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.:. Submission Guidelines
No one may submit more than 3 things to an Academy Meeting (papers and/or symposium), or appear in more than 3 sessions during the refereed scholarly
program from Sunday noon to Wednesday noon. Appearances include roles as presenters, co-authors, chairs, discussants and/or facilitators. However, the following listings in the program are exempted from the Rule of Three: Officer roles, Division General sessions (Welcome, Business, Social, Free Session), Caucuses, and Professional Development Workshops. Also, if a person appears twice in a single symposium (e.g., chair and author) it only counts as one appearance.
Overview of Submission ProceduresThe submission of papers and symposia involves three steps. First, authors must submit electronically the title page information and abstract of the paper to the Academy of Management website, and obtain a submission identification number for each paper or symposium. Second, authors must send the electronic version of their paper or symposium to the Division/Interest Group
Program Chair, as an electronic attachment to email. Electronic paper documents must be ready for blind review (please see “Electronic Format Guidelines”). Third, authors must upload the electronic version of their paper or symposium to the Academy of Management website. This is a new step in the submission process, and will facilitate the division/interest group review process.Step 1: Electronic Submissions to the AOM Website
The title page and abstract for all papers and symposia must be entered electronically into the Academy website (below) prior to submitting the paper or symposium to the Division/Interest Group Program Chair. This is the database that will be used for building and printing the Program. If the information is not entered into this web database, it will not appear in the printed program. Please proofread this information carefully. After completion of this data entry process, authors will receive a report containing a 5-digit submission number that must be included in the submission and in all communications with the Division/Interest Group Program Chair.
The Internet address for submitting the electronic version of your abstract and title pages is: http://submissions.aomonline.org/2004The submission website is scheduled to be opened on or around November 3, 2003.
Please follow instructions below for submitting the electronic version of your abstract and title page to the submissions website:
• Please change the format to single space and use “text wrap” feature (i.e., don’t hit the “return” or the “enter” key on your keyboard) of MS Word or Word Perfect before you copy and paste your abstract and title into the Academy system.
• Use title case (i.e. first letter of major title words should be in capital letters. Prepositions and conjunctions should not be capitalized for the title and short title). For example: “Conceptual and Methodological Issues Associated with Cross-Cultural Research”.
• The short title is listed in the TV Guide portion of the printed program and therefore must not exceed 30 characters (including spaces) in length. In past years, the short title listings were cut off mid sentence. To avoid this situation, the number of characters for the short title will be restricted to 30 characters.
• Do not submit the abstract in all capital letters. It must not exceed 250 words and must be inputted single-spaced with no double spacing between paragraphs.
• Please enter the name of your university or college as follows: Do not include business schools or departments. Use “U.” for university. For example if your affiliation is Harvard Business School, please list as Harvard U. Do not abbreviate name of institution. For example, use Massachusetts Institute of Technology, not MIT.After completing each submission, you will see a page that summarizes all the information you have entered. This page includes a submission number, which is a confirmation that your data were received. Download and save this page. Please use your submission number on all correspondence with all Division/Interest Group Program Chairs; this is the only way they can find your paper/symposium/workshop in the system.
If you need assistance, contact the technical support desk at the Academy Headquarters Office at techsupport@aom.pace.edu. They will attempt to respond to every request within 24 hours. However, please recognize that the desk may be swamped over the holidays and just before the deadline. If you are new to the Academy web submission screens, please do not wait until the last minute! If the email response is still not clear, please call the phone-based technical support at the Academy Office Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. Eastern (New York) time at 1-914-923-2670. There will be no one at the technical desk during the holidays (December 24, 25, 31 and January 1).
This requirement of electronic submission will be waived only for authors who do not have access to the Internet. These submitters must explain why they cannot access the Internet in a cover letter and make sure that the printed/diskette
submission is received by the respective Division or Interest Group Program Chair by
January 5.The deadline for submissions is January 5, 2004. To avoid a last minute traffic jam on the Academy’s servers, please complete all electronic submissions to the AOM website several days before the deadline.
Step 2: Send Electronic Submissions to the Division/Interest Group Program Chairs
These guidelines apply across all divisions/interest groups. Please use them when submitting your paper to the Division/Interest Group Program Chair. Please be aware, each division may ask for additional information to be included with the submission. For further details, please check the “Division and Interest Group Domains and Special Instructions” section before submitting your paper to the Division/Interest Group Program Chair.
Please follow these instructions after entering the information in the Academy website (step 1).
AOM does not require hard copies of submissions. Only electronic submissions are requested. Please do not send self-addressed, stamped postcards or return envelopes. They are no longer required. Acknowledgement of receipt of your submission and return of reviewer comments will be sent to the email address of the submitting author.
IMPORTANT: Please note that three divisions are not accepting submissions by email. Submissions to Business Policy and Strategy, Organization and Management Theory, and Technology and Innovation Management must be uploaded to the Division-Specific Website . Submissions via email to these divisions will not be accepted (please see “Division and Interest Group Domains and Special Instructions” below).Submissions should be sent to the Division/Interest Group Program Chair as attachments to an electronic mail.
This requirement of electronic submission will be waived only for authors who do not have access to electronic mail. These submitters must explain why they cannot access electronic mail in a cover letter and make sure that the Division/Interest Group Program Chair receives the diskette submission by January 5, 2004. Division/Interest Group Program Chairs have the right to determine whether non-electronic submissions are considered for the program.All submissions must be received by Monday, January 5, 2004, 5 p.m. Eastern standard (New York) time.
2.a) Submission by email (electronic attachments) (Submissions to Business Policy and Strategy, Organization and Management Theory, and Technology and Innovation Management must be uploaded to the Division-Specific Website, and cannot be sent via email).
Submissions are to be sent by email as a Microsoft Word attachment. Please send one email (or visit the appropriate website) for each submission to the email address specified for each division/interest group:
Academy Arts:
cfpoulson@csupomona.edu
Business Policy and Strategy:
BPS Submission Website: www.bpsdivision-at-aomconference.org
Careers:
k.inkson@massey.ac.nz
Conflict Management:
cmd2004@msb.edu
Critical Management Studies:
sjaros@subr.edu
Entrepreneurship:
ent2004@lylescenter.com
Gender and Diversity in Organizations:
gdoprogram@darden.virginia.edu
Health Care Management:
ruth.anderson.duke.edu
Human Resources:
hrdivaom@fsu.edu
International Management:
ewaomimd@mit.edu
Management Consulting:
mcd@hhs.se
Management Education and Development:
stevearmstrong@welton-lincoln.freeserve.co.uk
Management History:
flohrke@cba.ua.edu
Management Spirituality and Religion:
davidt@admin.stedwards.edu
Managerial and Organizational Cognition:
moc2004@tulane.edu
Operations Management:
durayaom@uccs.edu (case-sensitive email address)
Organization and Management Theory:
OMT Submission Website: www.omtdivision-at-aomconference.org
Organization Development and Change:
odc@mit.edu
Organizational Behavior:
orgbehdiv@walton.uark.edu
Organizational Communication and Information Systems:
aomann@marshall.usc.edu
Organizations and the Natural Environment:
one2004aom@ithaca.edu
Public and Non-Profit:
pnp@wwu.edu
Research Methods:
rmd2004@newhaven.edu
Social Issues in Management:
sim.aom@marquette.edu
Technology and Innovation Management:
TIM Submission Website: AOMTIM.org
Please include the following information in your email:
• SUBJECT: in the subject line of your email include your Academy-assigned electronic submission identification number (#####), obtained in Step 1 (Electronic Submission to the AOM Website). Also, please name your file to reflect your submission identification number. Please check the “Division and Interest Group Domains and Special Instructions” section for your division/interest group for specific directions.
• In the TEXT of the email, please write the following items in this order, leaving one blank line between items.
o 1st item: AOM electronic submission identification number.
o 2nd item: Exact title of paper or symposium.
o 3rd item: Formal names, affiliations, and email addresses of all the authors.
o 4th item: Three key words that identify the submission.
o 5th item: For symposia only, the list of all divisions or interest groups receiving the submission.
o 6th item: For papers only, whether the paper will compete for any division award.
o 7th item: Abstract of the submission in no more than 250 words.
• ATTACHMENT: include a single Microsoft Word document (Word 2000 or an earlier version), including all figures and tables. Do not have a separate file for references, graphs, etc. Please see “Electronic Format Guidelines for Papers and Symposia” below for further instructions about creating an attachment that can be blind-reviewed. Please also review the guidelines specific to papers and symposia.
2.b) Electronic Format Guidelines for Papers and Symposia
All submissions should include an electronic document with the content of the submission as an email attachment. Please observe the following guidelines:
• Use Word 2000 or an earlier version.
