David Aron, MD, School of Medicine, presented a virtual research session during the 10th International Engaged Management Scholarship (EMS 2020) in September on “Research in/on Complex Systems: If there were a simple solution, word would have gotten around by now”. This session examined some of the research methods used to study complex systems and highlights some of the limitations of applying traditional linear methods to nonlinear complex systems. COVID19 was used as the target for research.
Richard Boyatzis, Professor, Organizational Behavior, co-authored an article with Ellen Van Oosten and Melvin Smith that won the Training Industry Readership Award which recognizes the most-read articles published on the website and in Training Industry Magazine from the past year. They received the award for 5 Training Mistakes That Inhibit Lasting Change.
Philip Cola, Assistant Professor, Design & Innovation, received a 2020 Outstanding Reviewer Award from the Management Education and Development Division of the Academy of Management. This award is presented to reviewers who have been rated by submitters as providing exceptionally high quality feedback and performing exceptional service by reviewing a large number of papers.
Philip Cola and M. Williams published Implications to IRB Operations Due to the COVID-19 in the June 15, 2020 issue of SRA Catalyst, Newsletter for the Society of Research Administrators International.
Phil was the Co-Chair with John Mooney from Pepperdine for the Doctoral Consortium at the 10th International Engaged Management Scholarship Conference (EMS 2020) in September. He also co-chaired the EMS 2020 poster session with Joann Farrell Quinn, PhD Class of 2015.
Phil also contributed an article called “April 7, 1975: Big Red Machine re-ignites on Opening Day,” in the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR). The feature was to be organized in a book online for the Cleveland Indians Opening Day on March 26, 2020. Opening Day did not happen as planned but the article was published that day.
Chris Laszlo, Professor, Organizational Behavior served as Program Chair for the 10th International Engaged Management Scholarship Conference (EMS2020), September 10-14, 2020. Chris presented a virtual research session on Positive Organizational Scholarship.The session examined positive organizational scholarship and future-forming theorizing. The limitations of peer-reviewed research that focuses primarily on what is wrong in the relevant literature streams, thereby foreclosing the possibility of bringing into existence, through action research, any new theories or applications premised on positive-deviance modeling, was explored.
Kalle Lyytinen, Professor, Design & Innovation, and coauthors of study from Umea University in Sweden, examined the history of the digitization of a global leading process automation product manufactured and sold by ABB – a leading Swiss-Swedish global engineering company – over a 40-year period (1970-2010). The study traces the evolution of ABB’s process automation products from chiefly analogous manufactured products to a complex software-based automation platform. This is one of the first full blown analyses of digitalization histories in main manufacturing companies.
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Kalle served as Conference Chair for the 10th International Engaged Management Scholarship Conference (EMS2020), September 10-14, 2020. He presented a virtual research session during the conference called Mixed Methods Research In DBA Programs--Some Challenges.The session was described with the following citation. “Mixed methods research is a research design with philosophical assumptions as well as methods of inquiry. As a methodology, it involves philosophical assumptions that guide the direction of the collection and analysis of data and the mixture of qualitative and quantitative data in a single study or series of studies. It’s central premise is that the use of quantitative and qualitative approaches in combination provides a better understanding of research problems than either approach alone.” Creswell and Plano Clark (2007)
Satish Nambisan, Professor, Design & Innovation, gave a talk at an international seminar on The Evolution of Digital Entrepreneurship, FinTech and FinReg organized by the Hong Kong Shue Yan University.
Satish Nambisan, Kalle Lyytinen and Youngjin Yoo, Professor, Design & Innovation, have co-edited a new book, Handbook of Digital Innovation (Edward Elgar, 2020), that brings together ideas, concepts and perspectives on digital innovation from diverse disciplines including business, engineering, science, economics and policy studies. The Handbook represents an effort at building a transdisciplinary understanding of digital innovation. With several contributors from across the country from multiple industries, one includes Ken Loparo, Arthur L. Parker Professor, Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering from Case School of Engineering. Digital innovations—from smart products to intelligent services—have become important not only in professional lives but in personal lives as well. The study of digital innovation - its development, deployment/adoption and consequences - crosses disciplinary boundaries. The book explores why digital innovation needs to be viewed not just as a technology or business phenomenon, but as a societal phenomenon as well.
Jagdip Singh, Professor, Design & Innovation, was the Doctoral Consortium Keynote Speaker at the 10th International Engaged Management Scholarship Conference (EMS 2020) in September 2020.
