Table of Contents
• Going to Chicago? You Need to Read This!
• 2009 Academy Green Booth
• Call for Program Volunteers for the 2010 Annual Meeting Program
• All Academy Theme Highlights
• Are You Ready for Chicago?
• RMD Program Highlights
• SIM Division PDW Highlights
• Management History PDWs Updated
• Invitation: LGBTQ and Friends Reception, Chicago 2010
• Call for Papers - MOR Indigenous Management Research in China
• Call for Papers - MOR Innovations in Public and Non-profit Sector Organizations in China
• Call for Papers - AMLE - Special Issue on Sustainability in Management Education
• Call for Papers - AMJ Special Research Forum on Organization and Management
• Call for Papers - Extending the Boundaries of Psychological Resource Theories in
Organizations
• Call for Papers - 7th International Conference on Emotions
• Call for Papers - PMI Research and Education Conference 2010 Call for Papers
• Call for Papers - Special Issue on Strategic Management in Higher Education
• Call for Papers - International Academy of E-Business 10th Annual Conference
• Call for Papers - IACMR Innovation and Change in Chinese Organizations
• Request for Proposals - AMLE 2011 Special Issue
• Call for Nominations - Organization Science Editor in Chief
• 2009 Board of Governor’s Election Results
• Journal Re-Direction - Journal of Business and Psychology
• New Book Announcement - Essentials of Business Ethics
• New Book Announcement - Chasing the Rabbit
• New Book Announcement - IT Governance in a Networked
• New Book Announcement - 3 Laws of Performance
• New Book Announcement - Stakeholders Politics
• New Book Announcement – Business Planning, Business Plans and Venture Funding
• New Book Announcement - Organizational Behavior
• New Book Announcement - Predator’s Game-Changing Designs
• New Journal Announcement - International Journal of Strategic
• New Journal Announcement - International Journal of Entrepreneurial
• New Journal Announcement - International Journal of Critical Account
Going to Chicago? You’ll Need to Read This!
Going to Chicago? You Need to Read This! Susan E. Jackson, AOM Program Chair
New Conference Events
Green Chicago
For New Members and International Members
Get Started NOW!
New Conference Events
By now, I hope everyone knows that AOM’s New Conference Design will be introduced at the
upcoming Chicago conference, August 7-11, 2009. The Professional Development Workshops
begin on Friday morning, Sunday is devoted to the All-Academy Program, and the scholarly
presentations are on Monday and Tuesday. Besides starting and ending a half-day earlier, the
new design includes several new events. Be sure to include these in your plans!
• Movie Night. Not sure what to do on Saturday night? Why not join your colleagues for a
showing of the documentary film by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore? Free to all conference
registrants, the film “An Inconvenient Truth” will be shown Saturday August 8, 8:00-10:00 pm,
at the Sheraton Hotel in the Sheraton Ballroom 5. Seating is on a first-come basis.
• All-Academy Welcome Breakfast. Sunday, August 9, 8:00 - 9:00 AM, at the Sheraton in the
Chicago Ballroom.. Free to conference registrants, a buffet-style continental breakfast will be
offered prior to the Presidential Address.
• AOM Presidential Address & Awards Ceremony. Sunday, August 9, 9:00 - 11:00 AM, at
the Sheraton, in the Sheraton Chicago Ballroom. AOM President Angelo S. DeNisi will preside
over this important session. Please come to hear his comments and to honor the winners of
several AOM awards.
• Sunday Program on “Green Management Matters.” Sunday afternoon is now used for
substantive program sessions. A total of 9 All-Academy PDWs and 23 All-Academy Symposia
devoted to the conference theme are scheduled for Sunday, August 9, 11:30 AM – 6:00 PM, in
the Hyatt Regency Hotel. Read Andy Hoffman’s column in this issue to learn more about the
Sunday Program. To see the complete list of All-Academy Theme sessions, click here.
• All-Academy Closing Reception. Open to all conference registrants, the final event of the
conference takes place Tuesday, August 11, 5:00 - 7:00 PM, at the Hyatt Regency in the Grand
Ballroom. Meet up with old friends, find new friends, and enjoy a bit of free food and
entertainment as we close out a conference you will be sure to remember!
Green Chicago
Our host city, Chicago, is setting an example for American cities that care about the
environment. Several conference activities will provide opportunities for you to learn how
Chicago is working with local organizations in an effort to create a sustainable urban
environment. Two particularly noteworthy activities are:
• Service Project. The Local Arrangements Committee has selected Growing Power as the
beneficiary of this year’s service project and charitable donation. Growing Power operates urban
farming demonstration projects and youth programs, builds farmer-city linkages, and provides
technical assistance for establishing sustainable community food systems. Please join us in a
service project that supports this local charity. To sign up, click here.
• Greening through Business, Non-Profit and Government Initiatives: How Chicago Leaders
are Doing It. Featuring a panel of local leaders, this informative All-Academy Symposia is
scheduled for Monday, August 10, 9:45 - 11:15 AM, at the Sheraton in Chicago Ballroom 6.
• To learn about other activities that Chicago has to offer, go to the meeting website and click
on GO GREEN
For New Members and International Members
The Academy is a big organization, and our annual conference can seem confusing the first time
you attend. If you are a new member, or if you just want to get an overview of the meeting,
please come to one of our New Member Orientation sessions. You can choose between two
different times: Friday, August 7, 5:30- 7:00 PM OR Saturday, August 8, 5:30 - 7:00 PM. Both
sessions will be held at the Sheraton, in the Sheraton Ballroom 4.
On Saturday, the New Member Orientation session will be followed by the President's Reception
for New and International Members, 7:00 - 9:00 PM, at the Sheraton in the Chi Bar.
Get Started NOW
Of course, this is just a small sample of the many sessions and events that will take place in
Chicago. In all, you can choose from 325 Professional Development Workshops and 1043
scholarly sessions (paper sessions, symposia, caucuses) as well as numerous business meetings,
social hours, field trips and other special events that are sponsored by 30 specific Divisions,
Interest Groups, and Committees. In addition, numerous meetings have been organized by a wide
array of journal editors, textbook publishers, affiliated professional organizations, colleges and
universities. Because some of these events require advance registration, you should begin
planning now! It’s easy to get started. Just go to the Meeting Website!
2009 Academy Green Booth
Did you know…
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If the United States cut office paper use by just 10% it would prevent the emission of 1.6
million tons of greenhouse gases -- the equivalent of taking 280,000 cars off the road.
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The paper industry is the 4th largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions among United States manufacturing industries, and contributes 9% of the manufacturing sector's carbon emissions. •
Paper accounts for 25% of landfill waste (and one third of municipal landfill waste)
(Source: http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/7447)
The 2009 Annual Meeting theme this year is “Green Management Matters.” In keeping
with that theme, the Academy of Management is pleased to announce the launch of the Green
Booth!
This booth is designed to encourage and educate all our members
to be responsible stewards of our environment
The goal of the Green Booth is to encourage the entire Academy of Management’s membership
to gain a deeper insight into how all of our actions and decisions have an environmental impact,
and how we can all be responsible stewards of our environment. This booth will be visually
captivating and also functional by allowing all members make the Green choice to switch their
journal distribution method from print to electronic.
The Green Booth will be a free-standing booth conveniently located near both the Registration
and Exhibit hall area. We look forward to meeting you there!
Call for Program Volunteers for the 2010 Annual Conference
The Academy is calling for volunteers for three newly formed committees for the 2010 Annual
Meeting program.
The three committees are:
1. Cross-Divisional Paper Session Committee (formerly known as Interactive Paper
sessions)
2. Discussion Paper Session Committee (formerly known as the Visual Village sessions)
3. Caucus Session Committee
Each committee consists of three members who will serve on a three year succession basis as
chair-elect, chair, and then past chair.
For information about the specific duties associated with each committee, please visit the annual
meeting website and click on the Call for Program Volunteers link.
For anyone who is interested in serving on any of these committees, please submit the following
information to Jimmy Le (jle@pace.edu), AOM Program Manager, by July 1, 2009.
1. Name, affiliation, email
2. The committee(s) that you would like to volunteer for
3. A brief statement explaining why you are qualified. Please include the following:
a. Whether you have volunteered for the Academy in the past
b. The capacity in which you volunteered
c. Your research interests
d. A willingness to serve at least two years
4. Attach your CV
Please click on Call for Program Volunteers link now to learn more about these new program
committees. Thank you for your involvement and contribution to 2010 annual meeting in
Montreal and beyond!
All Academy Theme Highlights
All-Academy Theme Highlights
Andrew J. Hoffman, All-Academy Theme Program Chair
Many Kinds of Green
Covering a Range of Disciplines
Practitioners’ Views Included, Too
Green Management Matters is the All-Academy theme for the 2009 Academy of Management
Conference--how far this research domain has come! The diversity of offerings reflects that
growth and development. This year we were able to accommodate 34 out of 53 submissions,
with an even distribution of PDWs (10), Panel Symposia (13) and Paper Symposia (11). We will
approach a wide variety of topics from a variety of the perspectives and levels of analysis and
engage practitioners and academics alike. We encourage you to review the program and check
out all 34 sessions; and to make it easy, all (except one) are scheduled on the same day and at the
same hotel – Sunday August 9 at the Hyatt Regency Chicago. As best as possible, we tried to
cluster commonly themed sessions into tracks. And, to give you a flavor of what is in store, here
is a taste.
Many Kinds of Green
Specific topics being covered span the spectrum. We have sessions on climate change,
renewable energy, industrial ecology, systems analysis, research, rigor & relevance and even
some sessions on the financial crisis. Those of you interested in discussing the challenges and
opportunities of integrating environmental issues into curriculum or research, I hope you’ll
consider attending Greening Management Education (11:30-2:00pm, Hyatt Regency Grand
B), Doing Research on Business and the Environment (2:30-4:00pm, Hyatt Regency Grand
B), Multidisciplinary Teaching Perspectives (4:00-6:00pm, Hyatt Regency Grand B),
Building Sustainable Business Programs (11:30-2:30pm, Hyatt Regency Grand A) and even
Greening the Academy (4:00-6:00pm, Hyatt Regency Toronto). Some more topical and
dynamic topics include Modern Agricultural Processes (2:30-4:00pm, Hyatt Regency
Columbus U) and Greening the Built Environment (2:30-4:00pm, Hyatt Regency Toronto).
