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Table of Contents - December 2011
Conference News
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An Update on the Academy of Management Global Conference
Message from R. Duane Ireland, AOM 2012 Program Chair
Message from Paul Adler, AOM Professional Development Workshop Chair
Careers Division Awards 2011
Calls for Submissions, Proposals and Nominations
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Deadline for Submission Intent for the Second Annual TRL Video Competition is
December 15
AOM 2012: Caucus Proposals are due on January 10 at 5:00 PM EST
Call for Papers and Reviewers- HR Division
Call for Papers - Designing Culturally Sustainable Organizations
Call for Proposals - ODC Research Award by Healthways
Call for Scholarships- Erasmus Mundus scholarships for students and scholars
Call for Papers - The Future of Innovation Management (Palgrave book)
Member Updates
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The Ethics of Research and Publishing Video Series
Need a Membership Receipt?
Emeritus Membership Rates
Membership Corner Update
New Book Announcement - New Ways of Organizing Work: Developments,
Perspectives and Experiences
New Book Announcement - Pinpointing Excellence: The Key to Finding a Quality
Executive Coach
ISSWOV Celebrates 25 Years with Conference in Goa, India, in June 2012
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Conference News
An Update on the Academy of Management Global Conference
January 7 – 10, 2013
Gordon Institute of Business Science
Johannesburg, South Africa
http://aom.org/GlobalConference
We are delighted to announce that the following scholars have agreed to serve as track chairs for
the AOM Global Conference.
Ralph Hamann, University of Cape Town, and Johanna Mair, visiting professor at
Stanford University will chair the Navigating Institutions: Business, Government, and Civil
Society track.
Albert Wocke, Gordon Institute of Business, will chair the Emerging Market Firms and
MNCs: Characteristics and Global Aspirations track.
Oana Branzei, University of Western Ontario, will chair the track, The Base of the
Pyramid: Emerging Market Consumers, Workers, and Managers
Kurt April, University of Cape Town, and Mustafa Özbilgin, Brunel University, will
serve as chairs for the Cultural Diversity and Transformational Societies track.
Additional track chairs will be announced in the near term. In the mean time we invite you to
visit the Global Conference website to learn more about the conference features, experiential
learning journeys, and travel requirements for South Africa. As a reminder, the AOM Global
Conference will consist of paper sessions, workshops, and experiential learning journeys that are
based on the above mentioned tracks.
If you haven’t already done so, please follow the Academy of Management on Facebook,
LinkedIn and Twitter. You can also join the Global Conference group on AOM Connect to have
updates delivered to your inbox, or simply email globalconference@aom.pace.edu.
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Message from R. Duane Ireland, AOM 2012 Program Chair
We are rapidly approaching the end of
another calendar year. I hope that all is well
for each member of our Academy of
Management and that you will have a
wonderful new year.
Speaking of the new year provides an
opportunity to visit with you about the many
exciting sessions and activities that are
being planned as parts of the 2012 Annual Meeting, August 3rd-7th, Boston, Massachusetts.
“The Informal Economy” is the theme. We hope that you are finding this theme interesting and
inspiring as you think about potential contributions to make to the 2012 program. Next, I would
like the privilege of saying a bit more about the theme for our 2012 program.
We are rapidly approaching the end of another calendar year. I hope that all is well for each
member of our Academy of Management and that you will have a wonderful new year.
Speaking of the new year provides an opportunity to visit with you about the many exciting
sessions and activities that are being planned as parts of the 2012 Annual Meeting, August 3rd7th, Boston, Massachusetts. “The Informal Economy” is the theme. We hope that you are
finding this theme interesting and inspiring as you think about potential contributions to make to
the 2012 program. Next, I would like the privilege of saying a bit more about the theme for our
2012 program.
There are various definitions and perspectives about the informal economy. Sociologists Manuel
Castell and Alejandro Porters suggest for example that the “informal economy is characterized
by one central feature: it is unregulated by the institutions of society in a legal and social
environment in which similar activities are regulated.” Another somewhat related perspective is
that the informal economy involves activities that are seen as illegal relative to boundaries
established by formal institutions and conveyed through rules, laws, and regulations but that are
simultaneously seen as legitimate by a large group or groups of members of a society in terms of
that group or group’s norms, values, and beliefs. Regardless of the precise nature of the informal
economy, an indisputable fact is that the amount of economic activity taking place outside of
multiple countries’ and regions’ legal boundaries today is expanding. And some estimate that
informal economy economic activity will become even more prominent in the years to come.
In spite of the size and scope of the world’s informal economy, we as management scholars have
completed relatively little research to examine issues in this setting. Indeed, a debate could be
had around the position that the majority of today’s extant management research has considered
economic activity and the management-related issues flowing from it that occurs in the formal
economy—an economy in which one or more governing bodies tax and monitor economic
activity for a society’s benefit and where the outputs of that activity are included in a country’s
gross domestic product.
