Dear Colleagues,
Year 2009 has been a busy year for Business Networks research domain. Altogether 12 research projects are ongoing in the HSE Business Networks community keeping researchers busy. We have had interesting research events with professionals presenting their latest research and also two new dissertations published in HSE, Risto Rajala’s “Determinants of Business Model Performance in Software Firms” and Mika Westerlund’s “Managing Networked Business Models – Essays in the Software Industry”. We would like to congratulate both Risto and Mika for their dissertations!
Thank you all for contributing in the different Business Networks activities during the year.
Wishing you all Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2010
Kristian Möller & Business Networks Team
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Change in the BN Staff:
Ms Terhi Väistö is a new Business Networks coordinator as Piia Alatalo starts her maternity leave from Christmas. We welcome Terhi onboard and please contact her when you want to share information, events, publications, seminars or conference announcements with the Business Networks community, terhi.vaisto(at)hse.fi. We are also happy to receive suggestions for new persons for the Business Networks mailing list.
Research Archive for Retail Business:
Helsinki School of Economics, Helsinki University of Technology, Federation of Finnish Commerce (Suomen Kaupan Liitto) and The Finnish Grocery Trade Association (Päivittäistavarakauppa ry) are executing a Retail 2.0. – research project, which aims at enhancing the visibility of research conducted in retail business. The project also aims at increasing co-operation between companies and research institutes. In reaching the aims, a research archive for retail business is developed. The research archive is an electronic publishing archive, which uses social media and Web 2.0 technology. The archive is operational by summer 2011. The electronic archive functions so, that researchers are able to add their latest research results related to retail business into the archive.
We need your help, in order to get the research archive actively started. If you have interesting research in the retail business area, please either send it via e-mail to tiia.hakolampi(at)student.hse.fi or save it directly to the research archive http://eprints.herce.fi/ . In case you have further questions, please contact project manager Mika Skippari, mika.skippari(at)hse.fi, phone 040-353 8319.
ISBM Ph.D. Student Camp for Research in Business-to-Business Markets August 11, 2010:
Penn State's Institute for the Study of Business Markets (ISBM), with the Harvard Business School, and the Marketing Science Institute (MSI), is sponsoring its biennial Ph.D. Student Camp for Research in Business-to-Business Markets to be held in Boston, MA on August 11, 2010. The venue is the Harvard Business School. The PhD Camp will partially overlap with the ISBM Academic Conference (http://aca10.isbm.org), which begins at noon on August 11th and continues until 5:00PM on August 12th. PhD students are encouraged to attend both events. Both ISBM events are just prior to the AMA Summer Marketing Educators’ Conference on Friday, August 13th.
For more information, pleas check the website http://phdcamp10.isbm.org. Please submit your nomination before 1st April 2010.
Reminder: Application Deadline for Spring ISBM Ph.D. Seminar Series (IPSS) has been extended to January 6, 2010
Spring 2010 will be the eighth semester of IPSS and we will be offering two courses:
Mark Bergen and George John (University of Minnesota) will teach Channel Management. This course is designed to provide a foundation for doctoral students interested in examining channels issues (designing and/or managing channels). It will identify, review and critique a variety of theoretical topics in the channels field.
Gerry Tellis (University of Southern California) will teach Innovation Strategy. Innovation—the use of new technology to create new business models, products, and services—is a powerful force in world economies that is responsible for the steady improvement in consumers’ standard of living throughout history. This seminar will give students an appreciation of the issues, competing viewpoints, research methods, major findings, and unresolved problems in the area of innovation strategy.
Ph.D. students can register online at www.ipss.isbm.org. Additionally if there is any other feedback, please do not hesitate to contact Rajdeep Grewal rgrewal@psu.edu. Application deadline is 6th January 2010.
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