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Demografie und Wirtschaft

Drittes gemeinsames Forschungsseminar des Rostocker Zentrums zur Erforschung des Demografischen Wandels und des Hamburgischen WeltWirtschaftsInstituts gemeinnützige GmbH (HWWI)

23. Juni 2010
Hamburgisches WeltWirtschaftsInstitut gemeinnützige GmbH (HWWI)
Heimhuder Str. 71
20148 Hamburg

Organisatorinnen und Kontakt:
Dr. Silvia Stiller Hamburgisches WeltWirtschaftsInstitut gemeinnützige GmbH (HWWI)
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Prof. Dr. Thusnelda Tivig
Universität Rostock und Rostocker Zentrum zur Erforschung des Demografischen Wandels
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Universität Rostock
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Programm als PDF

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4th International Research Workshop – “Methods for Ph.D.”
October 3-8, 2010
Akademie Sankelmark, Flensburg (Germany)
University of Southern Denmark, Sønderborg (Denmark)

For the fourth time Ph.D. students in the field of Social Sciences and Economics have the opportunity to broaden their knowledge and experience in research on empirical data, including SOEP. The workshop language will be English. Interested parties from all countries are invited. The workshop is especially for those who need training in the process of choosing a topic, grounding the research idea in theory, as well as in gathering and analyzing data and presenting results in scientific contexts.

The workshop tackles these steps of Ph.D. research projects:

  • gathering data through (un)structured interviews and analyzing standardized survey data (e.g., SOEP),
  • using the computer for content analysis and as a statistical tool,
  • writing a report and making presentations.

These steps will strengthen the cooperation in empirical research to boost and streamline ones project. For more information about the programme, see:
https://hermes.hsu-hh.de/doctoralstudy/?page_id=26

It is possible to obtain credits for the workshop under the European Credit Transfer System.

The workshop fee is 380 Euro. This includes all lectures, meals, and accommodations during the workshop (October 3-8, 2010). For more information about the registration procedure, see:
https://hermes.hsu-hh.de/doctoralstudy/?page_id=28

Organizers of the Workshop are: Helmut-Schmidt University – University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg, University of Flensburg, the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) at the DIW Berlin, University of Southern Denmark Campus Soenderborg, Leuphana University Lüneburg, University of Hamburg – Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences and Faculty of Education Psychology and Human Movement.

For more information, see:
http://www.phd-network.eu/

IRWS Program and Registration online now!

The workshop program is now available online:

Morning lectures:

  • Data Analysis with Stata – Beginners
  • Data Analysis with R – Reproducible Research
  • Qualitative -Expert- Interviews and Qualitative Inquiry and Content Analysis with MAXQDA
  • Questionnaire Design

Afternoon lectures:

  • Introduction to the SOEP
  • Data Analysis with Stata – Intermediates
  • Case Study Research and Introduction to MaxQDA
  • (Mulit-Value) Qualitative Comparative Analysis

Lectures on Wednesday:

  • Multilevel Modeling
  • Structural Equation Modeling with Amos
  • Network Analysis
  • Teaching Skills – How to Implement Activating Methods Appropriately

Registration procedure:

The system for the registration and payment procedure is also available now. To register and pay for the 4th International Research Workshop you will need to have an account for the Learning Management System (Ilias) of the Helmut-Schmidt-University. To register a new account got to:

https://iliascluster.unibw-hamburg.de/ilias3/register.php?client_id=unibw&lang=de (German)
https://iliascluster.unibw-hamburg.de/ilias3/register.php?client_id=unibw&lang=en (English)

After you set up your account please login and go to the “Shop”:
http://iliascluster.unibw-hamburg.de/ilias3/ilias.php?baseClass=ilShopController&cmd=clearFilter

iliasshop

There you can purchase (”Kaufen”) the course “International Research Workshop 2010”. Payment is possible by Credit Card or Direct Debit Mandate (only with a German bank account). The regular Workshop Fee is 380 Euro (including meals and accommodation at Sankelmark).  The Workshop Fee is 240 Euro without accomodation at Sankelmark (only meals are included).

