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Dear Friends,
We invite you very warmly for the third Network of Leadership Scholars Research/Practice Conference to join academics and practitioners representing different disciplines and sectors and to work on addressing a complex challenge with research.
Conference Theme for 2013
In line with the Academy of Management the theme for this year's conference is Homelessness and Helpfulness: Building Lasting Cross-Sector Partnerships with Leadership. Like other great societal challenges such as HIV/AIDS and environmental injustice, homelessness cannot be solved through efforts of one sector (business, nonprofits, government, media, or community) alone. Cross-sector collaboration has been found to be critical to successfully addressing homelessness and other vexing social and business problems. However, few scholars have attempted to examine the role of leadership in enabling such collaboration. We seek to address this gap combining multidisciplinary knowledge about cross-sector collaboration and leadership. Consequently, we welcome scholars from within and outside leadership discipline.
Process & Desired Outcome
Drawing from stories and information provided by practitioners and research findings from scholars, participants will be challenged to work together to develop frameworks for building cross-sector partnerships in the context of alleviating homeless in Central Florida. Our goal is to generate a set of knowledge products that will help scholars and practitioners in researching and designing meaningful interventions to improve the success rate of such initiatives. In the process, we will also inform understanding of cross-sector leadership.
We expect to contribute to academia by addressing the scarcity in research identifying specific leadership behaviors and competencies required for lasting cross-sector collaborations. Academics will also benefit directly from the generation of a research agenda based on existing challenges and tentative propositions developed during the workshop. We contribute to practice by helping practitioners understand what research has shown regarding these issues and what more could be learned by engaging strong leadership processes.
Format, Dates, and Registration
We will address the theme using a Design Thinking for Scholars process developed for our purposes. This methodology engages researchers and practitioners in creatively exploring and collaboratively identifying innovative and valuable new knowledge products. We will organize webinars before the conference in order to introduce the participants to the methodology used and to the theme.
We will begin on Thursday (the 8th of August) afternoon and will continue on Friday as a day-long PDW titled "Homelessness and Helpfulness: What Does Leadership Have to Offer?"
PLEASE NOTE THIS YEAR OUR CONFERENCE IS PARTIALLY BLENDED WITH THE PROGRAM OF THE ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT MEETING AS A PDW.
PLEASE REGISTER ON THE ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT WEBSITE (the registration for the PDW component automatically gives you access to both days of the conference).
For more information about the conference you may contact Chris Dembek (kdembek@gmail.com).
We look forward to seeing you in Orlando!
Organizing Committee NLS Research/Practice Conference
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