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From the Editor

Dear CMS colleagues,It is with great pleasure that I

circulate the June 2014 issue of theCMS newsletter. As per usual, thecontent of this newsletter offersCMS division updates as well asnews from outside the division butwithin our CMS community. The issue begins with inter-nal division news and specificallyboth good and sad news sharedby Gavin Jack, our CMS divisionChair. While I will let you read thegood news concerning the updat-ed By-Laws (among other items)yourselves, I do want to take thisopportunity to echo Gavins senti-ments and sadness concerning JanSchappers resignation as Co-Chairof the division. There is no doubtthat she will be missed dearly in hercapacity on the CMS Executive.

In terms of other internal divi-sion news, the issue features a notefrom the Program Chairs concern-ing the 2014 AOM program andother scheduled activities at theannual meeting. Also included isthe schedule for the Doctoral andNew Faculty Consortium. This ses-sion is usually very well attendedby both new and well-establishedscholars and I hope you will agreethat the schedule overview is prom-ising. More internal news is sharedby Sarah Gilmore (CMS Executive

Representative-at-Large), who asksfor feedback concerning the pros-pect of re-orienting the Dialogues inCritical Management Studies seriesas a publication associated with theCMS division. Indeed the CMSexecutive is looking for feedbackon a number of topics. RobbinDerry, a CMS Representative-at-Large focused on Cross-DivisionCommunications also seeks yourinput on your division membershipsand potential for developing sharedinitiatives with other divisions. The issue features news fromoutside the division but within ourCMS community. Laurent Taskinprovides an informative piece onthe Third Doctoral Workshopheld in Montpellier, France, whichattracts mostly French-speakingCMS individuals.

As noted in previous issues ofthis newsletter, there is a growingappetite to discuss and promote asustainable mentorship program inthe CMS community. While GavinJack mentions this initiative in his Message from the CMS DivisionChair , Ajnesh Prasad picks up thistheme in the closing piece of thenewsletter. Specifically, he askswhat should the CMS community doto better attend to the needs of juniorscholars? These are relevant ques-tions for our community and Gavin

Jack would very much appreciateyour feedback in this regard.

Did you notice the change incolor (once again) in this issue ofthe CMS newsletter? As Gavin Jackmentions in his piece, the CMSExecutive is in the early stages ofconsidering a re-vamped websitedesign, and a new logo. As a result,we do need to try some colors tosee what fits! Do any of you havefeedback on this? Let me begin thediscussion by offering mine: whileI am no expert on colors and theirmeaning, I do believe the process ofselecting CMS colors and the logoshould be as inclusive and lively aspossible. After all, these will con-tribute to our continuing negotiatedidentity as a division within theAOM while also helping to shapewhat is CMS. Gavin plans to speakto this task and process more at theCMS Business Meeting on SundayAugust 3rd 2014. In the mean-time, please consider formulatingsome thoughts on this to eithershare them at the August BusinessMeeting or via email to myself([email protected] ) or any memberof the executive.

Got any news to share withmembers of the CMS community?There are (at least) two very simpleways to do so. Your news, updates,call for papers (etc.) can be:

Gabie Durepos,St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

CRITICAL MANAGEMENT STUDIESAT T H E A C A D E M Y O F M A N A G E M E N T

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this issue

A Message from the CMS Division Chair P.2Note on the Forthcoming AoM Annual Meeting P.3

Doctoral and New Faculty Consortium P.4

Dialogues in Critical Management Studies P.7CMS Workshops Around the World P.8

Bridging Theory and Practice in CMS P.9

Production and Layout: Ashley Pettipas

1. Included in the next issue ofthe CMS newsletter: As most of youwill know, this newsletter is pub-lished four times per year, on thefirst day of March, June, Octoberand December. The deadline tosubmit articles is the first day ofthe month prior to the publicationmonth. Any and all of our mem-bers are invited to submit articles(of approximately 25 - 500 words)deemed of interest to our member-ship.

