Doctoral Seminars
The EuroMed Academy of Business announces three Doctoral Seminars
that will take place preceding the EuroMed 2012 Annual Conference. These will be
held on September 20th - 21st 2013 in Estoril, Portugal.
All participants
in the Doctoral seminar are eligible for the EMAB Award for the Best
Doctoral Dissertation Proposal and will be exempted from the
conference registration fees. The Institute offers a limited number of
Scholarships of up to Euro 600 each.
Presented papers
and abstracts will be published in ISI Thompson Reuters accredited conference
proceedings. The deadline for sending a paper to the Doctoral Workshop is the
15th July 2013.
- Doctoral Seminar on M&A
The seminar will provide a unique opportunity for doctoral students
to further develop their research ideas, learn about the challenges of
conducting M&A research and building a successful academic career in this
field, and broaden their professional networks. The format of the Seminar will
facilitate a constructive and supportive discussion among doctoral students and
participating faculty on topics of broad interest such as new trends in
conducting high-impact M&A research, managing the dissertation stage and
the job search process, and successful entry into the academic career. In
addition, students will receive concrete feedback on their individual current
research projects as well as ideas and guidance for their future research
agenda.
For more details, please visit EMRBI website or email Prof. Yaakov Weber yweber@bezeqint.net
or Dr. Shlomo Tarba tarba2003@gmail.com
- Doctoral Seminar on Management
The seminar will provide Doctoral students, from all areas of Management Science, with the opportunity to debate their research
between their peers and a panel of distinguished research faculty.
The seminar is designed to facilitate productive discussions on a
wide range of topics such as new research streams in Management research,
doctoral research implementation strategies, methodological issues,
successfully entering academia etc. All research projects that will be
presented will receive concrete feedback as well as proposals and advice on
their upcoming research scheme.
For more
details, please visit the conference website or email Dr Evangelos Tsoukatos tsoukat@staff.teicrete.gr
- Doctoral Seminar on Marketing
The Seminar
relates to all facets of Marketing Science (i.e. Strategic Marketing- i.e.
Growth and Competitive Strategies, Branding, Corporate and Behavioral Branding;
Relationship Marketing; E-Marketing), International Marketing, Marketing
Communications, Consumer Behavior and Consumerism, Social/Societal Marketing.
Doctoral students will have the opportunity to get individual and detailed
feedback on all stages of the PhD/DBA journey, presentations held as well as on
intended future publications from peers, distinguished faculty and editors in
an interactive and stimulating ambience cross-fertilizing ideas for future
research and/or possible collaboration, networking and career development.
For more
details, please, visit the conference website or email Prof. Demetris Vrontis (vrontis.d@unic.ac.cy)
or Dr. Hans Ruediger Kaufmann (kaufmann.r@unic.ac.cy).
Participation fee
The participation full (see scholarship below) fee
is 1200 Euro. This fee includes participation to the seminar, the documents,
and refreshment during the seminar.
Cancellations made before September 1, will be reimbursed with 10% deduction of
the total fee. No reimbursement will be possible after this date.
Abstracts/papers
that are submitted by participants for the Doctoral Seminar will be considered
for presentation at the conference that follow the DoctoralSeminar. Accepted
abstracts/papers will be published in the book of proceedings and papers will
be considered for publication at the EMJB. Participants in the seminar, with or
without papers/abstracts, will be able to participate in the conference without
any additional registration fees. However, participants will pay the minimum
variable costs such as for Gala dinner, lunches, coffee breaks, etc.
EMRBI scholarships
The institute offers a limited number of scholarships up to 600 Euro each.
Doctoral students should include a letter of recommendation of his/her local
faculty supporting the application.
Applications
Interested
candidates (doctoral students, junior faculty, practitioners, consultants, and
others) should submit their abstract or paper. In order to create a stimulating
environment and better connections, the number of participants will be limited
to 25. The selection will be based on the following documents which should be
attached to each application:
· Curriculum
vitae;
· Short description (an abstract - up to 5
pages) of his/her research interest. If doctoral topic has already been
decided, indicate the general objectives, stage and progress of the theses.