• Name your file to reflect your Academy-assigned electronic submission identification number (#####). Please check your division/interest group specific instructions.
• The entire submission (text, figures, graphs, tables, and references) must be contained in a single document (i.e., do not have a separate file for references and another for graphs). You can copy and paste tables and graphs from other programs into your Word document.
• Include a separate abstract page that states the title and an abstract of no more than 250 words. This abstract should be identical to the one submitted to the AOM website.
• Record the electronic submission number as a header on all pages.
• Please be sure all pages are numbered.
• Please check that your file paginates and prints correctly before sending it (check especially to be sure imported figures print as you want them to).
• To facilitate blind-review of submissions, please do not include the first page or any author-identifying information (including acknowledgements) in the text. Please follow the guidelines below to eliminate other author-identifying information embedded in the properties of the document.
• Please review the guidelines specific to papers and symposia.
• Please ensure that the file you submit is virus-free. We cannot guarantee to review infected attachments.Step 3: Upload your Electronic Submission to the Academy of Management Website
Please follow the instructions above (specified in 2.b)
• To facilitate blind-review of submissions, please do NOT include the first page or any author-identifying information (including acknowledgements) in the text of the file that is uploaded to the site.
• You may only upload ONE single document to the site for each submission.
• After you upload the document, the system will automatically convert it to an Adobe Acrobat PDF file.
• Review the submitted document carefully after it is converted to Adobe Acrobat PDF to make sure that the file
paginates correctly.Eliminating Author-identifying Information
To preserve the integrity of the blind-review process, please make sure that you remove all identifying properties from the submitted Word document. To remove identifying properties, in Word’s “Tools” menu, click “Options”, and then click the “User Information” tab. Remove all identifying information. The information shown here will appear in the “Author” box on the Summary tab (“File” menu, “Properties” command) each time you create a new file. Note: Every time you save a Word file, the information that appears in the “User Information” tab will appear on the file’s “Statistics” tab (“File” menu, “Properties” command). To ensure anonymity, leave your “User Information” tab blank or enter a made-up name (e.g., “unknown”).
Instructions for Authors Who Do Not Have Electronic Mail
Authors who do not have access to any form of electronic mail may send their submission in a diskette by regular airmail or express mail. It is necessary to explain to the Division/Interest Group Program Chair why it is impossible for you to submit electronically. The submission should be received by the deadline of January 5, 2004. Mail submissions should be sent directly to the Division/Interest Group Program Chairs.
Please observe the following guidelines:
• Use Word 2002 or lower, unless otherwise specified in the “Special Instructions” for your Division or Interest Group.
• The entire submission (text, figures, graphs, tables, and references) must be contained in a single document, i.e., do not have a separate file for references and another for graphs, etc. Please see “Electronic Format Guidelines for Papers and Symposia” above for further instructions.
• Copy your submission (without title page) to a 3.5 IBM-PC compatible diskette.
• Please include the title page in a separate file. The title page must contain the following items:
o 1st item: Exact title of paper or symposium.
o 2nd item: Formal names, affiliations and email addresses of all the authors.
o 3rd item: Three key words that identify the submission.
o 4th item: For symposia only, the list of all divisions or interest groups receiving the submission.
o 5th item: For papers only, whether the paper will compete for any division award.
o 6th item: Abstract of the submission in no more than 250 words.
• Write the submitter’s complete formal name(s), and presentation format (i.e., paper, symposium, etc.) clearly on the diskette label.
• Please ensure that the diskette you submit is virus-free. We cannot guarantee to review infected attachments.
• To preserve the integrity of the blind-review process, please make sure that you remove any and all identifying properties from your diskette when submitting your paper.Orientation and Award Information
Any one of the appropriate “orientation” or “awards” categories below can be selected for each submission:
• Teaching
• Practice
• International
• Newman Award Nominee
• Dexter Award Nominee
• Theme: Creating Actionable KnowledgeA. Teaching
If this submission is accepted, should it be identified as a teaching paper in the printed program? Each year we highlight the papers and symposia in the program that have a specific teaching orientation. Although any paper/symposia could potentially have teaching application, we are looking for those that focus on the process of teaching in general or on the teaching of a specific topic. Does your submission explicitly focus on the process of teaching in general, or on the teaching of a specific topic? Does it talk, for example, about how the material you’re addressing would be taught? If yes, then check that your submission has a teaching orientation. Whether a submission has explicit implications for teaching has no impact at all on whether it will be accepted. However, if indicated (and the submission is accepted), there will be a small icon indicating a teaching orientation next to it in the program.
B. Practice
If this submission is accepted, should it be identified as having specific implications for management practice in the printed program? We are highlighting the papers and symposia in the program that have specific implications for management practice. Although any paper/symposium could potentially have implications for management practice, we are looking for those that explicitly suggest such implications in a more central way than simply a paragraph or two at the end of the paper. Does your submission explicitly focus on managerial practice? Does it explicitly focus on the impact of your paper on managerial practice? If yes, mark the submission as such; if not, do not. Whether a submission has explicit implications for managerial practice has no impact at all on whether it will be accepted. However, if indicated and the submission is accepted, there will be a small icon next to it indicating a managerial practice orientation in the program.
C. International
If this submission is accepted, should it be identified as having specific implications for international management? We are highlighting the papers and symposia in the program that have specific implications for international management. Although any paper/symposium could potentially have international implications, we are looking for those where international considerations are a central theme of the submission. Does you submission explicitly focus on the international aspects of management and organizations? Does it clearly address the impact of your submission on international management? If yes, then check that your submission has an international orientation. Whether a submission has explicit implications for international management has no impact at all on whether it will be accepted. If indicated and the submission is accepted, however, there will be a small icon next to it in the program indicating an international orientation.
D. William H. Newman Award
Is this paper a possible candidate for the William H. Newman Award for single-authored outstanding papers based on a dissertation completed during the past three years?
Criteria & Submission Procedures:
The Academy of Management awards the William. H Newman Award for outstanding papers based on a recent dissertation. This prestigious award can be given to up to three papers a year. The papers must be: (a) single-authored; and (b) based on a doctoral dissertation completed within the past three years (accepted by the author’s university on or before January 5, 2001); and (c) not previously published.
To be considered outstanding, papers should:
• Address a significant organizational phenomenon
• Show appropriate consideration of relevant theoretical and empirical literature
• Offer reasonable interpretations of the research results, draw appropriate inferences about the theoretical and applied implications of the results, and suggest promising directions for future research
• Yield information that is both practically and theoretically relevant and important
• Be presented logically, succinctly, and clearlyIf you would like your paper to be considered, then place a check in the “Newman Award Nominee” box on the submission abstract entry screen. Each division or interest group program chair then nominates one paper to the committee chair of the Newman Award. The author(s) of the papers who have been so nominated by the division and interest group program chairs will be asked to send an electronic version and a hard copy of their paper to this award chair. Finalists will be notified prior to the conference and the winners will be announced at the conference. All finalists are expected to be in attendance.
The William. H Newman Award committee chair is:
David Ahlstrom
Chinese University of
Hong Kong
Department of Management
Shatin NT, Hong Kong
Email: ahlstrom@baf.msmail.cuhk.edu.hk
Phone: 852-2609-7748
Fax: 852-2603-7748E. Carolyn Dexter Best International Paper Award
Is this paper a possible candidate for the Carolyn Dexter Best International Paper Award?
Criteria & Submission Procedure:
The Carolyn Dexter Award is an All-Academy award given to the paper that best meets the objective of internationalizing the Academy. This serves the mission of the Academy and the charge of the International Theme Committee, which sponsors this Award. The recipient of the award is given a plaque. The criteria for the Award include the following: (a) The theme and content of the paper should reflect an awareness of business and management outside domestic boundaries; (b) Collaboration between scholars from different countries is desirable; (c) Papers are considered of high caliber for the Carolyn Dexter Award if they offer new insights, are rich in observation and employ creative methodologies. Submissions are welcomed of topics or methods that are not in the U.S. mainstream, but are important in other countries’ research traditions, and of excellent quality in accord with the criteria of these traditions.
If you would like your paper to be considered, then place a check in the “International (Dexter Award Nominee)” box on the submission abstract entry screen. Each division or interest group program chair then nominates up to two papers to the committee chair of the Carolyn Dexter Award. The author(s) of the papers who have been so nominated by the division and interest group program chairs will be asked to send an electronic version and a hard copy of their paper to this award chair. Finalists will be notified prior to the conference and the winners will be announced at the conference. All finalists are expected to be in attendance.
