<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p style="margin-top: 3.75pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 1cm; font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">International PhD Seminar: Knowledge, Information Technology & Networks, </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; ">19-23 June, 2011, VU University Amsterdam</span></p><p style="margin-top: 3.75pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 1cm; font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">The field of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; ">knowledge, information technology and networks (KIN)</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> has become increasingly popular among organizations who assume that its innovative capacity increasingly depends on information and knowledge being created and shared within networks ranging from fellow professionals to competitors. These future scenario’s often lack a solid understanding of what is really going on in this field and also miss out on the interesting new phenomena that arise from practice. The responsibility of academic scholars is to provide a needed counter-balance and conduct academic research on these topics that are empirically and conceptually sound as well as reflective. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; ">This course helps Doctoral candidates to become informed about the latest research within this field and academically reflect on the role of KIN for organisations.</span></span></p><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 1cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><b><u><br></u></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 1cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">International faculty includes: </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 1cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Michel Avital (University of Amsterdam); </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 1cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Patrick Cohendet (HEC Montreal); </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 1cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Marleen Huysman (VU University Amsterdam); </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 1cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Natalia Levina (New York university); </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 1cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Paul Pavlou (Temple University); </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 1cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Charles Steinfield (Michigan State University); </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 1cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Emmanuelle Vaast (Long Island University - to be confirmed).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 1cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 1cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">For more information on this course, and registration please refer to ABRI’s course website (</span><span lang="NL" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><a href="http://www.abri.vu.nl/en/events/courses-and-workshops/kin/index.asp" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span lang="EN-US">http://www.abri.vu.nl/en/events/courses-and-workshops/kin/index.asp</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">)</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 54, 139); ">.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div></body></html>