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>Colleagues:
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>The Association of Management (AoM) and its global sister organization,
>the International Association of Management (IAoM), known collectively as
>the AoM/IAoM, cordially invites the participation of academicians and
>practitioners for its 24th annual conference to be held in San Antonio,
>TX, October 3-7, 2007. This year the AoM/IAoM is promoting MELT
>(Management, Education, Leadership, Technology) as the organizing
>framework for the conference to provide a bridge between the world of
>theory and the world of practice and stimulate the interactive discourse
>between academicians and practitioners.
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>MELT is based on the premise that management, education, leadership, and
>technology are on the cusp of a paradigm shift as industrial era
>management and leadership theories and educational models are becoming
>dysfunctional at a time when command-and-control systems in organizations
>are being replaced by team-based systems and networks of knowledge
>workers, distance education is playing an increasingly important role in
>institutions of higher learning, leadership is no longer the prerogative
>of the omnipotent executive at the apex of the organization and technology
>continues to progress at a relentless rate. MELT acknowledges the
>interdependencies of its constituent domains and serves as the platform to
>promote interactions and multidisciplinary discourse among academicians
>and practitioners challenged by this paradigm.
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>You are invited to submit your work in a variety of available formats
>ranging from traditional academic research papers to innovative
>practitioner boardroom solutions. The complete academic and corporate
>calls for submissions and participation are located at
www.aom-iaom.org.
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>Professionally yours,
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>Willem A. Hamel, PhD
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aomgt@inter-source.org
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>PS: Be advised our computers burned out last week resulting in a total
>loss of prior submissions including backup, etc. therefore, those that
>submitted to the
admin@inter-source.org address prior to April 13, 2007
>should resend. Those who
>received the recent "call for papers" brochure may review the MELT
>paradigm on it and/or the net.
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