And I hope that the irony won’t be lost that sessions related to climate change will be held in the
Acapulco room!
Covering a Range of Disciplines
Sessions will cover these topics from a range of disciplines. Those of you interested in a
psychological perspective may choose to attend Creating Sustainable Work (11:30-1:00pm,
Hyatt Regency Columbus H) or Individuals and the Natural Environment (11:30-1:00pm,
Hyatt Regency Columbus G), while those of you interested in a more sociological angle may like
to check out Classical Sociologists Confront our Environmental Crisis (4:00-6:00pm, Hyatt
Regency Columbus IJ).
Practitioners’ Views Included, Too
And then there are sessions for those who want to hear from practitioners. Some include
Overcoming Obstacles to the Green Transformation (1:00-2:30pm, Hyatt Regency Toronto),
The Environment in Troubling Times (4:00-6:00pm, Hyatt Regency Columbus U) and the one
session that will take on Monday August 10: Panel Symposium with the Chicago
Commissioner of Environmental Affairs and the CEO of Growing Hope (9:45-11:15am,
Sheraton Chicago 6).
I am honored and excited to present this full suite of sessions on Green Management Matters and
hope to see you in Chicago.
Are You Ready for Chicago?
August is just around the corner – and we hope that you are getting ready for your trip to Chicago. The
Local Arrangements Committee (LAC) is looking forward to welcoming you to the Academy of
Management Conference in Chicago and is hoping that you have a great experience here.
LAC webpage
Don’t forget to check out the LAC web page (click here) for information and links to make your stay
pleasant. There you will find:
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Welcome from the LAC
Information on access for people with disabilities
Chicago Information – sightseeing, shopping, and eating
List of LAC committee members and photos
Family-friendly places in Chicago
Dress code, weather and some other things that might be especially helpful to international
attendees
All-Academy Closing Reception
Come Hear the CTA! End on a High Note!
Tuesday 8/11 5:00 – 7:00 pm
Hyatt Regency Grand Ballroom
We are pleased to present the Chicago Trombone Authority (CTA) for your entertainment pleasure at the
All-Academy Closing Reception on Tuesday. The CTA is an eclectic collection of some of the best
trombonists from the Chicago area. Their mission is to preserve, promote, and enhance the legacy of the
trombone and the music written for it. With performing ensembles varying in size from 4 to 20, the CTA
is building a strong following and is now in its third year of existence. Information about the CTA can be
found at http://www.chicagotromboneauthority.com/
March in with the CTA to the reception and learn about the trombone. Then enjoy your friends and
colleagues while the CTA plays all styles of music in the background. Appetizers and drinks will be
provided as well at our annual closing reception. Let’s end on a high note!
The “No T-Shirt” zone
You will find some creative changes at this conference, one of which is the “no t-shirt” zone. In a change
from past years, and in keeping with the theme of “Green Management Matters,” the LAC decided that
the most environmentally- and socially-responsible thing to do would be to save the cotton, dyes, carbon
emissions, etc. that would be required to produce and ship the t-shirts. Why manufacture one more t-shirt
when we really do not need it?
You can help us to make a difference with your contribution to the local charity that we have selected,
Growing Power. Although you will not receive a t-shirt for your donation this year, you will receive the
satisfaction of knowing that you have made a difference in the lives of local Chicago area residents who
are growing their own healthy food, right in the heart of the metro area! Be sure to visit the Growing
Power desk on site at the Hyatt to make your donation, or donate through their web-site
(http://www.growingpower.org).
RMD Program Highlights
As in the past, the Research Methods Division has an exciting PDW and scholarly program. The
sessions cover a diverse array of methodological topics. From qualitative to quantitative, there
are sessions sure to appeal to everyone, whether an expert or a novice.
RMD had an outstanding set of papers and symposia submitted this year, so the quality of the
program is exceptionally high! There are many symposia and papers that offer new insights, so
please check the program for details. Here are a few highlights we'd like to draw your attention
to:
The ever-popular Ask the Experts sessions will be combined this year, so you can ask both your
qualitative and quantitative questions at the same time (but probably not of the same expert!).
Stop by the informal, round-table session to be held in the Sheraton, from 8am - 10am Saturday
morning. A variety of experts will be on hand to help you with methodological issues. Bring
your specific methodological questions, or just come listen to the experts' answers to questions
posed by others.
New this year--a session targeted at increasing your publications! "How to Publish in
Organizational Research Methods (ORM): Insights and Advice from the Editor and Editorial
Board Members" will be presented at the Sheraton on Monday, August 10, from 3:00 –
4:30pm. ORM's Editor, Robert Vandenberg, and several members of the Editorial Board
(associate editors and reviewers) will briefly discuss the journal and the types of papers it seeks
to publish. The panel will then offer practical tips (i.e., what to do and what not to do) to help
participants get their work published in ORM. After the presentations, the session will break
into round-table discussion groups. Come to just listen, or bring questions regarding your
methodological research.
SIM Division PDW Highlights
Social Issues in Management Division Highlights
Besides the familiar consortia of the PDW weekend (now a Friday-Saturday stretch), the SIM
Program features a host of innovative program events.
The SIM PDW weekend will be full of engaging sessions. SIM will once again be sponsoring or
co-sponsoring many sessions: The doctoral consortium, a junior faculty consortium cosponsored with ONE, and a full day of research development activities also co-sponsored with
ONE. We’re also expanding our partnership with SBE. In addition to co-sponsoring the joint
keynote by Dr. Deidre McCloskey on Saturday evening, there will be two sessions hosted by
SBE: One on teaching business ethics and one on student plagiarism in the 21st century.
Additionally SBE is offering free attendance to the SBE program on Saturday afternoon to all
AOM members wearing their name badges.
Another highlight from this year’s PDW program is a session on “Future Research Paths for
Green International Management Studies: Research in Sustainability,” also scheduled for
Saturday afternoon. There is a full agenda for both Friday and Saturday, so please check the
schedule of activities for complete information.
On Sunday afternoon, come join Jeremy Moon and Donna Wood at SIM’s first ever “SIM
Salon” to debate the utility of the multiple conceptions of corporate social responsibility and
corporate citizenship that have populated the literature. Stop by to hear presentations by the SIM
Best Dissertation Finalists, also a first ever event. And stick around to the evening to check out
an entirely new session format, the “Push Panel,” at which a group of scholars mine a classic
work to create new concepts, theoretical nuggets, and other clever turns that push the insights of
a classic into advances for today’s social science. This year’s event honors the 40th anniversary
of the publication of Edwin Epstein’s The Corporation in American Politics.
On Monday, the second iteration of the Focusing on Fields Panel picks up where last year’s
sessions left off, examining how additional areas of work within SIM, including corporate
governance, theoretical/conceptual ethics, corporate political activity, and work on social repair:
alleviating poverty with the base of the pyramid do or do not constitute cohesive fields of study.
Besides Epstein’s classic, a major symposium honors the anniversary, the 25th, of another
classic, Ed Freeman’s Strategic Management, on Monday morning.
For the first time in recent years, all the SIM panels are tracked, making it easier to catch up with
the scholarship you want to hear.
We’ve also rescued the Visual Papers and brought them back home: All the VPs will be at the
SIM reception, Monday evening, instead of next to the Academy’s exhibit area in multiple, hard-
to-find, sessions.
On Tuesday afternoon, in the last panel slot, the Program Chair and Program Chair-elect will
offer a new session on The Craft, Science, and Ethics of Reviewing for the SIM Program.
Management History PDWs Update Management History PDWs Our very popular trip to the Hawthorne Museum, (Friday afternoon)
is presently sold out, however a waitlist is available on the PDW registration website.
But if you miss out on the Hawthorne trip, we still are offering a full array of workshops for new
members (Friday at 8:30), doctoral students (Friday at 10:40), tips on getting published
(Saturday at 8:00), and those interesting in ramping up their professional development (Saturday
at 12:10 pm). Also, we have the workshop on social networking-Not just for kids!- (Saturday at
10:00) which discusses how you can use networking software and techniques in your career, and
the implications of social networking for research. All of these are in the Swissotel. See you
there!
Invitation: LGBTQ and Friends Reception, Chicago 2010
Please join us for “All in the Family,” an annual reception for LGBTQ persons and friends at the
Academy, Saturday, August 8, 8:00pm- 10:00pm, Sheraton Chicago, Chicago 8.
If you have come to this reception in the past, you know it is a great opportunity to enjoy good
company and good food and/or drink (if you come early enough...). And, if you have not
attended the reception before -- here is your personal (albeit not engraved) invitation -- friends,
allies, and LGBTQ members of Academy are all invited to the annual “All in the Family”
reception sponsored by the David Eccles School of Business (U. of Utah) and logistically
supported by GDO.
What?
When?
Where?
All in the Family: Annual Reception for LGBTQ Persons and Friends
Saturday, August 8, 8:00pm- 10:00pm
Sheraton Chicago, Chicago 8
Note that due to the changes in the meetings format, the reception has been moved from its
Sunday slot to Saturday. We thank GDO Division leadership and membership for the on-going
support!
