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Strong School of Management presence at Academy of Management conference

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Academic staff from the School of Management are making an extensive contribution to this year's annual Academy of Management conference, taking place in Boston from 3-7 August 2012.

The Academy of Management is a leading international professional association for scholars dedicated to creating and disseminating knowledge about management and organisations. An annual conference is held every August, providing a forum for sharing research and expertise in all management disciplines, and this year's conference theme is "The Informal Economy".

Highlights of the School of Management's involvement will include:

a panel symposium chaired by Dr Ian Colville, titled 'Simplexity, Prescience and Pragmatism: Keeping organisational theory (a)live and vital'. Panellists will include Professor Jean Bartunek, Professor Andrew Brown, Professor Kevin Corley, Professor Denny Gioia, Professor Annie Pye and Professor Karl Weick.
a presenter symposium chaired by Dr Svenja Tams and featuring research by PhD student Stefanie Gustafsson, titled 'Multiple Perspectives on Career Scripts: Theoretical and Empirical Advances'. Presenters will include Dr Katharina Chudzikowski (WU Vienna), Professor Laurie Cohen (Loughborough University), Professor Francoise Dany (EM-LYON Business School), Professor Joanne Duberley (University of Birmingham), Professor Hugh Gunz (Rotman School of Management), Stefanie Gustafsson (University of Bath) and Dr Svenja Tams (University of Bath).
papers and professional development workshops from:
- Dr Johanne Grosvold ('Power/dependency and trust in buyer-supplier relationships: Embedding socially responsible processes' and 'Crowding-out the ‘community’ in community based Credit Unions?: A test of self-regulation')
- Dr Mehdi Boussebaa ('Constructing Global Firms? National, Transnational and Neocolonial Effects in International Management Consultancies')
- Dr Iain Davies ('Where now for Fair Trade?')
- Dr Jens Roehrich ('Co-operation and conflicts in long-term supply relationships: The roles of contracts and trust' and 'The evolution of project-based cooperation to deliver integrated solutions')
- Dr Jon Raelin ('Reflections & Projections: An interactive panel-workshop developing the future of strategy-as-practice', 'Free floating salience: Governments as salience investors' and 'When feelings eclipse reason: The impact of explicit and emotional knowledge-transfer on firm performance')
- Prof John Forker ('New Model Regulation: Crowding-out the ‘community’ in community based Credit Unions? ')
- Dr Uta Morgenstern ('Reflections & Projections: An Interactive Panel-Workshop Developing the Future of Strategy-as-Practice')
- Dr Rekha Nicholson ('The motives and performance of cross-border acquirers from emerging economies')
- Dr Bruce Rayton ('Corporate Social Performance and the Psychological Contract' and 'Employee Work Engagement, Affect and Outcomes')
- Prof Rob Briner ('Feeling the squeeze: The experience of on-going change and innovation in UK public sector organizations in times of austerity' and 'Larger, longer, and more pervasive: The distinct experiences of broken and fulfilled promises')
- Prof Russ Vince ('Professional Development Workshop - Lost in Translation: Responding to ‘Review and Resubmit’', 'Cross-Divisional Paper Session - Violent Innocence and Leadership’', and 'Management Consulting Division Paper - Leading Change from the Middle')
- Dr Elena Novelli ('Professional Development Workshop - BPS Managing Your Dissertation')

Click here to download a PDF of futher information and paper abstracts.

If you are interested in attending, more information can be found at http://annualmeeting.aomonline.org/2012/

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