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Scholarship with Impact - Conference Call - EURAM General Track

  • 1.  Scholarship with Impact - Conference Call - EURAM General Track

    Posted 11-26-2012 14:22

    Please find below a call for papers. Our apologies for cross-posting.

     

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    European Academy of Management (EURAM) June 26-29, 2013 Galatasaray

     University, Istanbul Submission Deadline: January 15, 2013

     Track: Scholarship with Impact

     

    Organizers

     

    Zeki Simsek (Track Chair), University of Connecticut, USA Ciaran

     Heavey, University College Dublin IRELAND Peter McNamara, University

    College Dublin, IRELAND

    The current preoccupation with scholarly impact, generally defined in

     terms of properties of citation, has become one of global magnitude. 

     The scholarly impact agenda has permeated all aspects of scholastic

    life from deciding what to research based on likelihood of citation

    (authors and schools), where to publish based on journal impact factor

     (authors and schools), and what types of manuscripts to publish to

    drive up journal impact factor (reviewers/editors), to how to develop

     faculty resources and design incentive systems (schools).  Thus, there

    seems to be a widespread consensus on the need for doing impactful

     research and for developing frameworks, along with appropriate

    indicators and valid metrics, for more effectively evaluating research

     impact at the author, journal, and institutional levels.  Yet, aside

    from the ongoing debates surrounding the the utility of citation

     metrics and the application of quality lists, what scholarly impact

    means, how it manifest itself, how it should be measured, and how it can be cultivated has received surprisingly sparse integrative attention.

     We believe that research is too important to study its impact with

     only a single approach, from a single perspective, either qualitative or quantitative.

    Research usually has multiple goals, and it is therefore, more

    compelling and reasonable to value its impact by multiple approaches

     at multiple levels of analysis. Consequently, the purpose of this

    track is to reorient and refocus the debate by taking stock of ongoing

     research, and stimulating new research questions, into the meaning,

     manifestations, and origins of impactful scholarship from multiple

     perspectives, including, authors, articles, journals, schools and

    consumers of research articles (e.g. funders, industry and students). 

     We encourage submissions from multiple theoretical perspectives, and

     are open to contributions from diverse methodological traditions that

     inform, extend, and reshape the debate on what makes authors, articles, journals, and schools impactful.

     

    For more information on EURAM 2013 please see:

    http://www.euram2013.com/r/default.asp?iId=FGKGEL

     

     

    Nora Madjar

    Associate Professor

    Management Department

    University of Connecticut

    2100 Hillside Road, Unit 1041M

    Storrs, CT 06269

    Phone: 860 486 6417