VHB ProDok Kurse

Data Science as a Research Method

The course is targeted at PhD students and young researchers who want to apply data science methods in their research. It covers various data preparation, statistical modeling, and visualization techniques for extracting knowledge from the vast and complex data sets that have emerged in business over the past years. The learning objective of the course is to enable participants to apply these techniques in design-oriented and/or quantitative empirical research projects.

 

Date:

19.-22.02.2024

Location:

Universität Paderborn
LS für Wirtschaftsinformatik, insb. Data Analysis
Warburger Str. 100
33098 Paderborn

Raum: Q2.219

Course Language:

English

 

Lecturer:

Professor Dr. Oliver Müller, Universität Paderborn

https://wiwi.uni-paderborn.de/dep3/mueller/team/

oliver.mueller@uni-paderborn.de

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Registration Deadline: 21. Januar 2024

VHB ProDok Kurse

Qualitative Analyse multimodaler und visueller Daten

Obgleich in der interpretativen Managementforschung ein breiter Konsens darüber herrscht, dass organisationale Wirklichkeiten und deren Umwelten durch komplexe Amalgame verbaler, visueller, materieller und anderer kommunikativer Artefakte konstruiert und konstituiert werden, und dass ästhetische, affektive, und sensorische Faktoren gleichwertig neben kognitiven Elementen der sozialen Welt stehen, fokussiert die empirische Forschung dennoch primär auf verbale (oder verbalisierte) Aspekte von Beobachtungen, Interviews und organisationalen Texten.

Dieser Kurs richtet sich an Nachwuchswissenschaftler:innen, die daran interessiert sind, erste Erfahrungen mit visueller und multimodaler Analyse zu sammeln. Unter Multimodalität wird dabei die Kombination und Integration verschiedener Kommunikationsmodi verstanden (z.B. Vortragsfolien oder Werbevideos als Kombination von verbalen, visuellen und ggf. auditiven Elementen). Grundlegendes Ziel des Kurses ist es, die Teilnehmer:innen dazu zu befähigen, in ihren Forschungsdesigns verschiedene Formen kommunikativ produzierter Daten zu berücksichtigen und diese Designs zielgerichtet unterschiedlichem Datenmaterial anzupassen. Dazu werden die Teilnehmer:innen über Basisliteratur an die Thematik herangeführt, diskutieren mit den Kursleiter:innen vertieft die Designs publizierter Forschungsarbeiten, führen in Gruppen kurze Analyseübungen durch und reflektieren kritisch über die Verwendung multimodaler Designs für die eigenen Dissertationsprojekte.

Nach Abschluss des Kurses sind die Studierenden dazu befähigt:

  • verschiedene theoretische Grundlagen visueller und multimodaler Forschung zu verstehen, zu vergleichen, und kritisch zu diskutieren;
  • die Sinnhaftigkeit der Verwendung visueller und multimodaler Daten für verschiedene Fragestellungen zu reflektieren und zu argumentieren;
  • das Repertoire an etablierten Forschungspraktiken in Bezug auf deren Anwendbarkeit für spezifische Forschungsprojekte zu evaluieren und anzuwenden;
  • die spezifischen Herausforderungen und Limitationen visueller und multimodaler Forschung realistisch einzuschätzen; und
  • die vorangegangenen Punkte auf die eigenen Materialien praktisch anzuwenden.

Zeitraum:

20.  bis 23. Februar 2024

Veranstaltungsort:

WU (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien)
Welthandelsplatz 1
1020 Wien

Alle Kurseinheiten finden in Sitzungssaal 6 statt (https://campus.wu.ac.at/?q=AD.0.122 )

Sprache:

Deutsch

Referenten:

PD Dr. Dennis Jancsary ist Assistenzprofessor

am Institut für Organization Studies, Department für Management, WU Wien
(https://www.wu.ac.at/orgstudies/staff-faculty/dennis-jancsary/ )

PD Dr. Katharina Miko-Schefzig leitet das

Kompetenzzentrum für empirische Forschungsmethoden der WU Wien
(https://www.wu.ac.at/methods/team/ )

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Anmeldefrist: 21. Januar 2024

VHB ProDok Kurse

Methods of Interviewing

Dieser Kurs richtet sich an NachwuchswissenschaftlerInnen der Betriebswirtschaftslehre, die in ihrer Forschung qualitative Interviews einsetzen wollen und bisher wenig/keine Erfahrung damit gesammelt haben.

