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Professor (Chair) / Reader / Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Strategic Management
Professor (Chair) / Reader / Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor)
In Strategic Management
Lancaster University Management School is a leading business school, distinguished by its
internationally–recognised research and highly ranked PhD, postgraduate and
undergraduate programmes. The Centre for Strategic Management was established
at LUMS in 2006 and is now seeking an additional and exceptional colleague to
support its continued development and the international research standing of
the School.
We are seeking a colleague who has strong research interests in the theory, development and
practice of strategic management, demonstrated through recent publications in
internationally ranked journals, and a track record in winning research
funding. Whilst the successful candidate will contribute to teaching at an
undergraduate and / or postgraduate level, this individual will primarily be
expected to take a leadership role in the Centre working with its existing
members to further develop its research capability.
Informal enquiries to the Director of the Centre, Professor Julia Balogun via Vickey
Young, Centre Administrator v.young@lancaster.ac.uk (+44 (0) 01524 594405).
To apply or for further information online, please visit http://hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancies.aspx
Ref: A359
Publishing Qualitative Research - Master Class and Writing Workshop
Dear all,
HEC Montreal's Strategy-as-Practice Study Group together with the Journal of Management Studies are organizing a one-day qualitative studies publishing workshop on June 4, 2012. All are welcome, see the full announcement in the "workshop" on the SAP-IN website as well as attached. Several editors of premier journals will be attending, so this is a great opportunity to meet with them and get valuable feedback on your work!
You may contact me for any questions.
Kind regards,
Charlotte Cloutier
Assistant Professor
HEC Montreal
Funded PhD Student Position at Aalto University School of Economics
Aalto
University School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland
Salary:
approx. 30.000€ per annum
Aalto University School of Economics (Aalto ECON), Department of Communication, invites applications from highly-motivated and intellectually-ambitious aspiring strategy-as-practice scholars for funded full-time PhD studentship, starting September 1, 2012.
Aalto ECON is one of Europe’s leading business schools, accredited by AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS. The school is also a member of CEMS (the Global Alliance in Management Education) and PIM (Partnership in International Management). More information: http://econ.aalto.fi/en/
The successful candidate will join the department’s strategy-as-practice research group and work on a PhD in a research project that focuses on strategic change in the media industry. More information: http://communication.aalto.fi/en/research/researchgroups/sap/
The GMAT or GRE General Test is required of all applicants who do not hold a degree from a Finnish university.
For more information and to apply, please contact Professor Johanna Moisander (johanna.moisander@aalto.fi) as soon as possible but by February 20th 2012 at the latest.
In the first stage, applicants will be ranked based on the following documents:
- Academic Curriculum Vitae
- Contact details of at least two academic referees
- A personal statement (2-3 pages) that outlines own project ideas; your research experience to date; and what you hope to achieve from your PhD.
Successful candidates will be invited to apply for the Aalto ECON doctoral program by 29th February 2012.
Details about the application
procedures and requirements:
https://into.aalto.fi/display/endoctoralecon/Applying+for+doctoral+studies
SAP (at AoM) newsletter
Dear SAP friends and colleagues,
Happy New Year!
Attached is a newsletter that celebrates our SAP accomplishments at the Academy of Management in 2011, and announces things to come.
Please submit a paper or proposal to AoM before the deadline on January 10. For more information:
http://annualmeeting.aomonline.org/2012/77-news/152-call-for-submissions
Also, please forward this newsletter to friends and colleagues who might want to join our scholarly conversation!
My very best regards,
Curtis LeBaron (Chair of SAP at AoM)
Voting for EGOS Board
Dear SAP-IN members,
I’d like to draw to your attention that Ann Langley (HEC Montreal) is up for election to the EGOS Board. EGOS is our longest standing home for SAP work; we have been running a Standing Working Group there since 2005.
