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             *****Deadline: March, 30 2017*****

The deadline for the 9th edition of the Medici Summer School in Management Studies is fast approaching. The School is dedicated to doctoral students and young researchers and will be held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 19 – June 23, 2017. The school is organized and sponsored by Alma GS (University of Bologna), HEC Paris (Society and Organizations Research Center and the HEC Foundation), and MIT Sloan School of Management (Economic Sociology PhD Program). Deadline for applications is March, 30!  

Mission

The Summer School is designed to promote doctoral education and research in organization theory and related fields (economic sociology, management studies, strategy) and contribute to the development of enlightened practice in the management of business organizations. The Medici Summer School advocates a special focus on cross-fertilizing research across North American and European traditions. The Summer School is a unique educational program for qualified doctoral students interacting with thought leaders in the management field who have shared their knowledge and wisdom on frontier research topics. 

The purpose of "The 2017 Medici Summer School" is to bring together a group of researchers who share a concern for advancing our knowledge about the organization of innovation and entrepreneurship. In particular, our goal is to discuss cutting-edge research that sheds new light on the theoretical mechanisms and processes that explain how innovation processes work and can be improved; and on the mechanisms and processes responsible for new venture formation. This choice of theme reflects a sense of excitement at the various new institutions that have arisen to support innovation and entrepreneurship-including hackathons, crowdfunding and crowdsourcing, contests, accelerators-as well as promising new lines of research that have opened up due to these settings as well as in response to developments such as the increasing demand for "authentic" products and services, and the increasing call to improve the practice of science by applying scientific methods to research on scientific practice. Among the various reasons to convene a summer school on this topic is that these developments and research discussions tend to cut place across the institutional settings that have been the traditional domains of the disciplines. This array of topics is not only relevant for the advancement of theory and research in organization theory, but it also has important practical implications for employees, groups of individuals, communities and society as a whole.