This PDW is aimed at PhD students and early-career researchers who are planning, considering, or wanting to learn about a research visit to a leading business school.
Human resource management research, and management research more broadly, increasingly depends on cross-border collaboration and access to scholarly communities that span institutions and countries. Yet collaboration networks remain hub-dominated, with a small number of highly connected institutions capturing disproportionate visibility. This creates both a challenge and an opportunity for early-career researchers: strategically entering high-value international networks can accelerate research execution and visibility, and research visits are a concrete, time-bounded way to do this.
The session is structured to bring together PhD students and early-career researchers preparing for a first visit, alongside panelists who have completed visits and can speak to what actually happened. Topics include identifying hosts where mutual gains are plausible, articulating a credible value proposition as a visitor, designing a visit around concrete deliverables, and the governance side of collaboration that is often overlooked (expectations, authorship, division of labor) but can disproportionately affect junior scholars if left unaddressed.
Format (120 minutes):
- Introduction (15 min): A step-by-step "visit design" roadmap
- Panel (45 min): Panelists share their own visits and resulting collaborations, followed by Q&A
- Open Discussion (60 min): Off-podium, informal exchange where participants can discuss their own visit plans
Panelists: Daphne Coelho (Insper), Deirdre Coveney (Leeds University Business School), Harald Puhr (University of Amsterdam), Matteo Burato (Imperial College London)
Moderator: Jeremy Lewis (UNC Charlotte)
Facilitators: Laurenz Tinhof (Vienna University of Economics and Business), Thomas Ortner (University of Innsbruck), Octavio Augusto de Barros (HEC Paris), Fernando Domingos (São Paulo School of Business Administration)
- When: Friday, July 31, 2026, 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM
- Where: Sheraton, Seminar B
Sponsored by the IM Division, with secondary sponsorship from MED, ONE, STR, and TIM.
We'd also like your input, whichever side of the research visit you're on:
📋 If you're a PhD student planning a visit, please share what you'd like to get out of it: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfJY1ctiaB5RzBbnkZ0W160ntEJjrOiqu4nJlKkgd6ZN1juZw/viewform
📋 If you've already completed a research visit, please share your experience so we can pass on as much practical information as possible: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdU5FfxEEuB3vBsUhKfjmdioyrUhPEY-naX19BA5DfUdQ5NQw/viewform
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Jeremy (Frantony) Lewis
Ph.D Candidate
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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