Table of Contents
• Welcome to Chicago from the Local Arrangements Committee
• PDW - Message from the PDW
DW Chair
• PDW - MH Division
• PDW - RM Division
• PDW - OCIS Division
• PDW - OB Division
• PDW - Careers Division
• Careers Division
sion Conference Update
• Call for Nominations - AOM Career Achievement Awards Committee
• Call for Submissions - AMP
• Call for Papers - 2nd EMES International Conference
• Call for Papers - Corporate Social Responsibility
• Board of Governors Spring Ballot
• Bartley Hildreth Receives the Aaron B. Wildavsky Award
• Electronic Hallway Case Teaching & Writing Workshops
• Academy of Managementt News & Press Website Reminder
• New Book Announcement - Getting China and India Right
• New Book Announcement - Integrative Corporate Citizenship
• New Book Announcement - Business Planning for Turbulent Times
• New Book Announcement - International Business and Climate Change
• New Book Announcement - The Praeger Handbook of Human Resource Management
• In Memoriam - Paul John Gordon
• In Memoriam - Robert P. Vechchio
Welcome to Chicago from the Local Arrange
Arrangements
ments Committee!
Chicago’s scenic lakeside location, miles of bathing beaches and lakefront bicycle paths, world-class
world
cultural offerings, more than 200 theaters and art galleries, and unique architecture are just some of the
reasons why this is a great city to visit. Families traveling with children will also find Chicago a fun,
welcoming place with lots to do and see, much of it free or affordable.
The Local Arrangements Committee hopes that your stay in Chicago is a wonderful and memorable one.
We are in the process of planning a number of interesting conference activities (such as green tours), in
keeping with the conference theme of “Green Management Matters.” Keep an eye on the conference
web-site for further information.
Getting To Chicago
By Air: With two major airports (O’Hare International and Midway) and direct flights from more than
250 cities in the United States and abroad, Chicago is one of the easiest places to get to in the United
States. From the airports, the cheapest, and often fastest, way to get downtown is on the Chicago Transit
Authority elevated (‘L’) trains -- just follow the signs to the airport transit stations. Taxis, limousines and
airport shuttle buses are also available at the airports.
By Rail: Amtrak trains arrive and depart from Union Station, 225 S. Canal St., on the western edge of
downtown.
Local transportation
Chicago Transit Authority’s (http://www.transitchicago.com/) convenient and easy-to-use bus and
elevated/subway train lines carry you around town and to major attractions. Taxis are also easily
available in most locations around the city.
Weather
Summer is a great time to visit Chicago, with sunny days, warm temperatures, moderately high humidity,
and occasional thunderstorms. The average high temperature in August is 83°F (28.3°C) and the average
low is 65°F (18.3°C).
Access for people with disabilities
All conference facilities and hotels are accessible for those with disabilities. The LAC is committed to
assisting individuals with disabilities. If you anticipate any special needs or have questions related to
access, please contact us as soon as possible at needs@aom.pace.edu.
Web-sites to help you make plans for your trip to Chicago
Information about Green Chicago
http://www.choosechicago.com/green_chicago/Pages/eco_tourism.aspx
Tours and attractions
http://www.choosechicago.com/Attractions/Pages/MemberList.aspx
http://www.chicagotraveler.com/chicagos-largest-attractions.htm
http://www.chicagoneighborhoodtours.com/
Maps you can download
http://www.choosechicago.com/travelresources/maps/Pages/maps.aspx
http://www.explorechicago.org/city/en/travel_tools/guides___maps.html
Access for people with disabilities
http://easyaccesschicago.org/
Family travel resources
www.chicagoparent.com
www.sittercity.com
Roving ambassadors
The 2009 LAC will have volunteers who will wear name tags encouraging attendees to “Ask Me.” Feel
free to approach them with any questions.
Members of the Chicago Local Arrangements Committee: Lisa Gundry and Margaret Posig (co-chairs),
Hamid Akbari, James Belohlav, Marsha Katz, Helen LaVan, Gordon Rands, Jasmine Tata and Carolyn
Wiley.
PDW - Message from the PDW Chair
Professional Development Workshops in Chicago
Anne S. Tsui, 2009 AOM PDW Program Chair and Program Chair Elect
Arizona State University and Peking University
Summer Get Away? How would you like to spend a memorable summer weekend in Chicago?
The 2009 Academy of Management will meeting make your dream come true.
There will be hundreds of professional development workshops on Friday and Saturday and AllAcademy Theme workshops on Sunday. You can pick and choose a set of workshops that
promise to provide the absolutely most intellectually engaging and exceptionally enjoyable
experiences. You can put together the most wonderful summer weekend get-away package you
have ever imagined. Here is why…
Rich Variety of PDWs, There is Something for Everyone. There is truly something for
everyone, whether you are a beginner, mid-stage or advanced doctoral student, whether you are
an assistant, associate, full or even retiring professor, or whether you are a teacher, researcher,
consultant, practitioner, or academic-practitioner. There are sessions on new research topics,
techniques, teaching methods, networking tools, and career models. The Academy Professional
Development Workshops are truly like the world’s best candy store; you will love and savor the
experiences in it for the rest of your life. Yes, I mean “rest of your life” because you may
discover a new research passion or may pick up a new teaching skill that can last a life time.
Many of you are veterans with lots of past PDW experiences. Each year, thousands of AOM
meeting attendees participate in one or more PDWs. If you are someone who has never
participated in a PDW, you are missing a significant part of the Academy meeting experience. I
invite you to add the weekend pre-conference workshops into your Academy meeting plan. You
will not regret it. In fact, you may regret that you have missed out on this valuable experience in
the past. Just to whet your appetite, I highlight below some of the most popular annual offerings
as well as a sampling of the new, innovative and exciting workshops nominated by the
divisional, interest group, and theme committee PDW chairs.
Doctoral Student Consortia. These are intensive workshops organized by a number of divisions
for advanced doctoral students that provide opportunities for discussing research, teaching and
academic careers with the leaders in your fields and for sharing similar or divergent experiences
with other students at a similar career stage. They are popular and highly informative workshops
providing a great benefit to students. New doctoral students are strongly encouraged to
participate in the All-Academy New Doctoral Students Consortium to learn about the “keys for
success” to embark on an academic career. If you are in between the beginning and advanced
stages of your doctoral studies, here is a new workshop that you may want to check out,
“Halfway there, but now what?,” sponsored by the OB Division. Most of these consortia require
advanced application and nomination by your faculty. Be sure to watch for announcements from
your division organizers and don’t miss the deadline to register.
