The Academy is governed by a Council of Management, composed of individuals elected by the general membership for a minimum of 3 years, and others co-opted for specific tasks as well as a few ex-officio members. It represents the interests of the membership and contributes to the activities of the learned society through working with the Vice Chairs. An elected Executive Committee develops the strategy, works with Council and oversee the longer term direction of the Academy and ensure an effective implementation of the agreed strategy.
Executive Committee
About the Committee
The Executive Committee consists of the President, the Chair, elected Vice-Chairs and an appointed Treasurer. The elected Vice-Chair roles cover the following portfolios of BAM activity:
Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity
Special Interest Groups
Academic Affairs of Conference and Capacity Building
Research and Publications
Management, Knowledge and Education
Professor Katy Mason
Chair
Professor Katy Mason
Chair
Professor Nic Beech
President
Professor Nic Beech
President
Dr Neil Pyper
Treasurer
Dr Neil Pyper
Treasurer
Dr Kate Black
Co-Vice Chair: Management, Knowledge and Education
Dr Kate Black
Co-Vice Chair: Management, Knowledge and Education
Dr Ashley Roberts
Co-Vice Chair: Management, Knowledge and Education
Dr Ashley Roberts
Co-Vice Chair: Management, Knowledge and Education
Professor Pawan Budhwar
Co-Vice Chair: Research and Publications
Professor Pawan Budhwar
Co-Vice Chair: Research and Publications
Professor Stephanie Decker
Co-Vice Chair: Research and Publications
Professor Stephanie Decker
Co-Vice Chair: Research and Publications
Professor Emma Parry
Co-Vice Chair: Academic Affairs of Conference and Capacity Building
Professor Emma Parry
Co-Vice Chair: Academic Affairs of Conference and Capacity Building
Professor David Sarpong
Co-Vice Chair: Academic Affairs of Conference and Capacity Building
Professor David Sarpong
Co-Vice Chair: Academic Affairs of Conference and Capacity Building
Professor Savvas Papagiannidis
Co-Vice Chair: Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
Professor Savvas Papagiannidis
Co-Vice Chair: Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
Dr Russ Glennon
Co-Vice Chair: Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
Dr Russ Glennon
Co-Vice Chair: Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
Professor Martyna Sliwa
Professor Martyna Sliwa
Martyna Śliwa is Professor of Business Ethics and Associate Dean for Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability at Durham University Business School UK. Her research focuses on diversity, inclusivity and intersectionality in organizations, language differences and their effects on organizational hierarchies and power relations. She is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Management Learning and the Vice-Chair for Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity for BAM.
BAM President
The role of BAM President is to:
Provide leadership in external relations between BAM and stakeholders such as government and its agencies, other learned societies, practitioner and professional societies and universities.
Bring to bear network contacts for the benefits of BAM membership.
Influence external stakeholders at a senior level, enhancing the stature of BAM in the eyes of others and increasing the impact of BAM in UK society and economy.
Support the intellectual activity of the learned society.
Encourage the development and expansion of knowledge in the field of management.
In collaboration with the Chair and Vice-Chairs, contributing to, and influencing, the setting of strategic aims and communicating these internally to members and externally to other stakeholders.
Support recruitment and growth in membership.
Act as confidential recipient of ‘whistleblowing’ or complaints from members.
BAM Chair
The role of BAM Chair is to:
Develop BAM strategy and agree priorities with the Executive and Council
Chair Council meetings and support Council activities
Chair Executive meetings and support the activities of the Vice Chairs
Support the CEO in the running of the office and the operation of society as a whole
Support the BAM community in pursuing the vision and purpose of the learned society
Work with the President to agree foci and liaise with external stakeholders
Liaise with Fellows
Vice Chair Portfolios
All Vice-Chairs have the responsibility for reviewing and development of new membership services and recruitment of new members. In addition to chairing the relevant committee and playing a role in the strategic development of BAM, the Vice Chair are expected to develop their role in particular areas, including but not limited to:
Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (EDI)
Ensure that the core values of Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (EDI) are fully embedded and reflected in all BAM activities, including Conference, events, SIGs, publications, research, grants, awards and the Fellows College.
Work with the BAM Office to oversee monitoring of Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity across all BAM activities, as above but also including website, social media and membership, and to report to the BAM Executive Committee on progress,
Work across committees to advise, alert and recommend best practice actions to improve EDI.
