Volume 1, Issue 3
UPDATES FROM THE ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT
Connecting the
Academy through
Technology
Engaging the Global Management
Community in New Ways 2
April 2014
Officer’s Corner
3 “ The Power of Words” Before, During and After the Annual
Academy of Management Meeting in Philadelphia
Division and Interest Group Highlights
5 T echnology and Innovation Management, Critical Management
Studies, Organizations and the Natural Environment
Member Spotlight
7 F edor Ovchinnikov, Executive Member
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Cover Story
April 2014
Engaging the Global Management
Community in New Ways
One of the most acclaimed benefits of
membership in an association like the
Academy of Management is the opportunity
to network and collaborate with others in
the field. The way we connect has dramatically changed in recent years. While once
the opportunity to meet new colleagues
was solely centered on conferences and
events, today’s connection landscape is
much different. Many use online social
platforms to post thoughts, papers, and to
find new research.
The Academy of Management aims to
support and enable quality scholarly
connections, regardless of physical location.
While our Annual Meeting calls together
thousands of leading management scholars
from around the globe each August, our
online communities provide opportunities
for our members to connect year-round. We
engage the worldwide management community through our accounts on LinkedIn,
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Google+.
Our approach is to listen, learn and share.
While we do share news from the Academy,
we are most encouraged to see the posts
of our members who share their work and
connect our members with others.
We continue to explore new technologies
and opportunities to connect scholars both
virtually and physically. At the 2013 Annual
Meeting, the Academy invited its Twitter
followers to join in on a “Tweet Up” session.
This unique event provided an intersection
of virtual and physical connections—allowing those who interact frequently online to
engage in-person, while enabling others
to participate in the session virtually from
locations beyond the meeting’s physical
space. New connections during this event
actually resulted in a collaborative effort
to develop a combined submission for
the 2014 Annual Meeting on the power of
Twitter in scholarly research!
The Divisions and Interest Groups of the
Academy of Management are also changing
with the times. Many have their own
LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter accounts to
connect and share. Many also have newsletters that have shifted from print to online
access, with experimentation in format and
delivery a consistent topic of interest.
As the Academy continues to reach new
members in the management community,
we focus on the importance of the connection and strength of the ongoing collaboration it brings. Through this, research in all
fields can advance and fortify our memberfocused mission and vision statements.
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Did you know?
11,000
The AOM LinkedIn Group has over
members.
Facebook and Twitter each have
over 3,700.
Join us!
Be a part of our online communities:
Officer’s Corner
April 2014
“The Power of Words” Before, During, and
After the Annual Academy of Management
Meeting in Philadelphia
The 2014 Theme for the upcoming Annual
Meeting of the Academy of Management in
Philadelphia is “The Power of Words.” As
you may know from previous descriptions,
this theme identifies, among other things,
the exponential reach of words due to
Internet-related communication technologies. The All-Academy Program for the
upcoming Annual Meeting (Sunday, August
3) is filled with provocative and insightful
PDWs and Symposia (N=46) on how words/
communications and/or technologies
affect many of the critical phenomena
we study, such as supervisor-subordinate
relationships; intra-organizational
relationships; industry-wide relationships;
government-business relationships; culturally diverse, cross-border relationships;
and even relationships involving members
as educators, scholars, managers, and
change agents. Special thanks to those
helping to create this terrific All-Academy
Program—all the Division and Interest
Group Chairs, the Diversity & Inclusion
Committee, and especially members
of the All-Academy Theme Committee
(Elena Antonacopolous, Mary Ann Glynn,
David Hofmann, Karen [Etty] Jehn, Mike
Lounsbury, Sunil Mithas, Mike Peng,
Katherine Phillips, Linda Putnam, Tony
Simons, Mary Waller, JoAnne Yates, and
Anthea [Yan] Zhang).
