Call for Strategic PTC PDW Proposals 2014-2015

Call for Strategic PTC PDW Proposals 2015

Practice Theme Committee (PTC) PDW Call for Submissions

  PRACTICE THEME COMMITTEE (PTC)

PDW Co-Chairs:

Marc Bonnet, Iseor-Magellan-IAE Lyon-U. Jean Moulin Lyon 3, bonnet@iseor.com;

Tom Mierzwa, University of Maryland University College, ptc.pdw@gmail.com.

2015 Professional Development Workshops: Call for Proposals

The Practice Theme Committee seeks PDW proposals that leverage innovative thinking around governance and collaborative processes, build meaningful connections between scholars and practitioners across the Academy, and bridge the theory-practice divide. This year's conference theme, "Opening Governance" invites us all to consider (to paraphrase the Academy’s vision) how new and creative approaches to governance can be a force for “inspiring and enabling a better world.”  

Here are possible questions and ideas for addressing “Opening Governance” from a practice perspective:

1.       What new governance forms, practices, processes, and business models such as “participatory governance,” “open innovation,” “virtual organizing,” “crowdsourcing,” and “ambidextrous organization” can generate a more inclusive approach to governance that also increases creative problem-solving?

2.       How and why do today’s complex and interdependent business environments demand and facilitate changes in governance practice?

3.       How do communication technology, information artifacts (such as big data, analytical techniques, cloud computing), and diverse stakeholders (with their networks of connections and accountability) enable or constrain practice in ways that reveal new insights on practice?

4.       How can we foster cross-sector collaboration to address today’s complex global problems that require dialogue and governance at levels where such forums or entities have not previously existed?

Many kinds of submissions could build on these questions, such as those focused on:   

·         Practice-oriented research approaches like action research, participative observation, intervention-research, or consulting techniques that build evidence-based research and generate relevant knowledge for management practice.

·         Journals whose editorial boards seek ways to incorporate the implications for management practice from scholarly articles they publish.

·         Professional management curricula and program designs that embrace practice issues and methods in which students develop scholar-practitioner competencies. In particular, it concerns DBA and practice-oriented doctoral programs which enhance the development of scholar-practitioners.

·         Unique career pathways that bring practitioners into the academic community as teachers and researchers; the role of clinical faculty in bridging the theory-practice divide.

·         Communities of practice that comprise and engage scholars and practitioners around research agendas for management practice issues.

·         Submissions that extend PTC initiatives such as “Practitioner Empowerment” and “Policy and Practice Impacts.”   

Other practice-related topics are also welcome.  Please consider that innovative workshops create dialogue, explore new ideas, and generate synergy among PDW leaders and participants. We give priority to workshops that are highly interactive, include both practitioners and scholars, and are designed to produce new learning or future action among participants.  We welcome proposals that include cross-national themes and/or management of cross-cultural issues.    

We strongly encourage you to discuss your PDW ideas with us by sending us short e-mails or draft proposals during November or December prior to submitting your PDW proposals on the AOM website.  Since All-Academy committees like the PTC are allocated a very limited number of hours for workshops, think of the PTC as a cosponsor if your topic is a strong fit for a division, as well as being practice oriented. When sending us your ideas for potential cosponsored PDWs, please be explicit about whether and how you might collaborate with other divisions.      

If you are interested in offering your workshop offsite and can propose a convenient site, that would be excellent. Offsite workshops are not counted as part of allocated PDW hours, so if there is a site near the conference that you can arrange, we are interested in working with you on this possibility.

Please be sure to follow all AOM guidelines for submitting your PDW proposal. For questions or to share PDW ideas, please contact Marc Bonnet and Tom Mierzwa at ptc.pdw@gmail.com.

Practice Theme Committee (PTC) PDW Special Instructions

Practice Theme Committee (PtC)

PDW Co-Chairs:
Marc Bonnet, Iseor-Magellan-IAE Lyon-U. Jean Moulin Lyon 3, bonnet@iseor.com;

Fedor Ovchinnikov, Center for Intercultural Communication, f.ovchinnikov@ism-cp.com

2014 PTC Professional Development Workshops: Call for Proposals

The Practice Theme Committee was created as an All-Academy Committee to:

• Develop greater awareness of what practice means and how it can usefully inform our scholarship in terms of both research and teaching
• Identify and profile exemplar initiatives that bridge the gap between theory and practice and engage practitioners and academics in the co-creation of knowledge
• Create a platform for ongoing engagement with practitioners so that the knowledge we discover is relevant and has impact

We call for exciting, innovative, and interdisciplinary PDWs involving both researchers and practitioners. This year's conference theme, "The Power of Words" addresses the Academy’s vision "to inspire and enable a better world through our scholarship and teaching about management and organizations." The theme encourages submissions that focus on “the ways in which words facilitate or hinder the outcomes that various organizational stakeholders seek… and uncover knowledge on how organizational stakeholders can leverage the power of words to bring about positive change”. 

Theme-related PDWs might explore how words can better bridge the gap between practitioners and academia through creation of meaning, construction of reality, legitimation of practices, inter-subjectivity of communities, enabling function of human agency, and mediated communication of cultural artifacts, etc. We particularly encourage submissions that will show how scholars and practitioners create a common language, like in the so-called “etic-emic” interaction of words and meanings between local cultures and anthropological science.

PTC also accepts practice-related submissions that do not directly address the conference theme. We seek proposals that leverage innovative thinking and participatory processes to build meaningful connections between academics and practitioners across the Academy, foster mutual understanding between communities, and encourage innovative projects that bridge the theory-practice divide.  Other approaches are also welcome.

Several kinds of submissions might shed light on these issues, such as those focused on:

• Doctorates in Business Administration (DBA) students who need to conceptualize their experience through using words that make sense both to practitioners and academics
• Researchers and practitioners who use practice-oriented research such as action research, participative observation, intervention-research, or consulting to build evidence-based research and generate relevant knowledge
• Academics who are trying to translate the outcomes of their research into practice-oriented wording in order to in order to publish in practice-oriented journals and enhance the impacts of research, as is often the case across all divisions of the AOM.
• Scholars skilled in multi-stakeholder innovation who can offer processes directly relevant to the mission of the Practice Theme Committee

We invite you to discuss your PDW ideas with us during November or December, preferably prior to posting your submission on the AOM website.  Since All-Academy committees are allocated limited number of hours for workshops, we encourage you to think of the PTC as a co-sponsor if your topic is also a strong fit for a division, particularly the larger divisions, as PDW hours are allocated in large part based on the number of members in the given division. We are developing increased partnership with the divisions, so welcome you to check with us about your ideas and then perhaps submit with us in a co-sponsorship position!  If you are interested in offering your workshop offsite and can propose a convenient site, know that offsite PDWS are not counted as part of the hours allocated, so if there is a site near to the conference that you can arrange, we are interested in working with you on this possibility. Please use the AOM guidelines when submitting a PDW proposal to: http://aom.org/annualmeeting/submission/. For questions, please contact Marc Bonnet, bonnet@iseor.com and Fedor Ovchinnikov, f.ovchinnikov@ism-cp.com.