Academy of Management News
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Table of Contents – December 2013
2014 Annual Conference
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An Important Message from the Program Chair
The Power of Words: Big Data Speaks in Health Care Management
TLC@AOM Update and Invitation
Calls for Votes, Submissions, and Nominations
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Call for Submissions - AMD
MSR Interest Group - Call for Submissions
IMD - Call for Submissions
Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship - Call for Nominations
Diversity and Inclusion Theme Committee - Call for Submissions
PNP Call for Submissions and Awards
IM Division Call for PDW Proposals
ONE Division Encourages Innovative Proposals for Philadelphia
MED 2014 Annual Conference Call for Papers
Member Updates
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2014 Annual Conference
An Important Message from the Program Chair
The end of another calendar year is fast-approaching;
how is this possible? On behalf of the Academy’s
leadership team, I wish all of you the start of an extra
special new year that includes, at least once, the thrill
of discovering that your words (as scholars, teachers,
trainers, managers, organizations, governments)
matter—The Power of Words!
Speaking of the new year provides an opportunity to
review with you the activities that are being planned
as part of the 2014 Annual Meeting, August 1-5, in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Theme: The Power of Words
Sunday, August 3rd is the All-Academy Theme (AAT) Day. We hope that you find this year’s
theme inspiring as you think about potential contributions to make to the 2014 program. For
possible ways to contribute to this theme, please see the Call for submissions. For additional
sources of inspiration on how you might contribute to “The Power of Words,” consider how your
thinking and/or writing relates to ideas associated with word/communication-quality-related
consequences found in the publications of the All-Academy Theme (AAT) Committee
members: Elena Antonacopoulo, Mary Ann Glynn, David Hofmann, Karen (Etty) Jehn, Mike
Lounsbury, Sunil Mithas, Mike Peng, Katherine Phillips, Linda Putnam, Tony Simons, Wes Sine,
Mary Waller, JoAnne Yates, and Yan (Anthea) Zhang.
All-Academy Symposia and PDWs should focus on aspects of the Theme that are of interest to a
very broad audience, hence its label “All-Academy”. There are two routes for All-Academy
submissions: (1) you can submit directly to the All-Academy Committee OR (2) you can submit to
a Division/IG. When you engage the digital submission procedure, you will be prompted to select
one of these routes (you cannot choose both of them). Whichever route you select, the AllAcademy Committee ultimately selects the content for the All-Academy Program (just as
Division/IG Program Chairs ultimately select their own Division’s/IG’s program-content).
However, the All-Academy Committee is hoping to receive up to 3 nominated submissions from
each Division/IG—these being the submissions that have been accepted by them AND ones they
deem to be strongly tied to the Conference Theme, “The Power of Words.” This means that
approximately 50% of the All-Academy Program can potentially be content initially submitted to
Divisions/IGs. This input from Divisions/IGs helps to ensure that the All-Academy Programcontent will appeal to as many AOM-members as possible and be produced with the creative
involvement of all Divisions/IGs. The benefits of being on the All-Academy Program are that its
content tends to draw audiences from across Academy Divisions/IGs and thus potentiates crossfertilization of ideas and new Divisional-memberships to occur. This is why being on the AllAcademy Program is a win-win for our community. Therefore, regardless of which submissionroute you choose, think: “How might my submission’s content (not merely its title) speak to the
issue of the consequences (or power) of words?”
Submissions to the 2014 Program
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We published the Call for Submissions a few weeks ago. As indicated in the call, all submissions
must be made via the Academy's submission system, which officially opened on November
6th. 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. (Given the volume of submissions and the fact that your
Division’s/IG’s Program Chair is human, it is infeasible for Division Program Chairs or PDW
Chairs to fix submitters’ errors. So this is why it is critical that YOU—the submitter—comply with
all requirements PRIOR to submitting so that your submission can indeed get reviewed.) The
submission deadline for all submissions is January 14, 2014 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 effort of our dedicated reviewers.
Please allow me to take this opportunity to encourage you to sign up as a volunteer reviewer for the
2014 program. You can sign up to review for up to two 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 2014 Annual Meeting is from January 14, 2014
(Submission Deadline) to February 20, 2014 (Review Deadline). Please sign up now on the
http://review.aomonline.org/aom.asp
The 2014 Scholarly Program
Four 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 Philadelphia meeting, we are continuing these refinements guided by feedback
we have received. Specifically:
All Divisions whose program chairs request it will have a dedicated time slot for a plenary session.
The goal here is to help Divisions (especially the bigger ones) create a stronger sense of
community. While “social hours” help, they do not substitute for the shared experience of scholarly
discourse. If your division hosts a special plenary session, please do your best to attend.
The rest of the Scholarly Program will have a total of four types of sessions:
* Paper sessions are organized by the Program Chairs of Divisions or Interest Groups (IGs), and
take one of two possible forms:
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Divisional/IG Presentation Paper sessions will consist of papers with a common theme. Each
author will have a set amount of time to present their work, and group discussions will follow after
all presentations have been made.
