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Dear Colleagues,

In preparation for the upcoming Academy of Management 2017 Annual Meeting, we are seeking one or two theoretical, empirical, and methodological papers (or abstracts) for our Strategic Followership presenter symposium on Restorative Followership. Given the paucity of studies on restorative followership, we are not seeking fully developed papers or abstracts. To facilitate your decision-making process we are using the following working definitions (see Zoogah, 2014) ofstrategic followership - "the process by which an individual, encountering a strategic situation, discerns, and enacts the role of a follower based on shared interdependence to influence others in a way that yields short-term and/or long-term value to the constituents in the relational interface" – and restorative followership – "the process by which an individual in a followership role, discerns a bad leadership situation, evaluates the expectations of the role, decides and acts strategically to restore value diminished as a result of the bad situation. It is characterized by discernment or awareness of bad situation, assumption of responsibility through evaluation of expectations, strategic decisions, and reparation of diminished value."

Please submit your paper or abstract of 150-200 words to the organizers, David Zoogah (zoogahd@xavier.edu) and Erica Anthony (erica.anthony@morgan.edu). We will then select the papers that best fit the symposium focus of Restorative Followership and is aligned with the AOM 2017 theme: At the Interface.

Please submit your abstracts by 5pm on December 2, 2016. Our timeline is:

·  December 2, 2016: Short Abstracts Due

·  December 5, 2016: Papers selected

·  December 16, 2016: Draft of presenter symposium proposal provided

·  December 23, 2016: Organizers submit presenter symposium proposal

 Thanks,

David Zoogah

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