Junior/New Faculty Consortia. These are for professors who just started or have only a few
years of experience in their academic career. It provides excellent opportunities to discuss the
challenges of post-dissertation blues and how to balance the demands of research, teaching,
service, and family, or a specific research topic (e.g., CM Division’s junior faculty incubator this
year focuses on the theme of conflict and cooperation). Many past participants have formed new
research collaborators and made new friends with whom one can share frustrations about politics
at school, rejected papers, as well as the excitement of a new research idea or the joy of an
acceptance in your dream journal. Some of these consortia also require advance registration.
Watch for email announcements or check the meeting website for registration information.
Workshops on “Green Management Matters.” These theme-related workshops span Friday
to Sunday. The division, interest group or theme committee sponsored workshops are held on
Friday and Saturday. The All Academy Theme (AAT) workshops are held on Sunday. Below is
a sample of the exciting theme-related workshops. Do you want to know how to incorporate the
“green” concept into your research, teaching, practice or even your career? What can companies
or business schools do about sustainability? You can find answers in some of these workshops
plus many more that I cannot possibly list here:
ENT: Environmental Entrepreneurship Incubator: How can Business Schools Help Create Green
Businesses?
PNP: Lessons and Questions from Practice: Cross Sector Partnership to Solve Social and
Environmental Challenges
CMS: CMS, MOS, Education and Practice: In Search of Sustainability
ONE: Operationalizing Sustainability for Research and Practice
SIM: Future Research Paths for Green International Management Studies
ODC: Energy at Work: Making Next Steps in Research and Practice
CAR: Does Green Management Matter in Individual Lives?
HCM: Green Management Matters: Finding Greener Learning Pastures with More Creative
Teaching Tools
AAT: Building Sustainable Programs in Business Schools: Lessons Learned and Brainstorming
for the Future
AAT: Corporate Strategies to Protect and Implement Environmental Initiatives in Troubling
Economic Times
ITC: Social Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies: A Philanthropic Approach
Workshops on New and Exciting Research Ideas and Methods. We are living in unusual
times economically, socially, and ethically, and with the world being more inter-connected than
ever before. This presents major challenges that should cause us to re-examine the meaning of
organizations, society, work, career and life. It is also a time to take stock of where we have been
and to think about a more meaningful future. Here are just a sampling of the interesting
workshops, designed to invigorate your research, that you will find in Chicago:
OMT: Learning from Rare Events
HR: Narrowing the Micro-Macro Divide Through Intellectual Capital Research;
IMD: Biculturals as Ascribed or Acculturated: A Discussion about the Development and
Implications of Types of Biculturals
AAoM: Knowledge Creation: A Management Theory from Japan
IBERO: The Effect of Financial Crisis on Latin American Companies’ Sustainability Initiatives
CM: Conflict and Cooperation: Trust, Justice and Culture
BPS: Conversations and Sensemaking in Strategy Practice: Methods for Analyzing Video and
Audio Data
TIM: Exploring Openness of Innovation: A Methodological Discourse
RM: Reality Mining: Using Sociometric Badges for Automated Behavioral Data Collection
GDO: The Next 25 Years of GDO Research – A Special Panel in Honor of GDO’s 25th
Anniversary
Workshops on the Academic Career, Networking, Practice, and Teaching. These
workshops provide you with the perfect setting to talk about issues related to the academic
career, choosing and working with collaborators who might be thousands of miles away, how to
make a bigger difference in research and teaching, help with revising a paper, suggestions on
finding funding for your research, how to create or use blogs, etc. Whatever concerns you may
have in your academic life or circumstances there are workshops that would fit your needs. Here
are a few suggestions:
MH: Social Networking: Not Just for Kids
MOC: Blogging for Management Scholars: Why and How to Read Blogs, Write for Blogs, and
Create Your own Blogs
MSR: Complexity and Social Networking: Implications for Spirit-Centered Leadership
OM: Show Me the Money: Applying for Funding, Scholarships, and Accreditation in Project
Management
MED: Exploring Virtual Worlds as a Tool for Management Education & Development
MC: Quinn & Quinn: Bridging Academic and Practice at Different Career Stages
OCIS: International Paper Development Workshop
Mentoring Committee: Care and Feeding of Co-Authors
TTC: Changing the World Through Education as it Changes Around You
Adventure in the City of Chicago: Off-Site Learning Opportunities
Are you one of many folks who check into your hotel and run between sessions in the conference
center and other hotels, and never venture into the city except a few nearby restaurants? Are you
one of those whose memory after the meeting consists of the hotel room, hotel food and the ride
from the hotel to the airport? Of course, we enjoy seeing old friends and meeting new ones, and
we're excited about all the learning and new ideas stimulated by the exciting sessions. However,
we can enrich our Chicago experience by taking advantage of the off-site programs offered by a
number of divisions, and experience the wonderful culture that Chicago has to offer. For
example, you can learn about the beautiful buildings in Chicago by joining the “Walk & talk:
Careers, Louis Sullivan, and famous Chicago architecture” program organized by the Careers
Division, or participate in a field trip to the “Hawthorne Works Museum” arranged by the
Management History Division. The Chicago Local Arrangement Committee is organizing a
service project involving community activities as a way to express our appreciation for the city.
There are many more exciting off-site opportunities, just watch for announcements in your
email, in the June AOM newsletter, or browse the AOM meeting website when it will be open in
early May. If nothing appeals to you, just invite a few friends to walk down Michigan Avenue or
some side streets and watch the people as they go about their daily activities. I hope you will
choose to get out of the hotel and head into the “field” to observe a vibrant city in action. You
may find inspiration from your field observations.
Planning is the Key to Your Best Experiences. The Professional Development Workshops
begin at 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM on Friday August 7, and Saturday August 8, and continue from
11:30 AM to 5:30 PM on Sunday, August 9. Start planning now for the best summer weekend
get-away at the 2009 Academy of Management annual meeting in Chicago. To give you an idea
of the scale and scope of the PDWs in 2008, over 2000 organizers and leaders put on over 300
workshops and were attended by over 5000 meeting participants. The feedback from participants
was overwhelmingly positive. This year will be similar if not better. So, whether you’re seeking
development related to research, teaching, practice, or looking for some help with the ins and
outs of an academic career, there’s a PDW for you.