The Carolyn Dexter Award committee chair is:
Jia Lin Xie
University of Toronto
Joseph L. Rotman
School of Management
105 St. George Street
Toronto, ONTARIO M5S 3E6
CANADA
Email: xiejl@rotman.utoronto.ca
Phone: 416-946-7944
Fax: 416-978-4629F. Theme
If this submission is accepted, should it be identified as having specific implications for the theme in the printed program? The theme for the 2004 meeting is “Creating Actionable Knowledge”. For more information, please view the Conference Theme information page. If indicated and the submission is accepted, there will be a small icon next to it indicating a theme orientation in the program.
Proceedings
The 2004 Conference Best Paper Proceedings will be published on a CD-ROM that will be distributed to all conference participants at the New Orleans 2004 Conference. It will include 250-word abstracts of all papers and symposia presented at the conference. In addition, it will include shortened versions of the “Best Papers” (approximately 10%) that have been accepted for inclusion in the program. Those papers chosen for publication in the Proceedings will need to be shortened to a 6-page format (publication of papers at their full length would preclude subsequent journal publication). The Proceedings editor, K. Mark Weaver, will supply style specifications to the authors of the selected Best Papers in early April 2004.
The Proceedings will contain a search engine for locating papers, abstracts, and authors.Division Abbreviations
When preparing entries for the program, please use these abbreviations. Also use them to identify the other divisions or interest groups co-sponsoring a joint event.
ART
Academy ArtsBPS
Business Policy & StrategyCAR
CareersCM
Conflict ManagementCMS
Critical Management StudiesENT
EntrepreneurshipGDO
Gender and Diversity in
OrganizationsHCM
Health Care ManagementHR
Human ResourcesIM
International ManagementMC
Management ConsultingMED
Management Education & DevelopmentMH
Management HistoryMOC
Managerial and Organizational CognitionMSR
Management, Spirituality & ReligionOM
Operations Management
OMT
Organization & Management TheoryODC
Organization Development & ChangeOB
Organizational BehaviorOCIS
Organizational Communication & Information Systems
ONE
Organizations & the Natural EnvironmentPNP
Public & Nonprofit DivisionRM
Research MethodsSIM
Social Issues in ManagementTIM
Technology & Innovation Management
II. Specific Guidelines for all Types of SubmissionsPapers
a. No changes in titles, abstracts, or paper authorship can occur after the submission.
b. Submitted papers must not have been previously presented or scheduled for presentation, published, accepted for publication, and, if under review, must not appear in print before the Academy meeting.
c. Each paper can be submitted to only one division or interest group.
d. To facilitate the review process, the recommended page length is 40 pages of text (including tables, appendices and references). Papers’ references and format (except for the abstract length) should follow the Academy of Management Journal’s Style Guide for Authors.
e. Please use Times New Roman 12-pitch font, double-line spacing, with 1-inch (2.5 cm) margin all around (i.e., top- bottom-, left- and right-hand margins). Use A4 or 8.5 x 11 paper size.
f. Papers will be selected for presentation by a blind review process. Please remove any identification under “properties” before sending. Please see section on “Eliminating Author-Identifying Information”.
g. Please comply with “Submission Instructions” specific to the respective Division/Interest Group you are submitting to. Note: Instructions may vary from division/interest group to division/interest group.The deadline for paper submissions is January 5, 2004.
Symposia
There are two forms of symposia: Panels and Presenter. In Panel Symposia, the purpose is to engage a group of panellists in an interactive discussion. There are no titles associated with any panellist’s participation. In Presenter Symposia, titles are associated with each presentation. Note: Presenter symposia can involve coauthored papers and co-authors will be listed in the printed program.
a. Symposia may be submitted simultaneously to no more than three (3) divisions and/or interest groups.
We suggest that you limit your submissions to one or two divisions in order to reduce the burden of the review and selection process. Complete information should be sent to all relevant Division/Interest Group Program Chairs. The division/interest group (s) to which the symposium is being submitted should be indicated at the bottom of the title page. Note: Symposia range from 80 to 120 minutes long.
b. Symposium proposals are not blind reviewed. Each submission must include:
· A title page which includes (a) the Academy-assigned submission identification number, (b) title of the symposium, (c) complete formal name and contact information for the chair as well as all participants and discussants, (d) list of divisions/interest groups to which the symposium is submitted, and (e) an abstract of the symposium in no more than 250 words.
• Three (3) key words identifying the major subject of the symposium.
• A 3-5 page overview statement.
• An explanation of why the symposium should be of interest to each of the specified divisions or interest groups.
• A 2-5 page synopsis of each presentation.
• A description of the session’s format.
• A statement from the symposium organizer declaring: “I have received signed statements from all intended participants agreeing to participate in the symposium.”c. Note: Discussants are not required in symposia. It is preferable to omit discussants and have the participants encourage audience participation.
d. The symposium organizer must collect an email statement showing agreement to participate from each intended participant. These statements should be included in the submission email sent to the Division/Interest Group Program Chair.
e. Reviewers will judge symposia submissions primarily on five criteria:
• Overall quality.
• Interest to Academy
members.
• Relevance to the domain of
the division/interest group
to which they are submitted.
• Innovation and contribution.
• Relevance to the meeting
theme.f. Please comply with “Submission Instructions” specific to the respective Division/Interest Group you are submitting to. Note: Instructions may vary from division to division.
The deadline for symposium submissions is January 5, 2004.
All-Academy Symposia
All-Academy symposia address topics directly related to the conference theme, “Creating Actionable Knowledge.” Anyone with ideas for an All-Academy session should communicate them in writing to the All-Academy Program Chair, Larry Greiner (lgreiner@marshall.usc.edu) no later than November 14, 2003. These communications need not be full-fledged proposals; a description of the session’s content, format, and participants will be adequate. If deemed acceptable, a full proposal, as detailed in guidelines specific to symposia, needs to be submitted to Larry by January 16, 2004.Caucuses
Caucuses are round-table discussions scheduled on Monday and Tuesday. They offer a convenient, informal way for Academy members who share a topical interest or a professional concern to find one another and to develop a sense of community.Caucus organizers need to submit the following items by email to the Caucus Coordinator, Kimberly Jaussi (kjaussi@binghamton.edu), by March 12, 2004:
• the title,
• your name, email address, phone number,
• a short description of the objective, including two key words in bold, and
• the names and signatures of 5 Academy members who support the proposal.Professional Development Workshops (PDWs)
Professional Development Workshops take place from Friday, August 6, 1 p.m. until Sunday, August 8, noon. This time is set aside for special activities organized by the divisions/interest groups. Nothing goes into the Professional Development Workshops program unless it has been sponsored by a division, interest group, or the Board of Governors. These activities are designed for professional development and supplement the refereed scholarly sessions that are held from Sunday noon through Wednesday. PDW sessions include but are not limited to doctoral student and faculty consortia and workshops on teaching, research, and practice. We encourage a wide variety of formats and approaches. Think outside the box! Proposals for these sessions must go through the Division PDW Chairs.PDW programs are planned well in advance of the submission deadline for the regular Academy meeting. Individuals wishing to become involved in organizing a PDW activity must seek the sponsorship of a division or interest group by contacting the relevant PDW Chair by November 14, 2003.
Signed consent forms are required of all PDW participants; please contact the relevant PDW Chair for more information.AcademyArts
AcademyArts provides Academy members a venue for artistic expressions of art, poetry, and performance. In 2004, Academy Arts will collaborate with ACORN and The Fringe Café to provide an exciting setting for both exhibition and performance. Poetry (e.g. “verbal” expressions) and visual arts (e.g., painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, etc) will be displayed on standard easels and pedestals. Performing art will be scheduled as part of the Fringe Café. Due to space and resource constraints, the Academy is unable to provide audiovisual technology, special security, or extra-cost items. The Academy “rule of three” does not apply to AcademyArts; however a member may make no more than two submissions to AcademyArts.
Submissions to AcademyArts can be entered electronically by selecting “Add Paper” and then choosing “AcademyArts Submission” as the division. Electronic submission is required. Each submission to AcademyArts should include:
• A cover page (see General Guidelines, Printed Submissions above),
• A brief description of the work (max 1 page), and
• The work itself with no identifying information other than the submission numberVerbal submissions must be in MSWord format. Visual submissions may be in JPEG or Word formats. Images should be of sufficient quality for peer review.
Reviewers will judge submissions on the basis of:
• Overall quality
• Relevance to the meeting theme
The deadline for AcademyArts submissions is January 5, 2004.
