EDEN doctorol seminar on statistical methods for management research

EDEN calls to everyone’s mind the garden of earthly delights to which the Book of Genesis refers. It evokes the attractive and creative environment that EIASM offers to young promising scholars who undertake the exciting doctoral adventure.
Through the creation of EDEN, EIASM will contribute to the most critical phases in a scholar’s life cycle : i.e. his/her introduction to and early growth on the academic market. Thanks to its unique image and its organizational competitive advantages (core of associations, autonomy and flexibility), EIASM can indeed be very efficient at :

The development of EDEN will be organized around an integrated set of doctoral seminars which will bring participants into systematic interaction, leading them to comparing their approaches and cross-examining their research work. It will consist of a mix of intensive one-week seminars dealing with advanced research methodology issues in Management, as well as with the frontiers of their specific area of interest.

EIASM involves not only the best doctoral students and their supervisors, but also the institutions to which they belong. Therefore the doctoral seminars will be decentralized : alternating locations and establishing « linkages » with leading European Business Schools. Since June 1988, when the programme was launched, 2010 doctoral students from all over Europe have become EDEN fellows and 238 professors have acted as EDEN faculty members.

To provide beginning PhD- students in various fields of management (e.g., accounting, HRM, marketing, organisational behaviour, strategic management) a solid introduction to those areas of statistics that are important for creative field research while using the relevant statistical software.The end terms are a good operational knowledge of regression analysis, panel data models, factor analysis, structural modelling and cluster analysis with an understanding of the theoretical framework but without the mathematical developments.The focus is on applicability but by avoiding the “black box” approach.

Participants are expected to have a “standard” background in general statistics at an undergraduate level. After admission, but before the seminar starts, a reading list will be distributed to make sure participants have the right common background.

Full attendance and completion of the exercises are required to obtain the certificate

The academic coordination lies in the hands of Professor Yvo Dirickx.Yvo received a PhD from Yale University in 1968. Since 1988 he is professor of quantitative methods in the Department of Applied Economics of the K.U.Leuven. Previously he was professor of operations research in the Department op Applied Mathematics of Twente University. Previously he was associated with Bielefeld University, EIASM, Science Center Berlin.His main research is in dynamic programming and applications of OR.He published in major management science journals.The last ten years he was involved in management education in Central and Eastern Europe, with affiliations with ISM (Saint-Petersburg), State University of Management (Moscow), IMI (Kyiv).

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TIME AND LOCATION
The seminar will be held at the K.U. LEUVEN.
The programme will start on September 10, 2007 and is scheduled to end September 12, 2007

PARTICIPATION FEE
The participation fee is 1500 €. This fee includes participation to the seminar, the documents, lodging and full board.
Doctoral students will be assigned rooms for two. Should you wish a single room, an extra fee of 50 € per night will be charged to you.
Cancellations made before August 24, 2007 will be reimbursed with 10% deduction of the total fee. No reimbursement will be possible after this date.

EIASM SCHOLARSHIPS
The Institute offers a limited number of scholarships of 700 € each. Scholarships are strictly limited to students coming from an EIASM Institutional Member (the Academic Council). Allocation of the scholarships is entirely at the discretion of the European Institute.

APPLICATIONS
Interested doctoral students should register online (and add the required documents) no later than July 10, 2007. Besides doctoral students, other researchers may participate. The number of participants will be limited to create a stimulating environment. The selection among the applicants will be conducted by the Institute’s Faculty. They will review the following documents which should necessarily complement each application form:

REGISTER ONLINE

For more information, please contact:
Ms. Nina Payen
EDEN Manager, EIASM -  PLACE DE BROUCKÈRE-PLEIN - 31 - 1000 BRUSSELS - BELGIUM
Tel: 32 2 2266661 - Fax: 32 2 5121929
Email: nina@eiasm.be