Academy of Management Discoveries (AMD) -- the journal for empirical exploration in management and organizations -- invites you to its regional paper development workshop. The purpose of this workshop is to help authors develop their ideas for papers that may ultimately be submitted for review in AMD.

About the Workshop:

This event will include presentations by AMD’s editor, Peter Bamberger, as well as Associate Editors, Marlys Christianson and Georg von Krogh, and AOM Past President, Mary Ann Glynn. Hands-on paper development discussions will follow the plenary session.

Presentation topics include:

• Abductive (as opposed to deductive and inductive) reasoning as a necessary basis for research in management and organizations
• Plausibility vs. Confirmation, and the distinctive nature of AMD papers.
• Surfacing phenomenon: Phenomenology and scale development research in AMD
• Meta-analysis and replication research in AMD
• Using big/secondary data as a basis for theoretical insight
• How to maximize the odds of paper acceptance in AMD

Roundtable paper development sessions:

• Feedback on papers that authors are considering for submission to Academy of Management Discoveries
• A select number of papers will be presented, discussed and developed.
• Table discussion is led by an AMD Editor or Associate Editor.
• Discussions are  open to both paper authors and non-author participants
• Discussions will focus on framing, methodological rigor, empirical follow-up, interpretation, and specifying directions for down-the-road theorizing

WORKSHOP STRUCTURE

Welcome

Plenary Session: AMD  -- The Journal for Empirical Exploration

Break – Refreshments will be available

Break-out sessions for paper review and development

• Editor gives feedback on papers.
• Authors give 5 minute presentation to the group. 
• This is followed by 10-15 minutes of Editor and participant feedback