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Qualitative Research Methodology and Design Strategies

Institution: see Organisers & Acknowledgements

Programme of study: International Research Workshop

Lecturer: Dr. Anna Brake (University of Augsburg)

Date: Monday, 29/09/14 – Wednesday, 01/10/14 from 09.00-12.30 h

Max. number of participants: 18

Credit Points: 5 CP for participating in the whole IRWS

Language of instruction: English

Contents:

Methodological rigor is of vital importance for the success of an qualitative research project. Research question, methodological approach of data collection, sampling and strategies of (verbal) data analysis have to be well matched in order to ensure a compelling overall research process. The workshop aims at providing the opportunity to discuss methodological issues and questions of qualitative research designs in the light of the participant’s own dissertation projects. It addresses Ph.D. students who seek further clarification for their methodological rationale in their qualitative study regarding the appropriateness of the underlying research question, sampling procedures, interview or observation techniques, approaches for data analysis and others. Thus, in the workshop we will not debate on general issues of methodological importance, but will focus on the methodologically demanding topics the participants are facing within their own qualitative study.

Participants should be well advanced in defining the particular purpose of their qualitative research. They are kindly asked to submit a research abstract no later than two weeks before the beginning of the workshop to anna.brake@phil.uni-augsburg.de

You have to register for the 8th International Research Workshop to participate in this course.

Data Analysis with Stata

Institution: see Organisers & Acknowledgements

Programme of study: International Research Workshop

Lecturer: Dipl.-Verw. Wiss. Tobias Gramlich (University of Duisburg-Essen)

Date: Monday, 29/09/14 – Wednesday, 01/10/14 from 09.00-12.30 h

Max. number of participants: 20

Credit Points: 5 CP for participating in the whole IRWS

Language of instruction: English

Contents:

Stata is a statistical program package widely used (not only) in the social and economical sciences; it is used for data management, statistical graphics and analysis of quantitative data. Statistical concepts will not be part of the course, so participants should have some very basic knowledge of statistics. The course should enable participants to prepare their data for analysis, perform adequate analysis using a statistical computer program and to document these tasks to keep them reproducible.

For Beginners with no or very little Stata knowledge!

Course topics cover:

“What You Type is What You Get”: Basic stata Command syntax
Getting (and Understanding) Help within stata: stata Bulit-in Help System
Basic Data Management: Load and Save stata Datasets, Generate and Manipulate Variables, Describe and Label Data and Variables, Perform Basic uni- and bivariate Analyses, Change the Structure of your Data
Basic stata Graphics: Scatterplot, Histogram, Bar Chart
Working with “Do-” and “Log-” Files

You have to register for the 8th International Research Workshop to participate in this course.

Data Analysis with R

Institution: see Organisers & Acknowledgements

Programme of study: International Research Workshop

Lecturer: Dr. Marco Lehmann (University of Hamburg)

Date: Monday, 29/09/14 – Wednesday, 01/10/14 from 09.00-12.30 h

Max. number of participants: 20

Credit Points: 5 CP for participating in the whole IRWS

Language of instruction: English

Contents:

The course introduces the programming language R used for statistical analyses. The beginning of each lecture comes with a demonstration of programming and statistical functions that will be elaborated in the course of study. The students will then practice with many statistical examples. In addition to statistical functions the course will introduce the definition of R as a programming language and its syntax rules. Students will further learn to use R’s scripting capabilities. Successful participation requires basic knowledge in descriptive and inferential statistics. The students are encouraged to bring their own laptops with the free software R (www.r-project.org/) and RStudio (www.rstudio.com/) installed.

Recommended literature and pre-readings:

Wollschläger, Daniel (2012). Grundlagen der Datenauswertung mit R (2. Aufl.). Berlin: Springer.

You have to register for the 8th International Research Workshop to participate in this course.