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The theme for the 2012 meeting in Boston encourages us as scholars to engagingly examine a
host of issues regarding management in the informal economy and the management of economic
activity in that economy. Indeed, our view is that all manner of organization and management
research questions come alive in this setting. As an example, scholars could examine what it
means to establish and successfully engage human resource management practices in the
informal economy. Questions regarding strategies informal economy firms might choose to use
to engage informal as well as formal economy competitors in marketplace competition are quite
intriguing. And what about factors that influence those managing firms in the informal economy
to consider moving their organization to the formal economy? How are such influences
recognized and what analyses are completed to consider if a firm should compete in the formal
rather than the informal? Comparative questions are also very important to this theme. As
examples, do all informal economies share common characteristics and does their emergence
result from common antecedents?
These questions represent a short and incomplete example of those that we can consider when
thinking about the Informal Economy as the theme for our 2012 meeting. Of course, engaging
questions that are embedded within the informal economy has the potential to find management
scholars dealing with controversial topics. In this regard, we acknowledge that as is the case with
the formal economy, the informal economy includes aspects we might admire alongside those we
might find appalling. As scholars though, we would be remiss if we ignore that which we might
find personally offensive.
In summary, as a theme, The Informal Economy challenges us as management scholars to expand
our research domain to identify and then examine issues that are associated with the management
of economic activity that is taking place outside the parameters of the world’s formal economies.
I hope that you share my excitement about the theme and the large number of potentially
significant research questions it surfaces for our consideration and analysis!
Submissions to the 2012 Program
We published the Call for Submissions in October of this year. As indicated in the Call, ALL
submissions must be made via the Academy's submission system which officially opened on
November 2. Please carefully review the submission guidelines and procedures prior to
submitting your papers and proposals for consideration. Submissions that do not follow the
guidelines or are incomplete will not be reviewed. The submission deadline for ALL submissions
is January 10, 2012 at 5:00 p.m. EST (New York Time).
Serving as a Reviewer as a Way of Contributing to the Program
The annual meeting program would not be possible without the excellent work and great effort
of our dedicated and committed reviewers. If you haven’t already done so, please allow me to
take this opportunity to encourage you to sign up as a volunteer reviewer for the 2012 program.
You can sign up to review for up to three divisions and/or interest groups. You may be asked to
review up to three submissions (papers and symposia) per division or interest group that is
selected. The review period for the 2012 Annual Meeting is from January 10, 2012 (Submission
Deadline) to February 9, 2012 (Review Deadline). Please sign up now on the reviewer sign-up
website. Thank you very much for your willingness to serve your Academy of Management in
this very important way!
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The 2012 Scholarly Program
Two years ago we introduced several refinements to the Scholarly Program that takes place on
Monday and Tuesday of the week of the annual meeting. These modifications were put into
place in response to feedback from conference participants and for the purpose of seeking to
continuously improve the potential for the Scholarly Program to create value for all participants.
For the upcoming Boston meeting, we are continuing with the format and structure of the annual
program that has been in place for the past two years. This means that the Scholarly Program will
have a total of six types of sessions, including three formats (Divisional Roundtable Sessions,
Cross-Divisional Paper Sessions, and Discussion Paper Sessions) that were introduced during the
2010 meeting in Montreal. We briefly describe each session below. The variety of the sessions
increases the likelihood that authors and other participants will have multiple opportunities to
benefit from their involvement with the Scholarly Program.
(1) Divisional Presentation Paper Sessions will consist of papers with a common theme. Each
author will have a set amount of time to present his or her work with group discussions taking
place after all presentations have been made. The Division Program Chairs will organize these
sessions.
(2) Divisional Roundtable Paper Sessions will consist of papers with a common theme with the
ability to draw a more focused audience. Authors will present their work and then engage in a
more intimate discussion with attendees. The Division Program Chairs will organize these
sessions based on the topics of the accepted papers.
(3) Cross-Divisional Paper Sessions will consist of papers addressing topics that span more than
a single division’s domain. These sessions will provide attendees an opportunity to discuss the
papers from multiple perspectives. A Cross-Divisional Papers Committee, chaired by John
Michel of the University of Notre Dame (jmichel@nd.edu) will organize these sessions, with
papers identified by the Division Program Chairs based on the topics of the accepted papers.
4) Discussion Paper Sessions will consist of papers that with refinement have the potential to
break new ground or make important contributions. During these sessions, authors will talk
about and explore areas for further development with a discussant and others who share similar
research interests. The Discussion Paper Session Committee, chaired by John Humphreys of
Texas A&M University at Commerce (john_humphreys@tamu-commerce.edu) will structure the
Discussion Paper Sessions with papers identified by the Division Program Chairs that have been
selected from among the accepted papers.
