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Colleagues,

Please join us for an All Academy Theme Symposium and Panel Discussion at the Academy of Management Meetings, Sunday afternoon, Aug 3:

Impact and Usefulness: The Influence of Management Research on Public Policy and Society

Program Session #: 662 | Sponsor(s): (AAT)
Scheduled: Sunday, Aug 3 2014 2:45PM - 4:15PM at Pennsylvania Convention Center in Room 122 A

Organizer: Usha C. V. Haley; West Virginia U.;
Panelist: Elena P. Antonacopoulou; U. of Liverpool;
Panelist: Charles Brooks; Xerox;
Panelist: Melanie Cohen; U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development;
Panelist: Richard Anthony D'Aveni; Dartmouth College;
Panelist: Usha C. V. Haley; West Virginia U.;
Panelist: Catherine Jo Hand; FDIC Corp U.;
Panelist: Marshall W. Meyer; U. of Pennsylvania;
Panelist: Tyrone S. Pitsis; Newcastle U.;

This symposium will encourage a robust conversation around two words with much currency in the Academy, "impact" and "usefulness" as they apply to the influence of management research on government policy and regulation specifically, and broader society more generally. The symposium builds upon growing recognition within the Academy that our research should impact and matter to wider interests beyond a small community of like-minded scholars. Scholarly impact has attracted much debate and increased research. Yet, almost all the research has used one common operational and conceptual definition of impact: number of citations. The focus of impact has also been internal stakeholders (i.e. other Academy members and students). In response to the Academy's strategic objective on professional impact, the panel will examine expanding scholarly impact and usefulness of research for external stakeholders outside the Academy, specifically policymakers, regulators, and society at large. The panel consists of senior academics and policy practitioners who have had external impact ( e.g. their research has been directly incorporated into US and EU federal regulation; they engage in policy discussions on their research with local and national governments in the US and UK; they advise major companies around the world on policies such as boards of directors and cybersecurity that impact societies) and are interested in cultivating and identifying academic research with broader relevance. The panel will ask: What important questions should management scholars explore to impact policy and regulation? What types of conversations and discourse are needed between scholars, policymakers and university administrators? Should and how do scholars write to reach policymakers?  Brief presentations by the panelists on their areas of research interest and impact will preface a roundtable discussion on how the Academy and its members may make operational and benefit from wider impact.

I look forward to seeing you there! 

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Usha C. V. Haley, PhD

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