III. Division and Interest Group Domains and Special InstructionsSpecific Domain: the roles and problems of general managers and those who manage multi-business firms or multi-functional business units; the performance of firms and other organizational forms that interface with a market environment, such as business units, alliances, and clusters of organizations. Major topics include: strategy formulation and implementation; strategic planning and decision processes; strategic control and reward systems; resource allocation; diversification and portfolio strategies; competitive strategy; cooperative strategies, selection and behavior of general managers; and the composition and processes of top management teams.
Business Policy and Strategy: Special Instructions
Division Awards: The BPS division gives out a variety of awards each year:
• Bill Glueck Best Paper Award: the best paper submitted to the refereed scholarly program and is supported by friends and former students of Bill Glueck;
• Robert J. Litschert Award: the best paper authored by doctoral students. To be eligible for the best student paper award, the paper must be authored by students only. It cannot be co-authored by a non-student;
• Award for Outstanding Dissertation Research in Business Policy and Strategy;
• BPS Research and Practice Award: the paper submitted to the refereed scholarly program that makes the greatest combined contribution to research and practice;
• Irwin Outstanding Educator Award: supported by Richard D. Irwin, Inc. and granted every other year;
• Best Reviewers of the BPS conference: awarded to outstanding reviewers for the BPS division.Submission Instructions: Please follow these divisional guidelines when submitting your submissions to the Business Policy and Strategy (BPS) division.
1. Before submitting to the BPS division, authors must have already submitted the title page information and abstract of the submission to the Academy of Management submission website and have obtained a unique five digit submission identification number for each paper or symposium.
2. NEW for 2004: Print out the BPS Submission checklist to ensure that your submission follows both AOM and BPS format requirements. The BPS Submission checklist can be found under the BPS Authors menu heading at the AOM conference BPS division website: www.bpsdivision-at-aomconference.org.
3. NEW for 2004: The submitting author must submit their submission to the BPS Division using the BPS division website noted above. To use the required BPS submissions web form, select the ‘Submit Submission to BPS Division’ menu item found on the left under the heading BPS Authors.
This submissions web form will allow you to submit all required identification information to the BPS division Program Chair and will allow you to upload/send your submission to the BPS division. This procedure replaces the old requirement to email an electronic version of the submission along with a list of 10 items to the Program Chair.
Specific domain: people’s lifelong succession of work experiences, the structure of opportunity to work, and the relationship between careers and other aspects of life. Major topics include: individual career development; career management strategies; career planning; relationships between human resource systems and careers; life cycle interactions with work; race, culture, and gender effects on careers; labor force diversity; internal labor market structures and functions; cross-cultural careers; and effects of demographic and social changes on work.
Careers: Special Instructions
Conceptual and empirical papers, symposia (including panel discussions and roundtables) and workshops addressing fundamental research about careers as well as the changing influence of careers and career management on individuals and organizations are invited.
Division Awards: The Division offers an Overall Best Paper Award, sponsored by Prentice Hall; a Best Applied Paper Award, sponsored by Fast Company/Inc.; an Arnon Reichers Outstanding Student Paper Award for a single-authored student paper (identified as such at the time of submission) or that meets the Academy’s Newman Award criteria; and a Best Symposium Award (to be judged during the conference, announced afterward, and presented the following year). The Division also presents the Cason Hall Best Regional Paper Award at its business meeting to the most outstanding careers-related paper presented at any of the regional Academy conferences in the previous twelve months.
Submission Instructions: Before submitting to the Careers Division, authors must have already submitted to the Academy of Management submission website and have obtained a unique five digit submission identification number for each paper or symposium.
Specific domain: The nature and management of conflicts at the individual, group, organizational, inter-organizational and societal level; power processes including influence, coalitions, coercion, deterrence, and persuasion; bargaining and negotiation, negotiator characteristics and behaviors; collaboration and competition; third party interventions (such as facilitation, arbitration, mediation); distributive and procedural justice and dispute resolution procedures. Major topics include application of the above conceptual foci to a wide variety of contexts including team interactions, intercultural relations, organizational diversity, labor relations, workplace disputes, community conflict and public policy development.
Conflict Management: Special Instructions
Empirical and conceptual papers, symposia, and workshops are invited.Division Awards: CM submissions are eligible to win one of five awards for excellence in the study of conflict. These include: Best Paper: Empirical/Theoretical - for the best empirical or theoretical paper submitted to the CM division; Best Paper: Conflict in Context - for an outstanding field-based paper studying organizational, political or social conflict; Best Paper: New Directions in the Study of Conflict - for a paper which makes a significant new contribution to the conflict literature through innovation, including, but not limited to, the innovative use of new methods or a new approach/venue for the study of conflict and negotiation in organizations and broader society. Based on the program chair’s discretion, the division may also give an award for Best Paper: Student Submission or Best Paper: Based on a Dissertation. To be eligible for the former, all authors must be enrolled in graduate school at the time of submission, and should note this on the cover page of their submission. To be eligible for the latter, the paper must be based on a student’s doctoral dissertation, and the student must be first author.
Submission Instructions: CM requires electronic submission. Electronic submissions are required for both papers and symposia. Please use PDF format and submit only one file for each submission. If submitting for the best student paper or best paper based on a dissertation, your coversheet must clearly state that either all authors are graduate students or that the paper is based on a dissertation. Please send submissions as email attachments to: cmd2004@msb.edu.
Specific Domain: CMS serves as a forum within the Academy for the expression of views critical of established management practices and the established social order. Our premise is that structural features of contemporary society, such as the profit imperative, patriarchy, racial inequality, and ecological irresponsibility often turn organizations into instruments of domination and exploitation.
Sample topics include: * critical theories of the nature of managerial authority, resistance to
managerial authority, identity, affectivity, rationality, and subjectivity; * critiques of managerialist theories of management and organization; * critical assessments of emerging alternative forms of organization; * critiques of political economy; * critical perspectives on business strategy, globalization, entrepreneurship, technological innovation, and computerization; * critical analyses of discourses of management, development, and progress; * critical perspectives on class, gender, and race; * the profit-imperative and the natural environment; * critical epistemologies and methodologies.Critical Management Studies: Special Instructions
The CMS Interest Group welcomes conceptual and empirical papers and proposals for symposia. We especially encourage papers and proposals that cross the boundaries of divisions and interest groups, and bring together members from the far corners of the Academy.
Division Awards: Awards will be given for the best paper authored by a doctoral student or students, for the best paper overall, and for the best (development-oriented) reviewer.
Submission Instructions: Please follow the AOM general submission guidelines.
Specific domain: the creation and management of new businesses, small businesses and family businesses, and the characteristics and special problems of entrepreneurs. Major topics include: new venture ideas and strategies; ecological influences on venture creation and demise; the acquisition and management of venture capital and venture teams; self employment; the owner manager; management succession; corporate venturing and the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic
development.Entrepreneurship: Special Instructions
The ENT division is all electronic – all submissions must be in electronic format sent by the following instructions unless you have requested an exemption from Timothy Stearns (ent2004@lylescenter.com). To facilitate review of submissions, especially for international reviewers, for 2004, ENT will require electronic submission as an attachment to email. Please send the email to ent2004@lylescenter.com listing your AOM-assigned submission number in the “Subject” line of the email. Include your (a) your full name, (b) your institutional affiliation, (c) the title of the paper or symposium, (d) the three topic areas (including the topic number) of your submission (numbers can be found at www.lylescenter.com/aomnumbers.htm , (e) your email address, and (f) your telephone number in the body of the email message. Please include all of the identifing information for every author.
Please attach only one copy of your submission to the email, and please ensure that your attachment is virus-free. We cannot guarantee to review infected attachments. Also remove all identifying information for the attachment. All acknowledgement of receipt of ENT submissions will be done via email; please do not send self-addressed envelopes.
Division Awards: The division provides awards to the best empirical paper, the best theoretical paper, as well as the best paper on high-growth companies.Submission Instructions:
Submissions must be contained in a single Microsoft Word document that includes all figures, tables, and references. Please use your AOM-assigned submission number (#####) as the filename in the following format:
ENTPAP##### for a submission that is a paper, or
ENTSYM##### for a submission that is a symposium.
