November 2021 Bulletin

We are delighted to announce that the IFSAM 2022 Congress will be held virtually in collaboration with ANPAD as a pre-conference activity of ENANPAD22 between 8th and 9th September 2022. The programme of the IFSAM 2022 Congress will include a series of two-hour roundtable discussions that will focus on management research, management education, and academia-management practice interactions. Registration for attending the Congress is free and will soon be open. More details can be found at:  https://www.ifsam.org/16th-congress/

We would like to thank every one who made a nomination for IFSAM Awards 2021. We hope to announce the results within the next few weeks.  Further details of the awards can be found at: https://www.ifsam.org/ifsam-awards/

The Advisory Board welcomed its inaugural Chair, Alain Burlaud, Emeritus Professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM) and IFSAM president in 1995 and 1996. The General Assembly also nominated Professor Santiago Garcia Echevarrìa, Chair of Business Economy at the University of Alcalá, as a new Advisory Board member. Our Advisory Board held their Inaugural Meeting on 15^th November.

We also welcomed Dr. Nuno Oliveira, Assistant Professor in Organisation Studies at Tilburg University, who has joined IFSAM as Deputy Head of the Office of the Presidential Team.

We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate CNEMA on holding their 25^th forum. We trust that they had a fantastic event (25th CNEMA Conference  report). More information is available at: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/fn2AuYNGUD9oAxKHoUN9zQ. In addition, our member Academia de Ciencias Administrativas (ACACIA) has announced that XXV Congreso ACACIA will be held between 24-27 May 2022. The details can be found at: https://www.udem.edu.mx/es/institucional/congreso-acacia-2022.

We have continued to circulate IFSAM’s soft policy statement from our General Assembly (GA), which focuses on the evaluation and future development of management research based on our recent webinar series discussions. Please contact us should you have any feedback on this statement and share this statement with your colleagues widely, which can be read at: https://www.ifsam.org/blog/2021/06/04/ifsam-general-assemblys-position-statement-on-management-research/.

If you have any questions or want to get in touch with IFSAM, please contact us at: info@ifsam.org