Hi Colleagues:
APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTINGS
As promised, here is a resend of the directions for distance-participation in the ENT Research Excellence Exemplars Conference coming up at UConn starting tomorrow, and running May 28-30. As the ENT Division leadership we enthusiastically invite you to 'e-attend' this conference. Due to budget constraints, those present at the conference will include only the hosts, keynote speakers, editors, authors, and the most recent Heizer and NFIB dissertation award winners.
You can find everything about the Conference, including the schedule and your login instructions, at http://ccei.business.uconn.edu - Please just follow the conference-related links. You will find access to all the papers, and bios of authors, editors, and keynote speakers.
You will see from the schedule posted, that Venkat's keynote will be webcast on the evening of May 28th; and that the editor/author sessions and keynotes will then occur all day Friday the 29th, and until 2:00p EDT Saturday May 30th.
Please note that IT IS BEST TO PRE-REGISTER (please do so ASAP) for the live video web-stream, access the conference website, schedule, and related information. Once the conference is underway, you will be able to access and view the live video/audio feed. The reason that we urgently request that you pre-register ASAP, is because this registration will help us to ensure that we have adequate bandwidth to reach all web participants without interruption.
Please also note that the entire participation process has been designed to be self-explanatory; and we have done everything possible to anticipate and answer the most likely questions. However, should you encounter any difficulty (after reading the instructions thoroughly, please), and should you still be unable to solve the problem, please email khuntington@business.uconn.edu , and include the words CONFERENCE HELP in the email title.
Again, here is the background for the conference:
RATIONALE:
It is well known within the guild/ craft system, that successful apprenticeship consists of effective communication of 'craftspersonship' from those who are more-experienced to those who are less-experienced in the skills of the craft: i.e., preparing research for specific journals.
(We note that while a scholar may be a specialist in writing for particular journals, due to the uniqueness of journal mission and the scholarly community served by a given journal, such a scholar may, in fact, desire to 'apprentice' in the sense of learning how to formulate research and to write to target a journal with which s/he is less familiar.)
Therefore, the idea behind this conference is to have Editor-Author Sessions to promote research excellence by enhancing transparency (effective communication) about publication-skills: the 'how to' in top-level entrepreneurship research as seen through the lens of a variety of top ENT-research outlets.
At this year's conference, the journals to be represented by their editors and by authors of one or two recently published ENT papers include: (AMR, AMJ, ET&P, JAP, JBV, JMS, JOM, OS, SEJ, SMJ, etc.) and several keynote speakers will also contribute 30-minute sessions (Howard Aldrich, Jay Barney, Mike Hitt, Duane Ireland, Patricia McDougall, Venkat Venkataraman).
We plan four aspects of each Editor-Author session that should assist in helping everyone in the field who wants to publish ENT research in these journals, as follows:
1. Each session will be:
(a) moderated by me as Division Chair assisted by a sponsoring colleague from the UConn research team,
(b) webcast to a world-wide audience (instructions at http://ccei.business.uconn.edu), and
(c) recorded for subsequent posting on this and the ENT Division Website for the world-wide use of colleagues who need this information to enhance their own research excellence;
2. A journal-by-journal excerpt of the editorial mission pertinent to the review and publication of ENT research will be provided at the beginning of each session to give context;
3. Editors and authors will then be invited by the moderators to discuss several questions pertinent to helping colleagues in the whole field to use these exemplars as a means to help us in our own ENT research, and finally,
4. Distance participants and other conference participants will be invited to pose additional questions through a 'Comments editor' who will post them electronically in real time; and the moderators will be attempt to integrate these into the discussion to the extent that time permits.
FORMAT
The general format will be 'talk show.' Authors and editors will be (so to speak) 'on the couch, engaging' a host and audience (e.g. Oprah, Jay Leno, etc.):
2-paper sessions will run for 50 minutes;
1-paper sessions will run for 30 minutes.
So please mark your calendars for May 28th through 30th. Further details are now on the website - http://ccei.business.uconn.edu - and we encourage you to pre-register ASAP.
We sincerely hope you can join us as a distance-participant.
Best,
Ron Mitchell
ENT Division Chair
Richard N. Dino, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
University of Connecticut
School of Business
2100 Hillside Road Unit 1041
Storrs, CT 06269-1041
860-486-4483 (Voice)
860-486-6415 (Fax)
Email: rich.dino@business.uconn.edu
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