For additional information about this reception, and for a list of lgbtq PDWs and sessions, visit
the (Informal) Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Guide to the Academy of Management,
at: http://group.aomonline.org/glbt/ or contact <glbt@mailaom.pace.edu>
Call for Papers – MOR Innovations in Public and Non-profit Sector
Organizations in China
Management and Organization Review
Special Issue Call for Papers on ‘Innovations in Public and Non-profit Sector Organizations in
China’
Guest Editors:
G. Zhiyong Lan, Arizona State University
Joseph Galaskiewicz, University of Arizona
Xianglin Xu, Peking University
Submission Deadline: September 15, 2009
Public and non-profit sector organizations play critical roles in our modern lives. Together with
for-profit business organizations, they constitute an organizational network that enables the
distribution and exercise of public and private functions that facilitate political, economic and
social development. In the past few decades, the drive for efficiency, effectiveness, and global
competitiveness has propelled a global movement of managerial reform and organizational
reinvention, which is also evident in China. Business and public organizations alike raced with
one another to get on the bandwagon of change and innovation. While the bottom-line of
business organizations is profit, public and nonprofit sector organizations are subject to
competing challenges. Besides the typical interpersonal and inter-organizational tensions such as
personnel grievances, labor disputes, and organizational jurisdiction disputes, public and nonprofit sector organizations have to worry about a broad range of tensions such as:
• economic development versus environmental protection;
• rising public interest concerns versus the call for more dependence on private methods;
• decentralization of power versus the need for coordination of technology development and
global competition;
• increased wealth versus enduring problems of poverty and crime;
• shaken public confidence in government versus increased need for confidence in the nation’s
economy;
• uncompetitive salaries versus requirements for high-quality public service personnel;
• organizational uncertainty versus increased reliance on employee loyalty to public service;
• high-level national debt versus increased pressure for public spending on social and
environmental programs;
• call for democratic institutions versus modern quests for efficiency and effectiveness;
• special interests versus general public interests;
• national homogeneity versus cultural diversity claims;
• need for cooperation versus tensions among ethnic groups and between genders;
• nationalism versus internationalism;
• promotion for free international markets versus new tariffs to protect domestic industries.
The length of this list, which is by no means exhaustive, underscores a powerful message that
public and non-profit organization leaders have to face truly arduous challenges. A fast growing
transitional economy, China’s social changes have occurred rapidly as well. Its public and nonprofit organizations face challenges that are both typical of their international counterparts and
unique to China. The challenges are typical because China is part of the international community
and shares many of the problems other countries currently face. The challenges are unique
because, unlike other nations, China is in the process of transforming from a traditional
totalitarian command economy into an open market economy.
Its public institutions and non-profit organizations have to find ways to work with and promote
the ever expanding market economy, and to integrate China’s economy with that of the
international community in spite of their institutional legacies from the traditional top-down
command economy. The tactics China’s public and nonprofit organizations use for meeting their
challenges, the way they innovate and change, and the mentality they have regarding their
institutional reforms could all have significant bearings on the direction of China’s future
directions of evolution.
In the years since opening up to the world, China has been under consistent pressure for further
development. Many changes have occurred, as evidenced in China’s quick emergence as a world
economic power. Have all these changes been made in the right way? What innovations have
occurred? What lessons can be learned? How could the positive experiences be transferred to
other localities or circumstances and the pitfalls avoided? How will China eventually develop
and change because of these innovations? Public and nonprofit organizations must face and
address all of these interesting questions.
With this call for papers, we invite submissions that identify, document, analyze, and theorize
cases of successful innovations in public and non-profit sector organizations in China.
Manuscripts should discuss the generalizability of the cases in the context of a broad framework
of references, and we welcome papers that explore the implications of these innovative measures
for China’s sustainable development. In our context, public sector organizations refer to central
governmental agencies, state, county, municipal, and township governmental units, and quasigovernmental enterprises. Non-profit organizations include educational and research institutions,
professional associations and societies, foundations, long standing community groups, citizen
groups, religious groups, and international non-governmental organizations. Innovations are
changes made either in administrative process, in service delivery, in institutional reform, or in
leadership and organizational culture. Significance, scope, impact, and sustainability of the
innovations should be discussed.
Please prepare the manuscripts following standard MOR submission guidelines, which can be
viewed at www.blackwellpublishing.com/mor. Please submit your papers via MOR’s Manuscript
Central site at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mor. Please identify your paper as a submission
to this special issue on Innovations in Public and Nonprofit Sector Organizations in China.
Questions about the special issue may be directed to any of the guest editors, including the lead
guest editor, G. Zhiyong Lan (Lan@asu.edu), Joseph Galaskiewicz
(galaskie@email.arizona.edu) and Xianglin Xu (xianglin@pku.edu.cn). Papers will be doubleblind peer reviewed and acceptance decisions will be based on the standards described in the
MOR mission statement.
Call for Papers – MOR Innovations in Public and Non-profit Sector
Organizations in China
Special Issue Call for Papers on “Indigenous Management Research in China”
Guest Editors:
Kwok Leung, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Peter Ping Li, California State University, Stanislaus, US
Chao C. Chen, Rutgers University, US
Jar-Der Luo, Tsinghua University, China
Submission Deadline: February 1, 2010
It has been long recognized that indigenous research should be helpful, if not essential, for an
adequate understanding of any local phenomenon. The indigenous approach is consistent with
the repeated calls for contextualizing organizational research. Paradoxically, globalization gives
rise to a greater need for indigenous research to adequately analyze each unique local context in
which multinational firms operate.
Most of the extant theories of management and organization are built upon the cultural values
and empirical evidence in the West; therefore it is imperative to conduct indigenous research to
likely revise and modify, potentially supplement and enrich, or even supersede and replace the
Western theories. In the context of China, with its long and complex history as well as its rich
and influential culture, there are many interesting phenomena that are potentially indigenous to
China. These phenomena include the yin-yang duality, guanxi, paternalistic leadership,
emotional bonds, informal norms, and the pursuit of capitalism or market economy within a
socialistic political regime. Understanding these phenomena and their influence on a firm,
manager and employee behavior will benefit, if not require, the input of the indigenous approach.
However, the challenges of indigenous research are enormous. First, there is little consensus
regarding what indigenous research is. Some argue that it qualifies as indigenous research if one
studies an indigenous topic, even if Western theories are adopted. Others maintain that
indigenous research requires certain contextual factors that are indigenous but that the dominant
theoretical framework can be borrowed from the West. Still others posit that only when an
indigenously developed theory is adopted or developed can the research be qualified as
indigenous.
Second, the above controversy is related to the vision and goal of indigenous research. Is it
intended to verify the extant Western theories? Is it designed to modify the extant Western
theories? Is it sought to develop new theories with broad geocentric implications to supplement
or even supersede the extant Western theories? Third, the above controversies extend to
methodological considerations. Do we simply adopt the prevailing methods in the West? Should
we develop indigenous methods for indigenous research? The articles in Volume 5, Issue 1 of
MOR lay out some of the challenges confronting the development of Chinese management
research. We need to address these questions and challenges.
The purpose of this special issue of MOR is to shed light on the above challenges and questions.
In this special issue, we seek to explore various approaches and diverse topics concerning
indigenous research. We define indigenous research in a broad sense to encompass any contextsensitive approaches to a uniquely local phenomenon, which may or may not have global
implications. We seek manuscripts that report empirical research addressing phenomena unique
to China and particularly phenomena that defy predictions or explanations by current theories
derived in the Western contexts. We also welcome theory building studies that introduce novel
theoretical insight on local phenomena that may or may not be unique to China. Both qualitative
and quantitative research methods are welcome. Conceptual papers that provide deep insight into
the Chinese context to explain contemporary management practices and organizational actions
are also welcome. In essence, we encourage creative research designs solidly grounded in the
context of Chinese cultural traditions. We invite submissions that incorporate or address, but are
not limited to, the following approaches:
(1) Indigenization-from-within approach: Contextualizing research and developing indigenous
constructs and models distinctive from the prevailing Western ones.
(2) Cross-indigenization geocentric approach: Supplementing and enriching the Western
constructs and models with indigenous constructs and models, with the aim to develop
geocentric (i.e., universal) theories.
(3) Unique methodological issues confronting indigenous research: Developing and illustrating
uniquely indigenous research methods for conducting indigenous research.
Possible topics for empirical analysis could include, but are not limited to, the following:
• The role of informal institutions and their interaction with formal institutions
• The application of Chinese traditional cultural values, such as Confucian Ren, Yi, Li, Zhi and
Xin as well as the Taoist wu-wei and yin-yang, to the contemporary issues of strategic
management, organizational structure, strategic alliance, and leadership
• The balance of harmony and conflict among Chinese organizations
• The regional differences within Mainland China that affect Chinese organizations
• The unique features of dual-boss structure (political and administrative bosses) in many
Chinese organizations
• Personalized trust in terms of relationship-specific shared interest, shared value and shared
affect rather than the universalistic elements of relationship-free ability, integrity and
benevolence
• Paternalistic leadership in a context of generational cultural value differences
• The changing role of guanxi in the evolving Chinese economic, social, and cultural context
Questions about the special issue should be directed to Peter Ping Li at pli@csustan.edu. Papers
for the special issue should be submitted electronically to MOR’s Manuscript Central site at
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mor and identified as submissions to the Indigenous
Management Research in China special issue. Authors of papers receiving a revise and resubmit
decision after the first round of review will be invited to a special session on this topic to share
their work at the IACMR 2010 biennial conference in Shanghai.
Call for Papers – AMLE Special Issue on Sustainability in
Management Education
Call for Papers
Academy of Management Learning & Education
2010 Special Issue
Sustainability in Management Education
Guest Editors:
Mark Starik, George Washington University
Gordon Rands, Western Illinois University
Alfred A. Marcus, University of Minnesota
Timothy S. Clark, Northern Arizona University
Sustainability, or multifaceted long-term quality of life, may be the most complex yet vital
phenomenon of our time. Environmental, social, and economic sustainability changes, from
local to global scales, appear to be connected to most every significant human action, whether
individual, organizational, or societal. From natural resource extraction through manufacturing
and service delivery processes to material and energy reuse and waste, for most of their activities
in the natural environment, humans significantly impact themselves and the rest of the natural
world on an ongoing and sometimes destructive basis. Fortunately, our species has recently
become aware of the human and natural crises we have collectively generated, has identified a
wide range of options potentially available to address these crises, and to a lesser extent, has
begun to implement these solutions, though with less urgency, comprehensiveness, and
effectiveness than may be required for satisfactory societal and environmental outcomes.
