Inside This Issue:

• Conference Announcement: Academy of Management Africa Conference
• Call for Submissions - AOM Africa Conference
  
• Call for Reviewers - AOM Africa Conference

2012 Annual Conference Updates

• A Preview of the 2012 Professional Development Workshops: Bigger and More Exciting Than Ever
  

Calls for Votes, Submissions, and Nominations

• Call for Votes - AOM Board of Governors Elections are Open!
• Call for Nominations - Everett Cherrington Hughes Award for Careers Scholarship
• Call for Nominations - Career Achievement Awards
• Call for Applications - 2012 AOM TIM Junior Faculty Consortium
• Call for Submissions - Gender in Management
• Call for Submissions - MBSC Best Paper Award
• Call for Submissions - British Academy of Management 2012 Annual Conference
• Call for Submissions - The 5th Israel Strategy Conference (ISC 2012)
• Call for Submissions - The 13th IAMB Conference, Bali, Indonesia, – September 3-5, 2012
  
• Call for Papers - 23rd Annual ASC Conference

Member Updates

• Membership Corner Update
• Strategic Plan in Action: AFD Workshops
• New Book Announcement - Cliques and Capitalism: A Modern Networked Theory of the Firm
• Membership - Did You Know...?
  
• In Memoriam - Paul S Goodman

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Academy of Management Africa Conference
January 7-10, 2013
Gordon Institute of Business Science at the University of Pretoria
Johannesburg, South Africa

The continent of Africa is home to more than fifty countries and one billion people. It is also home to some of the world’s most vibrant economies. The Economist, for example, recently predicted that seven of the world’s ten fastest growing economies in the next five years will be African.  Unfortunately, much of the continent continues to face challenges around eradicating poverty, improving health, resolving conflict, and ending corruption. Marked by fast growth, limited growth or no growth at all, Africa’s business, government and civil sectors all need world-class management. 

The Academy of Management is calling for submissions (papers, symposia) for the AOM Africa Conference, January 7-10, 2013 at the Gordon Institute of Business Science in Johannesburg, South Africa. The purpose of this conference is to bring Africa’s unique capabilities and needs to the attention of the world’s organization and management scholars and at the same time, to provide an opportunity for interested colleagues to collaborate and work on the many interesting theoretical and practice problems presented in Africa.

Show your support for the AOM Africa Conference and get involved!

The Academy is calling for reviewers for the Academy of Management Africa Conference.  This exciting event will be held January 7-10, 2013 in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Dedicated volunteers are being recruited to serve as reviewers for the conference program.  Reviewers will be asked to evaluate papers and symposia based on the four conference track themes.   If you are interested in being a part of the program development, please sign up as a volunteer reviewer for this conference.   

The Professional Development Workshop (PDW) program has grown enormously in recent years, mainly because it offers such an exciting array of options and such a broad diversity of formats.

Whether you are a doctoral student, junior faculty and new faculty member, a more senior professor, or a department chair, whether you are interested in sessions about research or teaching, and whether you want to hear about specific issues, theory or techniques, or to build your skills and networks, I encourage you to make the most the options available at our meetings this year in Boston.  

The Academy's election website is open to accept your votes from March 1, 2012 - April 2, 2012.  I strongly encourage you to vote in this election to choose three Representatives-at-Large to the Board of Governors and a new Vice President-Elect and Program Chair-Elect to the Board of Governors! The ballots list an impressive group of proven leaders who have demonstrated their strong commitment to the goals and ideals of our professional association. We are fortunate that they all are willing to continue their service in these demanding academy-wide roles!

The Hughes Award recognizes scholarship which has made a significant contribution to the task of linking careers theory with the broader field of organization studies.

The Careers Division’s premier award, the Everett Cherrington Hughes Award for Careers Scholarship is a way of honoring those who have worked to build bridges between careers and other areas of organizational inquiry. There is no requirement, express or implied, that the recipient of the award be a current or former member of the Careers Division, or of the Academy.  The aim of this award is to acknowledge the work of scholars who have forged, rather than severed, connections between careers and other fields of social inquiry. 

