Knowledge People Performance http://www.kpsquared.org by David Wagner posterous.com Thu, 17 Nov 2011 01:41:00 -0800 Call for Applications: Six Scholarships @Viadrina @GGS_Heilbronn http://www.kpsquared.org/call-for-applications-six-phd-scholarships-vi http://www.kpsquared.org/call-for-applications-six-phd-scholarships-vi

If you are currently looking around for interesting PhD programs in the field of management, you may want to have a look at the following call for applications. The program I'm currently enrolled in is recruiting five PhDs and one Post-Doc as of April 2012. Deadline for applications is December 12, 2011. There are a number of testimonials about the program written by me and my colleagues. You can check them out here. For further details, have a look at the below announcement or visit the program website.

The European University Viadrina (EUV) and the German Graduate School of Management and Law (GGS) are inviting applications for six scholarships in their joint Doctoral Program in Dynamic Capabilities and Relationships.

The aim of the doctoral program is to create knowledge about how organizations achieve and sustain competitive advantage in rapidly changing environments through the development of critical competences in relationship with other organizations and stakeholders.

Minimum requirements for the positions: Master's degree (or equivalent) in business studies, social or behavioral sciences, or related field. Interested applicants should send their application with the subject header "Doctoral Program" to applications@ dcr-research.de. The application must contain the following in PDF format:

  1. Completed application form (available at www.dcr-research.de)
  2. CV
  3. Master's certificate or evidence that all requirements for a Master's degree will be completed by April 2012
  4. One-page statement explaining the candidate's interest in and suitability for the position
  5. Outline of a potential research project in the area of Dynamic Capabilities and Relationships (max. 1000 words plus references)
  6. Copy of Master's thesis
  7. One-page summary of Master's thesis
  8. Names and contact information of three referees

Incomplete applications will not be considered. Closing date: December 12th, 2011
For further information, please contact info@dcr-research.de.

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I'm currently preparing a research brief on social networks and organizational social network analysis for one of my courses. These are some of the more recent publications I located. Are there any others you could point me to? Suggestions are much appreciated.

Borgatti, Stephen P., & Halgin, D. S. (2011). On Network Theory. Organization Science.

Borgatti, Stephen P., Mehra, A., Brass, D. J., & Labianca, G. (2009). Network Analysis in the Social Sciences. Science, 323(5916), 892-895.

Brass, D. J. (2011). A social network perspective on industrial/organizational psychology. In S. W. J. Kozlowski (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Psychology. New York: Oxford University Press.

Gray, P., Parise, S., & Iyer, B. (2011). Innovation Impacts of Using Social Bookmarking Systems. Management Information Systems Quarterly, 35(3), 629-643.

Kilduff, M., & Brass, D. J. (2010). Organizational Social Network Research: Core Ideas and Key Debates. The Academy of Management Annals, 4, 317-357.

Scott, J. (2010). Social network analysis: developments, advances, and prospects. Social Network Analysis and Mining, 1, 21-26.

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This special issue aims to renew the early promise of cross-disciplinary research in organizational networks. We encourage submissions that marry, extend, challenge, and reconcile sociological and psychological theories and methods to break new ground into our understanding of the emergence, structuration, and consequences of organizational networks. We welcome studies of interpersonal networks within and between groups and organizations, as well as studies of how individual perceptions of network structure influence organizational phenomena. Submissions may use a variety of methodologies and data (e.g., field, laboratory, qualitative, and quantitative).
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Over the past couple of months I worked with a team of people from the German Knowledge Management Association, also called GfWM, Although I don't usually post German language content on my blog, I decided to do so on this occasion as I know that many of my readers are based in Germany. The team consisted of practitioners, consultants and a researcher with each of us bringing slightly different perspectives to the table. This is not a research paper and our intention was not to write one either. Instead, we wanted this piece to be a call on knowledge management professionals to consider the implications of social media on their daily work and the organizations they work in. We believe that the application of Web 2.0 tools within organizations has huge potential to leverage knowledge resources. At the same time, we wanted to stress that becoming an Enterprise 2.0 is not merely a question of making use of social media, but adapting the organizational culture accordingly. In order to make our ideas more 'tangible', we tried to come up with our own definition of the term Enterprise 2.0 (based on Andrew McAfee's work) and identified further characteristics. Additionally, we compared prototypical organizational cultures of an Enterprise 1.0 and an Enterprise 2.0 (based on Edgar Schein's work).

