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Dear All,

 

If "critical" and "innovation" resonate with you, please join us on Sunday August 11

 09:00 – 11:30 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

Co-sponsors:  CMS, DEI, OMT, SIM

Ziyun Fan, U. of York UK

Marta B. Calás, U. of Massachusetts, Amherst USA

Mark Learmonth, Nottingham Trent U., UK

Following this year's conference theme 'Innovating for the Future', this PDW is oriented towards facilitating scholars and other practitioners to engage in critical reflections, insights, and open discussions about CMS as a condition and a consequence of innovation. The PDW addresses CMS as community -e.g., AOM CMS division- and as approach to knowledge/scholarship. The central position here is that for CMS to understand the emerging needs and rising challenges of our changing societies, the CMS community should reflect upon the existing consequences of its own past innovations and move on to reflect on possible directions for innovating its future.

The first CMS workshop at the 1998 AOM meeting marked the visibility of the Critical Management Studies movement at AOM, with formal recognition appearing in 2002, first as interest group and eventually becoming a division. These activities provided CMS scholars and scholarship a home to develop a two-fold meaning of 'critical': as radical critique and as addressing challenging issues. Yet, new challenging issues have emerged under changing, sometimes existential circumstances which require recognizing a missed third meaning of 'critical': as a point and process of transition for self-sustaining on-going development, understanding rising challenges and innovating with sustainable solutions.

Thus, the PDW marks the arrival of CMS at this third critical point, requiring the CMS community to critically reflect upon the existing consequences of its prior innovations and then consider future directions with broad participation of interested communities. Innovative forms of participation are necessary to prevent CMS from self-colonizing, to go beyond pseudo-decolonization, to build critical connections, and to thrive in togetherness toward fostering a politics of hope. 'How then should we reflect upon innovating a future for CMS?' .

This PDW, organized into two parts, creates the space to address that question:

Part 1 – Presentations and Panel Discussion includes six CMS scholars from different regions, cultures, and career stages, who are closely associated with the CMS division:

Rafael Alcadipani Da Silveira, FGV-EAESP, Brazil

Alexandre Faria, EBAPE/FGV, Brazil

David Jacobs, American U., USA

Daniel Nyberg, U. of Queensland, Australia

Shelley Price, Acadia U., Canada

Belinda Zakrzewska, U. of Sussex, UK

Their presentations and discussions serve as conversation starters as they reflect on their experiences within the CMS division/community/scholarship and share their envisioned directions for a CMS future.

Part 2 – Collective Conversations and Discussion  is an invitation to participation, bringing the community -presenters and all other participants/attendees- together to reflect and share visions on next-steps, laying foundations for CMS future activities where collective innovations (research/scholarship/teaching/practices) would foster on-going developments and sustainable solutions towards a politics of hope.

While all participants and attendees in Part 1 are invited to stay for Part 2 without requiring registering in advance, having advance information about potential participants in Part 2 will help us organize the discussion groups.  We would prefer variety, including career stages, within the groups, thus if you register (by August 3 if possible) please provide the requested information in the Google.doc below

Looking forward to meeting you then,

Ziyun, Marta, and Mark