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3^rd Annual Content Analysis Professional Development Workshop

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Primary Sponsor: Managerial & Organizational Cognition (MOC)

Co-Sponsors: Research Methods (RM), Organization and Management Theory (OMT), Organization Behavior (OB), Business Policy & Strategy (BPS), Social Issues in Management (SIM), Entrepreneurship (ENT)

Friday, August 12, 2011 8:00AM - 12:00PM at Grand Hyatt in Lone Star D

Part I (8:00AM – 10:00AM): Introduction to Content Analysis

Part II (10:00AM – 12:00PM): Proposal Feedback (by invitation)

Are you using content analysis techniques and applications in your research? Would you like to learn more about this widely applicable methodology and discuss your work with major scholars in the field? Please join us for the 3rd annual Content Analysis PDW on Friday, August 12 at the 2011 Academy of Management Annual Conference in San Antonio.

Part I of the PDW will provide an introduction to content analysis as a research methodology and outline appropriate applications, reliability, and validity concerns. Experts will walk through examples of content analysis techniques from published research and an expert panel will address questions and offer publishing tips.

In Part II, experts and authors will interact in small-group roundtables to discuss the content, structure, techniques, and potential journal outlets of each manuscript. Research proposals will be selected and shared for pre-reading among group members with similar interests in advance of the PDW.

Please note that you may attend either or both parts of the PDW. Part I is open to all attendees. Part II is invitation-only. Please see submission details below.

WHO: This roundtable workshop is open to all faculty and Ph.D students who are doing research that utilizes content analysis techniques and applications.

WHAT: Your submission should not exceed 2 single-spaced pages of written text. You may also include 1 additional page of figures, tables, and related output. Please include the following in your submission:

1.      Research topic and conceptual framework

2.      Key research questions

3.      Methods

4.      Key findings (if applicable)

5.      Challenges (the area on which you would like to focus discussion)

6.      Four keywords that describe your proposal

KEY DATES

Submissions due: May 20, 2011
Send to: contentanalysis1@gmail.com
Acceptance notices sent by June 1, 2011

We are very pleased that the following scholars have agreed to participate:

Mark Kennedy

Lori Kiyatkin

Tim Kuhn

Brandon Lee

Moriah Meyskens

Vilmos Misangyi

Mike Pfarrer

Nelson Phillips

Anastasiya Zavyalova

Rhonda Reger

Jeremy Short

Remember, you may attend either or both parts of the PDW. Part I is open to all attendees. Part II is invitation-only. We look forward to seeing you in San Antonio!

Lori Kiyatkin

Assistant Professor

Towson University

kiyatkin@towson.edu

Moriah Meyskens

Post-Doctoral Researcher

Babson College

mmeyskens@gmail.com           

Mike Pfarrer

Assistant Professor

University of Georgia

mpfarrer@uga.edu