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[Sent on behalf of Mike Barnett. Apologies for cross-postings and duplicates.]

Dear SIMians,

The time is drawing near – in just a few short weeks, we'll gather at Disney World. I hope you're looking forward to the 2013 Academy of Management meeting as much as I am.

SIM tracks help you navigate our very large program by isolating SIM events and graphically displaying them over time. I hope you find this of use.

Below is further explanation of how I set up our program this year. To download SIM Tracks to bring with you to Orlando, click on this link: http://www.scribd.com/doc/155611910/2013-SIM-Tracks.

See you soon!

Best,

Mike

2013 Program Chair, SIM Division

Divisional paper sessions are the traditional presentation sessions. To shake things up a bit, I organized these 39 sessions into four tracks, and within each track, the sessions are grouped according to the common problems they seek to address or questions they are asking. This stands in contrast to sessions organized according to disciplinary perspective. For example, rather than putting all the ethicists in one session, the economists in another, the sociologists in a third, and the political scientists in a fourth, I've risked mixing them all up. The intent is to favor cross-fertilization of ideas over homogeneity of discipline. The hope is that we develop richer, stronger research insights. The risk is that we talk past each other. Hey, it's an experiment! I hope you'll give me feedback.  Here are the tracks:

Track A: Theorizing social issues in management. Papers in this track are primarily conceptual. The ten sessions in this track address issues such as the drivers of unethical behavior, reframing stakeholder theory, and refining the CSR concept.

Track B: Managing social issues. Papers in this track are primarily empirical and deal with the process or practice of managing social issues. The twelve sessions in this track address issues such as managing base of the pyramid ventures, repairing trust in the organization, and managing CSR globally.

Track C: Assessing business outcomes. Papers in this track are primarily empirical and deal with how the management of social issues affects organizations. The twelve sessions in this track address issues such as the effects of CSR on organizational performance, the effects of misconduct on firm performance, and political influences on firm performance.

Track D: Assessing societal outcomes. Papers in this track are mixed method and deal with how the management of social issues affects society. The five sessions in this track address issues such as outcomes in developing countries, institutional influences on social practices, and drivers of social problems. 

Discussion paper sessions are roundtable sessions, where the emphasis is on paper development rather than presentation. I'm trying an experiment here as well. Rather than focusing on a common issue, I've focused the four discussion paper sessions on a common developmental aim. The hopefully wise idea is to have authors come together to work on refining an aspect of their paper that may increase their odds of future publication. Each session will be led by a facilitator who is an expert on this developmental aim. The four sessions are: Roundtable on refining conceptual papers,Roundtable on refining qualitative papers, Roundtable on refining theory in quantitative papers, and Roundtable on refining methods in quantitative papers. As attendees, you can use the papers in each session as live examples, and work with the authors and facilitator to increase your understanding of how to develop these same skills. They are held on Sunday and not in our conference hotel (our conference hotel is Coronado).

*****

Michael L. Barnett

Professor, Management & Global Business

Vice Dean for Academic Programs

Rutgers Business School

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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