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Social Issues in Management (SIM)

Call for Submissions-Main Program

2018 Program Chair: Jill Brown, Bentley University (SIM@bentley.edu)

2018 SIM Division Program: Initial Call for Proposals

The SIM Division is a research community actively examining business ethics, stakeholder management, environmental management, social entrepreneurship, base-of-the-pyramid activities, corporate social responsibility, corporate philanthropy, workplace diversity, corporate governance, business-government relations, corporate political strategy, and corruption, among other topics. SIM Division members engage in theory building and theory testing to understand the antecedents, impacts, and institutional settings that shape managerial and organizational decision-making around such topics. SIM Division members seek to understand responsible behavior and contributions to the greater good at the individual, organizational, and trans-organizational levels. 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 formal and informal institutional contexts, including laws, customs, traditions, and beliefs.

SIM seeks proposals for the main program sessions (Monday, August 13 and Tuesday, August 14) at the 2018 Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL. The common logic of scholarship in the SIM Division is our shared interest in understanding responsible managerial behavior at the individual, organizational, and trans-organizational levels.

Paper and symposium proposals may choose to incorporate this year's conference theme: Improving Lives. It is easy to see that this year's theme clearly holds relevance within the SIM domain and has huge implications for the work we do in this division, as our trans-disciplinary research tries to understand how organizations can contribute to the betterment of society and "give back", even as they design competitive strategies. Submitters are encouraged to reflect on the conceptual and practical links their workshop offers to this idea of Improving Lives http://aom.org/annualmeeting/theme/

While we encourage proposals related to the conference theme, we also welcome non-thematic proposals about other topics within the SIM including, but not limited to, ethical decision-making, corporate social responsibility, corporate philanthropy, natural business ethics, stakeholder engagement and relations, environmental management, base-of-the-pyramid, social entrepreneurship, moral development, public policy, and corporate political strategy. PDW workshops may have a variety of structural forms, including roundtable discussions, interactive panels, site visits, service-learning activities, creative/artistic sessions, entrepreneurial incubators, and other activities that help SIM members develop professionally.

The SIM Division, with the help of various sponsors, has numerous awards including best paper, best student paper, best dissertation, best ethics paper, best sustainability paper, and best book, to name a few. The winners of these awards are announced at the SIM business meeting held during the conference.

Submission Details: The submission system opens up on November 28^th and the deadline for papers and symposia is January 9, 2018 at 5:00 p.m. EDT. Please try to submit earlier if possible.

Please pay particular attention to all of the submission guidelines. The Program Chairs have agreed to apply them rigorously and reject non-conforming papers. All submissions must be made online at http://aom.org/annualmeeting/submission/ .  

If you have any questions that cannot be clarified through the website, please contact Jill Brown, 2018 SIM Division Program Chair (SIM@bentley.edu), before December 15, 2017.

We look forward to seeing you in Chicago.

Jill Brown

Jill A Brown, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Management

Bentley University

175 Forest Street

Waltham, MA. 02452

1-781-891-2407