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Organization and Management Theory
Division of the Academy of Management
CALL FOR PAPERS
ARCS Fourth Annual Research Conference
Wednesday May 16 - Friday May 18, 2012
Yale University Center for Business and the Environment
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
This Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) and Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability (ARCS) conference will bring together scholars from a variety of disciplinary and methodological perspectives interested in advancing research on corporate sustainability. This is the fourth annual conference of ARCS, a consortium of universities that seeks to provide data, tools and networking opportunities to researchers who are developing a greater understanding of the opportunities and limits of policies and strategies to foster sustainable business. The conference builds on the successful Third Annual ARCS Conference hosted by the Wharton School last spring.
The conference welcomes unpublished working papers focused on business and sustainability (both social and environmental) from all disciplines and research areas. We are receptive to a wide range of perspectives and methods including empirical research, theory development, formal theoretical modeling, and experimental methods. We are particularly interested in papers that have implications for management and organizations. Papers drawn from organizational theory, strategy, operations, sociology, psychology and decision making, law, economics, political science, and other fields are within the realm of the conference.
Examples of suitable topics include non-market strategy, climate change management, sustainability reporting and disclosure, green supply chains, green marketing, sustainable finance, renewable energy investments, business/NGO partnerships, sustainable mobility, social dimensions of sustainability, cleantech innovation, green entrepreneurship, sustainable natural resource management, and "base of the pyramid" development strategies.
The ARCS Conference will be preceded on May 16 by the first ARCS Sustainability Teaching Summit - From Classrooms to Boardrooms: Embedding Sustainability Research in Curriculum and Corporate Strategy, to showcase and discuss the latest available pedagogical approaches, tools and materials. The conference will begin with dinner on May 16th, and conclude the afternoon of May 18th.
Submission Information: DEADLINE Tuesday January 31st, 2012
The firm deadline for submitting papers is Tuesday January 31, 2012. Instructions for submitting papers will be made available on the ARCS web site by Monday January 2nd.Those who submit papers will be notified regarding paper selection by February 23rd. The program will be announced by March 1, 2012.
Submission Guidelines
Submissions must be working papers not yet accepted for publication, 30 pages or less in length (double-spaced, 11 pt font). Papers must include an abstract, as well as the cover page information below.
More Info.
Conference location: Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and Yale School of Management,New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Conference Expenses
There is no conference fee, and all meals will be provided at no charge. Participants, including speakers, are responsible for their own travel and lodging expenses. We will use our travel-related conference budget this year to support those whose organizations are unable to pay for travel. We encourage domestic and international attendees to contact Stuart DeCew, CBEY Program Director, for more information.
Call for Sub-theme Proposals
for the 29th EGOS Colloquium
HEC Montréal
Montréal, Canada
July 4-6, 2013
Further information:
http://www.egosnet.org/jart/prj3/egosnet/main.jart?rel=en&content-id=1277261386324&reserve-mode=active
Submit your sub-theme proposal:
http://www.egosnet.org/jart/prj3/egosnet/main.jart?rel=en&content-id=1277261386348&reserve-mode=active
Please help the OMT division create a GREAT program in Boston!
Please volunteer to review for the OMT division and provide up to three high-quality reviews for fellow members. PLEASE NOTE THAT EVEN IF YOU HAVE REVIEWED IN THE PAST,YOU STILL NEED TO SIGN UP AGAIN FOR THE 2012 MEETING.
To sign up, please visit http://review.aomonline.org/ and click the 'Sign Up Now' button. You will have to create a user account and choose your areas of expertise (i.e. keywords) for the divisions or interest groups for which you want to review. The sign up process should not take more than 10 minutes.
And, don't forget...submit YOUR best work to the OMT division! You can even self-nominate for our prestigious awards:
1) Best Paper Award for the paper which offers the most significant contributions to OMT in the refereed scholarly program paper (may be co-authored; may be empirical or conceptual). OMT gratefully acknowledges the sponsorship of SAGE Publications;
2) Lou Pondy Best Dissertation Paper for the best paper based on a dissertation in the refereed scholarly program (the paper cannot be co-authored and must be clearly identified as dissertation-based at the time of submission). If you wish to be considered for the Pondy, please be sure to mark the box identifying your submission as a student submission when uploading your paper to the AOM website;
3) Best International Paper in the refereed scholarly program regarding themes and content of interest internationally;
4) Best Symposium Award for a symposium submitted to the annual meeting that stimulates, integrates or extends discussions about OMT;
The winning papers for all awards will be selected by a panel of distinguished OMT scholars.
Thanks in advance for volunteering, and thanks for making the OMT program great!
EGOS Subtheme 28 Call For Papers: Risks of Organizing and Organizing of Risks
We would like to invite you for the European Group of Organization Studies Colloquium, Helsinki, Finland, July 5–7, 2012, at Aalto University & Hanken School of Economics.
Deadline for paper submissions is January 16, 2012. For further information please visit the EGOS website or contact one of the convenors:
Convenors:
Steve Maguire, McGill University
Nelson Phillips, Imperial College London
Dror Etzion. McGill University
The ABC Research Network (Alberta, Boston and Copenhagen), comprised of the University of Alberta, Harvard University, and Copenhagen Business School, has announced the theme of its third annual conference on interpretive approaches to institutional change.
Organizing Institutions: Creating, Enacting and Reacting to Institutional Logics will be be held at the Banff Springs Hotel, Banff, Canada from June 14-16, 2012.
