Program Outline 

Purpose: 

1.      To learn how to become a dedicated and effective researcher and teacher

2.      To foster a rewarding and integrated research-teaching career and a balanced life

3.      To learn how to conduct programmatic research

4.      To learn how to publish in premier management journals

5.      To provide ideas for surviving and thriving in the U.S. academic environment

6.      To facilitate the development of a knowledge- and experience-sharing community for Chinese scholars

 

Target Audience: 

1.      Chinese scholars in macro-organizational areas (e.g., strategic management, international business and management, entrepreneurship, organizational theory, and technology and innovation)

2.      Advanced doctoral students (who have defended their dissertation proposal or who are at least in their third year)

3.      Junior faculty members or assistant professors

 

The program will be conducted in Chinese.  The workshop will be offered every other year, starting in 2009. 

Coordinators:

Brian Wu, University of Michigan (wux@umich.edu)

Guoli Chen, INSEAD (guoli.chen@insead.edu)

If you are interested in participating or if you have any logistical questions, please email chinesescholarworkshop@gmail.com. For any inquiry about the program, please contact Brian and Guoli directly.

 

	08:30–09:00	Arrival and Registration
Session 1	09:00–10:30	Developing Theoretical Research
Reading Assignments: “On a Clear Day You Can See Competitors” (Chen), January 5, 1990 (first written draft) “Competitor Analysis and Interfirm Rivalry: Toward a Theoretical Integration” (Chen), January 20, 1995 (first draft submitted to the Academy of Management Review)		Study Questions: Consider the key ideas in the two drafts of each paper. How do these ideas differ from draft to draft? What might some reasons be for their differences?
Break	10:30–10:45
Session 2	10:45–12:15	Cultivating Empirical Research
Presenters:  Brian Wu (University of Michigan) Guoli Chen (INSEAD) Reading Assignments: “Competitive Tension: The Awareness-Motivation-Capability Perspective” (Chen, Su, & Tsai), January 14, 2005 (first submission to the Academy of Management Journal, or AMJ) AMJ Associate Editor’s letter, February 26, 2005 “Competitive Tension: The Awareness-Motivation-Capability Perspective” (Chen, Su, & Tsai), June 25, 2005 (first revision for AMJ) Response to a) the associate editor, b) reviewer 1, c) reviewer 2, and 3) reviewer 3 of AMJ-05-0027		Study Questions:  What has your experience been in dealing with editors and reviewers? What are the attributes of an effective revision and publication strategy? How do you interpret the editor’s letter and comments? How encouraging is her feedback? Based on these comments, what do you think the chances are that the paper will survive the next run? How effective is the revised paper in addressing the reviewers’ comments? Please identify three ideas that you think effectively address the reviewers’ comments, or identify those ideas that you think might have been addressed differently.
Break	12:15–12:30
Working Lunch	12:30–13:45	傳承
Panelists:   Qing Cao (University of Connecticut), Tieying Yu (Boston College), Sheng-Tsung Hou (Feng-Chia University), and Haibin Yang (City University of Hong Kong).		Study Questions: What are some cultural and institutional challenges as an effective researcher and/or teacher in Asia and USA? How can we overcome these challenges?
Break	13:45–14:00
Session 3	14:00–15:30	Conducting Programmatic Research
Reading Assignment: “Competitive Dynamics Research: An Insider’s Odyssey” (Ming-Jer Chen), Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 26, 5–25.		Study Questions: How do you go about developing your research stream? What is your research and publication strategy? What do all these papers have in common? What do these papers intend to address? After reading these articles, what implications do you see for the development of your own research program?
Break	15:30–15:45
Session 4	15:45–17:15	Building a Research-Centered Career and Balancing Career and Life
Reading Assignment: “Reflecting on the Process: Building Competitive Dynamics Research” (Ming-Jer Chen), Asia Pacific Journal of Management (forthcoming).		Study Questions: How do you balance the competing demands of career and life? What makes a great teacher? What makes a great researcher? What makes a great business leader? What do these three have in common?
Break	17:15–17:30
Session 5	17:30–18:00	Closing Remarks
		Study Questions: What three strategic insights into research have you gained today that can help you cope with the challenges or capitalize fully on the opportunities available to you in academia?