AIMS

SKEMA Business School will be holding a three-day paper development workshop starting on Monday, June 25. Publication in top journals is a critical criterion for initial employment and for career development of place increasing stress on junior faculty to develop their skills. Rules and criteria to get published in top journals are often based on experience and practice. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together promising scholars who seek to publish in the fields of strategy, international business, organization or entrepreneurship in relation with innovation and knowledge. The objective is to enhance the research skills and the publication likelihood of scholars. To allow for interactive discussion and feedback between participants in a friendly environment, the number of participants will be limited to 20-25. Participants will attend seminars conducted by Gautam Ahuja (University of Michigan), Stefano Brusoni (ETH-Zurich), and Giovani Valentini (Bocconi University) in the morning. In afternoon sessions, they will be put into groups of 4-5 people managed by a chair and experienced faculty. The chair will lead the table session by reviewing and discussing participants’ paper and will then organize a joint discussion session among participants. Thus, participants will be required to read and review the papers from other participants of the session. In the evening, workshops will be organized between participants to discuss theory, methods and prepare the next morning seminar. The coordinators of the workshop are Gautam Ahuja (University of Michigan) and Ludovic Dibiaggio (SKEMA Business School). Confirmed faculty include, Olivier Bertrand (SKEMA Business School), Stefano Brusoni (ETH-Zurich), Giovanni Valentini (Bocconi University) and Lars Frederiksen (Aarhus University). The workshop will start on Monday June 25 at 5pm and will end on Thursday 28 June at 12.00. The workshop will be held in SKEMA Business School at the campus of Sophia Antipolis (south of France). The workshop is open to all interested scholars though preference will be given to advanced PhD students, post doctorates and young researchers You are invited to submit a paper in development for publication or an extended abstract and a CV no later than April 30 2012 by email to ludovic.dibiaggio@skema.edu. Selection of papers will be done through an evaluation of the most promising papers.