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Discussion Paper sessions (which are optional for Divisions/Interest Groups, as decided by the
Division’s/IG’s Program Chair) will consist of papers that, with refinement, have the potential to
break new ground or make important contributions. Authors will discuss and explore areas for
further development with a discussant and others who share similar research interests.
* Symposium submissions, submitted to one to three Divisions or Interest Groups (IGs), take one
of two possible forms:
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In a Panel Symposium the purpose is to engage a group of panelists in an interactive discussion.
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There are no titles associated with any panelists’ participation.
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A Presenter Symposium involves a series of authored papers on a pre-set theme. Symposia are not
subject to blind review, but they will be judged based on overall quality, interest to Academy
members, relevance to the division or interest group to which they are submitted, innovation, and
contribution. Symposia can be singly sponsored or jointly sponsored by up to three divisions or
interest groups.
The PDW Program
The Professional Development Workshops run from Friday, August 1, to Saturday, August 2, from
8 am - 8 pm each day, with additional All-Academy Theme Workshops scheduled on Sunday,
August 3. In contrast to the refereed scholarly program that has standardized time blocks and
formats; the PDWs include a wide variety of session formats and must be a minimum of 2 hours in
length, unless otherwise discussed with the division’s PDW Chair. These workshops include
Doctoral Consortia and Junior Faculty Consortia that are organized by the Academy's Divisions,
Interest Groups and Committees. All the divisions, interest groups and committees have designated
PDW Chairs to manage the session selection procedure. Many of these sessions incorporate the
conference theme "The Power of Words" (described in the Call for Submissions).
The Caucuses
Caucus Sessions are designed to provide a convenient, 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 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. The Caucus Chair, Dr. Frank Mullins at North Carolina A&T State
University, is leading the effort to organize the Caucus sessions.
We are confident that the Academy of Management’s 2014 Annual Meeting will be a very
stimulating event. I appreciate everyone’s help in making “The Power of Words” our most
intellectually stimulating conference yet ─ whether as authors, reviewers, presenters, or
volunteers. The words of us ALL make a difference!
Debra L. Shapiro
Academy of Management Vice President and Program Chair
University of Maryland
The Power of Words: Big Data Speaks in Health Care Management
The Academy’s 2014 theme, ‘The Power of Words’ is particularly important to the Health Care
Management Division (HCMD). As with many of the smaller divisions, we often struggle to get
the word out on the many research domains our members excel in studying. The health care field
was a leader in evidenced-based management (Rousseau, 2006). In a similar fashion, health
services researchers are at the forefront of the ‘Big Data’ movement (Conn, 2013; Mervis, 2012).
The HCMD’s members helped to create many of the sophisticated statistical techniques used to
make sense of the big data at our disposal. Whether it is a semantic analysis of open text in
Electronic Medical Records or stochastic frontier estimation of the ‘Management Effect’, our
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scientists have made significant contributions. The HCMD possesses expertise that only an interdisciplinary group of professionals (e.g., epidemiology, economics, psychology, or classic business
disciplines) can provide.
The HCMD welcomes any Academy member who has an interest in communicating important
organizational research to a broader audience. So spread the word, the HCMD’s Professional
Development Workshop is the best place to learn everything from the ‘Anatomy of a Research
Article’ (last year’s best attended Academy event) to the interpretation of Z-scores in a Rasch
analysis.
Word up,
Eric Ford
Chair – Health Care Management Division
References:
Conn, J. 2013. Pairing up. Early adopters of big data seek advisers, partners. Mod Healthc, 43(24):
8-9.
Mervis, J. 2012. U.S. science policy. Agencies rally to tackle big data. Science, 336(6077): 22.
Rousseau, D. M. 2006. 2005 Presidential Address: Is there such a thing as "Evidence-based
management"? Academy of Management. The Academy of Management Review, 31(2): 256.
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TLC@AOM Update and Invitation
TLC@AOM Update and
Invitation
Here is news you do not want to
about the Academy’s Teaching
Learning Conference
(TLC@AOM) on Sunday
3, 2014 in Philadelphia.
miss
and
August
TLC @AOM 2014 is a GO!
An All-Academy “conference within a conference,” TLC emphasizes engagement, interaction, and
sharing to improve teaching and learning in our business and management classes. The TLC
program is designed to support all who care about our craft and who are committed to continuous
learning and development no matter their experience, subjects, students, schools, or delivery mode.
In Orlando the response to the Academy’s new Teaching and Learning Conference (TLC@AOM)
was so strong everyone who wished to attend could not be accommodated. Feedback from
participants and members who were not able to attend confirmed TLC should be an Academy
priority. Thus, the Board approved a proposal to offer TLC again in 2014 and to increase the
capacity so more members will be able to attend.
Please plan now to help make Philadelphia’s 2014 TLC@AOM another success and a sustainable
part of the AOM program by responding to the call for submissions, by volunteering to review,
and, of course, by registering and participating.
TLC is scheduled for Sunday August 3, 2014, between the PDW and academic sessions. This year
there will be more space but we expect demand to be strong so please do plan on registering early.
