A.A.C. 2010

Within our research institute, the Antwerp Center of Evolutionary Demography, we organize the first ACED Workshop on Team and Community Diversity. It will take place at September 23-24, 2010, at the cultural conference centre Elzenveld in Antwerp. The workshop is intended to provide a platform for presentation and discussion of recent work on team and community diversity. We are proud to host two prominent researchers from this field, Rafael Wittek (University of Groningen) and Koen Frenken (Eindhoven University of Technology), as well as some of their Ph.D. students.

The conference consists of two days. Each day is dedicated to another topic: team and intra-organizational diversity (day 1) and inter-organizational diversity (day 2). All presentations are scheduled for a time slot of 60 minutes. Each presentation should take at most 30 minutes. After a presentation, two discussants will raise two substantial questions (preferably without a Powerpoint presentations), which takes at most 5 minutes. Discussants will be assigned in advance, which is when all papers are distributed among the workshop participants. The remaining 25 minutes are split into two parts: a discussion of at most 10-15 minutes and a break. The break, which is 10-15 minutes, can be used for informal bilateral discussions or other activities. Having time for bilateral discussions after every presentation is an intentional choice in order to encourage the discussion of questions that people might not want to ask in a larger audience.

Preliminary program

Day 1 (23/09/2010): Intra-organizational diversity
Time	Speaker	Title	Discussant
9:00	Arjen van Witteloostuijn / Christophe Boone	Opening and introduction
Session 1 (session chair: César Garcia-Diaz)
9:30	Alona Labun	Disentangling the relation between interpersonal trust, personal sense of power, and job satisfaction: A mediation and moderation analysis	Sandy Bogaert
10:30	Tine Buyl	TMT composition, attention focus, and long-term firm performance: A conceptual framework	Alona Labun
11:30	André Grow	Status dynamics and employee effort allocation in multi-task organizational settings	Gabor Peli
12:30	Lunch break
Session 2 (session chair: Urbig)
14:00	Olivier van der Brempt	Belgian works councils - the impact of subgroups on work group processes and its effectiveness	Valeska Korff
15:00	Valeska Korff	Reaffirming motivations – Mechanisms of institutionalized socialization in humanitarian organizations	Katrin Mühlfeld-Kerstan
16:00	Gilmar Zambrana	Political diversity in local governments: incentives and motivations for allocating resources	André Grow
Day closure
17:00	Rafael Wittek	Wrap up and general thoughts about opportunities and threats in this field of research
18:30	Social event

Day 2 (24/09/2010): Inter-organizational diversity
Time	Speaker	Title	Discussant
9:00	Arjen van Witteloostuijn / Christophe Boone	Opening and introduction
Session 3 (session chair: Bogaert)
9:30	Koen Frenken	A spatial differentiation of industrial dynamics: A core-periphery analysis based on the extended pavitt-classification	César Garcia-Diaz
10:30	Tatiana Plotnikova	Success in Pharmaceutical Research: The Changing Role of Scale and Scope Economies, Spillovers and Competition	Marc van Wegberg
11:30	Sjoerd Hardeman	Proximity, collaboration and Mode 2 knowledge production: The case of non-pharmaceutical type 2 diabetes mellitus research in Europe	Tatiana Plotnikova
12:30	Lunch break
Session 4 (session chair: Mühlfeld-Kerstan)
14:00	Jarno Hoekman	Bringing cohesion back into science policy? A geographical analysis of allocation and effect of European Framework Programme projects	Diemo Urbig
15:00	Matthijs de Zwaan	Industry overlap and urban interdependencies	Sjoerd Hardeman
16:00	Anil Divarci	High schools in Turkey from a community ecology perspective	Jarno Hoekman
Day closure
17:00	César Garcia-Diaz	Wrap up
17:15	Arjen van Witteloostuijn / Christophe Boone	Closing words