Businesses and business schools, the primary sources of management education, are paramount
among those organizations that must accept responsibility for causing, as well as for developing
possible approaches to addressing, these sustainability crises. In recent years, organizations, in
general, have advanced sustainability goals by reducing energy consumption, conserving water
supplies, improving air quality, fighting disease, preserving endangered species and ecosystems,
and relieving poverty and other community ills. Business schools and their universities and
associations, such as the Academy of Management, have followed, and sometimes led, this
general sustainability trend by developing and executing programs to green their curricula and
research efforts, construct energy-efficient buildings, install or upgrade recycling systems,
contract for renewable energy, purchase environmentally-preferable equipment and supplies, and
work with one another and with surrounding communities to advance sustainability values.
The purpose of this special issue is to assess the learning and educational implications of these
phenomena for both business schools and related institutions of higher learning, as well as for
businesses and other organizations. In this vein, we encourage submissions that address
sustainability education in academic and/or workplace settings. Consistent with the format of
Academy of Management Learning & Education, empirical and conceptual articles for the
Research & Reviews section, and appropriate material for the Essays, Dialogues, and Interviews
section are welcome. Some research questions, issues, and interview topics that contributions
might address, among many others, are:
- What sustainability topics are most important to address in business curricula, and/or
organizational training and development programs from the perspective of both business and
society? Do these differ by region, culture, country, or level of education?
- How can environmental, social, and economic sustainability be integrated so that students
and/or employees, including managers, appreciate the relationships among these phenomena?
How can education help enhance this “triple bottom line” approach and outcome?
- How can the often technically complex topics of energy conservation, climate change,
biodiversity, and similar more natural science-based subjects be most effectively presented to
business students and/or employees who have not been exposed to or have even purposefully
avoided these vital topics in their past educational efforts?
- How can business students and/or employees effectively learn to appreciate the diversity of
sustainability-related scientific opinion but not be stymied into non-decision and inaction
because of this diversity?
- What roles do the increasing number of sustainability- and management-related theories,
models, and frameworks play in informing business and sustainability education and/or training
and development? How can these be best transmitted and applied to “real-world” sustainability
challenges?
- How can sustainability as an educational topic be used to identify both the similarities and
differences among societal sectors (business, government, and nonprofits), within and among
organizations in industries, and within and among cultures?
- How can the long-standing business topics of innovation, entrepreneurship, globalization,
competition, and collaboration be effectively integrated with sustainability topics into businessand-sustainability curricula? How can sustainability be integrated throughout the MBA and
BBA curricula and/or organizational training and development programs?
- What techniques inside and outside the classroom (e.g. lectures, discussions, site visits, guest
speakers, simulations, case studies, video, projects, and on-line activities) have proved successful
in developing sustainability awareness, knowledge, and skills in business students and/or
employees?
- What sources of information are available and what media are most useful to provide students
and/or employees a well-rounded sustainability-oriented learning experience? How can
sustainability learning goals, including the advancement of sustainability, be best assessed?
- How can both the recruitment and placement of business-and-sustainability students be
enhanced at the bachelors, masters, executive, and doctoral levels of business education? How
can management students be best connected to sustainability practitioners?
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How can those who have engaged in sustainability education and/or training and development
best receive acknowledgement for such experience and be benefitted in organizational
assignment, career development, and promotion decisions?
- What roles can and should executives, managers, human resource personnel, and consultants
play in sustainability education in the workplace? What roles can and should university
presidents and provosts, deans and department chairs play in advancing sustainability education
in academia? What best practices currently exist? How common is such involvement at
present? How can such involvement be encouraged?
Submissions should be received by September 30, 2009, and should adhere to the “Style and
Format” guide for authors that can be found at www.aom.pace.edu/amle. Manuscripts should be
submitted to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amle, and designated under Manuscript Type as
“Special Issue-Sustainability 2010”. Pre-submission discussion of and consultation on potential
submission ideas and topics is also welcome. For further information, please contact the lead
guest editor, Mark Starik, at starik@gwu.edu.
All submissions will be subject to a rigorous double-blind peer-review process, with one or all
guest editors acting as action editor, and final approval coming from the journal editor.
Invitations to revise and resubmit will follow initial submissions in approximately 2 months,
with a final deadline of June 30, 2010 for revised submissions. All authors will be invited to
participate in an action workshop on the topic at George Washington University during the fall
of 2010 after publication of the special issue.
AMJ Special Research Forum on Organization and Management
Academy of Management Journal
SPECIAL RESEARCH FORUM
CALL FOR PAPERS
PROCESS STUDIES OF CHANGE IN ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT
Guest Editors: Ann Langley, Clive Smallman, Haridimos Tsoukas, and Andrew H. Van de
Ven
This special research forum is devoted to research aimed at understanding process questions
about how and why things emerge, develop, grow, or terminate over time – as distinct from
variance questions focusing on co-variations among dependent and independent variables.
Process questions address issues that span or interconnect the domains of AOM Divisions. They
include studies that examine how and why phenomena pertaining to individuals, groups,
organizations, and larger industry networks or communities develop and change over time. For
example, papers might examine the sequences of events or steps that unfold over time in the
development of individuals' decisions, jobs and careers, organizational innovation,
transformation, and relationships, or larger social, technical, and economic developments. We
seek papers that focus on the temporal order and sequence in which selected managerial or
organizational phenomena develop and change over time, and that advance our understanding of
process theories of organization and management (as discussed by Van de Ven & Poole, 1995).
Contributions may take a range of forms and may focus on different levels of analysis, but they
should take temporal developments seriously and examine how phenomena develop and change.
As Tsoukas and Chia (2002) noted, processes of change are continuous and inherent to
organizing. Submissions to the Special Research Forum may address emergent, improvisational
and self-organizing forms of adaptation and novelty. Given the ubiquity of innovations in
contemporary organizations, research that examines how inventions are created and what
processes unfold as they are developed and implemented as innovations are also invited.
More generally, potential research topics might include but are not limited to:
• Process studies of individuals within organizational contexts. For example, process studies
might address career transitions, organizational identification, and individual learning.
Contributors might also examine how individuals entrepreneurially generate change, as well as
how they cope with initiatives that are imposed upon them. An interesting example of a process
study at the individual level of analysis is Pratt, Rockman and Kaufman’s (2006) examination of
the construction of professional identity among medical residents.
• Process studies of group development. At this level studies might include examinations of
how groups (e.g., task forces, work groups, management teams) emerge, evolve or dissolve over
time. They might also examine how new forms of work organization are incorporated into work
groups and how groups evolve when they are merged into larger entities. An interesting example
is Repenning and Sterman’s (2002) study of the dynamics surrounding process improvement
teams.
• Process studies of organizational innovation and change. Studies might examine microprocesses of how individuals innovate, improvise, adapt, and learn as well as more macro
processes of how organizational start-ups, reorganizations, mergers, alliances, and crisis-induced
changes unfold over time. Two examples of process studies at the organization level are Balogun
and Johnson’s (2004) study of how middle managers make sense of change as it evolves and
Plowman, Baker, Beck, Kulkarni, Solansky and Travis’s (2007) study of the emergence of
accidental radical change in a religious organizations.
• Meso studies of how individual, group, organization, and industry-level processes co-evolve
over time. How and when do individual processes aggregate into organizational changes and
vice-versa? Is it through processes of interpretation and action at different levels (Orlikowski,
1996)? How do stable routines at one level induce changes in routines at another level (Feldman,
2000)? How do managerial intentions and actions change over time and how are they
reinterpreted by various stakeholders and organizational levels over time? How are industry level
processes or field level processes intertwined with processes within organizations to generate
new outcomes?
Process studies necessarily require temporally grounded data. These data may be constituted
through tracing phenomena backwards in time as in Plowman et al.’s (2006) study or by
following them forward in real time as in Balogun and Johnson (2004) and Pratt et al. (2006).
Generally, such research will also tend to draw on multiple sources of qualitative and
quantitative data, as might be obtained from interviews and surveys, real time observations,
documents and archival records. Statistical and narrative forms of longitudinal analysis and
theorizing are also commonly used (Langley, 1999; Pentland, 1999) ranging from qualitative and
narrative analysis to more quantitative methods that render deeper understanding of complex
temporal relationships (Abbott, 1990; Poole, Van de Ven, Dooley, & Holmes, 2000). We also
welcome research that innovates by drawing on novel data sources and analytic strategies (both
qualitative and quantitative).
As in the case of all contributions to Academy of Management Journal, papers accepted for this
Special Research Forum must be empirically rich, methodologically rigorous, and theoretically
insightful. In other words, process research studies must reach beyond surface description to
develop some form of understanding of dynamic phenomena that speak to situations other than
the empirical settings examined.
TIMELINE
Submissions are due no later than August 31, 2010. Contributors should follow the direction
for manuscript submission described in “Information for Contributors” in the front of each issue
of AMJ and at http://aom.pace.edu/amjnew/contributor_information.html.
For questions about submitting to this Special Research Forum, contact AMJ’s Managing Editor,
Mike Malgrande at mmalgrande@pace.edu. For questions regarding the content of this Special
Research Forum, write to one of the guest editors: Ann Langley (ann.langley@hec.ca), Clive
Smallman (clive.smallman@lincoln.ac.nz), Haridimos Tsoukas (htsoukas@alba.edu.gr), or Andy
Van de Ven (avandeve@umn.edu).
Call for Papers – Extending the Boundaries of Psychological
Resource Theories in Organzations
Call for Papers - Extending the Boundaries of Psychological Resource Theories in
Organizations
Call for Papers for Special Section of JOOP
Extending the Boundaries of Psychological Resource Theories in Organizations
Guest Editors:
Jonathon R. B. Halbesleben, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, USA (halbesjr@uwec.edu)
Marjan J. Gorgievski, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands (gorgievski@fsw.eur.nl)
Arnold B. Bakker, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands (bakker@fsw.eur.nl)
Issue scope:
The Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology (JOOP) invites submissions for a
special section on "Extending the boundaries of psychological resource theories in
organizations." It is anticipated that the special section will appear in the December 2010 issue
of JOOP.
In recent years, theories regarding psychological resources (e.g., conservation of resources
theory and selection-optimization-compensation theory) have formed the basis for much of the
literature on stress and its related constructs. However, in many cases, the originators of these
theories did not explicitly suggest they be limited to stress. For example, conservation of
resources theory, while increasingly common in the stress literature, has broad implications for
literature in motivation, decision-making, and other psychological constructs.
