Dear MG-ED-DV list member
Wearing my "program-chair hat" for the Management Education and Development
division of the Academy of Management, I (and my support team) want to
remind you of the up-coming (sooner than we may realize) Academy Meetings
in Chicago in August. We are forwarding a copy of the letter we recently
mailed to all MED members. Hopefully, those of you who are MED members
received it in hard copy already. We especially hope you will move your
proposal ideas along smartly and get them into the mail soon. Of course,
you do not have to be a member of MED to submit a proposal and to present a
session. See you in Chicago.
Warm regards,
Jim Stoner, Kathleen DeBenedictis, and Esther Widjaja
November 13, 1998
Dear Management Education and Development Division Member,
It is time to start wrapping up (or to start thinking about!) your ideas
for papers and symposia for the Academy Meetings in August, 1999. And also
to consider volunteering to review papers and symposia for those meetings.
As always, your proposals can relate to the meeting theme or not. Both
types of submissions are welcome and "non-theme" sessions always out-number
theme sessions to the best of our knowledge. However, having said that,
let us urge you to pay particular attention to the theme this year. There
is an unusually large amount of interest in this year's theme: "Change and
Development Journeys into a Pluralistic World," and we'd like to encourage
each of you to think very seriously about how your proposed session might
fit with and contribute to that journey and that world. Certainly, our
division - with our emphasis on excellence in teaching and learning - has
an important role to play on that journey and in that world.
Some of the Academy activities around that theme can be found in the most
recent Academy Newsletter (October, 1998) in the article by Andy Van de
Ven. On-going information can be found at the Academy website:
http://www.aom.pace.edu (which, in turn, will give you access to the site
for the ThemeSummit held last month in Dallas and attended by Bill Ferris,
representing MED:
http://www.mgeneral.com/index/html).
This year the Academy is also continuing and perhaps increasing its
emphasis in three areas that may be starting to be almost traditional: (1)
seeking innovative, participative, and "risky" sessions that break away
from our usual paper-presenters/discussants/q&a and symposium-speakers/q&a
format; (2) encouraging cross-divisional integration through papers listed
in shared interest tracks and symposia sponsored by two or more divisions;
and (3) encouraging us to continue to increase our partnering with
practitioners in our program offerings.
On the first topic, MED will still have lots of the traditional format
sessions (and, given our commitment to change and development, I feel a
little embarrassed to admit that I have really benefitted from many
"traditional" sessions I have attended), but we also encourage many bold,
new, non-traditional formats and topics for sessions.
On the second topic, we'd like to suggest a few things you can do in your
symposia and paper submissions. (You have probably already been doing
these things for years, but a reminder may not be harmful.) For symposia,
please consider partnering with other divisions by designing symposia with
multi-divisional interest and submitting your proposal to divisions other
than MED. For paper submissions, please consider in your writing what
other divisions might be particularly interested in your topic. (The
process for creating shared interest tracks this year involves the
reviewers and chair recommending papers to be considered for shared
interest sessions when the entire program is made up. If you want to add a
little note at the end of your paper indicating what other divisions might
be particularly interested in your session, we are sure the reviewers and
chair will not be offended at the hints).
If you will be submitting a paper or symposium, the same rules apply as
last year. You will need to submit your title and abstract electronically
though the AOM website before sending your submission to us. The
submission website is scheduled to open December 1, 1998. The electronic
submission number you receive will need to be written on all copies of the
submission you mail to us. We are not allowed to accept any submission
without this number unless the submission is accompanied by documentation
that indicates you do not have internet access. (If you do not have access
to the internet, please contact us by fax, 212-765-5573 or phone
212-636-6178, so we can provide any help we can.) Please register your
submissions on the web page EARLY, about a week or so before the JANUARY 8,
1999, submission deadline, to avoid a traffic jam on the Internet. Please
get the registration step out of the way early and not wait until you have
the final version finished.
Instructions for your submissions are in the Call for Papers which you
should have received by now with the October, 1998 Academy Newsletter. If
you do not have the Call you can get it quickly by going directly to:
http://www.aom.pace.edu/meetings/1999 (or we can send you a copy).
If you will be volunteering to review papers or symposia, and if we are not
already in communication about reviewing, please contact us, preferably by
e-mail at
stoner@mary.fordham.edu (with a copy also to
jafs@worldnet.att.net). We will contact you by e-mail and ask you about
your preferences in reviewing, to get your best mid-January mailing
address, and other details. Of course doctoral candidates are strongly
encouraged to review, just as they are strongly encouraged to submit
session proposals.
Finally, do not forget that MED has a variety of awards for papers,
symposia, and reviewers: Best Paper in Management Education, Best Paper in
Management Development, Best Paper in Innovative Design, Best Symposium
Award, and awards for outstanding reviewers.
We are looking forward to another great MED program, following the recent
outstanding ones, and anticipate you will have a terrific time in Chicago.
Warm regards,
Jim (James A.F.) Stoner Kathleen DeBenedictis Esther Widjaja
MED 1999 Program Chair Faculty Assistant Faculty Assistant
(and Professor of Management (and MBA candidate) (and MBA candidate)
Systems in his spare time)
ps: Charles Wankel has asked us to remind you all about the Special AMJ
Research Forum on Managing in the New Millennium and he encourages you to
submit an MED-related paper. He invites you to visit the website:
http://www.aom.pace.edu/amj/srf2000.htm.
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My favorite quote for November comes from Jeff Ford's e-mail
(thanks, Jeff)
"Others become who you say they are, so say something great about them."
Jim (James A.F.) Stoner tel: 212-636-6178
Professor of Management Systems fax: 212-765-5573
Graduate School of Business Please use both of my e-mails
Fordham University at Lincoln Center
stoner@mary.fordham.edu
113 W, 60th St.
jafs@worldnet.att.net
New York, NY 10023
U.S.A.
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