(5) Divisional and Co-sponsored Symposium Sessions will consist of presentation and panel
symposia that focus on specific topics. Presentation symposia will feature multiple papers
sharing a common theme. Panel symposia will involve panel discussions without specific papers.
Each symposium proposal can be submitted to up to three divisions.
(6) Caucus Sessions are designed to provide a convenient, yet informal forum in which Academy
members with shared interests are able to discuss common issues and explore potential research
collaborations. Presenters and participants can also use these sessions for the purpose of
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discussing a variety of issues including those of scholarly projects that are currently in progress
as well as insights flowing from published papers and books. Thus, the domain of the caucuses
has been expanded for the purpose of providing participants with opportunities to network with
colleagues who share similar interests. Theodore Brown, Sr. of Oakwood University
(tbrown@oakwood.edu) is leading the effort to organize the Caucus sessions.
Even though there are six types of sessions in the Scholarly Program, authors submit individual
papers to only one division, symposium proposals to up to three divisions, and caucus proposals
without divisional designation.
Sunday, August 5 is the All-Academy Theme (AAT) Day. We are planning an exciting program
on Sunday featuring PDW and symposia that are related to the “The Informal Economy”
theme. If you have an idea or a concept to propose as an All-Academy Theme (AAT) session,
please communicate that proposal in writing to Bat Batjargal at Harvard University
(batjarg@fas.harvard.edu). Professor Batjargal is serving as the AAT chair for the 2012 meeting.
Please submit your proposals to Professor Batjargal as soon as possible but no later than
December 13, 2011. In your email, please describe the session you are proposing, including the
format and participants you have in mind. If deemed acceptable, a full proposal must be
submitted via the AOM submission system by January 10, 2012 at 5:00 p.m. EST (New York
Time).
We are confident that the Academy of Management’s 2012 Annual Meeting has the potential to
be a very exciting and value-creating event. Please allow me to express my sincere appreciation
to everyone who is choosing to participate in this year’s meeting in various roles including those
of authors, reviewers, and volunteers. I truly appreciate the honor of working with each of you
and look forward to developing an excellent program for the Boston meetings as a result of our
collective efforts!
R. Duane Ireland
Vice President and Program Chair
Texas A&M University
Message from Paul Adler, AOM Professional Development
Workshop Chair
As we approach the end of another calendar year, I would like to invite you to submit proposals
for the 2012 Professional Workshop Development (PDW) program that will be held during our
annual meeting, August 3-7, in Boston, Massachusetts.
As we approach the end of another calendar year, I would like to invite you to submit proposals
for the 2012 Professional Workshop Development (PDW) program that will be held during our
annual meeting, August 3-7, in Boston, Massachusetts.
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The PDW program has evolved into one of the most exciting and creative parts of the annual
meeting program. We encourage you to build on that history, by submitting creative ideas for
workshops that can benefit our colleagues.
To facilitate your work in crafting a submission, please consider the points below and the
information presented on the various websites we mention:
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The place to begin is with our Call for Submissions, which includes detailed information
regarding PDW policies and rules as well as submission guidelines and processes.
The deadline for PDW submissions is January 10, 2012, 5:00 PM (Eastern USA time)
Please ensure that you respecting the Academy’s “Rule of Three & Three”.
The PDW program will take place on two full days (Friday and Saturday, 8:00 AM -8:00
PM). A PDW can cover any length of time (in two-hour blocks), ranging from 2 hours to
12 hours or even more.
Each PDW proposal can be submitted to only one Division, Interest Group, or
Committee.
Sunday during the Annual meeting will be devoted to the All-Academy Theme PDWs.
Submissions for these PDWs should be made directly to the AAT Chair, Bat Batjargal
(batjargal.oxford@gmail.com).
All proposals are to be submitted through AOM’s Submission Website.
You will find useful ideas on how to create an effective PDW at the PDW Resources
Page.
If you want feedback on your proposal, please contact the appropriate PDW Chair by
December 13, 2011. That will leave the Chair time to respond, and will leave you time to
revise in time for the submission deadline.
On behalf of all the Division, Interest Group, and Committee PDW Chairs, I thank you in
advance for your submissions. We look forward to working with you all.
Paul S. Adler,
Academy of Management PDW Chair
Careers Division Awards 2011
We would like to acknowledge all authors who received awards from Careers Division in
2011.
1. BEST INTERNATIONAL PAPER 2011 AWARD Sponsored by The European Journal
of International Management, and given to Yu Ha Cheung, Thomas W. Dougherty & Neil C.
Herndon for the paper “Personality, Networking Behaviors and Network Resources of
Employees in the U.S. and Hong Kong”. Award Committee included: Sally Power, Gina Dokko
& Barbara Ribbens.