Here is information about submitting a proposal for TLC by the January 14, 2014 deadline:
http://aom.org/Meetings/annualmeeting/program/submission/instructions/pdw/Teaching-andLearning-Conference-%28TLC%29-Special-Instructions.aspx
If you are able to volunteer as a reviewer please be sure to include TLC when you sign up. Here is
the URL for the reviewer sign-up: http://review.aomonline.org/aom.asp
Finally, here is the tentative TLC@AOM schedule:
• 8:30 am – 10:00 am BYOB (Bring Your Own Breakfast) – Roundtable discussions of timely
topics from AMLE and other management education journals
• 10:00 - 10:30 am Coffee, Conversation and Welcome
• 10:45 am – 11:45 am Concurrent Sessions I (60 minute sessions)
• 12:00 – 2:00 pm Lunch (catered) and Plenary
• 2:15 pm – 5:45 pm Concurrent Sessions II
• 6:00 pm Closing
Please let us know if there are any questions with which we can help by sending us an email at
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tlc@aom.org
We look forward to meeting and working with you in Philadelphia!
The TLC@AOM Organizing Committee
Elena Antonacopoulou, Kenneth Brown, Claudia Ferrante, Jeanie Forray, Christina
Hannah, James Spee, Toni Ungaretti
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Call for Nominations
Call for Submissions – AMD
AOM Discoveries is open for submissions.
The newest AOM journal, Academy of Management
Discoveries (AMD), is now accepting manuscript
submissions for review. Authors please upload your
manuscript to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amd.
AMD's mission is to publish empirical papers that help us
to understand interesting and important phenomena in the
field of management and organizations that cannot be
completely accounted for using existing theories or
frameworks.
There are four ways to get involved with the launch of this
innovative journal:
(1) Submit your paper to AMD via Manuscript Central[S1]
. (Learn more about what types of papers AMD is looking
for.)
(2) Volunteer to review papers in your areas of expertise.
(3) Stay connected. Watch the short video series about AMD and like us on Facebook!
(4) Send us your suggestions and comments to help make AMD reader driven.
We look forward to your involvement in the success of AMD.
MSR Interest Group - Call for Submissions
The MSR Interest Group wants to continue its excellent programme in 2014, and we welcome your
submissions to both our PDW and scholarly programmes. We congratulate our 2013 Showcase
PDW, ‘Creating conscious pathways for evolving enterprises and communities’ (facilitated by
Bronwyn Rees) for their thought-provoking and disciplinary contributions. We were also delighted
with the talks and discussions from our first ever MSR Plenary Session “Transformational
Leadership and Social Issues” with leading panelists Otto Sharmer (MIT Sloan), Ian Mitroff (UC
Berkley) and Michael Miller (The Acton Institute). Finally, we want to acknowledge our Best
Dissertation Award winners. The first place award was to Brad Fulton (Duke University,
Durham, NC); second was Ashwini Gangadharan (University of Texas Pan American, Edinburg,
TX), and third place was to Raymond Chiu (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
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IMD - Call for Submissions
Call for Symposia, Papers and Awards
International Management Division, Academy of Management
Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, Program Chair
As Program Chair of the International Management Division of the Academy of Management, I
invite you to submit your best symposia and papers to the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Academy
of Management that will be held in Philadelphia, PA, on August 1-5, 2014. I am looking forward
to receiving innovative and provocative submissions that will enhance our community’s
understanding of business, management, research, and teaching in international contexts.
The International Management Division of the Academy of Management is dedicated to the
analysis of the theory, research, and practice of management with a cross-border or cross-cultural
dimension. Major topics we analyze include: the international competitiveness of firms, industries,
and nations; the cross-border management of operations, including multi-country, multi-unit,
strategy formulation and implementation; evolving forms and management practices in crossborder business; the cross-border differential impact of cultural, social, economic, technological,
political, legal and other institutional forces on strategies, organizational forms, and management
practices; and comparative management studies involving several countries. To learn more about
the IM Division, please visit http://divisions.aomonline.org/im.
The theme of this year’s meeting is “The Power of Words”. Words, in a broad sense including not
only written and spoken but also symbolic and visual communication, are particularly relevant for
our work in international management. “England and America are two countries separated by a
common language”, the Irish writer George Bernard Shaw said, reflecting communication
difficulties even between countries that share deep historical connections. Differences in language
and ways in which people communicate and interact across countries are among some of the most
obvious challenges managers face when they do business abroad. This gives us as researchers the
possibility of challenging deep-seated theoretical assumptions about how companies and
organizations operate across borders.
I encourage you to submit papers that not only are innovative in concepts and arguments, but also
explain clearly how the mechanisms driving relationships work. The President of Columbia
University and later US President Dwight D. Eisenhower indicated “An intellectual is a man who
takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows” and, unfortunately, much of our
research is long on words and short on ideas. This year I would like to push us to work harder on
ideas and how we express them in concise and clear ways. Rather than rely on long lists of
citations to previous work to justify arguments, I would encourage you to provide more
independent thinking and clear explanations of the mechanisms at work.
Additionally, I encourage you to submit well-organized symposia that open new areas of research.
