Do You Need Assistance With an Action Research Project,
or Have a Project That Might Benefit by Using an Action Research Model?
Here’s Your Chance to Get Free Consulting for Your Project at the AOM
Meeting in Anaheim
Sustainable Practice Action Research Community (SPARC) Workshop
Saturday August 9th, from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Academy of Management Meeting, Anaheim, CA
The SPARC Workshop is the only hands-on, practice-grounded,
action-learning venue at AOM that brings together academics from many
disciplines and reflective practitioners from business, government and
NGO sectors to actually work together on real-world projects using
action-research processes.
During the day-long workshop, teams of academics and practitioners will
collaboratively apply their expertise in a roundtable format to critique
and develop various applied research projects brought by organization
sponsors. You are invited to propose your own project or join one of
those being sponsored by others. Over the past 10 years, many
organizations have worked with our group and have found our sessions
very useful.
All types of projects are welcome, and we especially encourage projects
that are multi-sector (e.g. business and government/nonprofit) and/or
that have a social and/or environmental action focus or component.
The workshop is dedicated to generating collaboration among academics
and practitioners and synergy between theory and practice in the service
of organizational and social transformation. Its intent is to help
solve real organizational and cross-organizational problems of a local
and/or global nature while generating deeper learning and publishable
knowledge.
If you are a practitioner or scholar who is interested in enriching and
adding velocity to a project that you are (or would like to be) working
on, then the SPARC Community invites you to be part of our 11th annual
all-day AOM preconference workshop.
For more information on the workshop series, including prior project
descriptions and the full Friday-Sunday workshop program (also
summarized below), visit the AOM SPARC/Practitioner Series at
www.fdu.edu/ise
For further inquiry or to submit brief (1-page) proposals for working
projects (start-ups or ongoing) please contact SPARC organizer Dr. Neil
Boyd at
Boyd@Lycoming.edu or by phone at 717-512-3870.
We will use an organic, developmental review process for your project
proposals that you may initiate with as little as an exploratory
call/email. A support system will be provided to further develop
accepted projects leading up to the workshop.
SPARC STEERING COMMITTEE
Neil Boyd, Lycoming College,
Boyd@Lycoming.edu
Terry Orr, Bank Street College.
morr@bnkst.edu
Joel Harmon, ISE, Fairleigh Dickinson U.,
jharmon444@aol.com
Jeana Wirtenberg, Institute for Sustainable Enterprise, FDU,
jwirtenberg@optonline.net
David Coghlan, U. of Dublin,
dcoghlan@tcd.ie
Rosa Colon, Bristol Meyers Squibb,
rosa.colon@bms.com
Kent Fairfield, ISE, Fairleigh Dickinson U.,
fairfield@fdu.edu
Gerard Farias, Institute for Sustainable Enterprise, FDU,
gfarias@fdu.edu
Carol Gorelick, Pace U.,
cgorelick@notes.interliant.com
Dan Twomey, Fairleigh Dickinson U.,
Dtwomey@fdu.edu
Lyle Yorks, Columbia U.
ly84@columbia.edu
Dr. Neil Boyd
Assistant Professor of Management
Department of Business Administration
Lycoming College
700 College Place
Williamsport, Pa 17701
Boyd@Lycoming.edu
570-321-4167 (office)
717-512-3870 (cell)