Engage with appropriate external parties working with improving EDI to bring best practice into BAM and the wider BAM community.
Special Interest Groups
Oversee governance rules for SIGs
Implement the guidelines for the formation of SIGs
Oversee funding of SIGs
Enabling learning and knowledge sharing between SIG chairs
Encourage SIG activities throughout the year
Act as a route for SIGs to have voice and input in the executive
Academic Affairs of Conference and Capacity Building
Oversee academic issues of the annual conference
Oversee key events e.g. doctoral symposium and summer workshop
Develop and monitor the provision of events which cover the academic career, writing and methods (with appropriate SIGs)
Support capacity building for strategic priorities such as influencing policy making, engaging stakeholders and publicity and engaging with world-class academics internationally
Liaise with other VCs and SIG chairs to support their capacity building activities.
Research and Publications
Consider how we open up scholarly research work, rather than constraining it e.g. promoting monographs, considering the impact of the ABS list
Consider how we encourage innovation and the development of management scholarship, possibly by holding a debate and bringing people of experience and standing in
Consider what BAM might do to help increase the flow of researching funding to the community, and consult with BAM members who are in appropriate RC networks
Journals – in consultation with those previously involved, as appropriate, work on establishing some ground rules for the relationship between the editors, the executive, council and BAM
Investigate the possibility of having a new journal and/or a platform for on-line, open access journals – possibly in conjunction with the British Library
Consider how we should best recognise the heterodoxy of people’s research careers – e.g. part time PhDs, people without PhDs but who have been teaching for 10 years – are they ‘early career’?
Oversee the administration of the small grants fund
Management Knowledge and Education
Develop BAMs approach to supporting high quality learning, teaching and management education by organizing activities and events and engaging with professional bodies and other learned societies
Work with the Vice-Chair (Academic Affairs of Conference and Capacity Building) to develop capacity building programme for members
Work with the Vice-Chair (Research and Publications) to develop and launch a management knowledge and education journal
Develop and support BAM learning, teaching and management education awards
Develop and support BAM MKE small grant scheme
Treasurer
In liaison with the CEO, oversee BAM finances and resources and liaise with the auditors
Present financial and resource issues and plans to the Executive Committee
Participate with the Chair and other Vice-Chairs in decision making
Council
The role of Council is to formulate strategy and policy, and to implement strategy in conjunction with the Executive and Academy office.
If you would like to know more about becoming a member of BAM Council please email the BAM office team at [email protected].
Current elected members of Council (2022)
Professor Carole Elliott
Professor Carole Elliott
Carole Elliott is Professor of Organisation Studies at Sheffield University Management School. She was recently elected to BAM's College of Fellows, and in 2021 also received the Academy of HRD's (AHRD) Laura Bierema Excellence in Critical HRD award. She is an associate editor of Gender, Work and Organization, and former editor-in-chief of Human Resource Development International. Her research interests include: gender and leadership learning; gendered media representations; critical HRD; power and politics. Along with Professors Valerie Stead and Sharon Mavin, Carole co-edited the 2021Routledge Handbook of Research Methods on Gender in Management.
Dr Anne Clare Gillon
Dr Anne Clare Gillon
Professor Claire Hannibal
Professor Claire Hannibal
Prof Qile (Horace) He
Prof Qile (Horace) He
Professor Qile He, also known as Horace, is a Professor of Strategy and Performance Management at the University of Derby, UK. He was previously a Reader in Operations Management and the Associate Head of School for Research of the School of Strategy and Leadership at Coventry University, UK, successfully leading the school research portfolio. His research expertise and interests are in the area of interfirm alliances and partnerships, innovation strategies and processes of organizations, as well as sustainable and responsible business, and inter-organizational knowledge transfer. He has published over 80 papers in refereed journals, books, and leading international conference proceedings.
Dr Inge Hill
BAM Council Member and Co-Chair, BAM Strategy SIG
Dr Inge Hill
BAM Council Member and Co-Chair, BAM Strategy SIG
Dr Hill is an elected member of the British Academy of Management Council and co-chair of the Strategy Special Interest group. She is Senior Lecturer for Business Strategy at the Royal Agricultural University leading on the Rural Economy research cluster. Inge’s research interests focus on business support research and creative industry research in rural and urban contexts. She has published in Local Economy, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development and the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research. She is the RAU strategic lead for the National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise, a Research England funded cross-university research centre with Warwick Business School, Gloucester University and Newcastle University’s Centre for the Rural Economy.