Symposia are not three or four papers grouped in a session, but a set of speakers that provide their
sophisticated and nuanced views on diverse aspects of one topic. Symposia provide you with the
opportunity to explore new topics and ideas that are likely to shape future thinking. Symposia will
have senior and junior thought-leaders engage in a debate and analysis of a topic, presenting
different points of view to provide the audience with new concepts and relationships.
To have a successful meeting I not only need your best symposia and papers but also your help
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with the review process. When you submit your symposia and papers, before Tuesday January 14,
2014 at 5:00pm Easter Standard Time, please sign up as a reviewer at
http://review.aomonline.org/. I will assign one, two or three papers for you to review before the
end of February. Please provide constructive suggestions for improvement to help the authors
revise their papers and present more sophisticated ideas at the conference.
Thank you very much for your help with the program as reviewers and authors. I look forward to
creating a great program, one that will be remembered for the quality of the content as well as the
clarity of the argumentation. “Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know
more”, the Chinese Philosopher Confucius said.
If you have questions or suggestions, please let me know at a.cuervocazurra@neu.edu.
Awards:
Papers submitted to the International Management Division are eligible for several awards. This is
the list of awards with a brief description of each. For more information on them, including the
selection or application process, please see
http://division.aomonline.org/im/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=68&Itemid=106.
IM Division CEIBS Best Paper Award. The IM Division CEIBS Best Paper Award is presented
to the best scholarly paper of the IM Division at the Academy of Management Annual meeting. A
plaque and cash prize of $1500 is awarded to the author(s) of the winning paper. This award is
sponsored by China European International Business School (CEIBS), China.
IM Division Fundação Dom Cabral Best Paper in Strategy / IB Theory. The IM Division
Fundação Dom Cabral Best Paper in Strategy / IB Theory Award is presented to the best scholarly
paper of the IM Division focusing on Strategy / IB Theory at the Academy of Management annual
meeting. A plaque and cash prize of $500 is awarded to the author(s) of the winning paper.
IM Division Best Paper in OB / HRM / OT. The IM Division Best Paper in OB / HRM / OT
Award is presented to the best scholarly paper of the IM Division focusing on Organizational
Behavior / Human Resource Management / Organization Theory at the Academy of Management
annual meeting. A plaque and cash prize of $500 is awarded to the author(s) of the winning
paper.
IM Division GWU-CIBER Best Paper on Emerging Markets. The IM Division Best Paper on
Emerging Markets Award is presented to the best scholarly paper of the IM Division focusing on
Emerging Markets at the Academy of Management annual meeting. A plaque and cash prize of
$500 is awarded to the author(s) of the winning paper. This award is sponsored by the George
Washington University, USA's Center for International Business Education and Research (GWCIBER).
IM Division Willamette University, Atkinson Graduate School of Management Best Paper in
International Ethics, Social Responsibility, and/or Sustainability. IM Division Willamette
University, Atkinson Graduate School of Management Best Paper in International Ethics, Social
Responsibility, &/or Sustainability is presented to the best scholarly paper of the IM Division
focusing on International Ethics, Social Responsibility, and/or Sustainability at the Academy of
Management annual meeting. A plaque and cash prize of $500 is awarded to the author(s) of the
winning paper. This award is sponsored by Willamette University, Atkinson Graduate School of
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Management.
IM Division Gustavson School of Business Award for the Best Qualitative Paper in
International Business. The Gustavson School of Business at the University of Victoria, BC,
Canada is sponsoring an award for the best qualitative paper in international business. A plaque
and cash prize of $1500 is awarded to the author(s) of the winning paper. This award will be given
to the paper that makes the strongest contribution to IB theory development based on the use of a
qualitative methodology including, but not limited to, ethnographies, case studies, and mixed
methods research designs.
IM Division CGIO Best Paper in International Corporate Governance. The IM Division
CGIO Best Paper Award in International Corporate Governance is presented to the best scholarly
paper of the IM Division focusing on international corporate governance issues at the Academy of
Management annual meeting. A plaque and cash prize of $500 is awarded to the author(s) of the
winning paper. This award is sponsored by the Centre for Governance, Institutions and
Organizations (CGIO), National University of Singapore.
Douglas Nigh Award. The Douglas Nigh Award is presented to the best division paper that
employs an interdisciplinary perspective and is authored by junior scholars. A plaque and cash
prize of $500 is awarded to the author(s) of the winning paper. This award was instituted in
memory of the late Dr. Douglas Nigh (University of South Carolina) who was passionate about
both cross-disciplinary research and development of junior scholars. The award is supported by
the Doug Nigh Award Endowment Fund.
Booz & Co. Eminent Scholar Award. The IM Division recognizes life time achievement in
international management scholarship with the Eminent Scholar Award. The winner is nominated
by the Booz & Co. Eminent Scholar Award Committee and approved by the Executive
Committee. The winner is honored at a special joint session with Booz & Co. at the Academy of
Management annual meeting.
Barry M. Richman Best Dissertation Award. The Barry M. Richman Award is presented to the
best dissertation submitted to the International Management Division. A plaque and cash prize of
$1000 is awarded to the author of the winning dissertation.
