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The deadline for the SRI-ASQ Workshop is less than ten days away. Hope you will consider submitting a paper. Best, Witold In Pursuit of Quality in Strategy Research: A Paper Development Workshop The Strategy Research Initiative in association with Administrative Science Quarterly June 3-4, 2011 Annapolis, Maryland The editorial board of Administrative Science Quarterly and the members of SRI are jointly sponsoring a two-day workshop designed to foster the development of strategy work consistent with the quality criteria espoused by the SRI (discussed here<http://strategyresearchinitiative.wikispaces.com/High+Quality+Research> and in Oxley et al, 2010<http://soq.sagepub.com/content/8/4/377.full.pdf+html>). The Strategy Research Initiative<http://strategyresearch.net/> (SRI) is a cross-disciplinary group organized to coordinate activities that promote high-quality strategy research. In a recent editorial (Oxley et al, 2010)1, the group presents a set of criteria for evaluating high quality research; these include theory that is unambiguous, rigorously derived (typically, formal), consistent with the core drivers of the phenomenon under investigation and measurable; and transparent empirical work that lays out stylized facts or tests extant theory using empirical designs and methods that generate valid inferences. Based on the belief that modern theory development and advanced empirical methods require full-length papers to elaborate, the SRI also advocates a deeper specialization of papers along the theoretical-empirical divide. Administrative Science Quarterly<http://www2.johnson.cornell.edu/publications/asq/> is a top-tier journal that has been on the cutting-edge of organizational studies since the field began. ASQ explicitly seeks to promote high quality interdisciplinary theoretical and empirical work across a wide range of perspectives and styles. Given the clear intersection with SRI's objectives, the ASQ editorial board and the members of SRI are jointly sponsoring a two-day paper development workshop that will encourage the development of high quality work in strategy that would be of interest to the readership of ASQ. For this workshop we seek a group of 20-30 promising young strategy scholars who wish to push their work further in either an empirical or a theoretical direction. During these two days participants will workshop their high-quality almost-journal-submission-ready working papers to strengthen their contributions by focusing and deepening the paper in a theoretical or empirical direction. ASQ editorial board members and SRI faculty (that include both theoretical and empirical specialists) will jointly lead and facilitate the workshop. We will provide technical assistance and practical advice to authors in small groups organized around common perspectives, methods or styles. The goal of this workshop is to allow scholars to attract quality feedback to: (i) significantly increase the future impact of current working papers; and (ii) then develop concrete plans for follow-on projects that will advance a set of meaningful research questions identified during the workshop. Submission Guidelines Interested individuals should submit the following materials in electronic form to Brian Silverman ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) by April 15, 2011: 1. A current CV 2. The working paper to be workshopped 3. A 1-2 page application letter that: (a) indicates how your paper might be refined or developed; and, (b) briefly describes how the paper fits into a broader research agenda. The workshop will take place in Annapolis, Maryland. Participants will be responsible for covering their own costs of travel and hotel accommodations. A small registration fee (to be determined) will be charged to cover the costs of meals and conference room rental. Faculty who plan to serve as facilitators include Phil Anderson (INSEAD), Ramon Casadesus-Masanell (Harvard), Witold Henisz (Wharton), David Hsu (Wharton), Anne Marie Knott (Washington U.), Joanne Oxley (Toronto), Hayagreeva Rao (Stanford), Peter Roberts (Emory), Elaine Romanelli (Georgetown), Michael Ryall (Toronto), Rachelle Sampson (Maryland), Brian Silverman (Toronto) and Nicolaj Siggelkow (Wharton). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Witold (Vit) Jerzy Henisz Deloitte & Touche Associate Professor of Management in Honor of Russell E. 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