Nominations are currently being accepted for the Distinguished Educator Award, Distinguished Service Award, Distinguished Scholar-Practitioner Award, and the Distinguished Scholarly Contributions to Management Award.

As a primarily volunteer organization, it’s important to provide opportunities for members to gain recognition for their outstanding contributions to the Academy and the field of Management. Recognizing our deserving colleagues is a terrific way for us to appreciate their career achievements and set the bar for our younger colleagues. 

The Technology and Innovation Management Division of the Academy of Management is pleased to invite applications for the 2012 TIM Junior Faculty Consortium to be held at the Academy of Management meeting in Boston (Massachusetts) on Friday, August 3rd and Saturday, August 4th 2012.

If you hold an assistant professor rank (or its equivalent) and teach or research in the TIM domain, this professional development workshop is for you. The workshop will make available the knowledge that you need to prosper in both the local and global academic environment. The workshop focuses on strategies for impact as a scholar and teacher, as well as on building a career in diverse professional settings.

Gender in Management - An International Journal is currently seeking submissions for publication in the 2012 volume

Gender in Management: An International Journal (formerly Women in Management Review) is a double blind peer reviewed journal which publishes original, critical and scholarly papers that make theoretical and methodological contributions to our understanding of gender-based issues in management.  The journal encourages diversity in thinking about gender in management and welcomes papers from all academic disciplines which can contribute to management knowledge about this area. Whilst focusing on management concerns, the journal acknowledges the importance of a broader social context influencing gender in management issues, such as political and legislative decisions, education and social policy, economic factors, etc.  Papers which examine gender-based management issues in specific industries or sectors are encouraged.

MBSC Best Paper Award Call for Papers – Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino American, Native American

A best paper award of $5000 for members of under-represented U. S. minority groups will be presented by the Massachusetts Business School Collaborative at the Academy of Management meeting in Boston during the August 2012 Annual Meeting. The Massachusetts Business School Collaborative Award is designed to improve recruitment and retention prospects of under-represented individuals of color in business schools.

Call for Papers: 26th Annual Conference of the British Academy of Management

Management Research Revisited: Prospects for Theory and Practice
11-13th September 2012, Cardiff Business School

Paper submission is now OPEN  -   Submit your paper HERE

Deadline: Friday 17th February 2012

The 5th Israel Strategy Conference (ISC 2012) - Call for Papers
Tel Aviv University - Israel, December 19-21, 2012
Submission Deadline: June 15, 2012

Join us in Tel Aviv, Israel for the 5th Israel Strategy Conference (ISC 2012). The tentative program features keynote speakers Sydney Finkelstein (Dartmouth), Henrich Greve (INSEAD), Dan Levinthal (University of Pennsylvania), and Will Mitchell (University of Toronto). Sponsored by Tel Aviv University, ISC 2012 offers a unique opportunity to present ideas, explore recent developments and emerging issues in strategic management, receive feedback on work-in-progress, and network with colleagues.

The International Academy of Management and Business (IAMB) is inviting scholars and practitioners to submit papers, symposia, and posters for presentation for the 13^th IAMB Conference to be held September 3-5, 2012 in Bali, Indonesia. About  Over 30-40 countries will be represented.

The Theme of the conference: Management Issues in Global Economy.

Carnegie Mellon University Professor Paul S. Goodman, world-renowned organizational psychologist, researcher, author and filmmaker, passed away at his home in Pittsburgh on Jan. 24 after suffering a stroke earlier this year. He was 74.

Goodman joined the faculty at Carnegie Mellon in 1972, becoming a tenured professor of industrial administration and psychology in 1979. In 2000, he became the Richard M. Cyert Professor of Organizational Psychology and dedicated himself to the globalization of Carnegie Mellon, bringing to the university an international focus in education and research.