As one who has attended the Academy meeting gatherings of the Christian Management Scholars since 2001 and is a JMSR editorial board member, I can't say that I've seen MSR be unfriendly toward evangelicals. I suspect that a big part of why there isn't more involvement in MSR from this group is that most have research interests in other areas that consume most of their time and energy. There's only so much time and space to go around at the Academy meetings, and developing a new interest that requires integrating discipline-based research and tenets of the faith takes some time (I've only done it once myself). Speaking for myself, leadership in another division had taken up so much of my conference time for the last few years that it didn't leave much time to do much else at the meetings.
Regarding the position of developing groups of management scholars of faiths other than Christians, the folks I know that attend the CMS gatherings would encourage those of other faiths to create their own groups. Best regards, Ben
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From: "Fry, Dr. Jody" <
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Date: Thursday, April 2, 2009 10:22 am
Subject: Re: 2009 Roundtables... Regent University, Evangelical Christians, MSR
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| > > > I think the operative word here is "scholarship." On that I couldn't agree more. There has been a dearth of paper submissions and active participation from scholars that want to do research in MSR's domain who represent areas such as the psychology and philosophy of religion and schools of theology . > However, as one who has been active in MSR since 2002, I don't have any sense of exclusion or neglect of religious scholarship or religious scholars. I do believe though that MSR has been very careful and overt about not wanting to be a forum for promoting religious political agendas, doctrine, or proselytization. > So my invitation is for those of you who desire to be active in this arena to come to our MSR sessions in Chicago this August and be an advocate for this issue. I'm sure we'll embrace your enthusiasm and try to find a way to channel it to the betterment of MSR and our field. > > Louis W. (Jody) Fry > Professor of Management > Tarleton State University - Central Texas > 1901 South Clear Creek Rd. Killeen, Texas 76549 > 254-519-5476 > fry@tarleton.edu> > > > > >
> From: Management, Spirituality & Religion on behalf of Cathy Driscoll
> Sent: Thu 4/2/2009 7:17 AM
> To: MSR@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
> Subject: Re: 2009 Roundtables... Regent University, Evangelical Christians, MSR
> > > Or as Billy Joel suggested, You "may be right".
> I am a Christian and have felt a bit of a gap in the R of MSR, at the MSR
> sessions I have attended at AoM meetings and in MSR work published in
> management/organizational studies domain. I think that Don is right and that
> there needs to be an effort on both parts, Christian scholars connecting
> with MSR and MSR connecting with Christian scholars (and indeed also with
> Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, etc scholars) so that MSR is seen as being truly
> interdisciplinary and interdenominational.
>
> Cathy Driscoll
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Management, Spirituality & Religion [mailto:MSR@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Don McCormick
> Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 11:00 PM
> To: MSR@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
> Subject: Re: 2009 Roundtables... Regent University, Evangelical Christians,
> MSR
>
> It is nice to see the message about the "2009 Roundtables of Contemporary
> Research & Practice" at Regent University. (Regent University was founded in
> 1978 by the television evangelist Pat Robertson, who is also the
> university's president and chancellor.) Conservative evangelical Christians
> make up a huge part of the spiritual and religious landscape around the
> world and I worry sometimes that they aren't a more visible presence in MSR.
> I wonder if MSR is seen as inhospitable by conservative evangelical
> Christians. I noticed that at the last AoM meeting there was a Christian
> Management Scholars breakfast and it did not appear to be sponsored by or
> even to have anything to do with the Management, Spirituality and Religion
> interest group. (Did anyone on this list attend this meeting? Is there
> something to my concerns?)
>
> Although I am not a Christian--conservative, evangelical or otherwise-- I
> would hope that MSR would be a place where scholars from and interested in
> the whole range of spiritual and religious traditions would feel welcome.
> And I hope that next year, there is not only a Christian Management Scholars
> breakfast but that there are also Muslim Management Scholars breakfasts,
> Jewish Management Scholars breakfasts, Buddhist Management Scholars
> breakfasts, etc. And that they are all co- sponsored by MSR.
>
> "But that's just my opinion. I may be wrong."*
>
> - Don
>
> ---
> Don McCormick
> Department of Management, College of Business and Economics California State
> University Northridge, Juniper Hall 4218
> 18111 Nordhoff St., Northridge CA 91330
> http://www.csun.edu/~dmccormick (818) 677-2418
>
> * At the end of every rant that the comedian Dennis Miller's gets worked up
> about, he says this tag line. It perfectly captures how I feel.
>
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