Professor Stephen Linstead
Professor Stephen Linstead
Professor Robert MacIntosh
Professor Robert MacIntosh
Professor Mairi Maclean
Professor Mairi Maclean
Professor Stephen Procter
Professor Stephen Procter
Dr Stefanie Reissner
Reader in Management and Organisation Studies, Newcastle University
Dr Stefanie Reissner
Reader in Management and Organisation Studies, Newcastle University
Stefanie Reissner is Reader in Management and Organisation Studies at Newcastle University Business School. Her research interest is in how social actors make sense of their experiences in organisations, how they talk about these experiences using language and storytelling and how their sensemaking affects personal, professional and organisational identities.
Professor Sarah Robinson
Professor Sarah Robinson
Professor Natalia Vershinina
Professor Natalia Vershinina
Current co-opted and ex-officio members of Council (2022)
Professor Dermot Breslin
Co-Editor-in-Chief, IJMR
Professor Dermot Breslin
Co-Editor-in-Chief, IJMR
Dermot Breslin is Professor of Organizational Behaviour at Rennes School of Business, France. He has previously held faculty positions at the University of Sheffield, UK, Tor Vergata University, Italy, the University of Saarlandes, Germany and Lincoln Business School, UK. His current research focuses on evolutionary approaches in organization studies, organizational learning and creativity. Dermot has been Co Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Management Reviews since 2017, and he sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Management Studies, International Small Business Journal and the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research. His research has been published in leading business and management journals including International Journal of Management Reviews, Organization Studies, Organizational Research Methods, Work Employment and Society, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, European Management Review and Studies in Higher Education. Before entering academia, Dermot worked in the steel, aluminium and paper industries, in engineering design, operations and sales management.
Sahar Bakr
Sahar Bakr
Professor Jamie Callahan
Professor of Organisation and Ethics, Durham University
Professor Jamie Callahan
Professor of Organisation and Ethics, Durham University
Jamie L. Callahan (EdD, PhD) is Professor of Organisation and Ethics at Durham University. Her EdD from George Washington University explored systems of emotion in organisational change. Her PhD from Tilburg University addressed issues of power in Critical HRD. A USAF veteran, she served as a personnel officer and member of the Pentagon Air Staff Total Quality consultancy team. Jamie’s academic career has spanned multiple institutions prior to her present position, including Virginia Tech, Texas A&M, Drexel, and Northumbria universities. Her research addresses issues of power and privilege in organised contexts, leading her to explore marginalised groups’ experiences of leadership, learning, and organisational transformation. Her particular passion is championing gender equity. The former Editor of Human Resource Development Review and current Co-Editor of International Journal of Management Reviews, Jamie has published extensively, including in journals such as Human Relations, Organization Studies, Violence Against Women, International Journal of Management Reviews, Human Resource Development Quarterly, and Human Resource Development International. She has also earned numerous research awards, including the Academy of Human Resource Development 2020 Scholar of the Year Award and 2015 Outstanding Book of the Year Award. As an educator, she has been a visiting professor in Saudi Arabia, France, England, and Thailand. She is a feminist, editor, author, mentor, activist, and educator.
Professor Douglas Cumming
Co-Editor-in-Chief
Professor Douglas Cumming
Co-Editor-in-Chief
Specialisms: Corporate finance and governance, Entrepreneurship, International business, Law, Public policy
Dr Marian Iszatt-White
Co-Editor-in-Chief, IJMR
Dr Marian Iszatt-White
Co-Editor-in-Chief, IJMR
Marian Iszatt-White is a Senior Lecturer in Leadership at Lancaster University Management School (LUMS). She entered academia after a successful career in financial risk management, latterly as Group Treasurer of Top 100 plc Enterprise Oil, having also worked in the specialist engineering and hospitality industries. Since joining LUMS, she has served as Director of the School’s Executive MBA and is now Director of their doctoral programmes. Her research interests revolve around the practice turn in leadership and its implications for ‘aspirational’ forms of leadership (such as Authentic Leadership) and leadership development. She has published in journals such as Leadership, Management Learning, Organization Studies and Journal of Business Ethics, as well as having a recent review article on Authentic Leadership in IJMR. She is has published four books, including a post-graduate leadership textbook (now in its third edition) and an edited volume on leadership as emotional labour. View Marian's University Profile and LinkedIn.