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Marlous Agterberg will defend her PhD thesis on the first day of summer: Thursday, June 21st , 2012. Her book, entitled Walking the Tightrope: The dynamics of coordinating intra-organizational networks of practice, combines three academic papers, of which two are already published in Journal of Management Studies and Organization Studies. Currently Marlous works as assistant [...]

Boston, here we come! Six academic papers of our KIN Researchers are accepted at the upcoming Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. Boston will be hosting this meeting this summer. Researchers Bart, Marleen, Sarah, Maura, Roos and Julie have been accepted to present their work for various divisions of the Academy, such as OB, BPS and [...]

We are pleased to announce the second KIN summer workshop to be held in Amsterdam, June 18 – 21, 2012. This year’s theme will be: Online Interactions and New Ways of Working. This 3,5 day workshop, organized by KIN research group together with Amsterdam Business Research Institute (ABRI) offers seminars on new research topics related to new ways [...]

            COMMERCIAL AND CORPORATE  “FAST TRACK INTO SHELL” RECRUITMENT EVENT           Do you want to join Shell? This is your chance! Are you a student in the last phase of your Master’s degree or have you graduated within the last three years? And are you interested [...]

Currently, the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration has an opening for 3 PhD positions in Business and Organisation.

We are pleased to announce an upcoming Research Seminar with Lei Chi from Lally School of Management and Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. During this seminar Lei Chi will present her current research, which centers  around the field of Information Technology, Networks, Innovation and Entrepreneurs.  In 2010 she received the “best IS Publication of the Year [...]

 Looking for a challenging internship? Accenture offers ambitious academic students the possibility to work and collaborate on the developments and organization of the Accenture Innovation Awards. Our former IKM student Dennis Ploegmakers did an internship/thesis at Accenture and now has a job (as Junior System Integration & Technology Consultant) there! More information can be found here.

AnnaLee Saxenian visited VU University to present her work. On November 14th, Prof. dr. AnnaLee Saxenian (University of California) gave an interesting presentation on “Silicon Valley Fostering Innovation in the Entrepreneurial Eco-System”. She discussed her (years of) experience at Silicon Valley and related developments there to those in Finland (Nokia), Taiwan and China. Saxenian is Dean [...]

We are very pleased to announce that Bart van den Hooff has been appointed full professor of Organizational Communication and Information Systems at VU University Amsterdam, KIN Research Group. Bart received his PhD (with honors) in Communication Science, from the University of Amsterdam. Before joining the KIN Research Group at the VU in 2006, Bart [...]

As part of the Masters’ course on New Ways of Working, IKM students got some hands-on experience working virtually: today Dr. Robin Teigland, based in Stockholm, gave a guest lecture – entirely in Second Life. In fact, new ways of working proved to have some advantages (especially for a 9AM lecture): for instance, of 40 [...]

We are pleased to announce an upcoming Research Seminar by Dr. Jörg Henseler (Raboud University Nijmegen). The seminar topic is “Moderating effects”, and will deal with advanced structural equation modeling techniques, using SmartPLS. (Some prior knowledge of SEM is useful.) The seminar will take place on Friday October 21, 2011 from 12.00-13.00, at VU University Amsterdam (exact location [...]

The KIN Research group welcomes Sara Bolognesi and Margherita Prati as visiting Masters’ researchers from the University of Bologna, Italy. Sara and Margherita are students of Professor Maria Rita Tagliaventi. Their research focuses on colloration in virtual teams. During their stay at VU University, Margherita will be working primarily on Rose Erkelens‘ research project on knowledge [...]

We are pleased to announce an upcoming Research Seminar by Dr. Friederike Schultz (VU University Amsterdam, Dept. of Social Science). The seminar topic is Social Media in Crises: A macro-micro-perspective on the content and impact of social media in crisis situations. The papers central to the presentation draw on research into use of social media during the [...]

Update: Deadline for abstracts (1800 words) extended to November 11, 2011 The 2012 conference for Organisational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities (OLKC) will be hosted at the University of Valencia, Spain, 25-27 April 2012. Academic Theme: Shedding new lights on organisational learning and knowledge. See call for papers. For further conference details please see the conference [...]

KIN Research members, including Marlous Agterberg, Christine Moser, and Marleen Huysman will be presenting their work at the 2011 Academy of Management conference in San Antonio, Texas. The AoM annual meeting is the most important and biggest conference for management scholars. See here for the conference program.

European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS) is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2011. To mark the occasion, the Editor-in-Chief Richard Baskerville has reviewed the top papers published in the last two decades, looking at both citations and article downloads. The list contains two papers by KIN researchers, namely Tibert Verhagen and Julia Kotlarsky, both listed [...]

June 2011 KIN Research hosted the PhD seminar Knowledge, IT and Networks. Faculty included highly-cited international scholars such as Pentland, Pavlou, Levina, Cohendet, Vaast, Avital and Huysman. 25 PhD candidates from around the world attended the seminar. Description: The rise of network technology, the increase knowledge-intensity of organizational performance and the growing distributed and networked forms [...]

