Kim Boal noted that
>Patrick Schultz will be presenting a paper in the OMT division at the
>National Academy of Management Meeting
Just for clarification, if we're talking about the meetings in Chicago,
August 5-11, the word "National" is NOT part of the deal. The Academy of
Management membership is more than 30% non-US and that segment is growing
rapidly. The Academy meetings are truly a global gathering of leading
researchers on management issues. At least the last 4 Presidents of the
Academy have made strong points about the its internationalization,
reaching well beyond its origins as a US organization, and it seems to me
that the Academy is increasingly effective in that capacity.
Members of this list who have not yet participated in one of these annual
events may find it exhilarating. Besides, it's a chance to meet some of
these great MG-ED minds in person -- always a curiosity!
You can check out the Program for this August's meeting. The Conference
Program Chair recently e-mailed the following information about the program.
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It is now
available on the AOM Pace web site at
http://www.aom.pace.edu for your
viewing.
Once you select the "final Chicago '99 program," you can access the program
four
ways:
1. Browse the program by day. Click any day and a program guide will show
all
sessions that are offered that day by time and room in a TV Guide format.
Click
any session and you will see a display describing the session along with
250-word abstracts of the symposium or papers presented in the session. Click
any speaker in the session and up will pop an e-mail window for sending a
message to the individual.
2. Search the program for any individual or keywords. For example, if you
want
to know when you or anyone is speaking in the program, enter ???lastname
firstname??? and you will get a display of the sessions. If you are
interested in
sessions on any topic (e.g., organization change), enter the topic or keywords
and you will see all the sessions in which the topic is listed in the session
titles or abstracts. Helpful hints for your search are available by clicking
the button.
3. Create a self-designed personal schedule. Download the ???Personal Program
Guide??? onto your personal computer. You can edit this rich text file with
most
any word processor. Select the sessions you want to attend and enter your own
personal appointments. Then print the file and carry it in your pocket to
keep
you going at the Chicago conference.
4. Download a printable copy of the Chicago ???99 program. Although the
printed
program is being mailed to all Academy members in mid-May, you can download an
Adobe Acrobat copy of parts or the entire program. You will find the
Participant Index a particularly useful reference for communicating with any
conference participants before, during and after the conference. This index
will also be helpful for Interactive Paper authors who are being encouraged to
invite five people to discuss their papers. Please respond favorably to these
invitations when invited if your schedule permits.
On behalf of the Chicago ???99 Conference Committee and Division Program Chairs,
we hope you find these new features useful to learn of the incredibly rich and
diverse Chicago ???99 program of the Academy of Management. We have 279
workshops, 1147 papers and 192 symposia being presented in 849 sessions by
3503
speakers from 962 universities and organizations in 41 countries on the
program.
We expect 5300 people to attend the conference who teach or train about 2
million students and managers worldwide. Moreover, THANK YOU for making it
so!
I look forward to seeing you at the conference August 6-11. It will be a good
one!
Andy Van de Ven
Program Chair
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Prof. Thomas A. Bryant, Ph.D., Visiting professor and
State of New Jersey Chair in Small Business & Entrepreneurship
Faculty of Management, MEC 326
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Tel: (973) 353-1062; e-mail:
tabryant@andromeda.rutgers.edu
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lie."
--George Herbert
"Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool
heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants." --Dorothy Parker