"THANKS!" to the 33 PDW Program Chairs, and More. The 2009 PDW program chairs
deserve our BIG thanks for selecting the exciting workshops that will promise to be both
enjoyable and with great learning value. Please join me in thanking them for their time, energy
and passion. When you see them in Chicago, please take a minute to express your gratitude in
person. They are all busy professionals like you and I, and their self-less contribution makes it
possible for us to have a wonderful experience in Chicago. The 2009 PDW Program Chairs are:
Andrew Hoffman, All Academy Theme; Nicholas Argyres, BPS; Svetlana Khapova, CAR; Barry
Goldman, CM; Sarah Stookey, CMS; Mike Wright, ENT; Diana Bilimoria, GDO; Trish Reay,
HCM; Murray Barrick, HR; Mary Yoko Brannen, IM; Ansgar Richter, MC; Jon Billsberry,
MED; Chester Spell, MH; Arthur Jue, MSR Interest Group; Mark Martinko, MOC; Thomas
Gattiker, OM; Matthew Kraatz, OMT; Inger Stensaker, ODC; Jason Colquitt, OB; Manju Ahuja,
OCIS; Jorge Rivera, ONE; Leisha DeHart-Davis, PNP; Mark Griffin, RM; Shawn Berman, SIM;
Paul Olk, TIM; Meredith Burnett, Mentoring Committee; Shalei Simms, Mentoring Committee;
Daphne Yiu, Asia Academy of Management; Cristina Cruz, IBERO Academy of Management ;
Rosa Nelly Trevinyo-Rodriguez, International Theme Committee; Matthew Mitchell, New
Doctoral Student Consortium; Kuo-Hui Frank Yu, Practice Theme Committee; and Barbara
Ritter, Teaching Theme Committee.
We must also thank Valerie Navarro and Jimmy Le, Academy of Management Staff Specialists,
who coordinate the PDW chairs’ activities, are there whenever we need them, and whose tireless
dedication is an inspiration. Another behind the scene hero is Gabe Bramson who provided all
the technical support with the electronic submission and review system. Thank you all for your
great work. Last, but definitely not the least, are the hundreds of workshop organizers and
leaders who will be there to provide you with the best PDW experiences that will surpass your
expectations. Our hats are off to all of you for your imagination, commitment, and hard work in
planning, organizing and leading these workshops.
I look forward to seeing you in beautiful Chicago on August 7, 2009.
PDW - MH Division
The Management History Division is proud to announce the addition of several great PDWs this
year. Each are designed specifically to address several key topics and current issues. Almost
every management course mentions the Hawthorne experiments; what better way to truly
envelop yourself in these ground-breaking and still-discussed experiments than with a trip to the
Hawthorne Museum!
Our on-site PDWs offer a discussion on social networking and especially social networking web
sites. This session will consider how social networking can be used and is changing the way
people collaborate on research, keep in touch, and so forth. We also have PDWs introducing new
members and doctoral students to the Management History Division and the Academy as well as
sessions on getting published. Remember, every literature review is a potential management
history paper. Come and learn!
I look forward to seeing you in Chicago!
Best,
Chester S. Spell, Ph.D.
PDW - RM Division
Macro or micro, quantitative or qualitative, computer based or observational, the Research
Methods Division has a PDW that will match your interests. The diversity of program activities
allows participants to choose among workshops that will enhance a variety of methodological
skills.
The workshops are also a chance to broaden horizons and interact with others interested in
similar topics and questions. Workshops in qualitative research explore the process of
conducting research as well as specific topics such as computer software for analysis of
qualitative data. Quantitative workshops explore moderation and mediation, fit in structural
models, and the relative importance of predictors. Computer intensive analysis of extensive
qualitative data is the focus of two workshops.
PDW - OCIS Division
At this year’s Academy of Management Annual Meeting, the OCIS pre-conference program will
include a professional development workshop (PDW) aimed at bridging the U.S.-international
Divide in Organizational Communication and Information Systems Research. This PDW, which
will be accessible worldwide through Second Life, will include a panel of editors from leading
OCIS journals.
Through this PDW, we hope to encourage dialogue about differences in research traditions of
different continents. The panel will discuss techniques that authors could use when they wish to
develop papers dealing with international topics or topics that are peripheral to the current U.S.
research conversation. They will help authors from different cultures and research traditions
understand the social construction of what has traditionally been perceived as “good research” in
journals that publish OCIS research. We hope that our panel of journal editors will help us
overcome historic differences in research traditions and provide authors with publishing
strategies.
In addition, we will again offer an International Paper Development Workshop aimed at helping
authors whose papers did not made this year’s program improve their research for future
submission to OCIS or academic journals. Senior OCIS researchers, as well as other workshop
participants, will provide authors specific feedback on their work. In the selection process,
preference will be given to papers with either a significant international component (i.e., deal
with international issues such as globalization, rely on data collected outside of the US, or have
at least one co-authors located outside of the US) or a theoretical perspective that is not
considered mainstream. In the last two years we have been offering this workshop, many papers
have gone on to be accepted for future meetings, including one that won the Best Paper award in
a subsequent meeting.
Another exciting PDW relates to E-commerce and M-commerce innovations. This PDW seeks to
pull together experiences from research as well as practice from the fields of e-business and/or
mobile commerce to explore and (further) develop business models capable of adequately
describing the intricacies involved in business venturing within a digital, mobile SME
environment. A desired outcome of this PDW is to develop new approaches to understanding
business models applicable to M-commerce.
Finally, the OCIS doctoral and junior faculty consortia will participate in the Academy’s
initiative to further training in scholarship ethics by offering a joint one-hour panel-discussion on
this subject.
Manju Ahuja
2009 OCIS PDW-Chair
PDW - OB Division
Highlights of the Organizational Behavior PDW Program
The Organizational Behavior division will sponsor a number of Professional Development
Workshops (PDW’s) on Friday and Saturday in Chicago. Three of those PDW’s were
conceptualized and designed by the division’s Scientific Affairs Committee. The “Help I’m
Stuck” research incubator invites participants to describe theoretical or empirical problems that
have hindered their research projects. A panel of scholars will then offer their ideas for getting
those projects back on track.
The “Bridging Across the Micro-Macro Divide” session tackles the challenges involved in
multilevel research that bridges disciplinary boundaries. Focusing on the leadership and crosscultural areas, a panel of scholars will offer suggestions and advice on how to conduct high
quality cross-disciplinary research.
The third PDW seeks to bridge the gap between the All-Academy New Doctoral Student
Consortium, which focuses on first year PhD students, and the Organizational Behavior Doctoral
Student Consortium, which focuses on fourth and fifth year PhD students who have defended
their dissertation proposals. The “Halfway There, But Now What?” session caters to the needs of
third and fourth year PhD students who have completed their coursework and are about to begin
the dissertation process. A panel of scholars will provide advice on beginning the dissertation,
developing a research stream, and looking ahead to the job market. Look for more details on this
session, and all of our other PDW’s, over the summer!