Clusters in the Context of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, Smart Specialisation Strategies & Regional Development

University of Flensburg – University of Southern Denmark– Curtin University (Perth)
Cluster Workshop 2014: Sept. 15-16, 2014 in Flensburg

WORKSHOP THEME

Clusters are still a hot topic for scholars from different disciplines. More recently, specific interestin the field was directed towards the establishment of entrepreneurial ecosystems, smart specialization strategies and regional development. Linking these topics into Public Policies and firm strategies in clusters is the central theme of this workshop.

The organisers of the workshop will organise an edited book or a special issue of a journal on the topic of the workshop theme. Participants at the workshop will have the possibility to submit their papers for refereeing for inclusion in the publication.

INVITATION TO ATTEND

The workshop will take place between September 15 and 16, 2014 at the International Institute of Management of the University of Flensburg (http://www.uni-flensburg.de) located in the very North of Germany at the border to Denmark.

Optional the participants may join a Work-in-progress workshop at the University of Southern Denmark in Sønderborg on September 17.

The workshop in Flensburg is held as a combination of keynote speeches, paper presentations, highly interactive session as well as a colloquium for doctoral students. The idea of the workshop/symposium in Sønderborg is to give the participants the possibility to present and discuss work in progress projects.

INVITED TOPICS

We are particularly interested in developing new knowledge in the area of firm clusters with regard to a resource-oriented perspective on clusters bringing together a wide range of multidisciplinary and cross sectoral approaches.

We invite papers from researchers and practitioners in the following topic areas:

Smart specialisation strategies & clusters
Entrepreneurial ecosystems in clusters
Small business incubation in clusters
Cross-border clusters
The role of public policy in clusters
Firm resources, strategy and clustering
Cluster management and facilitation
Cluster mapping and evaluation
Best and worst practice cluster cases
Innovation networks

ORGANISATIONAL MATTERS

There will not be a fee for participation but it is expected that the participants pay for their transport, accommodation and meals during the conference.

ORGANISING TEAM

Professor Kerry Brown & Professor John Burgess, Curtin University, Perth, Australia
Professor Susanne Gretzinger, University of Southern Denmark
Professor Susanne Royer, University of Flensburg, Germany

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Management Revue: Call for Book Reviews

Management Revue is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary European journal publishing both qualitative and quantitative work, as well as purely theoretical papers that advances the study of management, organization, and industrial relations.

We would like to increase the range of books and reviewers included in the journal. We are interested in book reviews in current texts and books within the past five years. The book review should provide a critical assessment of the text and offer substantive commentary on the quality of the content and connection to other published work. Reviews should be between 800 and 1.500 words.

If you are interested in writing a book review please contact Mangement Revues Editor, Simon Fietze with the title of the book you wish to review.

BAM2014 Paper Submission is Now Open

Paper submission for the BAM2014 Conference is now officially open! To submit a paper please go to:

Submit Your BAM2014 Paper Now

Information Before You Submit

Before submitting a paper, please ensure that you have read all of thepaper submission requirements.
You can only submit a paper to one track. To choose, please find out more on the tracks available at BAM2014.
Please be aware that you can only submit a maximum of 3 papers to the BAM2014 Conference.

Deadline to Submit

The deadline to submit a paper to the BAM2014 Conference is the 26th of February.

We look forward to receiving your submissions.

SDU: PhD position in Business Administration/Global Business Economics

The Department of Border Region Studies (IFG) at the University of Southern Denmark, Faculty of Business & Social Sciences, invites applications for a PhD position in Business Administration/Global Business Economics. The position is vacant from 1. February 2013 or soon after. The position is located in Sønderborg.

Job description

This position is one of six full-time academic positions that form the newly established Danfoss Center of Global Business (DCGB) at the Department of Border Region Studies.
The Center is co-financed by a donation from the Bitten & Mads Clausen Fund and funds from the University of Southern Denmark.

The vision of the DCGB is to build a high profile, high quality research and teaching pole in the field ofglobal business (business administration and marketing). Formal and informal relations to similar international research centers are currently being established. The Center’s research focuses on the growing complexity and interdependence of global business tasks and decisions – involving customers, suppliers, government agencies and other actors in different markets and cultures.

