CALL FOR PAPERS
MIDWEST ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT
50th Annual Meeting
Thursday Saturday, October 4-6, 2007
Intercontinental Hotel at the Plaza
401 Ward Parkway, Kansas City, MO
http://www.midwestacademy.org
CELEBRATING LEGACIES: LEADING OUR RENAISSANCE
DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF SUBMISSIONS: April 20, 2007
Leave your heels and ties at home and join us to ponder, to reflect, and to
create our renaissance a period of vigorous intellectual activity. Please
submit your research papers, new research ideas (works-in-progress),
symposia, university showcase sessions, and case studies.
In an era of nano-seconds and nano-science, what have we learned from the
legacies of scholarship in management during the past 50 years? What have
we learned from failures and paths that directed scholarly energy to new
successes? How will we create our scholarly renaissance for the next 50
years? One of the challenges of management scholarship and education is to
integrate the trends of economic wealth creation, nano-technology,
speed-of-digital, and global village cultures into workable theories that
can be applied to problems. It has been suggested that creativity, and
creative work, will drive the future world economies; the creative class
, those who are paid principally to do creative work for a living, account
for nearly one-half of the wealth generated by wages and salaries in the
U.S. (Robert Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class (2004, by Basic Books,
New York). Service work contributes approximately another 25 percent to the
U.S. economy. What will creative global nano-managers be managing?
Some sessions will include an integrated set of perspectives across
disciplines; please identify 3 keywords for each of your submissions. In
addition to regular tracks, two special innovative tracks will focus on our
theme of celebrating the past while creating the future:
Celebrating Legacy Sessions
Targeted guest sessions by, or honoring, significant scholars during the
past 50 years; Turning-point scholarship and scholars; Interviews; Success
from failures
Launching the Renaissance Sessions
Targeted for first- and second-year Ph.D. students; Papers from Ph.D.
seminars across disciplines; Major scholarly trends; Fun with scholarship
Watch the Midwest Academy of Management web site,
www.midwestacademy.org
and your electronic mail box for additional details!
Placement
Please consider posting any job openings at the conference and recommend to
doctoral students and others that they attend the conference to take
advantage of this opportunity! Details to follow. Contact Mark Wesolowski,
Placement Chair, Miami University, with questions
wesoloma@muohio.edu.
Any questions, contact:
faye l. smith, Program Chair Telephone:816.271.5824
Missouri Western State University Fax: 816.271.4508
4525 Downs Drive
fsmith6@missouriwestern.edu
St. Joseph, MO 64507
Information on Innovative Tracks
· Celebrating Legacies: Our 50th Anniversary calls for opportunities to
honor significant scholars during the past years who have contributed to
turning-point scholarship. Dyanne Ferk
ferk.dyanne@uis.edu will lead this
track to discover success from our scholarly failures as well as our
winners. Submit your suggestions for interviews with scholars, reviews of
bodies of work, and meet-the-scholar sessions. Dyanne will be working
closely with our Historian, Ken Thomson, and a team of members (volunteer to
help!) to design this part of the program.
· Launching the Renaissance: This is a special track targeting first- and
second-year Ph.D. students. Submit your papers from your Ph.D. seminars
from across disciplines; topics may fit with any (or multiple) tracks. Just
as we celebrate scholarly legacies, we honor those who will lead our
scholarly renaissance by identifying major scholarly trends and having fun
with their own scholarship. Entering a Ph.D. program is an exciting
adventure, and this track is designed to give you an early opportunity to
present your early work. Carol Sanchez
sanchezc@gvsu.edu will lead this
experimental track for 2007.
· Creative Classrooms and Management Education: This year the program will
include sessions and workshops about classroom management and incorporating
creativity into learning. These sessions will be especially helpful to
doctoral students, as well as new and seasoned faculty. One facet of our
education track will be using a World Café format to share and stimulate
creative energy, innovation and solutions in management education to
jumpstart our personal renaissances as teachers. (For a quick overview of
World Café methods and philosophy, see
http://www.theworldcafe.com). Please
send a paragraph describing the issue or innovation you would like discussed
in World Café sessions or tables. Ideas may deal with any facet of
management education from content to conduct to any other key issues or
questions. Also suggest possible discussion leaders for that topic (which
may include yourself), and send to Steve Axley
S-Axley@wiu.edu . Submit
traditional papers and symposia to Barbara Ribbens
BA-Ribben@wiu.edu.
· Entrepreneurship and Small Business: Kansas City is the headquarters for
the Kauffman Foundation, a leading supporter of entrepreneurship education
and practices. Don Hoy
dhoy@benedictine.edu who is the Academic Director of
the Cray Center for Entrepreneurial Services at Benedictine College welcomes
your submissions, and will be designing strong sessions that reflect the
growing emphasis on entrepreneurship and creativity in management.
· University Scholarship Showcase: We will also continue these sessions
designed to focus on the presentation of teaching and research from
colleagues at specific colleges and universities surrounding a theme. The
showcase may be focused on a specific area of scholarship or may be
multi-disciplinary. However, all authors and presenters should be from the
same school. The program will be developed by Catherine Schwoerer
cschwoerer@ku.edu and you are encouraged to contact her with your ideas and
suggestions.
· Case Critique Colloquium: We invite all interested authors to submit their
cases to this session. Cases will be reviewed by a panel of experts, whose
comments will help promote discussion of the main ideas of each case, the
teaching outcomes, and best teaching methods for reaching those outcomes.