I hope that our 2014 Conference theme
stimulates us to consider ways to enhance
the power of our words. Perhaps our theme
can prompt us to think about how we
might use communication technologies
to connect and interact more effectively
with fellow Academy members and other
colleagues, before, during, and after the
Annual Meeting. For example:
•Before the meeting: beginning in May,
seek connections by using the online
OFFICER’S
CORNER
program (found on the Academy of
Management’s Web site, www.aom.org)
to browse the many exciting sessions
and the huge range of work being presented and discussed; download papers
from the sessions you plan to attend;
explore the Best Paper Proceedings; find
colleagues whose work and ideas you
wish to hear and see; find “plenaries,”
“business meetings” and “social hours”
of various Divisions and Interest Groups
and Journals’ editorial boards; and
create a customized schedule based on
all of your interests;
•During the meeting: stay connected by
downloading the meeting mobile app
to your smartphone or tablet; use the
hashtag #AOM2014 on social media, such
as Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook, to
share your thoughts or start a conversation; contribute to or read the daily
Annual Meeting blog; gather with colleagues at the AOM Technology Center
with Wi-Fi and device-charging stations
(located in each meeting property);
•After the meeting: strengthen new and
old connections by continuing to use
the online program to contact paper
authors and presenters whose sessions
you could not attend; continuing
conversations started on social media;
and sharing and viewing photos from the
Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.
For more information about these and all
of the exciting opportunities to connect,
please visit the Annual Meeting Web site
at: http://aom.org/annualmeeting/. Please
also email me with any suggestions you
might have about additional ways to
facilitate making connections, staying connected, and strengthening connections.
Perhaps we can even implement some of
them before August.
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Finally, I urge everyone to use these three
powerful words: “Yes, register me” …and
do this soon to be eligible for early registration-rates. The upcoming 2014 Annual
Meeting in Philadelphia will undoubtedly
be one of the best yet!
Debra Shapiro,
Vice President and Program
Chair, Academy of Management
Awards
April 2014
Career Achievement Awards
Recognizing Lifetime Achievements in Management Scholarship,
Education, and Practice
Mary Ann Glynn, Chair, Career Achievement Awards Committee
Each year, the Academy of Management
recognizes four outstanding individuals
who have made significant contributions
to the field of management through their
service, research, innovative teaching
methods, breakthrough developments,
and more, over the course of their careers.
The Academy’s Career Achievement Awards
Committee is accepting nominations for the
following awards through May 1, 2014:
•Distinguished Educator Award
•Distinguished Service Award
•Distinguished Scholar-Practitioner Award
The 2014 Career Achievement Awards
will be presented at the 74th AOM Annual
Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Members are invited to review award
criteria and submission guidelines and
check out the impressive list of historical
recipients at: http://aom.org/Meetings/
awards/Career-Achievement-Awards.aspx.
Submit your nominations
for the Career Achievement
Awards today!
2014 AOM Annual Meeting
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the Academy of Management August
1-5 in Philadelphia! Registration is now
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Contributions to Management
AOM Teaching and Learning
Conference (TLC@AOM)
Join your colleagues for a one-day
mini-conference focused on teaching at
the Annual Meeting on Sunday, August
3. Registration for this distinctive event
closes July 2.
Learn More and Register for the
TLC@AOM today!
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Division and Interest Group News
April 2014
Technology and Innovation Management (TIM) Division:
Developing Technology When the Markets Do Not Stand Still
Riitta Katila, Chair, TIM Division
The Technology and Innovation Management division members study a wide range
of topics in the intersection of organizations,
technology, and the changing external environment. Industry evolution and dynamics
of organizational change have long been of
interest to division members.
More recently, such topics as crowdsourcing, open innovation, user communities, and
networks of innovators have emerged as
new areas of interest to many TIM members.
To study these issues, the TIM membership
takes a variety of perspectives, including
strategic, organizational, behavioral, and
operational viewpoints.
TIM Division has explored innovation and
the role of the changing environment in
several recent Academy Meetings. For
instance, in the 2013 Academy of Management Meetings in Orlando, the division put
together an intriguing panel discussion
on whether the United States is losing its
competitiveness in innovation in the context
of the increasingly competitive global
environment. Wes Cohen, Dan Levinthal,
Will Mitchell, Scott Stern, and Mike Lenox
(moderator) participated in this discussion.
Please visit the TIM homepage for a video
link for this TIM Innovation Panel discussion.
In the forthcoming Academy of Management
meetings in Philadelphia, we welcome
the TIM 2014 Distinguished Scholar Award
recipient, Kathy Eisenhardt, to talk about
the interdependencies of organizations and
their environments. Prof. Eisenhardt’s work
has greatly refined our understanding of
firm strategies in fast-moving environments,
especially for technology-based firms.
Her award-winning research focuses on
understanding strategy and organization
in uncertain, high-velocity markets with
emphasis on complexity, innovation, and
power dynamics. We look forward to seeing
you in this TIM Distinguished Scholar session
on Saturday during the Annual Meeting to
further explore technology development
in the context of dynamic environments.