2. MICHAEL J. DRIVER BEST CAREERS PAPER IN THE REGIONS 2011 AWARD
Sponsored by Reed Center, and given to Lieke L. ten Brummelhuis, Claartje L. ter Hoeven,
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Arnold B. Baaker & Bram Peper for the paper “Breaking through the loss cycle of burnout: The
role of motivation”. Award Committee included: Deborah O’Neil (Chair), Gayle Baugh, John
Blenkinsopp, Richard Cotton, Cherry Granrose & Polly Parker.
3. BEST SYMPOSIUM 2010 AWARD. Sponsored by Careers Development International
(Emerald) for the symposium “Job Search and Unemployment: Integrating Theories” Chaired
by: Edwin A.J. van Hooft. Discussed by: Jelena Zikic, and with presentors: Connie Wanberg,
Jing Zhu, Ruth Kanfer, Greet Van Hoye, Alan M. Saks, Jessie Koen, Ute-Christine Klehe,
Annelies Van Vianen & Greet Van Hoye
4. BEST STUDENT PAPER 2011 AWARD. Sponsored by Reed Center, and given to Chen
Cheng for the paper “How Can Mentoring Influence Organizational Deviance?”. Award
Committee included: Maria Kraimer, Katharina Chudzikowski & Silvia Bagdadli
5. BEST APPLIED PAPER 2011 AWARD given to Ofer Sharone for the paper “Chemistry
Versus Specs: Comparing Job Search Strategies and Subjective Responses to Unemployment”.
Award Committee included: Leisa Sargent, Kerr Inkson & Marijke Verbruggen
6. BEST OVERALL PAPER 2011 AWARD given to Kathleen Park for the paper “The
Implications of Corporate Acquisitions for the Careers of Acquiring and Target CEOs”. Award
Committee: Nicky Dries, Emma Parry, Jon Briscoe & Monica Forret
7. AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE given to Hetty van
Emmerik CAR Past Division Chair 2011
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Calls for Submissions, Proposals and Nominations
Deadline for Submission Intent for the Second Annual TRL Video
Competition is December 15
Submission for Second Annual Video Competition of the AOM International Online Teaching
Resource Library is now open. If you are interested in participating in this exciting initiative,
please submit your “notice of submission intent” to Jimmy Le (jle@pace.edu) by December 15,
2011.
Submission for Second Annual Video Competition of the AOM International Online Teaching
Resource Library is now open. If you are interested in participating in this exciting initiative,
please submit your “notice of submission intent” to Jimmy Le (jle@pace.edu) by December 15,
2011. This is the first step in a competitive process that will result in the selection of three
finalists to be featured during the 2012 Annual Meeting, August 3-7, in Boston. The winning
team will receive a $1,000 monetary prize, and the two other finalist teams will each receive
$500.
The Teaching Resource Library is a collaborative strategic doing initiative that houses video
cases produced by and for members in their own languages (subtitles in English). It is intended
to support business and management faculty in their classroom teaching, and so the videos
demonstrate how theory informs, influences, and shapes practice
For more information such as the submission rules, guidelines, and process, please visit the
Teaching Resource Library website. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact
Jimmy Le (jle@pace.edu).
AOM 2012: Caucus Proposals are due on January 10 at 5:00 PM
EST
Starting with the 2012 meeting in Boston, August 3 – 7, the deadline for Caucus proposals is the
same as the other types of submission. The submission deadline is January 10 at 5:00 PM EST.
The Caucus program committee is especially eager to solicit caucus proposals that directly
address the meeting theme, “The Informal Economy.” A caucus is defined as a group of
Academy members who share a topical interest, a professional concern, or some other affinity.
Caucuses are designed to provide a convenient, informal way for Academy members with shared
interests to find one another and to develop a sense of community within the larger Academy
structure. If you have a proposal or would like to discuss your idea for a proposal, please contact
the Caucus Chair Theodore Brown (tbrown@oakwood.edu) by December 13. For more
information on the Caucus program, please see the Caucus Call for Proposals.
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Call for Papers and Reviewers- HR Division Important News from
the HR Division:
Important News from the HR Division:
David Allen, Program Chair
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Academy of Management and its divisions and interest groups are calling for submissions
(papers, symposia, and Professional Development Workshops/PDW proposals) for the 2012
AOM Annual Meeting, August 3-7, Boston, MA. All proposals should be submitted using the
submission process found at http://submissions.aomonline.org/2012 The submission deadline is
January 10, 2012 but earlier submissions are encouraged. Note that there is limited space on the
scholarly program; consequently not all submissions will be accepted. Awards will be given to
the author(s) of the Best Competitive Paper and to the author(s) of the Best Student Paper. To be
considered for the Best Student Paper award, the paper must be clearly identified as a student
paper at the time of submission.
