EURAM-EDAMBA-EIASM Doctoral Consortium - EURAM 2005 pre conference event

Invitation to Ph.D. and DBA students to particpate in the

EURAM-EDAMBA-EIASM DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM
EURAM 2005 Pre-Conference Event

Submit your proposal via the conference system until 15 February 2005 (late proposals may be considered if place allows, but we strongly recommend to keep the official deadline)

Wednesday, May 4th 2005 (approx 9:00 - 16:00 h)
at the TUM Business School, City Campus, Munich, Germany

Consortium Chair: Eduard Bonet, ESADE (pilar.gallego@esade.edu)

EURAM (European Academy of Management), EDAMBA (European Doctoral Programmes Association in Management and Business Administration) and EIASM (European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management) invite doctoral students to participate in the Doctoral Consortium. This invitation is especially addressed to doctoral students enrolled in a PhD or DBA programme on Management, Economics or related topics, who have already a research project or are completing it for their dissertation, and who wish to present it to a international scientific community.

THE OBJECT OF THE DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM

The object of the Doctoral Consortium is to give doctoral students the opportunity

to present their research project for the dissertation
to receive feed-backs on it from recognized professors from many European management schools
to contact professors and doctoral students who are doing research in their topics
to facilitate their participation in the EURAM Conference

ACTIVITIES OF THE CONSORTIUM

Plenary sessions about doctoral research: The plenary sessions will be panel sessions, celebrated with professors from different countries, on topics such as methodology, problems on preparing dissertations and writing for publishing.
Parallel sessions for presenting and commenting research projects: In these sessions doctoral students and faculty members will work in groups organized around research areas. Doctoral students will have a session of twenty-five minutes, divided into ten minutes for the presentation and fifteen minutes for comments, feedbacks and discussions.
For doctoral students it is important to practice in the parallel sessions the skills on making short and clear presentations and on discussing their work with the normal criteria of the academic world.
A common lunch for doctoral students and faculty members who will attend the Consortium, which is important for research networking.
Coffee breaks which facilitate discussions and friendships.
Constitution of networks for further collaborations.

CALL FOR SUBMISSION OF PAPERS ON THE DOCTORAL RESEARCH PROJECT

The papers submitted to the Doctoral Consortium must be the research projects for the dissertation

The papers will include the following parts:

- The literature review of the research area or the state of the art of the subject
- The conceptual framework or theory
- The research hypothesis or the research questions
- The bibliography

EVALUATION

Papers will be evaluated and accepted in a process of double-blind referees.

PUBLICATION

Abstracts will be published in the paper book of the EURAM Conference , which will be distributed in the Conference. Full papers will be published in the electronic publication of EURAM Conference.

GUIDELINES TO SUBMIT YOUR PAPER TO THE DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM

To submit a proposal to the consortium,

follow the general EURAM 2005 conference style guide to format your paper and prepare it for submission;
take care that your paper (proposal) is not longer than 7000 words;
Instead of the distinction between "full paper" and "work-in-progress paper", indicate "accepted research project by the doctoral programme" or "working paper to be submitted to the doctoral programme".
Register in the conference management system to upload your paper. Make sure to choose the correct track "00 Doctoral Consortium" !
Have a look on the general checklist of the EURAM 2005 conference to submit papers as well
Important dates: Submissions of papers: 15 February 2005 (you can submit a paper also later, but proposals delivered in-time will be sevred with preference) -- Notification of authors: 15 March 2005

FEES AND REGISTRATION

The fees for the doctoral consortium are 100 €, which are for the organization of the Consortium, lunch for doctoral students and faculty members, and coffee breaks.

To register for the doctoral consortium, please use the general EURAM 2005 conference management tool. There is a special discount for all students who book the doctoral consortium and the general EURAM 2005 conference together.