Hello,
Wanted to do a little promotion of an academy symposium which is being hosted by the SIM division but that's also relevant for those in the OMT division.
See details below:
Program Session #: 1058 | Submission: 15725 | Sponsor(s): (SIM) Scheduled:
Tuesday, Aug 15 2006 8:30AM - 10:10AM at Hilton Atlanta in Crystal
Ballroom B & E
The Problem of Old Wine in New Bottles: Consolidating Knowledge in Management
Science
Presenter: Daniel Denison; IMD;
> Presenter: Timothy A Judge; U. of Florida;
> Presenter: Thomas J. Donaldson; U. of Pennsylvania;
> Presenter: Thomas M. Jones; U. of Washington;
> Presenter: Corey Phelps; U. of Washington;
From Scientific Management's inaugurating notion of finding the one best method
for effectiveness, the field has seen a wonderful blossoming ideas about organizations and the management thereof. However, this blossoming has had some
concomitant side-effects which are deleterious to the field's future development. Namely, it is disturbingly easy to find constructs and measures
which overlap tremendously, but which continue to develop in parallel without
any reference to each other. This not only holds across fields, but even within
disciplines and sub-disciplines. A proliferation of superfluous labels and measures make it difficult to assess what has already been established in the
literature or which measures are most appropriate for a given research question. The position taken by this panel is that, for a number of topics, the field would benefit from a consolidation of ideas, and that this requires doing the uncomfortable work of identifying redundant terms and measures. The aim of this symposium is to argue that while we've become very good at creating new ideas, we appear less able to show how those ideas overlap and converge. As such, this symposium calls on the relevant actors to streamline the field of management by looking back over our accomplishments to identify where theories and measures overlap to significant degrees; and then to clear up those redundancies and ambiguities for the benefit of the field.
Hope to see you there, ~ Will Felps (Panel Chair; U of Washington)
-- Apologies for cross postings.