PDW on Disasters, crises and environmental accidents: Theory development and
rigor based on small sample sizes
2012 Academy of Management Conference
Co-sponsors: ONE, SIM
Scheduled: Friday, Aug 3 2012 12:15PM - 3:15PM at Marriott Boston Copley
Place in Salon C.
Disasters, crises and environmental accidents are attention grabbing
phenomena and they present opportunities to develop interesting papers but
there are considerable challenges to theory development and methodological
rigor. In particular, these events are rare, may be unprecedented, and may
not recur again. The objective of this PDW is to explore opportunities as
well as challenges associated with studying unique events, and to bring
like-minded scholars together to build community.
The workshop is positioned at a mid-point between idea generation and paper
development. The PDW is an attempt to help scholars tease out theoretical
concepts and overcome methodological challenges to foster future paper
development. We have invited several guests who will guide, lead, and
discuss participants ideas and questions. Participants (limited to 24),
will be seated in 3 or 4 roundtables to foster maximum interactions during
the workshop. Well also rotate invited guests around the tables. Before the
workshop (i.e., over this summer), we also encourage participants to join
and start dialog in a blog/discussion forum on a separate website. At the
end, we hope to be able to document the methods, approaches and or resources
for studying these rare events, and in so doing lead to the development of
more research and publications.
Ideally, youll come to the PDW with a page or two of a proposal, memo, idea
or list of questions; and leave with enough knowledge to start a new
research project including a list of potential co-authors.
Invited speakers in name order are: Shahzad (Shaz) Ansari, Cambridge
University, UK; Thomas Beamish, University of California, Davis, USA; David
A. Buchanan, Cranfield University, UK; David Denyer, Cranfield University,
UK; Andrew Griffiths, University of Queensland, Australia; Andrew (Andy)
Hoffman, University of Michigan, USA; Alan Meyer, University of Oregon, USA;
Paul Shrivastava, Concordia University, Canada; and Monika Winn, University
of Victoria, Canada.
If you are interested, please complete and email us an attached application.
Or, feel free to email either of us for more information. Well begin a
rolling admission until space fills up. The application form is also
available at:
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B3u9Qb7EmCIHRkxyNER4OEtUS1k
We look forward to meeting you all,
Ken Chung, California State University, East Bay;
kconemail@gmail.com
Martina Linnenluecke, University of Queensland;
m.linnenluecke@business.uq.edu.au