2. Distributed on the CMS list-serves. Finally, see you all inPhiladelphia! Oh and about that,I would really like to make surethat I DO see as many of you aspossible at the annual meeting.Primarily, I will enjoy meeting youand also, I want to hear your inputand feedback about this newsletter.I encourage you to please intro-duce yourselves and tell me how toimprove the newsletter. To increasemy visibility for our members andto show you how serious I am abouttrying on colors, I have decided todye my hair pink (that is a joke butyou see, I am friendly and try to behumorous). If you are unable to

attend the meeting, I continue tobe accessible (and sadly obsessiveabout my email: [email protected]
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BYLAWS OUTCOME

The CMS Bylaws vocluded on Friday Fe28, 2014. Out of a meship of 644, there wewho voted represent15.53% response ratevoting broke down lik

YES: 99 (99% NO: 1 (1%)

Congratulations, witmajority vote, yourbylaws are accepted!

The bylaws can be vhere:http://group.aomonlineorg/cms/about_us/By-laws.html

Greetings to all CMSDivision Members fromautumnal Melbourne! I write with a few brief updateson the Division activities I out-lined in the March newsletter, aswell as some important news.

My friend and good colleagueJan Schapper has resigned fromher position as Co-Chair of theCMS Division for personal rea-sons. Jan has been a wonder-ful Co-Chair, and has providedinspiration and support bothfor the Division and for me asCo-Chair. Jan is now enjoyingretirement more fully, and isstill a member of the Division. I

would like to thank Jan person-ally and professionally for hersterling work and friendship.

To other matters: I would liketo thank the 100 members ofthe Division who voted on theproposed changes to the DivisionBy-Laws. I am delighted to saythat the proposed By-Laws wereapproved by the voting members.99 members voted for the chang-

es, with 1 member against. Withmore than a two-thirds approvalof the proposals and more than10% of members voting (theresponse rate was 15.53%; 100of 644 members), the vote metthe requirements of Article V

(Amendments) of our By-Laws.The Division website has beenupdated with the new By-Laws.The Executive Committeesattention will next turn to theDivisions domain statement. I would like to draw mem-bers attention once again to thecall for expressions of interestin creating a mentoring struc-ture for early career/new Faculty

members of the Division. WhileI have received some expressionsof interest, it would be useful tohear from other members whomight like to act as a mentor,or a mentee, within a potentialscheme. I would invite thoseinterested to email me: [email protected]

In this regard, I would alsolike to promote the Divisions

new Doctoral and New FacultyConsortium. This Consortiumbuilds on the success of theDivisions Doctoral Consortiumby providing structured sup-port and one-to-one mentoringdiscussions for both doctoral

and early career/New FacultyCMS scholars. Pre-registrationis required by 1 st July 2014 andplaces are limited. Please click onthis link and go to the appropri-ate news item for further infor-mation: http://group.aomonline.org/cms/news/default.html

Finally, the ExecutiveCommittee has been exploringpossibilities for updating and

re-energising the Divisions web-site, and for generating a logofor the Division. We are investi-gating options for a professionalre-design of the website, and lookforward to sharing possible logoswith you in due course.

Thats everything for now. Ilook forward to seeing you inPhiladelphia.

A Message from the CMS Division ChairGavin Jack,Division Chair, La Trobe University, Australia
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Note from the Program Chairs on the Forthcoming AoM Annual Meeting

Sunday 3 rd Tuesday 5 th August 2014, Philadelphia

Emma Bell,Keele University, UK, ProgramScott Taylor,University of Birmingham, UK, Program

The Academy of Management Meetingis the moment when, once again,for a few days in early August, CMS

Division regulars and newcomers travel fromdiverse parts of the world to gather together,this time in the city of Philadelphia. Like theannual gathering of the clan, or the migrationof wildebeest across the savannah to the water-hole, in the calendar of many business schoolacademics, this is a key event.

