CeFEO Writing Workshop
Every year, CeFEO organizes a writing workshop that aims to strenghen the research skills of JIBS faculty members and the the quality of their research contributions.
The workshop focuses on aspects that are often significant barriers to publication:
- Asking the right questions;
- Identifying a significant theoretical contribution; and
- Framing and presenting the study.
As such, participants are challenged to answer the following questions about their work:
- Who cares? What is the topic or research question, and why is it interesting and important in theory and practice?
- What do we know, what don’t we know, and so what? What key theoretical perspectives and empirical findings have already informed the topic or question? What major, unaddressed puzzle, controversy, or paradox does this study address, and why does it need to be addressed?
- What will we learn? How does the study fundamentally change, challenge, or advance scholars’ understanding?
Each participant receives feedback on her/his paper from two discussants (one internal and one external) as well as the audience.
The format is the following:
- 5 minutes: paper presentation
- 30 minutes: feedback from discussants
- 10 minutes: Q&A from the audience
The workshop has been organized annually since 2014, and the 7th edition was held in December, 2020 with a virtual format. A number of top-scholars in business administration have participated as external discussants in the past (in alphabetic order):
2024 – 11th edition
Discussants:
- tba
2023 – 10th edition
Discussants:
- Donald Neubaum (Florida Atlantic University)
- Natalia Vershinina (Audencia Business School)
- Matthias Waldkirch (EBS Universität)
2022 – 9th edition
Discussants:
- Jörn Block (Trier University & Erasmus University)
- Mattias Norqvist (JIBS and Stockhol School of Economics)
- Diamanto Politis (Lund University)
- Siri Terjesen (Florida Atlantic University & Norwegian School of Economics)
2021 – 8th edition
Discussants:
- Per Davidsson (JIBS & Queensland University of Technology)
- Tommaso Minola (University of Bergamo)
- Barbara Larrañeta (Pablo de Olavide University)
- Morten Huse (BI Norwegian Business School)
2020 – 7th edition
Discussants:
- Joe Astrachan (Kennesaw State University)
- Sarah Jack (Stockholm School of Economics)
- Amedeo Pugliese (University of Padova)
- Philipp Sieger (University of Bern)
2019 – 6th edition
Discussants:
- Ruth Aguilera (Northeastern University)
- Ethel Brudin (Jönköping International Business School)
- Cristina Cruz (Istituto de Impresa)
2018 – 5th edition
Discussants:
- Carole Howorth (University of York)
- Matti Koiranen (University of Jyväskylä)
- Clay Dibrell (University of Mississipi)
2018 – 4th edition
Discussants:
- Gianluca Colombo (University of Lugano)
- Denise Fletcher (University of Luxembourg)
- Josip Kotlar (Lancaster University)
2017 – 3rd edition
Discussants:
- Sara Carter (University of Glasgow)
- Luis Gomez-Mejia (Arizona State University)
- Johan Wiklund (Syracuse University)
2016 – 2nd edition
Discussants:
- Nadine Kammerlander (WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management in Vallendar, Germany)
- Charmine Hartel (UQ Business School, Australia)
2015 – 1st edition
Discussants:
- Michael Hitt (Texas A&M University)
- Robert Hoskisson (Rice University)
- Robin Holt (University of Liverpool)