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Program Session #: 821 

Monday, Aug 12 2013 9:45AM - 11:15AM at WDW Dolphin Resort in Salon IV

Organizer: Elena P. Antonacopoulou; U. of Liverpool
Chair: Debra L. Shapiro; U. of Maryland
Presenter: Herman Aguinis; Indiana U., Bloomington
Presenter: Elena P. Antonacopoulou; U. of Liverpool
Presenter: Andrew M Pettigrew; U. of Oxford
Discussant: Thomas G. Cummings; U. of Southern California
Discussant: Donald C. Hambrick; Pennsylvania State U.
Discussant: James P. Walsh; U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor

As the community of management scholars takes stock of the way ideas, like capitalism, take shape and impact everyday action, it is just as important that the same approach be adopted in critically reflecting on the impacts that management scholarship creates. In this symposium, senior scholars who have been concerned with impact and past and future AoM presidents join forces to account for the impact of management scholarship. By focusing on ways of articulating and accounting for what impact means and how it may be demonstrated, this symposium adopts the critical orientation that the conference theme invites. The purpose of this symposium is to engage management scholars in a joint reflective exercise that explores the multiplicity of meanings as to what is impact, how it can be demonstrated, and how impact may be fostered in future management scholarship. The symposium is mindful that in the context of complex social problems, impact crucially depends on effective interaction between research, business practice, and public policy.

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