The Human Resources Division is interested in understanding, identifying, and improving the
effectiveness of HR practices (global and domestic) to facilitate organizational competitiveness,
to encourage individual growth and development, and enhance performance, quality, and workrelated attitudes and behaviors. The Division emphasizes the study of the employment
relationship at the individual, group, organizational, societal, and cross-cultural levels of analysis
and the impact of the employment relationship on outcomes critical to the organization and its
applicants (both present and past employees and their representatives). Topics include a broad
spectrum of issues pertaining to the acquisition, allocation, development, utilization, evaluation,
and retention of people as resources in work organizations.
The HR Division encourages both empirical and theoretical submissions. Furthermore, the
Division encourages submissions that are consistent with the Division’s on-going interest in
bridging the science/practice gap, international HR-related research, and/or the conference
theme: “The Informal Economy.” According to the AOM conference theme, the informal
economy refers to commercial activities that occur at least partially outside a governing body’s
observation, taxation, and regulation. HR scholars may be particularly well positioned to
examine the human, work design, and policy implications of work in the informal economy. To
illustrate potential theme-related research, examples might include the recruitment, training,
compensation, and retention of workers in the informal economy; designing work in the informal
economy; or the organizational implications of workers participating in both the formal and
informal economy.
CALL FOR REVIEWERS
The HR Division is recruiting scholarly program reviewers for the 2012 Academy of
Management Annual Meeting. Please consider signing up as a reviewer if you have not already
done so. Being a reviewer for the Annual Meeting is a great way to be involved in the HR
Division, be a part of the Academy's scholarly program, and provide visibility for yourself and
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your institution. Even if you have reviewed in the past, you still need to re-sign up to review for
the 2012 Academy of Management Meeting.
By Academy rule, a Division cannot send more than 3 papers to a reviewer (unless you also
agree to be an "emergency" reviewer). The result is a manageable workload for reviewers but it
also means the HR Division needs a lot of reviewers. We need YOU! The review period is from
January 18, 2012 to February 9, 2012 (review deadline). Please check your schedule to make
sure you will be able to review during this time frame before signing up. To sign up, please visit
http://review.aomonline.org/ and click the "Sign Up Now" button. Be sure to select the HR
Division when indicating your preferences. The signup process is fast and easy and should not
take longer than 5 minutes.
Thank you for considering this request for your time and expertise!
David Allen, University of Memphis
dallen@memphis.edu
2012 HR Division Program Chair
Call for Papers - Designing Culturally Sustainable Organizations
Designing culturally sustainable organizations
Invitation to submit to this Sub-Theme of the
28th EGOS COLLOQUIUM
July 5-7, 2012, Helsinki, Finland
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Deadline for Short Paper (≤ 3,000 words) submission: January 16, 2012
Dear AoM Colleagues:
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We invite you to submit a Short Paper on
Designing culturally sustainable organizations
to a Sub-Theme of the
28th EGOS COLLOQUIUM
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Deadline for Short Paper (≤ 3,000 words) submission: January 16, 2012
Convenors:
Sonja Sackmann, University Bw Munich, Germany, sonja.sackmann@unibw.de
Maggi Phillips, Pepperdine University, USA, margaret.phillips@pepperdine.edu
Ann Feyerherm, Pepperdine University, USA, ann.feyerherm@pepperdine.edu
Call for Papers:
Leaders of organizations in the 21st Century face the unprecedented challenge of designing
organizations that serve a broad range of stakeholders and are sustainable within their market,
financial, physical, and social realms. This requires strategically positioning the organization
within the unique intersection of “environmental stewardship, corporate citizenship,
product/service excellence, and financial strength.”1 Crafting an organization to attain and
maintain a strategic stance delicately balanced within this nexus of sustainability demands
attention to the complexity of the organization’s internal and external environments, as well as a
deep understanding of the multifaceted cultural context.
In this sub-theme, we seek to develop an integrated understanding of
organization design, sustainability, and culture by:
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exploring the implications of the organization’s context and the cultural mindsets of its
members for designing high quality, effective, and sustainable work environments;
considering cultural factors facilitating and/or impeding sustainable organization design;
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examining the impact of sustainable design upon the multiple extant cultures.
To this end, we invite conceptual, empirical (quantitative and qualitative), and case research
illuminating the intersection of the three concepts, as well as research founded in the interaction
of any two.
We encourage consideration of general questions, e.g.,
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What does it mean to be a “culturally sustainable” organization?
What is the influence of the multiple cultural contexts and mindsets (e.g., national,
regional, industry, professional, organizational, functional, hierarchical, ethnic, gender)
of the organization, its members, and its external stakeholders on organization design and
sustainability?
Can organizations be designed to be sustainable?
Can cultures that effectively promote organizational sustainability be “designed”?
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We invite attention to specific issues derived from these themes, i.e.,
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What design elements, attributes, and/or processes help to attain & maintain
sustainability?
1. What aspects of diagnosis need to precede design to assure sustainability?
2. How do extant cultural contexts/mindsets shape diagnosis and design?
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What are the key cultural characteristics of a “sustainable” organization?
