<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
120%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica;
color:#00368B">Sorry for cross-posting.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
120%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica;
color:#00368B">We kindly invite you to the KIN PhD workshop to be held in Amsterdam, June 19 - 23. During the workshop, new research topics are discussed that
combine insights from fields as communication science, innovation and knowledge
management and information technology. Such a multi-disciplinary approach helps
to study the growing distributed forms of organizing, the importance of
creativity and knowledge for management and the interest in online interactions
and ‘social media’. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
120%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica;
color:#00368B">The (KIN) research group of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><u>VU University Amsterdam</u></b> (<a href="http://kinresearch.nl">kinresearch.nl</a>) together with <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u>Amsterdam Business Research Institute</u></b>
(ABRI) organizes a 3,5 day workshop from <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u>June
19 till June 23, 2011</u></b>. PhD’s and early career researchers (Post-doc)
are invited to join the workshop to improve their insights and skills in theory
development and methods (see </span><a href="http://www.abri.vu.nl/en/events/courses-and-workshops/kin/index.asp"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:
120%;font-family:Helvetica;color:#7E3488">website</span></b></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica;color:#00368B">).
The teaching faculty consists of an international group of scholars, known for
their multi-disciplinary and innovative research: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><u>Chip Steinfield</u></b>;<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"> <u>Patrick
Cohendet</u></b>;<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"> <u>Natalia Levina</u></b>;<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"> <u>Paul Pavlou</u></b>;<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"> <u>Michel Avital</u></b>;<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"> </b>and<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"> <u>Marleen Huysman</u></b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
120%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica;
color:#00368B">During the morning sessions of this 3,5 day workshop, participants
will learn about research on topics as boundary spanning for innovation, strategic
management of knowledge, social network sites and creative regional clusters.
During the afternoon sessions, participants are asked to present their own
research (ideas) on which the group including faculty members will be asked to
respond and interact. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
120%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica;
color:#00368B">For further information, including registration, please visit
the </span><a href="http://www.abri.vu.nl/en/events/courses-and-workshops/kin/index.asp"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:
120%;font-family:Helvetica;color:#7E3488">ABRI website</span></b></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica;color:#00368B">.
Or contact ABRI’s Programme Manager, Margriet Buseman (</span><a href="mailto:m.buseman@vu.nl"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica;color:#7E3488">m.buseman@vu.nl</span></b></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica;color:#00368B">).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:120%"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:
120%;font-family:Helvetica;color:#00368B">URL:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica;color:#00368B"> </span><a href="http://www.abri.vu.nl/en/events/courses-and-workshops/kin/index.asp"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:
120%;font-family:Helvetica;color:#7E3488">http://www.abri.vu.nl/en/events/courses-and-workshops/kin/index.asp</span></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:
120%;font-family:Helvetica;color:#7E3488"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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