Having engaged in this annual ritual reg-

ularly, we knew the Academy Meeting to bea finely-tuned machine of sometimes over-whelming scale and efficiency. What wewere less aware of, until this year, was thehuge amount of invisible labour that goesinto organising it. This includes the work of210 CMS Division reviewers, who this yearreviewed over 100 paper and 13 symposia and5 Dark Side Case submissions - often providingauthors with extensive, constructive feedback.In addition to the considerable relief we felt

back in February when the tightly-scheduledprocess worked more or less in the way thatfolks at Academy Central said it should, wewere proud to be part of a Division where tak-ing care in reviewing the work of others is sowidely practiced.

This years conference theme, The Powerof Words, prompted submitters to consider theways in which power and language intersect.Themes and perspectives that are a regularfeature of the CMS Division remit from post-

colonialism to power elites - were also revisitedand developed in new and interesting ways.We cannot do justice here to contributors insummarising the varied ideas and insights thatthis years main program contains, but we willmention a few papers, symposia and otherhighlights that we hope will provoke yourinterest.

The main program starts on Sunday witha CMS-sponsored All-Academy Theme sym-posium, Critical Perspectives on Authentic

Leadership, in which an international panelof scholars will explore and critique the popu-larisation of authenticity in leadership studies,from psychoanalytic, aesthetic and ethical per-spectives.

This year the CMS Division Keynote willtake place on Sunday. In a panel discussion,Marta Cals, Linda Smircich, Gibson Burrell,and a special guest will speak to the titleMetamorphoses: Paradigms and Since. Thepanel, chaired by Raza Mir, will engage the

audience in a futurological conversation on thechanging shape of organizational theorizing toexplore the rise of the monstrous and the endof the taken-for-granted.

The CMS Division Showcase Symposium,Whats a Corporate Elite To Do? Past, Presentand Future of Executive Involvement in PublicAffairs, is moderated by Paul Adler, who con- venes a panel (Richard Marens, Nien-he Shieh,and Mark Mizruchi) that examines the count-er-intuitive arguments presented in Mizruchis

recent book The Fracturing of the AmericanCorporate Elite.

Paper presentations on Monday andTuesday include Alexander Styhres institution-al analysis of womens experiences working inthe video game industry; Srinath Jagannathanand colleagues account of resistance of a peonin an Indian school; and Cara Reeds analysis ofidentity as shapeshifting.

On Monday the Division also welcomesactivist speaker Biju Mathew, co-founder and

volunteer organizer with the New York TaxiWorkers Alliance, a grassroots mass-basedorganization of immigrant taxi drivers in NewYork City. Dr. Mathews book, Taxi! Cabs andCapitalism in New York City bridges the worldsof academy and labor organizing by combiningcontemporary social theory with ethnographybased in political work.

Nominees for the Dark Side CaseCompetition, co-ordinated this year byDivision Representatives at Large Robin Derry

and Jonathan Murphy, will present and discusstheir cases in a session on Tuesday, followingthe announcement of the award winner at theBusiness Meeting on Sunday.

Last but obviously not least, please comealong to the CMS Main Program Social onMonday evening from 6.30 to 8.30pm, sponsoredby the University of Birmingham. Whether jet-lagged or energised, inspired or perplexed, welook forward to seeing you in Philadelphia.


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Pre-conference Workshop Preparation:

Attendees must pre-register for this workshop, as places are limited to:1) 25 Ph.D. Students

2) 25 New Faculty

The deadline for pre-registration is 1 st July 2014. Places will be assigned on a first come, first serve basisHere are instructions for participants who would like to be paired with a mentor for a one-on-one discus-sion of their work:1) Ph.D students to discuss dissertation: send a short abstract (500 words max.) outlining their research

interest or topic and their current stage of research;2) New faculty to discuss working papers: the working paper including the target journal if any;3) New faculty to discuss research agendas: send a short abstract (500 words max.) outlining their research

interest or topic and their current stage of research.

