The doctoral seminar (a special Edispuut session) with Prof. Rob Kauffman will take place on Tuesday (December 9) between 12:30 – 18:00 at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University in room T10-67 (T-building, floor 10, room 67). In the program below you can see...

The next edispuut meeting will take place on April 14 in Delft.

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Date: Monday, 11 February 2008, 12:30 -- 17:00
Location: Room J1-33 (J building), RSM Erasmus University
Route description: http://www.rsm.nl/RSM2/About%20Us/Our%20Location/How%20to%20visit%20us
Program Agenda
12:30 - 13:00 Arriving, lunch
13:00 - 13:30 Presentation + 15min Discussion: Otto Koppius (RSM): European PhDs, American PhDs and the role of the Edispuut
Topic: "I will talk about the history and purposes of the Edispuut and from my experiences with both European and American PhD. education and their respective strengths and weaknesses, I will argue that the Edispuut has a specific, useful role to fulfill and discuss some ways as to how to achieve that function."

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The meeting in Rotterdam has been rescheduled to February 11, 2008

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Venue: VU Amsterdam (room number will be provided later)
In order to reserve the timeslots in your agenda, the planned schedule of our meetings for this year as follows:
- 3rd of December
- 11th of February
- 14th of April
- 2nd of June

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Date: 23rd of April, starting 12:30.
Location: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Full program:

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Date: Monday, November 13, 2006
Location: Delft University of Technology, Jaffallaan 5, room a1.210
Presenters: Harry Bouwman, Chintan Amrit, Rafael Gonzalez
Full program:

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Dear Edispuut Member,
Please, find below the detailed programm description and the abstracts of the presentations for our first meeting, which is on the 18th of September. Please, let me know if you participate.
Greetings,
Zsofia Derzsi
Location: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, room 2E-37 (second floor, E corridor, room 37).
12:30 - 13:30 lunch and walk-in
13:30 - 14:30 Presentation by Professor Hans Akkermans
Title: Research methods and validation issues in IS research
Abstract:
The presentation aims to introduce the background of the case study method (as historically rooted in the social sciences) and elaborates on how it compares to other methods (eg RCT statistics experiments, survey, action research). Related philosophical and methodological discussions on scientific method as well as the specifics of it in the Information Systems area are discussed.

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Meeting Program:
12:30 - 13:00 Arriving, lunch
13:00 - 13:30 Eric van Heck: Theory and Practice of Information Market
13:30 - 13:45 Break
13:45 - 14:30 Nitesh Bharosa: Towards the development of future information systems for crisis management
14:30 - 14:45 Break
14:45 - 15:30 Harry Hendrickx: Governance in Network Organizations
15:30 - 15:45 Break
15:45 - 16:30 Jeffrey Gortmaker: Designing a Reference Architecture for Orchestrating Public Service Networks
16:30 - 17:00 Some administrative issues and closing
17:00 - drinks

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EDIT 21/04/2006: Just for the sake of completeness: the program was updated the day before the meeting to include an ERIM research seminar by Prof. Carol Saunders. See the attachment for the final program.
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I am happy to announce the next Edispuut Meeting, which will be held at Rotterdam School of Management, Monday April 10, 12:30h - 17:15. The program is as follows:
12:30 - 13:00 lunch and walk-in
13:00 - 14:00 Zsofia Dersi (VU): Towards the Design of Networked Value Constellations: A Framework for Business/IT Alignment
14:00 - 14:30 Presentation by Prof. Dr. Ir. Eric van Heck