Ann has been one of the founders of SAP and also developed one of the first university strategy as practice groups (GePs) at HEC Montreal. She also has a close affiliation with EGOS and Organisation Studies in editorial and convenors roles. I am convinced that Ann would be a good board member, both for EGOS as a community and also for developing quality SAP work at EGOS and elsewhere. I hope that those of you who are EGOS members will have a look at her campaign when you vote: http://www.egosnet.org/jart/prj3/egosnet/main.jart?rel=en&reserve-mode=active&content-id=1227178922284&voting_id=1319359662928&disp_item_id=1319359667507#A1319359667507
Best wishes
Paula
Inventory of SAP Empirical Research
We - Eero Vaara and Richard Whittington - are currently working on an article for the Academy of Management Annals on Strategy as Practice research. We have identified more than 60 empirical articles that are explicitly orientated towards SAP in some way (we plan to add books). We hope this 'inventory' (see attachment below) will be useful to the community in general, and particularly invite fellow SAP researchers to:
1. check that your relevant published empirical work is included: please send details, and ideally pdf copies, of anything we have missed.
2. let us know if you have empirical work forthcoming, again with a pdf copy of the article and publication details
3. for those that we have included, please check our draft brief summaries of the research methods, main theories, contexts and what we think are the most striking empirical findings. If these are substantially adrift, please offer us alternative texts.
In all cases, please email richard.whittington@sbs.ox.ac.uk with 'Annals' in the subject line.
Please note that we may not be able to include all articles in our review, given possible limits on length and guidance from the editors. Still, it's a pretty impressive body of work, all in. It's been fun reviewing it all. Hope you find this useful. We shall post an updated version.
Eero and Richard
Professorship in Management and Organization at Hanken
Hanken School of Economics is a leading, internationally accredited business school located in Finland. It offers a range of B.Sc., M.Sc., EMBA, PhD, and Executive Development programmes taught mainly in English and Swedish. Hanken's research operations are of an internationally high standard and it maintains close links with the business world.
The Department of Management and Organisation at Hanken School of Economics invites applications for a position as
Professor in Management and Organisation in Helsinki
As Professor you will be responsible for:
- Conducting
research that meets high international levels, publishing your research in
scholarly outlets and communicating the results of your work to the business
community and society at large.
- Contributing to the research efforts and the development of new research capabilities of the department.
- Contributing successfully to the competence development of students by providing research-based teaching and supervision.
- Contributing to the development of the teaching capabilities of the department.
- Contributing to the administration of the department and the business school.
You will find more information about the subject Management and Organisation and the whole department at http://www.hanken.fi/public/en/foretagsledning.
The successful applicant will be expected to have good knowledge of English. The most qualified applicants may be invited to give two test lectures, one about their own research (20 minutes) and one directed to students studying Management and Organisation (20 minutes). For the time being the majority of the faculty members in the department are men; therefore, applications from female applicants are most welcome.
The successful applicant should have completed a PhD, demonstrated a high level of academic competence, gained experience from leading academic research, have good teaching skills and teaching experience, and experience from doctoral education and international research co-operation.
The following criteria, of which research merits are given prime consideration, will be used to evaluate the applicants:
(1) Research merits, that is, the applicant’s contributions to the development of knowledge through scholarly publications. Special emphasis will be placed on the applicant’s recent track record of publications in leading academic journals in management and organization. The quality of the research plan is also considered as is the research presentation made by the applicant.
(2)Teaching merits, including pre-graduate teaching and doctoral education, pedagogical training, the quality of the teaching portfolio, and the trial lecture made by the applicant.
(3)Service merits, including academic expert assignments and other contributions to the academic community.
The professorship is placed in the preliminary job demand levels 9-11 (4 997-6 483 Euros/month) for teaching and research personnel. In addition, a performance-based bonus of a maximum of 46.3 percent will be added.
Enquiries may be directed to Dean of Research, Professor Eero Vaara +358503059359, e-mail eero.vaara@hanken.fi or Head of the Department of Management and Organization, Professor Ingmar Björkman +358407040291, e-mail Ingmar.bjorkman@hanken.fi.
Applications, including a CV and teaching portfolio, a list of publications, no more than 10 academic publications in electronic format (applicants are encouraged to submit at least some publications that are no more than three years old), description of on-going research projects and other relevant documents should be submitted to Hanken’s Registrar P.O. Box 479, FI-00101 Helsinki, Finland or to the campus in Vaasa, P.O. Box 287, FI-65101 Vaasa, Finland, or by email to registrator@hanken.fi, by latest December 31, 2011.
