Philosophy of management research teacher training workshop will take place in
Building 2, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University from December 8 to
December 12, 2016. This workshop is to prepare faculty colleagues who are
interested in teaching this doctoral level course on the Philosophy of
Management Research.
A Brief Description of Workshop and Course
The course is a brief introduction to scientific work in organizations and
management. It focuses on a few of the key issues in the philosophy and the
conduct of science. These are central to the work of a scientist in constructing
understanding and explanation of important phenomena in our natural and social
world. The issues pervade both natural and social sciences and they help us gain
clarity on the role of scientific research in advancing the practice of
management, which has the important role of integrating business technology and
humanity, i.e., how firms may influence the wellbeing of both those working in
them and those affected by them, i.e., employees, consumers, and society. The
role of science or of the scientist, if not understood properly can impede our
scientific work, impair knowledge and stall scientific discoveries.
The course explores some of these questions: What is scientific reasoning and
explanation? What are the unique challenges in social science relative to
natural science? How does progress and development in scientific knowledge come
about? What is the development of science in the management and organization
discipline? What role do values play in science? How does science contribute to
both the progress and the demise of the human condition? How can we as
scientists contribute to the progress in the science of management and
organizations, and hence humanity? What does it mean to pursue a career in
organization science?
The first training course has been offered to those schools that have been
actively supporting IACMR in the past decade and the participants have been
determined. For information about the workshop schedule and course materials,
etc. you may click here to learn more.
- IACMR Membership Development Network and Updates
- IACMR local school contacts are volunteer members in different
universities/cities/countries. They keep communication with members and promote
IACMR and organize local member activities where appropriate to support IACMR
members’ networking. They are very helpful in the process of IACMR development.
All contacts are faculty members or PhD candidates. They devote time and energy
in the midst of tight schedule. We fully appreciate their selfless contribution
and support to IACMR.
- All IACMR members and potential members can reach the local contacts at your
university or in your city by sending email to them. Now we have over 70 local
school contacts at over 60 universities . We have also set up IACMR Wechat groups
in 13 cities/provinces in China, among which are such cities of Beijing, Shanghai,
Tianjin, Nanjing, Wuhan, Shenyang, Lanzhou, Xi'an and Dalian; and provinces of
Heilongjiang, Zhejiang, Henan and Guangdong. More Wechat groups will be set up
in the future. You are very welcome to join up by scanning QR Code (be valid in
7 days). For detail contact information of the local school contacts, please click
here.
- There are still vacancies of local contacts in more universities. IACMR
fee-paying members are very welcomed to recommend yourselves or other candidates
to be a local contact of your university. Please send your recommendation to
Qian HAN at iacmrmembership@pku.edu.cn.
- As one part of membership development plan, promotion presentations are
helpful for scholars to learn about and join IACMR, particularly in those
schools where IACMR is not well known. To take the chance of her visit to Wuhan,
Zhijun Yao did three promotion talks to over 150 faculty members and students in
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan Institute of Technology and
Wuhan University of Technology. The local contacts of the three schools, Bao Yan
of HUST, Li Lv of WIT and Guanglei Zhang of WHUT have been very supportive by
organizing the events and inviting faculty and students of their respective
schools to join the promotion talks. Both Prof. Lv and Prof. Zhang had invited
their respective associate deans to listen to the talks. In particular, Prof.
Chao Wang, associate dean of the School of Management of WHUT, had a short talk
with Ms Yao before the presentation. He offered his warm support to the
presentation and expressed his sincere hope to work with IACMR in the future,
recognizing the great contribution that IACMR has made to the Chinese management
research.
Promotion talks at Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Wuhan
Institute of Technology
Promotion talk at Wuhan University of Technology
- Management and Organization Review (MOR) Updates
The MOR Volume 12, Issue 3 has been available online! Please click "Latest MOR
Issue" in the MOR section on the IACMR homepage. IACMR paid members are eligible
to read full articles by clicking "Read MOR Full Paper" on the same page and you
will be directed to "IACMR Member Area" where paid members can access all
benefits after logging in.
We also provide you with article abstracts from MOR Volume 12, Issue 2 both in
English and Chinese. Please click here to read.
- Management Insights (MI) Updates
The Electronic version of Management Insights Issue 6 (July 2016) is available
online. Please click here to read the articles. Paid members can read full
articles by clicking here. As 'bilingual' is one of the MI characteristics, the
key articles are also available in English.
- IACMR 2016 Books
3 IACMR books are published by Peking University Press in 2016.
Capitalism from Below: Markets and Institutional Change in China
Authors: Victor Nee and Sonja Opper
Translators: Haifeng Yan and Shuyang You
A Collection of Papers on Management Theory Development
Editors: Ann S. Tsui , Bing Ren and Li Lv
China's Innovation Challenge: Overcoming the Middle Income Trap
Editors: Arie Y. Lewin, Martin Kenney, and Johann Peter Murmann
Proofreader: Zhixue Zhang
For detail information please click here.
- 2015 Emerald/IACMR Chinese Management Research Fund Award Winners
We are delight to announce the winners of 2015 Emerald/IACMR Chinese Research
Fund Award.
Emerald and IACMR are delighted to invite submissions to their Chinese
Management Research Fund Award. The winner will receive £2,000 to fund the
winning research project and two runners up will receive prizes of £500.
Applications should address the dissemination of knowledge for the social good
with a specific orientation toward benefit for mainland China.
Winner
CEO Mindset and Firm Competition Behaviors: The Moderating Roles of
Institutional and Market Environments
Wei Zheng, Weiguo Zhong, Jiangyong Lu, Peking University
Highly Commended
Revisiting Political Ties in China: A New Conceptualization
Danxue Gao, Weiguo Zhong, Peking University
Tianzhen Tang, Nanjing University
The Performance Implications of Star Employee: Individual and Team Level
Research
Yahua Cai, Ho Kwong, Kwan, Erica Xu, Shanghai University of Finance & Economics
Acceptance speeches from the winners can be read from here.
- Member profile
Dr. Jian PENG from Jinan University shares with us his experience with IACMR in
the latest "Members' Profile”. Please click here for the full text (in Chinese).
- Your Input Welcomed
Your contributions are also welcomed. You can send us news about members'
activities, research information, feedback about IACMR, information from
management field, etc. to iacmrmembership@pku.edu.cn. Submission deadline is
10th of every even-month.