PDW - Careers Division
Dear Careers Division members and friends,
This year we will have an exciting PDW program! Along with sessions dedicated to this year
AOM meeting theme, Green Management Matters, there is a great variety of sessions which
will help us to become better educators, researchers, and academic service providers. As usual,
our sessions concern career challenges and opportunities at all career levels; from looking for
your first academic job, to considering transitioning to a new challenge—within or outside
academia. To give you a taste what’s to come and what you should look forward to in the
upcoming meeting in Chicago, here are a few details about Careers Division PDWs:
Barbara Ribbens invites us to explore what does it mean to “green” a career? Her PDW "Does
Green Management Matter in Individual Lives? Incubating Research on the Greening of
Careers" focuses on exploring aspects of green careers, including those with green content, as
well as greening careers in a broader sense. Participants in the session will work together to
generate research questions and instigate breakthrough thinking for the next generation of green
career research and create new research teams that will bring green career research into the
forefront.
In their PDW, "It’s Not Easy Being Green: Lessons on Coping with a Career Crisis,"
organizers Beverly DeMarr, Robyn Berkley and Karen Whelan-Berry provide lessons learned for
difficult situations. They have invited a panel of individuals who have had a career crisis as a
result of standing up to an injustice to themselves (e.g. sexual harassment, retaliation, whistleblowing) or others and those who have experienced a career crisis not related to injustice (e.g.
denial of tenure, non-renewal of contract) to speak about how they successfully navigated these
situations.
Those who are at the beginning of their academic careers will benefit from Holly Slay's PDW,
"Careers in the Rough: Research Development Workshop." This PDW offers a possibility to
present research papers/ideas that are in the formative stages, and to receive helpful feedback
from the accomplished scholars which will help to move these ideas into published form.
Moreover, Gina Dokko and Jennifer Tosti-Kharas' workshop on "Using Biographical Data in
Organizational Research: Learning from Our Own Experience" will teach us how to use
biographical information in our research. Speakers will address sources for biographical data,
discuss the benefits and pitfalls of using these data sources, and review their appropriateness for
answering a variety of research questions.
To learn more about the keys to success in academia, accept Jennifer Moss and John Barbuto,
Jr’s invitation to join them for the PDW, "Success in Academia: A Panel Discussion with
Three High-Achieving Scholars." A panel of Academy of Management Laureates - Michael
Hitt, Edwin Locke, and Fred Luthans - will share their insights and philosophies regarding highly
productive research careers in the management field.
As the Academy of Management explores ways to address the growing divide between scholarly
research and on-the-ground practice, consider attending the PDW, "Becoming a scholarpractitioner: Exploring career strategies for integrating research and practice." Organized
by Dawn Chandler, Amy Gannon and Yan Shen, this workshop will explore career strategies for
those who are, or hope to become, scholar-practitioners. A panel of scholar-practitioners will
reflect on their life journeys and how they have built careers that enable them to integrate
research and practice.
The PDW, "Career Workouts for Executives," organized by Konstantin Korotov will introduce
academic colleagues who teach careers and leadership topics and/or who offer career or
leadership coaching to executives with a kaleidoscope of effective career-coaching and reflection
tools that can be easily adapted for work with individual clients, small groups during classes,
large group events (e.g., alumni meetings), and even online teaching or remote coaching.
"Seasoned” academicians (self-defined) who are contemplating issues of “winding down,” such
as maintaining their career while they age, or retirement or semi-retirement, which may have
implications for their achievement of life balance, should not miss the session, "Aging,
Retirement and Work-Life Balance," organized by Kerr Inkson. The PDW's objectives are to
raise issues regarding work, aging, and life balance; to advise participants on findings from
theory and research in this area; to offer interaction with peers experienced in the process; and to
provide a forum to ask questions, discuss feelings about the matter, and begin to formulate plans.
The Careers PDW program would not be complete without a cultural experience of learning
about careers in the context of the AOM 2009 meeting venue. Sally Power invites everyone to
join the PDW, "Walk & Talk: Careers, Louis Sullivan, and Famous Chicago Architecture"
to learn about the career of Louis Henri Sullivan (1856-1924), one of Chicago’s most famous
architects, speculate on how careers have changed, and see some of the famous architecture of
Chicago.
Whichever sessions you decide to attend, one session you should not miss from this year Careers
Division PDW programme is the "Careers Division PDW Social and Show." With a promise of
good drinks, food, and conversation, the Careers Division PDW Social and Show will feature
entertainment by the Careering Troubadours, written and directed by Kerr Inkson. This show
will commence at 6.45 pm on Saturday evening and will last for 30 minutes. The Careering
Troubadours are members of the Careers Division who have suppressed thespian aspirations. At
the 1999 Academy they were a smash-hit with their drama Careering! – a heart-rending tale of
the 1990s corruption of managerial careers that left not a dry eye in the house. This year they up
the ante with a truly spectacular production – Gilbert and Sullivan meet the Academy of
Management - a one-act comic opera satirizing the absurdities of the world we all live in - the
business schools, the Academy, and the Careers Division. The style and the music will follow the
English librettist and composer Gilbert and Sullivan, but the words – which will delight some
and outrage others - will be entirely original.
I wish you a pleasant conference and a joyful learning experience!
Svetlana Khapova
PDW Chair Careers Division
VU University Amsterdam
Careers Division Conference Update
The Careers Division is happy to report the receipt of 109 papers and symposia. With the last of
the reviews just now coming in (and a big thanks to all you reviewers!!), there’s not much to say
in the way of acceptances. However, I can highlight two important news items.
First, the Division will be featuring an important session during the main program entitled,
“Facing the Transition to Retirement: Now What?” This symposium, designed to attract a
growing number of Academy members who are at or nearing retirement age and who wish to
explore ways to remain active, sustain professional involvement and retain a network of
colleagues after they retire from their full-time university positions. Its goal is to explore and
better understand the unique needs of what appears to be a large segment of the Academy’s
membership who face the decision about whether or not they should make the transition from
full-time teaching and research to something else in retirement and, if so, what might that
something else be. Organizers Robert Ford and Rick Mowday have assembled a panel of
recently or soon-to-be retired faculty members—Dov Eden, Joanne Martin and themselves—
who will talk about the diverse paths they have taken or contemplate taking. They will also
explore alternative paths senior scholars can take in retirement beyond the university. In the
second part, informal discussions in small groups will seek to identify and explore the issues of
concern to members approaching retirement and how the Academy might address the unique
needs of this group. The discussion will be facilitated by Diane Sundby of Career Counseling
and Assessment Associates.
