Hi All,
I have been lurking in the sidelines and have little to offer, except the 
observation that this exchange has been truly inspiring. To see a group of 
friends and associates, creating, collaborating, and supporting one another 
to keep this thing alive, is a model of humanity and generosity. It is an 
affirmation of so much that I think members of this network believe in.

I hope my next contribution can be more practical in support of this effort.

Thanks to all the movers and shakers - past and presently active.

Piers Ibbotson



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Taylor, Steven S." <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: Arts of (sustainable) Management recovery, recycling, reprise, 
rejuvenation, return,


Hi, Paul

This is a very generous offer.  It works very well for me, since I will be 
going to the Academy of Management and am available on either side of it.  I 
wonder how it works for others, as many who come to AMO don’t go to the 
Academy of Management meetings.  And I think that many folks see August as a 
holiday month.

As I think about it, if most of the presenters could make it, then we would 
have the sessions, although they wouldn’t have the link to sustainability. 
However, the plenary sessions, which would need to be created could be 
focused on sustainability.  I know that I was scheduled to present a staged 
reading of my new play, “The Invisible Foot” as a plenary session and it 
fits very well with a theme of sustainability.  It might also be possible to 
solicit additional papers around the topic.

I also want to point out that not everyone who was to give a paper in 
Istanbul is a member of AACORN.  I have opened this discussion here because 
I have access to this group.  But there is also an email list of folks who 
have been involved with AMO over the years and at some point we would need 
to make sure that everyone is being included.

We would have to address the question of what the sticking points with Essex 
were around transferring the conference and figure out who at Essex to talk 
to about this.  I suppose if the conference cannot be transferred (for 
whatever reason) a new and different (but in many ways remarkably similar) 
conference could be organized.  I suspect something could be organized in 
the relatively short time frame we have between now and the end of summer, 
but it would probably be smaller than past AMO conferences.

Regardless of what we do with this for this year, or next; it seems to me 
that creating some sort of organization to hold it would be useful.

- Steve Taylor


On 3/23/10 9:29 AM, "Paul Shrivastava" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Steve and all,
Very sorry to hear of this. First, my personal thanks to Ian, Ceri, 
Jonathon, and Jane and Essex U for their many years of supporting this 
group. It certainly deserves to be continued.
Last year, I had offered to host the conference at Bucknell, instead of 
Istanbul, but the Lewisburg, Penn, was no match for Istanbul.  Now that we 
need to rethink venue let me reprise that offer with some modifications.

I have moved to Montreal, the Canadian capital of arts and culture, and a 
more convenient location for conferencing, and I have some additional 
resources at hand at Concordia University.  Silvester Ivanaj and I are also 
initiating an International Chair on Arts and Sustainable Organization at 
Univ of Nancy in France.  This year the Academy of Management is in 
Montreal, so many of you are probably coming to Montreal in August.

If the conference could be positioned to include an explicit focus on 
sustainability (because we are a Centre for Sustainable Enterprise), I can 
host it at Concordia just prior to or just after the Academy of Management. 
We would need some volunteers to co-Chair the conf (The Steves - Taylor + 
Linstead?) and pick up the Academic Program where it stands.  I can provide 
spaces, local human power, local arrangements, etc.   For next conference 
(two years from now) I can talk to Silvester (Univ of Nancy) to do a 
conference in the glorious town of Nancy, France.  This may get us over the 
transition period and give us time to structure and find additional support. 
Montreal has many cultural institutions that would be interested in 
supporting/collaborating.

I have some thoughts on structuring, Journal, etc, but will hold them for 
later and just reiterate Steve Linstead's warning "I know to be true 
AoM/Aesthesis wasn't sustainable" and consider decoupling the two.

We have our Centre's Advisory Board meeting on March 29, and space bookings 
for large events have 6 month leadtime, so this group would need to move 
quickly with a decision.  Am available for a telecon today or tomorrow 
(Skype paul.shri)


With Best Regards,
paul S.

Paul Shrivastava, Ph. D.
David O'Brien Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, and
Director, David O'Brien Center for Sustainable Enterprise
http://johnmolson.concordia.ca/sustainable


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