Practice Theme Committee (PTC)
2011 PTC Professional Development Workshops: Call for Proposals
Annual Meetings Academy of Management, August 12-16, San Antonio, Texas, USA
(August 12-13 for PDW presentations)
Online Submissions Due January 11th, 2011 at 5:00 PM ET (New York time): http://annualmeeting.aomonline.org/2011/
The Practice Theme Committee is of strategic importance to the Academy of Management and spans across all Divisions and Interest Groups of the Academy. It aims 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 exemplary 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.
This year's theme "West Meets East: Enlightening. Balancing. Transcending.", encourages us to self-reflectively examine our cherished assumptions, perspectives, and values to generate new cultural lenses for research and practice. Moreover, it implores us to engage our practice and research with cross-cultural awareness, global impact, and principled accountability. In particular, we invite you to take the challenge that a practice perspective offers to engage with:
1. How do we bridge theory and practice to bridge cross-cultural understanding in management research? How do we co-create knowledge between practitioners and academics to bridge cultural boundaries?
2. How do we engage our practice research with cross-cultural awareness, global impact, and principled accountability? How do we recognize and reward relevance, impact, and accountability in management research and practice?
3. How do we enhance management practice and research with curricula that foster cross-cultural awareness, global impact, and principled accountability? What are the challenges? What are some exemplary practices?
4. What are the leadership practices that embody enlightenment, balance, and transcendence? How do leaders enlighten societies, balance trade-offs, and transcend conflicts across borders?
5. How can we better understand the role of phronesis in addressing 'mal-practice' and 'mis-management' in advancing greater balance and harmony in research and practice? How do we bridge East and West through our practices to make a difference? How do we demonstrate and embody reflexive practices that show trenchant cross-cultural understanding?
We encourage exciting, innovative, and interdisciplinary workshops involving both researchers and practitioners. Please note that the "Rule of Three" applies for the 2011 PDW program. If you have any questions before submitting, please contact Kuo Frank Yu (Kuo.Frank.Yu@CityU.Edu.HK), PDW co-Chair, and Wolfgang H. Guettel (wolfgang.guettel@jku.at), PDW co-Chair.