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If you have an interest in how we measure the value of scholarship and its effects, we invite you to participate in the following showcase symposium (apologies for cross-posting):

Perceived Value of Research:

Pluralistic Meanings of Scholarly Impact

SHOWCASE SYMPOSIUM

When:              Monday, Aug 8, 2016 9:45AM - 11:15AM

Where:             Sheraton Park Hotel in Park D

Sponsors:         MED, SIM, SAP

Organizer: Usha C. V. Haley; West Virginia U.;

Participant: Cary L. Cooper;  Alliance Manchester Business School;

Participant: William D Guth; New York U.;

Participant: Usha C. V. Haley; West Virginia U.;

Participant: Christine Quinn Trank; Vanderbilt U.;

Participant: Tyrone S. Pitsis; U. of Leeds/U. of Cambridge;

Participant: Anne S. Tsui; U. of Notre Dame;

Participant: Kuo Frank Yu; City U. of Hong Kong;

This interactive panel symposium will explore how universities, researchers, and constituencies strategically and symbolically create, communicate and value research. Specifically, we will explore:

a) the meaningfulness of the evaluation standards and valuation criteria that different audiences including policymakers, managers, other researchers, and society at large attribute to our research across the globe: Does what we do matter and to whom? How do these different constituencies measure the value of our research? and,

b) The embeddedness and alignment (or misalignment) of the value of our research in broader systems of organizational, industrial, national, regional, institutional and societal cultures: How do administrative constraints, managerial and societal needs, university rankings, educational and developmental goals and strategies shape our valuation

of research? Do standards such as those posed by the AACSB and Research Excellence Framework (REF), as well as other global mimetic and cognitive mechanisms, shape the value and meaning of our research? Should we aim for meaningful research for wider constituencies, how and why?

With these goals, this symposium will encourage a robust conversation around the valuation of research in careers and for universities, and its meaningfulness to wider constituencies and audiences including managers, policy makers, NGOs and society at large. The symposium builds upon growing recognition within the Academy that our research should impact and matter to wider interests beyond a small community of like-minded scholars; yet, increasingly, our research addresses smaller and smaller constituencies and appears to have less value for societies and humanity.

Please let me know if you have any questions. We look forward to seeing you in Anaheim!

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Usha C. V. Haley, PhD

Director of Scholarly Impact (PTC, Academy of Management)

Professor of Management, West Virginia University, College of Business & Economics

PO Box 6025, 1601 University Ave., Morgantown, WV 26506-6025

E-mail: uhaley@asia-pacific.com & usha.haley@mail.wvu.edu   

Office: 1-304-293-7948 Tel/Fax: 1-212-208-2468 

Latest Articles: Antenarratives of organizational change (Human Relations, 2016);

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