ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT
74th ANNUAL MEETING (Philadelphia, Pen., August 1-5)
Practice Theme Committee (PtC)
2014 Call for PDW Proposals
PDW Co-Chairs:
The Practice Theme Committee was created as an All-Academy Committee to:
• Develop greater awareness of what practice means and how it can usefully inform our scholarship in terms of both research and teaching.
• Identify and profile exemplar initiatives that bridge the gap between theory and practice and engage practitioners and academics in the co-creation of knowledge.
• Create a platform for ongoing engagement with practitioners so that the knowledge we discover is relevant and has impact.
We call for exciting, innovative, and interdisciplinary PDWs involving both researchers and practitioners. This year's conference theme, "The Power of Words" addresses the Academy's vision "to inspire and enable a better world through our scholarship and teaching about management and organizations." The theme encourages submissions that focus on "the ways in which words facilitate or hinder the outcomes that various organizational stakeholders seek... and uncover knowledge on how organizational stakeholders can leverage the power of words to bring about positive change".
Theme-related PDWs might explore how words can better bridge the gap between practitioners and academia through creation of meaning, construction of reality, legitimation of practices, inter-subjectivity of communities, enabling function of human agency, and mediated communication of cultural artifacts, etc. We particularly encourage submissions that will show how scholars and practitioners create a common language, like in the so-called "etic-emic" interaction of words and meanings between local cultures and anthropological science.
PTC also accepts practice-related submissions that do not directly address the conference theme. We seek proposals that leverage innovative thinking and participatory processes to build meaningful connections between academics and practitioners across the Academy, foster mutual understanding between communities, and encourage innovative projects that bridge the theory-practice divide. Other approaches are also welcome.
Several kinds of submissions might shed light on these issues, such as those focused on:
• Doctorates in Business Administration (DBA) students who need to conceptualize their experience through using words that make sense both to practitioners and academics
• Researchers and practitioners who use practice-oriented research such as action research, participative observation, intervention-research, or consulting to build evidence-based research and generate relevant knowledge
• Academics who are trying to translate the outcomes of their research into practice-oriented wording in order to in order to publish in practice-oriented journals and enhance the impacts of research, as is often the case across all divisions of the AOM.
• Scholars skilled in multi-stakeholder innovation who can offer processes directly relevant to the mission of the Practice Theme Committee
We invite you to discuss your PDW ideas with us during November or December, preferably prior to posting your submission on the AOM website. Since All-Academy committees are allocated limited number of hours for workshops, we encourage you to think of the PTC as a co-sponsor if your topic is also a strong fit for a division, particularly the larger divisions, as PDW hours are allocated in large part based on the number of members in the given division. We are developing increased partnership with the divisions, so welcome you to check with us about your ideas and then perhaps submit with us in a co-sponsorship position!
If you are interested in offering your workshop offsite and can propose a convenient site, know that offsite PDWS are not counted as part of the hours allocated, so if there is a site near to the conference that you can arrange, we are interested in working with you on this possibility. Please use the AOM guidelines when submitting a PDW proposal to:
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Fedor Ovchinnikov
Founder, Center for Intercultural Communication
Communications Committee Chair, Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division
Professional Development Workshop Co-Chair, Academy of Management Practice Theme Committee
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