In my more optimistic moments I wonder if we haven't reached a point where
the arts have reached a place in respect to management, and in particular in
respect to the academy of management where it can now survive in the
mainstream. That is to say, perhaps we have grown beyond needing our own
special and separate place in the academy of management. For example, this
summer in Philadelphia, I'm doing an all-academy symposium with Mary Jo
Hatch, Stefan Meisiek, Scott Rigby, and Frank Barrett called " Art &
Business: Partners in Doing Good?" And Donna Ladkin and I will be
presenting two papers in the ODC division that are arts based. I suspect
that there are a variety of other such work scattered throughout the
academy. (and in the interest of making AoM more interesting and fun for
me, I would love to hear about other things going on there.)
It seems to me that having your own special place can lead to that place
becoming your own special ghetto and that separate but equal is never equal
(but always separate). Having said that, I (like David) get a lot more out
of the smaller, more concentrated art and management conferences.
But overall, I do not have a sense of having lost the war (or even the
battle) for the place of arts within management.
- Steve
On 3/27/07 9:38 AM, "Jean Bartunek" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Daved and Chris and Steve (Taylor)
>
> I appreciate these notes and I also appreciate what you have done for the
> Academy. I HOPE that at least the spirit of "Academy arts" still has some
> life in it...
>
> jean
>
Steven S. Taylor, PhD
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Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Department of Management
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