Since the center focuses on global business and marketing issues that are related to international business-to-business markets (in contrast to consumer markets), you are expected to be interested in a thesis topic in this area. More specifically, one or several of the following areas should be of interest to you:

New ways to configure value chain activities and new types of international business models in a knowledge-based economy/ novel approaches to B2B marketing.
Innovation and customer relations/ innovation drivers in B2B markets.
Managing global distribution channels and sales forces in B2B markets.
Behavioral/ experimental economics applied to B2B markets.

The department is located in Sønderborg and rooted in the unique history of the Southern Danish border region. It has lively relationships with the business community and the cultural institutions of the region. The department constitutes of an international and interdisciplinary unit with scholars organised around three research groups focusing on (a) regional economics, (b) people & society in border regions and (c) global business relationships (GBR). The DCGB is hosted within the Department of Border Region Studies and is most closely related to the GBR research group. See also this website.

The Department offers teaching at all levels within Business administration, Business Relationship Management, European Studies and Regional Economics. There are approximately 800 students from about 50 countries enrolled at the department. Teaching is conducted in English. The department offers one of the most modern office and research facilities in Denmark. For information about Campus Sønderborg, please click here.

Once the PhD project is initiated, you would be enrolled in the relevant PhD programme at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU). As part of the PhD study, an individual education programme within the relevant discipline of the candidate has to be completed. You would be expected to complete a six-month stay at a research institution abroad and/or at a project partner, and over the period of the programme, to acquire experience of teaching or dissemination activities. You would also be expected to participate in the various activities at the department and – apart from your stay abroad – to be regularly present at the department.

Further information can be obtained from Professor Bodo Steiner, phone: +45 6550 1221, www.sdu.dk/staff/bsteiner, or e-mail bsteiner@sam.sdu.dk.

Application, salary, etc.

Your employment as a Salaried PhD Research Fellow is governed by the agreement of October 1, 2008 on Graduate Employees in government appendix 5 – protocol on PhD Research Fellows. The scholarship runs for three years.

An application must include:

Detailed CV
A certified copy of your master’s degree certificate including all examination results
Application form (please see below)
A project description (max 5 pages)
An abstract for the above project description of no more than 250 words
List of publications
MSc Thesis
At least two references

When applying for a PhD scholarship, please fill in the application form available on our web page. On the webpage of the PhD-school, you can find the guidelines for preparing your project proposal within the PhD programme in Business Administration.

Certificates for national exams based on a national grade system should be associated by a document that translates the national grade system into the European Credit Transfer System. For further information please click here.

All non-Danish documents must be translated into English.

Applications will be assessed by a committee. When the evaluation committee has submitted its report, the applicant will receive the part of the evaluation that concerns him/her. Applications that are incomplete with regard to the above requirements will not be assessed by the committee. The University encourages all interested persons to apply, regardless of age, gender, religious affiliation or ethnic background. As part of the overall assessment of the applicant’s qualifications, an interview may be applied. Applications must be submitted electronically using the link below. Uploaded files must be in Adobe PDF (unlocked) or Word format. Read the guideline for applicants. Each field can only contain a single file of max 10 Mb.

Application deadline: 06/12/2013

Further information: http://www.sdu.dk/en/servicenavigation/right/ledige_stillinger

Call for Papers: Labour Time – Life Time (SI Management Revue)

Ever since the beginning of industrialization the fight for the reduction of working hours was considered the way out of the “kingdom of necessity”. It was only in the 1980s, in the course of a decentralized organization in worldwide networks, that the paradigm changed to more flexible forms of working time management. This is no longer an issue of the collective actors alone but also of the individuals who have to cope with the increasing time flexibility in a socio-structurally differentiated way. From trust-based working hours to on-call duty, from the core workforce with a 35-hour week to temporary work: the contemporary organization of working time took since long already various forms. In addition, the ongoing economic crisis leads in many European countries to forced over-employment and under-employment at the same time.

