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On Dec 9, 2016, at 5:02 PM, Andre Avramchuk <aavramchuk@EMAIL.FIELDING.EDU> wrote:

please contact Christof directly if any questions or ideas!

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From: Backhaus, Christof <c.backhaus@aston.ac.uk>

 

 

Dear Members of the Organization Development and Change Division

The Practice Theme Committee (PTC) calls for exciting, innovative, and interdisciplinary PDWs focussing on enhancing the applicability and impact of our research on practice, and involving both researchers and practitioners. Several tracks are proposed this year, and submissions should ideally be connected with one of them:

·         Scholarly impact: how to understand and measure the impact of our scholarship on both academic and non-academic audiences.

·         Empowerment for knowledge co-production: how to initiate, design and conduct collaborative research projects that work for both academics and practitioners.

·         Empowerment for dissemination: how to strengthen academics in their ability to engage with outer-world communities and effectively disseminate their research.

·         Practice-oriented executive programs (Professional doctorates and DBAs as well as MBAs and MS) that impact: how to improve research and teaching by drawing on academic research that matters and has impact.

·         Action-oriented Track: Tackling selected real-world challenges: Initiating academic-practitioner collaborations targeted at solving selected real-world challenges.

·         Leadership, presence, mindfulness, and reliability: how leaders build on personal and organizational practices to collaboratively create shared meaning and a sustainable, healthy, and safe world.

·         Practices that foster inclusion and diversity in the AOM: how to build synergistic collaboration between the PTC and the DITC in fostering inclusion and diversity and making the AOM meaningful to all.

We encourage you to discuss your PDW ideas with us as early as possible, and preferably prior to posting your submission on the 2017 Annual Meeting Submission System. Since All-Academy committees are allocated a 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 increasing 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! The full call for proposals can be accessed here.

To develop or inquire about the fit your PDW proposal to the PTC, please contact Melanie Cohen or Christof Backhaus at PTC.PDW.AOM@gmail.com, preferably including a short paragraph from you describing your PDW idea, your role, and a summary of the approach you plan to follow.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Best regards,

Melanie Cohen and
Christof Backhaus
-PTC PDW Co-Chairs- 

About the Practice Theme Committee (PTC): The PTC is an All-Academy Committee that represents the entire Academy of Management. Its role is to celebrate, promote and innovate the way in which scholarly research contributes to a better society by engaging with people beyond the academy and by promoting dialogue and collaboration among different professionals in the public, private and non-government sectors.  In particular, the PTC aims to (1) develop greater awareness of what practice means: inform our scholarship in terms of both research and teaching through better conceptualization and understanding of practices, practicing, practice theory, etc.; (2), identify exemplar initiatives that bridge theory and practice: engage practitioners and academics in the co-creation of knowledge and collaborative practices that increase and enhance knowledge uptakes; (3) create platforms for ongoing engagement with practitioners and industries: produce relevant and applicable knowledge through active sharing, meaningful exchanges, generative dialogues, reflexive debates, evidence-based validation, contextual sensitivity, and adaptive reliance to serve the rapidly evolving global community; and (4) explore the meaning and measurement of scholarly impact: discuss measurements and value of our research beyond publication in highly-ranked journals and in a social ecosystem.

 

 

Dr Christof Backhaus
Professor of Marketing

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Marketing and Strategy Group
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How about a track as practical as challenging the generally accepted 70% (Kotter) failure rate of the  "change process" ?

Glenn H. Varney Phd.

Professor Emeritus . Bowling Green State University;