Inside this Issue:

2010 Annual Conference Updates

• Message from Anne S. Tsui, AOM 2010 Program Chair
• 2010 Local Arrangements Committee Service Project...YWCA
• Management History (MH) Division Program Update
• Entrepreneurship (ENT) Division – PDW and Program Highlights
• Invitation: LGBTQ and Friends Reception, Montréal 2010 
• Visit The New AOM Booth Located Near Registration and the Exhibits Hall!

Calls for Submissions, Proposals and Nominations

• Calls for Submissions - Academy of Management Publications
• Calls for Submissions - 2011 Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship Program

Member Updates

• What is Necessary for Business Success?
• 2nd Research Conference on Conscious Capitalism
• 6th Bentley Global Business Ethics Symposium
• Institute of Work Psychology 2010 International Conference on Work, Wellbeing and Performance, UK
• New Book Announcement - The Sustainable MBA
• New Book Announcement - The Hidden Dynamics of Path Dependence
• New Book Announcement - The Violence Volcano: Reducing the Threat of Workplace Violence
• New Book Announcement - 2 Books from Myron D. Fottler
• New Book Announcement - Organization Immunity to Corruption

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This year’s meeting is less than two months away! My excitement level keeps rising in anticipation of the many wonderful sessions and activities that await us in Montreal. Please make sure that you visit the 2010 Annual Meeting website to plan your meeting program and not miss any important and exciting sessions. In this June newsletter article, I would like to highlight a few activities that in particular should deserve your attention. 


 

2010 Compassion Project...YWCA

This year's service project challenges all AOM members to "Dare to Care" by displaying passion for one of Montréal’s oldest community organizations and compassion toward its cause. The YWCA Montréal has had an integral role in Montréal life, supporting and encouraging women and families of all ages, cultures and religions since 1875. To participate in the service project you can:

The key word for this year's Management History Division Program is—timely! Our sessions- both pre-conference and scholarly paper- provide a valuable perspective on what management history can tell us about several current societal issues as well as topics of interest to all types of management scholars. The PDW lineup includes well-regarded standards and some fantastic new additions.
 

This year again sees an extremely rich selection of thematic PDWs, Paper Sessions and Symposia on Theory, Method, and a range of topical areas of interest for those in the Entrepreneurship Division, or those just interested in entrepreneurship. Let me highlight just three of these that may be particularly appealing to colleagues across the Academy. 
 

Please join us for “All in the Family,” an annual reception for LGBTQ persons and friends at the Academy, Saturday, August 7, 8:00pm- 10:00pm, The Queen Elizabeth (Fairmont), Marquette.

In one stop you can learn more about:

The Academy of Management is currently looking for papers for the forthcoming special issues of AMJ, AMR, AMP and AMLE. Please click on the individual link below for further information: 

Canada’s fastest growing companies reveal their HR practices

TORONTO, ON, April 7th, 2010 - The importance businesses place on their strategic human resource choices can determine success or failure.

The idea of HR as a “strategic player” has gained substantial ground over the years. According to the March 2010 edition of the Academy of Management News, “One area that has really seen a dramatic increase in [conference] submissions relates to what is known as Strategic Human Resource Management…[the] sessions address relations among firm characteristics, organizational strategies, HR strategies and practices on firm performance.” Their annual conference is slated to take place in Montreal, Quebec later this year. With over 18,000 active members, the conference is sure to be a success.

The 2^nd International Research Conference on Conscious Capitalism will be held at Bentley University in Waltham, MA on May 24-25, 2010.

The 6th Bentley Global Business Ethics Symposium sponsored by the State Street Foundation: WHAT IS SUSTAINABILITY? Differing Perspectives on Sustainable Business Performance in the Global Context, Monday, May 17, 2010, LaCava Campus Center, Bentley College, Waltham, Massachusetts.

The IWP Conference 2010; Work, Well-being and Performance: New Perspectives for the Modern Workplace, is being held from 29th June to 1st July at the St. Paul’s Hotel, Sheffield City Centre, United Kingdom. It is hosted by the Institute of Work Psychology, University of Sheffield, a distinctive community of researchers focused on work psychology and related areas, such as organizational behavior and human resource management.

The Sustainable MBA: The Manager's Guide to Green Business is a guide for those interested in what the business sector can and is doing in business and sustainability with lots of tips on how to get involved and how to bring these ideas into your job, whatever job that might be. It is organized like a business school course - allowing easy access to information on sustainability and Accounting, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Ethics, Finance, Marketing, Organizational Behavior, Operations and Strategy.

Schreyögg, G. & Sydow, J. (2010)(Eds.): The Hidden Dynamics of Path Dependence. London: Palgrave Mac­millan.

The theory of path dependence continues to attract great interest in a wide range of disciplines, including business studies, organization research, economic history, political science, and regional studies. An increasing number of scholars have started to use this theory for studying organizational inertia, strategic persistencies, institutional rigidities, and regional lock-ins. Most recently, even issues of un-locking and creating path dependencies have been addressed. This book presents a selection of papers that have been presented and discussed at a series of conferences including the Academy of Management (AoM), European Group of Organization Studies (EGOS), and the European Institute of Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM). The focus of the papers is on organizational and institutional path dependencies. 

Myron D. Fottler (The University of Central Florida) has recently published two new books as follows:
 

    * Myron D. Fottler and Donna M. Malvey, The Retail Revolution in Healthcare. Santa Barbra, CA.; Praeger, 2010.

    * Myron D. Fottler, Robert C. Ford, and Cherrill P. Heaton, Achieving Service Excellence: Strategies For Healthcare (Chicago): Health Administration Press. 2010.