NACRA 2022 Annual Conference will be held at the Sheraton Fallsview Hotel, Niagara falls, Ontario, Canada, October 6-8, 2022
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- June 6, 2022: Proposals for ‘New Views’ Panels, Workshops, and Symposia, and 500-word proposals for Pedagogy Track
- June 13, 2022: Submission deadline for Cases and Start-Up Cases, ends at 5pm EDT
- July 3, 2022: Submission deadline for full paper for Pedagogy Track
- July 11, 2022: Decisions to authors; Conference early registration opens
- September 10, 2022: Early regular registration deadline (additional conference fee applies after 5pm EDT)
- September 14, 2022: Conference hotel rate cut-off date at 5pm EDT
The NACRA Annual Conference is a unique opportunity to engage with other leading case researchers in a small-group format, to receive detailed and constructive feedback about your case, and to participate in presentations from experienced case researchers and educators. Our distinctive roundtable track design provides an excellent professional opportunity to enhance your abilities to develop higher quality participant-centered and discussion-based cases, that would be suitable for publication in numerous refereed journals (such as NACRA’s Case Research Journal), case publishers and distributors, and textbooks. In addition, the Annual Conference includes a collaborative start-up workshop and ‘new views’ topic sessions.
Roundtable tracks: Most cases target typical business school courses and topics. Cases that examine other contexts are also welcome if they facilitate participant-centered and discussion-based learning. Roundtable tracks will also be hosted for cases written in Chinese, French, Russian, Portuguese and Spanish. Undisguised decision-focused cases based on primary sources (interviews, field visits) are highly preferred. Although cases may be disguised, they must be based on real events and real people in real organizations. Fictional cases are not appropriate for this conference. Cases submitted to the conference may have been previously taught, but must not have been previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere (journals, books, online) before the conference. A submission to the conference includes a case study and associated comprehensive instructor manual. In submitting your case, you are committing to having at least one author attend the online NACRA conference and participate in case roundtables during October 7 & 8. Furthermore, authors who submit multiple cases to different tracks must have a co-author who will also attend the conference.
Start-up Case Workshop: In addition to the roundtable tracks, a workshop for less-developed cases will be hosted on October 6. The workshop is appropriate for newer case authors wishing to learn how to develop effective teaching cases and instructor manuals, as well as experienced authors looking for advice on a new case approach. Start-up cases may deal with any topic in an academic discipline where dynamic classroom discussions would be useful. Although most cases presented at NACRA address business functional areas, case ideas are invited and encouraged from other areas and disciples, including education, law, social work, and healthcare administration and policy. Like start-up businesses, these cases are in an early stage of development, similar to research-in-progress papers or posters at many academic conferences. Whereas a typical completed case is 8-10 pages of single-spaced text plus 5 or more pages of exhibits, a start-up case is no longer than 2 pages, single-spaced. Start-up cases must be original work based on real events, real people, and real organizations, and must not have been previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere (in journals, books, or online). By submitting a two-page start-up case, you are committing to having at least one author attend the NACRA conference and participate in the start-up case workshop. Workshop authors will also be invited to participate in the roundtable tracks.
New Views (Panels, Workshops, and Symposia): In addition to roundtable tracks, and the start-up workshop, a set of ‘new views’ topic sessions will be hosted on October 7. Proposals for ‘new views’ session are welcome, and should examine relevant, interesting, and novel case research or teaching topics. Previous sessions have included Teaching with Cases, Case Research for Theory Building and Testing, Interdisciplinary Cases, Multimedia Cases, and Case Journal Rankings.
Nicole M. Amos, NACRA Vice President for Programs 2022
Johnson & Wales University, namos@jwu.edu.
