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2010 Annual Review
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The BAM Doctoral symposium is intended to be interactive and to provide opportunities to engage with experienced...
We had a record number of submissions to the HRM track for the BAM conference this year, with a total of 72 submissions. We are delighted to have two workshops accepted for presentation at the conference, as well as...
BAM is proud to annouce that Dr Jeffrey Pfeffer has been confirmed as the main plenary speaker at BAM2012.
Jeffrey Pfeffer is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational...
On 2nd April BAM submitted its response to Higher Education Commission’s “Call for Evidence on Postgraduate Education Inquiry”.
BAM was pleased to have an opportunity to...
The Society for the Advancement of Management Studies has again generously sponsored 50 bursaries for full-time students to attend the BAM2012 Doctoral Symposium.
Professor Jacky Holloway, Associate Dean of the Open...
Gender in Management: An International Journal is looking for a new books review editor to replace Marianne Tremblay who is standing down in this role after many years of dedication to it.
If you...
The Full Time Doctoral Representative position on BAM Council is becoming vacant this September, and we are therefore seeking a full time doctoral student to occupy this position....
I have set up this new site for GIM - http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4287557. It enables members...
The Campaign for Social Science welcomes the House of Lords Recommendation for the Appointment of Chief Social Scientist 'at the earliest opportunity'
'Given the all-pervasive importance of social...
I am very sad to report that Geoff Mallory, a BAM stalwart and head of the Centre for Strategy and Marketing at the Open University Business School, died suddenly on 21 February.
Geoff was a member of...
From Wednesday 15th of September to Friday the 7th of September the Irish Acdemy of Management will host their 2012 annual conference.
In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, and the...
I am delighted to be leading BAM at such an exciting stage in our history. 2011 was a highly-successful 25th anniversary year, with the most popular annual conference and doctoral symposium to date, launch of our new...
As Chair of the Marketing and Retail SIG at BAM, I would like to invite you to a one-day event ‘The Future of the Retail Fashion Store: Setting a New Research Agenda’. It will be held on Friday 9 March...
Teaching-led universities have been more open than research-intensive institutions to adopting a Japanese manufacturing technique designed to cut out "wasteful" inefficiency as they face a tougher fight for survival, it...
From 2012, BAM will move towards online-only access to BJM and IJMR. The move will enable BAM and its publishers, Wiley Blackwell, to invest more in exclusive online resources for its journals, adding greater value to your BAM...
The ESRC are currently seeking to appoint new members to their Committees and Grant Assessment Panels, both of which have vacancies in Management and Business.
Further details, including vacancy specifications and...
Tuesday 24 and Wednesday 25 April 2012 at the Mercure Manchester Piccadilly Hotel.
BAM would like to draw your attention to the above conference for those involved in Learning and Teaching in business schools, organized...
2011 has been a great year for BAM. The annual conference received the largest number of paper submissions on record, and with over 650 people attending from 41 different countries worldwide it proved to be one of our most successful events...
Since the AGM in September, the Corporate Governance SIG has held two well attended events.
One in collaboration with Cass Business School, on November 25th, where the topic was corporate governance and the law. An...
The attached link contains the call for papers to the MOPAN conference at Wageningen University, The Netherlands 2-4th July.
Deadline for submission of 500 word abstract January 15th 2012.
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The REF2014 final panel criteria and working methods will be published in early 2012, so the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) have created a resource of frequently asked questions to address queries relating to...
Please see the BAM2012 press release, and the Gender Track call below. we had a really good track last year and I encourage you all to submit to this...
Please be advised that paper submission opens in early January 2012 for BAM2012, the 26th Annual Conference of the British Academy of Management.
Last year’s conference was as vibrant and intellectually...
If you are interested in distributed or shared leadership, you may be interested in a special issue published recently in the International Journal of Management Reviews (IJMR), this is a British Academy of Management (BAM)...
Date: Friday 9 March 2012.
Location: London College of Fashion, 20 John Princess St, London.
Time: 10am-4pm.
Contact: Dr Karise Hutchinson (Chair of SIG-...
Pawan Budhwar and Helen Shipton, Co-track chairs of the HRM SIG, are pleased to announce that the 2012 HR SIG Workshop will be held on 17th and 18th May 2012 at Cranfield School of Management, Bedfordshire, UK. The workshop will...
Please find attached the minutes from the Annual General Meeting that took place at the BAM 2011 conference...
