Academy of Management President, Jim Walsh, recently announced to the membership a Call for Proposals<http://aomonline.org/Meetings/CFPEmail.asp?utm_source=leadership&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Second%2BConference> for the Academy of Management's "Second Conference" (see below) that will be different from the current annual meeting. The Academy leadership is looking for bold and innovative proposals from individuals, teams, or groups and has asked that the call be widely disseminated through the divisions. This is a great opportunity to shape a Second AoM Conference to be held outside of North America - please consider contributing your ideas, and send in a proposal to Jimmy Le at AoM headquarters in New York by June 30, 2010:
jle@pace.edu<mailto:
jle@pace.edu>.
Best Regards,
Joanne Oxley
BPS Division Chair
<http://aomonline.org>
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
The Academy of Management's "Second Conference"
Dear Colleagues:
I am writing today to ask for your help. The Academy's Board of Governors recently decided that in addition to our annual summer meeting, we would like to hold a second, smaller, and very different type of conference. We would like to hold it beyond our usual conference borders and to do it no later than 2013. With members from more than 100 countries and with an annual meeting that now draws over 10,000 people, we want to give ourselves a chance to meet in a smaller venue and to meet somewhere besides the United States and Canada (places that for a variety of reasons, are best equipped to handle an annual meeting of our size). We are also eager to experiment with a format that might differ dramatically from what we do each August. This is where you come in. We need your good ideas!
Think about what kind of new conference format would really energize us and serve us well. Please do not feel constrained by our past practices. Let your mind race with possibilities. Indeed, no one wants to replicate our annual meeting on a smaller scale and in a different part of the world. We want to tap your creativity, expertise, experience, and energy to help us create something special.
We will move forward in a two-step fashion. The first step is to develop a very short proposal that simply outlines what you have in mind. Give broad form to your ideas in five pages or less. The formal call for proposals will give you specific guidelines but in general, let the journalist's six questions be your guide. Tell us what you have in mind and why your new conference will be so impactful. Briefly address when and where you think we should meet and of course, tell us who you think would most benefit from participating. Finally, begin to give some thought to what it will take to make it happen (the "How?" question). A committee will read through the proposals and select a few to develop in greater detail. That subsequent development process will constitute the second step.
I hope that you are as excited as I am about this opportunity. Please send your ideas to Jimmy Le at our headquarters in New York by June 30, 2010:
jle@pace.edu<mailto:
jle@pace.edu>. Thanks a million!
Sincerely,
Jim Walsh
President, Academy of Management
Call for Proposals<http://aomonline.org/Meetings/AOM-SecondConference-CallForProposal.pdf>: <
http://aomonline.org/Meetings/AOM-SecondConference-CallForProposal.pdf >
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