IM Division Outstanding Educator Award. The IM Division Outstanding Educator Award
recognizes continuous excellence and innovation in teaching international management at all
levels and in a global context. The winner is awarded a plaque and cash prize of $500.
IM Division Outstanding Service to the Global Community Award. The IM Division
Outstanding Service to the Global Community Award recognizes continuous excellence in serving
the international community. While the IM Division provides opportunities to serve the global
community, this is not an award for service to our division. Rather, the award scope is sufficiently
broad to recognize service made via many organizations including international institutions,
governments, and/or Non-Governmental Organizations. The award favors longstanding service,
but impactful service in a concentrated period of time will also be considered. The winner is
awarded a plaque and cash prize of $500.
I look forward to receiving your best papers and symposia and your nominations for awards.
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Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship - Call for Nominations
Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship in Entrepreneurship Research
Nomination Deadline: January 21, 2014
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is pleased to announce that the nomination period is now
open for the Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship in Entrepreneurship Research (KJFF). The
Kauffman Foundation will award up to seven Junior Faculty Fellowship grants to junior faculty
members in the United States whose research has the potential to make significant contributions to
the body of literature in entrepreneurship. Each Fellow's university will receive a grant of $35,000
over two years to support the research activities of the Fellow.
Nominations will be accepted online from now until 5:00 p.m. Central Standard Time on Tuesday,
January 21, 2014. Nominees must be tenured or tenure-track junior faculty members at accredited
U.S. institutions of higher education who received a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree between
January 1, 2009 and December 31, 2012. Nominees will have until 5:00 p.m. Central Standard Time
on Monday, March 17, 2014 to complete their online applications for consideration for the
fellowship.
To see the complete Call for Nominations, including submission guidelines, please visit
http://www.kauffman.org/kjff. Please direct all questions to kjff@kauffman.org.
Diversity and Inclusion Theme Committee - Call for Submissions
ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT
74th ANNUAL MEETING
DIVERSITY & INCLUSION THEME COMMITTEE
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Chair: Eddy Ng, Dalhousie U
PDW Chair: Christina Stamper, Western Michigan U
The Diversity and Inclusion Theme Committee’s (D&ITC) mission is to provide learning and
outreach opportunities that foster a more diverse and inclusive AOM community. The Committee’s
work is guided by the following core values and principles: 1) Diversity is all of the multiple lines of
difference that characterize our current and future membership; 2) Inclusion means that all members
have the opportunity to be represented, to have their voices heard and valued, and to have influence
on the AOM; 3) Inclusion requires identifying and removing barriers to all members’ full
participation in the activities and decision-making of the AOM; 4) The growth and success of the
AOM are dependent upon having a globally diverse perspective and broadening the scope and impact
of our field; and 5) the AOM will be strengthened and improved to the degree that we incorporate the
knowledge and perspectives of its diverse membership and constituents.
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The Professional Development Workshops (PDWs) are a perfect opportunity to develop innovative
and creative sessions and events that will benefit Academy members and further the mission of the
D&ITC. We particularly welcome proposals for sessions that will provide opportunities, through
interactive workshops and other suitable activities, to facilitate efforts to develop a more inclusive
Academy. Ideas for D&ITC PDWs include sessions that:
• Seek ways to understand current levels of inclusion and ways to enhance inclusion in the AOM.
• Enhance member knowledge and skills pertaining to diversity and inclusion, in their multi-faceted
forms and manifestations.
• Help Academy leaders serve the diversity of member needs and backgrounds and foster more
inclusion across multiple lines of diversity.
• Provide opportunities for positive and developmental interactions among members of diverse
backgrounds, in ways that can lead to enhanced inclusion.
The conference theme for 2014, The Power of Words, encourages us to consider the effect of words
on individuals, teams, organizations, nations, or even global systems. Words allow people to convey
and interpret meaning, potentially influencing perceptions, emotions, attitudes, decisions, and
associated behaviors. Possible questions related to the conference theme and D&ITC’s mission
include:
• What practices help to overcome unintended or intended exclusivity, especially when members of
a dyad, group, or organization speak a language or jargon unknown to other members?
• How do words enhance (or diminish) people’s feelings of inclusiveness, particularly within
AOM?
• How and when do conversations across various intergroup boundaries (e.g., regional, disciplinary,
institutional, national, ethnic, gender, etc.) facilitate understanding of and comfort with cultural and
other differences? What are the implications for inclusion?
Submitters should consider, but not be bound by, the conference theme. All proposals should be
submitted using the AOM submission system at http://submissions.aomonline.org. The submission
deadline is January 14, 2014 at 5pm EST; earlier submissions are encouraged. In their proposals,
submitters should address how they will disseminate information about their session and encourage
attendance, and engagement. Submitters should also identify opportunities for co-sponsorship with
other divisions or interest groups. If you have questions or would like to discuss an idea for a PDW,
please contact Christina Stamper at christina.stamper@wmich.edu or +1-269-387-5068.
