**I cross-post; my apologies for that. But if you receive this Cfp more
than once it might really be of interest to you*****

Folks,

The European Academy of Management are holding their annual conference
in Valencia, Spain (very nice place, btw) on 4 - 7 June 2014. This is
the first time that a track on 'Standardisation and Innovation' will be
a dedicated part of the conference (well, that's what we're aiming at).

Below you will find the CfP. The submission deadline is 16 January, so
you'd better start thinking (and writing) ....

You may find more information about the conference on 
<http://www.euram-online.org/conference/2014/>.


Greetings from Aachen and enjoy the holiday season.

Cheers,
Kai.




EURAM 2014:              Valencia 
Track Number:	           06_01 
Track Name: 	            Standardisation and Innovation 
Special Interest Group: 	Innovation 

By now, many academics, policy makers and practitioners have accepted
that standardisation is not the adversary of innovation as which it has
been portrayed until not so long ago. These days, some scholars consider
standards as both a constraint for and an enabler of innovation, others
see them as a common basis upon which innovation can flourish. The
European Commission now recognizes standardisation as an essential
instrument to enhance innovation and competitiveness in Europe. However,
the precise nature of the inter?relation between both still remains
largely unclear.

This Track aims to improve this situation. To this end, it will bring
together scholars, researchers and practitioners that have a stake in
research into standardisation and innovation. This will be a highly
multi?disciplinary group of people, with backgrounds including, but by
no means limited to, Business Studies, Management Studies, Economics,
History, Law, Sociology, Engineering, Computer Science, Information
Systems, and Policy Studies. Thus, the track will provide an opportunity
for experts from these very different communities to meet, interact,
exchange views and ideas and, ultimately, come to a better understanding
of the mutual dependencies between standardisation and innovation.
While such a better understanding is clearly desirable for the academic
community, it has also potentially significant practical ramifications.
Not least due to the associated IPR issues, standardisation has become a
multi?billion Dollar business. Accordingly, a better understanding of
how to use standards as an enabler of innovation, and how to prevent
them from becoming a constraining factor, is of considerable interest to
both for companies and policy makers. 

The Track will look at both the role of standardisation (the process)
and of standards (the resulting product) in relation to innovation. That
is, it will try to find answers to the questions: 

* How can standards be deployed as an enabler of innovation?
* How can standardisation be used as a platform for (open) innovation?
* How to better understand the overlapping concepts of standards,
dominant designs and platforms?


Proponents 	
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Knut Blind 	<[log in to unmask]>
TU Berlin;	
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University; 
Fraunhofer FOKUS.
       
Kai Jakobs 	
RWTH Aachen.
       
Henk de Vries 	
Rotterdam School of Management Erasmus University. 


Keywords:
Standardisation, Innovation, Dominant designs, Standards, Platforms 
       				
      
Submission guidelines EURAM 2014 
--------------------------------

Please,	follow these guidelines and formatting instructions to prepare
and submit your paper. 

RULE OF 3: 
Please note that you may be listed as an author or co-author on up to 3
submitted papers. 

1. 	Each paper can only be submitted to ONE topic or track.

2. 	Submitted papers must NOT have been previously published and if
under review, must NOT appear in print before EURAM 2014 Conference.

3. 	To facilitate the blind review process, remove ALL authors
identifying information, including acknowledgements from the text, and
document/file properties. (Any submissions with author information will
be automatically DELETED).

4.	The entire paper (title page, abstract, main text, figures, tables,
references, etc.) must be in ONE document created in PDF format.

5.	The maximum length of the paper is 40 pages (including ALL tables,
appendices and references). The paper format should follow the European
Management Review Style Guide.

6. 	Use Times New Roman 12pitch font, double spaced, and 1?inch (2.5 cm)
margin all around.

7. 	Number all of the pages of the paper.

8. 	No changes in the paper title, abstract, authorship, and actual
paper can occur AFTER the submission deadline.

9. 	Check that the PDF File of your paper prints correctly and ensure
that the file is virus free.

10. 	Submissions will be done on?line on the EURAM 2014 website from
December 1st 2013 till January 16th 2014.

11. 	Only submissions in English shall be accepted for review.

12. 	In case of acceptance, the author or one of the co-authors should
be available to present the paper at the conference.

13. 	In case of acceptance, each author can present only one paper at
the conference.

14.	Particularly good and relevant papers will be considered for
inclusion in the Handbook of Standards and Innovation (Edward Elgar
Publishers) or for a special of the Int. J. of IT Standards &
Standardisation Research (igi Global).


________________________________________________________________


Kai Jakobs

RWTH Aachen University
Computer Science Department
Informatik 4 (Communication and Distributed Systems)
Ahornstr. 55, D-52074 Aachen, Germany
Tel.: +49-241-80-21405
Fax:  +49-241-80-22222
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<http://www.comsys.rwth-aachen.de/team/kai-jakobs/>

EURAS - The European Academy for Standardization. 
<http://www.euras.org>

The International Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research. 
<http://www.igi-global.com/ijitsr>

The 'Advances in Information Technology Standards and Standardization
Research' book series.
<http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/TitleDetails.aspx?TitleId=37142>