Inhalt des Workshops sind die methodologische Fundierung und praktische Anwendung qualitativer Interviews. Er enthält Input seitens der beiden Workshop-Leiter/in, praktische Übungen sowie den Einbezug der Forschungsprojekte von Teilnehmenden. Grundlegendes Ziel dieses Kurses ist es, den TeilnehmerInnen theoretische und methodische Grundlagen in der Entwicklung, Durchführung und Analyse qualitativer Interviews in der Managementforschung zu vermitteln.

In dem Kurs werden folgende Themenblöcke behandelt:

  • Wissenschaftstheoretische Verortung des qualitativen Interviews als Methode der Datengenerierung
  • Ziele und Einsatzzwecke qualitativer Interviews
  • Planung, Durchführung und Nachbearbeitung von Interviews
  • Analyse und Niederschrift qualitativer Studien anhand Interview-basierter Daten

Zeitraum:

27. Februar – 1. März 2024

Veranstaltungsort:

Gäste- und Tagungshaus “Am Glockengarten”
Glockenstraße 8
14163 Berlin

Sprache:

Deutsch

Referenten:

Prof. Dr. Olivier Berthod

ICN Business School
olivier.berthod@icn-artem.com

Dr. Manuel Nicklich

FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
manuel.nicklich@fau.de

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Anmeldefrist: 28. Januar 2024

VHB ProDok Kurse

Qualitative Research Methods

This course is designed for doctorate students in business administration who want to use qualitative methods in their research. The basic goal of this course is to provide participants with the methodological foundations and advanced knowledge in qualitative research in business. After attending the course, participants should be able to

  • understand the philosophical and methodological foundations of qualitative research and to classify, differentiate and choose different qualitative research methods;
  • assess goals and purposes, as well as strengths and weaknesses of qualitative research;
  • understand and raise key questions for planning and preparing a qualitative research design, data collection and analysis;
  • identify, analyze and manage core issues during the planning, execution, analysis and writing of qualitative studies;
  • to differentiate rigorous from non-rigorous qualitative management research.

Date:

12th – 15th March 2024

Location:

Harnack-Haus
Ihnestr. 16-20
14195 Berlin

Course Language:

German / English

Lecturers:

Prof. Dr. Jana Costas

Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)

Prof. Dr. Markus Reihlen

Leuphana Universität Lüneburg

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Registration deadline: February 11, 2024

Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences: Starter Scholarship (Deadline: 15 March 2024)

It is now possible to apply for 2 Starter Scholarships for Doctoral Candidates and become a regular member of the Graduate School.

Deadline for applications: 15 March 2024.

The scholarships are available from 01 October 2024 for the duration of one year. We invite highly qualified graduates from the fields of Sociology, Psychology, Educational Science, Political Science, Labour and Educational Economics, Demography and Statistics.

You can find more information on our website: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bagss/application/starter-scholarships/

Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences: Start-Up Stipend for Postdoctoral Researchers

BAMBERG GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS – POSTDOCTORAL CANDIDATES

Start-Up Stipend

The BAGSS Start-up Stipend for Postdoctoral Researchers is awarded for twelve months with the option of a six-month extension. During the one-year funding period, the holder is expected to develop and submit a grant application to an external funder (e.g. the German Research Foundation or the European Research Council) to finance their own position in the future.

The Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences is a multidisciplinary Graduate School funded by the Bavarian State. We seek to stimulate and guide cutting-edge doctoral research on some of the most crucial challenges modern knowledge-based societies are facing.

