Steve

Always wanted to get to AMO, and always could not.

Happy for Tamara Journal to pick up the slack till you get on with  
another publisher.

We have not raised prices ever, and don't plan to.

We are on Proquest and some other venues and print four issues a  
year, usually double ones.

Our affiliation is with Standing Conference for Management and  
Organization Inquiry  http://scmoi.org
Everyone going there has a subscription with the conference fee

That takes the pressure off

Tamara Journal website has a new look http://tamarajournal.com

Aesthetics is always welcome here, especially if it has a critical bent.

All the best

david
On Mar 22, 2010, at 5:07 AM, Taylor, Steven S. wrote:

> 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
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