Pre-registration arrangements will be coordinated as follow:1) PhD Students: a. Nimruji Jammulamadaka b. Latha Poonamallee: [email protected]) New Faculty: a. Banu Ozkazanc-Pan: [email protected] b. Arturo E. Osorio: [email protected]

Doctoral and New Faculty Consortium:Fostering Critical Scholars and Scholarship

Are you a doctoral

tudent or a new faculty

member who wishes to

et involved with the

CMS community? If so,

ou should consider

aking part in the

Doctoral and New FacultyConsortium. Those

eeking to participate in

he doctoral segment of

he consortium should

egister by emailing

[email protected] .

Those seeking to

articipate in the newaculty segment of the

onsortium should

egister by emailing Banu.

Ozkazanc-Pan@umb.

du or osorio@business.

tugers.edu .

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Interactive Table 1: Ph.D. Students future directions for mentoring within the CMS Division Research Teaching Publishing Career Development Community Scholarship

Interactive Table 2: Ph.D. Students future directions for mentoring within the CMS Division Research Teaching Publishing Career Development Community Scholarship

Interactive Table 1: New Faculty future directions for mentoring within the CMS Division Research Teaching Publishing Career Development

Community Scholarship

Interactive Table 2: New Faculty future directions for mentoring within the CMS Division Research Teaching Publishing Career Development Community Scholarship

Please note: The Discussion Tables for Ph.D. Students and New Faculty will take place concurrently. Each group, Ph.D.and New Faculty, has two back to back sections to allow participants to be part of two different groups if desired.

Interactive Table Moderators are to include:

Albert Mills Anshuman Prasad

Arturo E. OsorioBanu Ozkazanc-Pan

Bill CookeBobby Banerjee

David Levy Gavin Jack

Jean Helms MillsLatha Poonamallee

Maureen Scully Maxim Vornov

Nimruji JammulamadakaPushkala Prasad

Raza Mir Robbin Derry Roy JacquesSadhvi Dar


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M any of you will beaware of this serieswith Volume 2 beingissued at the end of 2013. Thecurrent volume explores thepossibility of a progressive andtransformative managementwhich, while grounded in theanalytic tradition and valuesof CMS, also confronts andexplores the practical demandsof meeting social needs. Theprevious volume focused on theThird Sector and as someonewhose working life is rootedthere, it is definitely worth yourattention. Indeed this is a veryabsorbing issue. On a practical level, thepublisher, Emerald Books, hasrecently approached the CMSDivision Executive asking if we

would consider re-orienting theDialogues as the official book ofthe CMS Division (their words).This proposal elicited debate asyou would expect.

There is a reluctance to havethe Dialogues stand as the offi-cial book of the CMS Division.However, we would like todevelop the series as a biannualVolume that is edited by theCMS Representatives as Large.The book would bring togeth-er some of the most interestingpapers and debates presentedover the two conferences andhave a mix of PhD, marginal andnewly emerging ideas/voices aswell as more established oneswith the aim of being as inter-nationally inclusive as possible.It also needs to be stressed that

we want to keep Dialogues opento those who do not self-de-fine as being members of theCMS community as well as thosewithin CMS who may baulk atthe Academy variant.

So, what do you think? Wehave not responded to Emerald,but we will need to do so soon.I am very happy to collateresponses and engage in dialoguewith anyone who has a view, sodo please email me on [email protected] . An updateas to progress will be provided inthe CMS Business Meeting at t he2014 AoM conference. Pleaseget in touch!

