Inside this Issue:

2010 Annual Conference Updates

• Message from Anne S. Tsui, AOM 2010 Program Chair 
• Important Reminders about the Professional Development Workshop Program
• Montréal, Home of AOM 2010
• Montréal Service Project

• HR Division New
• New Book Announcement - Dynamic Strategy-Making
• New Book Announcement - Client-Consultant Collaboration
• New Book Announcement - Management Education for Global Sustainability
• New Journal Announcement - International Journal of Business Continuity and Risk Management
• In Memoriam - John M. Ivancevich

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As we head towards the end of the year, I want to take this opportunity to share with you the many exciting things that are, and will be, going on with the 2010 Annual Meeting, August 6-10, in Montréal, Canada.



 

Message from Ming-Jer Chen, AOM Professional Development Workshop Chair

As we near the end of the year, and with the submission deadline immediately following the advent of the New Year, I want to take this opportunity to remind you of some of the important changes that have recently been made to the PDW program.

Montréal is one of the oldest cities in North America and is located in the south of the beautiful province of Québec, in Canada. It is situated on an island and it is home to 1.8 million inhabitants.  A gateway to the Americas, Montréal is a fascinating city. Its typically North American vitality is the perfect match for its European-inspired way of life. Truly an international city, it is multilingual, pluralistic, cosmopolitan, and diverse.

In the spirit of the "Dare to Care" conference theme, this year's Service Project will be an exciting partnership with the Montréal YWCA. Celebrating their 135th anniversary in 2010, the Montréal YWCA has strong ties across the city's business and social community.  Boasting more than 450 volunteers and serving hundreds of families in need, the Montréal YWCA programs include literacy, employability, leadership, entrepreneurship, integration services, tax & legal clinics and housing.

Greetings from Chicago.  As Chair of the HR Division, I’d like to tell you about some of our new initiatives as well as provide a recap of the 2008 AOM meeting in Anaheim.  Before doing so, I want to thank John Hollenbeck (Michigan State), who has served as the HR Division Chair for the past year.  John has been a wonderful leader—accomplishing a great deal in a short period of time and making it fun along the way.A priority for the HR Division for the coming year is to increase involvement of our members.

Dynamic Strategy-Making: A Real-Time Approach for the 21st Century Leader
By Larry Greiner and Thomas Cummings
Jossey-Bass, 2009

Most scholarly treatments of strategy avoid the question of concrete ways to make strategy happen. Based on the authors’ 20-year journey through the minefields of strategy research and consulting—with clients ranging from aerospace, construction, software, hotels, HMOs, to a 18,000 academic association...

 

CLIENT-CONSULTANT COLLABORATION: COPING WITH COMPLEXITY AND CHANGE. Edited by Anthony F. Buono, Bentley University, and Flemming Poulfelt, Copenhagen Business School.

Publisher: Information Age Publishing, 2009.

Inderscience Publishers (http://www.inderscience.com) is pleased to announce the publication of the first issue of International Journal of Business Continuity and Risk Management (http://www.inderscience.com/ijbcrm).

In Memoriam
John M. Ivancevich
(1939-2009)

The management discipline lost a creative thinker, an award-winning educator, an outstanding scholar, and a person of unrelenting energy and high integrity when John (Jack) M. Ivancevich passed away on October 26, 2009, at the age of 70 in Houston, Texas. A product of Chicago’s south side, Jack’s love of family and exceptional work ethic were shaped by the ethnic milieu that anchored his entire life.