PTC Executive Team Members

PTC Executive Team

 

PTC Co-Chair: Kathryn Goldman Schuyler, Alliant International University

PTC Co-Chair: Kuo Frank Yu, City University of Hong Kong

PTC PDW Co-Chair: Marc Bonnet, Iseor, University of Lyon

PTC PDW Co-Chair: Tom Mierzwa, University of Maryland University College

The executive team is consisted of PTC co-chairs and PTC PDW co-chairs of the particular year. Sometimes directors of task forces are invited if expertise is needed in certain decision-making processes. It works together on PTC PDW selection, annual report to the board, as well as preparing for and hosting the PTC events in the AOM annual conference. It allocates work across various PTC strategic initiatives, generally with at least the PTC Co-chairs serving in most task forces.

It provides guidance, help, and oversight to the strategic initiatives instigated by the PTC special task forces and PTC liaisons to other divisions and committees. The outgoing PTC Chair or Co-chairs make recommendations of future leadership to the board of governance of AOM based on individuals’ past and present contribution to the PTC and their promise in leading the PTC community cohesively and productively. One needs not to serve the role of the PTC PDW Chair to assume the role of the PTC chair, or the PTC Co-chair. One needs to demonstrate ongoing participation and significant contribution to the PTC before one assumes the PTC chair or PTC co-chair role.  

  

 

 

A Note of Appreciation after the 2014 AOM Conference in Philadelphia from the Executive Team. 

Dear PTC Community,

 

A big thank you for those who attended the 2014 PTC reception on Saturday, the 2014 PTC lunch meeting at the Academy, and other PTC events. We had one of the largest turn-outs in years.  So many things came together this year for us: well-attended quality PDWs that spread the words of the impactful work that the PTC has been doing; much anticipated historical narratives by Tom Cummings and Elena Antonacopoulou about the PTC’s founding and evolution in the changing context of the AOM; the coherent programming that mobilized crowds to the right places at the right moments (especially the film showing of “Fire in the Blood” and the follow up dialogue with Cipla CEO Subhanu Saxena); the star-studded cast of award winners and judges; and the continuing support from our sponsors enlisted by Tyrone Pitsis over the years, allowing the PTC members to engage in constructive dialogues and actionable plans through a lunch buffet, champagne, and catered indulgences.  

The successful PDWs and social events helped to generate excellent volunteers to assume key functions and to produce synergistic action plans. Fulfilling the linking role that the PTC plays in bridging gaps between communities, we have organized the upcoming PTC strategic initiatives in the form of task forces. We welcome the directors of various task forces: Usha Haley (Scholarly Impact); Tyrone Pitsis (Public Engagement and Development); Fedor Ovchinnikov (Practitioner Empowerment); Gigi Johnson (Online Collaboration); Chris Dembek (Industry Engagement); Jochen Schweitzer (Awards); and Guillaume Carton (Student Outreach). Some strategic initiatives may involve formal application for funding from the AOM headquarters. For example, Usha’s strategic initiative (under development) is to run a pre-conference professional skill development workshop to train researchers and practitioners to interface deftly in various kinds of practice-related discourses such as policy-making, media interfaces, press releases, consulting, and co-creation of knowledge among professionals. There is also a planning discussion on a strategic initiative to consider developing a doctoral consortium for DBAs. Most of our task force directors, however, will probably not need to apply for money.

Members of various divisions and committees have volunteered to serve as liaisons to the PTC: Janet Salmons (Ethics Education Committee Co-Chair); Jean Neumann (Management Consulting Doctoral Consortium Chair); Maris Martinsons (Organizational Communication and Information System Division); Christina Sue-Chan (Diversity and Inclusion Theme Committee); Emmanuel Monod (Teaching Theme Committee), and Fedor Ovchinnikov & Tom Mierzwa (Entrepreneurship Division). We look forward to turning some of these liaised roles into strategic actions that will be comparable to what was accomplished in collaboration with the Entrepreneurship Division in the development of their Entrepreneurship Impact Award. 

We aim to have an online collaborative space ready as soon as possible to facilitate lively ongoing interaction and planning.There are always new possibilities for generating greater impact. Please share your dreams and collaborate, organize, and execute your visions with the PTC with self-initiated roles, task forces, and suggestions. See you next year!

 

Best,

PTC Co-Chair: Kathryn Goldman Schuyler, Alliant International University

PTC Co-Chair: Kuo Frank Yu, City University of Hong Kong

PTC PDW Co-Chair: Marc Bonnet, Iseor, University of Lyon

PTC PDW Co-Chair: Tom Mierzwa, University of Maryland University College