Dialogues in Critical Management Studies Developments and Ways Forward?Sarah Gilmore, University of Portsmouth, UK, CMS Representative at Large

WE WANT TO LEARNABOUT OUR CMS ME

We are eager to knowdivisions our membeactive in. This will in building bridges todivisions, reaching o junior and senior scwho may not yet recotheir inner critter,

connecting with PhD stuas they identify critical rinterests. Please send anote to CMS RepresentLarge, Robbin Derry [email protected] ) withfollowing information:

1. Your AOM divisioberships

2. From your experienthese divisions, do youthey would be receptishared activities, e.g. asponsored speaker / rtion, junior faculty worinnovative PDW sessio

3. Do you feel there ipotential for develshared interests with ticular division? Feelshare ideas, experienccontact information.
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Following past meetingsheld at the Universitcatholique de Louvain in2012 and the Universit ParisDauphine in 2013, our communi-ty met once again in Montpellier

on April 1-2, 2014 to discussresearch mobilization and criticalperspectives in management.

About 30 PhD candidatesfrom France, Belgium, UK,Germany and Italy took part inthis meeting and had the oppor-

CMS Workshops Around the World:

Laurent Taskin,Universit catholique de Louvain, Belgium

tunity to discuss their projects inboth French and English. Whileour community is animated byFrench-speaking critters, col-leagues from non-French-speak-ing universities also contributed

and visited us in Montpellier. Our doctoral workshop wasaimed at offering a place of sup-portive discussion for researcherswho intend to situate their PhDtheses within this stream. Thesubject of conversations includ-

ed contributing to the de-nat-uralization of taken-for-grantedmanagerial assumptions, findingways to help managers be morereflexive and repositioning intel-lectual activity within the realms

of society rather than placing it inan external and neutral position. We are especially grateful toFlorence Palpacuer for hostingthe seminar at the UniversitMontpellier 1 (MRM iseM) thisyear. We would also acknowledge

Isabelle Huault and VroniquePerret who hosted the workshoplast year in Paris-Dauphine.

We would like to invite theCMS community to Belgium(Universit catholique de

Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve) onApril 1- 2, 2015 to take partin this exciting workshop! Formore information, please contactLaurent Taskin ( [email protected] ).

Laurent Taskin,Universit catholique de Louvain, BelgiumIJWI is a fully-refereed multi-disciplinary international journal dedicatedto the study of work innovation. It proposes and fosters research anddiscussion on innovative work practices including new forms of workorganization (such as virtual teams, network organisations, teleworking,learning organisations, flexible and dispersed work, etc.) as well as theso-called innovative work practices and philosophy (such as knowl-edge management, teamwork, lean management, project-based work,outsourcing, etc.).

The objective ofIJWI is to discuss and disseminate the implications ofinnovative work practices on individuals, organisations, businesses andsocieties. Also, contributions aiming at questioning the necessity oftransforming current work practices take a front rank inIJWI .

Innovative work practices are discussed from a multidisciplinary per-spective; this involves receptiveness to criticism.IJWI publishes originalpapers, essays and review papers, both theoretical and empirical. It alswelcomes critical work addressing social and societal issues related tothese innovative work practices.

Download our first issue dedicated to the study of new forms of(work) organization in an amorale and lawless world coordinated byguest editors Charles Heckscher, Graham Sewell and Laurent Taskin.For more information, seewww.inderscience.com/ijwi .

New Critical Title in Management Research: International Journal of Work Innovation

Third CMS Doctoral Workshop in Montpellier, France
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Bridging Theory and Practice in CMS:Supporting Junior Scholars to Establish a More Inclusive Scholarly Community

Ajnesh Prasad,Tecnolgico de Monterrey, Me

There is a clear disjuncture in the the-ory and the practice of CMS. On theone hand, CMS embraces an ideologythat demands engaged efforts to rectify themyriad systems of oppression and inequal-ities that structures much of contemporarysociety. On the other hand, CMS is partlycomprised of (perhaps even dominated by)scholars who appear to be more committed

to careerist objectives than to catalyzing realsocial change. Conferences offer an exempla-ry site at which this contradiction plays out.Reflecting on their own encounters, EmmaBell and Daniel King (2010: 432) poignantlyobserve: Although certain superficial culturalpractices distinguish CMS conferences fromthe mainstreamwe experienced the powerrelations that characterized CMS conferences