At the same time the topics are changing under which the problems of the “flexible character” in balancing different aspects of life are discussed in (human resource) management, psychology and sociology. Role conflicts, the balance of work, free time and family or burnout as a possible consequence are keywords which show that work and work time cannot be separated from life time.

In the special issue and the corresponding seminar (IUC Dubrovnik, 23 – 27 April 2014), we would like to discuss our topic in an adequately broad and interdisciplinary way. We are particularly interested in questions such as:

Disparities of working time and desired working hours in the course of time
Quantitative and qualitative working-time regimes
Time-related stress and wealth in time
Balancing life domain work conflict
Models of labour time re-distribution
Externalities of problematic working time arrangements, e.g. influences on family life, happiness, fertility etc.

This is not an exhaustive list.

Deadline

Potential contributors to the seminar at the IUC Dubrovnik are encouraged to contact the guest editors directly with an abstract of 1-2 pages before January, 31st 2014. A limited amount of travel grants for scholars from German universities are available.

Full papers for a special issue of management revue (http://www.management-revue.org/) must be with the editors by July 31st 2014. All contributions will be subject to a double-blind review. Papers invited to a “revise and resubmit” are due October 31st 2014. Please submit your papers electronically to Wenzel Matiaske at using as subject “IUC Dubrovnik: Working Time”.

Hoping to hear from you!

Wenzel Matiaske
Simon Fietze
Gerd Grözinger
Doris Holtmann

Band 7: Conjoint-Analyse

Tim Kaltenborn, Harald Fiedler, Ralf Lanwehr & Torsten Melles:

Conjoint-Analyse.

Mit der Conjoint-Analyse werden Fragestellungen nach wichtigen Merkmalen sowie dem Potential von Neu- und Weiterentwicklungen von (Produkt-)Konzepten und der Preisbereitschaft beim Kunden beantwortet. Der Vorteil der CA als dekompositionelles Verfahren gegenüber anderen, direkten Methoden der Relevanzmessung ist, dass Gesamtbeurteilungen von ausgewählten Objekten erfragt werden, die anschließend in Einzelurteile bezüglich der Merkmale und Ausprägungen dieser Objekte zerlegt/dekomponiert werden.
Das Buch ist eine anwenderorientierte Einführung in die CA. Es beschreibt die wichtigsten Verfahrensvarianten, führt mit Praxisbeispielen in die typischen Anwendungen ein und entwickelt ein Verständnis für die häufigsten Fallstricke. Die Praxisdurchführung der CA wird zusätzlich an drei Computerprogrammen (SSI Web von Sawtooth Software, CAM von NORDLIGHT research, Conjoint in R) erläutert.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Schlüsselwörter: Multivariate Statistik, Datenanalyse, Präferenzmodelle, Sozialwissenschaftliche Methodik, Marktsegmentierung, Schätzverfahren, Urteilsbildung

Tim Kaltenborn ist Leiter der Abteilung Hochschulbeziehungen und Studierendenforschung bei UNIVERSUM Communications und Dozent für Marktforschung an verschiedenen Hochschulen. Seine Forschung liegt überwiegend im Bereich Kunden- und Trendbefragungen, Präferenzstrukturen und Conjoint-Analysen .

Harald Fiedler ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der BiTS Iserlohn. Seine Interessensschwerpunkte sind adaptive Verfahren auf Grundlage der Item Response Theorie, MCMC-Verfahren und die Behandlung fehlender Werte (missing data) mit Hilfe Multipler Imputation

Torsten Melles ist geschäftsführender Gesellschafter von NORDLIGHT research. Er ist Diplom-Psychologe und hat sich im Rahmen seines Studiums und der Dissertation mit methodischen Fragestellungen der Conjoint-Analyse beschäftigt, und verfügt über langjährige Erfahrung in der Durchführung von Marktforschungsstudien, insbesondere im Bereich „Produkttests und Werbewirkung“.

Ralf Lanwehr ist Forschungsdekan und Professor für Wirtschaftspsychologie an der Business and Information Technology School (BiTS) Iserlohn. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Organisationspsychologie und Methodenlehre.

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