Message forwarded for Dr. Jean Neumann,
Announcement & Invitation
Being Scholarly & Practical During Doctoral Studies
Doctoral Consortium, Management Consulting Division, Academy of Management
Saturday, 10th August 2013, 8.00 a.m. through 12 noon, Lake Buena Vista (Orlando), USA
Learning Aims
- ƒ To increase our understanding about inter-related needs to be both scholarly and practical during those doctoral studies that are based on practice, intervention, or something else related to consulting and change.
- ƒ To differentiate scholarly needs from practical needs in applied research by identifying harmonies and trade-offs necessary in order to meet academic standards for successful completion of our doctorate degrees.
- ƒ To explore what it means to integrate theory and practice when conceptualizing and undertaking doctorate level research within a complex applied context.
- ƒ To expand our awareness of career paths from which we have entered our doctorate studies and after which we might exit as management consultants, academics and other professional roles.
For Whom, Studying What & How?
You are welcome at the Management Consulting Division Doctoral Consortium if you are studying for a doctorate that has a practice-based element to it. This includes programs for executives and change managers as well as practicing or aspiring management and organizational consultants. You might be a part-time or full-time student undertaking a professional doctorate or pursuing a research-based doctoral degree (e.g. Ph.D, Ed.D, DB & DBA). You may be completing a doctoral dissertation through a management consulting or change management intervention; you may be an insider undertaking action research; an outsider experimenting with collaborative research. You may be using qualitative methodology or quantitative methodology. Your academic department might have words like 'management', 'business', 'administration', 'organization', 'change', 'development', 'systems', etc. in its title. In other words, if you are combining research and practice in some way, this doctoral consortium might be for you. If you are learning how to combine scholarship and making something happen in the field, this doctoral consortium could be for you.
Please Pre-Register Soon for MCD Doctoral Consortium*
We would like to include as many students as room will allow. The way the Academy of Management works, we commit to numbers early in 2013 and a room is assigned to us. We intend to use both pre-registration for the room numbers and then open 'on the day' admissions for those who decide to attend at the last minute. But we need a suitable sized room: not too big or too small. Therefore, we ask that you to pre-register between now and June. Pre-registration is straightforward. Once registered, it will be possible to for us to communicate more detailed plans as they unfold*. Three students will be chosen to present on the overall topic with their names in the AOM programme. So pre-register soon by sending an email to the Doctoral Consortium Chair (see below) with ALL the following information:
- 1. Name, contact details (postal address, email & telephone numbers).
- 2. Your stage in doctoral study, name of doctoral program, supervisor's name, university & location.
- 3. Summary of your research: topic & questions, methodology type, practice location (or sector, organization type, subject characteristics, etc.) – or a best guess at time of registration.
- 4. What individual concerns might you like to explore at the MCD Doctoral Consortium?
Pre-Registration By ASAP*: Send Email with above Information to
*NOTE: You will also need to register for the AOM Annual Meeting & book your own hotel accommodation. Watch the website to keep in touch about when meeting registration & housing booking opens & closes: http://aom.org/
Thank you,
Jerry Bell
West Point graduate and Former Military Officer