The HRM track was successful, with many interesting papers and opportunities for collaboration\ building networks. 55 papers were presented at the conference, making HRM one of the biggest tracks at BAM.
As new track...
There has been a change in editor of Gender in Management: An International Journal. I [Adelina Broadbridge] have taken over from Sandra Fielden as editor of the journal (Professor Sharon Mavin continues as...
Friday 25th November 4pm-6pm: The BAM Corporate Governance Special Interest Group and Cass Business School’s Centre for Corporate Governance Research are holding a joint event to discuss the role of law...
The ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) has made significant changes in recent years in its approach to funding social science research in the UK. While maintaining its reputation for funding top-quality...
The 25th anniversary BAM conference was held at Aston University 13th-15th September 2011 where a record number of delegates heard from keynote speakers, such as Sir Peter Rigby, founder, Chairman and Group CEO of...
Professor Andrew Pettigrew, OBE has been presented with the Richard Whipp Lifetime Achievement Award at the 25th British Academy of Management (BAM) conference in Aston. The award is especially poignant as Professors...
On 14 September, 14.00-15.30, at Aston University the BAM2011 conference hosted a session on how to benefit from the CMI Top Management Articles Initiative. Chaired by Jacky Holloway, the event attracted around 20 participants. The...
Adrian Alsop has thanked BAM for the opportunity to say a few words from ESRC on the special occasion of its 25th Anniversary. Also special as this Conference marks the last appearance of AIM research in its current form...
Professors Mike Pidd (chair of the subpanel), Richard Thorpe and Rick Delbridge have been confirmed as speakers at the BAM REF Conference for Deans and Directors of Research, taking place on 28th November in London....
BAM2011 at Aston was one of our most popular conferences to date, with 693 delegates and 105 Doctoral Symposium participants. Your institution could make a major contribution to this key event in the academic calendar!...
The CNRS, the national journal ranking system in France, has moved the British Journal of Management (BJM) one class higher in its multi-tier assessment. BJM is now in much better company on the list, cited among top tier journals in...
With 12 developmental papers and 6 full papers the track had a comfortably busy schedule at Aston. Sessions were well attended, and the lively discussion in each was both penetrating and supportive especially for presentations by...
The ‘gender and management’ track continues to go from strength to strength and, as in previous years, was very well attended at the conference. We heard a range of interesting papers from...
This year the Public Management & Governance track was pleased to host a day of full paper panels and a day of developmental paper panels. The panels ranged across a variety of key topics in the field, including: studies of strategic...
Following the 2011 BAM conference, the Strategy-as-Practice track has stated a linked-in group. Please come join the discussion at SasP@BAM, and feel free to invite any contacts who...
The Corporate Governance SIG track had 22 pre-conference submissions. After refereeing, three full papers, seven developmental papers and one joint workshop were presented at Aston. A best paper award (developmental paper) was...
The Performance Management track, organised in close collaboration with its special interest group, has been particularly busy this year, with international scholars showcasing their latest research in 19 lively presentations...
At 2011 AGMs in Aston members of HOM SIG took the decision to join together with the PMG SIG. This arrangement has been made in order to ensure that healthcare research continues to enjoy visibility and prominence within the BAM...
The results of the recent BAM Executive and Council elections have been announced. Professor Nic Beech will join the Executive Committee as Vice Chair and five successful candidates will join BAM Council, serving for a period of three...
As part of its remit to advocate on behalf of the business and management research community, the British Academy of Management has submitted it's reponse to the...
Professor Michael Pidd, Chair of the REF Business and Management sub-panel, made a presentation at the annual BAM conference updating the community on the proposed REF working methods.
In response to a question...
Call for Chapter Proposals: Business Innovation and Disruption in Publishing Vol. 1 in the Business Innovation and Disruption Book Series Book Series Editor-in-Chief Robert DeFillippi Volume One Co Editors Robert DeFillippi and...
The British Academy of Management (BAM) and Emerald Group Publishing are proud to announce the launch of the Advanced Authorship Scheme, an exciting new mentoring scheme to support new and upcoming authors get their work to...
‘Theorising contemporary public management: International and comparative perspectives’
The British Journal of Management is pleased to announce a special issue focused on contemporary public sector management...
The recommendation by the House of Lords Science and Technology Sub-Committee’s report Behaviour Change, published today (20 July), to appoint an independent Chief Social Scientist is welcomed by the Academy of Social Sciences...
