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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16px;">The OCIS division of the Academy of Management is pleased to announce the 2015 Doctoral Consortium, to be held in Vancouver,
BC on August 7, 2015. The consortium will provide an opportunity for doctoral students to network, receive feedback on their research and discuss career issues. All interested PhD students working on research in the areas of Organizational Communications,
Information Science or Information Systems are invited to apply.</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16px;">Confirmed Faculty advisers include:</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16px;">
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<span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16px;">- Andrew Burton-Jones, University of Queensland</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16px;">- Ola Henfridsson, Warwick Business School</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16px;">- Likoebe Maruping, Georgia State University</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16px;">- Wanda Orlikowski, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16px;">- Emmanuelle Vaast, McGill University</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16px;">
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<span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16px;">Travel support will be provided for many of the students admitted to the consortium.
Acceptance to the consortium will be based on a review of the application materials. </span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16px;">Preference for attendance and funding will be given to students who will have defended their dissertation proposals but not their dissertations by the date of the consortium, to those who have not previously
participated in the OCIS consortium, and to those whose institutions or fields would not otherwise be represented.</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16px;">
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<span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16px;">The application includes:</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16px;">1) A 5-page, double-spaced, 12-point abstract of the proposed dissertation research</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16px;">2) A letter of recommendation from dissertation chair/advisor supporting the student’s participation in the Doctoral Consortium.</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16px;">3) A 1-page informational document with: Name of applicant; PhD program university /school affiliation; Dissertation title; Expected completion date; Educational background; Professional background / prior
work experience; Future career aspirations.</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16px;">
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<span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16px;">The due date for applications and letters of recommendation is April 15, 2015. </span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16px;">
<br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16px;">Please email all application materials as attachments in one email to: emmanuelle.vaast@mgcgill.ca </span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16px;">For questions, please contact Emmanuelle Vaast (emmanuelle.vaast@mcgill.ca), this year’s OCIS Doctoral Consortium chair. </span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16px;">
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<span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16px;">Thank you for circulating this call to all doctoral students you know who might be interested. </span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 16px;">
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