Second, thanks to the efforts of Jon Briscoe and Yochanan Altman, the Division is excited to
announce the creation of a new award. The Careers Division Best International Paper Award is
intended to acknowledge and promote the importance of outstanding scholarship related to
international/cross-cultural issues in contemporary careers. The initiation of this award,
sponsored by the European Journal of International Management, recognizes both the steady
increase of international scholars among division members as well as the importance of the
internationality of careers in a global economy. This award, along with our “regular” Careers
Division awards (e.g., Best Paper, Best Symposium, Hughes Award), will be presented during
our business meeting. Please note that because Tuesday night now features the All-Academy
reception, we have MOVED our business meeting to Monday afternoon, from 5-6p, with the
social following immediately thereafter. Be sure to check your program for the exact time and
location of this and all the other great Careers Division sessions.
Wishing you safe travels…See you in Chicago!!
Suzanne de Janasz, Ph.D.
Careers Division Program Chair
Call for Nominations - AOM Career Achievement Awards
Committee
2009 Career Achievement Awards
The AOM Career Achievement Awards Committee is responsible for reviewing nominations and
selecting recipients for the following awards:
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Distinguished Educator Award
Distinguished Scholar Practitioner Award
Distinguished Service Award
Distinguished Scholarly Contribution Award.
Distinguished Educator Award
Over the course of a career made significant contributions in one or more of the following areas:
• Developing doctoral students
• Teaching effectively
• Fostering pedagogical innovations
• Developing effective methods, structure and designs
Distinguished Service Award
Over the course of a career:
• Enhancing a field of study
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Founding or creatively editing a scholarly journal
Unusually effective service to a major professional institution
Distinguished Scholar Practitioner Award
Over the course of a career:
• Successful application of theory or research in practice and/or contributed to knowledge
through extraction of learning from practice
• Authored scholarly works which have substantively affected the practice of management
• Integration of research and practice
• Their work will be respected by peers (both practitioner and academic)
Scholarly Contributions to Management Award
Over the course of a career:
• Conceptual, empirical, or theoretical developments
• Create and disseminate new knowledge
• Advance management knowledge and practice
We seek nominations for these awards. Please send your nominations no later than April 15,
2009 to:
Michael Hitt, Career Achievement Awards Chair
Texas A&M University
Call for Submissions – AMP
Special Announcement to Authors
Authors interested in publishing in the Academy of Management Perspectives are encouraged to
submit a short proposal in advance of submitting a completed manuscript. Please visit the AMP
guidelines website for more information:
http://journals.aomonline.org/amp/proposal_guidelines.asp
Authors are asked to submit a short proposal (no more than 3 pages) that includes an introduction
and summarizes the general structure of your planned submission. Proposals can be submitted
directly via: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amp
The important theme of articles in the Academy of Management Perspectives is that they will be
evidence-based and focused on important developments in the world of management and
business. As the title suggests our goal is to bring fresh perspectives to the Academy.
AMP articles are aimed at the non-specialist academic reader. Thus, we want the articles to be
understandable and interesting to the wider set of academics, not just those who are experts in a
given domain. In addition we do not seek to publish for practicing managers.
The articles in AMP rely on evidence as opposed to theory or opinion for their arguments. AMP
is open to the wide range of topics represented within the Academy of Management, although
special attention will be given to manuscripts with broad appeal to the “thought leader” audience.
A typical article might summarize what we know about a particular topic, organizing the
material in ways that add value, drawing conclusions for future research agenda, and thinking
through the broader implications of the topic for society or public policy. Articles might also
present new findings, especially where they focus on topics that have been neglected by prior
research.
AMP is also open to a range of evidence, including case studies, qualitative research broadly
defined, and statistical analyses. AMP articles are fundamentally about evidence, however.
Articles that are primarily based on opinion are a low priority.
Call for Papers - 2nd EMES International Conference
2nd EMES International Conference on Social Enterprise 1-4 July 2009
Trento, Italy
Introduction
The development of economic activities in the framework of organizations with a social mission
is not a new phenomenon. Private economic institutions supplying general-interest services have
long been a crucial part of the social, economic and political history in advanced and postcommunist countries, as well as in developing countries.
Research Themes
All topics related to social enterprises and social entrepreneurship are welcome. Nonetheless, the
Conference will mainly focus on:
1) Conceptual aspects
2) Legal frameworks and public policies
3) Theoretical analyses across disciplines
4) Innovation, entrepreneurship and social enterprise
5) Management issues
6) Governance models
For More information about the Conference, please contact emesconference@euricse.eu.
Call for Papers - Corporate Social Responsibility
Call for Papers
Special Issue of Business & Society on
“Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Sustainability”
Our objective in this special issue is to synthesize these parallel literatures and topical areas, in
an effort to examine prudent, integrated management of financial, social, and environmental
pressures. Unfortunately, key issues regarding frameworks, measurement, and empirical
methods of social responsibility and sustainability have not yet been resolved because existing
research has been too fragmented or focused at one particular level of analysis. For example,
much research has been pursued at the firm level dealing with such issues as the relationship
between corporate social performance and firm financial performance. However, less research
has involved theories and variables at the individual level (e.g., factors pertaining to individual
decision makers), or how such variables might relate to organizational-level phenomena (e.g.,
corporate social performance or sustainability).
This special issue will promote the concept of theoretical metatriangulation, as expressed in
previous articles on theory building in the Academy of Management Review. Contributions
from strategic management, organizational behavior, human resource management,
organizational theory, economics, political science, sociology, moral philosophy, and other
disciplines are encouraged.
Submission Instructions:
Submissions to the Special Issue should be sent electronically to Professor Marc Orlitzky at
moo3@psu.edu, Professor Donald Siegel at DSiegel@uamail.albany.edu, and Professor David
Waldman at waldman@asu.edu ) before June 1st, 2009. The format of the papers must follow
Business and Society guidelines.
We also propose to hold a Special Issue Workshop, where each paper that is presented will be
reviewed and discussed by one of the special issue editors. While all submitted papers will go
through the regular double-blind journal review process, we believe that a face-to-face encounter
at such a workshop will result in better papers. Participation in the workshop will not be a
necessary condition for acceptance into the Special Issue, but we will strongly encourage all
potential authors to attend the workshop. In this regard, we have secured funding for the
workshop, enough to cover housing and meals for invited authors (one per paper). The final set
of papers would then be selected from those resubmitted after the workshop.
