Haskayne DBA Conference

Engaged Scholarship and Evidence-based Management

Join us for the 2020 Haskayne DBA Conference on Engaged Scholarship and Evidence-based Management, hosted virtually September 18 – 20, 2020.

This year’s conference will be presented by world-renowned management scholars Bob Hinings, Denise Rousseau and Andrew Van de Ven.

Engaged scholarship is about carrying out soundly based and useful research that advances both managerial practice and academic knowledge. A clear framework and guidelines for carrying out soundly based and useful research is set out. Equally important in establishing strong links between research and practice is to understand the nature of evidence. Our aim is to base practice on the best available critically appraised evidence from multiple sources. Reflective use of high-quality evidence drives better outcomes for organizations, their members and clients, and the general public.

The goal of this three-day conference is for participants to obtain a solid grasp of what engaged scholarship and evidence-based management entail and develop ideas for their own research and practice.
 

Registration

The conference fee of CAD $200 +GST

Please note space is limited. Registration closes August 17, 2020.

Program overview

Andrew Van de Ven, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota

The first day of the conference is designed to show how engaged scholarship opens a range of new approaches to basic research and applied problem solving. The course presents different ways for engaging relevant stakeholders developing a good research proposal, in terms of the research problem and question, alternative answers (or theories), research designs, and impact in communicating and using research findings. A related aim is to raise awareness of the meaning and implications of being an engaged scholar-practitioner.

  • Motivation? Why engagement?
  • Grounded problem and theory building
  • Key questions for conducting a study
  • Problem formulation
  • Students discuss their research problems

Denise Rousseau, Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy and the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie-Mellon University

The second day of the conference is intended to help you apply the seven steps of evidence-based practice from four sources: professional expertise, scientific literature, organizational data and stakeholder perspectives.

  • What it means to be an evidence-based practitioner-scholar
  • Finding, interpreting, and using scientific evidence as practitioner-scholars
  • Using organizational and stakeholder evidence
  • When to rely on judgment and how to make better judgments
  • Planning your on-going development as evidence-based practitioner-scholars

Bob Hinings, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary

The third day of the conference brings together engaged scholarship and evidence-based management. It is based around the idea that as practitioner-scholars DBAs are engaging with and bringing together communities of practice with different values, assumptions, and practices.

  • Moving from evidence to practice
  • Who are the target audiences?
  • Preparing research evidence for the intended recipients
  • Bridging different communities

Faculty biographies

Bob Hinings is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Strategic Management and Organization, Faculty of Business at the University of Alberta and Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise. Until 2002, he was the Thornton A. Graham Professor of Business and Director of the Centre for Professional Service Firm Management.

Hinings' consultancy in Canada has been with professional service firms, health care organizations and municipal and provincial governments. It has involved assignments on managing strategic change, restructuring, devising value statements, designing planning and budgeting systems, and developing strategic plans. He has acted as a facilitator for strategic planning and objective setting meetings in a variety of organizations.

Hinings has published nine books and over 130 papers.

Denise M. Rousseau is the H.J. Heinz II University Professor of Organizational Behavior and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy and the Tepper School of Business. She is the faculty director of the Institute for Social Enterprise and Innovation and chair of Health Care Policy and Management program as well as a scholar and educator on positive organizational practices. She was the 2004‐2005 President of the Academy of Management and served as Editor‐in‐chief, Journal of Organizational Behavior. She co-founded the Center for Evidence-Based Management and is President of its Academic Board.

Rousseau is a two-time winner of the Academy of Management’s George Terry Award for best management book in 1996 for Psychological Contracts in Organizations: Understanding Written and Unwritten Agreement (Sage) and in 2006 for I‐Deals: Idiosyncratic Deals Workers Bargain for Themselves (ME Sharpe). In 2016, she won the Distinguished Scholarly Contributions Award for life time achievement from the Academy of Management, and other lifetime achievement awards from AOM’s Careers Division, Organizational Behavior Division, and the Practitioner Theme Committee. She also holds several honorary doctorates from international universities.

Rousseau’s research has two streams; one, focusing on the use of evidence in organizational decision making and the teaching of evidence-based management, and the other, on the impact workers have on the employment relationship and the firms that employ them. She is recognized for developing the theory of the psychological contract (Great Minds in Management, Oxford University Press, edited by Ken Smith and Michael Hitt). Her publications include over a dozen books and 200 articles and monographs in management and psychology journals. Her most recent book with Eric Barends is Evidence-Based Management (Kogan Page) to be published in 2018.

Andrew H. Van de Ven is Professor Emeritus in the Carlson School of the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1972, and taught at Kent State Univ. and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania before that. He teaches courses on the management of innovation and change, organizational behavior, and engaged scholarship research methods. Van de Ven's books and journal articles over the years have dealt with the Nominal Group Technique, organization design and assessment, inter-organizational relationships, organizational innovation and change, and engaged scholarship research methods.

Van de Ven has been studying changes unfolding in health care organizations and industry. During the 1980s he directed the Minnesota Innovation Research Program in which 30 faculty and doctoral students tracked fourteen different kinds of innovations from concept to implementation. 

In addition to organizational innovation and change, Van de Ven's books and journal articles over the years have dealt with the Nominal Group Technique, organization assessment, inter-organizational relationships, and research methods. He is co-author of 13 books, including: The Innovation Journey (1999, 2008), Organization Change and Innovation Processes (2000), Handbook of Organizational Change and Innovation (2004), and Engaged Scholarship (2007), which won the 2008 Terry best book award from the Academy of Management. During 2000-2001 Van de Ven was President of the Academy of Management.

Contact Us

Janelle Morris
Graduate Program Specialist
janelle.morris@haskayne.ucalgary.ca