5th Anniversary Special Issue and "SO!APBOX" Roundtable Symposium at the Academy of Management
Co-sponsored by BPS, ENT and OMT Divisions
In 2007, we celebrate SO!'s fifth anniversary with a special SO!APBOX issue on the state of the field. That forum, published in our August issue [SO! 5(3)], will be accompanied by a pre-conference roundtable symposium and reception at the 2007 Academy of Management meeting in Philadelphia (Saturday August 4, 3-6PM, Marriott, Grand Ballroom A). The special issue includes more than a dozen provocative SO!APBOX editorials penned by members of our international editorial board. The essays cover the diverse issues critical to the development of Strategic Organization – the journal and the field. The editorial essay topics cover a broad spectrum of ideas – and include some authors well-known for challenging the status quo.
The anniversary issue and symposium will include the following participants and topics:
| Jackson Nickerson, Brian Silverman & Todd Zenger | The "problem" of creating and capturing value |
| Moshe Farjoun | The end of strategy |
| Gordon Walker | The Meanings of Firm Boundaries |
| Timothy Pollock & Ted Baker | Strategic organization and entrepreneurship |
| Nelson Philips & Paul Tracey | Why reinvent the wheel? Connecting institutional theory to the field of entrepreneurship |
| Leif Melin & Mattias Nordqvist | Institutionalizing the family firm: Strategic practices implications |
| Sydney Finkelstein & Margaret Peteraf | The future of managerial discretion theory |
| Nicolai Foss | Beliefs in strategic organization |
| Arjen van Witteloostuijn & Christophe Boone | The psychology of competition |
| Anne Miner | Creativity and emotion in Strategic Organization |
| Danny Miller | Paradigm prison: The importance of doing non-paradigmatic and sometimes brutely empirical research |
| Stephen Mezias & Michael Regnier | Walking the walk as well as talking the talk: Replication and the normal science paradigm in strategic organization research |
| Ann Langley | Process thinking in strategic organization |
The symposium will give you – our readers – a chance to discuss your views on the field with them, and, of course, to share your own views with us! The anniversary issue and symposium should make for stimulating reading and dynamic discussions. We hope that you will join us for the pre-conference symposium and contribute to discussions that will help us shape the future of the journal and the field! And, of course, for the reception that concludes the session. See you there!
PDW Program: The symposium will be run as a series of roundtable discussions with the SO!APBOX authors; participants will be able to participate in roundtable discussions of four-five of the above topics, as well in an anniversary reception following these discussions. All registrants will receive a pre-publication copy of SO! 5(3) prior to the symposium to facilitate discussion at the symposium.
Registration is required. The deadline is July 13, 2007. To register, please visit: http://apps.aomonline.org/PDWReg
Visit SO! at: www.rotman.utoronto.ca/~baum/so.html or http://so.sagepub.com/
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