsstudien, insbesondere im Bereich „Produkttests und Werbewirkung“.

Ralf Lanwehr ist Forschungsdekan und Professor für Wirtschaftspsychologie an der Business and Information Technology School (BiTS) Iserlohn. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Organisationspsychologie und Methodenlehre.

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Fudan University: Associate Professor/Full Professor in Strategy, Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

Description:

School of Management at Fudan University, one of the top universities in China, invites applications for Associate Professor/Full Professor, starting from August 2014 or earlier. The appointment will initially be made on a three-year contract, with the possibility of renewal or on tenure for outstanding candidates. We offer competitive salary, research and housing supports.

Tenure track and tenured positions are open in Strategy, Human Resources, Organizational Behavior and so on.

Requirements:

  • For Associate Professor or Professor level: applicants should have a Ph.D. degree in the relevant field from a prestigious business school, have published articles in top international journals and be able to teach undergraduate, graduate and MBA courses in both Chinese and English. The appointee is also expected to submit high-quality grant proposals.
  • For Assistant Professor level: applicants should have a Ph.D. degree in the relevant field from a prestigious business school and be able to demonstrate strong potential for research and teaching. Having published articles in top international journals or having articles accepted by top international journals will be a plus.

Interested candidates should submit a CV and recent research papers. In addition, three reference letters should be sent directly to Ms. Zhou Yan, Faculty Development Office, School of Management, Fudan University.

Contact:

Faculty Development Office,
School of Management,
670 Guo Shun Road,
Shanghai 200433
Off:  86-21-25011470
Fax: 86-21-65654523
Email: hrfdms@fudan.edu.cn
Website: http://www.fdsm.fudan.edu.cn

University of Massachusetts Lowell: Tenure-Track Assistant, Associate or Full professor in Management/Organizational Behavior

The Robert J. Manning School of Business (MSB) at the University of Massachusetts Lowell is seeking a tenure-track Assistant, Associate or Full professor in Management/Organizational Behavior to engage in teaching, research and service. The primary fields of specialization should be Six Sigma Quality Management, Project Management, Negotiations, Leadership, and some combination of International Management, Research Methods, Rewards and Compensation and Change Management.

Located 30 miles northwest of Boston, UMass Lowell has over 17,000 students and is one of the largest public universities in Massachusetts. The MSB has over 2,500 undergraduate and graduate students and is accredited by the AACSB International. Classes are taught on-campus, online and, increasingly, abroad.

The MSB is building faculty capacity to further enhance its research productivity and build program offerings at all degree levels. The successful applicant will have the opportunity to participate in (1) the growth and delivery of new academic programs such as our new Ph.D. program with specializations in leadership, technology management, international business, finance and MIS, (2) the growth of our Master of Business Administration, Master of Science in Innovation and Technological Entrepreneurship, and undergraduate Management programs, and (3) ongoing initiatives undertaken in research, instruction and outreach. Faculty members regularly earn teaching load reductions for the publication of high quality research. Ample opportunities are available to become involved in research and instructional activities and develop productive partnerships with other units of the University, and with colleagues from other institutions and countries.

Job Requirements

Minimum Required Qualifications

  • Completed doctorate in Management/Organizational Behavior from an AACSB-International accredited business school (all degrees must have been completed by the September 2014 date of appointment).
  • Evidence of ongoing scholarly publication in the fields of specialization indicated above.
  • Teaching experience at the graduate or undergraduate levels.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Industrial, corporate or new venture experience.
  • A record of teaching effectiveness at the graduate and/or undergraduate levels.
  • Experience supervising and advising doctoral students.
  • Commitment to develop and sustain an externally funded research program.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to speak and write English clearly.
  • Ability to work effectively with students, faculty, industry and diverse populations.
  • Experience in teaching online or web-enhanced courses preferably using the Blackboard Learn course platform.

Applicants should apply online at: https://jobs.uml.edu. The application should include: (1) a current curriculum vitae; (2) a letter detailing research interests and accomplishments; teaching interests, experience and philosophy; and professional background; (3) samples of recent publications; (4) evidence of teaching effectiveness (e.g., student course evaluations, department Chair reviews, teaching awards, student testimonials, etc.), and (5) names and contact information for three references (including position title, employing organization, mailing and e-mail addresses) (do not send recommendation letters).

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience. The position is contingent upon funding. Please contact the University of Massachusetts Lowell Human Resources Department at 978-934-3560 for information regarding benefits and related employment matters or if you have any questions about the position. The University of Massachusetts is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Title IX, H/V, ADA 1990 Employer and Executive Order 11246, 41 CFR60-741 4, 41 CFR60-250 4, 41CFR60-1 40 and 41 CFR60-1,4 are hereby incorporated.