Organization Development & Change (ODC)

Virtual Junior Faculty Consortium

Saturday, August 8, 2020

NEW Application Deadline: June 8, 2020

Are you an early career researcher (e.g. Assistant Professor, Lecturer, Post-Doctoral Fellow) whose research looks at organizational development or organizational change? Then join us for our ODC Junior Faculty Consortium at AOM! The consortium will be packed full of insights into the field of organizational change, mentoring from senior scholars in the field, and career perspectives from people who have experienced it all. The consortium is crafted to provide you insights and connections so you can navigate your career in the years after your Ph.D.

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ODC Junior Faculty Consortium will be held virtually on Saturday, August 8, 2020 as part of the pre-conference program of the 2020 Academy of Management Meetings. Application instructions and the proposed schedule are found at the end of this document.

We welcome and encourage scholars at all stages of their early academic career – including Assistant Professors, Lecturers, Post-Doctoral Researchers and people with other, roughly equivalent job titles. If your research focuses on any aspect of organization development and change at the individual, group, organizational, and/or field level, you are welcome to apply. Examples of relevant topic areas of research include but are not confined to:

• Organization growth & development
• Change management
• Strategic change
• Strategy-as-practice
• Culture change
• Social movements in organizations
• Organizational improvisation
• Organizational learning
• Responses to change
• Institutional change
• Network dynamics
• Leadership and change
• Innovation
• Discourse and Change
• Dialogic OD
• Micro-dynamics of change and changing
• Identity and change
• Design thinking and change

The consortium will provide opportunities for structured discussion and informal interaction between early career researchers and more senior faculty concerning research, publishing, and early career issues. In small group coaching sessions, participants will have the opportunity to present and discuss their ongoing research with faculty members who will give feedback and help further advance participants' work toward publishable results. This is a great opportunity to meet prominent scholars in the field from around the world and to network with peers.

Participating faculty mentors include the following (subject to modification):

John Amis, U. of Edinburgh, UK Rob Blomme, Nyenrode Business University, Netherlands David Bright, Wright State U., USA Stephen Cummings, Victoria U., NZ Charles Fenner, State U. of New York, USA Jeffrey Ford, Ohio State U., USA Ron Fry, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve U., USA Mel Fugate, Mississippi State U., USA Claudia Gabbioneta, U. of Newcastle, UK Maria Gondo, U. of Mississippi, USA Richard Hall, Monash U., Australia Bob Hinings, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, Canada Quy Huy, INSEAD, Singapore

Jim Ludema, Benedictine U., USA Amit Nigam, Cass Business School, UK Cliff Oswick, Cass Business School, UK Markus Perkman, Imperial College, UK Linda Rouleau, HEC Montreal, CA Patrice Rosenthal, Fielding Graduate U., USA Richard Stackman, U. of San Francisco, USA Sonja Sackmann, Universität der Bundeswehr, Germany Michael Smets, Said Business School, UK Inger Stensaker, NHH, Norway James Vardaman, Mississippi State U., USA Julie Wolfram Cox, Monash U., Australia Richard Woodman, Mays Business School, USA Danielle Zandee, Nyenrode Business U., Netherlands

 

Applications to participate in the consortium will be assessed on a first come, first served basis. To apply, please send an email with the following three documents attached to Richard Stackman (rwstackman@usfca.edu) by June 8, 2020.

• A current CV.
• A one-page bio summarizing your contact information, and research and teaching
• A 3-5 page (double-spaced) summary of a research paper in progress that you would like to present in mentoring sessions, including the research question, rationale, any hypotheses/propositions, proposed methods, and any results (if applicable).

Note: If accepted for the consortium, your one-page bio and summary of your research paper in progress will be distributed among consortium faculty and participants in advance of the August session.

Please direct any questions to: Richard Stackman (rwstackman@usfca.edu) or Steven Cady (scady@cba.bgsu.edu).

	Doctoral Students	Junior Faculty
Opening	Welcome (Joint Session) – Impromptu Networking
Session 1	Nasty Friends How to Improve Journal Submissions through Honest, Caring, and Constructive Feedback	Finding Success in the Post-Coronavirus World How to Build Your Career Identity as an ODC Scholar
Session 2	Nasty Realities - You Can't Have It All? How to Make Decisions about Career and Work-life Balance	Finding your Niche as an Emerging Scholar How to Advance your Research on Change and Changing: Challenges and Opportunities
Session 3	Finding Your Support Network (joint session) How to request and receive feedback to build a community of ODC scholars
Session 4	Think Tank: Our Moment of Punctuated Equilibrium (joint session) A community building opportunity for all consortia participants to think beyond the practice-scholar divide and stimulate 'collaborative' research.
Closing	Wrap-up

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Richard Stackman
Professor
University of San Francisco
San Francisco CA
(415) 422-2148
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