I’m delighted to announce that I will be heading to Chicago this summer to attend the Academy of Management Annual Conference, which has been a regular feature of my academic calendar for the last 15 years. This year’s theme Innovating for the Future invites members to examine the interplay of innovation, policy, and purpose as a lens for rethinking conventional ways of leading, managing, and organizing (AOM, 2024).
I currently have two sessions accepted for the conference (more details to come once programme is confirmed):
Navigating the Strategy and Change Interface: Innovating and Innovative Purposes
I’ll be joining regular colleagues Dr Kate Hughes and Dr Angelina Zubac for our eighth caucus which brings together scholars from strategy implementation and organizational change disciplines to examine the interface between our disciplines. Each year, this caucus examines a management theory topic from a multi-discipline perspective. This year, the focus will be Innovating and Innovative Purposes, following with the conference theme.
I will be a distinguished speaker at the Caucus, where I will offer my thoughts on the following questions:
- What is an innovative purpose, and what role does the external environment play?
- Do product, business model and management innovations have the same underlying innovative purpose(s)?
- What theories could be important when studying innovative purpose(s)?
The session will be chaired by Professor Ofer Zwikael and Professor Peter Bryant will act as a discussant.
Previous iterations of this Caucus have produced an edited book and special issue of a journal from speakers and participants:
Effective Implementation of Transformation Strategies: How to Navigate the Strategy and Change Interface Successfully. Editors: Angelina Zubac, Danielle Tucker, Ofer Zwikael, Kate Hughes, Shelley Kirkpatrick. Palgrave Macmillan
Special Issue: The Strategy and Change Interface: How are ‘Enabling’ Processes and Cognitions Related and Used? Management Decision: Volume 59 Issue 3 Guest Editors: Angelina Zubac, Marie Dasborough, Kate Hughes, Zhou Jiang, Shelley Kirkpatrick, Maris G. Martinsons, Danielle Tucker, Ofer Zwikael
Inclusive Change and Voice in Organizations
I am also the organiser and session chair for a panel symposium: Inclusive Change and Voice in Organizations which has been an emerging area of interest for me. The symposium is sponsored by the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion division of the Academy of Management and will explore processes of organisational change that can create or foster inclusion by exploring how well established organizational practices within organizations and broader institutionalised discourses of change management have the potential to manifest systems of power based on gender and/or race. This symposium aims to explore how the practices may impact the experience of organizations for marginalized groups.
I will be joined by an amazing panel, including Huong Le, Central Queensland University, AU; John G. Richmond, University of Sheffield, UK; Martyna Śliwa, Durham University, UK; and Angelina Zubac, Australian Institute of Management and King’s Own Institute, AU. The members of the panel originate from a wide range of academic disciplines providing perspectives from Human Resource Management, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Employee Voice, Organizational Strategy and Change Management.
The purpose of this panel symposium is to engage a group of panelists in a formal, moderated, interactive discussion of the following questions:
- Who has a voice in the change process and who does not? Who stays silent and why?
- What is the impact of silencing certain voices in the organizational change process?
- How effective are traditional methods of consultation and participation in the change process at achieving representative feedback, particularly from minority groups?
- How might the actions of change agents help or hinder this process?
I hope that this symposium we be a forum to share ideas and explore potential research gaps in this area. I am working on future plans for a special issue and other events to continue this conversation.
Any attendees of #AOM2024 are welcome to join us, or if you cannot attend but are interested in future work in this area, please feel free to contact me.
See you in Chicago 2024!
Dr Danielle A Tucker 