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Engaged Management Scholarship
Conference - 2012: Call for Papers
Aims and scope
A new form of engaged management scholarship is emerging through the rapid growth of professional business doctorate programmes. These programmes are at minimum three year academic doctoral programmes taken after a master's or professional degree. Their key aim is to introduce broad, yet rigorous research and inquiry skills as the foundational learning experience for the participating students. By doing so, these programmes offer ample possibilities for engaged management scholarship where research by students and faculty focuses on stressing problems of management using mixed and multiple forms of inquiry and theory. Such programmes and related forms of research and scholarship are also seen to be critical in the advancement of evidence-based management. The
International Conference on Engaged Management Scholarship has been established as a central venue for the advancement and sharing of knowledge related to engaged management scholarship carried out by professional business doctorate programmes. The conference is organised yearly by the
Executive Doctorate in Business Administration Council (EDBAC) which has broad international representation of academic doctoral providers. Our purpose is to promote the value of engaged management scholarship and to raise its profile internationally.
Our second conference will be held
21-24 June 2012, in Cranfield, UK (see
http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/som/dba). The conference will consist of research papers, panels, invited talks and presentations, and a doctoral consortium. It is open to all scholars who are actively involved in practicing engaged management scholarship or investigating different forms of it. Submitted research papers to the conference can cover any area of management inquiry irrespective of theory, discipline or method of inquiry. The papers submitted to the conference need to meet the following criteria:
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Research needs to be relevant for evidence-based management and management practitioner scholarship,
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Research needs to clearly address an identified practical management problem and discuss how the study helps to understand or address the identified problem,
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Research needs to draw clear managerial or practical conclusions from use of the theory and evidence at hand.
One of the authors must be a student or an alumnus from a professional doctorate programme.
In addition to tracks focused on research contributions, the conference will also feature tracks and panels aimed at exchanging key information about the organisation, management, and promotion of professional doctorate programmes in management and business. For further information please visit our website at
http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/som/engagedmgmt2012.
Submission and admission
All research paper submissions are peer reviewed. The conference will only include presentations of reviewed contributions and invited key note presentations. Each submission will be reviewed by one faculty member participating in a professional doctorate program, and at least one student or alumnus of such a program. For further enquiries about the submissions or to submit a manuscript, please send an e-mail with an attachment to engagedmgmt2012@cranfield.ac.uk.
Submission format
Papers should be submitted in electronic form either in PDF or word format. The official language of the conference is English. Papers should be no longer than 20 single-spaced pages (using one-inch margins and Times New Roman 12-point font), inclusive of references, tables, figures and appendixes. Submission to conference implies the authors' certification that the manuscript is not published in journal or other sites which take copyright. Articles under review or presented in other workshops or conferences (including e.g. ICIS or AoM) would qualify.
Conference publication
All accepted papers will be published in electronic form in conference proceedings and made available for public viewing. At least one author for an accepted paper needs to register for the conference in order to have the paper included in the proceedings.
Important dates
| 29 February 2012 |
Full paper submitted to review |
| 30 March 2012 |
Decision on Acceptance or Rejection |
| 30 April 2012 |
Final revised paper submitted |
| 21-24 June 2012 |
Conference |