Tentative Program Schedule for PDW, Friday, Aug 8 2008 1:00PM - 5:00PM at Anaheim Convention Center in 204B,  organized and facilitated by Diana Day & J. Peter Murmann

Panel Session
1 to 2.00 Panelists presentations:  Jane Dutton, Martha Feldman, Royston Greenwood, and Ann Langley
2 to 2.15 Discussion and Q&A;with panelists
2.15 to 2.45: Presentation by Editors: Peter Bamberger-AMJ, John Wagner-ASQ, Martha Feldman-OS, Ed Zajac-SMJ, and Lorrainne Eden-JIBS

Parallel Sessions
3 to 3.45 Tutorials Round 1: Kim Elsbach, Deborah Dougherty, Peer Fiss, 
4 to 4.45 Tutorials Round 2:  same as above

........Descriptions of tutorials are provided below

3 to 5 Meet the Editors & the Panelists
Editors:    Peter Bamberger-AMJ, John Wagner-ASQ, Martha Feldman-OS, Ed Zajac-SMJ, and Lorrainne Eden-JIBS Panelists:  Jane Dutton, Martha Feldman, Royston Greenwood, and Ann Langley

3 to 5   Paper Feedback Session For details on this part, go to http://professor-murmann.info/index.php/forums/viewthread/23/

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Description of Tutorials

1.  Kim Elsbach—Theoretical Framing of Qualitative Research

In this tutorial I will discuss three different ways to frame qualitative research based on three different goals of qualitative research (Leet et.al., 1999). ?These goals are: (1) new theory generation, (2) theory elaboration, and (3) theory testing. ? Participants will evaluate their own work in progress to determine which goal best defines a current project, and then will develop an outline for their theoretical framing. 

2. Deborah Dougherty—Dealing With Evil Reviewers

Like most qualitative researchers, my (most excellent!) work continues to be rejected once or twice.  This tutorial is a discussion of when, how, and why reviewers hate our work and what to do about that, so bring war stories from personal experience on both sides of the process: submitting and reviewing others? work (you might be my evil reviewer!).  I will outline my own best guesses on avoiding or dealing with reviewer problems (proper framing including very cool questions, deep and rich theoretical findings, lots of data, big so whats); and when to walk away from a journal and/or ignore reviewers.  We will crystallize some take-aways for us all from our discussion.

3. Peer Fiss—Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Fuzzy Sets ? A Practical Example

A growing number of organization researchers are turning to Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) to examine situations where causality is complex and equifinal, i.e. where there is more than one path to an outcome.  My presentation offers a practical introduction to working with set-theoretic methods such as QCA and fuzzy sets, and particularly with the fs/QCA software package.  Using an empirical example, I will show how fuzzy set QCA can allow for a sophisticated analysis of complex causal relations, particularly suitable for situations where causality is difficult to examine using standard statistical methods.

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Organizer: Diana L. Day; Rutgers U.;
Organizer: J. Peter Murmann; AGSM-Australian School of Business;
Distinguished Speaker: Jane E. Dutton; U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor;
Distinguished Speaker: Royston Greenwood; U. of Alberta;
Distinguished Speaker: Martha S. Feldman; U. of California, Irvine;
Distinguished Speaker: Ann Langley; HEC Montreal;
Participant: Mauro F Guillen; U. of Pennsylvania;
Participant: Edward Zajac; Northwestern U.;
Participant: Peter Bamberger; Technion Israel Intitute of Technology;
Participant: Deborah J Dougherty; Rutgers U.;
Participant: Lorraine Eden; Texas A&M;U.;
Participant: John A Wagner; Michigan State U.;
Participant: Peer C. Fiss; U. of Southern California;

This session is designed for people who are developing qualitative research and who would benefit from feedback on their working papers. This working paper feedback session follows the panel session of the Power or Richness PDW (OMT PDW 10079). Participants interested in submitting a working paper for feedback in the working paper discussion groups need to submit their papers (more than 10 and less than 35 pages) via website we have created for this.  Working papers will be accepted for evaluation and feedback in this part of the workshop on a first-come, first-served basis until we fill all the slots we can make available.
Here is what you need to do:

1. Pre-registration is required.
To register, please visit https://secure.aomonline.org/PDWReg. The deadline to register is July 11, 2008.
2. Once you have pre-registered, submit your paper in pdf format via the website we have created here:

http://ichair.professor-murmann.net

Here are important rules to follow: Last year we big had problems in assigning papers because people did not provide keywords.  Hence this year we require that you provide keywords in the following way in the submission form which you reach by going to
http://ichair.professor-murmann.net

From the predefined list you chose a topic.