PNP Call for Submissions and Awards
The Academy of Management 2014 Annual Meeting Theme “The Power of Words”
can be uniquely tied to the areas of interest of the Public and Nonprofit Division. We
welcome papers on this topic using a multi-sector lens. Please see details of our call
for submissions below.
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2014 PNP Division Scholarly Program: Call for Submissions
Academy of Management Annual Meeting
Public and Nonprofit Division
August 1-5, 2014
Philadelphia, PA
http://aom.org/annualmeeting/2014/
Program Chair: Leisha DeHart-Davis, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill,
ldehart@sog.unc.edu
About the PNP Division. The Public and Nonprofit Division (PNP) of the Academy
of Management focuses on multidisciplinary, multi-method research on public
and nonprofit organizations.
Relevant Topics for Submission. All topics relevant to PNP’s interests are welcome,
including decision making, strategy, organizational behavior, transparency and
accountability, publicness, diversity and inclusivity, human resource
management, collaboration and conflict, public service and community building,
performance measurement and management, theories of governance and the
social and ethical dimensions of public and non-profit activity. We are also
interested in public and nonprofit organizational management, processes, and
performance. International perspectives and comparisons are encouraged.
Submissions related to the 2014 Academy of Management Program theme, The
Power of Words, are particularly welcome.
Instructions for Submission. We seek completed papers and proposals for panels
and symposia. The deadline for submissions is January 14, 2014 at 5:00 PM
EST at http://review.aomonline.org/submitters/. Only electronic submissions
are accepted. The submission system opens November 5th, 2013.
PNP Division Awards. The PNP Division is home to the following awards:
**The Charles J. Levine Award for the Best Conference Paper
** Best Doctoral Student Conference Paper, sponsored by Sage Publications
**Best Dissertation Award, sponsored by Jossey-Bass
**Best Book Award, from published works of the last three years
**Best Article Award for publications in the previous calendar year
**The Carlo Masini Award for an outstanding conference paper addressing the
behavior of public and/or nonprofit organizations
**The JPART AOM-PNP Top Ten Reviewers Award.
For more information on the awards and nomination processes, please see the
Division's website at http://division.aomonline.org/pnp/.
Questions and comments should be addressed to the PNP Division's 2014
program chair, Leisha DeHart-Davis (ldehart@sog.unc.edu).
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IM Division Call for PDW Proposals
IM Division Professional Development Workshops: Call for Proposals
The International Management Division (IMD) invites submissions for Professional Development
Workshops (PDWs) at the 2014 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. Special consideration will be
given to PDW proposals that integrate the theme of this year's meeting-"The Power of Words", a
theme which has a special significance for the IM division. PDW sessions will be held between
8:00am Friday, August 1st and 8:00pm, Saturday, August 2nd. Additional information on the
conference appears at http://meetings.aomonline.org/2014/
The IMD focuses on content pertaining to the theory, research, and practice of management with a
cross-border, cross-cultural or comparative dimension. Major topics include: the cross-border
management of operations, including multi-country, multi-unit, strategy formulation and
implementation; evolving forms and management practices in cross-border business; the crossborder differential impact of cultural, social, economic, technological, political, and other
institutional forces on strategies, organizational forms, and management practices; the international
competitiveness of firms, industries, and nations; and comparative management studies involving
two or more countries. To learn more about the IM Division, visit our website at
http://divisions.aomonline.org/im.
Our goal in the PDWs is to enhance professional and personal skills associated with IM
scholarship and teaching. With this in mind, we seek innovative, provocative, and exciting
proposals that bring together an international community of scholars interested in enhancing
research and teaching in International Management. PDW formats are highly flexible and can take
the shape of workshops, panels, round table discussions, training sessions, etc. As such, PDWs
provide an opportunity to experiment with what is typically beyond the scope of regular paper
sessions. Thus, we seek creative and interactive proposals that promote scholarship or teaching
and involve not only other academy divisions, but also firms, not-for-profit organizations,
consultancies, NGOs, and public sector organizations.
Submissions: If you are interested in organizing or being involved in a PDW in any way, please
contact Jay Anand, Professional Development Chair, at anand.18@osu.edu.Final PDW
submissions should be made through the Academy's website,
http://submissions.aomonline.org/2014. The deadline for submissions is January 14, 2014, at 5pm
EST. (This system opens November 6, 2013.) We look forward to hearing from you regarding
exciting workshops for the 2014 conference in Philadelphia!
International Management (IM) PDW Chair:
Jay Anand, Ohio State University, anand.18@osu.edu2014
ONE Division Encourages Innovative Proposals for Philadelphia
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The Organization and Natural Environment Division (ONE) is encouraging creative and innovative
proposals for both the PDW and scholarly 2014 AOM program.
The Organization and Natural Environment Division (ONE) is encouraging creative and innovative
proposals for both the PDW and scholarly 2014 AOM program. The ONE division invites papers,
PDW proposals and symposia that address all aspects of the relationship between organizations
and the natural environment. The 2014 Academy theme, 'The Power of Words’, encourages
consideration of the use of language, persuasion, messaging, signaling and other important
dimensions of defining and communicating sustainability challenges and opportunities.