After you purchased the International Research Workshop you will have access to the content. The ILIAS course “Internatinonal Research Workshop 2010” appears on your personal desk “Persönlicher Schreibtisch”.

Please complete the questionaire “Course Registration” as soon as possible.

For any questions don’t hesitate to contact us.

Diskussionstraining

Institution: Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, HSU Hamburg

Studiengang: Doktorandenstudium

Dozent/in: Michael Lambert Hacker (Bertelmann&Hacker)

Termin(e):
26.05.2010 10.00 Uhr bis 18.00 Uhr

Raum: wird noch bekannt gegeben.

Max. Teilnehmerzahl: 10 (min. 6)

Semester-Wochen-Stunden: n.a.

Credit Points: n.a.

Unterrichtssprache: Deutsch

Beschreibung:
Kennen Sie das?
Nach Besprechungen bzw. Sitzungen stellt sich bei Ihnen oft das Gefühl ein…

…es haben immer nur dieselben geredet.
…es hat lange gedauert, dennoch ist wenig herausgekommen.
…Nebensächlichkeiten haben eine zu große Rolle gespielt.

In diesem Training üben Sie Sitzungen und Besprechungen effektiver zu gestalten. Durch Vorgespräche orientiert sich das Seminar möglichst nahe am Alltag. Praktische Übungen dieser Alltagssituationen bilden den Kern des Trainings, bei denen Sie konkrete Hilfestellungen an die Hand bekommen und direkt im Seminar Rückmeldungen erhalten.

Link: http://www.bertelmannhacker.de/

Bitte melden Sie sich für den Workshop bis zum 12.05.2010 über die Lernplattform Ilias an
http://iliascluster.unibw-hamburg.de/ilias3/goto_unibw_crs_32977.html

Workshop: How to do good research and how to publish it in the best journals PhD Method Seminar

Institution: Leuphana Universität Lüneburg – Graduate School

Studiengang: Promotionsstudium

Dozent/in: Prof. Dr. Michael Frese

Termin(e):
14.06.2010, 09.00-17.00
15.06.2010, 09.00-17.00
16.06.2010, 09.00-17.00
17.06.2010, 09.00-12.00

Raum: C11.320

Max. Teilnehmerzahl: 12 (Es sind alle Plätze belegt. Es sind keine Anmeldungen mehr möglich!)

Semester-Wochen-Stunden: k.A.

Credit Points: k.A.

Unterrichtssprache: Englisch

Beschreibung:
Publishing your research internationally is necessary for most scholars. They either want to get international recognition or external bodies (e.g., universities or research institutions) demand that research is published in international journals, preferably in high impact journals. European researchers often find it difficult to publish in these journals.

The workshop is going to do two things: First, it will ask the theoretical question of how one should design research for publication – issues of theory, good design, moderators and mediators. These will be covered in the first 5 sessions. Second, it will introduce you to some typical problems of European OB and I/O psychology researchers and how to deal with them. These are some of issues covered: publishing as (cultural) communication, framing the article well, producing a good story, theory, writing style and transitions, choose the right journal, response to rejection and rewrites, cutting the article right, getting cited, be a reviewer yourself. These will be covered in the second set of 5 sessions.

To make this workshop productive for you, bring the following along, if you are able to do that:

  1. You should bring along an English article that you are currently working on or that you have recently written (please have the Abstract and the first three or four pages copied on an overhead sheet) – THIS IS REALLY USEFUL IF YOU WANT TO GET THE MOST OF THE WORKSHOP
  2. Please write down the top 10 best journals in YOUR area, include the impact rate, the rejection rate, the name of the current editor (and associate editors).
  3. You will learn a lot, if you write a review of an article yourself. This may be an article of a colleague of yours (and s/he may have asked you to review it) or it may be an article that has already been published.
  4. It is helpful if you read the APA Publication guidelines, particularly the following parts: Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion (Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA Guidelines), Chapters 1, 2, 6, pp. 258-272, 4th Ed.).
  5. If your want to read an introduction to how to write a psychology article, read: Sternberg, R.J. The psychologists companion. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, particularly “writing the psychology paper”.