Lunch will be provided.
Please also visit our Web site for more
details about our upcoming program
(including applications for the consortia)
in Philadelphia. We are looking forward to
seeing you in the TIM sessions this summer.
Participants at the 2013 TIM doctoral consortium
Organizations and the Natural Environment (ONE) Division:
Natural Capital: Thriving Organizations and Prosperity
ONE Division Executive Committee
How can firms contribute to prosperity?
Corporate philanthropic giving, social
responsibility, and sustainable strategies all
encourage managers to see the opportunities and threats inherent in environmental
issues. Despite at least two decades of
attention on environmental issues, firms
continue to extract more resources, use
more energy, and generate more waste to
support society’s material wants. Scholars
and practitioners in the Organizations and
the Natural Environment Division (ONE)
support organizations and their managers
to build prosperity within the constraints of
a finite planet.
Recognizing, measuring, and actively
managing firms’ natural (as well as other
tangible and intangible) capital is the first
step in environmental protection. Pioneering consumer products companies, such
as Puma, have produced their first environmental profit and loss account (EP&L).
Dow has developed new methods to value
ecosystem services (for this and other case
examples, see the Nature Conservancy’s
Valuing Natural Capital Report).
insights into corporate decision-making
and participate in the UK’s Natural Capital
Commission’s efforts to incorporate natural
capital into national income accounts.
ONE members are engaging with a “natural
capital” approach to prosperity. Some are
developing natural capital decision-making
tools (see the Natural Capital Project’s
InVEST). Others investigate new valuation
methods to support decision-making in
financial institutions (see, for example,
the Natural Capital Declaration). Members
work with natural capital data aggregators,
such as Trucost, to provide new data for
When natural capital, resources, and
risks are fully recognized, managers can
make better decisions to enable their
organizations to thrive and support broader
prosperity. The natural capital approach
promises fresh inspiration for scholars and
managers. To learn more about the ONE
Division and any of these member projects,
contact the ONE Division Chair Frances
Bowen (Queen Mary University of London).
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Division and Interest Group News
April 2014
Critical Management Studies (CMS) Division:
Opportunities to Push Critical Frontiers on the Environment,
Technology & Social Media: Welcome to CMS@AOM!
Gavin Jack and Jan Schapper, Co-Chairs, CMS Division
We welcome this opportunity to showcase
some of the distinctive and thought-provoking activities that we offer in the Critical
Management Studies (CMS) Division. CMS
serves as a forum within the Academy
for the expression of views critical of
established management practices and the
established social order.
The natural environment is a core interest
of the Division. Indeed, it is written into
our domain statement and its overarching
premise that ”structural features of
contemporary society, such as the profit
imperative, patriarchy, racial inequality,
and ecological irresponsibility often turn
organizations into instruments of domination and exploitation.” The instruments
organizations use are also key, and we
are curious about the widespread claims
and beliefs that social media will improve
livelihoods—and the emerging counter
claims that social media is the next big
technology bubble. Technology is the great
enabler for humanity, but can also be an
example of an instrument of domination,
even when posited as a “great fix” for
complex environmental, organizational,
and social problems.
The Division’s Executive (with the kind
sponsorship of the University of Portsmouth) recently produced a series of short
videos about the nature of critical management studies research. While members’
interests are wide-ranging, there are certain
distinctive features of the Division’s annual
program and off-site activities that may be
of interest to all Academy members.
Every Academy meeting since 2011, the
Division has supported highly successful
and very well-attended Professional
Development Workshops and Caucuses
(led by André Reichel and Robert Perey) on
the theme of Degrowth – a long-standing
body of critical thinking on the devastating
ecological and social consequences of the
growth imperative underpinning the global
political economy. These sessions explored
CMS participants at the 2013 Annual Meeting “Get Out of the Hotel” to visit a local farmworker’s association.
the possibilities of radically reimagining the
nature of human prosperity and well-being,
thus informing the basis for reconfiguring
current economic and societal systems.
Why not come along to the 2014 Degrowth
PDW in Philadelphia, especially if you are a
member of ONE or SIM?
Thanks to the vision and hard work of
former Division Chair Sarah Stookey, the
CMS Division also boasts an annual “Get Out
of the Hotel” activity. Participants are taken
by bus beyond the comfy confines of the
conference hotel to meet local community
or labor organizers. In Florida 2013, participants visited a farmworkers’ association.