Do not include a title page or any author-identifying information in your file; please do include the AOM-assigned submission number in the header of the paper (See the “AOM’s Electronic Submissions to the Division Program Chairs” instructions for the way to remove identifying information from a Word file.) Please test your file, preferably by sending it to yourself and then opening it and printing it to make certain that it prints the way you want it to print.Gender and Diversity in Organizations
Specific domain: content relating specifically to the subject of gender and other identity group relations in organizations and to the influence of identity group relations on the structuring of society and the production of knowledge. Major topics include: theorizing and studies of gender (e.g., examining similarities and differences between women and men in attitudes, behavior and organizational treatment, research about the sources of any such differences and studies of issues traditionally important to working women, such as dual careers, sexual harassment, work-life programs, and the impact of child care opportunities and job interruptions on career experiences); theorizing and studies of race and ethnicity, including but not limited to African-Americans, Asian-Pacific Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans and whites (e.g., comparisons between racial and ethnic groups concerning attitudes, behavior, and organizational treatment, research about the sources of such differences, including culture, structure and racism, and studies of issues particularly relevant to racial and ethnic groups who are numerically in the minority); theorizing and studies of sexual orientation, disability status, age and/or religious differences in organizations; theorizing and studies examining the complex interactions among social identities (e.g., the intersection of gender, race and class); and theorizing and studies whose central contribution is in articulating emancipatory views of identity group relations in organizations.
Gender and Diversity in Organizations: Special Instructions
The division encourages submissions that consider the effects of gender and other types of diversity in organizations. Submissions that explore theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of gender and diversity are encouraged.
Division awards: The Dorothy Harlow Distinguished Paper Award of $500 will be presented for the best competitive paper. The division also will give an award for best paper based on a dissertation. The dissertation must be completed between January 1, 2003 and December 31, 2003. Papers considered for the dissertation award must be sole-authored. The title page should indicate that the paper is based on a dissertation and give the date of the dissertation defense. Questions on the dissertation award may be addressed to the program chair.Submission Instructions: Submitters are required to send their submissions via email attachment to gdoprogram@darden.virginia.edu and comply with the Academy’s “Electronic Submissions to the Division Program Chair” procedures.
Please check the GDO website www.aom.pace.edu/gdo after Nov. 1, 2003 for updates.
Specific domain: the health care industry. Major topics include: performance of health care workers and organizations; public policy issues, such as access to care, competition, cost control and quality of care, and their implications for managing health care organizations; health care finance and marketing; and empirical or conceptual application of theory in health care organizations, even on topics that might also fall within another division’s domain.
Health Care Management: Special Instructions
Division Awards: An award of $500, sponsored by the American College of Health Executives, will be given for the best paper submitted. This paper will be published in the Journal of Health Care Management. The division also offers an award of $250 for the outstanding paper based on a dissertation; papers to be considered for this award should be clearly identified as such at the time of submission. To encourage papers relevant to the practicing healthcare manager, Health Care Management Review is sponsoring the “Best Health Care Management Theory to Practice Award.” The winning paper will be published in Health Care Management Review following routine journal editing and revision by the editor. Criteria for this award are: (1) paper must be accepted by the Health Care Management Division; and (2) at least one author must be a health care management practitioner. A review panel will decide which, if any, paper wins the award.
Submission Instructions: Follow the general guidelines for submissions. In addition, include the following elements in your abstract: (1) one sentence that explains how your paper contributes to organizational theory; and (2) one sentence that outlines the implications of your work for management practice.Specific domain: The Human Resources Division is interested in understanding, identifying, and improving the effectiveness of HR practices (global and domestic) and determining the optimal fit between these practices and organizational strategies, cultures, and performance indicators. The emphasis is on the study of the employment relationship at the individual, group, organizational, societal, and cross-cultural levels of analysis and the impact of the employment relationship on outcomes critical to the organization and its applicants (both present and past employees and their representatives). Topics include a broad spectrum of issues pertaining to the acquisition, allocation, development, utilization, maintenance, and evaluation of humans as resources in work organizations.
Human Resources: Special Instructions
The HR Division encourages submissions that are innovative in terms of format and/or content. Specifically, the Division is interested in submissions that pertain to HR-related research, teaching, and service activities. As always, we encourage submissions that are consistent with the Division’s on-going concern with bridging the science/practice gap and/or the All-Academy theme, Creating Actionable Knowledge.
Division Awards: A plaque will be awarded to the author(s) of the Best Competitive Paper presented at the annual meeting. A plaque also will be given to the author(s) of the Best Student Paper. To be considered for the Best Student Paper award, the paper must be clearly identified as a student paper at the time of submission. Finally, new this year, a plaque will be given to the Best Conference Reviewer. To volunteer to review send an email to hrdivaom@fsu.edu.
Submission Instructions:
Step 1: Get your AOM-assigned submission identification number. You must submit to the Academy website prior to sending your submission to the program chair. See the general AOM submission guidelines for how to do this.
Step 2: Submit your papers and symposia to the Program Chair. All submissions must be made electronically, preferably via e-mail, according to the procedures described below. Submit your papers and symposia via e-mail to hrdivaom@fsu.edu. The subject line of the e-mail must specify your AOM-assigned submission number (from Step 1 above). The text of the e-mail must include the following six items with a blank line between each: (1) AOM-assigned submission number; (2) exact title of the submission; (3) names, affiliations, and e-mail addresses of all authors; (4) three key words that represent the content of the submission; (5) for symposia - list all divisions or interest groups receiving this submission; for papers - indicate whether the paper will compete for the Best Student Paper award; and (6) abstract of the submission in 250 words or less. The attachment to the e-mail must contain your submission in a single document (Word 97 or earlier version) that includes the text, references, and all tables and figures, but no title page. When creating your attachment please follow the Electronic Submission to the Division/Interest Group Program Chairs in the general AOM submission guidelines. If you do not have access to an e-mail account, please mail your submission to: Micki Kacmar, Florida State University, College of Business, 305 Rovetta Business Building, Tallahassee, Florida 32306-1110 USA (overnight delivery uses the same address). All mailed submissions must be contained on a 3.5" IBM PC compatible diskette that follows all of the diskette submission procedures found in the AOM guidelines.Important: All submission files must be a single document containing text, references, appendices, tables, and figures. The file must be a Microsoft Word document (Word 97 or earlier version). The name of the file that contains your paper submission should be HR-PPR#### where #### is the submission number assigned by AOM and HR-SYM##### where #### is the submission number assigned by AOM for symposium. Do not include a title page. To preserve the integrity of the blind-review process, make sure you remove all identifying properties from the submitted Word document and follow the Academy’s procedures for removing identifying author information found in the general AOM submission guidelines. Please test your file (electronic and diskette) before sending it and be certain it prints correctly.
If you have questions about the submission process or requirements, please send an e-mail to hrdivaom@fsu.edu. Submit early, submit often!Specific domain: content pertaining to theory, research and practice with an international or cross-cultural dimension. Major topics include: investigations of the adjustments organizations make in order to succeed in various countries; investigations of the cross-border management of operations, including multi-country, multi-unit strategy formulations and implementation; investigations of evolving organizational forms and management practices that are the consequence of the interaction of two or more socially-embedded, multi-level, evolving business processes (from individual to supranational) and their outputs; investigations of the cross-border differential impact of cultural, social, economic, technological, and political forces on organizational forms and management practices; the comparative management studies; and other research with an international dimension.
International Management: Special Instructions
Division Awards: The best competitive paper receives an award of $500 from the division. There is also an award of $500 for the best paper from an under-represented country. A new award, the Douglas Nigh award, is given to the most innovative paper that adopts an interdisciplinary perspective. The Barry Richman Award is presented to the best dissertation submitted to the International Management Division. The division also honors exceptional reviewers with distinguished reviewer awards.
Submission Instructions: Please follow the AOM general submission guidelines.
Specific domain: The Management Consulting Division serves its members through advancing the scholarship of management consulting, including its knowledge, research, teaching and practice. Members of the division include academics, consultants and executives. Topics of interest to the division include but are not limited to: consulting theories, industry dynamics, consulting process and change, evaluation of consulting, management of consulting firms, marketing of consulting, ethical issues in consulting, internal consulting, and the professional education, training and career development of consultants. We believe the practice of consulting should adhere to the highest ethical standards, and we encourage interdisciplinary and integrative approaches to its study and practice.
Management Consulting: Special Instructions
The Management Consulting Division invites papers and symposiums based on research or practice. We encourage submissions of both traditional research papers and papers presenting and reflecting on practical experiences. Practice based papers will be evaluated by different criteria than research based papers. For 2004 we especially encourage papers, symposia and cases dealing with the creation and application of actionable knowledge in management consulting firms and processes. Issues of interest include: the role of the scientific method and scientific knowledge in management consulting; success factors and pitfalls in the creation and application of actionable knowledge in the consulting process; issues involved in combining research and consulting; how we educate consultants to develop the ability to successfully translate theory into practice; how consultants can contribute to a practice more receptive to scientific knowledge as opposed to satisfying the demand for “quick fixes” and management fads, etc. The division encourages research on different kinds of consulting services including strategy consulting, HR consulting, IT consulting, health care consulting, consulting to the public and non-profit sector, executive coaching, etc.