Deadlines/Timetable
The tentative timetable for the special issue is:
June 1, 2009
Paper submitted electronically to co-editors
July 30th, 2009
Authors notified if their paper is chosen for special issue workshop
Late September 2009 Special Issue Workshop (with assigned discussants) to be held at
the University at Albany, SUNY
January 1, 2010
Revised papers due (incorporating discussant and external
reviewer comments)
Board of Governers' Spring Ballot
Dear Worldwide Members of the Academy,The Board of Governors' spring ballot will be
opened on Tuesday, March 2, 2009. All voting members can select a new Vice
President/Program Chair Elect among three nominees, and three new Representatives-at-Large
from among three nominees for each slot.
The current slate of candidates is culled from your nominations submitted last fall in response to
the Call for Nominations posted on AOM Online. The result is an impressive group of proven
leaders who are strongly committed to the goals and ideals of our professional association.
The Academy's web site for this electronic election will be open from Monday, March 2nd until
Friday, April 3rd. Please click here to find more information, and gain access to the Academy’s
electronic election: http://www.aomonline.org/aom.asp?id=63.
Thank you for your participation!
Tom Lee
Past President
Bartley Hildreth Receives the Aaron B. Wildavsky Award
In October 2008, W. Bartley Hildreth, Regents Distinguished Professor at Wichita State
University, received the Aaron B. Wildavsky Award for lifetime scholarly achievements in the
field of public budgeting and finance from the Association for Budgeting and Financial
Management of the American Society for Public Administration.
Electronic Hallway Case Teaching & Writing Workshops
Mark your calendars to join us in the beautiful Pacific Northwest at the University of Washington’s Evans School of
Public Affairs for the Electronic Hallway’s 2009 Case Teaching and Writing Workshops.
Learn more and register online at http://www.hallway.org.
Case Teaching Workshop
Sunday, June 21 - Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Engage in an effective analysis of what goes into successful case teaching and build techniques that you can
immediately apply in the classroom.
Register online at http://www.hallway.org.
The Case Teaching Workshop will explore the concepts and techniques behind creative case teaching by showing
you how to plan and execute successful case discussions, work with the unique dynamics of the case classroom, and
meet the multiple challenges of discussion leadership. These workshops receive enthusiastic accolades from
participants who report that their participation has helped them become more successful and effective in conducting
case-based classes. Participants gain:
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A solid grasp of the teaching concepts behind the case method
Time-tested approaches to preparing and leading discussions
Multiple means of integrating case teaching into courses
Techniques for creating a more dynamic classroom environment
New contacts who share an interest in interactive teaching
Electronic Hallway Case Teaching & Writing Workshops
Mark your calendars to join us in the beautiful Pacific Northwest at the University of Washington’s Evans School of
Public Affairs for the Electronic Hallway’s 2009 Case Teaching and Writing Workshops.
Learn more and register online at http://www.hallway.org.
Case Teaching Workshop
Sunday, June 21 - Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Engage in an effective analysis of what goes into successful case teaching and build
techniques that you can immediately apply in the classroom.
Register online at http://www.hallway.org.
The Case Teaching Workshop will explore the concepts and techniques behind creative case
teaching by showing you how to plan and execute successful case discussions, work with the
unique dynamics of the case classroom, and meet the multiple challenges of discussion
leadership. These workshops receive enthusiastic accolades from participants who report that
their participation has helped them become more successful and effective in conducting casebased classes. Participants gain:
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A solid grasp of the teaching concepts behind the case method
Time-tested approaches to preparing and leading discussions
Multiple means of integrating case teaching into courses
Techniques for creating a more dynamic classroom environment
New contacts who share an interest in interactive teaching
Case Writing Workshop
Thursday, June 25 - Friday, June 26, 2009
Gain the skills to take a case idea and turn it into a teaching resource
for faculty around the world.
The Case Writing Workshop will engage participants by providing a case writing toolkit that
covers researching and developing a case, elements of a good case, and creating a teaching note.
This intimate workshop provides an excellent opportunity to receive high-quality feedback and
editorial advice from faculty and colleagues. From the first draft to the review process, this
workshop guides participants through the process of writing and posting a valuable teaching
case. Participants come away with a deeper understanding of how utilize case writing techniques
to evoke a more robust analysis of the case topic.
Workshop Faculty:
Responsive and committed team of faculty impart an assortment of styles, resources, and
perspectives with workshop participants.
Distinguished faculty and practitioners with a wealth of expertise in case teaching and writing
teach our case workshops. The faculty provide a variety of case teaching approaches, and are a
great resource for anyone interested in writing an effective case.
Academy of Management News & Press website reminder
In 2005 the Academy implemented the News and Press website. The News & Press website
(http://aomonline.org/aom.asp?id=248) contains press releases on the latest management
research published by the Academy of Management and presented at its annual meeting. Visitors
(members as well as non members) can view press coverage and read Academy news. News &
Press is a constant feature of the AOM Home page and the home page offers links to both the
AOM press releases (Press Room) and the AOM media coverage (AOM In the News).
The AOM Press Room (http://aomonline.org/aom.asp?ID=251), is arranged by press release title
and is searchable by year, media type (newspaper, journal, etc.), media name (such as the WSJ)
and "all". For example, users can perform a general search for the Academy of Management
Journal. As of today, this search yields 62 results on the Press Room site.
AOM In the News (http://aomonline.org/aom.asp?id=250) is also searchable by year, media
type, media name and all media coverage.
Public Relations contact:
Benjamin Haimowitz
Hurley & Haimowitz Public Relations
150 Broadway Suite 1807
New York, NY 10038
Phone: (212) 233-6170
Fax: (212) 233-5977
E-Mail: HHaimowitz@aol.com
New Book Announcement - Getting China and India Right
Dear Friends:
I am delighted to share with you some info about my just-released book on one of today's most
important topics for companies: Anil K. Gupta & Haiyan Wang, GETTING CHINA AND
INDIA RIGHT:Leveraging the World's Fastest-Growing Economies for Global Advantage.