Specialised research agendas have been grouped into four thematic pillars:

__PILLAR 1
Education, personal development and learning from early childhood to adulthood
__PILLAR 2
Educational and social inequality across the entire life course
__PILLAR 3
Changes in human capital, labour markets and demographic structures and their impact on social structures in modern societies
__PILLAR 4
Governance, institutional change and political behaviour

A detailed list of topics that will be supervised by professors in our four pillars can be found here:
www.uni-bamberg.de/bagss/application/topics

// QUALIFICATION AND REQUIREMENTS:

We invite applications by highly qualified graduates from the fields of Sociology, Psychology, Educational Science, Political Science, Labour and Educational Economics, Demography and Statistics. Candidates must hold a doctoral degree in one of the aforementioned subjects or be very close to completion.

Successful applicants will be required to take up their residence in Bamberg, a city noted for its high quality of life and great conditions for research and study. The stipend amounts to 2,500 EUR per month. In addition, grant recipients are provided with office space and necessary equipment. The Graduate School is committed to diversity, equal opportunities and the compatibility of family and career.

For further information about the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences, the application process and the required documents, please visit our website at
www.uni-bamberg.de/bagss/application

The deadline for the submission of your application is Monday, 15 January 2024.

EURAM 2024 SIG 09_04 Organisational Behaviour Track & MREV Special Issue

Call for Papers: Sustainable HRM and New Ways of Working

Track Proponents & Guest Editors:
Simon Jebsen, University of Southern Denmark
Konstantina Tzini, CUNEF University Madrid, Spain
Sylvia Rohlfer, CUNEF University Madrid, Spain
Abderrahman Hassi, Al Akhawayn University Ifrane, Morocco

EURAM 2024 SIG 09_04 Organisational Behaviour Track & MREV Special Issue

Companies, employees, and scholars alike have taken a growing interest in sustainable HRM (Ehnert et al., 2016; Stahl et al., 2020), especially in the face of current trends in the workplace – like remote working and digitalization – in the post-COVID-19 era (McKinsey Global Institute, 2021). Since HRM practices affect not only employees but also the human, social, and environmental firm context (Rothenberg et al., 2017), developing more sustainable HRM systems can enhance social sustainability (Ehnert, 2009; Pfeffer, 2010) and help organizations not only to reach their corporate sustainability (Taylor et al., 2012) but also traditional performance goals, thereby addressing the some of the grand challenges of nowadays society (George et al., 2016).

To achieve these organisational goals, however, the response of employees, work teams, and managers to sustainable HRM practices is crucial, as they hold a primary role in the success of sustainable HRM (Paulet et al., 2021). The common view is that sustainable HRM will positively affect employees (Aust et al., 2020) and that innovative workplace practices are welcomed, therefore assuming favourable responses at the individual level and, consequently, positive outcomes at the organisational level.

The growing embracement of sustainable HRM and innovative work practices in today´s changing workplace provides excellent research opportunities to study its multifaceted, under-explored outcomes and to contribute to “Fostering Innovation for Grand Challenges”. This track explores the impact of sustainable HRM and workplace innovation on employee attitudes and behaviours, the interplay of sustainable and innovative practices with other corporate initiatives, and its ultimate link to organization-level outcomes.

Possible themes include:

  • The impact of different sustainable HRM and innovative work practices on shaping employee attitudes and behaviours at the individual and group levels. Empirical evidence of positive (e.g., employee well-being, engagement) and negative outcomes for employees (e.g., burden requirements, unethical behaviours) is welcome.
  • Organisational value creation and outcomes of using innovative and sustainable HRM (e.g., innovation, performance).
  • Possible synergies or redundancies stemming from combining sustainable and innovative work practices and other corporate sustainability initiatives and their effect on individual and organisational outcomes.
  • Interplay between sustainable work practices, workplace innovation, and current trends in the workplace, such as remote work and digitalisation, and their effect on individual employee attitudes, behaviour, and performance.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Simon Jebsen (simonf@sam.sdu.dk), Konstantina Tzini, Sylvia Rohlfer, Abderrahman Hassi

This call for papers is related to a European Academy of Management (EURAM) track. We encourage interested colleagues to submit and present their research at the conference. However, it is possible to contribute to the special issue without joining the conference.