Division Awards: The division offers several best paper awards: The Graziadio School of Business and Management / Pepperdine University Award for Outstanding Paper on the Practice of Management Consulting; the Bentley College /HEC School of Management Best Student Paper Award; and the MCD Division Award for Best Conceptual and Empirical Papers. Student papers should be clearly identified as such. The Division also recognizes the best reviews.
Submission Instructions: Submissions should follow the general submission guidelines and procedures for the regular program outlined above. Authors must submit two versions of their submissions: one version with the author(s) full contact details visible on the cover page and a second version without the cover page in order to facilitate the blind review process. Submissions should be e-mailed in Microsoft Word format (PC compatible) to mcd@hhs.se.
Management Education and Development
Specific Domain: The study of the organization and delivery of management education (academic) and management development (non-credit instruction). Major topics include: theoretical advances or empirical evidence about effective and innovative instructional methods or technology; applications of learning theories; and evaluation of studies of the effectiveness of management education and development techniques.
Management Education and Development: Special Instructions
Division awards: The division offers three cash awards and award plaques for best papers and symposia, all of which are selected from submissions by the January 5, 2004 deadline to the MED division AOM program: Best Paper in Management Education ($500) sponsored by John Wiley and Sons, Best Paper in Management Development ($500) sponsored by Emerald/Journal of Management Development, Best Symposium ($500) sponsored by McGraw Hill/Irwin. A new award for 2003 will be for the best paper on management learning (Sage). In addition, MED provides best reviewer award plagues to submitters of well-crafted reviews of MED papers and symposia. All award winners are also recognized at the MED business meeting.
Submission Instructions: Please follow the AOM general submission guidelines.
Specific Domain: Pragmatic investigations into the historical evolution of managerial thought and action. Major Topics: The chronological tracing of the development of contemporary managerial concepts, techniques, behaviors, and practices with the intent of demonstrating (in) effectiveness within a given context, setting, or organization; reviews of how the discipline might learn from and avoid making the mistakes of the past; examples of how current research efforts are aimed at “rediscovering” existing knowledge and suggestions for the redirection of contemporary investigations; re-evaluations of historical manuscripts based on present knowledge; explorations into the history, traditions and evolution of businesses and industries; comparative works which demonstrate how diverse individuals and groups influenced managerial thought and practice; application of history to unify extant concepts and bodies of literature that are highly fragmented; and investigation into how management history might be better taught and management history research better conducted, applied and utilized to enhance understanding of the field.
Management History: Special Instructions
The division welcomes all empirical and conceptual submissions of historical import, including areas of research that integrate the domain of other Academy divisions with history.Division Awards: Recognition awards for historical significance will be given to the most meritorious papers. All Academy members submitting papers to the division are eligible for these competitive awards. To recognize outstanding historical research undertaken by newcomers to the field of management, an award will be presented for the best paper authored by a graduate student (the paper may be co-authored, but all authors must be students at the time of submission). Papers authored by students should be identified as such at the time of submission to be eligible for the award.
Submission Instructions: We prefer to receive your submission as a single attachment to an email sent to flohrke@cba.ua.edu. Submissions must be contained in a single Microsoft Word file that includes all figures, tables, and references. Please use your Academy of Management (AOM)-assigned submission number as the file name in the following format:
Mhppr##### for a paper
Mhsym#### for a symposiumPlease do NOT include a title page or any author-identifying information in your file; include the title page information in the body of the e-mail. Also, please include the AOM submission number as a header for your paper. (See the AOM “Diskette submission” instructions for the way to remove identifying information from a Word file.) Please check your file to make sure it is virus-free.
If you do not have access to an e-mail account, you may mail four copies of your submission and a 3.5” diskette to Franz T. Lohrke, Management History Program Chair, at the address provided above. Similar to e-mail submissions, please make sure the entire submission is contained in a single file. Please check your diskette to make sure it is virus-free.
All submissions will be acknowledged via email. Please do NOT send a self-addressed, stamped envelope for either electronic or postal submissions.
Management, Spirituality and Religion
Specific domain: The domain of this special interest group is the study of the relationship and relevance of spirituality and religion in management and organizations. Major topics include: theoretical advances or empirical evidence about the effectiveness of spiritual or religious principles and practices in management, from approaches represented in the literature including religious ethics, spirituality and work, and spiritual leadership, as well as applications of particular religions and secular spiritualities to work, management/leadership, organization, and the business system; and evaluation studies of the effectiveness of management approaches that nurture the human spirit in private, non-public or public institutions.
Management, Spirituality and Religion: Special Instructions
We encourage submissions that advance the theoretical, empirical, and/or practical applications of spiritual, religious, and/or ethical systems to management and organizations. Noting especially the interstitial nature of the spiritual dimension across diverse disciplines and fields of study, in addition to papers, we welcome symposia submissions with other Divisions and Special Interest Groups.
Submission Instructions: In addition to hardcopy versions of your submission, please include electronic versions (see Diskette Submission Procedures).
Managerial and Organizational Cognition
Specific domain: The managerial and organizational cognition division focuses on the study of how organizations and their members model reality and how such models interact with behaviors. Major topics include: attention, attribution, decision making, ideology, information processing, knowledge construction and management, learning, memory, mental representations and images, perceptual and interpretative processes, such as those that link organizations with technical and institutional environments, social construction, and symbols.
Managerial and Organizational Cognition: Special Instructions
Division Awards: MOC will offer two recognition awards. The first is sponsored by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, and will be for the best competitive paper. The second award will be for the best student paper (the paper may be co-authored, but the student must be the first author) and is sponsored by the British Journal of Management. Authors wishing their papers to be considered for the best student paper award must clearly identify themselves as students on the title page when submitting their papers.
Submission Instructions: In 2004, authors must submit their work to the Academy of Management website and to MOC via email attachment to MOC2004@tulane.edu. Authors should first visit the Academy of Management website, follow instructions for submission, and obtain a unique submission number for each submission. Authors without email accounts or access should contact Mary Waller for special instructions (504-865-5423). Acknowledgement of receipt of submissions will be sent via email. IMPORTANT: All emailed submissions to MOC must include two document attachments, both of which must be in Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF format. The first document file should be named as the last name of the first author, e.g. waller.doc. This file should contain only the title page of the paper, including the title of the paper, authors’ names, affiliations, and contact information. The second document file should contain the remainder of the paper (abstract, body, references, figures, etc.) without the title page. The second document file should be named MOCPAP###### if the submission is a paper, where ###### is the Academy of Management assigned submission number. The document file should be named MOCSYP###### if the submission is a symposium, where again, ###### is the Academy of Management assigned submission number. The second document should contain no information identifying the authors – make certain that the second document does not include the title page or header information that includes the authors’ names. Additionally, remove identifying information from the file attributes by following these two steps: (1) In Word’s Tools menu, click Options, and then click the User Information tab. (2) Remove any identifying information displayed. Authors should test files to be certain they are readable and printable before sending them.
Specific domain: Operations Management focuses on the management of the transformation processes that create products or services. These processes are found in all organizations including profit and non-profit organizations. Conceptual, empirical, and methodological contributions are encouraged, as are cross-functional linkages and perspectives. Major topics include operations strategy, product and service development, supply chain management, project management, and quality management, as well as international, human resources, environmental, and IT issues facing operations.
Operations Management: Special Instructions
Empirical and conceptual papers and symposia are invited. Topics of special interest include operations strategy, supply chain management, just-in-time operations, management of process technologies/systems and their implementation, product and service development, service operations, international operations, resource scheduling and control, ecological issues in operation, human resource and workforce policies in operations, project management, and quality management.
Division Awards: The OM division presents three awards each year. The Chan K. Hahn Distinguished Paper Award will be given to the best competitive paper. The OM division also recognizes the best student paper. To be considered for the best student paper award, the paper must be clearly identified as a student paper at the time of submission. To celebrate the efforts of the anonymous reviewers who put in a tremendous amount of work to review papers for the division, a best reviewer award is presented.
Submission Instructions: Please follow the AOM general submission guidelines.Organization and Management Theory
Specific domain: Involves building and testing theory about organizations, their members and their management, organization-environment relations, and organizing processes. The area has a rich intellectual heritage. Theoretical advances in organization theory have included strategic choice, resource dependence theory, organizational ecology and institutional theory. More recently, we have provided a home for critical, feminist, cognitive, and post-modern theorists.
Organization and Management Theory: Special Instructions
Division Awards: The OMT division gives out a variety of awards each year:
• Best Paper Award for the best paper submitted to the refereed scholarly program.