Jossey-Bass/Wiley, February 2009; http://gettingchinaandindiaright.com/
This book appears to be getting good reception from some key gatekeepers and has so far been
covered by BBC, PBS-TV, NPR, IndustryWeek,as well as other media. Jeffrey Garten (Juan
Trippe Professor and Former Dean, Yale School of Management) captures the book's essence
well in his jacket cover endorsement: “At a time when China and India present enormous
opportunities and equally considerable risks, no global CEO, nor any of his or her senior
colleagues, can afford not to read this timely and insightful book. What makes this book
particularly compelling and valuable is that it not only leverages the authors' insider perspective
on China and India but also brings cutting edge ideas on global strategy to examine how the
China-India phenomenon must reshape corporate strategies." Echoing these views, Graham
Mackay, CEO, SABMiller plc, calls this book "a real tour de force."
Some of the other business leaders who have endorsed this book include: Ratan Tata (Chairman,
Tata Group), Narayana Murthy (Chairman, Infosys), Ronnie Chan (Chairman, Hang Lung
Group), Bill Hickey (CEO, Sealed Air), Edgar Hotard (Chairman, Monitor Group China), Ming
Zeng (Chief Strategy Officer, Alibaba Group), Mark Penn (CEO, Burson Marsteller), Wim
Elfrink (EVP & Chief Globalization Officer, Cisco), Ed Fuller (President, Marriott LodgingInternational), Ravi Venkatesan (Chairman, Microsoft India), Harsh Manglik (Chairman,
Accenture India), and Kyung Yoon (Vice-Chairman, Heidrick & Struggles).
Getting China and India Right argues that each of these two emerging giants represents four
game-changing realities, all playing out simultaneously: large and rapidly growing makets for
almost every product or service, plaforms for global cost reduction, platforms to boost a
company's intellectual capital, and springboards for the emergence of a new generation of
ambitious and highly capable global competitors. Based on solid research as well as case studies,
we dissect the anatomy of each of these important realities and then lay out in concrete terms the
strategic implications of these developments. We also discuss reasons why the future of the
global enterprise requires thinking in terms of China and India, not China or India.
I hope that you'll enjoy reading this book - available at Amazon.com and 800CEORead.com.
Also, it would be my privilege if you could forward this information to any friends/colleagues
who may be interested in this topic.
Best regards, Anil
Dr. Anil K. Gupta
Ralph J. Tyser Professor of Strategy & Organization
Distinguished Scholar-Teacher
Smith School of Business, The Univ of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742, USA
Mobile: +1.301.537.6738
http://www.anilkgupta.com
http://gettingchinaandindiaright.com/
New Book Announcement - Integrative Corporate Citizenship
Integrative Corporate Citizenship: Research Advances in Corporate Social Performance
by Marc Orlitzky & Diane Swanson
Given the increased impact of social and environmental forces on business reputation and
success, there has never been a greater need for companies to grasp corporate citizenship from a
theoretically sound perspective. For the first time, Marc Orlitzky and Diane L. Swanson, two
award-winning and prolific authors in the field of corporate social performance, present a
comprehensive overview of their research programs and develop a positive vision of value-based
business citizenship. By innovatively blending organizational theory and rigorous quantitative
methodology, the authors demonstrate that a holistic perspective on corporate citizenship that
accommodates the importance of profits and other time-honored social values is both desirable
and possible.
Table of Contents
PART I: THEORIES OF CORPORATE SOCIAL PERFORMANCE: TOWARD A NEW
VISION OF THEORETICAL INTEGRATION OF VALUE-BASED BUSINESS
LEADERSHIP
Addressing a Lack of Theoretical Integration in Corporate Social Performance
Toward an Integrative Theory of Value-Based Leadership
Value Attunement: Exploring the Potential for Responsible Executive Decision Making
PART II: EMPIRICAL RESEARCH INTEGRATION: BUSINESS SOCIAL PERFORMANCE,
RISK, AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE
Corporate Social and Financial Performance: An Integrative Review
Corporate Social Performance and Business Risk
Organizational Size, Corporate Social Performance, and Business Performance
Doing Well by Doing Good: Objective Findings, Subjective Assumptions, or Selective
Amplification?
PART III: IMPLICATIONS FOR MEASUREMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION: TOWARD
AN INTEGRATIVE PERSPECTIVE ON CORPORATE SOCIAL PERFORMANCE
Corporate Social Performance, Stakeholder Satisfaction, and Generalizability Theory
Normative Myopia, Executives’ Personality, and Preference for Pay Dispersion: Implications for
Corporate Social Performance
Prospects for Integrative Citizenship in Research and Practice
Author Biographies:
MARC ORLITZKY is Associate Professor of Management at Penn State University Altoona. He
serves on the editorial review boards of the Academy of Management Journal and Encyclopedia
of Business Ethics and Society, and has published extensively in several leading journals. He
gained his PhD at the University of Iowa, USA.
DIANE L. SWANSON is a Professor of Management and the von Waaden Professor of Business
Administration at Kansas State University, USA. Recognized in several Who’s Who
bibliographical indices, she is an Associate Editor for the Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and
Society, serves on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Review and Business
Ethics Quarterly, and has published extensively in other leading journals. She gained her PhD at
the University of Pittsburgh, USA.
New Book Announcement - Business Planning for Turbulent Times
John Selsky has co-edited a book published in August 2008 by Earthscan.
The chapters explore how concepts of turbulence (in the Emery-Trist
tradition) can usefully inform scenario planning practice.
Hardback,
August 2008
240 pages
ISBN: 9781844075676
New Book Announcement - International Business and Climate Change
Climate change has become an important topic on the business agenda with strong pressure
being placed on companies to respond and contribute to finding solutions to this urgent problem.
This text provides a comprehensive analysis of international business responses to global climate
change and climate change policy.
Embedded in relevant management literature, this book gives a concise treatment of
developments in policy and business activity on global, regional and national levels, using
examples and systematic data from a large number of international companies. The first part
outlines the international climate policy landscape and voluntary initiatives taken by companies,
both alone and together with others. The second part examines companies’ strategies, covering
innovation for climate change, as well as compensation via emissions trading and carbon
offsetting.
Written by well-known experts in the field, International Business and Global Climate Change
illustrates how an environmental topic becomes strategically important in a mainstream sense,
affecting corporate decision-making, business processes, products, reputation, advertising,
communication, accounting and finance. This is a must-read for academics as well as
practitioners concerned with this issue.
Endorsements:
"Ans Kolk and Jonatan Pinkse are the world's leading thinkers on the interface between
international business and global climate change. This well-written book will greatly benefit any
scholar or manager looking for state-of-the-art knowledge on corporate responses to the defining
environmental challenge of our generation."
