EDAMBA 2016 / ANNUAL MEETING AND GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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1 EDAMBA 2016 / ANNUAL MEETING AND GENERAL ASSEMBLY Beyond Academic Outputs? Research Impact and Multiple Doctoral Career Progression Paths in Business and Management August 2016

2 2 BEYOND ACADEMIC OUTPUTS? Research Impact and Multiple Doctoral Career Progression Paths in Business and Management Assessing the impact of academic research has been an important recent development in the higher education sector. The driving force behind such a development is the belief among policy makers that publicly funded research must at least have some direct, tangible benefit for society. Notably, this way of thinking about research has increasingly influenced perceptions about the nature of doctoral studies in business and management. It has raised, for example, the question whether doctoral education should focus exclusively on creating academic knowledge to be published in peer reviewed journals. Should doctoral education instead create knowledge capacity that has a direct impact on policy, practice, and society? In this case, what type of specific training should be part of a doctoral studies curriculum? As more doctoral students these days are pursuing careers outside academia, a question also arises whether traditional doctoral programmes are preparing them for such careers in industry, government, and the non-profit sector. The purpose of this two-day annual meeting is to find answers to some of these questions by bringing together doctoral program directors, academics, business leaders, and doctoral students to reflect on the rapidly changing landscape of doctoral research, training, and careers in business and management. PROGRAMME DAY 1 Sunday 21 August Welcome with cocktails The Chapter House, Canterbury Cathedral

3 3 PROGRAMME DAY 2 Monday 22 August Kent Business School, Canterbury Welcome address Developing Engaged and Impactful Scholars Professor Andrew Pettigrew Group work What are the impediments to impactful PhD Programmes? What can we do to overcome these impediments and enable impact to flourish? Report from groups Break The Changing Landscape of Doctoral Research: Diversify, Differentiate, Collaborate Dr Rebekah Smith McGloin Group work What might a thriving Business and Management PhD Programme look like in 5-10 years? What might a failing programme look like? Report from groups Lunch EDAMBA thesis competition award ceremony and presentation of theses Coffee break Annual assembly Closing remarks Conference dinner Clagett Auditorium, Canterbury Cathedral

4 4 PROGRAMME DAY 3 Tuesday 23 August Kent Business School, Medway Transportation to Medway (Historic Dockyard Chatham) Fostering Responsible and Cross-Culturally Relevant Research - What Role Does Accreditation Play? Professor Ulrich Hommel Coffee break The European Doctoral Candidates Market Professor Bruno Van Pottelsberghe Group work Report from groups EDAMBA - the future: new developments for mentoring and accreditation of doctoral programmes and schools Professor Dimitris Assimakopoulos - EDAMBA President Conference lunch The Commissioner s House, Historic Dockyard Chatham Departure

5 5 CONFERENCE SPEAKERS Professor Andrew M. Pettigrew, OBE, FBA Andrew Pettigrew is Emeritus Professor of Strategy and Organization at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford and Senior Golding Fellow, Brasenose College. He was Dean of the School of Management at the University of Bath from October 2003 to September His previous appointments were at Manchester Business School, Yale University, London Business School, Warwick Business School and Harvard Business School where in 2001 he was a Visiting Professor. Andrew s research has pioneered the use of contextual and temporal analyses of organisational processes of strategy making, change, decision making and power. He is the author or editor of 16 books and has published in most of the top management journals in the world. He has been awarded many distinctions as a scholar. In 1995 he was elected Distinguished Scholar of the Organisation and Management Theory Division of the Academy of Management. In 1999 he was elected a Founding Academician of the Academy for the Social Sciences in the UK. In 2002 he was the first and is still the only non North American to be elected the Distinguished Scholar of the US Academy of Management. In the summer of 2003 he became one of a select group of Business School Professors in the UK to be made a Fellow of the British Academy. In 2011 he was awarded the Richard Whipp Lifetime Achievement Award by the British Academy of Management. And in 2012 he was elected the Distinguished Scholar of the Organisation Development and Change Division of the Academy of Management. Andrew has a long history of research and consulting in the NHS. His research includes studies of receptive and non receptive contexts for change, the development and impact of New Public Management principles in healthcare and most recently (with Sergio Seabra) a major study of the turnaround of failing acute hospitals in England.

6 6 CONFERENCE SPEAKERS (CONT) He holds Honorary Doctorates from Linkoping University in Sweden, Copenhagen Business School, the University of Liege and the University of Liverpool where he graduated in Professor Pettigrew was a co-founder and first Chairman and then President of the British Academy of Management. He has been elected a Fellow of the US Academy of Management, the British Academy of Management and the Strategic Management Society. Between 2004 and 2010 he was a member of the Council of the UK Economic and Social Research Council. Andrew Pettigrew was awarded an OBE in the 2009 New Year Honours list for his services to Higher Education. Dr Rebekah Smith McGloin Rebekah Smith McGloin is Research Capability Development Manager at Coventry University. Her current role focuses on the development of people and the implementation of systems and structures to support growth in research activity; from postgraduate to professor. Rebekah has strong interest and expertise in doctoral training, in particular in the configuration, set-up and delivery of doctoral training programmes. She chairs the Postgraduate Research Training and Development Committee for the national Doctoral Training Alliance: the largest multipartner and only nationwide doctoral training initiative of its kind. She is a member of the UKCGE Executive Committee, chair of the UKCGE National Working Group on Diversity and Sustainability of Organisational Structures for Doctoral Provision and author of Structural Changes in Doctoral Education in The UK - A Review of Graduate Schools and the Development of Doctoral Colleges. She is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences and has been twice shortlisted for Times Higher Awards for Outstanding Support for Early Career Researchers.

7 7 CONFERENCE SPEAKERS (CONT) Professor Ulrich Hommel Ulrich Hommel is an Associate Director of Quality Services at the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) and, as one of the EPAS Directors, is responsible for the EFMD Programme Accreditation System (EPAS). He is also a Professor of Finance and the Director of the Strategic Finance Institute at the EBS Business School (EBS) based in Wiesbaden, Germany. He heads the Chair of Corporate Finance & Higher Education Finance and is the Director of the Strategic Finance Institute. Ulrich Hommel holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and has completed his habilitation in Business Administration at the WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany. Professor Bruno Van Pottelsberghe Bruno Van Pottelsberghe is the Dean of Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (SBS-EM) - ULB. He is advisor to the ULB authorities (Rector and President) for knowledge transfer issues (private funding, IP rights and spin-off creations). He is also a Senior Fellow at BRUEGEL and a member of the Board of Science and Public Policy. Bruno was previously chief economist at the European Patent Office (EPO).

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