1. Do certain cultural characteristics and competencies foster sustainability?
2. Which cultural attributes must be embedded to assure sustainability?
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Are notions of sustainability culturally-relative?
1. Are some cultural contexts (e.g., organization, industry, region, nation) more amenable to
sustainable enterprise development?
2. If so, what cultural assumptions of those contexts foster amenability?
3. Are these assumptions shared across these contexts and are they replicable in or
transferable to other contexts?
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Can values of sustainability be purposefully embedded within an organization culture? If
so, how?
1. If the embedding process is instead evolutionary, what factors impact its development?
2. What is the residual effect of design and the design process upon the extant cultures?
3. What are the key leadership attributes and competencies required to effectively guide an
organization that is, or aspires to be, “sustainable”?
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How does cultural knowledge and cross-cultural competence contribute to effective
leadership of sustainable enterprises?
Some guiding literature
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Haugh HM & Talwar A (2010) How do corporations embed sustainability across the
organization? AoM Learning & Education 9(3): 384-396.
Mohrman SA & Worley CG (eds) (2010) Special Issue: Organizing for Sustainability.
Organizational Dynamics 39(4): 289-356.
Pfeffer J (2010) Building sustainable organizations: The human factor. AoM Perspectives
24(1): 34-45.
Sackmann SA et al (2009) Sustainable change: Long-term efforts toward developing a
learning organization. J Applied Behavioral Science 45(4): 521-549.
Sackmann SA & Phillips ME (2004) Contextual influences on culture research: Shifting
assumptions for new workplace realities. Int’l J Cross Cultural Management 4(3): 371392.
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1Michael Crooke (former CEO, Patagonia, Inc.), Mission Statement, SEER Certificate Program,
Graziadio School, Pepperdine University, USA.
Submission schedule for the conference is:
January 16, 2012: Deadline for short papers of ≤3000 words; please submit to EGOS
website (http://www.egosnet.org)
March 1, 2012:
Notification of acceptance of papers
May 15, 2012:
Full papers to be uploaded to the EGOS website
July 5-7, 2012:
EGOS Colloquium, Aalto University & Hanken School of Economics,
Helsinki, Finland
Abstracts and papers will be available on the EGOS website.
Formal sub-theme announcement at http://www.egos2012.net/2011/06/sub-theme-29-designingculturally-sustainable-organizations/
Any inquiries should be directed to:
Prof. Dr. Sonja Sackmann
Institute for Developing Viable Organizations
Department of Economics, Management and Organization Sciences
University Bw Munich
Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 36
D-85577 Neubiberg, Germany
tel: +49 (89) 6004 2697
email: sonja.sackmann@unibw.de
Call for Proposals - ODC Research Award by Healthways
Organization Development and Change division is proud to announce its pioneering research
award on well-being sponsored by Healthways! Proposals are accepted by February 1, 2012, at
rxf5@case.edu.
Please consider applying for this $3,500 ODC division's research award. All AoM members are
eligible. Please email Ron Fry with any questions and proposals by February 1, 2012, or
forward this exciting news to a colleague who might benefit from your kind referral.
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Best wishes,
Andre Avramchuk
ODC Director of Communications
Academy of Management, ODC Division Pioneering Research Award Sponsored by Healthways
"Well-Being Research"
For the second year, we are inviting proposals to receive funding for research into the topics of
leadership, building community, or fostering change in relation to employee health and wellbeing.
The proposal should support the ODC mission:
The Organization Development and Change division represents scholars and practitioners who
create and disseminate knowledge or extend the practice of constructive change management
and organization development.
We are committed to organization and individual success, the fulfillment of humanity’s spirit and
potential, and the creation of enduring global communities. Our research, teaching, and practice
affirm the importance of integrating human-social, financial, and environmental outcomes;
valuing justice, dignity, and trust; and generating ethical, positive, and meaningful
contributions.
The proposal should also be aligned with the Healthways Mission and definition on Well-Being
which is articulated below and found on their website:
http://www.healthways.com/
Healthways is about creating a healthier world – one person, one organization, one community at
a time.
"Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence
of disease or infirmity."
From the Preamble to the Constitution of the World Health Organization as adopted by the
International Health Conference, New York, 1946.
Award Amount: $3500
Proposals that include the production of manuscript(s) for publication in quality outlets are
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preferred.
While sponsored by Healthways and the ODC Division, all members of AOM are invited to
apply.
The winner of the award will be expected to report the results of their research to the ODC Board
and representatives from Healthways.
