Dear All,
CFP - of particular interest to those researching in coalitons, networks, communities of practice, knowledge networks and intellectual capital.
Call For Papers: European Conference on Knowledge Management - ECKM2008
4-5th September 2008, Southampton Solent University, UK.
The main conference call can be found at:
http://academic-conferences.org/eckm/eckm2008/eckm08-call-papers.htm
A call for papers for the mini-track session 'The Dynamics of Temporary Coalitions and Collective Knowledge' chaired by Prof. Mike Taylor, Prof. John Bryson and Sandra Begley of the University of Birmingham, UK, can also be found at:
http://academic-conferences.org/eckm/eckm2008/eckm08-minitrack.htm#Dynamics
This track encourages multi/inter-disciplinary approaches to the subject. Submissions would typically explore:
· the sharing and exchanging of knowledge in formal and informal networks, coalitions and communities of practice that facilitate firm
survival and innovation;
· firm survival, temporary coalitions and collective knowledge;
· the nature of the collective agency that strategic coalitions create, exercise and dissolve;
· social processes within, between and surrounding firms;
· the characteristics and determinants of relational patterns, causal relationships, path dependencies and the relations of power and control;
· the use of business ethnographies to explore how relationships and coalitions in firms, evolve and re-configure in and over time; and
· The development of micro-cluster strategies to enable innovation and knowledge transfer.
The deadlines are as follows:
Abstract submission extended deadline: 29th February 2008 online submission
Notification of abstract acceptance: early March
Full paper due for review: 03 April 2008
Notification of paper acceptance: 12 June 2008
Earlybird registration closes: 26 June 2008
Final paper due (with any changes): 10 July 2008
Final Author registration date: 31 July 2008
All papers are blind peer reviewed and accepted papers are published in the conference proceedings. In addition selected papers from the conference are published in the Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management.
If you have any queries with regard to the mini-track session please do not hesitate to contact me.
Regards,
Sandra Begley
Sandra Begley MSc, PgC, BA (Hons), FHEA.
Researcher
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences,
University of Birmingham,
Edgbaston,
Birmingham,
B15 2TT
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