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Please come to our ALL ACADEMY SYMPOSIUM

Wicked Problems and the 'Informal' Economy of Ideas:

Moving Ideas from the Informal to the Formal Economy of Ideas

Sunday, August 5, 2012, 4:30-6:00 pm, Room 104 Hynes Convention Center

Join us for an All Academy Symposium, on "informal economy of ideas" that bubbles up beneath the more accepted and better known "formal economy of ideas" upon which much of management research education is built.  We believe that we face a state of crisis today with the formal economy, yet a small number of scholars are acting as micro-entrepreneurs within an "informal economy of ideas" that seeks to address the crisis-of sustainability, growth, and leadership.  To open up thinking about this idea, four prominent scholars whose careers are devoted to spurring change in the field of management, will briefly share some of their current work and talk about how they are seeking to alter management thinking and practice.  The goal of the symposium is to provide a highly visible public forum for new 'informal economy' ideas to be aired, explored and reacted to, and we will be encouraging audience engagement in generating their own sense of what new ideas are bubbling up and potentially creating what Thomas Kuhn called a paradigm shift in the world of wicked problems that we currently face.  Our ultimate goal is to spur future research and practice which addresses the "wicked problems" of management, problems that are critical to our future as a field and as a society.  Panelists include Andrew Hoffman (Michigan), Robert Eccles (Harvard), Pratima Bansal (Ivey, Western Ontario), and Steve Lydenberg (Harvard), and the session is organized and moderated by Sandra Waddock (Boston College) and Judith Clair (Boston College).

Hope to see you there.

Sandra

Sandra Waddock, Galligan Chair of Strategy

Professor of Management and

Carroll School Scholar of Corporate Responsibility

Boston College

Carroll School of Management
Chestnut Hill, MA  02467  USA
 
617-552-0477
f:  617-552-0433
waddock@bc.edu
www2.bc.edu/sandra-waddock 

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