This list was developed based on the expertise of discussants. This list is this: 

  single case study
multiple case analysis
interviews
archival research
  ethnography
  mixed methods
longitutinal research
  coding general
open (first order) coding
  axial (second order) coding
automatic coding
semiotic analysis
grounded theory
collaborative research—insiders and outsiders
culture
organizational learning and adaptation
creativity and innovation
strategic alliances
perception, categorization, identity

There is a keyword field below the topic list into which you can type keywords.  As your first keyword in this field we want you to chose a second topic from our topic list above.  As your second keyword in this keyword field, each keyword being separated by comma or a space,  you need to indicate the state of development your paper is in, selecting from the following five options:

Early Draft
Advanced Draft
Mature Paper
Paper already under review
Paper reviewed and rejected by a journal

You may put down additional keywords to the two required ones in the keyword field, but you cannot go beyond the 80 characters available. So at minimum your submission needs to look like this example:

Topic: creativity and innovation
Keywords: ethnography, early draft

Don’t forget:  If you do not chose a topic from our list above, a second keyword from the same list and a third keyword indicating the state of development of your paper, your paper will not be processed.

At the end of the submission form, you have to check a box to agree with the following statement: “On behalf of all authors, I hereby declare in good faith that this submitted paper is compliant with the instructions as stated in the call for papers and is not an irregular submission. In particular, it has not been submitted for publication in a substantially similar form in parallel. It does not substantially resubmit any previously published result, up to my knowledge. It is not a plagiarism of content as understood by the academic community.” We could not modify this statement in the conference management software. For the purposes of this PDW, please dis-regard the line:  “In particular, it has not been submitted for publication in a substantially similar form in parallel.”

If you have any questions or problems with the submission process, please contact Peter Murmann at:  peter dot murmann at unsw dot edu dot au

The Discussants for the session are:
John Weeks; IMD;
Klaus Weber; Northwestern U.;
Kimberly D. Elsbach; U. of California, Davis;
Mariann Jelinek; College of William and Mary;
Candace Jones; Boston College;
Mitchell P Koza; Rutgers U.;
Christine Quinn Trank; Texas Tech U.;
Jean M. Bartunek; Boston College;
Gina Colarelli O’Connor; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;
John Joseph; Northwestern U.;

The Organizers are
J. Peter Murmann; AGSM-Australian School of Business;
Diana L. Day; Rutgers U.;

Location

Friday, Aug 8 2008 3:00PM - 5:00PM at Anaheim Convention Center in 210D

Jane Dutton Managerial and Organizational Cognition

Robert L. Kahn, Distinguished University Professor of Business Administration and Psychology; Chair of Management and Organizations Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1983?M.A., Northwestern University, 1981?B.A., Colby College, 1974.
Jane Dutton’s research is focused on how organizational conditions enable human thriving. In particular, she focuses on how the quality of connection between people at work affects individual and organizational flourishing. Her research has explored compassion and organizations, resilience and organizations, as well as energy and organizations. This research stream is part of a growing domain of expertise at the University of Michigan called Positive Organizational Scholarship http://www.bus.umich.edu/Positive. Her past research has explored processes of organizational adaptation, focusing on how strategic issues are interpreted and managed in organizations, as well as issues of organizational identity and change.
      More info: http://www.bus.umich.edu/FacultyBios/FacultyBio.asp?id=000119663

Royston Greenwood OMT

Associate Dean, Research, and Telus Professor of Strategic Management of the University of Alberta Business School. PhD University of Birmingham, 1976.

Professor Greenwood?s fields of interest include the dynamics of organization change, managing professional service firms, and new business ventures. He has recently published in AMJ a qualitative case study of INSTITUTIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN MATURE FIELDS:THE BIG FIVE ACCOUNTING FIRMS.

      More info: http://www.business.ualberta.ca/rgreenwood/

Martha Feldman Public and Non-for Profit

Professor of Planning, Policy, and Design, Management, Political Science, and Sociology, and Roger W. and Janice M. Johnson Chair in Civic Governance and Public Management
Ph.D. Stanford University

Professor Feldman has a longstanding interest in how organizations influence people?s ability to accomplish work. Her recent work uses and extends practice theory to understand the role of organizational routines in organizational learning and adaptation. Her work in public management builds on this interest and focuses on the tools managers can use to create public organizations that are broadly inclusive of employees and the public. Her work in qualitative methods has focused primarily on developing techniques for analyzing context-dependent phenomena.

