-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] CFP: NITIM PhD Network Doctoral Consortium ICT and Service Innovations Datum: Fri, 22 May 2009 06:46:39 -0400 Von: Virpi Kristiina Tuunainen virpi.tuunainen@hse.fi Antwort an: Virpi Kristiina Tuunainen virpi.tuunainen@hse.fi An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network isworld@lyris.isworld.org
NITIM PhD Network Doctoral Consortium �ICT and Service Innovations� Helsinki, Finland, August 24-25, 2009
facilitated by CEMS - Community of European Management Schools (www.CEMS.org), Helsinki School of Economics and Aalto University, Service Factory
Call for Submissions
Overview: The doctoral consortium on �ICT and Service Innovations� aims to bring together PhD candidates and faculty, in order to facilitate focused and in-depth discussions. The consortium will encompass the following areas: - The relationship between ICT and service innovation; - Managing service innovation in networks and clusters; - ICT enabled or supported service innovation processes; - ICT and new modes of organising (e.g. CSCW, virtual/ distributed forms of organising); - Business networks and inter-organisational systems.
www.NITIM.eu is the PhD network on Networks, Information Technology and Innovation Management. The consortium meets regularly at one of the participating universities and is meant to facilitate transdisciplinary debate at the intersection of disciplines like information systems, management, engineering, or sociology. It puts particular emphasis on theoretically informed empirical research.
The Helsinki meeting will focus on ICT and Service Innovation. Service innovations are typically a combination of technology innovation, business model innovation, social-organizational innovation and demand innovation with the objective to improve existing service systems (incremental innovation) or to create new value propositions (offerings) or create new service systems (radical innovation).
For those interested, the theme of innovation will be continued on August 26-28.2009 in the annual CKIR (Center for Knowledge and Innovation Research of HSE) Summer Conference 2009. The theme for this year�s event is �Leadership and Governance Innovation�, and the conference will bring together international thought leaders (e.g. Ikujiro Nonaka (Hitotsubashi University)) with the key stakeholders of the Finnish Economy (e.g. Jorma Ollila, (Shell, Nokia, European Roundtable)). For more information on the CKIR seminar, please see http://www.ckir.fi.
Target group and eligibility: Submissions to the PhD consortium are invited from PhD candidates, whose research interests lie within the areas listed above. PhD candidates interested in participating should have developed (and ideally defended) a proposal for their research, detailing a problem statement, research question and methodology. They should, however, not be so close to completion of their thesis that they can no longer benefit from the input at the consortium (typically 6 months). With the submission of the proposal a supporting letter from a faculty member is expected (either the Supervisor or the Director of the PhD programme).
Organisation: The core of the programme will be centred on the critical and constructive discussion of the PhD candidates� research proposals. In particular, research design (i.e. the linkage between an identified problem area, a research question and the appropriate methodology) will be discussed. In order to facilitate in-depth discussions of candidates� research, and to provide some additional guidance, the overall number of participants will be limited to 25.
The consortium is also meant to provide additional input, such as: - talks by invited speakers about ongoing research and/or methodological issues (e.g. different research traditions in innovation, IS and neighbouring disciplines); - discussions about the (changing) landscape of research and higher education in Europe (at the EU level and at national levels); - open fora about practical considerations (publishing, job market, etc.)
In addition to providing guidance and feedback to the PhD candidates outside the student-supervisor relationship, attendees will have an opportunity for benchmarking their progress (where do I stand vis-à-vis my peers?) and building networks with peers. Repeated participation for establishing long standing networks is encouraged.
PhD candidates (and faculty) are expected to stay for the entire consortium in order to benefit from the discussions and interventions as they unfold over the duration of the event.
The consortium typically will count for 3 ECTS.
Location and costs: The consortium will be held in Helsinki, Finland, which is accessible by air from most major European cities. The sessions will be organized at the Helsinki School of Economics, which is located in the central Helsinki (street address: Runeberginkatu 22-24, 00100 Helsinki).
It is expected the PhD candidates will pay their own travel and accommodation and a registration fee of 100 Euro. The registration fee includes lunches on Monday and Tuesday, coffee breaks and dinner on Sunday/Monday (TBA). Participants of the NITIM Doctoral Consortium do not need to pay the participation fee (950�) for the CKIR Summer Conference. Nearby accommodation can be booked, for example, at the Helka Hotel (www.helka.fi), Hostel Academica (http://www.hostelacademica.fi/i) or Omenahotelli (www.omenahotels.com ).
Submission : Submissions by PhD candidates are sought, which should include: - A research proposal (4000-5000 words): motivation, research question, relevant literature, research design/ methodology, expected outcomes; - A statement by the Supervisor or PhD programme Director about the status of the PhD candidate, and a recommendation that he/she will benefit from the consortium.
The deadline for submissions is June 15th, 2009. Please send the submission to: Virpi.Tuunainen@hse.fi
Consortium committee: Co-chairs: Virpi Kristiina Tuunainen, Helsinki School of Economics, Finland Stefan Klein, University of Muenster, Germany
Faculty (some to be confirmed / added:) Paola Bielli, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy Robert Johnston, University College Dublin Bernhard R. Katzy, University Bw Munich & Leiden University Seija Kulkki, Helsinki School of Economics, Finland Nathalie Mitev, London School of Economics András Nemeslaki, Corvinus University Budapest Matti Rossi, Helsinki School of Economics, Finland Burak Sari, University Leiden, Netherlands
Timetable: June 15, 2009 Deadline for submissions of proposals by PhD candidates, earlier submissions are encouraged. Submissions will be screened for thematic fit and fast feedback will be provided. June 30, 2009 (or earlier) Notification of acceptance August 24-25, 2009 NITIM Doctoral Consortium August 26-28, 2009 CKIR Workshop on Leadership and Governance Innovation
-- --- Virpi Kristiina Tuunainen, Ph.D.(Econ.), Professor of Information Systems Science, Helsinki School of Economics, Department of Business Technology
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