 

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The 6th International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media is definitely on my shortlist of conferences I would like to attend in 2012. It will take place from June 5 to June 8 in Dublin, Ireland. Keynote speakers include Andrew Tomkins, Patrick Meier and Lada Adamic.
The International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) is a unique forum that brings together researchers from the disciplines of computer science, linguistics, communication, and the social sciences. The broad goal of ICWSM is to increase understanding of social media in all its incarnations. Submissions describing research that blends social science and computational approaches are especially encouraged.
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A live presentation of the below report, recorded at the e-G8 summit, can be found here.

 

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Here is an interesting call for papers on social media network analysis. The session will be held at the International Conference on Social Science Methodology in Sydney, Australia, from July 9 to 13, 2012. Submissions can be made until December 1, 2011.

Social Media Network Analysis

Session Convenor: Robert Ackland, Australian National University

This session is focused on innovative approaches for collecting and analysing social media network data in the context of social science research. Relevant data sources include digital trace data from newsgroups, WWW hyperlink networks, virtual worlds, social network sites (e.g. Facebook), blogs and micro-blogs (e.g. Twitter). While all papers focused on innovative research methods for born-digital social data are welcome, preference will be given to those involving statistical social network analysis techniques. We are also interested in papers focusing on computational social science and the challenges (and opportunities) for social scientists in an era of abundance of large-scale social media data sets.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/321045/Photo_small.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37lAsWSmS12N David Wagner kpsquared David Wagner Wed, 21 Sep 2011 07:30:00 -0700 Thoughts on the 5th Trier Summer School on Social Network Analysis #tsna http://www.kpsquared.org/thoughts-on-the-5th-trier-summer-school-on-so http://www.kpsquared.org/thoughts-on-the-5th-trier-summer-school-on-so

I spent most of last week at the 5th Trier Summer School on Social Network Analysis. I have to say that Mar­kus Gam­per, Andreas Herz and Richard Heidler were doing a great job as lecturers and convenors of the workshops. John Padgett from the University of Chicago held an inspiring keynote speech on the first night talking about his enduring work on the Medici.

The first two days were filled with theory (an excellent, extensive reading list was provided prior to the course), the last 3.5 days were practical training with real data using different types of software, namely Pajek, Gephi, Vennmaker and R. While I was already familiar with a number of the readings and concepts discussed, the use of the different software tools for data entry, visualization and analysis was still new to me. Although we discussed a number of interesting data sets, the most entertaining one was the network of Richard's wedding party where people were seated at tables based on friendship cliques. I guess you can tell that Richard treasures his profession and discipline ;-)

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The most valuable bit of the week was probably a session that could best be translated as 'research consultancy'. Everyone had the chance to submit their project proposals by the beginning of the summer in order to have them reviewed by the researchers listed above. I have had some feedback on my work from colleagues in my discipline when attending the AOM2011, however the summer school was a great chance to collect more ideas in methodological terms. Richard made me aware of the use of R for generating stochastic models of networks and conducting significance tests, for example.

Throughout the week I paid closer (than usual) attention to the #SNA hashtag on Twitter and discovered a few interesting posts. There is an active Gephi community in Berlin. Furthermore, I discovered niche sites for SNA in historical research and SNA in organizational research. Last but not least, I came across a new tool for managerial network analysis called Socilyzer.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/321045/Photo_small.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37lAsWSmS12N David Wagner kpsquared David Wagner Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:41:00 -0700 Reflections on the #AOM2011 http://www.kpsquared.org/reflections-on-the-aom2011 http://www.kpsquared.org/reflections-on-the-aom2011

I just got back from my first Academy of Management Conference. The AOM Conference is the largest annual gathering of management scholars in the world. This year, it was attended by roughly 10,000 people from around the world and it took place in San Antonio, TX, USA. At the conference there are a number of panels, symposia, workshops and special programs for doctoral students. Doubtlessly, I was privileged to go.

I thought I'll give a quick overview of what it was like, followed by blog posts on the doctoral workshop I attended, outstanding events & people as well as tips for getting research published. In order to find out more, check out the conversations around the meeting by having a look at the Twitter Hashtag #AOM2011.

Going through the program beforehand, I recognized a number of names that I had come across in my research. The AOM Conference surely is a great chance to put faces to the articles one is normally reading. As mentioned above, there were different session formats, each serving a particular purpose. The most powerful type of event, to my mind, are the professional development workshops. I attended such a PhD workshop by the AOM Division on Organizational Change and Development and another one for new doctoral students. Furthermore, I went to a Symposium on Dynamic Capabilities, for example, which constitutes a central topic of my doctoral program. This gave me a chance to hear the dicussions scholars are currently having. Their talks usually started by summarizing the literature in their particular fields and then they went right into the controversies. Roundtable discussions were useful to get a feel for the questions other scholars are likely to ask in response to particular papers or studies which are in the process of being published. One such Discussion Session was on Relationships, another component of my PhD program. Last but not least there are the socials, of course, which took place at numerous locations around the city. You can tell networking is an essential part of the event and much room is given for such activities. There is even an AOM Party Account on Twitter and a Google Calendar published for this purpose. My personal favorite was Monday night's reception on the Tower of the Americas. All in all, the AOM Conference is great value for money.

