The Pacific Asian Consortium for International Business Education and Research (PACIBER) (http://paciber.org) is offering a Faculty Development Workshop preceding the annual PACIBER meeting, held on the island of Kauai, Hawaii, at the Sheraton Kauai Resort on July 6, 2012, from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm.

The workshop, facilitated by Catherine Welch (University of Sydney) and Dan Caprar (University of New South Wales), and organized in collaboration with Universidad EAFIT (Colombia), will focus on practical advice for conducting and publishing qualitative research in IB, with particular focus on case studies and ethnography.

A special hotel rate for workshop and meeting participants is available for a limited number of participants via the Sheraton Kauai Resort reservation website on a first come-first served basis: http://www.starwoodmeeting.com/StarGroupsWeb/res?id=1112075241&key=25C4C

To register and for further information, please contact Dan Caprar ([log in to unmask]).

Facilitator bios:

Catherine Welch is an Associate Professor in International Business at the University of Sydney. She has a longstanding interest in qualitative research methods, and at the moment her research lies in applying process approaches to the study of firm internationalization. Together with Rebecca Piekkari, she has edited two volumes on qualitative research published by Edward Elgar: Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods for International Business (2004) and Rethinking the Case Study in International Business and Management Research (2011). She has published on numerous aspects of doing qualitative research, including interviewing, writing up and the case study. She and her co-authors have published their methodological work in International Business Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Industrial Marketing Management, Management International Review and Organizational Research Methods.

Dan Caprar is a Lecturer at the Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales. He received his MBA and a PhD from the University of Iowa in the United States, and Australia is the fourth country he has lived and worked in, after Romania, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Dan’s research focus is on the interaction between business and its socio-cultural context, with particular interest in the impact of foreign business on local cultures. Dan’s most recent work was published in the Journal of International Business Studies, in a special issue showcasing the use of qualitative methods in international business. He recently joined the Editorial Board for the Journal of International Business Studies and is a member of the Research Committee for the Academy of Management’s International Management Division.

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Sascha Fuerst

Assistant Professor 

Department of International Business

Universidad EAFIT

Carrera 49 7 Sur 50
Medellin - Colombia - South America
Phone (57) (4) 261 9500 extension 9840
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