as more competitive, aggressive and masculinethan their mainstream equivalents. It does notrequire too great a leap of faith to conclude thatthese very adjectives can equally be applied todescribe the current nature of the CMS fieldmore broadly. One of the implications that emerge fromthe current disposition of the field, as point-ed out by Arturo Osorio (March 2014 issue of

the CMS Newsletter), is the dearth of supportmade available to junior academics by theCMS community. Junior CMS scholars especially those working in business schoolsoutside of the UK are habitually left tonavigate the career development process inisolation and without any sort of systematicmentorship. Indeed, these junior scholarsare all too often the only member of their

respective departments working within thedomain of CMS, and must expend muchenergy to defend, justify, and legitimize theirresearch (and pedagogy). The question that must, then, beanswered is: What should the CMS com-munity do to better attend to the needs of junior scholars? I dont think we need toreinvent the wheel we can borrow (or

revise) ideas that are already in operation inother AoM divisions. I will offer two tangi-ble suggestions here:

i) Paper Development Workshop As partof the annual conference, we can establishspace during the PDW period to offer juniorscholars the opportunity to receive detailed

Bell, E. & King, D. (2010) The elephant in the room: Critical management studies conferences as a site of body pedagogics.Management Learning, 41(4): 429-442.

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GET INVOLVED IN CMSDIVISION ACTIVITIES ATAOM 2014!

Call for volunteers fromthe Division. We have twospecific events for whichwe need volunteers: thenew member orientationand the hospitality suite.The details of the twoevents are as follows:

New MemberOrientation &Networking Event:Friday evening only from5:30-7:30 pm, ConventionCenter, Room 107B. Thisevent offers the perfectopportunity to promotethe CMS Divisions activ-ities, and attract newmembership. This primar-ily involves meeting andgreeting new attendees,answering their questions,and promoting the CMSdivision and its activities.For more information or to

sign up, contact [email protected] .

Hospitality Suite: TheCMS Division requires vol-unteers to sign up for vari-ous time slots throughoutthe five days. 2013 sawover 600 new membersthroughout the courseof five days joining theHospitality Suite to havetheir questions answered.There are often manynewcomers waiting online to talk with someone,so please help us addresstheir questions and intro-duce them to the CMSDivision and its activities.For more information or tosign up, contact [email protected] .

feedback on their working man-

uscripts from senior academicsin the field. In this workshop, a junior scholar would be, basedon the purview of their man-uscript, partnered with one ortwo senior academics who woulddevote an extended period oftime (say, 1 to 2 hours) to provide suggest ions for improvingthe paper and moving it towardspublication.

ii) Mentorship Program Conferences provide onlyephemeral space to meet,engage, and build community.Junior scholars would certainlybenefit from sustained mentor-ship, especially during the timebetween interactions at confer-ences. We can create a mentor-ship network that pairs junior

scholars with established aca-demics to allow the former touse the latter as a resource foradvice and professional devel-opment. Academia is a lonely journey, and this loneliness isonly compounded when one isnot surrounded by colleagueswho understand or sympathizewith her/his research; having anaffable mentor to go for sup-

port can be invaluable for suc-cessfully navigating this profes-sion. In reading Gavin Jackand Jan Schappers piece in theMarch 2014 issue of the CMS

Newsletter, it is heartening to seethat such a mentorship programmight be in the works.

As a final note, I will under-score that support should beextended to junior scholars withboth conviction and urgency.Unlike many other segments of

the field of management andorganization studies, CMSintellectual and political scopeappeals to and draws, with greatrobustness, academics from all

over the world who are commit-ted to bringing about materi-al change that will improve thesocial and the working lives ofthe people impacted by businesspractice. If we are to really fostethis ethos, we must undertakethe actions necessary to provide as much support as we can

to junior (and disenfranchised)scholars who will become thefuture of the field.
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