Its leaders vividly described and illustrated
not only the deleterious and distressing
labor conditions involved in local farm work,
but also the environmental degradation
associated the widespread use of pesticides
by agribusiness. These trips have a profound
impact on those who participate.
All Divisions give awards, usually for
outstanding scholarship produced in traditional academic paper format or through
a Doctoral Dissertation; and CMS is no
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exception. However, our unique Dark Side
Case Competition (sponsored by the Sobey
PhD [Management], Saint Mary’s University,
Canada) showcases outstanding peer-reviewed case studies developed for teaching
about the “dark side” of organizations and
of contemporary capitalism, from various
stakeholder perspectives and national
or cultural settings (see Fatien, Raufflet,
& Mills, 2013). In the past, we have had
excellent cases connected to environmental
and technological issues. Please visit our
Web site to see photos of last year’s finalists
and winners of the Best Case.
CMS is a vibrant community of scholars,
in which new ideas and new visions for
the future are debated and circulated. If
these activities interest you, then why not
come along to the CMS Division’s exciting
program of events in Philadelphia?
Fatien, P., Raufflet, E. & Mills, A.J. (eds) (2013) The Dark Side
II: Critical Cases on the Dark Side of Business. Sheffield:
Greenleaf Publishing.
Member Spotlight
April 2014
Fedor Ovchinnikov
Academy Member Since 2011
Call for Volunteers
A consultant and an entrepreneur, Fedor joined the Academy in January 2011. A few months
later, he received a Best Reviewer Award from the International Management Division. At
his first AOM conference in 2012, Fedor was amazed at the untapped potential of productive
collaboration between academic and practitioner members of the Academy, especially within
his primary Division, Entrepreneurship (ENT). As a new ENT Communications Committee
volunteer, he brought in and connected with allies from both practice and academia and dove
into work that involved interviewing practitioner members, organizing PDWs, and establishing
the Entrepreneurship Practice Award to honor publications that have been especially effective
at advancing the practice of entrepreneurship. Now, Fedor serves as Professional Development
Workshop Co-Chair (with Marc Bonnet) of the All-Academy Practice Theme Committee and
Chair of the Communications Committee of the Entrepreneurship Division. Outside the Academy, Fedor currently works with the Center for Evolutionary Leadership on creating sustainable
organizations, living institutions, and sustainability strategies to build a just, flourishing, and
sustainable world.
 The Academy of Management is a very
interesting community to be part of. At a
conference you can find sessions organized
by conservative Harvard Business School
professors and those hosted by Degrowth
Movement activists from Germany. It is an
ecosystem that allows radically different ideas
and approaches to coexist and interact with each
other, which provides fertile soil for innovation.
It is fascinating that an organization that serves
19,000+ members, organizes conferences for
10,000+ attendees, and publishes some of the
world’s top peer-reviewed journals in the field
has only about 20 staff members. The secret is
members’ self-governance. Over its 70 years
of history, the Academy of Management has
discovered the right balance between freedom
and structure that prompts hundreds of
volunteers to effectively maintain key functions of
the organization while allowing plenty of space
for pursuing authentic passions and shaping
the future of the Academy. If you have even a bit
of intellectual curiosity, the Academy has lots
of treasures for you: just explore it with an open
mind, and be prepared to be surprised! 
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Get Involved!
MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE
Charged broadly with representing the
interests and concerns of all Academy
members, the Membership Committee
welcomes and orients new members,
fosters volunteer service in the Academy,
and serves an ambassadorial role at the
Annual Meeting. Interested members
are needed and may serve immediately
in general committee positions. Nominations are also sought to identify the
next Chair (term beginning August 2015).
For detailed information please contact
volunteer@aom.org.
CALL FOR EMERITI PARTICIPATION
Emeritus members who are interested
in identifying new services and activities
geared to AOM Emeriti are invited to
join the “Community of Academy Senior
Scholars” (CASS). Your input can help
define and shape the future of our fastest
growing member demographic. Sign
up here. Questions? Please contact Bob
Ford.
ETHICS OMBUDS COMMITTEE
The AOM is currently looking for
members with alternative dispute
resolution (ADR) training to serve on the
Ethics Ombuds Committee. The Ombuds
Committee provides expert advice about
the AOM Code of Ethics. The Ombuds
Committee provides members and
non-members with informal counseling
about ethics matters that is both neutral
and impartial. Interested AOM members
with some training in ADR are invited to
contact Terese Loncar to find out more
about the Ombuds function.
