Some of the participants from SBS (from left to right): David Mackay, Viktor Dorfler, Jaszmina Szendrey and Conor Horan
Some of the participants from SBS (from left to right): David Mackay, Viktor Dorfler, Jaszmina Szendrey and Conor Horan
Celebrating its 25 year anniversary, the flagship annual BAM Conference was hosted by Aston Business School in Birmingham between September 12 and 15. The conference theme was 'Building and Sustaining High Performance Organisations in a Challenging Environment".
Dr Viktor Dorfler (Management Science) presented a developmental paper in the Research Methodology stream co-authored with Marc Stierand on "Revising the Notion of Sample Representativeness". Based on previous research projects on world-class chefs and Nobel laureates, authors argued that extraordinary can be considered representative of a phenomenon rather than of the population.
PhD students from SBS, Jaszmina Szendrey (Management Science) and Suzanne Mawson (Marketing) attended the doctoral symposium.
As reported in last month's newsletter, Professor Peter McKiernan, Department of Management edited the 25th anniversary special edition of BAM's house journal, the British Journal of Management. At the 25th conference, he made the plenary address for BAM's Richard Whipp Lifetime Achievement award, made in memory of Professor Whipp, an outstanding scholar in the field of business and management and former Chair of the British Academy of Management. This is awarded annually for distinguished scholarship and service over the long term and Professor McKiernan presented it to Professor Andrew Pettigrew of Said Business School, Oxford.
Professor Pettigrew was co- founder of the Academy in 1986 with Professor Cary Cooper of Lancaster School of Management. Previous winners have included Professor Derek Pugh, Professor David Otley, Professor Mark Easterby-Smith and Professor Cary Cooper.
Dr Peter McInnes, Department of Management, was invited to deliver a workshop on Qualitative Data Gathering at the doctoral symposium during the BAM conference. He was also a track chair for a stream considering 'Identity'.