European Academy of Management (EURAM)

The European Academy of Management (EURAM) is a learned society founded in 2001. It aims at advancing the academic discipline of management in Europe. With members from 49 countries in Europe and beyond, EURAM has a high degree of diversity and provides its members with opportunities to enrich debates over various research management themes and traditions. EURAM 2024 is from 25 to 28 June 2024 at the University of Bath, School of Management, UK.

The deadline for paper submission is 11 January 2024 (2 pm Belgium time). Contributors are notified of acceptance in mid-March. Further information about the deadlines and important other dates can be found on the EURAM homepage. The author’s guidelines and information about the submission procedure can also be found on the EURAM homepage.

Special Issue of management revue – Socio-Economic Studies

management revue – Socio-Economic Studies is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary European journal publishing both qualitative and quantitative work, as well as purely theoretical papers that advance the study of management, organisation, and industrial relations. The journal publishes articles contributing to theory from several disciplines, including business and public administration, organisational behaviour, economics, sociology, and psychology. Reviews of books relevant to management and organisation studies are a regular feature.

All contributors to the EURAM track are invited to submit their papers for the special issue of management revue – Socio-Economic Studies. Full papers for this special issue must be submitted by 30 September 2024. All contributions will be subject to double-blind reviews. Papers invited to a ‘revise and resubmit’ are due 31 March 2025. The publication is scheduled for issue 3/2025. Please submit your papers electronically via the online submission system using ‘SI Sustainable HRM’ as the article section.

The manuscript length should not exceed 9,000 words (excluding references), and the norm should be 30 pages in double-spaced type with margins of about 3 cm (1 inch) on each page. Further, please follow the guidelines on the journal’s homepage.

References

  • Aust, I., Matthews, B., & Muller-Camen, M. (2020). Common Good HRM: A paradigm shift in Sustainable HRM? Human Resource Management Review, 30(3). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrmr.2019.100705
  • Ehnert, I. (2009). Sustainability and human resource management: reasoning and applications on corporate websites. European Journal of International Management, 3(4), 419–438. https://doi.org/10.1504/EJIM.2009.028848
  • Ehnert, I., Parsa, S., Roper, I., Wagner, M., & Muller-Camen, M. (2016). Reporting on sustainability and HRM: a comparative study of sustainability reporting practices by the world’s largest companies. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 27(1), 88–108. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2015.1024157
  • George, G., Howard-Grenville, J., Joshi, A., & Tihanyi, L. (2016). Understanding and Tackling Societal Grand Challenges through Management Research. Academy of Management Journal, 59(6), 1880–1895. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2016.4007
  • Lund, S., Madgavkar, A., Manyika, J., Smit, S., Ellingrud, K., & Robinson, O. (2021). The future of work after COVID-19. McKinsey & Company. https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/future-of-work/the-future-of-work-after-covid-19
  • Paulet, R., Holland, P., & Bratton, A. (2021). Employee Voice: The Missing Factor in Sustainable HRM? Sustainability: Science Practice and Policy, 13(17), 9732. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13179732
  • Pfeffer, J. (2010). Building Sustainable Organizations: The Human Factor. Academy of Management Perspectives, 24(1), 34–45. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMP.2010.50304415
  • Rothenberg, S., Hull, C. E., & Tang, Z. (2017). The Impact of Human Resource Management on Corporate Social Performance Strengths and Concerns. Business & Society, 56(3), 391–418. https://doi.org/10.1177/0007650315586594
  • Stahl, G. K., Brewster, C. J., Collings, D. G., & Hajro, A. (2020). Enhancing the role of human resource management in corporate sustainability and social responsibility: A multi-stakeholder, multidimensional approach to HRM. Human Resource Management Review, 30(3). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrmr.2019.100708
  • Taylor, S., Osland, J., & Egri, C. P. (2012). Guest editors’ introduction: Introduction to HRM’s role in sustainability: Systems, strategies, and practices. Human Resource Management, 51(6), 789–798. https://doi.org/10.1002/hrm.21509