New article on strategy as practice in International Public Management Journal
Margit van Wessel, Ronald van Buuren and Cees van Woerkum just published an article on Strategy as Practice in the International Public Management Journal, currently one of the highest ranking journals in Public Administration.
Title of the article: Changing Planning by Changing Practice: How Water Managers Innovate Through Action.
Abstract: In this study, we show how water managers who were not in strategic decision-making positions strategized in order to innovate water management practice. They undertook actions in order to infuse water management with a pragmatic logic that in their view would be better able to handle complexity. They addressed the requirements of an organizational context dominated by rational comprehensive planning as the model for acceptable action and associated forms of organizing that honor formally regulated responsibilities. Existing organizational practices and the logics grounding these were the counterpoint of their strategy, as well as the source on which they drew. Conventional forms of planning and organization were changed from within, through insider action woven into existing organizational process and form. Although acting from a logic that competed with established practices, these managers avoided confrontation and battle on the level of logic. They rather strategized by harnessing existing practices.
SAP-Review Group Meeting Report
The first Strategy-as-Practice Review Group (SAP-R) meeting took place on 18 October, at New College, Oxford. We discussed two papers, both in progress with Tier 1 journals, together with their editorial/reviewer feedback: the first by Julia Balogun and Kathryn Fahy; the second by Loizos Heracleous and Sotirios Paroutis. We had twelve participants, from France, Italy, Sweden and Switzerland, as well as the UK.
We have provisional plans to repeat the event in April, at another location to be determined (possibly Warwick). Please let Gary (g.burke@aston.ac.uk), Sotirios (sotirios.paroutis@wbs.ac.uk) and Richard (richard.whittington@sbs.ox.ac.uk) know if you expect to have a suitable paper plus journal feedback available just before that time. We are happy to discuss both ‘revise and resubmits’ and ‘rejects’ – we hope that SAP-R can help in either case! We welcome suggestions about event organization too.
In the meantime, many thanks to Julia, Kathryn, Loizos and Sotirios for getting us started with two excellent papers. Looking forward to seeing their papers in print soon!
Gary Burke
Sotirios Paroutis
Richard Whittington
(SAP-R organizing group: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sap-R/264117720283225?sk=wall)
CFP: Special Issue on Business Strategy: Applications and Advancing Tools
Special issue call for papers from Management Decision
Call for Papers
Special Issue Editors:
João J. Ferreira (University of Beira Interior, Portugal), José Enrique Vila (University of Valencia – ERI-CES, Spain), and Anastasia Mariussen (Oxford Brookes University, UK).
The Context
Today’s managers face a large number of complex challenges in the global marketplace and seek to design strategies, capable of providing their companies with competitive advantages that can be sustained over time. Existent literature on what has come to be described as ‘business strategy’ (e.g. Mintzberg, 1990; Porter, 1996; Bowman and Ambrosini, 2007; Sheehan and Foss, 2007; etc.) has extensively analyzed the application of tools that may help managers in designing such strategies. However, there exist exciting opportunities for further development in the theories, applications and advancing tools, surrounding business strategy, with several questions yet to be explored. In particular, increasingly many studies, discussing business tools and techniques, seem to provide only incremental variations of existing models; or choose to concentrate on highly focused research questions or dilemmas, encountered in provoking strategy debates (Faulkner and Campbell, 2003). Meanwhile, the role of theorists as drivers of general business strategy research continues to be seen as major and critical.
Strategy prepares businesses for the future. In this preparation, organizations, operating in vibrant competitive environments, are potentially faced with several paths to follow. So what is the future for business strategy? Given the increasing dynamics of the current business ecosystems, the position of this call is that future is agnostic. The contributors are, therefore, invited to draw their original points of view on the subject of business strategy. While contributions, expressing diverse visions and using various tools, techniques and schools of thought are welcome; the decision on the appropriate view of the future is left to the readers.
Purpose
The purpose of this special issue is to provide an opportunity to advance our understanding of the specific features of business strategy. To achieve this aim, the special issue invites conceptual and empirical papers, presenting cutting edge research on business strategy. More specifically, the special issue welcomes novel and creative ideas, such as new theoretical perspectives, emerging methodologies and new techniques from a strategic perspective, and encourages examining their impact on firms. Different tools, approaches and levels of analysis can be adopted to explore and analyse the complexity of business strategy involved in different contexts.
