The SIM Division
The Social Issues in Management (SIM) Division studies the social issues, institutions, interactions, and impacts of management. The common logic of SIM scholarship is our shared interest in understanding responsible behavior by organizations and the people and groups working in and around them. Such investigation leads us to ask fundamental questions about the ethical systems, roles, functioning, and legitimacy of business institutions. Members also bridge scholarship to applied social practices, developing understanding and methods to promote social change and sustainable development.
SIM Organizational Chart and Committee Information
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Communications Committee
The Communications Chair (elected three-year term) leads the Communications Committee. This committee is responsible for designing and maintaining specific communication channels including the SIM website and social media channels, managing the SIM listserv/Connect, facilitating podcasts, and contributing to other aspects of the Division’s communications strategy.
Program Development Committee
The Program Development Committee assists SIM’s elected Program Chair and Program Chair-elect with organizing and developing SIM’s Annual Meeting program. This includes coordinating and inputting information into AOM systems and advising on program enhancements to better meet current and future member needs.
Impact/Outreach Committee
The Impact/Outreach Chair (appointed one-year term) leads the Impact/Outreach Committee to help SIM members amplify the impact of SIM-related research by disseminating insights to practitioners and policymakers, and honor SIM-related research, teaching, and service with high societal impact.
Curriculum Committee
The Curriculum Chair (appointed one-year term) leads the Curriculum Committee to develop a SIM curriculum-focused PDW at the Annual meeting, and to gather and disseminate best SIM curriculum and teaching practices outside of the Annual Meeting through webinars and SIM’s website. The committee connects SIM’s curriculum development work with UN Principles for Responsible Education (PRME) and the annual AOM Teaching and Learning Conference (TLC). Finally, the committee organizes awards focused on SIM curriculum and pedagogy.
Research Committee
The Research Chair (appointed one-year term) leads the Research Committee to organize the Research Development Workshop at the AOM Annual Meetings, and to manage activities including our “First Cut” research initiative to provide constructive feedback on work in progress, a podcast series to equip SIM members with strategies for manuscript writing, research methods, and the peer review process, and the establishment of small groups organized by emerging research themes to foster collaborative, ground-breaking research.
Membership Committee
The Membership Chair (appointed one-year term) leads the Membership Committee to organize the SIM Speed Networking event at the annual meeting, and also to help to plan community-building offsite social events at the conference. The committee is expanding SIM’s virtual offerings throughout the year to deepen ties within the community, such as webinars that address conference preparations or career advice for different stages of a scholar’s career. Finally, the committee coordinates meetings between SIM senior scholars and junior faculty and/or doctoral students throughout the year.
Global Scholar Committee
A Global Representative-at-Large (RAL) (appointed one-year term) chairs the Global Scholar Committee to enhance SIM’s engagement in underrepresented regions, particularly Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East & North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa. This committee aims to gain a deeper understanding of regional needs to determine how SIM can effectively tailor programming and resources to address specific regional requirements in research, teaching, and career development (co-operating with the research, curriculum and membership committees).
Doctoral Student Representative-at-Large
The position of the Doctoral Student Representative-at-Large (RAL) is a one-year appointed role for a doctoral student to represent students’ perspectives within SIM governance decision-making. The Doctoral Student RAL role also entails participating in SIM’s bi-annual governance meetings and initiating student-friendly SIM activities during the AOM Annual Meeting and/or through the course of the year.