EMAB Award
for the Best Doctoral Dissertation Proposal
All participants in the Doctoral seminar are eligible for the EMAB Award for
the Best Doctoral Dissertation or Dissertation Proposal. There is no separate
application process for this award. All completed applications to the
Consortium are automatically entered into the competition. The selection is
based on the submitted dissertation proposal abstracts. The criteria used in
evaluating the abstracts include: (a) originality and theoretical foundations
of the work; (b) rigor and soundness of the proposed methodology; and (c)
potential contribution and impact of the proposed work to advancing the field.
Doctoral
Seminar on M&A
OBJECTIVES
· to provide an overview of state-of-the-art approaches to studying
domestic and international mergers and acquisitions
· to discuss various theoretical and methodological challenges
· to present and discuss various
future trends, issues and perspectives on the M&A phenomena, such as
strategic, economic/finance, human behavior, organizational and international
cultural and others as well as the relationships between these research
streams.
The faculty and advisory board members of
this seminar have an extensive publication record, have published books and
articles in leading journals, such as Strategic Management Journal, Academy of
Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science,
Management Science, Journal of International Business Studies, Human Relations,
and have experience in conducting and consulting to domestic and international
M&As. They were, and currently are, Guest Editors of special issues on
M&As in several leading journals as well as Handbook on M&A research
and have won teaching and research awards and have substantial experience
supervising doctoral students.
Faculty
Prof. Guenter Stahl, INSEAD and Wein
University
Prof. Yaakov Weber, College of Management,
Israel
Dr. Shlomo Tarba
Haim Ben-Yemini, former corporate VP, and
currently is consulting to CEO of, Teva Ltd. (World largest generic
pharmaceutical company).
Advisory
Board
Prof. Sim Sitkin, Duke University
Prof. David Schweiger, University of South
Carolina
Prof. Demetris Vrontis, University of Nicosia
(Editor)
Prof. Rudiger Kaufmann, University of Nicosia.
Content
The seminar will focus on the following
subjects and issues:
1. Success and failure factors in Mergers and Acquisitions: Three different
perspectives: Economic/finance, Strategic Management, Organizational Behavior.
2. What insights can perspectives from strategy, organizational behavior,
international management, psychology, sociology, anthropology and other
disciplines provide to our understanding of the nature, antecedents, processes
and performance of M&A.
3. How can various theories such as Learning theory, Resource-based-view,
Knowledge Transfer, and cross-cultural management explain process and effects
in M&A.
4. Theory development and methodological issues for various variables such
as planning, strategic goals and choices, national and corporate cultural
differences, due diligence, synergy potential, screening, evaluation, methods
of payment, and other M&A issues and characteristics of the pre-merger
process.
5. Theory development and methodological issues for various variables such
as integration approaches, transition management structure, cultural conflict
and integration, knowledge transfer, leadership, human resources practices,
communication, autonomy, synergy exploitation, speed, control and evaluation, and
other post-merger integration issues.
6. Linkage between pre and post merger variables
7. Linkage between macro and micro level variables
8. Relationship between practice and theories and theoretical and
methodological implications, and multidisciplinary approach for the study of
M&A.
9. Future trends and
implications for journal publications.
Process
The seminar will
include presentations, discussions, simulations, case studies, and more.
Reading materials that also include recent publications by the faculty of the
seminar (theoretical, methodological, consulting papers, such as from
Organization Science , Journal of International Business Studies, Advances in
Mergers and Acquisitions, Best Paper Proceedings of Academy of Management ,
etc. will be distributed and discussed.
The seminar will
provide a unique opportunity for doctoral students to further develop their
research ideas, to learn about the challenges of conducting M&A research
and building a successful academic career in this field, and to broaden their
professional networks. The format of the Consortium will facilitate a
constructive and supportive discussion among the doctoral students and the
participating faculty on topics of broad interest such as new trends in
conducting high-impact M&A research, managing the dissertation stage and
the job search process, and successful entry into the academic career. In
addition, students will receive concrete feedback on their individual current
research projects as well as ideas and guidance for their future research
agenda.