GIGA Training Programm Winter Term 2023 – Course: Working with Concepts

Date and time: 12 – 13 Dec, 1 pm – 6 pm
Place: GIGA, online
Target group: Doctoral Researchers
Language: English

Description: Concepts are foundational to the social-science enterprise. This ten-hour workshop introduces participants to two distinct ways to think about and work with them. One is the positivist approach to what is called concept “formation” or “reconstruction” – the formulation of a technical, neutral vocabulary for measuring, comparing, and generalizing. This approach focuses attention on building concepts with a high degree of external differentiation, internal coherence, explanatory utility, and content validity. The other is an interpretivist approach that focuses on what Dr. Schaffer calls “elucidation.” Elucidation includes both an investigation into the language of daily life and a reflexive examination of social-science technical language. It is intended to illuminate both the world views of the people that social scientists wish to understand and the ways in which social scientists’ embeddedness in particular languages, historical eras, and power structures shapes the concepts with which they do their work.

About the lecturer: Dr. Frederic Schaffer is a Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is also a board member and past chair of the Committee on Concepts and Methods of the International Political Science Association, founding member of the Methods Excellence Network. His subfield of specialization is comparative politics, and his methodological areas of expertise are interviewing, working with concepts, and interpretivism.

*Participants need to register online by filling in the registration form that is available on our website.
Registration deadline: Tuesday, 17 October 2023
Confirmations of successful registration will only be sent after the deadline has passed.

For questions, please contact Alejandra Calderon at alejandra.calderon@giga-hamburg.de

GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies
Neuer Jungfernstieg 21
20354 Hamburg

GIGA Training Programm Winter Term 2023 – Course: Research Design and Strategy

Date and time: 1 Nov, 10 am – 5 pm and 2 Nov, 10 am – 4 pm
Place: GIGA, in person
Target group: Doctoral Researchers
Language: English

Description: This course will introduce the students to the main steps of research design in social sciences, from the formulation of the research question to case selection and choice of methods. It explores how to identify the empirical phenomenon of interest, how to do a systematic literature review, what makes for a good research question, how to elaborate testable hypotheses and advance theory, and ways to justify the choice of cases and methods. The course will draw on relevant literature, provide concrete examples, and offer room for discussion throughout its various sessions. On the second day, there will be time reserved for students to present and discuss their own research.

About the lecturer: Edalina Rodrigues Sanches is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal. Her research interests comprise democratization, popular protest, constituency service, political institutions, elections, political parties and party systems, with a focus on Africa.

*Participants need to register online by filling in the registration form that is available on our website.
Registration deadline: Thursday, 17 October 2023
Confirmations of successful registration will only be sent after the deadline has passed.
For questions, please contact Alejandra Calderon at alejandra.calderon@giga-hamburg.de

GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies
Neuer Jungfernstieg 21
20354 Hamburg

Information day held by the NCP Bioeconomy on the Workprogramme 2024 Cluster 6

On 10th October 2023 the German National Contact Point for Bioeconomy and Environment, in cooperation with the EU Office of Tutech Innovation and the Research Cluster Biobased Processes and Reactor Technologies (FSP BioProTec) at the Hamburg University of Technology, will inform potential applicants about funding opportunities for selected thematic areas of Cluster 6 “Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment” in Horizon Europe.

After an introduction to Horizon Europe and an overview of the rules of participation, the funding opportunities in Destination 3 and 4 in the work programme for Cluster 6 “Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment” as well as other funding opportunities in this thematic area will be presented.

More Information and registration