More info: http://socialecology.uci.edu/faculty/feldman/

Ann Langley  OMT
Professor of Strategic Management and Research methods at HEC Montreal, Canada and Director of PhD. and MSc programs. Ph.D. (administration), HEC Montreal; M.A.(Operational Research), Lancaster University.
Professor Langley?s early research was inspired by these her work as an alayst, and dealt with the role of analysis in organizations. Since then, she has pursued her interest in strategic management processes, focusing particularly on complex organizations with multiple goals and ambigious authority. Her recent work deals with strategic decision-making, innovation, and leadership and strategic change in the health care sector. She is currently working on a major project in two teaching hospitals that examines the management of implementation of hospital merges.
      More info: http://www.hec.ca/management/CVHTML/ann-lanley.html

Tutorial Presenters:

Mauro Guillen  International Management

Guillen is Director of the Joseph H. Lauder Institute at Penn, a research-and-teaching program on management and international relations. He holds the Dr. Felix Zandman Endowed Professorship in International Management at the Wharton School and a secondary appointment as Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology of the University of Pennsylvania. He previously taught at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He received a PhD in sociology from Yale University and a Doctorate in political economy from the University of Oviedo in his native Spain.
He is a trustee of the Madrid Institute for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, and a member of the board of advisors of the Department of Sociology at Princeton University, the Escuela de Finanzas Aplicadas (Grupo Analistas), and the Research Department of La Caixa, Europe?s largest savings bank.
He has received a Wharton MBA Core Teaching Award, a Wharton Graduate Association Teaching Award, the Gulf Publishing Company Best Paper Award of the Academy of Management, the W. Richard Scott Best Paper Award of the American Sociological Association, and the President?s Book Award of the Social Science History Association. He is an Elected Fellow of the Macro Organizational Behavior Society, a former Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellow and a Member in the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. In 2005 he won the IV Fundaci?n Banco Herrero Prize, awarded annually to the best Spanish social scientist under the age of 40.

His current research deals with the internationalization of the firm, and with the impact of globalization on patterns of organization and on the diffusion of innovations. His most recent books are The Rise of Spanish Multinationals (Cambridge University Press) and The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical (Princeton University Press). He is also the author of The Limits of Convergence: Globalization and Organizational Change in Argentina, South Korea, and Spain (Princeton University Press, 2001), Models of Management (The University of Chicago Press, 1994), and, with Charles Perrow, The AIDS Disaster (Yale University Press, 1990). In Spanish, he has published La Profesi?n de Economista (Ariel, 1989), and An?lisis de Regresi?n M?ltiple (CIS, 1992).

      More Info: http://www-management.wharton.upenn.edu/guillen/

Peer Fiss

More info: http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~fiss/research.html

Deborah Dougherty

More info: http://business.rutgers.edu/default.aspx?id=385

Facilitators & Organizers:

Diana Day BPS

Dr. Day, Associate Professor of Management,  (Ph.D., Columbia University) has taught at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Her expertise lies in Management of organizational strategy and entrepreneurship in organization,  She coordinated the contributions of the Business Policy and Strategic Management Division during the 1998 Academy of Management annual conference, when she served as program chair of the largest division within the world’s leading organization for management scholars.  Dr. Day is widely published in such premier management journals as Organization Science, the Academy of Management Journal, Management Science, Sloan Management Review, and the European Journal of Operations Research.  She serves on the editorial review boards of Organization Science and the Journal of High Technology Management and Marketing.

More info: http://camden-sbc.rutgers.edu/FacultyStaff/Directory/day.htm

Johann Peter Murmann TIM

Murmann is Associate Professor of Strategic Management at the AGSM - Australian School of Business and Chair of the Strategy and Entrepreneurship department.  Before joining the AGSM in January 2006, he was on the faculty of Northwestern University?s Kellogg School of Management (from 1997 to 2005).
Murmann?s research is mainly focused on studying systematically how firms gain and lose competitive advantage over long periods of time. His award-winning comparative study of the early history of the synthetic dye industry was published in 2003 by Cambridge University Press under the title Knowledge and Competitive Advantage: The Coevolution of Firms, Technology and National Institutions.

More info: http://professor-murmann.net