The 2012 DSI Annual Meeting will be held November 17-20 in San Francisco, California, at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis.

Refereed Papers & Competitions are due April 22, 2012.

Abstracts and Proposals are due May 15, 2012.

The DSI 2012 Annual Meeting Conference Submission Website is now online. You can submit or edit a research abstract, research paper, panel proposal or mini-conference proposal; edit personal contact information; volunteer to be a reviewer or session chair; and read messages sent from the conference submission site. While the new submission site has a different feel than the previous website and may take a little getting used to, you should find it very user friendly. However, should you encounter a problem please contact Steve Ostrom at sostrom05@gmail.com.

The 2012 Annual Meeting will feature exciting plenary talks by such leading professionals and academics as Stuart Kauffman (“Beyond Entailing Laws”: The Illusion in our Habit of Control and the Promise of a Habit of Enablement”); Jeffrey K. Liker ("The Myth of Top Down Decision Making: Distributed Problem Solving at Toyota"); and Jack Meredith (“OM Journal Research vis-à-vis Managerial Decisions: Where Are We?”) (see more details).

Decision Sciences Journal Call for Papers

Focused issue on "Management of Innovation within and across Borders"
Submission deadline: January 31, 2013

The objective of this focused issue is to encourage rigorous and relevant research on the management of innovation. We invite authors to submit papers that address the topic of innovation within and across borders. Recognizing and celebrating the complex nature of innovation processes, the term "borders" in this context can denote a firm's (i) value chains, (ii) functional boundaries, (iii) corporate boundaries, and (iv) geographic borders.

We seek papers that address contemporary topics and have the potential to create a new foundation for the management of innovation in the future. We are particularly interested in the processes which underlie innovation. The papers may draw from one or more methodologies, including analytical, empirical, and conceptual approaches. Multi-disciplinary papers are encouraged, as long as they adhere to the editorial guidelines established for DSJ.

For more information:
decisionsciencesjournal.org/isom/docs/dsj/CallforPapersManagementofInnovation.pdf

The March 2012 issue of Decision Line is now available. Go to this issue to find out about the
latest DSI activities and for the following feature articles:

DSI President Krishna S. Dhir, Berry College, on "A Promising Year of Change."

Decision Line Editor Maling Ebrahimpour provides an overview of 43(2) feature articles.

James R. Evans, University of Cincinnati, on "Business Analytics: The Next Frontier for Decision Sciences."

Danny Samson, University of Melbourne, and Tom Bevington, Bevington Group, on "Solving the Productivity Paradox."

John Anderson, Rutgers University, on "Corporate Culture and Employee Knowledge Can Positively Influence the Adoption of Software as a Service (SaaS)."

Niranjan Pati, Rowan University, on "Priming the PRME (Principles for Responsible Management Education) in the Context of Business School Curriculum."

Varun Grover, Clemson University, on "How to Publish While in the Doctoral Program."

Decision Sciences Journal Call for Papers: Focused Issue on "Responsible Purchasing and Supply Practices."

2012 Annual Meeting section (pdf file).

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2012 DSI Calendar

See the 2012 DSI Annual Meeting homepage for more information on the upcoming conference in San Francisco.

The entire issue is also available as a pdf file.

President-Elect

Maling Ebrahimpour
University of South Florida, St. Petersburg

Constantine Blome
European Business School, Weisbaden, Germany

Thomas J. Hindelang, the husband of Christine T. Kydd with whom he shared 31 years of marriage, died on December 8, 2011, while at work at Drexel University. He was the Vice Dean of the LeBow College of Business Administration at Drexel and the George B. Francis Professor of Finance, and executive director of the Center for Teaching Excellence. His career at Drexel University spanned almost 40 years. He served Drexel University as the first chair of the Faculty Senate and as special assistant to then-President Constantine Papadakis during the first two years of his presidency. He founded LeBow College’s Center for Teaching Excellence and was the first department head of its Finance Department. He was also the recipient of numerous teaching and service awards. A story about him in a recent issue of the LeBow College magazine carries the headline: “A Teacher’s Teacher” (“With the signature cowboy hat that he dons on his frequent walks around campus, his distinguished gray beard and colorful ties, Vice Dean Tom Hindelang is hard to miss. After almost 40 years at Drexel University, he’s legendary for having taught thousands of students and mentored scores of faculty.”) He received his PhD from Indiana University in 1973, an MS in operations research from Stanford University, an MBA from the University of Michigan, and a bachelor’s in accounting from the University of Detroit. Contributions in his memory may be made to the Thomas J. Hindelang Student Scholarship for Excellence. Checks should be made out to Drexel University—Hindelang Fund and mailed to P. O. Box 8215, Philadelphia, PA, 19101-9684.

Decision Sciences Journal has issued a Call for Papers for a focused issue on "Responsible Purchasing and Supply Practices." Submission deadline for initial submissions is August 31, 2012. For more information and for submission guidelines, go to:

decisionsciencesjournal.org/isom/docs/dsj/Responsible_Purchasing_Supply_Practices.pdf

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