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INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT DIVISION DOCTORAL STUDENT CONSORTIUM

2010 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Montreal

August 7, 2010

Call for Participants

APPLICATION DEADLINE: April 20

The International Management Division will hold a doctoral consortium at the forthcoming Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management in Montreal from 8.00am to 5.30pm on Saturday, August 7, 2010.

This doctoral consortium is for advanced doctoral students interested in international management research and who have already made substantial advances in their dissertation. The consortium will provide opportunities for structured discussion and informal interaction between doctoral students and faculty panelists on research, publishing, and career development. Concurrent sessions will be devoted to thesis development where participants will have the opportunity to present and discuss their dissertation research with faculty members. The IMD doctoral consortium emphasizes providing feedback on dissertations in progress.

The doctoral consortium faculty will be awarding up to five Most Promising Dissertation Proposals. These awards will be given based on both the written proposal submitted to the consortium (see below) and the student's presentation of their proposal. The awards will be presented at the IM Division Business Meeting and include a monetary reward (up to $250).

At the end of the consortium (4.00pm to 5.30pm), there will be a "Meet the Editors" session to meet the editors of leading journals in management. This will be held jointly with the IM Junior Faculty Consortium.

The doctoral consortium is being organized by Xavier Martin (Tilburg University).

The distinguished faculty panelists include Tunji Adegbesan (Pan-African University), Africa Ariño (IESE), Sea-Jin Chang (National University of Singapore), Xiao-Ping Chen (University of Washington), Ya-Ru Chen (Cornell University), Wilbur Chung (University of Maryland), Tarun Khanna (Harvard University), Mark Peterson (Florida Atlantic University), Myles Shaver (University of Minnesota), Günter Stahl (Vienna University of  Economics &  INSEAD), and Mary Zellmer-Bruhn (University of Minnesota).

Interested students should send an application including a nomination letter from their thesis advisor with information on their dissertation progress, a one page CV, and a brief description of their dissertation. The description of the dissertation should be no longer than two pages of text in length (12 point font), plus one page maximum for figures, tables or key references; the text should provide information about (1) research question and key concepts, (2) relevant literature, (3) theory development and main predictions, (4) overview of the research design (data sources, dependent and principal independent variables, analytical methodology), (5) findings to date and anticipated findings (make clear what is actual and what remains to be done); and (6) implications. Priority will be given to students whose dissertation topic is clearly defined and whose dissertation is well in progress. However, graduating doctoral students who have accepted a faculty position by April 15 should apply for the Junior Faculty Consortium instead.

The criteria for the Most Promising Dissertation Proposal award include (a) the appropriateness of concepts and the use of literature, (b) the substantiveness and insight of theory development, (c) the appropriateness of the research design and its fit with the theory, (d) the overall substantiveness and originality of the proposed contributions to international management, and (e) the plausibility that the dissertation will achieve its stated goals.

The deadline for applications is April 20, 2010. Send the above stated material to imdc2010@gmail.com with the message header "IM consortium application". Specific questions about the consortium can be sent to Xavier Martin (x.martin@uvt.nl).

Xavier Martin

Tilburg University (The Netherlands)

E-mail: x.martin@uvt.nl