2015 SIM Division Scholarly Program:
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Program Chair Jamie Hendry
Deadline: January 13, 2015 at 5:00 p.m. EST
The SIM Division is a research community actively examining business ethics, stakeholder engagement and relationships, social entrepreneurship, environmental management, base-of-the-pyramid activities, corporate responsibility, workplace diversity, corporate governance, business-government relations, corporate political strategy, corruption, and corporate philanthropy, among other topics. SIM Division members engage in theory building and theory testing to understand the impacts, interactions, institutional settings, and issues that shape managerial and organizational decision-making. SIM Division members seek to understand responsible behavior and contributions (or lack thereof) to the greater good at the individual, stakeholder, organizational, and trans-organizational levels. We also seek to understand how stakeholders and societies define responsible organizational behavior and how such definitions change over time. Further, we study international impacts with regard to whether, how, and under what conditions managerial, organizational, and trans-organizational responses to social concerns vary based on national and local context, customs, traditions, and beliefs.
We encourage paper and symposia submissions linked to the 2015 conference theme,Opening Governance. In her discussion of the theme, 2015 Academy Program Chair Anita McGahan says:
The theme of the 2015 conference, Opening Governance, invites members to consider opportunities to improve the effectiveness and creativity of organizations by restructuring systems at the highest organizational levels. The term 'governance' refers to leadership systems, managerial control protocols, property rights, decision rights, and other practices that give organizations their authority and mandates for action. Opening governance involves revisiting these practices.... Opening Governance is an invitation to think broadly and creatively about the ways in which organizations take action to address the most important management problems and opportunities of our time.
Please consider how this year's conference theme could inform your ideas for papers and symposia suitable for SIM. Of course, we welcome submissions addressing any topic within the realm of our research community. Please join us in creating and expanding scholarly conversations that address significant organizational issues in practical and meaningful ways.
The SIM Division sponsors numerous awards, including those for best paper, best student paper, best paper on the history of corporate responsibility, best dissertation, and best book. The winners of these awards are announced at the SIM business meeting.
Submission Details: The scholarly program of the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from Sunday, August 11 through Tuesday, August 13, 2015. The submission deadline for papers and symposia is January 13, 2015 at 5:00 p.m. EST, and all submissions are to be made online athttp://submissions.aomonline.org/2015. Early submissions will serve to reduce your stress level (and ours!).
Please pay particular attention to the submission guidelines; the Program Chairs have all agreed that we will apply them rigorously and reject papers that do not meet them.