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Sunday 8 July 2007
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18:30
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pre-conference
reception and registration (Until 19:30)
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Monday 9 July 2007
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09:00
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Registration
and coffee
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10:00
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Opening by the conference chair: Maria do Rosario Oliveira Martins
Welcome from the Dean of ISEGI, Professor Marco Painho
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10:15
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Room: Auditorium
Keynote address: Samples, Scales and Statistics:
The Good, the Bad and the Robust
Elizabeth
Reis, ISCTE Business
School, Lisbon, Portugal
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11:10
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Conference
splits into streams
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Room: 1
Stream A - Design and Development
Chair - Andrew Armitage
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Room: 2
Mini track - Grounded Theory Research
Chair - George Allan
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Room: 3
Mini track - Teaching Research Methods
Chairs - Ann Brown and Martin Rich
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11:15
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Theories of
IT Adoption and Research Methods
Brown Ann, Cass
Business School,
City University, UK
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The use
of Grounded Theory and of Arenas/Social Worlds Theory in Discourse Studies
Vasconcelos Ana, University of
Sheffield - Department of Information Studies, UK
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Managing
the Fear Factor: (or how a ‘Mini-Viva’ Assessment can Improve the Process of
Learning for International Students)
Sayce Susan, Bournemouth
University, Poole, UK
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11:45
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Using
PEST Analysis as a Tool for Refining and Focusing Contexts for Information Research Systems
Peng Guo Chao Alex and Miguel
Baptista Nunes, Department of
Information Studies, University of
Sheffield, UK
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Grounded
Theory in Business Research - A Project Management Approach to Bridge a Gap
of Conceptual Understanding
Thomson Kerstin, School of Business,Stockholm University,
Stockholm, Sweden
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Business
Research Methods: From Information Chaos to Knowledge Competence in the Mind
of Students
Jespersen Risom Kristina, Lars Esbjerg and Ann-Kristina Løkke Nielsen, Aarhus University,
Aarhus School of Business, Denmark
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12:15
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Making
Progress in Theory Development in Management Accounting Research by Focusing
on Both Context and Pattern: Towards a Broader and More Respectable Role for
Case Study Research
Lindsay Murray, University of Lethbridge, Alberta,
Canada
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Making
Employees Interpretation of Product Development Work Comprehensible Using a
Grounded Theory Approach
Tolsby June, Ostfold
University College,
Faculty of Engineering, Halden,
Norway
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So What
do I do now? Handling Qualitative Data
Ashwin Marie, University of Hertfordshire,
Hatfield, UK
and Alan Hirst, London South Bank
University, UK
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12:45
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Lunch
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Lunch
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Lunch
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Room: 1
Stream A - Ethnography
Chair – June Tolsby
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Room 2
Mini track - Grounded Theory Research (Cont.)
Chair - George Allan
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Room: 3
Mini track - Teaching Research Methods (Cont.)
Chairs - Ann Brown and Martin Rich
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14:00
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The
Manager as a Mole, Participant Observation by Men who Manage
Den Hertog Friso, University
Maastricht/MERIT and Maarten Verkerk,
Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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An
Application of Grounded Theory to Study Managerial Action During the
Implementation of an Inter-organisational Information Systems
Rodon Juan, ESADE, Universitat Ramon
Llull, Barcelona, Spain and Joan Antoni Pastor,
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
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Millennial
Students, Approaches to Learning and Independent Research Skills
Rich Martin, Cass
Business School,
London, UK
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14:30
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Tales of an
Immersed Researcher: Dealing with an Intimate Experience of Practice, New
Perspectives on the Politics of Regulatory Change and Communication
Dyer Peter, University of Lincoln, UK
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Lessons
from an Action-Oriented Grounded Approach to Researching Human Resourcefulness
Azzopardi Joseph, University of
Malta, Malta and Pete Mann,
University of Manchester, UK
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15:00
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Truths
and Realities: An Autobiographical Account of a Researcher’s View from the
Inside
Armitage Andrew, Anglia Ruskin
University, Chelmsford, UK
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15:30
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Refreshments
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Refreshments
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Refreshments
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16:00
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Knowledge Café
Facilitated by Ann Brown, Cass Business School, City University, London, UK
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18:00
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Close of Conference Day
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19:00
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Conference Dinner on a boat in the Lisbon Harbour Area
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Tuesday 10 July 2007
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Room: 1
Stream A - Action Research Methodology
Chair - José Esteves
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Room: 2
Mini track - 'Critical' Approaches to Research
Chair - Carole Brooke
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Room: 3
Stream C - Qualitative Research Methodology and Structuration Theory
Chair – Jane Andrews
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09:30
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Visualization
as a Tool in Action Case Research
Johansson Lars-Olof, Björn Cronquist and Harald Kjellin, Kristianstads University,
Sweden
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Conquering
Complex and Changing Systems Through Recognition of Individual Uniqueness
Bednar Peter and Christine Welch, University of Portsmouth, UK
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Research
Strategy Development For Dummies: Define a Framework of Research Options and
Then Use It
Nogeste Kersti, Project Expertise
Pty Ltd, Victoria, Australia
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10:00
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2-Loop
Action Research
Lychnell Lars-Olof and Pär Mårtensson, Stockholm
School of Economics, Sweden
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Why Link
Knowledge Management, Ethics and Organizational Culture?- A Philosophical Approach
Costa Gonçalo, De Montfort
University, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal with Mary Prior and Simon Rogerson,
Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility, Leicester, UK
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Possibilities
of Quantitative Assessment and Measurement in Benchmarking
Nikolic Milan, Zvonko Sajfert and Jelena Vukonjanski, Technical faculty
"Mihajlo Pupin", Zrenjanin, Serbia
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10:30
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Action
Research in Interorganisational Networks – Impartial Studies or the Trojan
Horse?
