Hi fellow Aacorns
Boje's email is correct. In the interest of
completeness I am forwarding the formal notice I
received from Ken Smith regarding the future of
AcademyArts. Perhaps this will help in developing
individual responses. Following this is a forward
of the notice received regarding the Fringe Café
(which I have taken the liberty to add to the
discussion.) As you will see that there are
differences in how the future of each is seen by
the AOM Board.
Regards
Chris Poulson
Chair AcademyArts 2002, 2004, 2005
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>From: Ken Smith <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 08:40:20 -0500
>
>Dear Chris Poulson,
>
>As you know, the AcademyArts is to scheduled to operate at the Honolulu
>meetings in 2005 with a budget of $1,000. We thank you for all your
>efforts in organizing this event. This letter is with reference to
>AcademyArts in future years.
>
>At a recent meeting of the Executive Committee of the Academy of
>Management, we discussed the current structure and organization of our
>national meeting. As you may know, each year the Academy experiments with
>new ideas for enhancing the program. Groups such as AcademyArts, Fringe
>Café, Practitioner Series evolved from these experiments.
>
>As a general rule, these experiments tend to continue overtime without much
>additional consideration. In fact, many of the experiments seem to
>automatically become institutionalized into the program even though they
>are the personal initiatives of an individual program chair. This
>probably happens because the new Program Chair picks up right where the
>last Program chair finished. The Program Chair¹s job is significant, and
>therefore the challenge is often to replicate the prior year¹s program
>without additional deliberation.
>
>At our Executive Committee meetings, we discussed how a number of groups,
>include the Academy Arts, Fringe Café, Practitioner series have become
>ongoing features of the annual meeting . These groups now appear on the
>program almost automatically, when in fact the original intent may have
>been to simply experiment. These groups have access to important member
>resources including premium space, program time and financial support but
>are not part of the current academy democratic structure, with division,
>interest groups and subject themes. . In addition, there is no mechanism
>for performance evaluation.
>
>Unfortunately, this creates a governance problem in that some groups of
>members have access to member resources without proper oversight and a
>place on the program that falls outside of our structure and is not
>available to others. The goal of the AcademyArts was to provide a ³venue
>for artistic expressions of art, poetry, and performance.² We appreciate
>the efforts of the group managing Academy Arts. However, in the future
>(after Honolulu), AcademyArts will no longer be provided space or budget.
>If AcademyArts is to continue within the Academy, it may have two
>alternative paths: 1) it may seek sponsorship of other divisions within
>their program time and space allotment; or 2) file for interest group
>status.
>
>Of these two alternatives, we believe that Academy Arts may have the most
>success with seeking joint ventures with other divisions. Achieving
>interest group status is quite a difficult process and the current goals
>of the AcademyArts do not appear to be consistent with the research and
>professional development goals of an interest group.
>
>We hope you understand the basis for this decision. Please contact us if
>you have questions.
>
>
>We look forward to seeing you in Honolulu in August. Thanks again for all
>your efforts.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Ken G. Smith Tom Lee
>Honolulu, Program Chair, Atlanta, Program Chair
>
>
>
>Ken G. Smith
>Dean's Chaired Professor of Business Strategy
>Management and Organization
>Robert H. Smith School of Business
>4538 Van Munching Hall
>University of Maryland
>College Park, MD 20742-1815
>301-405-2250 TEL
>[log in to unmask]
>http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu
>
>Robert H. Smith School of Business
>Leaders for the Digital Economy
From: Ken Smith <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 08:36:28 -0500
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Dear David Cowan and David Barry,
As you know, the Fringe Café is to scheduled to operate at the Honolulu
meetings in 2005 with a budget of $1,000. We thank you for working so hard
to organize this event. This letter is with reference to Fringe Café in
future years.
At a recent meeting of the Executive Committee of the Academy of
Management, we discussed the current structure and organization of the
annual meeting. As you may know, each year the Academy experiments with
new ideas for enhancing the program. Groups such as Fringe Café,
AcademyArts, Practitioner Series evolved from these experiments. As a
general rule, these experiments tend to continue overtime without much
additional consideration. In fact, many of the experiments seem to
automatically become institutionalized into the program even though they
are personal initiatives of an individual program chair. This probably
happens because the new Program Chair picks up right where the last Program
Chair finished. The Program Chair¹s job is significant, and therefore the
challenge is often to replicate the prior year¹s program without further
deliberation.
At our Executive Committee meeting, we discussed how a number of groups,
include the Fringe Café, AcademyArts, Practitioner Series have become
ongoing features of the annual meeting These groups are given important
member resources including premium space, program time and financial
support but are not part of the current academy democratic structure, with
division, interest groups and subject themes. In addition, currently,
there is no way to evaluate their performance.
Unfortunately, this creates a governance problem in that some groups of
members have access to member resources without proper oversight and they
have a place on the program that falls outside of our structure and is not
available to others. The original goal of the Fringe Café was to provide
an open space for dialogue about important management ideas (Originally:
Democracy in a Knowledge Economy). Of course, we believe this is very much
consistent with the entire purpose of the Academy Meetings. As such, it is
our intent to establish a meeting place, with tables and chairs at each of
the Academy venues in the future. This is consistent with the original
goal of the Fringe Café.
However, in the future, this space will be provided at each meeting without
budget and there will be no formal need to staff this venue with
volunteers. If the existing members of ACORN or Fringe want to meet, they
can, of course, do so informally and use the provided public space. If
they need additional resources, they must seek formal sponsorship from one
or more of the divisions.
We hope that you understand the purpose for this decision. We also note
that if ACORN or Fringe were to grow and develop a research and teaching
agenda, it may be possible to file for interest group status. In which
case, the group would be operating within the current Academy structure.
We hope you understand the basis of this decision. Please contact us if
you have questions or concerns.
We look forward to seeing you in Honolulu in August and again thank you for
your work.
Sincerely,
Ken G. Smith Tom Lee
Honolulu, Program Chair, Atlanta, Program Chair
Ken G. Smith
Dean's Chaired Professor of Business Strategy
Management and Organization
Robert H. Smith School of Business
4538 Van Munching Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-1815
301-405-2250 TEL
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http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu
Robert H. Smith School of Business
Leaders for the Digital Economy
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Chris Poulson
Professor of Management and Human Resources
California State Polytechnic University Pomona
Pomona, CA 91768
Mail: P.O. Box 339, Claremont, CA 91711-0339
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"Seeing Time" Photo Essay as exhibited at the Academy of Management 2000:
http://www.aom.pace.edu/meetings/2000/art/seeing_time_title.htm
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