• Best Symposium Award for the best symposium submitted to the division.
• Lou Pondy Award for Best Paper Based on a Dissertation. This cannot be coauthored, and should be clearly identified as a dissertation paper at time of submission.
• ABCD Awards: awarded to outstanding reviewers for the OMT division.
Submission Instructions: Please follow these divisional guidelines when submitting to the Organization and Management Theory (OMT) division:
1. Before submitting to the OMT division, authors must have already submitted to the Academy of Management submission website and have obtained a unique five digit submission identification number for each paper or symposium.
2. NEW for 2004: Print out the OMT Submission checklist to ensure that your submission follows both AOM and OMT- format requirements. The OMT Submission checklist can be found under the OMT Authors menu heading at the following website: www.omtdivision-at-aomconference.org.
3. NEW for 2004: The submitting author must submit to the OMT Division using the OMT division website noted above. To use the required OMT submissions web form, select the ‘Submit Submission to OMT Division’ menu item found on the left under the heading OMT Authors.
This submissions web form will allow you to submit all required identification information to the OMT division Program Chair and will allow you to upload/send your submission to the OMT division. This procedure replaces the old requirement to email an electronic version of the submission to the Program Chair.
Organization Development and ChangeSpecific domain: the development of theory and innovative practice relevant to organization change. Major topics include: change processes within organizations, with or without assistance by change agents; active attempts to intervene in organizations to improve their effectiveness, and scholarly studies of such interventions; the roles of change agents; and problems of self-awareness, responsibility, and the political consequences of OD theory and practice.
Vision: The ODC division represents scholar/practitioners committed to individual and organization success and to the fulfillment of humanity’s spirit and potential. It encourages efforts that create, develop, and disseminate knowledge or extend the practice of constructive change management and organization development. ODC affirms the importance of a triple bottom line in organization effectiveness (human-social, financial, and environmental); justice, dignity, and trust; and shared accomplishment resulting in positive, meaningful contributions to the global society. ODC acknowledges and accepts responsibility for contributing in a significant way to the creation and enhancement of an ethical and humane global community.
Organization Development and Change: Special Instructions
Division Awards: Five externally-sponsored recognition awards [some with honorariums – see ODC web site (www.aom.pace.edu/odc/) for details] will be given for the best paper in the following categories: competitive paper; student paper; interactive paper, linking theory-to-practice paper and action research paper. Papers authored by students and/or about action research should be clearly identified as such at the time of submission (please note in the email that accompanies the paper).
Submission Instructions: The ODC Division requires electronic submission. Authors should submit via email attachment to the Division Program Chair at: odc@mit.edu. For electronic submission via diskette see Diskette Submission Procedures on AOM web site. In either case, submissions (both papers and symposia) must be contained in a single Microsoft Word (version 6.0 or higher) document. Your submission should contain the SUBMISSION NUMBER acquired from the Academy’s web site and be submitted so that there is no author information in the electronic file. Your submission will be acknowledged upon receipt by ODC.
Mission Statement: The Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management exists to advance the development of scholars and scholarship within the content domain of organizational behavior. Scholarship occurs in the practice of both research and teaching. Through scholarship, we strive to positively influence management thought and practice.
Specific domain: The study of individuals and groups within an organizational context, and the study of internal processes and practices as they affect individuals and groups. Major topics include: individual characteristics such as beliefs, values, and personality; individual processes such as perception, motivation, emotions, decision making, judgment, commitment and control; group characteristics such as size, composition and structural properties; group processes such as decision making and leadership; organizational processes and practices such as goal setting, appraisal, feedback, rewards, and behavioral aspects of task design; and the influence of all of these on such individual, group, and organizational outcomes as performance, turnover, absenteeism, and stress.Organizational Behavior: Special Instructions
Division Awards: Two recognition awards will be given for program events: the best competitive paper (which may be co-authored) that is sponsored by Blackwell Publishing; and the best paper based on a dissertation (which must be sole authored and should be identified clearly as dissertation-based at the time of submission) that is sponsored by the Journal of Organizational Behavior (John Wiley).Three awards for other OB-related activities are also given: the Cummings Scholar Award, which is sponsored by JAI Press; the Lyman Porter Award for the best paper at the annual IOOB Graduate Student Conference, which is sponsored by the Journal of Managerial Psychology (MCB University Press); and the Outstanding Publication in Organizational Behavior, which is sponsored by the Lowry Mays College and Graduate School of Business at Texas A&M University. Each of the winners receives a check for $500 to $1000 depending upon the award (see our website for details).
Endowment for International Support: The purpose of this endowed fund is to help facilitate participation in the Academy of Management meetings by scholars located outside North America, who need additional funding to attend the national conference. Many non-North American scholars could add significantly to the exchange of knowledge at Academy meetings, but due to financial constraints are neither able to attend Academy meetings nor further develop their professional networks in order to enhance their programs of research. The details about how to apply for financial aid will be located on the OB Division website.
Submission Instructions: The OB division encourages submissions that are innovative in terms of focus, content and methodology, and that expand the boundaries of the discipline. Qualitative research, quantitative research, and theoretical papers, are encouraged, especially those that are consistent with the theme of this year’s AOM conference, which is “Creating Actionable Knowledge.” Innovative formats for all types of presentations are encouraged.
In an effort to support international participation, the OB Division plans to use endowment funds to provide some support to approximately ten authors from outside North America whose papers/symposia are submitted to the Division and are highly rated by our reviewers
In 2004, the OB division now requires that all submissions for review be done electronically. Electronic submissions must be assembled as a single document, including all figures, tables, etc., that is ready to be distributed electronically to reviewers. Submissions must be checked for viruses prior to submitting them for review. Specific instructions for electronic submission can be found at www.obweb.org. Please email your submission to the OB Program Chair, Anne O’Leary-Kelly, at orgbehdiv@walton.uark.edu
Organizational Communication and Information Systems
Specific domain: The study of behavioral, economic, and social aspects of communication and information systems within and among organizations or institutions. Major topics include: interpersonal communication; verbal, nonverbal, and electronic communication; vertical, horizontal and diagonal communication; inter-group and intra-group communication; communication networks; applications of information technology in business and society; organizational adoption of communication and information technology; communication and information strategy and policy; communication and organizational culture; communication and information research methodology; managing information technology services; virtual teams, virtual work, and virtual organizations; the management of information systems professionals; e-communications; information systems development; managing IT-related organizational change; e-business, e-commerce, and e-markets; electronic value systems, value chains, and value webs; privacy and ethics; knowledge work, knowledge workers, and knowledge networks; IT infrastructure; governance of IT services; and organizational networks.
Organizational Communication and Information Systems: Special InstructionsOCIS invites the submission of innovative empirical or conceptual papers, symposia, and panels on all themes of interest to the Academy that touch on organizational communications, information systems, or computer-based technologies. For 2004 these include the use, management, or value of organizational communications or information technologies to create, reuse, disseminate, or apply actionable knowledge in a business context. In addition, topics that are specifically oriented to the 2004 all-Academy theme of “Creating Actionable Knowledge” are encouraged, such as knowledge management and knowledge management systems, field studies involving partnerships between researchers and practitioners, assessing the value of IT and organizational communication for action, design science research, action research for organizational communication and information systems, and submissions that emphasize the application of academic research in communications or information systems to organizational problems.
Division Awards: Division awards will be presented for best paper, best interactive paper, best visual presentation paper, best student paper, and best reviewer. Send an email to the Program Chair, Ann Majchrzak if you are interested in reviewing papers and the topics you would like to review.
Submission Instructions: OCIS requires electronic submission. We are hoping to have a web-based submission ready so stay tuned to OCISnet for details. In the event that web-based submission is not ready, send the electronic submission (no hard copies) to the Program Chair, assembled as a single document, including all figures and tables, ready to be distributed electronically to reviewers, with identifying properties removed. The electronic file for a paper submission should not include the title page or any other identifying information (however, don’t forget to insert the title above the paper’s abstract). The title page should be included as a separate file attached to the email. In addition, indicate on the title page if you prefer the paper to be programmed as: a) regular paper presentation, interactive paper session, or visual/poster presentation session.
Organizations and the Natural Environment
Specific domain: research, theories and practices regarding relationships of organizations and the natural environment. Major topics include: ecological sustainability, environmental philosophies and strategies, ecological performance, environmental entrepreneurship, environmental product and service industries, pollution control and prevention, waste minimization, industrial ecology, total quality environmental management, environmental auditing and information systems, managing human resources for sustainability, ecological crisis management, natural resources and systems management, protection and restoration, interactions of systems management, interactions of environmental stakeholders, environmental policies, environmental attitudes and decision making, and international/comparative dimensions of these topics. As the natural environment is integral in all individual, organizational and societal activity, the interest group encourages holistic, integrative, and interdisciplinary analysis. It promotes joint exploration of these topics with all other disciplines and Academy units.
