***Deadline for submitting abstracts extended to 4 December, 2009***
International Conference on Organizational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities (OLKC 2010)
3-6 June 2010
Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
OLKC is a leading international conference for researchers in the area of organizational knowledge and learning. The conference is international in scope, and inclusive of the wide range of intellectual perspectives that have helped to make organizational knowledge and learning one of the most vibrant areas for contemporary research and debate. We therefore welcome theoretical, empirical and combined contributions.
Building on prior conferences, the theme of the 2010 OLKC conference is 'Learning to Innovate; Innovating to Learn.'
The world economy in which we are living poses challenges that lead to a realization that 'more of the same' will be difficult to sustain. Thus, innovation becomes a critical means for organizational success. Broadly defined, innovation can be related to organizational input, managerial process or organizational output. The OLKC community of scholars has already initiated dialogue that links its particular strengths to innovation issues. This conference aims to further that dialogue by attracting leading edge work that leverages the OLKC community's in-depth understanding of learning and knowledge to better understand innovation. Our aim is to stimulate breakthrough research streams linking organizational learning, knowledge management and innovation.
Deadlines
4 December 2009 Submission deadline of 800 word abstract
15 January 2010 Authors will be advised on their abstract status
15 April 2010 Full papers of 5,000 to 7,000 words due
Abstracts and papers can be submitted at www.conftool.net/olkc2010.
Round table sessions
To enable more interactive sessions, we plan to organize, next to regular paper presentations, round table sessions in which up to six related papers will be discussed interactively. To ensure high quality discussion, each session will be chaired by an experienced discussant and each participant of such a session will be asked to read all the session's papers in advance. At the time of submission of your abstract(s) please indicate whether you would be willing to present your paper in a round table session instead of in a 'regular' session. The conference organizers will allocate submissions as appropriate to meet the convention's time and space constraints.
Doctoral Consortium
A one day pre-conference Doctoral Consortium will be held on Thursday evening, June 3nd through Friday, June 4th, 2010. Workshop chairs are Yolande Chan, Queen’s University; Mary Crossan, University of Western Ontario; Harry Lane, Northeastern University; and Jim McKeen, Queen’s University.
Further information is available on our Doctoral Consortium page here.
Teaching Workshop
A one day pre-conference workshop for junior faculty will be held on Thursday evening, June 3nd through Friday, June 4th, 2010. The theme of the workshop will be Learning and Innovation in the Classroom. The workshop will be chaired by Russ Vince, Professor of Leadership and Change, University of Bath.
More information can be found here.
Special Stream: Local and Glocal Perspectives on Management Learning
The conference will be offering a special stream examining the universalist vs. translationist perspectives on theories of management education, management learning, organizational learning and knowledge management. These theories are often assumed to be general (universalist) and thus globally applicable. Conversely, the translation perspective assumes that theories change in time and space and may even mean different things for different organizations. Papers submitted for this stream should be in this general domain. Click here for more information on this special stream. This stream will be linked the call for papers for a special issue of Management Learning Journal. If you decide to submit papers for this stream, please note so clearly on your cover page and submit your abstract/paper in the regular way. The review committee will set up a separate session on this topic. For further details on the goals of this stream, contact the Dram Group (dramgroup@yahoo.com).
Dedicated Issue of Management Learning
Best papers from the conference will be eligible for publication in an issue of Management Learning or The International Journal of Intellectual Capital and Learning.
Conference Organizers
Mike Zack, Northeastern University, m.zack@neu.edu
Nick Athanassiou, Northeastern University, n.athanassiou@neu.edu
Irem Demirkan, Northeastern University, i.demirkan@neu.edu
Contacts
For general conference information: Mike Zack (m.zack@neu.edu)
For program-specific information: Nick Athanassiou (n.athanassiou@neu.edu)
For more information on OLKC 2010: http://www.cba.neu.edu/olkc2010
For more information on OLKC and previous conferences: http://www.olkc.net