Goduscheit René Chester,
Carsten Bergenholtz and Jacob Høj Jørgensen, University
of Aalborg, Denmark,
with Erik Rasmussen, University of Southern Denmark
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Wasting
Time: The Mission Impossible with Respect to
Technology-Oriented Security Approaches
Wagner Andreas and Carole Brooke, University of Lincoln, UK
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Energy
Management Information Systems: An Exploratory Study of Implementations Using
Adaptive Structuration Theory
Kirwan Orla, Willie Golden and Padraig Molloy, NUI Galway, Ireland
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11:00
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Refreshments
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Refreshments
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Refreshments
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Room: 1
Stream A - Management
Research
Chair – Miguel Nunes
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Room: 2
Mini track - 'Critical' Approaches to Research (Cont.)
Chair - Carole Brooke
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Room: 3
Stream C - Consumers
Chair - Ana Vasconcelos
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11:30
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An Exploratory
Analysis of Groupthink Issue in Focus Group Research
Esteves José, Instituto de Empresa Business School, Madrid, Spain
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Research
Dilemmas in Management and Business Studies
Mendy John, Lincoln
Business School,
University of Lincoln, UK
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Major Influence
Factors in Consumer Socialization of Pakistani Children: An Application of
Conjoint and Cluster Analysis
Arif Farrah, Lahore
University of Management Sciences
(LUMS), Pakistan
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12:00
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A Scale
to Measure the Usability of Print-Catalogs
Schulz Sebastian, Gunnar Mau and Günter Silberer, Institute of Marketing and Retailing of the University of Göttingen,
Germany
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Modelling
Business Graduate Employability: Developing a New Conceptual Framework
Through Empirical Research
Andrews Jane and Helen Higson, Aston
Business School,
Aston University,
Birmingham, UK
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An
Assessment of Customer Service Using Covert and Overt Qualitative Research
Approaches
Joubert Patricia, University of Swaziland, Swaziland
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12:30
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How
Hospitality Industry Mangers' Characteristics Could Influence Hospitality
Management Curricula
Gehrels Sjoerd, CHN University,
School of Graduate
Studies, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
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Room
Stream B
- Comparing
Research Methods
Chair -
Peter Sharp
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I Can See
Myself Doing That! Using the SIMS Virtual Environment to Enable Consumers to
Anticipate Upcoming Consumption Experiences
Phillips Diane, Saint
Joseph's University, Philadelphia
and Jason Phillips, West Chester University, USA
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Comparing
Research Methods in Social Sciences
Riu David, Mònica Casabayó and Núria Agell, ESADE-URL, Barcelona
and Cecilio Angulo, UPC, Barcelona,
Spain
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13:00
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Lunch
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Lunch
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Lunch
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Room: 1
Stream A - Organisational issues
Chair – Christine Welch
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Room: 2
Stream B - Mixed Methods
Chair – Pat Joubert
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14:00
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The Analytical Role of the Network Approach in Internet
Advertising Campaigns Planning
Cucin Patricia and Janko
Hoevar, Aragon, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Nataša Kejžar and Samo
Kropivnik, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Mutual Research Designs: Redefining Mixed Methods Research
Design
Armitage Andrew and Diane Keeble-Allen, Anglia
Ruskin University,
Chelmsford, UK
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14:30
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Development of Variant Definitions for Stakeholder Groups With Regard
to the Performance of Public Transit in the United States: A Case Study
Phillips Jason Keith, West Chester University and Diane Phillips,
Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, USA
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Methodological Strategies for Design-Oriented Research in Organizations
Den Hertog Friso, Tinne Lommelen, Paul Kunst and Raf Sluismans,
University Maastricht/MERIT, The Netherlands
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15:00
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Room: 1
Summary of issues raised during the conference
Led by: Miguel
Nunes
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15:30
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Close of conference
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