ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT THEORY (OMT)
PDW Chair: Peer Fiss, University of Southern California; omt@marshall.usc.edu
2017 OMT Division Professional Development Workshops: Call for Proposals
The Organization and Management Theory (OMT) Division invites proposals for PDW sessions for the 2017 Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, August 4-8. The OMT division is a community built from a common desire to develop and promote understanding of organizations and organizing. We stand at the intersection of micro and macro analysis, providing a context for mutually beneficial intellectual engagement across disciplinary and other boundaries.
PDW sessions provide excellent opportunities for exploring emerging research questions or methods, trying out new workshop formats, and kindling conversations on important but understudied phenomena, and building communities. They can take a variety of formats – methods workshops, tutorials, debates, roundtable discussions, town hall meetings, to name a few – and can address ideas or phenomena that might not (yet) fit in the regular program. PDW sessions are also intended for professional development of the participants, so active engagement of the participants is essential. Sessions that look like standard paper presentations or symposia are more appropriate for the regular conference program.
We aim to offer a wide variety of innovative, diverse, and interactive PDWs that engage as large and as broad a representation of the OMT membership as possible. We encourage proposals that address the overall AOM 2017 conference theme, "At the Interface." The conference theme description explicitly mentions several topics that are highly relevant to OMT scholars, including but not limited to networks, organizational form and design, organizational goals and boundaries, inter-organizational relationships and alliances, organizational change, and innovation. Further, the notion of interfaces more broadly points to the role organizations play in both connecting and separating-we believe OMT scholars have much to offer here.
Acceptance of proposals for OMT PDWs will be based on (a) relevance to the interests of the Division's membership; (b) novelty and creativity; and (c) plans for creating an interactive and engaging session. We further welcome proposals that are of interest to members of other AOM divisions (e.g., ENT, BPS, OB, MOC, TIM, etc.), although that is not a requirement for acceptance. Please indicate in the submission document what divisions and interest groups may be suitable as potential co-sponsors.
PDW sessions will be held on Friday, August 4 and Saturday, August 5, 2017 from 8am-8pm. The submission system opens Tuesday, November 15, 2016. All submissions are to be submitted electronically through the AOM Submission System. The deadline for submissions is Tuesday January 10, 2017 at 5:00 PM ET (NY Time). We encourage you to submit early to enable the possibility of feedback to maximize your chance of acceptance.
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Peer C. Fiss
Associate Professor of Management & Organization
USC-Marshall School of Business
Bridge Hall 306 (mailing address)
Hoffman Hall 521 (physical address)
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0808, USA
Phone 213-821-1471
Fax 213-740-3582
URL http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~fiss/