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2019 Annual Meeting: Call for session chairs in the Technology, Innovation Management, and Entrepreneurship track (TIMES)

  • 1.  2019 Annual Meeting: Call for session chairs in the Technology, Innovation Management, and Entrepreneurship track (TIMES)

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    The INFORMS Technology, Innovation Management, and Entrepreneurship Section (TIMES) invites session proposals for its track at the 2019 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA. In this track, we seek to promote the most recent research in the area of technology management, product/process innovation, manufacturing innovation, business model innovation, new product development, and entrepreneurship. Our track is usually very well attended by a lively community of scholars ranging from operations management to information systems and strategy. Many papers that have made their first appearance in the TIMES track have later become influential pieces of our field.

    We invite session proposals for either paper sessions or special interest sessions. In paper sessions, chairs can invite between 3 and 5 presenters (including themselves), who should present work that is interesting to members of TIMES and broadly falls in the categories mentioned above. Papers presented in these session are also eligible for the 2019 TIMES Best Working Paper Award, whose prize money was $1,000 for the first place and $500 for the second place this year (only papers presented in the TIMES and NPD tracks are eligible). In addition, we are also open to special interest sessions that address broader questions (such as meet the editors panels, topic-specific workshops, etc.). We aim to schedule all session between Sunday and Tuesday, however if we receive a large number of submissions we may also need to schedule some sessions on Wednesday. Special requests can be made for teaching faculty who have to leave early and sessions that speak to a broader audience will be given preferential scheduling.

    Session proposals should be sent to Philipp Cornelius (cornelius@rsm.nl) no later than 15 February 2019. There is a limited number of slots available and we may not be able to accommodate late submissions. Session proposals should include a title, a short description, and (optionally) a list of potential speakers (for paper sessions). After a session has been accepted, chairs have until mid-May to finalise everything.

    We are looking forward to an inspiring and successful annual meeting next year and we hope that you will be part of it!

    The TIMES Board

    Zhijian Cui (Chair), Ashish Arora & Moren Levesque (Honorary Chairs), Pascale Crama (Chair Elect), Philipp Cornelius (Vice Chair of Programmes), Jochen Schlapp (Board Member at Large), Konstantinos Stouras (Chief Information Officer), Gülru Özkan-Seely (Past Chair)



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    Philipp Cornelius
    Assistant Professor
    Rotterdam School of Management
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