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AoM Caucus on “Design in Management: Themes, Challenges, and Opportunities”

  • 1.  AoM Caucus on “Design in Management: Themes, Challenges, and Opportunities”

    Posted 07-12-2016 10:21
    Dear Colleagues,

    You are cordially invited to join us in the upcoming AoM Caucus titled
    “Design in Management: Themes, Challenges, and Opportunities”, which
    will take place on Monday, August 8, from 4:45-6:15pm at the Anaheim
    Convention Center in room 213A.

    The goal of this Caucus is to build a community of scholars at AoM
    interested in studying design and its role for management. Rather than
    taking a normative approach, we plan to let themes, challenges, and
    opportunities emerge from the bottom up by asking participants to share
    their current design-related projects. First, we will discuss these
    projects’ intended contributions to the management field and the
    challenges participants have met in doing design-related research.
    Together, we can then map out the progress that has been done and share
    practices to overcome common challenges. Then, we will focus on
    fostering the emergence of new projects. We will ask participants to
    list their skills and/or assets – e.g., theory development, methodology,
    data access – and organize them in groups around themes that seem
    promising, either because they build on what people is doing or because
    they are still largely absent from the design research landscape which
    emerged from the caucus. We will encourage each group to develop one new
    research project by leveraging its members’ complementary skills and
    shared interest on the topic.

    Pre‐registration is not required. Further details the Caucus’ rationale
    and content can be found in the attachment. Please feel free to contact
    Fabio Fonti (fabio.fonti@esc-rennes.com) or Ileana Stigliani
    (i.stigliani@imperial.ac.uk ) if you would like any additional information.

    Sincerely,
    Fabio Fonti (ESC Rennes School of Business) and Ileana Stigliani
    (Imperial College)


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