The ONE Division encourages 2014 submissions that reflect on the power and impact of various
communications contexts and mediums and their relationship to our domain, as well as general
submissions that reflect on any aspect of the role of business, enterprise, management and
organization in sustainable development. Because of this trans-disciplinary focus, ONE specifically
welcomes joint symposium proposals that reflect the natural links between with other Academy
divisions and interest groups. For more information, see:
http://aom.org/Meetings/annualmeeting/program/submission/instructions/Organizations-and-theNatural-Environment-(ONE)-Special-Instructions.aspx
MED 2014 Annual Conference Call for Papers
Management Education and Development 2014 AOM Conference Call for Papers.
Please consider submitting your papers on management education and development to our division
for the 2014 conference and volunteering as a reviewer.
Submission Instructions: Please follow the AOM 2014 general submission guidelines at
http://submissions.aomonline.org/2014/. All submissions are due on January 14, 2014 at 5:00
p.m. EST.
Call for submitters:
We encourage submissions from the management education community of researchers and teachers
on any topics that you as a community believe to be of import to the advance of our understanding
of management education. We are interested in empirical and conceptual research on management
education and development topics that lie within our domain statement, in particular where they
build on research conversations on-going in our peer reviewed management education journals and
prior AOM conferences.
We welcome research insights including but not limited to undergraduate, postgraduate, doctoral,
executive and non-credit management education and the process of managing business schools and
the professional life of an educator. Examples of topics include, but are by no means limited to:
Advancing our understanding of the process of teaching and learning from the perspective of the
teacher and learner alike; Efficacy of teaching content, design and delivery processes on learner
outcomes; the process of assessment of education in terms of assurance of learning and feedback
induced learning; Impact and management of accreditation processes on educators, students and
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institutions; Design and management of student engagement in the education process; Management
of internationalization for: educators, students from multiple communities, business school strategy
and operations, accreditation and policy makers.
How do we manage the process of being both active researchers and teachers and can these worlds
(and the choice of words we use to communicate verbally and in writing to different audiences) be
combined to enrich the education experience and outcomes of our students?
How do we as educators manage the learning process and consequences of communication verbally
and in writing across multiple platforms such as online, physical interactive environments (e.g.
class room) and experiential learning with businesses?
Do not consider these topics to be a limitation on submissions, only suggestions! The program shall
emerge from what you as a community of education researchers and teachers think are the current
and central theme that our community needs empirical and conceptual insights about. Power of
Words We encourage you to consider the impact of this year’s conference theme Power of Words.
At the heart of our lives as educators are the verbal and written words. There is power in
communicating with our students interactively in the verbal world, hence the power of the lecture,
workshop and seminar. We communicate with our students in writing, through the textbooks we
publish and teach with, through written assessments, module outlines, education policies and
regulations to name a few.
Increasingly, we communicate both verbally and in writing online to our students. How does
choice of communication mode influence the efficiency and effectiveness of student education
experience, education outcomes, assurance of learning, effectiveness of student to educator and
educator to student performance and developmental feedback, the process of selection and training
of educators? These are but a few of the issues that are raised by the Power of Words.
Call for Reviewers:
Please sign up! Please volunteer as a reviewer for MED so that we can select the best papers for the
conference and offer our community of management education researchers developmental support
along their publication journey. Please volunteer using the AOM reviewer signup available online
from October. You may be asked to review up to three papers based on the reviewer keywords you
provide matched with those provided by paper authors.
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Member News
Just off the Press
Tanya Bondarouk (University of Twente, The Netherlands) and Miguel R. Olivas-Luján (Clarion
U. of Pennsylvania, USA) have co-edited two volumes for the Advanced Series in Management
(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., Bingley, UK) on Social Media in Management.
Social Media in Strategic Management (ISBN: 978-1781908983) is
the series' eleventh volume, edited by Olivas-Luján and
Bondarouk. Social media are changing the way businesses interact in
technology-mediated ways with most of their stakeholders.
Strategically-minded managers, researchers and students cannot afford
to ignore the new ways in which interactions with customers,
employees, shareholders, and many other important constituents are
taking place as a result of the widespread availability and creative use
of these new technologies. Conventional wisdom is being challenged
and virtual workspaces that had never been conceptualized are
opening at blistering speed.
This volume bridges empirical and theoretical approaches to identify
and demystify this new family of user generated content technologies.
With contributions from ten countries and about a range of economies, from emerging to
established, researchers and informed practitioners will find intriguing perspectives on how the
social media revolution is challenging management practitioners and scholars. Involving disciplines
as different as management, communications, information technology, personnel, finance and
others, contributions in this book will be cited in future research projects or used in classrooms and
other training settings by those more likely stay in the leading edge of this family of innovative
tools.
The twelfth volume is titled Social Media in Human Resources
Management (ISBN: 978-1781909003), co-edited by Bondarouk and
Olivas-Luján. Few areas are being impacted by social media more
strongly than Human Resources or Personnel
Management. Attraction of candidates, internal communication with
employees, communication with and among people; creation, design,
testing and promotion of new services, new ways of organizing are
appearing and changing the landscape.
