Forwarding to members of the BPS Listserv at the request of Ron
Mitchell, AOM ENT Division Chair.
Tim
Tim R. Holcomb, Ph.D.
Secretary and Newsletter Editor, Business Policy and Strategy (BPS)
Division
Florida State University
Email:
tholcomb@fsu.edu
-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Mitchell - ENT Division Chair [mailto:
ronald.mitchell@ttu.edu]
Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 10:17 AM
To: Holcomb, Timothy
Subject: INSTRUCTIONS FOR LOGIN - ENT Research Exemplars Conference
Hi Colleagues:
As promised, here are the directions for your distance-participation in
the ENT Research Excellence Exemplars Conference coming up next week at
UConn May 28-30. As the ENT Division leadership we enthusiastically
invite you to "e-attend" this conference. Due to budget constraints,
those present at the conference will include only the hosts, keynote
speakers, editors, authors, and the most recent Heizer and NFIB
dissertation award winners.
You can find everything about the Conference, including the schedule and
your login instructions, at
http://ccei.business.uconn.edu - Please just
follow the conference-related links.
You will see from the schedule posted, that Venkat's keynote will be
webcast on the evening of May 28th; and that the editor/author sessions
and keynotes will then occur all day Friday the 29th, and until 2:00p
EDT Saturday May 30th.
Please note that IT IS BEST TO PRE-REGISTER (please do so ASAP) for the
live video web-stream, access the conference website, schedule, and
related information. Once the conference is underway, you will be able
to access and view the live video/audio feed. The reason that we
urgently request that you pre-register ASAP, is because this
registration will help us to ensure that we have adequate bandwidth to
reach all web participants without interruption.
Please also note that the entire participation process has been designed
to be self-explanatory; and we have done everything possible to
anticipate and answer the most likely questions. However, should you
encounter any difficulty (after reading the instructions thoroughly,
please), and should you still be unable to solve the problem, please
email
khuntington@business.uconn.edu, and include the words CONFERENCE
HELP in the email title.
Again, here is the background for the conference:
RATIONALE:
It is well known within the guild/ craft system, that successful
apprenticeship consists of effective communication of 'craftspersonship'
from those who are more-experienced to those who are less-experienced in
the skills of the craft: i.e., preparing research for specific journals.
(We note that while a scholar may be a specialist in writing for
particular journals, due to the uniqueness of journal mission and the
scholarly community served by a given journal, such a scholar may, in
fact, desire to 'apprentice' in the sense of learning how to formulate
research and to write to target a journal with which s/he is less
familiar.)
Therefore, the idea behind this conference is to have Editor-Author
Sessions to promote research excellence by enhancing transparency
(effective communication) about publication-skills: the 'how to' in
top-level entrepreneurship research as seen through the lens of a
variety of top ENT-research outlets.
At this year's conference, the journals to be represented by their
editors and by authors of one or two recently published ENT papers
include: (AMR, AMJ, ET&P, JAP, JBV, JMS, JOM, OS, SEJ, SMJ, etc.) and
several keynote speakers will also contribute 30-minute sessions (Howard
Aldrich, Jay Barney, Mike Hitt, Duane Ireland, Patricia McDougall,
Venkat Venkataraman).
We plan four aspects of each Editor-Author session that should assist in
helping everyone in the field who wants to publish ENT research in these
journals, as follows:
1. Each session will be:
(a) moderated by me as Division Chair assisted by a sponsoring
colleague from the UConn research team,
(b) webcast to a world-wide audience (instructions at
http://ccei.business.uconn.edu), and
(c) recorded for subsequent posting on this and the ENT Division
Website for the world-wide use of colleagues who need this information
to enhance their own research excellence;
2. A journal-by-journal excerpt of the editorial mission pertinent
to the review and publication of ENT research will be provided at the
beginning of each session to give context;
3. Editors and authors will then be invited by the moderators to
discuss several questions pertinent to helping colleagues in the whole
field to use these exemplars as a means to help us in our own ENT
research, and finally,
4. Distance participants and other conference participants will be
invited to pose additional questions through a 'Comments editor' who
will post them electronically in real time; and the moderators will be
attempt to integrate these into the discussion to the extent that time
permits.
FORMAT
The general format will be 'talk show.' Authors and editors will be (so
to speak) 'on the couch, engaging' a host and audience (e.g. Oprah, Jay
Leno, etc.):
2-paper sessions will run for 50 minutes;
1-paper sessions will run for 30 minutes.
So please mark your calendars for May 28th through 30th. Further
details are now on the website -
http://ccei.business.uconn.edu - and we
encourage you to pre-register ASAP.
We sincerely hope you can join us as a distance-participant.
Best,
Ron Mitchell
ENT Division Chair