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Apologies for cross- posting: a one-time announcement of a new AOM Listserv – "Reflections"

We now have an AOM listserv on reflections on our own profession. It's called Reflections on the Management Scholars Profession, RMSP@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU. The subscription site, which I hope you will use and pass on to colleagues, is:

http://aomlists.pace.edu/scripts/wa.exe?ACTMGR1=RMSP

This topic includes what some call the "sociology of knowledge" or "philosophy of science", but it is really broader. Here are 22 topics in this area - I am sure there are others, but the ones I found are:

1 Assessing scholarship

2 Bibliometric patterns (e.g. emergence of specialties)

3 Careers: Compensation and tenure

4 Careers: Competition and gamesman(person?)ship

5 Career effects of weak paradigms

6 Disciplinary influences to and from management scholarship

7 Ethical dilemmas in research

8 Ethical problems in management scholarship

9 Fashions and trends in management scholarship

10 Global competition in management scholarship

11 Globalization and cultural differences in management scholarship

12 History and development of management scholarship

13 Invisible colleges and schools of thought

14 Legitimacy of management scholarship

15 Management of business schools

16 Migration of ideas and their impacts

17 Normative and ritualistics aspects of management scholarship

18 Peer review and the publishing process

19 Scholarly identities and meanings

20 Social organization of management scholarship

21 Stakeholders and impacts or lacunae

22 Stakeholders: Broader perspectives and values

Alex Stewart

Professor of Management and Coleman Chair in Entrepreneurship

Marquette University

alex.stewart@marquette.edu

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