The Operations and Supply Chain Management Division is proud to announce a joint Junior Faculty and Doctoral Consortium at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AoM) in Atlanta, GA, USA.
This event will be held from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM on Friday, August 4th, 2017.
The consortium has been a regular feature of the division's conference program, and has been assisting doctoral students and junior faculty in furthering their research and in building their professional network with peers and senior faculty. The joint consortium is composed of two integrated parts. The core part consists of "research incubator" sessions in small groups. Doctoral students and junior faculty are expected to prepare a short presentation about his/her research. A group of senior OSCM scholars will serve as faculty mentors. At the beginning and the end of the day, we have panel sessions with other senior faculty to discuss publishing in the OSCM top tier journals and building a successful research pipeline. All participating junior faculty and doctoral students are going to stay together throughout the day. Doctoral students and junior faculty doing research on any Operations and Supply Chain Management topic may participate. However, preference will be given to students and junior faculty employing empirical research techniques.
Students who have attended other conferences' doctoral consortia find this consortium uniquely beneficial due to its intensive focus on developing research. In our format, junior faculty are put in a unique position of receiving advice from senior faculty as well as acting as mentors for doctoral students.
The consortium coordinators are Finn Wynstra (fwynstra@rsm.nl) for the junior faculty and Stephanie Eckerd (seckerd@utk.edu) for the doctoral students. If you are interested in attending the Joint Junior Faculty and Doctoral Consortium, send your application by e-mail to the relevant coordinator by May 6th, 2017. We have room for 30 participants; successful applications will be acknowledged latest by May 15. The applications should include: (i) a vita, (ii) full contact information, (iii) advisor's contact information (doctoral students only), (iv) a one-sentence statement on your stage in the doctoral program (doctoral students only), (v) a three-page summary of your dissertation research (doctoral students only), and (vi) a three-page research prospectus (junior faculty only). Doctoral students should also indicate whether they apply for a travel grant from the OSCM Division Student Assistance Fund. (If interested, see the details in the OSCM Endowment Charter).
For any questions, please contact Finn Wynstra (fwynstra@rsm.nl) or Stephanie Eckerd (seckerd@utk.edu).
Kind regards,
Stephanie Eckerd, University of Tennessee, USA
Finn Wynstra, Erasmus University, the Netherlands