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27th ANNUAL CONFERENCE
OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT Managing to Make a Difference 10th-12th September 2013, Aintree Racecourse, Liverpool Submission Dates: 15th January 2013: Paper Submission Opens 26th February 2013: Paper Submission Deadline
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Over 600 papers to be presented across 24 Tracks Excellent networking opportunities Workshops, symposia and Special Interest Group meetings High profile plenary sessions Professional Development Workshops Gala Dinner and New Members’ Champagne Breakfast NETWORKING “A really good opportunity to step back, network with colleagues, and consider a broad and cross-discipline range of approaches to knowledge and learning”. Dr John Neugebauer BRISTOL BUSINESS SCHOOL
FEEDBACK “I thoroughly enjoyed the BAM2012 Conference and will definitely be back next year. As an early career researcher the safe and supportive environment in which I was able to discuss my doctoral research, together with the expert advice and guidance I received, was invaluable.”
COMMUNITY “The BAM Conference is a great opportunity not just to engage with your core area of research but also to get to know of the emerging research areas in other disciplines especially in an era of multi-disciplinary research”. Dr Adolf Acquaye UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
Amanda Lee COVENTRY UNIVERSITY AND UNIVERSITY OF SURREY
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Conference Sub-Track Theme Organizational Studies Organizational Studies: the emerging agenda Who now knows what an organization is? If anyone does they are likely to be practising managers rather than organizational theorists. Even the ontological status of an 'organization' becomes unclear when we study the emerging diversity of organizational realities. The traditional organizational mould has come down pretty much unchanged since Fayol and Weber but has been challenged more significantly in practice than in theory. But these moulds are being broken and the track recognizes this. Organizations are no longer physically or psychologically discrete, or juridically bounded. We wish to encourage contributions that bridge the still-broad divide between grand OS theory and operational managerial practice, moving the field away from a universally-plausible paradigm for studying it, and drawing on the emerging innovations and increasing diversity of organizational structures and models. We particularly encourage contributions which make sense of non linear and emergent systems theories of organization. Some examples of the types of questions that papers may deal with, or move beyond, are: • • • •
How is management achieved, or not, in increasingly complex and distributed organizations? How is collaboration fostered, or not, in individuals, groups and organizations with diverse backgrounds and cultural values? What are the music, rhythm and poetry of organization and how may we best study them? What ways can we move beyond the polarities of structure and agency, and where does this leave the emerging methodologies of the post-Weberian consensus?
However, these questions are not exclusive. If you have better ideas of how practice may lead back into organization theory then we will be happy to hear from you.
