Call for Pre-registration: Developing and Writing a Structured Draft of a Paper
Please reply by July 15th. Participants will be notified by July 20th.
This professional development workshop is aimed at bringing together senior and upcoming scholars in the business policy and strategy division to develop and write a structured draft of a paper that builds on identified research questions and gaps. The PDW represents a working session-there will be no opening panel remarks; instead, the participants will convene in groups around identified questions of interest, and start discussing and writing right away.
Registration is limited to 30 junior participants, who will be selected based on topical fit and response timing. Please see additional details below.
1. Time and place: Saturday, August 10: 8:00AM - 11:00AM (3 hours) at WDW Swan Resort in Swan 1
2. Format: Senior session leaders and a small group of junior scholars will spend the three hours outlining a potential paper based on the topic of mutual interest. The workshop has an open approach, with the aim that the draft created will include (1) an introduction with basic framing (question, possible answer, focal literature and audience, contribution), (2) a background and logic section that defines the major concepts and developed at least a summary logic for one or more important propositions, and (3) if the paper is likely to have an empirical component, a research design that explains how you would test the propositions. Participants will likely discuss the terms of intellectual ownership to the ideas that emerge from the discussion; ideally, all participants should be free to work on the ideas further, whether alone or collaboratively. There is no expectation that the work at the session would result in a co-authored paper – it would be great if that were to emerge, but the main purpose is to help gain skill in framing and designing strong papers.
3. Session leaders (and topics of interest):
Rajshree Agarwal: "Entrepreneurship, firm and industry evolution"
Nick Argyres: "Design and evolution of alliances and contracts"
Russ Coff: "Can a firm enjoy a human capital-based competitive advantage without exhibiting superior profitability?"
Marco Giarratana: "Creating a competitive advantage based on CSR investments: strategic potentialities and boundaries"
Anita McGahan: "Inclusive innovation" or "Inclusive innovation in health"
Joe Mahoney: "Explaining firm boundaries: Joining TCE, RBV, and dynamic capabilities"
Will Mitchell: "Dealing with strategic uncertainty in emerging markets"
Fernando F. Suarez: "Competing along the industry lifecycle: Entry timing advantages; platform competition & dominance; business model change (e.g. products to services)."
Todd Zenger: "Magic at the boundary: Why markets can't replicate firms?"
4. Session organizer: Ulya Tsolmon (Duke).
5. To pre-register: Please email Ulya at ulya.tsolmon@duke.edu by July 15, 2013 providing her with the following information: Name, current position, Year of Graduation (or expected graduation, if you are a PhD student), contact information, research interests, and a rank order of up to three session leaders/topics of interest. We will notify the participants by July 20th.