Research Questions
Accordingly, we call for papers that seek answers to one or more of the following research questions:
1. What new theoretical constructs and methodological approaches can capture competitive advantage in business strategy and competition?
2. What role does business strategy have on organizational and other contexts?
3. What factors impact firms’ strategy formulation and subsequent performance?
4. What are the underlying organizational mechanisms that enable or inhibit strategy formulation, and how might individual, organizational, institutional factors affect these mechanisms?
5. Given that innovations are becoming increasingly complex, how do firms’ strategies affect their growth and investments under uncertainty?
6. How can organizations create sustainable competitive advantages in the marketplace?
7. How can organizations create competitive advantages that are not only unique and valuable but also difficult for competitors to copy?
To fulfil the purpose of the special issue and answer the outlined questions, the topics of potential contributions may include, but are not limited to, the following subject areas:
• Theories and thoughts about strategy or strategic management
• Corporate strategy in a multibusiness context
• Conceptualization and operationalization of strategic analysis models
• Reviews of existing literature about business strategy
• Business strategy models for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs)
• Processes of strategic analysis and strategic modelling
• Dynamic capabilities and organizational learning
• Strategy innovation
• Strategies for multinational enterprises (MNEs)
• Emergent strategy models
• Corporate-level and sector-level strategies
• Role of business and competitive strategy
• Enterprise strategy practices across industries
• Business strategy and firm performance
• Approaches to competition assessment and strategy definition and execution
• Identification of sources of competitive advantage through global strategy
• Indicators for measuring business strategy
• Strategic change management
• Entrepreneurial strategic orientation
• Strategic management process
• Firms’ strategic environment
• Blue ocean strategy versus red ocean strategy
Papers that aim to develop theoretical frameworks, able of synthesising the existing body of knowledge in the field, and contributions, presenting strategic problem-solving applications in business context, based on accurate methodology, are welcome to the special issue. Interdisciplinary research is also encouraged.
Submissions Instructions:
The deadline for submissions is May 31, 2012.
All manuscripts will be subject to the double-blind peer review process of Management Decision. Submissions should be prepared in accordance to the Management Decision’s Author Guidelines:
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=md.
After registering on ScholarOne Manuscripts on http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/md follow the instructions to submit your manuscript. Please make sure you submit the paper under Special Issue on “Business Strategy: Applications and Advancing Tools”, when submitting your manuscript.
Please direct any questions to the editors of the Special Issue:
João J. Ferreira (jjmf@ubi.pt); José Enrique Vila (jose.e.vila@uv.es); and Anastasia Mariussen (amariussen@brookes.ac.uk). Please clearly identify in the email subject line “Management Decision (Special Issue)”.
References
Bowman, C. and Ambrosini, V. (2007), “Firm value creation and levels of strategy”, Management Decision, Vol. 45 No. 3, pp. 360-371.
Faulker, D. O. and Campbell, A. (2003), The Oxford Handbook of Strategy: A Strategy Overview and Competitive Strategy, Volume I, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Mintzberg, H. (1990), “The design school: Reconsidering the basic premises of strategic management”, Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 11 No. 3, pp. 171-195.
Porter, M. E. (1996), “What is strategy?”, Harvard Business Review, Vol. 74 No. 6, pp. 61-78.
Sheehan, N.T. and Foss, N.J. (2007), “Enhancing the prescriptiveness of the resource-based view through Porterian activity analysis”, Management Decision, Vol. 45 No. 3, pp. 450-461.
BAM Conference, Strategy as Practice Track, Aston 2011
Hello SAP-IN-ians,
The 2011 BAM conference attracted more than 20 quality paper submissions in the Strategy as Practice track and we enjoyed two days of intense and stimulating discussions. I want to thank all presenters, discussants, reviewers, and also the BAM organising team for their contributions!
I would also like to thank the participants for a lively and fruitful discussion at the Annual General Meeting. Following our debate, we have created a Linked-in group (SasP@BAM) which you are welcome to join. We are also considering a range of workshops to keep the discussion going beyond the conference. If you are interested, please join our Linked-in discussions!