The following template that should be used for all proposals:
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ODC Division Pioneering Research Award,
Sponsored by Healthways on Well-Being Research
Proposals should include the following information on a separate cover page:
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Principle Researcher and other investigators
Organizational Affiliation(s):
Contact Information (email, mail, phone numbers)
A copy of the applicant’s updated curriculum vita
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Define the research alignment with Healthways Purpose (create a healthier world, one
person at a time) and definition of Well-Being and ODC Mission
Research Design/Approach/Methodology
Application Value/Contribution to Practice (current thinking around Well-Being
improvement)
Deliverables including targeted publication(s)
Research Schedule and Milestones
Research Budget providing allocation of funding (e.g. data bases, transcription, etc.)
Agreement that published articles resulting from work that is done supported by this
funding should be acknowledged in the article. Example: “This research was supported
by Healthways in partnership with the Organization Development and Change Division
of the Academy of Management.”
Submission Deadline: Please provide your proposal to Ron Fry (Case Western Reserve
University) at rxf5@case.edu on or before February 1, 2012, 5 PM PST.
Proposals will be evaluated by a panel of representatives from the ODC Board and Healthways
and award winners notified by the end of April, 2012.
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Call for Scholarships- Erasmus Mundus Scholarships for Students
and Scholars
NEW CALL FOR SCHOLARSHIPS AT THE ERASMUS MUNDUS PROGRAM
WOP-P - Master on Work, Organizational and Personnel Psychology (2012-2013)
(SCHOLARSHIPS FOR STUDENTS AND SCHOLARS)
New call of scholarships at the Erasmus Mundus for students/scholars aiming to study/teach at
the Master on Work, Organization and Personnel Psychology (WOP-P). Recently awarded by the
Mediterranean Office for Youth and in its second round by the Erasmus Mundus program, WOPP master continues to be considered one of the best programs in its professional and academic
area. The Erasmus Mundus is a cooperation and mobility program of the European Union
conceived to support high quality European Masters and to promote the visibility and
attractiveness of the European Higher Education in the rest of the world countries.
Five universities are part of the educational consortium: Universitat de València (Spain),
Universitat de Barcelona (Spain), Université René Descartes Paris 5 (France), Alma Mater
Studiorum-Università di Bologna (Italy) and Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal). New
partnerships have been developed with the Universidade de Brasília (Brazil) and University of
Guelph (Canada). In the second round of the WOP-P Program, some changes have been
introduced such as the possibility to study the whole program in English and to develop
exchange periods of study with the new American Universities in the partnership.
For the next academic year 2012-2013 the European Union offers student scholarships to
students of any nationality aiming to study at the Master on Work, Organizational and Personnel
Psychology (WOP-P). Additional scholarships should be made available for students from three
geographical areas: “Western Balkans and Turkey”, “Tunisia and Egypt” and “Eastern
Neighbourhood Countries” (i.e. Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine).
Deadlines:
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Scholarships for scholars from 15th November 2011 to 30th September 2012.
Students application remains open from 2nd January 2012 till July-September 2012 (not
asking EM scholarship).
For further information please visit our website
Visit also our career services website, and the WOP-P group at Linkedin “Eramus Mundus
WOPP Master”
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Call for Papers - The Future of Innovation Management (Palgrave
book)
What is the future of Innovation Management research? To answer
this question, a book will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in
2012. For this, you are invited to submit your cutting-edge research
on Innovation Management in an international context.
Innovation provides a strong competitive advantage and is one of
the best ways to speed up the rate of change and adaptation to the global environment.
Concurrently, the innovation topic is also regaining more and more visibility and interest among
the academic communities worldwide - due to international organizations like the Academy of
Management.
Though, some of the challenges of innovating are remarkably consistent, the recent period has
seen the emergence of new ways for stimulating and managing the innovation process, especially
in an international perspective. Even if these processes are taking place in very different
industries, there are many parallels in successfully managing them.
The purpose of this book is to inventory those new routes, to explore them in depth and to assess
their value both for markets and companies. More specifically, the book would be organized
around three themes:
- How to stimulate and nurture innovations
- How to commercialize innovations
- How to lead and manage the innovation process
Please note the following dates:
Full paper submissions due:
January 31st, 2012
Results of double-blind reviews available:
March 31st, 2012
Revised paper submission deadline:
June 1st, 2012
Book publication:
December 2012
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If you are interested to submit a paper, please contact either Alexander Brem (brem@ideeinnovation.de) or Éric Viardot (eviardot@eada.edu).
The MS Word template as well as the Author Guidelines are available online:
http://www.ideeinnovation.de/forschung/download-palgrave/
Member News
The Ethics of Research and Publishing Video Series
The Ethics Education Committee of the Academy of Management presents The Ethics of
Research and Publishing Video Series. This eight part series explores questions in academic
research and publishing on the topics of Authorship, Plagiarism, Slicing the Data in Publications,
Publishing in Journals, Conference Papers and Presentations, Reporting Research, Reviewing
Manuscripts, and Global Ethics in Publishing. The videos are between 5-10 minutes in length,
and are appropriate for use in all types of settings. These resources were developed as an
initiative resulting from the Strategic Plan of the Academy of Management.