The goal of this special issue is to expand the boundaries of resource theories in work and
organizational psychology beyond the study of stress. To that end, we encourage authors to
submit papers addressing:
* Further development of the notion of psychological resource investment to understand
decision-making strategies (e.g., the investment in proactive behaviors at work)
* Clearer understanding of the role of individual differences in the acquisition and utilization
of psychological resources
* Social networks perspectives on the transfer and utilization of psychological resources (e.g.
a social capital approach of resources)
* The impact of psychological resources on the relationship between work and family/life
roles
* Dynamic processes, such as gain cycles or gain spirals of job resources and work motivation
* Multilevel perspectives on psychological resources (e.g., group-level resource constructs)
* The application of psychological resource theories to entirely new aspects of work and
organizations
* The impact of aging on the utilization of resources
The above list is meant to provide illustrations and is not exhaustive. Other proposals for relevant
papers are encouraged by the Guest Editors. Both empirical and conceptual/theoretical papers
will be considered; however, empirical papers must explicate a clear extension of resource
theories. Informal inquiries about the Special Issue can be made to Jonathon Halbesleben
(halbesjr@uwec.edu), Marjan Gorgievski (gorgievski@fsw.eur.nl), or Arnold Bakker
(bakker@fsw.eur.nl).
Manuscripts must be received by November 30, 2009. Manuscripts, which should be clearly
labelled as submissions intended for this Special Section, should be submitted through JOOP's
online review system, Editorial Manager, in accordance with regular JOOP guidelines. All
submissions will be anonymously reviewed, using the normal JOOP review criteria while also
taking into account the contribution of the paper to extending resource-based psychological
theories.
Consistent with JOOP editorial policy, papers based entirely on non-working populations (e.g.
student samples) will only be considered in rather unusual circumstances. The Guest Editors
retain discretion to publish this kind of data, for instance where it is clearly demonstrated that the
data obtained can be generalised to working populations. Moreover, studies conducted using
only cross-sectional self-report data will be considered only in exceptional circumstances. For
example; if the sample is exceptionally large, representative or multiple. In all other cases, crosssectional self-report data should form part of a wider selection of data, including other measures
such as longitudinal or experimental elements, corroborating or comparison data, third party
records or psycho-physiological data.
Proposed Timeline
June 2009 Call for papers
November 30, 2009 Deadline for initial submissions
February 1, 2010 First round of reviews; feedback to authors
May 1, 2010 Deadline revised submissions, final acceptance decisions made
December 2010 Publication (Volume 83 part 4)
Call for Papers – Seventh International Conference on Emotions
and Organizational Life (EMONET VII)
Seventh International Conference on Emotions and Organizational Life (EMONET VII)
Researchers interested in studying emotions in organizational settings are invited to submit
papers for EMONET VII, to be held in Montreal, Canada, August 4-5, 2010. The conference is
organized by the Emonet e-mail discussion group, an international network of scholars working
in this field, established in January, 1997, and now affiliated with the Academy of
Management’s list server.
Theoretical and empirical papers are invited on any topic of relevance to the study of emotions at
work, including the determinants of emotion; the nature and description of emotion; processes
and effects of emotion at the organizational, team, and individual levels. The conference papers
will be considered for inclusion in Volumes 7 and 8 of the JAI Press Annual Series, Research on
Emotion in Organizations, now published by Emerald Group Publishing (see
www.emeraldinsight.com/1746-9791.htm). Papers on the twin themes, Compassion and Passion
and Green Management are especially welcome.
The deadline for receipt of papers is March 15, 2010. Papers should be submitted via the
Emonet website (see below), and will be subject to blind review. Papers should be no longer than
40 pages of double-spaced 12-point Times Roman text in length, and should be formatted
according to the submission guidelines for the Academy of Management. See the Emonet
website for more details.
Papers for Emonet VII must be submitted via the conference submission links on the Emonet
website, http://www.uq.edu.au/emonet/ (click on the Emonet VII link).
For more information, please e-mail one of the conference co-chairs, Neal M. Ashkanasy (UQ
Business School, University of Queensland), n.ashkanasy@uq.edu.au; Charmine E. J. Härtel
(Department of Management, Monash University), charmine.hartel@buseco.monash.edu.au; or
Wilfred J. Zerbe (Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary),
wilfred.zerbe@haskayne.ucalgary.ca.
Neal M. Ashkanasy, PhD
Conference Co-Chair
Call for Papers – PMI Research and Education Conference 2010
PMI Invites Paper, Poster and Symposia Proposal Submissions for 2010 PMI Research and
Education Conference Academic researchers and educators are invited to submit papers, poster
and symposium proposals for presentation at the 2010 PMI Research and Education Conference,
the world’s premier event in the area of project management knowledge creation.
The conference will take place in Washington, DC, USA, on 11-14 July 2010. PMI solicits
proffered papers, posters and symposia proposals on any topic related to the theory and practice
of project management. Submissions can be based on empirical, theoretical or methodological
research, as well as on educational theory or practice (e.g. new teaching strategies, curriculum
design, service learning). All papers and posters will be subject to double-blind peer review by
members of the global project management research community. Students are also encouraged to
apply.
Symposia that draw participants from other disciplin es (e.g. management, organizational
psychology, adult education, linguistics, sociology, etc.) or from the practice community will be
looked on favorably. Student posters will be entered in a separate student-level competition. PMI
will award a prize to the best student poster. All papers, proposals and posters may be
submitted to PMI between 1 June and 1 December 2009. Visit
www.PMI.org/researchsubmissions to view submission guidelines.
Call for Papers – Special Issue on Strategic Management in Higher
Education
International Journal of Management in Education
Special Issue on Strategic Management in Higher Education
Call for Papers
Academics in the fields of management and education often bemoan the lack of a tight
connection between theory and practice in higher education. Despite the abundant knowledge
and expertise possessed by seasoned college administrators, today’s higher education has been
widely criticized for being either inefficient or ineffective, or both. If we agree that “nothing is
more practical than a good theory,” the need for new research work that provides clearer theory
based guidance on the practice of managing college education clearly exists.
Both theorists and practitioners are invited to submit empirical or theoretical works for a special
issue on strategic management in higher education. Accepted papers will be published on the
Spring 2011 issue of International Journal of Management in Education. Preference will be given
to empirical studies that test some hypotheses related to increasing the competitiveness or
efficiency of a certain type of higher education institute. However, well-developed theoretical
papers with pragmatic implications for strategic decisions made by college administrators are
welcome too.
Empirical support of the theoretical hypotheses, if appropriate, may be drawn from either
primary or secondary sources of data. Case studies that demonstrate the relevance of the strategic
management concepts in managing higher education are welcome too. The context of research is
not restricted to North America; when it comes to the best practices in higher education, we
believe in global benchmarking. Interdisciplinary collaboration among scholars of differing
academic backgrounds in co-authoring a paper is encouraged.
Specific topics may be chosen from, but are not restricted to, the following list:
• How to secure unique competitive advantages for a university/college
• Enrollment management and student recruitment strategies
• Enhancement of student services
• University budget planning and budget management
• Effective strategies that boost faculty research productivity
• Innovative technologies or pedagogies that help improve faculty teaching performance
• Resource acquisition strategies
• Strategic alliances and partnerships in higher education
• Cultivation of the relationships with external constituencies of a university or college
All submissions should be sent to the guest editor of this special issue, Dr. Paul Huo, by email
(huop@hsu.edu) before August 15, 2009.
Questions about this special issue should be directed to:
Y. Paul Huo, Ph.D.
Cecil W. Cupp Chair of Business and Faculty Director of
Business Mentorship Program
School of Business
Henderson State University
Arkadelphia, AR 71999
(Phone) 870-230-5300
(Fax) 870-230-5286
(Email) huop@hsu.edu
URL of the Call for Papers: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=1119
Call for Papers – International Academy of E-Business 10th Annual
Conference
Call for Papers
10th Annual Conference
International Academy of E-Business
SAN FRANCISCO - April 1 to 4, 2010
@Sir Francis Drake Hotel, 450 Powell Street
San Francisco, California
Proposal/Paper Submission deadline: November 6, 2009
Submit a brief (250 words) proposal to:
conference@iaeb.org and cc to: adm@iaeb.net with subject headline: "PROPOSAL 2010"
Full details @ www.iaeb.org
Dear Colleagues:
Hope you are enjoying your summer break.. As you may know, the recent conference in Hawaii
was a huge success. There were stimulating presentations and discussions on a variety of topics.
We had participants and presentations from the U. S., Canada, Australia, Europe, Latin America,
Asia, and some other parts of the world. Also, once again, congratulations to all the winners
of top outstanding papers at the 2009 conference. (Included below is A LIST OF THE
WINNERS.)
Our next 2010 Annual Conference will be in San Francisco. This city has been indicated as the
most preferred venue. Some details are outlined above. The submission and selection policies
and procedures are further outlined on our two websites.
On behalf of the International Academy of E-Business, we'd like to invite you to attend the 2010
Conference and perhaps submit a proposal for paper, panel or workshop presentation on any
topics on e-business. We particularly invite topics on technologies and their contribution to
economic growth and development.
Here are some items of interest:
1. November 6, 2009 -- Proposal Submission deadline. Please submit each proposal separately
-- about 250 words for papers, workshops, seminars, etc... to conference@iaeb.org and (cc to:
adm@iaeb.net ) with Subject line "Proposal 2008."
2. The IAEB conference will be at Sir Francis Drake Hotel (www.sirfrancisdrake.com) - a
luxury hotel at the Union Square in San Francisco, close to major attractions including China
Town, Fisherman's Wharf, Ferry Building. The Academy has negotiated excellent, unbelievable,
WOW rates: @$109 for single/couple per night.
3. For undergraduate student competition, please contact Professor Nitish Singh of St. Louis
University @ ncsingh72@gmail.com.
4. Once again, the Academy plans to identify and honor top five outstanding conference
papers.