Further information about this course.

Psychology of innovation and entrepreneurship for MA and PhD students

Institution: Leuphana Universität Lüneburg – Graduate School

Studiengang: Promotionsstudium

Dozent/in: Prof. Dr. Michael Frese

Termin(e):
17.05.2010, 09.00-11.00, 12.30-14.30, 15.00-17.00
18.05.2010, 09.00-11.00, 12.30-14.30, 15.00-17.00
19.05.2010, 09.00-11.00, 12.30-14.30, 15.00-17.00
20.05.2010, 09.00-12.00

Raum: C11.320

Max. Teilnehmerzahl: 30 (Anmeldung über Regina Müller)

Semester-Wochen-Stunden: k.A.

Credit Points: k.A.

Unterrichtssprache: Englisch

Beschreibung:
This course should allow you to get to know important parts of the literature on the psychology of innovation and entrepreneurship. Organizational Behavior and organizational psychology is incomplete without understanding, how organizations start, how they grow and develop, how they change and they die eventually – all of these are issues of entrepreneurship. The founders of an organization also determine the culture of the organization to a large extent (this is what is assumed in the literature). Moreover, business owners can be studied quite well on various dimensions of OB (motivation, cognition, emotion, learning, expertise, groups, leadership, etc.) and they have interesting dependent variables – such as performance of firm, strain, well-being of owner(s) and employees, etc. Finally, banks (and other capital providers) routinely select entrepreneurs; there is training for entrepreneurs. All of this makes it useful and even necessary to study and understand entrepreneurship in OB and management.

This seminar focuses on three objectives: First, develop a good set of thoughts on entrepreneurs (business owners) as a group that has been often neglected in OB and I/O psychology; second, understand the function of innovation in organizations and in entrepreneurship, and lastly and most importantly, I expect you to develop a study design during this course that you might want to perform and to publish.

The language of instruction and presentations is English.

Requirements: Students will be asked to do the following activities:

  1. Read the assigned articles for each session. I shall determine one or two persona for each session to be the pro-person and one to be the contra-person. The latter is supposed to attack the theory, methodology, analysis, and conclusion of the study, the pro-person needs to defend the study as well as possible.
  2. Each session one person will be responsible to provide a small demonstration of how innovation or entrepreneurship can be enhanced – this can be a demonstration of a creativity technique or an idea of how start-up group dynamics could function – anything goes, as long as it is practical and costs not more than 10 minutes of our time to participate in this exercise.
  3. At the end of the course, you will be required to hand in a design for an empirical study. This project proposal should include theory and methods in the same way as an article in AMJ, JBV would do (in addition, it should also contain the limitation section). It should be creative, interesting, theoretically and practically useful, methodologically sophisticated and it should be doable (that is you should be able to actually put this study into effect). I will use the same criteria as a peer review to grade this paper. In other words, the more it is publishable (and doable), the better it is (of course, without the results). It may help here that you already have done a small pilot study within the first half semester. This may then give you better ideas for this paper.
  4. You might want to look into two introductory books if you are interested: King, N., & Anderson, N. (2002). Innovation and change: A critical guide for organizations. London: Thomson. And Shane, S. (2003). A general theory of entrepreneurship. Cheltenham, England: Elgar.

Further information about the course.

Analysing Panel Data

Institution: see Organisers & Acknowledgements

Program of study: International Research Workshop

Lecturer: Toben Dall Schmidt (SDU Sonderburg) tbc

Date:
07.10.2010, 14:00 – 17:30

Room: n.s.

Max. number of participants: 25

Semester periods per week: n.s.

