From: David Jacobs, program chair for the Critical Management Studies
Interest
Group of the Academy of Management
http://aom.pace.edu/cms/
CMS serves as a forum within the Academy of Management for the
expression of
views critical of established management practices and the established
social
order. Our premise is 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.
As a newly formed Interest Group, The August 2003 Seattle Academy of
Management meeting will be the first time CMS sponsors both a
Professional Development Workshop (Aug 1-3) and sessions on the main
program (Aug 3-6).
We would like to encourage members proposals for jointly sponsored
symposia to both MED and CMS. When CMS was chartered as an Interest
Group this year, we explained to the Board of Governors that we saw
ourselves as a matrix "row" across the divisional "columns" in the
Academy tructure - and thereby add to the life of the divisions rather
than fragment it. We hope we can deliver on that idea in our Seattle
program.
We will also be innovating in the design of our program. The traditional
model
of Academy meetings has been SELECTIVE, designed to identify the BEST of
the
presentation. By contrast, our policy will be DEVELOPMENTAL, and we plan
to
use whatever time is allocated to us to program submissions that fall
within
our domain, whether they be very short "concept papers," more
substantial "work-in-progress," or fully-developed final products. To
accommodate all these, our program will feature a mix of paper
presentations,
symposia, "roundtables," and "poster papers."
The Management Education and Development Division's Seattle meeting call
is:
http://aom.pace.edu/med/2003programcall.html
and for workshops (with a deadline coming up soon!):
http://www.aom.pace.edu/med/2003pdwcall.html
and submit your work to us following the guidelines on the AoM website:
http://myaom.pace.edu/AnnualMeeting/2003/submissions/index_submissions.h
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