Finally, I would like to emphasise the importance of the work of our voluntary reviewers in preparing the ground for such good debates. The reviews produced this year were of top quality and I received very positive feedback from authors about the level of detail and constructive criticism offered to them. Thank you all for your help and contribution to this community!!!
Congratulations also go to the winners of the best full and developmental paper prizes:
Full Paper Award:
"The Practice of Animal Spirits: purposive action in an uncertain
world"
Graham Winch - The University of Manchester
Kristian Kreiner - Copenhagen Business School
Developmental Paper Award:
"How does the relational structure of a board influence the situated act
of strategising?"
Andrea Herepath - Cardiff University
Thank you very much for an enjoyable and insightful conference
Mike Zundel
Track chair BAM SaP
Launch of the Strategy as Practice Review Group, 18 October, Oxford
A new Strategy as Practice Review group (SAP-R) is being launched to help with the revision and development of journal papers. We are meeting for the first time in Oxford, 18 October. See attachment for more details. Hoping to see some of you there - maybe with one of your papers as the subject!
Gary Burke (Aston), Sotirios Paroutis (Warwick), Richard Whittington (Oxford)
Academy of Management PDW: Taking Stock and Going Forward
This PDW took place at the August, 2011 AoM San Antonio. Its purpose was to review progress around some substantive issues in the SAP field and to propose opportunities for further research. There were three parts:
i. brief introductory presentations by Julia Balogun (Sensemaking in Strategy), Claus Jacobs (Artefacts in Strategy), Paula Jarzabkowski (Strategy Tools), Saku Mantere (Strategists and Discourse), Patrick Regner (Strategic Capabilities) and David Seidl (Strategy Meetings). These presentations are attached.
ii. two sets of roundtables on each of these substantive issues and opportunities, with report backs. These are summarised in the second attachment.
iii. a commentary and some recommendations from Sarah Kaplan (University of Toronto). This is also summarised on the the second attachment.
Charlotte Cloutier (HEC Montreal)
Richard Whittington (SBS University of Oxford)
Follow-up of EGOS 2011 in Gothenburg
As a follow-up to the EGOS conference 2011 in Gothenburg, a summary of the different workshops and sub-theme discussions have been uploaded to the SAP-IN website.
In the category "Workshops" please find the documentation of
- the SAP Paper Development Workshop (July 6th)
- The SAP Community Development Workshop (July 6th)
In the category "Conferences" please find reflections on the sub-theme discussions (July 7th to 9th) as well as the presentations from the closing panel (July 9th).
Abstracts for Process PDW on Following Emergence Roundtables
In response to a number of requests, we have extended the deadline for submitting 1-2,000 word abstracts to the Process PDW roundtables until 22 July. Details below.
Topic: Following Emergence in Process Research: Conceptual Frameworks and Methodological Approaches: http://program.aomonline.org/2011/Session_Details.asp?print=true&SubmissionID=11146
We have a great line up of speakers and facilitators to share their insights and have a discussion with you. To attend the round tables in Part 2 of the workshop, you must fill out the paper submission form at http://processresearchmethods.org/PDW11.htm and email it to ahvstaff@umn.edu by July 22, 2011. On the form, you are asked to describe your process research paper or project in 1000-2000 words. You will then receive your code to register for Part 2 of the workshop.
Best wishes
Paula and the Process PDW Faculty
Speakers and Facilitators include:
Chair: Paula Jarzabkowski; Aston U
Speaker: Raghu Garud; Pennsylvania State U.
Speaker: Robin Holt; U. of Liverpool
Speaker: Paul M. Leonardi; Northwestern U
Discussant: Ann Langley; HEC Montreal
Discussant: David Nils Seidl; U. of Zurich
Facilitator: Steve Floyd, U. of Virginia
Facilitator: Karen Golden-Biddle; Boston U.
Facilitator: Clive Smallman; U. of Western Sydney
Facilitator: Harry Sminia, U. of Sheffield
Facilitator: Scott Sonenshein; Rice U
Facilitator: Andrew H. Van de Ven; U. of Minnesota
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