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Invitation to participate in AOM 2012 PDW: Closing the Gap: New time and speaker update

  • 1.  Invitation to participate in AOM 2012 PDW: Closing the Gap: New time and speaker update

    Posted 06-17-2012 03:11

    Apologies for Cross-Postings

     

    Dear Colleagues,

    As many of you are making your plans to attend the 2012 AOM in Boston, I would like to invite you to participate in a PDW sponsored by the International Theme Committee on  Saturday, Aug 4 2012 12:30 PM - 2:45PM at Boston Hynes Convention Center in Room 204. Pre-registration for the PDW is required by August 1. Please feel free to forward this to anyone you believe would be interested in attending. If you would like more information, please do not hesitate to contact me, or any other of the organizers.

    http://program.aomonline.org/2012/submission.asp?mode=ShowSession&SessionID=885

    Closing the Gap: Developing Research Ecosystems of Global Excellence in Emerging Markets

    Research Ecosystems

     

    Chair: Florian Schloderer; INSEAD;

    Chair: Victor Zengyu Huang; Zayed U.;

    Coordinator: Constance Van Horne; Zayed U.;

    Chair: Kathy Ning Shen; UOWD.;

     

    Panelist: Mary F. Sully de Luque; Thunderbird;

    Panelist: Carl F. Fey; Nottingham U. Business School China;

    Panelist: Akbar Zaheer; U. of Minnesota;

    Panelist: Jia Lin Xie; U. of Toronto;

    Panelist: Stephen Mezias; INSEAD.;

    Emerging markets play an increasingly important role for the global economy. Consequently, these regions have come to attract significant attention from academics around the globe. Academic research can significantly aid in furthering our understanding and promoting economic and social development in emerging markets. While some countries, e.g. the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, and China), have already made significant progress in developing local research ecosystems, others, for example in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region, only recently have begun their efforts. However, the development of thriving research ecosystems of global excellence is a challenging task which requires deep understanding of the underlying social and institutional processes: the development of a local research community and its struggle for legitimacy in the local ecosystem, the creation of connections between the local and global research ecosystem, and the struggle for legitimacy of local research in the global research ecosystem. Understanding these processes is important for actors who aim to develop thriving research ecosystems and for young scholars in emerging markets. This PDW aims to share best practices of research ecosystem development in emerging markets with examples from the BRIC countries and the MENA region. Based on these examples, PDW participants will develop new insights and recommendations on how to develop local research ecosystems and "close the gap" to the global research ecosystem. This PDW will also aid young scholars in emerging markets to plan the trajectories of their academic careers. This PDW has two modules: a panel discussion and an interactive workshop.

    Pre-registration is required for this workshop. To register online, please visit https://secure.aomonline.org/PDWReg. The deadline to register online is August 1, 2012.

    For registration or any other inquiries please contact the Coordinator, Dr. Constance Van Horne: constance.vanhorne@zu.ac.ae  

    Warm regards,

     

    Connie

     

    Constance Van Horne PhD, MBA

    Assistant Professor Management

    College of Business

    Zayed University

    PO Box 144534

    FF1 Floor 2 Room 016

    050-176-1657

    Abu Dhabi, UAE

    http://uaestrategy.blogspot.com/

     

     

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