Credit Points: 5 CP for participating in the whole IRWS

Language of instruction: English

Contents:
Panel data has become popular due to their very specific structure and associated advantages. This module will introduce these basic structures and offer some first insights into the different standard estimation methods available to use panel data for analysis – the most two most common being the fixed effects models and the random effects models. In terms of advantages, the module will offer a discussion of the properties of panel data in allowing for unobservable heterogeneity, but it will also point to some of the caveats of using panel data, e.g. attrition problem in survey data. A final issue in the module will be testing procedures to allow for a selection between different estimation methods for panel data. The module will therefore offer a basic introduction into the essence of panel data analysis.

You have to register for the 4th International Research Workshop to participate in this course.

Introduction to MaxQDA for Case Studies

Institution: see Organisers & Acknowledgements

Program of study: International Research Workshop

Lecturer: Heiko Grunenberg (Deutsches Jugend Institut München)

Date:
07.10.2010, 14:00 – 17:30

Room: n.s.

Max. number of participants: 20

Semester periods per week: n.s.

Credit Points: 5 CP for participating in the whole IRWS

Language of instruction: English/German (depending on participants)

Contents:
This workshop is directly affiliated to the course “Case Study Research” with Peter Eberl. We want to see, how the ideas and approaches of “Case Study Research” could be transacted with a software of qualitative research like MAXqda.

It is not necessary to have deep knowledge about MAXqda, but please have a look at http://www.maxqda.com to understand the basic steps of computer assisted qualitative research.

You have to register for the 4th International Research Workshop to participate in this course.

Case Study Research

Institution: see Organisers & Acknowledgements

Program of study: International Research Workshop

Lecturer: Peter Eberl (University of Kassel)

Date:
04.10.2010, 14:00 – 17:30
05.10.2010, 14:00 – 17:30

Room: n.s.

Max. number of participants: 20

Semester periods per week: n.s.

Credit Points: 5 CP for participating in the whole IRWS

Language of instruction: English/German (depending on participants)

Contents:
Robert Yin a famous researcher in the field defines the case study research method as an empirical inquiry that investigates a contemporary phenomenon within its real-life context; when the boundaries between phenomenon and context are not clearly evident; and in which multiple sources of evidence are used.

Case study research can be applied in a qualitative or quantitative research design. Therefore, it can be used for theory building or theory testing. However, case studies are the predominant research design for theory building in management research. Theory building can be either the development of a new theory or the refinement of an existing one. Thus, in the field of management case studies are commonly used as an empirical framework for a qualitative research approach. Accordingly, the workshop is focused on qualitative case study designs. The following issues are addressed:

  • Differences between quantitative and qualitative research designs
  • Research questions for case studies
  • Case selection and data gathering
  • Data analysis and generalization
  • Qualitative criteria for good case studies

Publishing case studies:
Students should prepare the following article for in-class-discussion: Ravasi, D./Schultz, M.: Responding to Organizational Threads: Exploring the Role of Organizational Culture, in: Academy of Management Journal 2006: 433-458.

Further recommended readings:

Eisenhardt, K.: Building Theories from Case Study Research, in: Academy of Management Review 1989: 532-550.

Flyvbjerg, B.: Five Misunderstandings About Case‐Study‐research, in: Qualitative Inquiry 2006, p. 219 ‐ 244

Yin, R.: Case Study Research: Design and Methods, Thousand Oaks, 3ed. 2003

You have to register for the 4th International Research Workshop to participate in this course.

Data Analysis with Stata (Intermediates)

Institution: see Organisers & Acknowledgements

Program of study: International Research Workshop

Lecturer: Andrea Schäfer (University of Bremen)

Date:
04.10.2010, 14:00 – 17:30
05.10.2010, 14:00 – 17:30
07.10.2010, 14:00 – 17:30

Room: n.s.

Max. number of participants: 25

Semester periods per week: n.s.

Credit Points: 5 CP for participating in the whole IRWS

Language of instruction: English/German (depending on participants)

Contents: n.s.

You have to register for the 4th International Research Workshop to participate in this course.