This volume in the Advanced Series in Management offers
contributions from ten different countries, with empirical and
theoretical approaches to shed light on this exciting set of emerging
uses of technology that stretch creativity beyond conventional limits.
If you are interested in these volumes (or in writing or editing a
volume for this series), please visit the ASM
webpage: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/books/series.htm?id=1877-6361.
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Behavioral Science & Policy Association Brings Social and Behavioral
Science into Practice
Launch of BSPA Includes Debut of New Journal for Policy Makers
(Durham, NC) Co-Founders Craig R. Fox and Sim B. Sitkin announce the launch of Behavioral Science &
Policy Association (BSPA), a 501c-3 membership organization devoted to bringing rigorous behavioral
science into policy and practice. The Association includes an Editorial Board of more than 90 world-class
behavioral scientists and policy analysts who will work together to promote, evaluate, and disseminate
innovative policy solutions that are derived from the study of individual, group, and organizational
behavior. This research will be promoted in collaboration with the Brookings Institution.
“We have created a hub for activity at the nexus of research and implementation that will inspire
new approaches to public and private sector policy making. Our hope is to be a vital resource for
anyone interested in learning more about behavioral science-in-action,” explains Craig Fox,
president of BSPA.
Key among the dissemination strategies for BSPA is its new peer-reviewed and professionally
edited journal, Behavioral Science & Policy (BSP). Published with Brookings Institution Press,
BSP features short articles advancing proposals and recommendations from leading behavioral and
social scientists. “All articles are evaluated by disciplinary researchers for theoretical and
methodological rigor and by policy analysts for feasibility of implementation,” describes Sim
Sitkin, vice-president of BSPA. “This unique dual-review process means that the work we feature
is ready to be used by public and private sector organizations.”
Articles will also be reviewed by professional writing editors so that they are readily accessible to a
broad audience. BSPA hosts conferences, workshops, and briefings to cull timely information on
the application of behavioral and social science and conducts policy briefings in collaboration with
the Brookings Institution. Affiliated research centers contribute to this knowledge base.
For example, the Behavioral Science & Policy Center (BSPC) at Duke University has been
established to promote behavioral research in the field. During this introductory period, annual
membership to BSPA is $100/year for professionals and $50/year for students. Benefits include an
annual subscription to Behavioral Science & Policy, pre-publication access to articles, discounts to
conferences, workshops, and briefings, and waived submission fee for one article per membership
year.
About the Founders
Craig R. Fox Ho‐Su Wu Term Chair of Management Professor of Strategy, Psychology, and
Medicine University of California at Los Angeles Craig Fox is President of the Behavioral Science
& Policy Association and is founding co‐editor of Behavioral Science & Policy. His research
focuses on how humans behave under conditions of risk, uncertainty and ambiguity, using a variety
of methods including surveys, laboratory and field experiments, analysis of archival data, and brain
imaging. This research has appeared in leading journals of psychology, economics, management,
neuroscience, law, and general science. Fox has served on numerous editorial boards in a variety of
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disciplines and recently served as President of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, the
leading international research organization for behavioral decision research. Professor Fox came to
UCLA following several years at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, where he was
named the “outstanding faculty member” in 2001.
Sim B. Sitkin Professor of Management Director, Behavioral Science & Policy Center, Faculty
Director, Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics (COLE) Duke University Sim Sitkin is Vice
President of the Behavioral Science & Policy Association and founding co‐editor of Behavioral
Science &Policy. Over the course of the four decades of his career, he has earned an international
reputation as a researcher, educator, consultant to the public and private sectors, and business
developer. Professor of Management and founding Faculty Director of the Coach K Center on
Leadership and Ethics at Duke University, Sitkin is widely known for his research on
organizational leadership, trust and control systems with a focus on how organizations and their
members become more or less capable of change and innovation. During his tenure at Duke, he has
served as Area Head for the Management and Organizations Department, Faculty Director of
Fuqua’s Health Sector Management Program. He is an elected Fellow of the Academy of
Management, and has also been Academic Director at Duke Corporate Education and on the
faculty of the University of Texas at Austin and the Free University of Amsterdam. He is a
Founding Partner of Delta Leadership, Inc., an executive education organization.
CMS Newsletter December 2013
Message From the EditorGabie Durepos, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Welcome to the December Issue of the CMS Quarterly Newsletter. This issue features all types of
Division related news. We begin with an article by Gavin Jack and Jan Schapper (CMS Division
Co-Chairs) dedicated to where CMS members publish their work. Following this, we invite you to
join us in considering the 2014 Academy of Management conference theme: The Power of Words.
To access the CMS Division Call for Papers, click here:
http://group.aomonline.org/cms/news/annoucements/CMS2014Main.pdf. To access the Call for
Professional Development Workshops, please follow this link:
http://group.aomonline.org/cms/news/annoucements/CMSPDW-2014.pdf. The 2014 Annual AoM
Meeting will be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from August 1st-5th, 2014. Submissions are
due on Tuesday January 14th 2014, 5PM US EST through the AoM submission website.
To read the entire December Newsletter please go here:
http://group.aomonline.org/cms/newsletters/default.html
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