Organizations and the Natural Environment: Special Instructions
The ONE interest group invites papers that address all aspects of the relationship between business organizations and the natural environment. Given that ecological issues are by definition trans-disciplinary, ONE encourages submissions that explore organization ecology relations from all Academy disciplines and from multiple stakeholder perspectives. In this regard, ONE is seeking papers and symposia proposals that focus on the social, ethical, technological, strategic, operational, structural, behavioral, theoretical, international, health care, educational, methodological, historical, human resource, information and change management dimensions related to bringing organizations into balance with the ecosystem. Because of this trans disciplinary focus, ONE invites joint symposium proposals that reflect the natural links between itself and other Academy divisions and interest groups.Submission Instructions: Please follow the AOM general submission guidelines.
Public and Non-profit Division
Specific domain: State and civil society, which include public and non-profit organizations such as government agencies, the military, social services, cultural and educational institutions, membership and professional associations, and advocacy, religious, and charitable organizations. Major topics include: decision making; strategy; organizational behavior and human resource management; political behavior; collaboration and conflict among public, non-profit, and private organizations; service and community-building; organizational networks involving public and non-profit organizations; theories of governance; public policy; and the social and ethical dimensions of public and non-profit activity. Special attention to how distinctive qualities of the public and non-profit sectors influence management and organizational processes.
Public and Nonprofit Division: Special InstructionsThe PNP Division welcomes papers consistent with its domain. The conference theme, Creating Actionable Knowledge, conveys important implications for the Division. In particular, our Division focuses on the application of management research to government agencies, the military, social services, cultural and educational institutions, membership and professional associations, advocacy organizations, and religious and other charitable organizations which have generated, and continue to shape, a large share of modern management thought. The Public and Nonprofit Division of the Academy of Management brings together scholars, managers, and students who continue this tradition by studying the public and nonprofit sectors, and the relationships among public, nonprofit, and private sector organizations. Our division pays special attention to how distinctive qualities of the public and nonprofit sectors influence management and organizational processes. In applying the conference theme, we are especially interested in how our knowledge is conveyed to practitioners in the public and nonprofit sectors, and the implications of our work for practitioners in the public and nonprofit sectors.
Division Awards: The PNP Division is pleased to offer a number of annual awards. The Charles J. Levine Award is given in recognition of the best conference paper submitted to the division. In addition, an award is given to the best conference paper authored by a doctoral student. Awards are also given to the best dissertation finished in 2003-2004, the best book published in the preceding three years, and the best journal article published in 2003 that fits the division’s domain. For more information on the awards and nomination processes please see the division’s website (aom.pace.edu/pn/awards.html).Submission Instructions: Submitters should follow the Academy’s General Guidelines for all Submissions. For the second step (electronic submission to the division), your paper should be sent to pnp@wwu.edu. Please make sure that you follow the Academy’s format for your submission. In addition, please indicate your preference for presentation format. Four formats are available (Interactive Paper, Shared Interest Track, Paper Presentation, and Visual Presentation); please indicate your preference for all four with a 0 (no interest), 1 (willing to present in this format), or 2 (prefer this format) in your submission e-mail.
Specific domain: Philosophy of science, research design, qualitative and quantitative research methods and design. Major topics include but are not limited to: epistemology, theory development, experimental and non-experimental research design, survey research, ethnography, evaluative research, cross-cultural and comparative methods, measurement development and evaluation, construct validation, statistical modeling, casual mapping, historical analysis, discourse analysis, textual analysis, scholarly writing and publication, and other methodological topics that advance research practice within the Academy.
The division encourages innovative submissions (empirical or conceptual papers, symposia, debates, roundtables, etc.) that address methodological issues encountered by Academy researchers. These issues may include theory development, philosophy of science, epistemology, as well as the full range of qualitative and quantitative methodological issues involved in the design, conduct, and interpretation of research. We welcome submissions that evaluate applications of current methods or describe the development of new methods. We especially encourage submissions of jointly sponsored symposia that provide solutions to substantive research problems and/or raise radical questions about the nature and purpose of truth, representation, and knowledge production.
Division awards: Awards sponsored by Sage Publications are given for the best conference paper and the best paper submitted by a doctoral student or students.
Submission Instructions: In 2003-2004, the RM division will require electronic submission consistent with the Academy of Management Guidelines. Authors should electronically submit papers using Word 97 or save the file in this format if they are using more recent versions of Word (as not all RM reviewers may have access to Word 2000). Electronic submissions should be sent to RMD2004@newhaven.edu
Social Issues in ManagementSpecific domain: Encompasses the exploration and analysis of various environments’ and stakeholders’ influence upon the organization and the organization’s effect upon these groups. Specifically, the domain includes: the Social Environment (which includes topics such as corporate social responsibility, corporate and business citizenship, corporate philanthropy, stakeholder management, and corporate social performance); the Ethical Environment (which includes topics such as corporate codes of ethics, corporate crime, individual ethical behavior, the influence of the organization on ethical conduct, ethical implications of technology, and the assessment of personal values and corporate culture); the Public Policy Environment (which includes topics such as political action committees, the legal and regulatory areas, and the influence of business on political processes); the Ecological Environment (which includes topics such as environmental management and various ecological issues); the Stakeholder environment (which includes topics such as the impact of corporate use of technology, workplace diversity, corporate governance, and public affairs management) and the International Environment (which includes international dimensions of topics in each of the previously mentioned environments, plus the topic of how the nation-state system affects international organizations).
Social Issues in Management: Special Instructions
Papers and symposia that address critical issues within one or more of the division’s multiple environments, as described in the domain statement, and topics with potential cross-fertilization between SIM and other management disciplines are encouraged.
Division Awards: The division sponsors awards for best competitive paper and for best dissertation. The deadline for submitting abstracts of dissertations within the SIM domain, which have been completed within the past two years, is May 1, 2003.
Submission Instructions: Electronic submissions are strongly encouraged. See the guidelines for Diskette Submission Procedures for instructions on preparing your file. You do not need to submit a diskette; simply e-mail your paper as an attachment to Kathy Rehbein, sim.aom@marquette.edu, making sure the file is virus-free and that all identifying information has been deleted. If you cannot submit electronically, follow the paper submission guidelines and include a diskette copy of your paper. All parts of the paper must be in one file for electronic and diskette submissions.Technology and Innovation Management
Specific Domain: TIM encourages interdisciplinary scholarship and dialogue on the management of innovation and technological change from a variety of perspectives, including strategic, managerial, behavioral, and operational issues. The problem domain includes the management of innovation processes, research and development, information technologies,
e-commerce, and process technologies. Participants in this broad academic endeavor come from a wide range of disciplines and draw on an extensive array of theoretical and research paradigms. We enter this complex problem domain in the spirit of dialogue, debate, and deepened understanding. Major topics include: studies of the strategic management of technology; innovation processes; innovation diffusion and the development, implementation and use of technologies; technology development trajectories; intellectual capital; organizational processes by which technically-oriented activities are integrated into organizations; product development strategies; technical project management; behaviors and characteristics of technical professionals; technological forecasting and policies; information technology; impacts of new technologies on organizational forms and electronic commerce.
Technology and Innovation Management: Special Instructions
The TIM division welcomes empirical or conceptual papers and symposia on topics dealing with any aspect of the management of technology or organizational innovation. Papers or symposia that also relate to the domains of other divisions, including OCIS and Operations Management, are encouraged; they may become candidates for cross-divisional sessions (shared interest tracks or joint symposia). For the Seattle 2003 meetings, the TIM division encourages empirical or conceptual papers that deal with the organizational and strategic implications of a knowledge economy and the effects of decentralizing key resources and information and role of stakeholder and globalization on organizations.
Division Awards: TIM offers two competitive awards as part of the Academy submission process. The two best paper awards include the TIM Best Student Paper Award and the TIM Division Best Paper Award. To be eligible for the best student paper award, the student must be senior author or sole author; this should be clearly indicated on the title page of the paper.
Submission Instructions: As the 2004 Program Chair of the Technology and Innovation Management (TIM) Division, I invite you to participate in the 64th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management by submitting conceptual and/or empirical papers or symposia proposals to the TIM Division. The meeting will take place in New Orleans, Louisiana from August 6-11, 2004. Submissions are due January 5, 2004. They should be sent electronically to TIM2004@umich.edu. More details about the submission requirements will be posted on the TIM Division website: aom.pace.edu/tim/.