Fourteen Academy editors and leaders were interviewed for these videos, and each video
highlights 4-6 of these editors. The videos are divided into commonly asked questions. For
example, this first video (Authorship) in the series discusses the following questions: How
should authorship be determined? Can a faculty member demand authorship on a publication
coming out of a dissertation? Is it ethical to exchange authorship favors with colleagues? Each
video ends with related excerpts for the AOM Code of Ethics.
The videos can be accessed directly through the following link:
http://www.youtube.com/academyofmanagement.
The videos can also be accessed by visiting the Ethicist Blog on AOM Connect. To login, you
need your name and your AOM ID. Access them directly through the following link:
http://connect.aomonline.org/resources/4cc706fa05/summary
Susan R. Madsen
James H. Davis
Co-Chairs of the AOM Ethics Education Committee
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Dear Colleagues:
Membership in the Academy of Management is one of the best
investments I have ever made. My personal commitment of more than
10 years to the Academy includes involvement as a member on
various committees and now as chair of the Membership Committee.
My enthusiasm for the Academy and its commitment to our field has
made my membership one of the most enjoyable experiences of my
scholarly career.
The Academy of Management is a grassroots association that thrives
on the energy of members. The number one reason for belonging,
according to our members, is the opportunity to network with peers. How you get involved is up
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New Book Announcement - New Ways of Organizing Work:
Developments, Perspectives and Experiences
‘New Ways of Organizing Work’ edited by Clare Kelliher (Cranfield University, UK) and Julia
Richardson (York University, Canada) has just been published by Routledge.
The book is concerned with recent changes to the nature and organization of work, largely
brought about by increased competitive pressures, global integration and developments in
information and communication technologies. Many of the chapters in the book examine the
lived experiences and responses of employees subject to these changes. It also explores the
implications of such changes for organizations, managers and individuals. In this respect the
book will be of particular interest to scholars working in the field of change and the organization
of work. In addition to its scholarly rigor, the book also addresses the needs of practitioners and
policy makers concerned with these issues.
New Book Announcement - Pinpointing Excellence: The Key to
Finding a Quality Executive Coach
This new book is now available on platforms such as Amazon.com and
more information is available at www.pinpointingexcellence.com The
goal of the book is to provide buyers of executive coaching services for the first time - with a practical but thorough process for evaluating,
grading, ranking and then selecting an executive coach. The book is
intentionally short - 130 pages - and designed to be applied.
Executive coaching is now a global, multi-billion dollar, 30+ year-old
industry. Strangely, unlike many professions we count on every day,
this industry has never set a single entrance requirement for becoming
an executive coach. Literally anyone can designate him or herself an
'executive coach'. There are no enforceable standards for formal
education, applied experience, continuing learning, licensure, service
quality or consumer protection. The Harvard Business Review of
course refers to this widespread, buyer beware situation as "The Wild West of Executive
Coaching."
Early responses have been positive, and I hope this information continues to be helpful.
John Reed PhD, MBA
Houston
The book's ISBN is 978-1-936474-17-2 and the publisher is Bright Sky Press
(www.brightskypress.com)
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ISSWOV celebrates 25 years with conference in Goa, India, in June
2012 The International Society for the Study of Work and
Organizational Values (ISSWOV) will be celebrating the 25th year of its
founding with the 13th Biennial conference, in Goa, India, from June
24 – 27, 2012.
ISSWOV started in 1987 as an informal group of scholars
interested in work values and was officially founded in Budapest in 1988, by the participants of
the first International Conference on Work Values initiated by Prof. Dov Elizur, an organizational
psychologist from Israel, and Prof. Istvan Magyari-Beck, from the Budapest University of
Economics. Prof. Elizur was nominated as the first ISSWOV president in Budapest, 1988.
The organization aims to advance the study of work and organizational values and related
aspects of the organization; to encourage the exchange of ideas and interaction among scholars
engaged in the study of work and organizational values; to collect, generate, preserve,
decipher, and disseminate data and information relating to work and organizational values, and
to encourage and initiate publications concerning research on work and organizational values.
ISSWOV organizes an international conference every two years. The first international
conference took place in June, 1988, in Budapest, Hungary. The subsequent international
conferences were in Prague, Czech Republic (1990), Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic (1992),
Barcelona, Spain (1994), Montreal, Canada (1996), Istanbul, Turkey (1998), Jerusalem, Israel
(2000), Warsaw, Poland (2002), New Orleans, USA (2004), Tallinn, Estonia (2006), Singapore
(2008), and Estoril-Lisbon, Portugal (2010).
ISSWOV publishes the proceedings of its international conferences. It is affiliated with the
International Journal of Cross Cultural Management. More information on ISSWOV and the
2012 conference can be found at www.isswov.org.
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