Publications
Now accepting
submissions!
April 2014
Academy of Management Discoveries:
The Premier Electronic Academic Journal in Management
Academy of Management Publications, publications@aom.org
The Academy of Management is in the
process of launching Academy of Management Discoveries (AMD), our new allelectronic journal.
AMD welcomes phenomenon-driven research that
employs quantitative and/or
qualitative methods at any level
of analysis (e.g., individuals,
groups, organizations, industries, or societies). Authors
are encouraged to visit the
AMD Web site for submission
guidelines, frequently asked
questions and style guides.
Read AOM publications
On the Go!
AMD’s mission is to publish empirical
evidence that strengthens our understanding of substantively important yet
poorly understood phenomena concerning
management and organizations. Being an
all-electronic journal, AMD articles will include hyperlinks to a variety of multimedia
content, such as interview excerpts, video
clips, illustrations and pictures, dynamic
graphics, and reader comments.
agree or disagree with the empirical bases
of the author’s theoretical contributions.
The distinctive niche of AMD is to be on the
frontier of social scientific publishing, using
multimodality to support and enable various
and new forms of scholarly work, thereby
adding value to the AOM journals portfolio.
AMD’s manuscript pipeline is active and fully functioning, with strong contributions in
process. Click here to submit your paper for
publication. For more information, please
visit the AMD home page or view the video
of the founding Editorial Team discussing
the mission and scope of this journal.
Digital technologies make possible new
kinds of evidence and experience, giving
authors ways to showcase their data or
phenomena without text-based constraints,
and giving readers opportunities to more
fully see, hear, understand, appreciate, and
Download the AOM Journals
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AMD Editorial Team Round Table Discussion
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News Briefs
April 2014
AOM Press Room
Global campaign to combat climate change has become too complex to
manage, study suggests
For all the intensity of the disagreements
that climate change continues to evoke,
a new paper, applying a management
perspective to global initiatives in this field,
suggests that much of the current debates
over how real climate change is and what’s
causing it are beside the point.
that these represent. Yet the prospects for
effective global policy initiatives to deal with
the problem have been diminishing, they
find, raising doubts about the likelihood of
significant progress in the near future.
Read more 
The authors of the study in the current issue
of the Academy of Management Journal
harbor no doubts about the reality of climate
change, the critical role of greenhouse
gases, or the seriousness of the challenge
Recent Publications
Read the newest issues of Academy of
Management Publications, available
online now:
AMR: April 2014;
Vol. 39, No. 2
AMLE: March 2014;
Vol. 13, No. 1
AMP: February 2014;
Vol. 28, No.1
Call for Nominations
Call for Submissions
PTC Scholar Practice Impact Award
AMLE 2014 Special Topic Forum:
Questions Business Schools Don’t Ask
The Practice Theme Committee (PTC) of the
Academy of Management is calling for nominations for the PTC Scholar Practice Impact
Award. This award seeks to recognize and
celebrate an outstanding scholar for his or her
outstanding contributions to research and
theory in practice-based studies and overall
impact on managerial and organizational
practices. To nominate an individual for this
award, please send an email (with the subject
line: “PTC SPIA 2014”) containing a cover letter
listing the reasons for your nomination and
a CV of the nominee to the Chair of the PTC
Awards Committee, Jochen Schweitzer at
jochen.schweitzer@uts.edu.au.
We are pleased to announce this Call for
the Essays, Dialogues, & Interviews (EDI)
section of a forthcoming issue of Academy
of Management Learning & Education.
The focus of this special section will be on
the role of business schools in equipping
students for leadership in both their chosen
vocational spheres and in society. Guest
editors are Christopher Mabey, Middlesex
University, United Kingdom; Ken Parry, Bond
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University, Australia; and Carolyn Egri, Simon
Fraser University, Canada.
Manuscripts may be submitted online,
and designated under Manuscript Type as
“Special EDI Section – Questions Business
Schools Don’t Ask.” Pre-submission
discussion of and consultation on potential
submission ideas and topics are encouraged.
Submissions are due between February 1
and June 1, 2014.
Community News
The Africa Academy of Management (AFAM)
will launch a new journal, Africa Journal
of Management (AJOM), in 2015. Learn
more about AFAM and AJOM at:
www.africa-aom.org.
For more information about ACADEMY NEWS,
visit aom.org/AcadeMYNews.
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