Methodspace: Connecting the Research Community

This new site may be of interest to you: www.methodspace.com. It is a venue to share and discuss research ideas:

Methodspace: Connecting the research community

New social network aims to bring together practical support in research methods

Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore and Washington DC (26 March 2009)—SAGE, the world’s leading independent academic publisher has today [...]

Qualitative Research in IS?

NSF released a report from the workshop on Interdisciplinary Standards for Systematic Qualitative Research, and it contains some ideas on promising areas of research in law, anthropology, political science, and sociology. We use qualitative research methods as well; what are our promising areas of research? I’m interested to hear your thoughts. I’m also interested in [...]

Strengthsfinder

I’ve recently been going through a book based on Gallup data on identifying individual strengths and putting them to work in your career.  It was very interesting to see what kinds of roles and tasks are suited for different individuals, as well as the process (psychometric, cluster analysis, etc.) Gallup went through to identify these [...]

What I’ve been reading – The Long Tail

This post is in response to Rachel’s inquiry of a book to recommend. Good idea for suggesting this as a forum for sharing interesting books!
I read The Long Tail  by Christopher Anderson last year and found it to offer many insights into the shape of the current economy, which is mostly a result of the [...]

OCIS – Call for Reviewers for 2009 Annual Meeting

The Organizational Communication and Information Systems
(OCIS) Division needs your help to build another outstanding program of scholarly activities for the 2009 Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Chicago.  The OCIS Division typically attracts 200+ submissions (and this year we expect more), and reviewers play a critical role in transforming these submissions into the high [...]

OCIS Call for Papers for AOM 2009 Annual Meeting

CALL FOR PAPERS
 
ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT
Organizational Communication and Information Systems (OCIS)
 
2009 Academy of Management Annual Meeting
August 7-11, 2009 – Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A 
http://ocis.aomonline.org
http://meeting.aomonline.org/2009/
 
Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: January 15, 2009 at 5:00 PM EST
Review Deadline: February 13, 2009
Status Notification: April 10, 2009
 
Program Chair:
Brian Butler, Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh
ocis2009@katz.pitt.edu
 
Submission Website: http://submissions.aomonline.org/2009/
 
Information about the New [...]