Hi, everyone
As I suspect most of you already know, the Art of Management and Organization (AMO) conference planned for Istanbul in late August of this year has been cancelled. The journal “Aesthesis” is funded by the conference and this is also effectively cancelled (having at this moment no editor(s) and no funding).
I would like to publicly thank Ian King, Ceri Watkins, and Jonathon Vickery for all their hard work in creating the conference and journal over the years. I believe that the conference and journal have become central to the field of arts and management and I would not like to see their demise become permanent.
So, I would like to start a conversation about how we as a community, as a field, might go forward. My personal sense is that we need a more formal organization that could offer some sharing of the load of all the work it takes to run a conference and a journal and would provide some stability and continuity. I imagine that being an organization with officers, perhaps dues, and so on. There are several different ways that we might go forward:
- we might try to become a self sustaining small organization like SCOS
- we might want to affiliate with a larger existing organization, like the Academy of Management, EIASM, or EURAM and become a subgroup within that larger organization
- we might want to find a university or institution that would support the conference and/or journal (in the way that Essex has in the past)
- we might want to explore finding a publisher (Sage, Palgrave, etc) for the journal (self publishing is a difficult route, but offers a great deal of freedom to do interesting things).
There may well be other options that haven’t occurred to me. I would like to hear people’s thoughts and feelings on this.
Regards,
Steve Taylor
Steven S. Taylor, PhD
Associate Professor
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Department of Management
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Worcester, MA 01609
USA
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