I'll close this post with a quote from Bill Pasmore, who's the editor of the journal Research in Organizational Change and Development and who was also part of the above mentioned workshop: "You tell us where to go, because you are the future of change!" In this sense, it was inspiring to see the big shots in the management field while at the same time we were introduced to the academic profession and made aware of the fact that it is our research that will drive the discipline and will be published 5-10 years from now.

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The PhD Workshop run by Inger Stensaker and the 'Nasty Friends Session' contained in it where truly useful. What I'd like to highlight here is the process and the rules of the game rather than the content. In the weeks prior to the workshop we were asked to read papers by Quy Huy, Gavin Schwarz and a number of PhD proposals from our group. All papers were then to be criticized in the workshop.

Format:

3 min intro by the author of the paper

10 min critique by a senior academic

10 min critique by the audience

3 min feedback by the author as to which criticisms will likely be taken on board and which ones dismissed

Rules:

No positive feedback is allowed. This is a great thing and saves a ton of time, particularly in an Anglo-Saxon environment ;-)

The author of the paper is not allowed to reply to any of the criticisms until they get their last three minutes. 

It turned out that the academic papers we scrutinized had both been nominated for best paper awards. At first this made us think that there would be little to criticize and we were somewhat reluctant to start. However, as things got rolling, more and more comments were made by the PhD students. In total, there were more than 20 suggestions for improvement for each of the two papers and although the quantity is no guarantee for quality, Quy and Gavin acknowledged and welcomed a number of recommendations. We proceeded in much the same way with our own PhD proposals.

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Here a few speakers and sessions I particularly liked:

1. It really doesn't matter who you are or how you got here by Bruce Meglino

Bruce talked about his career and how it developed over time. He had to work very hard to make his way up. It sounded a bit like the American self-made millionaire story, with the exception that it was told for an academic audience. At one point Bruce posed a question to the audience: "Do you feel guilty when watching TV? If you do, chances are you work hard enough." I couldn't agree more.

2. The truth about academia by Angelo DeNisi

Angelo provided a personal account of his journey through academia and stressed the costs and sacrifices of being in the profession. Although this could be seen as discouraging, I felt he was sincere about the drawbacks of his chosen career path without deflating its value. Having served as a past president of both the Academy of Management and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, he admitted that his career had interfered more than once with his personal life, forcing him to give up many, if not all, of his hobbies and breaking the relationship with his first wife.

3. The 300 Dollar House by Vijay Govindarajan

I had recently read about an interesting project in the Economist about housing the poor. When Vijay stepped on the stage and opened his slide set, I was extremely thrilled to see what was coming up. He gave a presentation on the 300 dollar house, a research project that has a huge potential for society. I was deeply impressed with his efforts of turning this research into reality. A particularly noteworthy aspect of this job is the use of social media to generate ideas and build a community that wouldn't be able to meet and fulfill its mission in 'real life'.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/321045/Photo_small.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37lAsWSmS12N David Wagner kpsquared David Wagner Thu, 18 Aug 2011 06:08:00 -0700 How to Increase the Odds of Publishing Your Research? http://www.kpsquared.org/how-to-increase-the-odds-of-publishing http://www.kpsquared.org/how-to-increase-the-odds-of-publishing

The points below were collected in three sessions, namely Publishing Qualitative Research in Premier Academic Journals, How Can I Make An Impact? A Conversation with Management Researchers Seeking to Change the World and Publishing in the Top Tier.

What needs to be in it in terms of content?

  • Know your literature(s)
  • Follow events that are ongoing
  • Study longitudinal processes
  • Study field settings and diverse groups
  • Study how and why questions
  • Strategically choose your research question(s)
  • Focus on neglected problems
  • Have a bold vision
  • Focus on results/value creation
  • Use examplars (i.e. other articles in your journal of choice that have studied similar phenomena or used similar methodology)

How do you generate ideas and get access to data?

  • Use student projects
  • Come up with call for problems (much in the same way as we do call for papers or call for proposals)
  • Talk to big thinkers
  • Leverage partnerships/co-authorships

What are questions to ask yourself?

