{"id":3976,"date":"2015-09-29T10:29:52","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T09:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/?p=3976"},"modified":"2015-09-29T10:29:52","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T09:29:52","slug":"kbs-michael-koch-wins-best-symposium-award-at-academy-of-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2015\/09\/kbs-michael-koch-wins-best-symposium-award-at-academy-of-management\/","title":{"rendered":"KBS\u2019 Michael Koch Wins Best Symposium Award at Academy of Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Koch, Lecturer in HRM and Organisational Behaviour was one of the recipients of the Best Career Division Symposium Award at <a href=\"http:\/\/aom.org\/\">Academy of Management<\/a>. The award recognises the general advancement of research in the field of careers and the practice of management.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/kbs\/our-staff\/profiles\/koch_michael.html\">Michael Koch<\/a> delivered a paper with co-author, Sarah Park, Department of Management at King\u2019s College London on career transitions using sequence analysis. The study investigated entries into and exists out of entrepreneurship in the context of a person\u2019s career trajectory.<\/p>\n<p>The results achieved from the study provide a greater understanding of how entrepreneurial careers unfold over time, how transitions between paid employment and entrepreneurship occur, and how different patterns of transitions are linked to success and satisfaction outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>The award recognises the influential research undertaken in the field of careers, as Michael Koch comments:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Best Career Division Symposium Award, Academy of Management is a pleasing recognition of the work of the symposium organisers, presenters and discussants. It shows that sequence analysis is a promising method that has the potential to advance career research and I am glad to be able to contribute to this stream of work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>For more information about Michael Koch\u2019s research, please email <\/strong><a href=\"mailto:M.Koch@kent.ac.uk\"><strong>M.Koch@kent.ac.uk<\/strong><\/a><strong> or view his staff profile page on the <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/kbs\/our-staff\/profiles\/koch_michael.html\"><strong>Kent Business School<\/strong><\/a><strong> website.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Koch, Lecturer in HRM and Organisational Behaviour was one of the recipients of the Best Career Division Symposium Award at Academy of Management. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2015\/09\/kbs-michael-koch-wins-best-symposium-award-at-academy-of-management\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40044,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,19165],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40044"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3977,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3976\/revisions\/3977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}