5. As in the past, all conference submissions will be considered for publication in the E-Business
Review, Volume X, (ISSN1550-7793) Furthermore, authors will be invited to submit for
consideration an expanded version of their paper for publication in the Journal of E-Business;
(ISSN 1542-0846); this expanded version or revision should be based on the comments and
suggestions received at the conference. Please note that both of these publications are peerreviewed (refereed) and highly acclaimed. Papers will be considered for other publications
(readings book, other collaborative journals), too.
6. Please let your colleagues and acquaintances and anyone else that may be interested in ebusiness know about our organization, its mission and activities. There are no membership
dues. Everyone is invited to get involved in some ways. If you know somebody well qualified to
serve on the Editorial Board as a reviewer of papers and articles, please invite them; all they have
to do is to send an e-mail to adm@iaeb.net - preferably with the subject heading "ReviewerEditorial Board" and a brief vitae.
7. Some useful links and e-mails:
www.iaeb.org and www.iaeb.info (the Academy's websites for detailed information);
adm@iaeb.net (the Academy's office contact for general information, etc.); conference@iaeb.org
(for conference proposal submissions and cc to: adm@iaeb.net ); www.journalofe-business.org
(journal of e-business published articles); www.sirfrancisdrake.com (conference
hotel/venue/accommodations); ncsingh72@gmail.com (student competition)
Once again, we wish you a very pleasant summer break. Please don't forget to make your plans
for the San Francisco conference. In addition to a variety of intellectual and scholarly activities,
you will have an opportunity to enjoy outstanding environment and entertainment.
Warm regards,
Vinay Kothari
Planning Committee
International Academy of E-Business
Call for Papers – IACMR Innovation and Change in Chinese
Organizations
IACMR Shanghai Conference: June 16-20, 2010
Call for Submissions (Deadline: October 18, 2009)
International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR) will hold its fourth
biennial conference in Shanghai on June 16-20, 2010. The conference theme is “Innovation and
Change in Chinese Organizations.”
We welcome a variety of important and interesting research questions on the theme of innovation
and change, including:
o What transformational and evolutionary changes have occurred or are occurring in China and
Chinese organizations and what are their positive and/or negative effects on the economic,
social, and psychological lives of organizational members?
o Innovation in China can be top down (e.g., the mandate from the Chinese government) or
bottom up (e.g., family entrepreneurship) or a confluence of both. Which direction seems to be
more prevalent and efficacious, and how is innovation initiated, carried out, and sustained in
Chinese organizations?
o In the midst of change and innovation, how do Chinese organizations, groups, and
individuals deal with tensions between change and stability, and between innovation and
continuity? What role do integrity, fairness and moral leadership play?
o How to combine qualitative and quantitative research designs on topics that have not been
thoroughly investigated in Chinese management? How to integrate Western and Chinese
perspectives?
Submissions could also include other topics related to organization and management in the
Chinese context (including mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, etc.) or Chinese
organizations operating globally. We welcome papers and symposia in the disciplinary areas of
Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Management, Strategy, Organization Theory, as well
as International and Cross-Cultural Management.
Submissions will be electronic to the submission website at www.iacmr.org, which will open on
August 15, 2009. All papers must be received by October 18, 2009, and all Professional
Development Workshop and Caucus proposals by November 15, 2009. Notification of
acceptances or rejections will be made by February 15, 2010. For any questions about
submissions to the conference, please contact the Program Chair Chao C. Chen at
cchen.iacmr@business.rutgers.edu
Request for Proposals – AMLE 2011 Special Issue
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR 2011 SPECIAL ISSUE
Academy of Management Learning & Education
The Academy of Management Learning & Education is soliciting proposals from individuals
interested in serving as Guest Editor(s) for its 2011 Special Issue (V10N3, September).
Guest editor responsibilities include identifying an appropriate special issue theme and reviewing
and securing material appropriate for each of AMLE’s four content sections. Typically, those
four sections will be comprised as follows: Research & Reviews (3 – 5 peer-reviewed, empirical
or theoretical papers, totaling approximately 150 manuscript pages), Exemplary Contributions (1
– 2 invited papers by acknowledged leaders in the relevant discipline, totaling approximately 50
manuscript pages), Essays, Dialogues & Interviews (4 – 6 peer-reviewed papers, any mix,
totaling approximately 50 manuscript pages), and Book & Resource Reviews (4 – 6 invited
reviews, totaling approximately 25 manuscript pages).
AMLE will work with Guest Editors to arrange referees and review processing, with all papers
being reviewed by at least one Editorial Board member. Guest Editors are expected to maintain
all due diligence, have some editorial experience, and attend the annual Editorial Board meetings
at the Academy of Management meetings.
Proposals should include:
• Contact information, including phone, e-mail and postal addresses, of Guest Editors.
• Qualifications of Guest Editors, including previous editorial experience.
• 500 - 1000 word overview of proposed theme.
• Plans for inviting Exemplary Contributions, identifying materials for Book & Resource
Reviews, suggestions for Research & Reviews and Essays, Dialogues & Interviews, and
suggestions for circulating a Call for Papers beyond publication in the Academy’s four journals.
Guest editors are welcome to encourage papers for Research & Reviews and for Essays,
Dialogues & Interviews, but these must be peer reviewed.
• A timeline beginning with an initial Call for Papers that will appear in AMLE V8N4,
December 2009, allowing for initial submission and revise & resubmit processing, and
concluding with final papers being completed by April 2011 (16 months), so as to allow time for
copyediting and production, for publication in September 2011 (V10N3).
• A draft Call for Papers
Previous special issues include Entrepreneurship Education, Guest Co-Editors P. Greene, J. Katz
& B. Johannisson (V3N3); Service Learning in Management Education, Guest Co-Editors A.
Kenworthy-U’ren & T. Peterson (V4N3); Ethics and Social Responsibility in Management
Education, Guest Co-Editors K. Thompson & R. Giacalone (V5N3); Challenges and
Opportunities of Executive Education, Guest Co-Editors B. Buchel & D. Antunes (V6N3), and
Diversity Education, Guest Co-Editors M. Bell and D. Kravitz, (V7N3, 2008).
Queries to and conversations with the editor prior to submitting a special issue proposal is
encouraged. The editor and associate editors will evaluate proposals. Please direct all questions
or requests for copies of prior successful proposals to the editor.
Special issue proposals should be submitted to J. B. Arbaugh at arbaugh@uwosh.edu by 15
September 2009.
Call for Nominations – Organization Science Editor in Chief
Organization Science Editor in Chief, Call for Nominations
The second and final term of Linda Argote as editor in chief of the INFORMS journal
Organization Science expires on December 31, 2009. Consistent with the policies of INFORMS,
the president has appointed a committee to conduct a full search for a new editor in chief. The
committee intends to propose a candidate for approval by the INFORMS Board of Directors
by July 15, 2009.
Please submit nominations, including self-nominations, to Zur Shapira, search committee chair,
at zshapira@stern.nyu.edu. The complete call for nominations is available at
http://orgsci.pubs.informs.org/ .
2009 Board of Governor’s Election Results
Dear Worldwide Members of the Academy:
The 2009 Board of Governor’s election The Academy of Management is pleased to announce the
following officers for 2009-2010:
President:
James P. Walsh
President-Elect:
Susan Jackson
Vice President & Program Chair:
Anne Tsui
Vice President-Elect & Program Chair-Elect:
Ming-Jer Chen
Representatives-At-Large:
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Myrtle Bell
Jeanette Cleveland
Majken Schultz
Please click above on the newly elected officers for pictures and bios.
Thank you to all those who participated in the Academy of Management Board of Governors
election. We look forward to your participation this fall in the nomination process.
Sincerely,
Tom Lee
Past President
Journal Re-Direction – Journal of Business and Psychology
Journal of Business and Psychology: A New Direction
Steven Rogelberg University of North Carolina Charlotte
Starting January 2009, I will be taking over as Editor of
Journal of Business Psychology (JBP). I wanted to take a
moment to reintroduce JBP to our community and share with
you some of the directions the journal will be taking. First,
allow me to introduce the journal’s new Senior Advisory
Board. This distinguished group of individuals has provided
terrific advice and counsel regarding the vision of the
journal, candidates for Associate Editor, and special features.
They are:
Russell Cropanzano, University of Arizona
Angelo DeNisi, Tulane University
Michael Frese, University of Giessen
Tim Judge, University of Florida
Gary Latham, University of Toronto
Ann Marie Ryan, Michigan State University
Sheldon Zedeck, University of California Berkeley
Second, I want to introduce the terrific team of Associate Editors:
Jim Diefendorff, University of Akron
Eric Heggestad, University of North Carolina Charlotte
Julie Olson-Buchanan, California State University, Fresno
Stephanie Payne, Texas A&M University
Jerel Slaughter, University of Arizona
Steve Zaccaro, George Mason University
We have also selected guest editors for our two special feature editions in the works:
Allan Church, Pepsico
David Altman, Center for Creative Leadership
JBP is an international outlet publishing high quality empirical, theoretical, and conceptual
papers designed to advance organizational science and practice. Since its inception in 1986, the
journal has published impactful scholarship in Industrial/Organizational Psychology,
Organizational Behavior, Human Resources Management, Work Psychology, Occupational
Psychology, and Vocational Psychology. We also welcome work from other behavioral science
disciplines, including but not limited to Organizational Communication, Organizational
Sociology, and Public Administration.
JBP has three interrelated goals:
• To publish high quality/impactful organizational science research in general, and especially
research with an applied focus.