? On June 23 2011, Marc Bahlmann succesfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Buzzing across Boundaries. An inquiry into the Amsterdam IT and new media-cluster from a knowledge-based perspective”. Marc’s research addressed the so-called cluster paradox, which can be defined as follows: on the one hand, (tacit) knowledge is conceptualized as a form of exchange [...]

? Rose Erkelens has been elected Student Representative-at-Large for the Academy of Management, Organizational Communications and Information Systems (OCIS) division. The Academy of Management  (AoM) is the leading professional association for scholars in the field of Management and Organization. Its annual meeting is the most important and biggest conference for management scholars. Numerous KIN Research [...]

 On Friday January 21, The Hague’s local IQ sky-rocketed, as 1500 Dutch professors, or 30% of the total professorial body (yes, there are that many) marched through The Hague, in protest of proposed budget cuts. It was an impressive sight, which apparently even made the Guiness Book of Records!See here for an impression (and be prepared for many [...]

This year’s conference for Organizational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities (OLKC) will be hosted by Hull Business School April 12-14 2011, with the promising theme “Making Waves”. KIN Research group is Executive Board member of this annual conference. More information about the conference can be found here. During the conference, several new KIN Research papers will [...]

Robin Teigland, associate professor at Stockholm School of Economics visited KIN Research on Wednesday February 16 (12:00 PM). She will give a research seminar on her research on Virtual Worlds, entitled Stepping into the internet: Leveraging the affordances of virtual worlds for innovation. The Nordic Virtual Worlds Network blogged about the visit.  Stepping into the internet: [...]

Cookies: ‘Het is alsof tijdens een dagje winkelen iemand met je meeloopt”, legt Tibert Verhagen van de VU uit. Lees het hele artikel In: BN De Stem, 16 February 2011

? Februari 5, 2010: KIN Research Seminar    Mark Thompson from the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge UK about communities of practice and organization science. For more information about Mark Thompson click here.

Netwerken is allang geen zaak meer van uitsluitend golfende mannen. Management Team liet vier vrouwelijk netwerkspecialisten (waaronder Leonie Houtman van KIN) 18 holes lopen en stelden ze 18 prangende vragen. “We kennen allemaal minimaal 600 mensen weet je hoeveel potentieel dat is?” Zie hele artikel in Management Team (p56 – p61), december 2009

On Friday, October 24 2009, a full room at the Atrium. People came flocking in from near and far. Some were happy and relieved, others proud or nervous, and most with their cameras at the ready. Today 14 students graduated within the KIN research group, of which 5 became Masters of Science for E-Business, and [...]

November 10, 2009: KIN Research Seminar    Stewart Clegg is full professor at the School of Management at the University of Technology Sydney (ITS) and visiting professor at VU University Amsterdam (social sciences). He also directs ICAN (Innovative Collaborations Alliances & Networks) Research at UTS. His research interests include a broad arrange of topics (Organisation [...]

Positieve indruk traditionele winkelketen versterkt online koopgedrag Bij een positieve indruk van een traditionele winkelketen kopen consumenten eerder online bij diezelfde winkel. Dit blijkt uit een gezamenlijk onderzoek van de Vrije Universiteit (VU), de Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA) en Free Record Shop. Het onderzoek toont aan dat consumenten eerder geneigd zijn om online aankopen te [...]

Winkelketens die erin slagen de online activiteiten en de echte shop goed aan elkaar te verbinden, plukken daar de vruchten van. Dat blijkt uit een onderzoek van de Vrije Universiteit, de Universiteit van Amsterdam en de Free Record Shop. Volgens de onderzoekers bezoeken klanten graag de webshop van een winkel die zij goed kennen en [...]

September 9, 2009: KIN Research Seminar    Etienne Wenger (http://www.ewenger.com/) is a global thought leader in the field of communities of practice and social learning systems. He is the author and co-author of seminal books on communities of practice, including Situated Learning, where the term was coined, Communities of Practice: learning, meaning, and identity, where [...]

Alexander Schouten has won a top-paper award with Marjolijn Antheunis (Univ of Amsterdam) at the 2009 International Communication Association Conference in Chicago, for their paper titled ‘Intervening Processes between Computer-Mediated Communication and Interpersonal Attraction: An Experimental Comparison‘. The paper investigated the relationship between computer-mediated communication and interpersonal attraction. An experiment was conducted in which 81 [...]

The KIN-research group is proud to be organizing the 2009 OLKC (Organizational Learning, Knowledge, and Capabilities) conference.OLKC is a leading international conference for researchers in the fields of organizational knowledge and learning. The conference is international in scope, and inclusive of the wide range of intellectual perspectives which have helped to make the field of [...]

? May 7  2009: Presentation Paul Pavlou, Associate Professor, Stauffer Senior Research Fellow, PhD, University of Southern California Before joining Temple, Paul A. Pavlou was an Associate Professor of Information Systems at the University of California at Riverside. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in 2004. His research focuses on online [...]

Chatboxen en profielsites als Sugarbabes zijn goed voor de identiteit van pubers, ontdekte promovendus Alexander Schouten. Read the whole article here Source: NRC Handelsblad, November 20, 2007