  • What are research questions you really care about?
  • What's the career you would like to pursue and where can you make a difference?
  • What would you like to be your legacy?

Although I am aware that there is no recipe to publishing research, I do believe some of these suggestions will help me to focus my efforts. I hope the same holds for you.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/321045/Photo_small.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37lAsWSmS12N David Wagner kpsquared David Wagner Sun, 22 May 2011 06:37:00 -0700 Goodbye UK, welcome (back) Germany http://www.kpsquared.org/54009956 http://www.kpsquared.org/54009956

I've recently switched universities and moved from the United Kingdom to Germany. I'm now enrolled in a program with the title 'Dynamic Capabilities and Relationships'. The graduate school is run jointly by the Europa-Universität Viadrina, situated in Frankfurt (Oder), and the German Graduate School of Management and Law in Heilbronn. We're a team of six researchers: five PhD students and one PostDoc. The aim of the doctoral program is to create knowledge about how organizations achieve and sustain competitive advantage in rapidly changing environments through relationships with other organizations and stakeholders. You can see the people involved in the picture below (photo credit: EUV press office, Heide Fest).

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I'm excited to be part of this newly established program and, luckily, will be able to continue the work on my original research proposal which I developed in Nottingham. It suits well within the realm of the program, primarily because my focus has been on organizational efficiency and relationships from the very start.

I want to take this chance to thank my previous supervisors, John Richards and Iain Coyne, for their great support. Both of them have guided my thinking and my professional development significantly.

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This is a very enjoyable Ted talk by Clay Shirky which he delivered in 2005 (!). He speaks about how collaborative tools are changing the way human affairs are conducted. His main argument is that new technologies drive down coordination costs and replace institutional planning with looser types of coordination. He uses examples of Flickr, Meetup and online support groups. His talk also helps to understand the rationale behind the open-source movement. The way Clay talks about 'tagging' and content being produced or categorized by end-users immediately made me think of the mechanisms of emergence which I came across in Andrew McAfee's works before.

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One particularly useful source of information that I draw on frequently is the SOCNET mailing list. Sometime towards the end of last year Christopher Tunnard collected information on the different types of social network courses being offered internationally. He consequently collected the data in a spreadsheet and you can now browse all courses by institution, instructor, category and name. I think this is pretty helpful when you're trying to locate a course near you in a particular academic field. So, if you're based in Europe and you're interested in organization studies, psychology and communications - just like myself - you may find the following courses insightful:

Aarhus University: Introductory Social Network Analysis & Organizational Network Analysis

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: Theory, Methods and Applications of Social Networks (Summer School)

University of Essex: Introduction & Advanced Social Network Analysis (Summer School)

University of Glasgow: Assessing the Impact of Social Networks on Organizational Performance

University of Greenwich: Business Networks

Universität Trier: Sum­mer School on So­ci­al Net­work Ana­ly­sis

Tilburg University: Interorganizational Relationships

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/321045/Photo_small.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37lAsWSmS12N David Wagner kpsquared David Wagner Mon, 28 Feb 2011 07:18:00 -0800 Call for Talks: InterFace 2011 http://www.kpsquared.org/interface-2011-blog-archive-call-for-talks http://www.kpsquared.org/interface-2011-blog-archive-call-for-talks
And here's another recommendation: This time it's not for a journal submission, but instead for an event that I find particularly interesting due to the format chosen by the organizers. The InterFace 2011 will take place this summer in London and is a mix of short PhD talks (2 minutes), workshops (including SNA) and an unconference (see Wikipedia article if you haven't heard the term before). The InterFace is supposed to bring together researchers from the fields of technology and humanities. Deadline for submission of abstracts is March 11, 2011.

Call for Talks

A core component of the programme will be a lightning talks session in which each participant will make a two-minute presentation on their research. The session will be lively and dynamic. Each presentation must be exactly two minutes long, making use of necessary, interesting, appropriate, or entertaining visual or sound aids, and condensing a whole Ph.D’s worth of ideas and work into this short slot.

Participants will be able to join workshops in:

  • network analysis;
  • bibliographic software;
  • data visualisation;
  • linked data.

There will be talks on:

  • user studies and social research;
  • discourse analysis in science and technology;
  • how to get your work published;
  • how to apply for research funding.

There will also be two keynote talks given by speakers whose work marks the leading edge of technology in scholarship and practice. The speakers will be:

Finally, the symposium will conclude with an unconference; a participatory, collaborative, and informal event in which the form and content is decided on by participants as it unfolds and in which discussion and production is emphasised over presentation and analysis. Participants may wish to share their own skills, learn a new skill, establish and develop a collaborative project, or hold a focused discussion.

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