From: Ben Arbaugh
med05@uwosh.edu
Greetings from Rose Batt, CMS program chair, AOM 2005
The Critical Management Studies Interest Group (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. Its
premise is that structural features of contemporary society, such as racial
and gender inequality, the profit imperative, or environmentally damaging
technologies and production systems often turn organizations into
instruments that undermine the welfare of working people, consumers, and
communities.
CMS invites members of the Management Education & Development Division to
submit proposals for jointly sponsored symposia to the MED Division and
CMS. When CMS was chartered as an Interest Group last year, we explained to
the Board of Governors that we saw ourselves as a matrix "row" across the
divisional "columns" in the Academy structure - and thereby contribute to
the life of the divisions rather than fragment it. We hope we can deliver
on that idea in our Honolulu 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."
So if your work has a "critical" edge, please do visit the CMS website:
http://aom.pace.edu/cms/
and submit your work to us following the guidelines on the AoM website:
http://submissions.aomonline.org/2005/default.asp
Thank you,
Rose Batt for CMS (
rb41@cornell.edu)
J. B. (Ben) Arbaugh, Ph.D.
Book and Resource Reviews Editor, Academy of Management Learning & Education
2004-05 Program Chair, MED Division
Academy of Management
and Curwood Inc. Endowed Professor
College of Business Administration
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
e-mail:
arbaugh@uwosh.edu Phone: (920) 424-7189
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