Steve and others,
thank you for sharing this - I personally hear this now for the first
time. Such sad news, and my compassion and gratitude goes to the Essex
team completely.
We most definitely need to continue as a community, one way or the
other, all of Steve's suggestions seem very good to me. Being a
European, I would vote for a community that is most accessible to all
of us around the world. Academy has become really huge, they have the
system but in practice the location would always be the US. EIASM in
my experience has a long experience in facilitating workshops and
EURAM conferences - perhaps medium-sized workshops would serve as
enjoyable sites for dialogues that often are missing in larger
conferences? SCOS also seems to function quite well and in a creative
fashion.
There are many alternatives I am sure, these are just my spontaneous
thoughts and reactions to Steve's news.
Kind wishes,
Niina
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Dr Niina Koivunen
Research fellow (Academy of Finland)
Assistant professor
Department of Management
University of Vaasa
P.O. Box 700, FI-65101 Vaasa, Finland
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Quoting "Taylor, Steven S." <[log in to unmask]>:
> 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
> 100 Institute Rd
> Worcester, MA 01609
> USA
> +1 508-831-5557
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