• To bridge the science/practice divide
• To promote interdisciplinary research connections
Typical subject matters include, but are not limited to:
Careers / Mentoring / Socialization
Coaching / Leadership Development
Counterproductive Behavior
Emotions at Work / Emotional Labor
Employee Withdrawal / Retention
Global / International / Cross-Cultural Issues
Groups / Teams
Inclusion / Diversity
Innovation / Creativity
Job Analysis / Job Design
Job Attitudes
Job Performance / Citizenship Behavior
Judgment / Decision Making
Leadership
Legal Issues / Employment Law
Measurement / Statistical Techniques
Motivation / Rewards / Compensation
Occupational Health / Safety / Stress
Organizational Culture / Climate
Organizational Justice
Organizational Performance / Change
Performance Appraisal / Feedback
Research Methodology (e.g., surveys)
Staffing and Selection
Strategic HR / Changing Role of HR
Testing / Assessment
Training
Work and Family / Non-Work Life / Leisure
Rigorous quantitative, qualitative, field-based, and lab-based empirical studies are welcome as
are novel and important theory development, synthesis, and conceptual papers. Interdisciplinary
scholarship is valued and encouraged. Submitted manuscripts should be well-grounded
conceptually and make meaningful contributions to scientific understanding and/or the
advancement of science-based practice. Papers will be evaluated on the following criteria:
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Significance of the article
Appropriateness for JBP
Appropriateness of literature review
Strength of methodology/approach
Strength of data analysis (quantitative or qualitative)
Conceptual strength
Quality of writing
Potential impact for practice
Potential impact for scientific advancement
In addition to publishing high quality research on a regular basis, every two years one of the
following special features editions will be released to promote our aspirations:
A “State of the Practice” edition. This edition will have about 12 pieces (around 3000 words
each), typically written by scientist-practitioners. Each peer-reviewed piece will discuss best
practices in a particular practice area that are extremely relevant in today’s business world (e.g.,
Succession Planning; High Potential Identification). In addition, and most importantly, the piece
would discuss the type of research that is needed to help in this area from a practice perspective.
This will hopefully promote our science/practice ideals and further support the notion of
evidence based management.
Interdisciplinary “Connections” edition. A topic relevant across a wide-range of disciplines will
be chosen. For each topic, 4-6 articles will be written. Each article discusses the topic from a
particular disciplinary perspective, the methods that discipline would typically use to study it, the
most relevant literature for them; and their general thinking about it. These articles would not be
critiques of other disciplines. They are designed to stimulate thought and boundary spanning for
future work. The first such special feature will be on Millennials and the world of work. The
contents will be:
i. Millennials and the World of Work: An Organizational Sociological Perspective
ii. Millennials and the World of Work: An Organizational Communication Studies Perspective
iii. Millennials and the World of Work: An Economic Perspective
iv. Millennials and the World of Work: A Practitioner Perspective
v. Millennials and the World of Work: A Psychological Perspective
vi. Millennials and the World of Work: An Integrative Interdisciplinary Perspective
A Few Final Notes
• We strive for a timely, high quality and constructive review process. We expect to make
decisions in no more than 90 days after the receipt of the manuscript.
• Although JBP is a paper-based journal, it is also part of Springer’s Online First Program.
This program is designed to reduce the delay between acceptance of a manuscript and
dissemination of its timely findings. Namely, manuscripts accepted for publication and awaiting
publication in paper format, are immediately published online.
• We have assembled a first rate board of over 100 consulting editors. They have distinguished
records and come from 4 different continents and 13 countries. Their names are listed below.
We could not produce the journal without them.
• If you are interested in doing ad hoc reviews, contact me at rogelberg@uncc.edu or our
excellent student assistant editors Marisa Adelman (madelman@uncc.edu) and David Askay
(daskay@uncc.edu).
We look forward to reviewing your excellent work.
New Book Announcement – Essentials of Business Ethics
Essentials of Business Ethics
Creating an Organization of High Integrity and Superior Performance Available
at: How to Create an Ethical
Essential guidance to create an organization of high integrity and superior
performance
Providing practical “how-to” examples and best practices on every area of
managing ethics inside organizations, this brief yet powerful book lays down the foundation for
creating a culture of high integrity and superior performance and offers advice relevant to every
organization or company. Topics include best practices in determining the ethics of job
candidates; ethics codes; ethical decision making; ethics and diversity training; ethics officers
and hotlines; ethical leadership, work goals, and performance appraisals; environmental
management; community outreach; and much more. Part of Wiley’s Essentials Series, Essentials
of Business Ethics is designed to enable corporate leaders to get up to speed quickly on the nuts
and bolts of business ethics.
Denis Collins (Madison, WI) currently serves on the Editorial Boards of Journal of Business
Ethics, Journal of Academic Ethics, and Encyclopedia of Business Ethics.
John Wiley & Sons
Paper • 978-0-470-44256-2
$39.95 US • $43.95 CAN
310 pages • 6 x 9 • TK per carton
All Rights
MANAGEMENT
http://www.amazon.com/Essentials-Business-Ethics-OrganizationPerformance/dp/0470442565/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240196427&sr=1-9
New Book Annoucement – Chasing the Rabbit
Dear Colleagues,
I’m delighted to let you know that, Chasing the Rabbit: How Market
Leaders Outdistance the Competition, has been published recently by
McGraw-Hill. I hope it contributes to your teaching and research in both
strategy and operations management.
The book’s research was motivated by a simple question: How do firms create advantage even in
the most hyper competitive markets? The answer is that some organizations are capable of
generating and sustaining high speed, broad based improvement, innovation, and invention
across the spectrum of discovering market needs, designing products and services to meet those
needs, and developing systems to deliver those items to market. Though industry structure
prevents them from creating a well differentiated, advantageous position, they win nevertheless
by consistently outrunning the field. The book explains how this is accomplished.
For those in the strategy, Chasing the Rabbit contributes directly to the ‘dynamic capabilities’
research with sound theory grounded in and illustrated with ethnographic and action research
spanning high tech and heavy industry, product design and manufacturing, health care and
software, commercial and military situations. For those in operations management, Chasing the
Rabbit moves past a best-practices, benchmarking imitative approach to normative principles for
designing sophisticated, complex systems and processes. In both cases, the book makes a solid
connection between theory and practice.
I trust that you will enjoy Chasing the Rabbit and that it you can put it to good use for research
and instruction with students and practitioners alike. I certainly welcome your comments and
feedback.
Best wishes,
Steven Spear
Senior Lecturer, MIT Engineering Systems Division
Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
sspear@mit.edu
ChasingTheRabbitBook.com
New Book Announcement – IT Governance in a Networked World
This book addresses issues of governance across networks of alliances, joint
ventures and the like. Topics on multisourcing, social capital and intellectual
capital are addressed from both a research and practice perspective.
http://www.igiglobal.com/reference/details.asp?ID=33275&v=tableOfContents
New Book Announcement – The Three Laws of Performance
Steve Zaffron is CEO of the Vanto Group, which is a member of the
Academy of Management. He and co-author Dave Logan crack the code
for unprecedented business and personal results in national bestseller THE THREE LAWS OF PERFORMANCE.In their new book THE
THREE LAWS OF PERFORMANCE: Rewriting The Future Of Your
Organization And Your Life (Jossey-Bass; $27.95; ISBN 978-0-47019559-8), breakthrough performance experts Steve Zaffron and Dave
Logan show companies and individuals how to revive people's passion for
accomplishment, creating a pathway to unprecedented organizational and
personal success.
Zaffron, who is CEO of the Vanto Group, has directed corporate initiatives with more than three
hundred organizations in twenty countries. Logan, who is on the faculty at the Marshall School
of Business at the University of Southern California, works with businesses, government, and
non-profits, implementing cultural change and strategy.
THE THREE LAWS OF PERFORMANCE is no ordinary change-management book. When the
Three Laws are applied, performance transforms to a level far beyond what most people think is
possible. Based on in-depth research supported by Zaffron’s and Logan’s direct experience, the
book is filled with dramatic case studies that illustrate the power and immediate benefits of
applying the Three Laws.
Readers learn how the CEO of a New Zealand steelmaking company turned around his business
and made it an industry leader in just one year; how the head of a U.S. athletic-shoe
manufacturer led a 500-member team in transforming the company and eventually selling it for
$3.78 billion; how Brazil’s largest petroleum company overcame negativity to achieve the
biggest process integration success in history; how a major Japanese housing manufacturer
learned to thrive despite the poor economy; and how a South African platinum mine improved its
safety performance by 57% in one year.
All of these transformations were based on applying the ideas that are at the heart of this book.
In a clear, step-by-step progression, Zaffron and Logan take the reader through each of the Three
Laws and show how to apply the Leadership Corollaries that initiate transformation. The Laws
and their related Corollaries are:
Law 1: How People Perform Correlates To How Situations Occur To Them –The First Law
rejects the concept that people do what they do because of a common understanding of the facts,
and instead takes the view that people do what they do because their actions are correlated to
how situations occur to them. When people understand that situations occur differently to each
of us, then other people’s responses and actions suddenly make sense.
Leadership Corollary: Leaders Have A Say And Give Others A Say, In How Situations Occur –
Leaders cannot control or determine how situations occur for others, but they do have a say. The
authors suggest that leaders ask themselves: “How can I interact with others so that situations
occur more empowering to them? What processes, dialogues, or meeting can I arrange so that
people can feel like coauthors of a new future, not merely recipients of others decisions?”
Law 2: How A Situation Occurs Arises In Language – How situations occur is inseparable from
language. Untying the knots of language begins with seeing that no matter what is said, other
communication is carried along with it. The unsaid – but communicated – includes assumptions,
expectations, disappointments, resentments, regrets, interpretations, and more.
Leadership Corollary: Leaders Master The Conversational Environment – In most organizations,
the network of conversations is noisy and conflicted, filled with chatter that makes new futures
impossible to occur. The effective leader must change the conversational environment, insuring
that everyone has a chance to clear out their issues, eliminate old grievances, and leave space for
a new future.
Law 3: Future-Based Language Transforms How Situations Occur To People – This Law rests
on an important distinction: there are two different ways to use language. The first use is
descriptive – using language to depict or represent things as they are or have been. The second is
future-based. It has the power to craft vision, and to illuminate the blinders that prevent people
from seeing possibilities.
Leadership Corollary: Leaders Listen For The Future Of Their Organization – Leaders do not
rewrite the future by themselves. They listen for a future that inspires them and then they create
a space that allows others to help them coauthor a new future.
The key to transformation, Zaffron and Logan explain, is designing a future not to solve a single
problem, but to create systematic change that impacts everyone. In commenting about THE
THREE LAWS OF PERFORMANCE, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, Nobel Laureate,
said, “God invites each of us to participate in the process of transforming the world – to create a
world in which every person knows their infinite and irreplaceable worth and can truly fulfill
their potential. This book filled with insights, real-life encounters and experiences, shows us
how we may do this work of transformation. Applicable in the corporate, labour, political and
civil society sectors – Steve and David have written an inspiring, practical book that will assist
all who seek to rewrite the future of our world.”
