Dear friends and colleagues,
the system collecting proposals for PDWs at the coming AoM conference will soon be open. I enclose the call for submissions for the OMT division. Looking forward to receiving new and exciting ideas! Don't hesitate to contact me if you are in doubt and would like to discuss your proposals before submission.
All the best
Davide Ravasi, PDW Chair
P.S. And do not forget to sign up for reviewing at http://review:aom.org/ . THAT system is already open!
--- Academy of Management Conference 2016 - Call for submission for PDWs (OMT Division)---
The Organization and Management Theory 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.
In Anaheim, August 5-9, 2016, we would like to see PDW sessions creatively and innovatively addressing the Division's Mission of attracting, developing and serving academics and practitioners who wish to advance understanding of organizations and organizing. Possible PDWs might, for example, introduce participants to novel, under-utilized or developing theoretical perspectives, and offer insight into directions for future research. Methodological PDWs that offer tutorials and discussions around approaches to research design, data collection and analysis are always very much appreciated. PDWs may also address participants' needs as teachers, trainers and mentors of graduate students. Socially oriented PDWs may focus on building community around common interests off-site - be it a cafe chat around a particular theme, ethnic dining outings to explore new cultures, or physical activities to build community. Or perhaps you have ideas for stimulating topics and formats we have not thought of? Please let us hear them.
We would particularly like to see submissions that address the conference theme of "Making Organizations Meaningful." We think this is an exciting theme that offers all kinds of possibilities in OMT. For example, this would seem to be a particularly good time to put forward theoretically oriented PDW proposals that consider issues of how organizations make meaning and produce culture, imbue objects, technologies and jobs with meaning (or meanings), as well as how they acquire meaningfulness beyond their technical or economic performance; our location, next to the Disneyland theme park, may also be a source of inspiration for reflections about how organizations influence the "webs of meaning" that we are suspended in and that shape our experience of everyday life. Methodologically oriented PDW proposals may address ways to capture or measure meaning and meaningfulness. We also encourage socially oriented PDW proposals to build OMT community (particularly for newer members) by exploring off-site form of interactions to stimulate conversations around meaningful organizations, artefacts, and jobs – and perhaps even the meanings of our own academic activity. Let the theme and the location inspire you though - we are open to a wide range of different topics and formats that will interest the OMT community.
In addition, we also encourage proposals that are of interest to members of other AOM divisions (e.g., ENT, BPS, OB, MOC, etc.). PDW sessions have a very flexible structure but should have greater participant interaction than symposia in the regular program. Feel free to be creative and contact Davide Ravasi at omt@city.ac.uk prior to December 11, 2015 if you would like to discuss potential submissions.
Submissions open in early November. All submissions are to be submitted electronically at this site: http://aom.org/annualmeeting/submission/. The deadline for submissions is January 12, 2016 at 5:00 PM ET (NY Time), but you are strongly encouraged to submit early to enable the possibility of feedback to maximize your chance of acceptance. Since we are interested in proposals that address the interests of a broad segment of Academy of Management members, we ask submitters to specify which divisions other than OMT are most relevant to the proposal.
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Davide Ravasi
Professor of Management
Director of PhD in Management
Cass Business School
Visiting Professor
Aalto School of Business
Cass Business School
106 Bunhill Row
London, EC1Y 8TZ, United Kingdom
Tel. 020 7040 5139