The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) has released a Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), announcing the creation of a new program called Build & Broaden (B²) and calling for the submission of conference proposals to further examine the goals of the program.  B² is one of a few highly anticipated new programs at SBE proposed by Assistant Director Dr. Arthur “Skip” Lupia.  The program fundamentally seeks innovative solutions to address the low numbers of competitive research proposals from Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs)​[1] at SBE relative to other institutions.  The DCL is specifically looking to build research capacity at MSIs by improving meaningful partnerships among MSIs and/or between MSIs and “R1” research institutions.

The Southern Management Association is now accepting submissions for our 2020 Annual Meeting, and the call for submissions is posted here: 

https://cdn.ymaws.com/southernmanagement.site-ym.com/resource/resmgr/docs/2020/sma_2020_call.pdf

The deadline for submissions is Monday, April 27, at 11:59pm EST. Beyond the benefits of conference presentation and the possibilities of best paper awards, all submitted papers will be eligible to be selected for optional participation in a paper development session in which experienced scholars and reviewers will help polish the manuscripts for journal submission. The 2020 conference will be held at the beautiful St. Pete Beach, Florida. 

We hope to see many submissions in this broad area and encourage you to submit your work!

Call for Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management cases for the 2020 North American Case Research Association (NACRA) annual meeting. The submission deadline is June 15, 2020, and the website for the conference and call for proposals may be found here (http://www.nacra.net/conference/call-for-cases/)

NACRA is an excellent conference for case writers. Case writers whom cases are selected will participate in the conference, receiving tailored feedback through NACRA’s distinctive round-table setting. For new case writers, NACRA offers a “start-up” workshop, where first-time case authors can present 2-page early cases for an in-depth discussion on how to shape their research into a full case and instructor’s manual. Traditionally, conference presenters have aimed to publish their research in the publication of NACRA, the Case Research Journal. In addition, cases published in the Case Research Journal are distributed by Harvard Business Publishing, The Case Center, Study.net, and Wilfrid Laurier University.  While “NACRA” has the words “North American” in its title, know that scholars from around the world presented at the just-concluded 2019 conference, and there were special awards given for cases written in French, Spanish and Chinese.

Charlotte Holden and Richard Currie, doctoral students under the direction of Dr. Mark Ehrhart, are conducting a research study on perceptions of nosiness in the workplace. We are recruiting individuals to complete a short survey that should take under 10 minutes to complete. Your participation in this study is entirely voluntary and you may withdraw from the survey at any time. You are eligible to participate if you:

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy is seeking public comments on a draft set of desirable characteristics of data repositories used to locate, manage, share, and use data resulting from federally funded research. 

Comments should be submitted by 11:59 pm ET on March 6, 2020

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy is issuing this RFC on behalf of the multi-agency Subcommittee on Open Science (SOS) of the National Science and Technology Council’s Committee on Science. Read the full text of the request for comment here.