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CALL FOR PAPERS:  Southern Management Association 2010 Meeting

October 27-30, 2010 - TradeWinds Island Grand Resort, St. Pete Beach, Florida

Submission Deadline: April 10, 2010

Program Chair:  Ben Tepper, Georgia State University (btepper@gsu.edu)

The Southern Management Association invites submissions for its 2010 Annual Meeting.  All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of originality, rigor, and relevance. Submissions may take the form of papers, case studies, symposia, panel discussions, workshops, or another form not mentioned here. The Program Committee would especially like to encourage the submission of innovative sessions of all types.  More details regarding innovative sessions will be available on the SMA website in 2010. All accepted submissions will be presented at the meeting, and all accepted papers will be published in the Annual Meeting Proceedings.  In addition, authors of accepted papers will have the opportunity to apply to participate in the Paper Development Workshop to be held at the 2010 meeting. The purpose of the Paper Development Workshop is for authors to receive feedback on their papers from experienced scholars to enhance their papers' publication potential. Again, more information will be available on the SMA website in 2010.

SUBMISSION TRACKS & TRACK CHAIRS

1. Organizational Behavior

Chair: Ron Piccolo, Rollins College

(rpiccolo@rollins.edu)

2. Strategic Management / Organizational Theory / International Management

Chair: Garry Adams, Auburn University (adamsg1@auburn.edu)

3. Human Resources / Careers

Chair: Marie Mitchell, University of Georgia (msmitche@terry.uga.edu)

4. Research Methods

Chair: Lisa Schurer Lambert, Georgia State University (lisalambert@gsu.edu)

Co-chair: Milorad Novicevic, University of Mississippi (mnovicevic@bus.olemiss.edu)

Co-Chair: John Humphreys, Texas A&M Commerce

(John_Humphreys@tamu-commerce.edu)

6. Entrepreneurship / Information Technology / Innovation

Chair: Jon Carr, Texas Christian University (jon.carr@tcu.edu)

7. Ethics / Social Issues / Diversity

Chair: Chris Henle, Colorado State University

(Chris.Henle@business.colostate.edu)

8. Health Care  / Hospitality Management / Public Administration Chair: Mary Bardes, Drexel University (meb359@drexel.edu)

OUTSTANDING PAPER AND DOCTORAL STUDENT PAPER AWARDS

Subject to review, Outstanding Paper and Outstanding Doctoral Student Paper Awards will be given in each track.  There will also be overall Outstanding Paper and Outstanding Doctoral Student Paper Awards.  Doctoral student papers may have multiple authors but the first author must be a doctoral student at the time of submission. Doctoral students who author an Outstanding Doctoral Student Paper will have their conference registration and annual dues waived for one year.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

·      All submissions must be made online at www.southernmanagement.org/meetings/2010/ no later than April 10, 2009 at 11:59 pm Eastern Standard Time. The deadline is firm and no extensions will be granted.

·      Only complete papers should be submitted. Proposals for and/or undeveloped papers will be returned without review.

·      Authors are expected to abide by the SMA Code of Ethics, available at www.southernmanagement.org/ethics/.

·      Papers should not have been previously accepted, published, presented, or be under review for another meeting or journal. Subsequent publication, with proper acknowledgement, is encouraged.

·      If a paper/case study is accepted, at least one author (for other formats, every author) must register and present their work at the conference.

·      No participant is allowed to be included as an author, presenter, session chair, discussant, etc. in more than three program sessions.

·      The maximum length of paper submissions is 8500 words. This limit includes the body of the text, notes, and appendices. It excludes the abstract, references, tables and figures. Paper format should follow the Academy of Management Journal's Style Guide (see http://journals.aomonline.org/amj/style_guide.pdf). Nonconforming submissions will be returned without review.  Descriptions of and formatting requirements for submission types other than papers will be available on the SMA website in 2010. 

·      Manuscripts should be double spaced with 1 inch margins on all four sides.  The page setup should be for standard U.S. Letter size (8.5 x 11 inches).  Manuscripts should be prepared in Times New Roman font, size 12.

·      The entire paper must be in a single document created in Microsoft Word.

·      Paper submissions will be blind reviewed; thus, no author names or other identifying information should appear anywhere in the manuscript.  This does not apply to symposia, workshops, panel discussions or other formats, which are not blind-reviewed.

·      A sample of a correctly formatted paper can be found at www.southernmanagement.org/meetings/2010/sample.

NEED ASSISTANCE? Please email our support team at support@southernmanagement.org or call us at 1.201.633.3208.

Submit papers and volunteer to review at www.southernmanagement.org/meetings/2010/

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Marie S. Mitchell, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Management

Terry College of Business

University of Georgia

431 Brooks Hall

Athens, GA 30602-6264

Office: (706) 542-3741

Fax: (706) 542-3743

Email: msmitche@terry.uga.edu