Last month BAM was proud to announce the launch of the new BAM website, complete with a fresh new design and online membership services such as event registration, membership signup / renewal and profile editing.
It...
Many thanks to everyone who has registered for the 25th Anniversary BAM2011 Conference. With over 550 bookings so far, it is shaping up to be a highly successful event.
If you have yet to book your accommodation, please...
The number of venues expressing an interest in hosting the BAM annual conference has increased with the continued success of the event. To ensure fairness and transparency BAM has implemented a formal tendering process. This...
The ESRC is pleased to announce that the amount of funding has been increased for the Rising Powers call. An extra £1million has been added increasing the funding to £4.3million. This is to help explore the UK’s relationship...
The Australian Academy of Science welcomed today's decision by the Government and the Australian Research Council to end the system of ranking academic journals as A*, A, B and C.
The ranking system was a...
The Society for the Advancement of Management Studies has generously sponsored 50 bursaries for full-time students to attend the BAM2011 Doctoral Symposium.
Professor Rick Delbridge, Associate Dean for...
We would like to encourage proposals for a special issue in the International Journal of Management Reviews.
The special issue will be published in Mar 2014 and we anticipate that the call for papers will identify a...
The ESRC is pleased to announce the third phase of its Rising Powers Call for research grants which opened on the 19 April on the Research Councils Joint Electronic System. The closing date...
Response by Professor Abby Ghobadian to ‘Business schools urged to do more teaching and less research’ (Financial Times, 8 April):
Mr Willetts suggested that Britain’s business schools should...
Applications are invited for the Facilitator of the ABS/BAM Development Programme for Directors of Research (DPDoR) for five sessions from March to November 2012.
The purpose of the cohort programme...
The Research and Development Committee (RADC) is a subcommittee of BAM Council. Broadly it is responsible for implementing research and scholarship strategy approved by the Council.
For terms of reference please see...
As part of its broader mission the British Academy of Management seeks to be a prominent voice for its members and the wider business and management community, and as such regularly nominates individuals to organizations like the AcSS to ensure...
The first BAM Champion event has been hosted by Keith Glanfield (Aston Business School), on 22nd February for the Aston Research Society, for Business School students.
The presentation concentrated on...
The Chartered Management Institute (CMI) is launching a new initiative to bring the best research on management topics from universities and business schools in the UK to managers in the workplace, working in collaboration...
HEFCE have announced the membership of the REF panels, which are charged with defining the criteria of assessment for submissions to REF and ultimately assessing researchers’ submissions.
The British Academy of...
A new student section of the BAM website has been created as part of BAM's continuing efforts to support doctoral students in the management community.
As either a new or established doctoral...
Professor Michael Pidd of Lancaster Unversity, a BAM Fellow and Council member, has been confirmed as the REF Business and Management Studies subpanel chair.
The decision follows an open nominations and...
BAM congratulates Professor Cary Cooper CBE, who has won the Lord Dearing Lifetime Achievement Award at the Times Higher Education awards ceremony in London.
This award is given to the individual who,...
The Richard Whipp Lifetime Achievment Award is made in memory of Professor Richard Whipp, an outstanding scholar in the field of business andmanagement and former Chair of the British Academy of...
BAM is proud to annouce the launch of our brand new facebook and...
Congratulations Zoe Radner!
Professor Zoe Radnor has been elected as Vice Chair of BAM, to serve on the Executive Committee for a period of five years (2011-2015) and, with other Executive committee...
At the start of November BAM held the first meeting of the first cohort of ESRC/SAMS Management and Business Development Fellows. The event was held at the British Library and saw talks from a variety of...
BAM welcomes its new Doctoral Representatives for 2011. The two representatives have been co-opted onto BAM Council to be the voice of Doctoral Students.
They are:
- Paul Caulfield...
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M 2010: "Management Research in a Changing Climate"
14th-16th September 2010, Octagon Centre, University of Sheffield
On 14th – 16th September this...
Thanks to the efforts of over 20 presenters and tutors, and sponsorship from SAMS and the ESRC, 100+ doctoral students from many countries enjoyed a packed and varied programme at this year’s Doctoral...
On 14 October, the British Library is launching a new free website called the Management and Business studies Portal that will provide access to a vast collection of digital and print material for UK management research and...
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