New Book Announcement – Stakeholder Politics
Secondary stakeholders must play politics to influence corporations
because they do not have the direct control over resource access that
primary stakeholder have. Stakeholder Politics (Greenleaf & Stanford
University Press) proposes a globally applicable framework for
exploring the connections among social movements, issue lifecycles and
corporate sustainability/CSR.
Author Robert Boutilier measures and analyzes the social capital in
stakeholder networks in cases from around the world. He hypothesizes
that a few common social network patterns can identify structural
barriers to sustainable development and help corporations manage
socio-political risks.
New Book Announcement – Business Planning, Business Plans and
Venture Funding
Robert Ochtel’s new book entitled: “Business Planning, Business
Plans and Venture Funding – A Definitive Reference Guide for
Start-up Companies” is the first book of its kind to take a “planningto-funding” approach to fund raising, with the ultimate goal of
securing angel, venture or other third party equity funding.
Targeting entrepreneurs, early-stage company investors and
entrepreneurship students, this book provides an experienced,
practical approach on how to: execute business planning, develop a
complete investor-focused business plan, and secure venture
funding.
Robert Ochtel’s new book entitled: “Business Planning, Business Plans and Venture Funding –
A Definitive Reference Guide for Start-up Companies” is the first book of its kind to take a
“planning-to-funding” approach to fund raising, with the ultimate goal of securing angel, venture
or other third party equity funding.
Targeting entrepreneurs, early-stage company investors and entrepreneurship students, this book
provides an experienced, practical approach on how to: execute business planning, develop a
complete investor-focused business plan, and secure venture funding. The processes and
methodologies provided in this book to have been used raise over $50M in early stage funding
from such venture capitalists as Sequoia Capital, Brentwood Associates, Oak Investment
Partners, AT&T Ventures, and Intel Corporation. Through the adoption of these proven
processes and methodologies, entrepreneurs can substantially increase their probability of
success in their fund raising efforts and ultimately introducing their company’s product, service
or technology into the market place. For more information on Robert’s book or to purchase a
copy go to: www.carlsbadpublishing.com.
As a complementary resource, Robert Ochtel’s Entrepreneur Blog addresses venture capital and
angel investor funding issues facing entrepreneurs. Robert’s blog focuses on providing proven
and practical expertise on business planning, business plans, marketing, sales, venture capital and
angel investor funding issues. Recent topics covered in Robert’s blog include:
Know the Rules of the Venture Capital Funding Game!
Essential Element #1: A Technology Does Not Make a Product.
Venture Capitalists Prefer Large Established Markets
Essential Element #2: Take Time To Do Business Planning Before You Jump.
Essential Element #3: Know the Venture Funding Community – Angel Investors vs. Venture
Capitalists
Essential Element #4: Know Your Odds in Securing Funding.
To see Robert’s latest blog posting go to: http://rochtel.wordpress.com/. If you would like to
contact Robert Ochtel directly, he can be reached at: Robert@carlsbad-tg.com.
New Book Announcement – Organizational Behavior
This is different kind of textbook. Organizational Behavior: Real Research for Real
Managers addresses the practical problems managers face in doing their
organizational work.
It draws on systematic organizational behavior research seeking to discover which
organizational actions and practices actually do and do not work. Organizational Behavior:
Real Research for Real Managers translates this scholarly research for real managers
seeking to understand and control organizations. Request your examination copies from
orderdesk@melvinleigh.com.
New Book Announcement – Predator’s Game-Changing Designs
Predator’s Game-Changing Designs:
Research-Based Tools
When the tried and true formula for an organization’s performance (its game plan) begins to fail,
it must change its game or become obsolete. Publicly recognizing that the old formula is
becoming less useful and a new formula must be developed and implemented is difficult for
most stake holders, but for survival the stages of grief must be endured and the conclusion
accepted.
Moreover, the romance of the “grand old formula” must be overcome by the realization that a
new and more attractive formula must be invented or found to replace it. The fate of thousands
of organizations that did not change their games when WalMart came to town bears witness to
the Iron Law of Capitalistic Markets: “Change your game when necessary to remain
competitive”. As Mr. Sam Walton told my son, Mike, stay the course as long as you can, but be
willing to change it when it’s not working. Clearly, Mr. Sam’s protégés got the message.
This book describes game-changing designs using the latest research-based strategies for inside
organizational participants from CEOs, Boards of Directors, top, middle and lower managers and
participants, and those people outside with a stake in its continued performance.
We have had the unique opportunity to understand from the “inside-out” both Mr. Sam Walton’s
miracle at WalMart and the great turn-around at Cincinnati’s Procter and Gamble over the last 15
plus years. We conclude from these studies that Mr. Sam has become a modern patron saint of
American game-changers. WalMart has been seen by most business reviewers as a clear
business case study of a “stay the course” formula of “lowest price” for the customer, but our
research shows that Mr. Sam’s created a “game-changing design culture”. Yes, Mr. Sam began
to build his juggernaut using a “lowest price” strategy that changed the game by “shock and
awe” strategies in small markets. Moreover, Mr. Sam next changed the game by employing
advanced information technology to reduce supply-chain costs and go international.
Later, Mr. Sam changed the game again by partnering with his reluctant vendors and requiring
that most large suppliers maintain a permanent WalMart team near WalMart headquarters in
Bentonville, Arkansas. Later, Mr. Scott, the CEO successor to Mr. Sam, changed the game again
by “going green”. In addition, the effective integrative partnering with originally adversarial
supplier teams by Mike Graen’s coaches set of new standard for inter-organizational
cooperation. Mr. Sam’s legacy continues to inspire new game-changing designs across many
different kinds of organizations in America and beyond. Once CEOs understand that their
competition is as bright and hard working as they and they need to leap-frog to new games, Mr.
Sam’s examples of carefully designed and implemented game-changing research-based
innovations become their bible. As our domestic and international markets have become
increasing discontinuous and what worked yesterday doesn’t work today, our CEOs should look
to Mr. Sam’s approach that changed the game before his competitors many times.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 WHAT IS A GAME-CHANGING DESIGN?
Miriam Grace, Boeing Company
Chapter 2 STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT OF NETWORK STRUCTURES THAT
SUPPORT LEARNING AND ADAPTATION
Deborah Gibbons, Naval Post Graduate School
Chapter 3 STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT OF COMPETENCE NETWORKS TO
IMPLEMENT ADAPTATION
George Graen, Center for Strategic Management Studies
Chapter 4 GAME-CHANGING LEADERSHIP THROUGH SOCIAL NETWORKS IN
COMPLEX SYSTEMS: AN INQUIRY INTO THE MECHANISMS OF INDIVIDUAL
INFLUENCE ON SOCIAL PROCESS AND STRUCTURE
James Hazy, AT&T (Ret.) and Adelphi University
Chapter 5 MIDDLE MANAGERS AS GAME CHANGERS: STRATEGIES FOR
REDUCING RESISTANCE AND THE ROLE OF LMX
Stacie Furst, Center for Organizational Leadership
Chapter 6 FLUID CHANGE LEADERSHIP: NAVIGATING ORGANIZATIONAL
CHANGE IN DYNAMIC CONTEXTS
Luis Martin, Georgia Institute of Technology
Chapter 7 THE CO-EVOLUTION OF FRIENDSHIP AND LEADERSHIP NETWORKS IN
SMALL GROUPS
Ajay Mehra and Josh Marineau Network Center, University of Kentucky, Alex Lopes and Ted
Dass, University of Cincinnati
Chapter 8 “EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE”: WHAT DOES IT MEASURE AND DOES IT
MATTER FOR LEADERSHIP?
John Antonakis, Universite de Lausanne
Chapter 9 AGENCY BELIEFS ABOUT CHINESE LEADERS AND FOLLOWERS: A
COMPARISON OF HISTORIC CHINESE LEADERSHIP PHILOSOPHIES
Chao Chen, Rutgers University
Chapter 10 CEO SUMMARY: FIND-DESIGN-CAPTURE COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE
George Graen, Center For Strategic Management Studies
New Journal Announcement – International Journal of
Entrepreneurial Venturing
Inderscience Publishers (http://www.inderscience.com) is pleased to announce the publication of
the first issue of International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing
(http://www.inderscience.com/ijev).
Edited by Dr. Terrence E. Brown, Scandinavian International Management Institute and Prof.
Dr. Sascha Kraus, University of Liechtenstein, it reflects the concept of entrepreneurship as not
being limited to new ventures and start-ups, but as the concentration of opportunity, growth and
value creation regardless of company size, age or kind.
There is a free download of the papers from this first issue at
http://www.inderscience.com/sample.php?id=123
New Journal Announcement – International Journal of Strategic
Business Alliances
Inderscience Publishers (http://www.inderscience.com) is pleased to announce the publication of
the first issue of International Journal of Strategic Business Alliances
(http://www.inderscience.com/ijsba).
Edited by Refik Culpan, Pennsylvania State University, it considers inter-firm partnerships as an
alternative and effective strategic option for gaining and sustaining competitive advantage. It
focuses on inter-firm collaboration in a variety of forms in various industries in both national and
international environments and promotes our understanding patterns and strategies of such
ventures in the competitive global marketplace.
There is a free download of the papers from this first issue at
http://www.inderscience.com/sample.php?id=303
New Journal Announcement – International Journal of Critical
Accounting
Inderscience Publishers (http://www.inderscience.com) is pleased to announce the publication of
the first issue of International Journal of Critical Accounting (http://www.inderscience.com/ijca).
Edited by Prof. Aida Sy, Manhattan College, New York and Prof. Tony Tinker, Baruch College
at the City University of New York, it is concerned with theoretical and empirical aspects of
critical accounting and related issues and is intended for academia and the professional
accounting community. Papers examine emerging trends in critical accounting and fast-changing
concerns faced by corporations, government and regulators from a comprehensive range of areas.
There is a free download of the papers from this first issue at
http://www.inderscience.com/sample.php?id=328