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II. WORKSHOP ON TOP MANAGEMENT TEAMS & BUSINESS STRATEGY: CONTEXTUALIZING TOP MANAGEMENT TEAMS
Istanbul, Turkey - March 31-April 1, 2011
Chairs:
Sibel Yamak, Galatasaray University
Sabina Nielsen, Copenhagen Business School
Key note speaker:
Marta Geletkanycz, Boston College
Top managers are considered the most influential actors in the firms' strategic behavior and a large body of research presents evidence for executive effects in different settings. Yet only recently have researchers started to pay attention to the role of the social and environmental contexts in which top management teams (TMTs) are embedded. Contextual factors at the team, organizational, industry and business system level are considered not only important determinants of executive composition but also moderating forces shaping the consequences of executive characteristics for firm strategy and performance. In addition, the extent to which top managers matter and exert an influence on their firms differ with national level institutional settings and there is an increased interest in the cross-national variation in executive effects.
The objectives of this workshop are threefold: (1) to analyze the state of the art on Top Management Teams & Strategy Research, paying special attention to the role of context; (2) to devise the future avenues for research on this topic; and (3) to generate opportunities for cross-border collaboration between TMT researchers. We encourage submission of papers that fall into one of the following three domains:
1) Literature reviews and state-of-the-art papers, which will encourage the debate about the role of context in top management team research and discuss theoretical and empirical challenges for future TMT research.
2) Conceptual papers focusing on the special theme "Top Management Teams & Business Strategy: Contextualizing TMTs". We particularly welcome papers that combine different theoretical perspectives to explain the impact of contextual factors on the antecedents and consequences of TMT strategic behavior.
3) Empirical papers contextualizing different TMT research topics, such as: the role of social, organizational, national, global and environmental contexts on TMT motivational and cognitive bases; TMT dynamics and behavior; interactions and power relations between TMT and other stakeholders; executive compensation, turnover and succession; among others.
Important deadlines:
Deadline for abstracts submission: Wednesday, December 6, 2010.
Decision about selected papers: December 15, 2010
Full papers submission deadline: January 31, 2011
Contact: sibelyamak@gmail.com
sta.int@cbs.dk
website: http://www.eiasm.org/frontoffice/event_announcement.asp?event_id=776
Abstract submissions
The abstract should contain a cover page and the body of the proposal (one document)
The body of the proposal will be an abstract of 2-3 pages (cover page not included) and min. 1000 words. Proposals will be single spaced, times new roman font size 11.
The abstract must clearly highlight the following issues:
- Purpose/Topic of the paper
- Theories used
- Research method
- Contribution of the research
The cover page must include:
- The title of the proposal
- Authors' names, affiliations, address, telephone, fax and e-mail
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Background of the workshop
The series of EIASM Workshops in Top Management Teams in Business Strategy were born as a specialized and focused forum where researchers could maintain a distended but constructive discussion about TMT research. The first edition took place in Valencia (Spain) in March 2010, and it was chaired by Alejandro Escribá-Esteve (University of Valencia, Spain) and Alessandro Minichilli (Bocconi University, Italy).
Scientific Committee
Sibel Yamak
Department of Management, Galatasaray University, Istanbul
Email: sibelyamak@gmail.com
Sabina Nielsen
Department of International Economics and Management, Copenhagen Business School
Email: sta.int@cbs.dk
Alejandro Escribá-Esteve
Department of Management "Juan José Renau Piqueras",University of Valencia. Spain
E-mail: alejandro.escriba@uv.es
Alessandro Minichilli
Department of Management, Bocconi University, Milan (Italy)
E-mail: alessandro.minichilli@unibocconi.it