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Organizer: Pasquale Massimo Picone, U. of Bergamo
Organizer: Yi Tang, Hong Kong Polytechnic U.

Organizer: Amy Y. Ou, National U. of Singapore
Presenter: Murray R. Barrick, Texas A&M U.
Presenter: Albert Cannella, Texas A&M U., College Station
Presenter: Sucheta Nadkarni, U. of Cambridge
Presenter: Ronald F. Piccolo, U. of Central Florida

Speaker: Giovanni Battista Dagnino, U. of Catania

Speaker: Jason D. Shaw, Hong Kong Polytechnic U. – Present AMJ editor

For more information: please visit our website www.unibg.it/aom2017

At the AOM Annual Conferences in Vancouver (2015) and Anaheim (2016), the PDWs on "Psychological Foundations of Management" have met with remarkable success. Participants' passionate feedback encouraged us to launch a follow-up PDW proposal 3.0. It aims to intensify research on psychological foundations of management by discussing how differences in attributes across strategic and entrepreneurial leaders affect their strategic decision making and implementation processes, risk taking initiatives, and firm performance.

Studying the consequences of psychological attributes in strategic and entrepreneurial contexts is a relevant issue directly related to the 2017 Academy of Management Meeting Key Theme "At the Interface". Our PDW will offer an opportunity for the panel and the audience to focus on two important interface-related issues. The first issue is how micro, psychological factors such as strategic leaders' psychological attributes and processes, are connected to macro, firm outcomes such as strategic actions and firm performance (Kulik, 2017). The second issue is how strategic leaders, often viewed from a macro perspective, manage their interfaces with micro factors such as middle managers, supervisors, and employees, to generate and implement strategic decisions (Sirmon, Hitt, Ireland & Gilbert, 2011).

The PDW is organized in two complementary parts. In the first part, an invited panel of outstanding scholars will present their recent research and discuss how to join and contribute to a conversation on psychological foundations of management in top journals. The second part of the PDW is designed to facilitate a lively discussion about a set of pre-selected promising research endeavors in a roundtable format. Scholars willing to discuss their research during the roundtables are invited to submit the most recent version of their papers (or, alternatively, a 1000-word extended abstract). The deadline for paper submission is July 1, 2017. Please send your paper to the organizers at this e-mail address aom2017@unibg.it. Accepted papers for roundtables will be notified by July 10, 2017.

We appreciate that your submissions can be aligned with one of the following round-table themes:

·         How strategic leaders affect internal organizational systems such as HRM, structure, coordination, and strategic implementation chaired by Jason D. Shaw and Amy Ou;

·         How organizational leadership research and strategic leadership research can mutually inform and benefit one another chaired by Murray Barrick and Ronald F. Piccolo;

·         What are the dark side and bright side of strategic leadership's attributes in the age of temporary advantage chaired by Giovanni Battista Dagnino and Sucheta Nadkarni;

·         What the main links among strategic leader's attributes, managerial discretion, and corporate governance chaired by Albert A. Cannella, Yi Tang, Pasquale Massimo Picone.

The team of panelists and speakers will discuss these proposals during the roundtable part of the workshop. In addition, each workshop participant is expected to pledge that he/she will provide a written informal review of the working papers (or extended abstract) of the other participants in his/her roundtable.

We look forward to seeing you in Atlanta in August!

Best regards,
Massimo, Yi and Amy