Professor Alain Verbeke, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary
"This timely and comprehensive book is an excellent contribution to contemporary management
studies. It is highly relevant to managers, scholars and students in strategic management and
global governance, two fields in which globalization is leading to such intense innovation that
the basics of our current frameworks are being seriously tested. This publication is a "must-read"
also for policy-makers and civil society leaders who want a better understanding of regulatory,
co-regulatory and self-regulatory policy instruments and processes that address the key
challenges of climate change."
Professor Gilbert Lenssen, President of the European Academy of Business in Society
"Climate change is the single most important strategic issue facing business in the next fifty
years. This book provides a comprehensive examination of the strategic options facing
businesses as they struggle to cope with the sweeping competitive and regulatory challenges that
climate change presents to various sectors. The authors draw from their rich scholarly knowledge
of business and climate change to craft a very accessible and relevant portrayal of key aspects of
emissions management, carbon trading, and innovation strategies." Professor David Levy,
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2. From Rio to ‘Beyond Kyoto’: Synopsis of international climate policies 3.
Beyond regulation: Voluntary agreements and partnerships 4. Carbon control: Emissions
measurement, targets and reporting 5. Business strategies for climate change 6. Carbon trading as
(compliance) strategy 7. Innovation and capabilities for climate change 8. Dilemmas on the way
forward
New Book Announcement - The Praeger Handbook of Human
Resource Management
Dr. Scott Quatro, associate professor of management in the business department at Covenant
College, recently co-edited The Praeger Handbook of Human Resource Management with Ann
Gilley, Jerry W. Gilley, and Pamela Dixon.
Published by Praeger, the impressive two-volume, 600-page handbook is an encyclopedia-like
resource for human resource management (HR) practitioners and academics. It discusses topics
such as employment law, leadership development, HR strategy, and more.
Containing pieces by over 100 contributors, the handbook is divided into two volumes. Volume
one deals primarily with straight how-to information about human resource management. It goes
beyond manual-style information in volume two. This second volume contains more broadbased HR discussion, including issues such as leadership development and managing change.
Editor Dr. Ann Gilley is an associate professor of management at Ferris State University, and a
member of the Academy of Management. Dr. Jerry W. Gilley is professor and chair of the
Organizational Performance and Change and Human Resource Studies programs at Colorado
State University, and the fourth editor, Dr. Pamela Dixon, is assistant professor in the Wayne
State College Human Resource Management Program.
The Praeger Handbook of Human Resource Management is available for purchase in major
bookstores, on Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com, and directly from the publisher at
praeger.com.
In Memoriam - Paul John Gordon
Professor Paul John Gordon
October 14, 1921 – January 5, 2009
On January 5, 2009 the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, and the Academy of
Management lost a beloved member, a veritable architect of the very foundations and
development of these respected institutions. On that day, Professor Paul John Gordon, friend,
colleague, distinguished Professor, mentor, tireless advocate, and selfless leader, passed away at
87 years of age.
Professor Gordon joined the faculty of the business school at Indiana University in 1959, having
earned a Ph.D. from Syracuse University, having served on the faculty of Cornell University, and
having held industry positions with Brooks Brothers and Standard Oil of New Jersey. He retired
from Indiana University in 1989 following 40 years of distinguished service. Notably, in his
retirement he remained an active advocate for the profession and the Academy.
Professor Gordon’s professional contributions constitute the Academy’s equivalent of the Triple
Crown. From 1964-1966 he served as Editor of the Academy of Management Journal. Following
this distinguished service, he served the Academy as its President in 1969. Professor Gordon’s
contributions were also recognized with his election as a Fellow of the Academy of
Management. In addition to these notable accomplishments, Professor Gordon in 1992 received
the Academy of Management Distinguished Service Award. With this honor, it was noted that
Professor Gordon’s “contributions as a scholar, teacher, administrator and leader will have a
lasting impact on our field.”
Beyond his stellar service to Indiana University, Professor Gordon enjoyed a host of
international appointments and assignments in international locations that included Finland,
India, Ireland, Italy, Pakistan, Portugal, Uruguay, Yugoslavia, and Venezuela, among others. So
far reaching were these contributions that he was recognized as a Fellow of the International
Academy of Management.
When hearing of the passing of Professor Gordon, Professor Donald C. Hambrick, Dean of the
Academy of Management Fellows, described Professor Gordon’s life as “illustrious” and
“impactful.” And that was a marvelous assessment, well said and well deserved.
All of us extend our sympathies to Mary Brigid Keany Gordon, Professor Gordon’s wife of 59
years, their sons Brian, Hugh Paul, and Peter, his daughter, Martha, his sister, Dorothy, and his
five grandchildren, Meredith, Isabelle, Claire, Andrew, and Mary Elizabeth. While we are
saddened by his passing, yet we celebrate his life. It is in this spirit that we acknowledge his
enduring leadership, achievements, and years of dedicated service to the profession. Farewell
dear friend.
In Memoriam - Robert P. Vecchio
Robert P. Vecchio, long-time AOM member and SMA Fellow, of
Granger, Indiana, died on February 9, 2009 in Memorial Hospital, South
Bend, Indiana, after a head injury incurred from a fall. He was 58 years
old.
He was born in Chicago on June 29, 1950 to Dominick and Angeline
Vecchio. He received his B.S degree in June, 1972 from DePaul
University. He went on to earn his doctorate from the University of
Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in 1976. While in Champaign, he married
his high-school sweetheart, Betty. Robert and Betty moved to South Bend
in 1976 when Robert joined the faculty of the University of Notre Dame
as a Professor of Management. He served as Chairman of the Department
of Management from 1983 to 1990. Robert has held the Franklin D. Schurz Chair in
Management since 1986.
In 1995, he assumed the role of Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Management, the first journal to
be headquartered in the College of Business Administration. In addition to teaching
undergraduate and graduate business students, Robert served on many editorial boards, published
numerous articles, and authored books in the areas of leadership and organizational behavior.
Robert loved his work at the University, but what he valued most was time spent with his wife
and children.
He was predeceased by his mother and father, and is survived by his wife, Betty, daughter Julie,
and son Mark. He is also survived by a brother, Thomas.
Visitation will be held Friday, February 13, 2009, from 3-9 PM at the Haben Funeral Home,
(Habenfuneral.com), 8057 Niles Center Road, Skokie, Illinois, and on Sunday, February 15,
2009, from 2-8 PM at the Kaniewski Funeral Home, 3545 N. Bendix Drive, South Bend,
Indiana.
A Memorial Mass will be held Tuesday, February 17, 2009, at 3:30 PM in the Basilica of the
Sacred Heart, Notre Dame.
Memorial contributions may be made through Kiva.org.
To send condolences online, please visit Kaniewski.com.