Cases from all areas of management and at all levels of development are
encouraged. Please contact David OConnell,
OConnellDavidJ@sau.edu Please
submit all cases to David OConnell. Cover page should note where
previously presented or published. All cases will be considered. However,
cases that have been published elsewhere will not be published in the MAM
proceedings.
· Other Notes of Explanation
· Members wisely noted that research in some disciplines (e.g. international
management) may target micro, macro, or meso levels of analysis. This year
we will experiment with having these types of research submitted to the
track that is best suited for your research topic.
· Some sessions will include an integrated set of perspectives across
disciplines; please identify 3 keywords for each of your submissions.
TRACK CHAIR AND ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION INFORMATION
Please send all submissions electronically to the appropriate track chair by
April 20, 2007. Additionally, if you are interested in serving as a
reviewer and/or session facilitator, please contact the appropriate track
chair. Becoming involved in the program by reviewing submissions or
facilitating a session is excellent way to support the Midwest Academy of
Management!
Celebrating Legacies
Dyanne Ferk 217.206.7929
University of Illinois at Springfield
ferk.dyanne@uis.edu
Creative Classrooms & Mgmt Educ.
Barbara Ribbens & Steve Axley
309.298.1159 & 309.298.1395
Western Illinois University
BA-Ribbens@wiu.edu S-Axley@wiu.edu
Entrepreneurship & Small Bus.
Don Hoy 913.360.7425
Benedictine College
dhoy@benedictine.edu
HR/Careers
Ron Faust 812.488.2867
University of Evansville
rf2@evansville.edu
Leading the Renaissance
Carol Sanchez 616.331.7451
Grand Valley State University
sanchezc@gvsu.edu
OB/Conflict Management
Jay Barbuto 402.472.8736
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
jbarbuto@unl.edu
Organization Development
Therese Yaeger & Peter Sorensen
630-829-6207
Benedictine University
tyaeger@ben.edu
Strategy & Organization Theory
Al Warner 814.898.6509
Penn State University - Erie
agw2@psu.edu
University Showcase
Catherine Schwoerer 785.864.7502
University of Kansas
cschwoerer@ku.edu
Cases
Dave OConnell 563.333.6092
St. Ambrose University
OConnellDavidJ@sau.edu
Other Management Research*
faye l. smith 816.271.5824
Missouri Western State University
fsmith6@missouriwestern.edu
*If your research falls in an area outside of these tracks, or if you are
unsure what track is most appropriate, please submit your paper to the Other
Management Track.
Participation Policies
If a paper is submitted and subsequently accepted, the author is required to
present the paper or find an appropriate substitute to present the paper.
All participants are expected to register for the meeting. Midwest Academy
of Management policy states that any paper that has been (or will be)
presented at any other academic meeting or that has been published before
the time of presentation, is to be automatically rejected. Presentation of
papers does not preclude subsequent journal publication when acknowledgment
is made of the paper's presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest
Academy of Management. Based on reviewer recommendations, one paper
submitted by a graduate student (single authored paper or jointly with other
graduate students) will be selected for the Outstanding Graduate Student
Paper Award. A similar process will be used to select the Outstanding Paper
submitted by faculty or professional members, based on the paper's
conceptual and methodological quality and overall contribution to the field.
Finally, an award will be given for the Outstanding Reviewer of the
conference. These awards will be presented at the Awards Luncheon.
Submission Instructions (see below)
Submission Instructions
1. All submissions must be submitted electronically as MS-Word e-mail
attachments to the track chair listed. Submissions intended for review are
to be double-spaced, no less than 12 point font, 1" margins, and are limited
to 30 pages for original papers (including references, tables, and figures)
and 5 pages for panel sessions and symposia (i.e., purpose, members,
description, and relevance of topic). Please be certain to indicate in your
e-mail the preferred e-mail address for the review information and the
decision letter. Please put the entire paper, tables and figures in a single
Word file with all pages in 8½ by 11 inch format. Check the file for viruses
prior to submitting. Please ensure all papers submitted for consideration
follow the guidelines contained in the Publication Manual of the American
Psychological Association.
2. Identify 3 keywords for each of your submissions.
3. Attach two electronic copies of your submission: One with a title page
containing author-identifying contact information in single-spaced
camera-ready format and one double-spaced without the author identifying
title page for review.
· For the electronic copy containing author-identifying information, please
use single spaced, size 12 Times New Roman Font. References should be
single-spaced with a hanging indent leaving a space between entries. The
file should be camera ready. If your paper is accepted, this file
containing author-identifying information will be sent to the Proceedings
Editor.
· For the electronic copy intended for double-blind review, please submit a
double-spaced version with author identifying information removed. Please
follow the submission procedures similar to the Academy of Management
Journal with respect to removing identifying information from the electronic
file including information contained in the Properties of the MS-Word file
and running head information that may identify the author(s).
4. Papers solely authored by graduate students must be identified as such in
the e-mail message when submitting your work for Outstanding Graduate
Student Paper Award consideration.
Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies
In conjunction with its arrangement with the Journal of Leadership and
Organizational Studies (JLOS), the Midwest Academy of Management has
editorial responsibility for the spring issue. The deadline for the spring
2008 issue is October 27, 2007. Submission guidelines are posted to the
Midwest Academy of Management website at
www.midwestacademy.org. Please
consider submitting a manuscript, including papers you submit to the
conference, and share this opportunity with your colleagues. The quality of
the issue is dependent on good submissions! Any questions, please feel free
to contact the Special Editor, Joy V. Peluchette at 812-464-1803 or via
email at
jpeluche@usi.edu.
Hotel Information
Watch the Midwest Academy of Management website at
www.midwestacademy.org
for hotel registration information.
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