Keynote
Roger Friedland
Deadlines
Abstract submission (approximately 500 words): December 15, 2011
Notification of acceptance: January 31, 2012
Submission of full paper (maximum 8,000 words): May 1, 2012
Please email your submissions to the 2012 conference to: Michael Lounsbury, Alberta ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) and Eva Boxenbaum, Copenhagen ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ).
For more details download the call for papers.
Details of the 28th EGOS Colloquium have been announced.
Design!?
July 5–7, 2012
Aalto University & Hanken School of Economics
Helsinki, Finland
For more information visit the conference website.
OMT Paper Development Workshop
Invitation to Participate
The OMT Division of the Academy of Management will hold a 1-day Paper Development Workshop on September 20, 2011 at Imperial College in London, UK. The workshop is open to any doctoral student or postdoctoral researcher with an interest in submitting to the OMT Division. The Paper Development workshop will provide a forum for authors to develop manuscripts for submission to the OMT Division of the Academy of Management and then to take them forward for submission to appropriate journals. The workshop will include a discussion of the remit and functioning of the OMT Division, an explanation of the AoM conference submission process, and a general discussion of the preparation of papers for submission. It will also include a discussion of how to respond to reviews and what is necessary to develop a conference paper for publication in an Academy journal.
In addition, each author will receive feedback on their papers from a mentor and 5 participants. The mentors will include past and current members of the OMT Division Executive Committee including Matt Kraatz, Klaus Weber and Nelson Phillips. Each author will also be expected to provide feedback to other authors.
There is no fee for attending the workshop although participants will be responsible for their own travel and accommodation costs. The workshop will begin with an optional informal dinner on September 19th and then continue with a full day on September 20th.
If you are interested in attending the workshop or have any questions, please e-mail Nelson Phillips ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ). Applications for the workshop should include confirmation that you are a doctoral student or a postdoctoral researcher.
Deadline for Application: August 20, 2011.
2011 OMT Best Published Paper Award
Inaugurated in 2010, this year marks the second time the Best Published Paper Award has been given. This year's winners are:
Harland Prechel and Theresa Morris, “The Effects of Organizational and Political Embeddedness on Financial Malfeasance in the Largest U.S. Corporations: Dependence, Incentives, and Opportunities.” American
Sociological Review. 75:331-354.
2011 Best Published Paper Award Sponsor
C.R. (Bob) Hinings, Professor Emeritus of Strategic Management and Organization at the University of Alberta, graciously chaired this year’s Best Published Paper Committee.
For their tireless efforts on the committee, we thank the following:
Joep Cornelissen
Rick Delbridge
Peer Fiss
Karen Golden-Biddle
Mauro Guillen
Ranjay Gulati
Don Hambrick
Cynthia Hardy
Paula Jarzabkowski
Ann Langley
Chris Marquis
Mark Mizruchi
Christine Oliver
Ray Reagans
Wes Sine
Jesper Sorenson
Kathleen Sutcliffe
Dave Whetten
Revealing the Cultural in Entrepreneurship and Innovation PDW
We would like to invite you to a PDW that explores the cultural dimension of entrepreneurship and innovation from a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives. Sponsored by the OMT, ENT, BPS and TIM divisions, this PDW speaks to the growing interest in the study of individual agents, such as entrepreneurs, managers, policy-makers and scientists using culturally grounded repertoires (e.g. framing, categorization, storytelling and visualization) to facilitate the comprehension and justification of an innovation in the eyes of stakeholders. A workshop format involving six thematic roundtables will both showcase current empirical research projects, and allow participants to contribute their perspectives to this growing area of entrepreneurship and innovation research. The PDW will take place on Friday from 3:30 to 6:30 pm in the San Antonio Convention Center, Room 207 A.
http://program.aomonline.org/2011/submission.asp?mode=ShowSession&SessionID=628
Organizer: Joep Cornelissen; U. of Leeds
Organizer: Raghu Garud; Pennsylvania State U.
Organizer: Tyler Earle Wry; Wharton School
Organizer: Krsto Pandza; Leeds U.
Organizer: Jean Siobhan Clarke; Leeds U.
Discussant: Davide Ravasi; Bocconi U.
Discussant: Peter Karnoe; Copenhagen Business School
Presenter: Robin Holt; U. of Liverpool
Presenter: Joel Gehman; Pennsylvania State U.
Presenter: Antonio Paco Giuliani; U. of Bologna
Presenter: Paul Ellwood; U. of Leeds
Conference on Coordination Within and Among Organizations
Administrative Science Quarterly
HEC Paris
OMT Division
June 11-13 2011, Paris
Coordination has long been seen as an integral part of the fields of organizational theory and strategy. It has been with Administrative Science Quarterly (ASQ) from the start, as the initial issue contained articles by Litchfield, Dale, Parsons, Thompson, and Berliner that all raised the issue of coordination within the organization either in its full form or in a narrower conception of coordination and control. And 16 years later, ASQ was instrumental in launching resource dependence theory, with its focus on inter-organizational dependence and coordination, and an early entrant in the move of organizational theorists into inter-organizational relations.
Given this history, it seems suitable that ASQ hold a conference to further develop research on coordination within and among organizations. The usefulness of such a conference is especially high because the field may need some revitalization. Work on hierarchical control in organizations has produced useful findings, but is less relevant to issues of horizontal coordination in organizations or coordination among organizations. Work on the effects of structures that have a role in coordination (such as networks) has significantly advanced our knowledge, but has come to a point in which more work on coordination activities is needed. Thus the time has come to encourage research that advances thinking and produces new evidence on coordination activities.