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Announcement & Invitation

Linking Doctoral Studies with Careers Using Practical Scholarship

Doctoral Consortium, Management Consulting Division, Academy of Management

Saturday, 2nd August 2014, 8.00 a.m. through 12 noon, Philadelphia, USA

Learning Aims

¦  To increase understanding about how our doctoral studies might relate to our careers as scholars and practitioners.

¦  To consider integrating theory and practice when conceptualizing and undertaking doctorate level research with an eye on practice issues coming from or leading on to our careers.

¦  To explore what it means to undertake academic research in a way that might inform practice-based issues.

¦  To think about how practice-based concerns, including our past and future work, might help or hinder our doctoral studies.

¦  To expand our awareness of career paths from which we have entered our doctorate studies and after which we might exit as management consultants, academics and other professional roles.

For Whom, Studying What & How?

You are welcome at the Management Consulting Division Doctoral Consortium if you are studying for a doctorate that has a practice-based element to it. This includes programs for executives and change managers as well as practicing or aspiring management and organizational consultants. You might be a part-time or full-time student undertaking a professional doctorate or pursuing a research-based doctoral degree (e.g. Ph.D, Ed.D, DB & DBA). You may be completing a doctoral dissertation through a management consulting or change management intervention; you may be an insider undertaking action research; an outsider experimenting with collaborative research. You may be using qualitative methodology or quantitative methodology. Your academic department might have words like 'management', 'business', 'administration', 'organization', 'change', 'development', 'systems', etc. in its title. In other words, if you are combining research and practice in some way, this doctoral consortium might be for you. If you are learning how to combine scholarship and making something happen in the field, this doctoral consortium could be for you.

Please Pre-Register Soon for MCD Doctoral Consortium*

We would like to include as many students as room will allow. The way the Academy of Management works, we commit to numbers early in 2014 and a room is assigned to us. We intend to use both pre-registration for the room numbers and then open 'on the day' admissions for those who decide to attend at the last minute. But we need a suitable sized room: not too big or too small. Therefore, we ask for pre-registrations between now and June 2014. Once registered, it will be possible for us to communicate more detailed plans as they unfold*. A few students will be chosen to present on the Consortium topic with their names in the AOM programme: they need to be sponsored by a faculty member. Everyone else is welcome to put their own names forward for Pre-registration which is straightforward: send an email to the Doctoral Consortium Chair (see below) with ALL the following information:

1.    Name, contact details (postal address, email & telephone numbers).

2.    Your stage in doctoral study, name of doctoral program, supervisor's name, university & location.

3.    Summary of your research: topic & questions, methodology type, practice location (or sector, organization type, subject characteristics, etc.) – or a best guess at time of registration.

4.    What individual concerns might you like to explore at the MCD Doctoral Consortium?

Pre-Registration By June 2014*: Send Email with above Information to

èMCD Doctoral Consortium Chair, Dr. Jean Neumann [j.neumann@tavinstitute.org]

*NOTE: You will also need to register for the AOM Annual Meeting & book your own hotel accommodation. Watch the website to keep in touch about when meeting registration & housing booking opens & closes: http://aom.org/