Dear HCM Members:
The submission system for the 76th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, being held August 5-9, 2016 in Anaheim, California is now open. For more information, please visit the AOM Submission Information website at
http://aom.org/annualmeeting/submission/.
The HCM Division call for submissions follows:
HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT (HCM)
Program Chair: Amy Yarbrough Landry, University of Alabama at Birmingham;
akyarb@uab.edu
2016 HCM Division Scholarly Program: Call for Submissions
Specific domain: The HCM division invites symposium and paper submissions addressing any aspect of the health care sector. Topics include management of health care providers and related firms such as pharmaceutical firms and medical device suppliers; public policy issues, such as access to care, competition, cost control and quality of care, and their implications for managers; health care finance and marketing; comparisons of health care across countries; empirical or conceptual applications of theory in health care organizations; and development of organizational theory from studies conducted in health care settings.
Special Instructions: In addition to submissions addressing the HCM domain, the HCM division also encourages papers and symposia focused on the 2016 conference theme, Making Organizations Meaningful. The Academy’s overall call for submissions expands on this theme by defining an organization’s meaningfulness as “its expression of purpose, values or worth…a sense of significance that goes beyond material success or profitability.” In light of recent corporate scandals and a growing distrust in many organizations, Making Organizations Meaningful matters at both micro and macro levels involving human resources, organizational identity and culture, social equality, and environmental sustainability. This theme is particularly relevant to health care management scholars given how meaningful health care organizations are in the lives and communities of the people they serve. Submissions addressing the theme in these or other ways related to health care are welcomed.
Symposia proposals are particularly encouraged, as they provide conference attendees the opportunity to experience a coherent session consisting of either a series of authored papers explicitly linked to a common theme, or a group of panelists engaged in a formal interactive discussion around particular issues or questions.
The HCM division also encourages submissions from PhD students. Papers with a PhD student as the first or sole author should be clearly identified at the time of submission. As well, papers that are early in development that would benefit from collegial discussion are also encouraged.
Division Awards:
The HCM division honors the following papers:
Best Health Care Management Paper, sponsored by the American College of Healthcare Executives.
Outstanding Paper Based on a Dissertation, sponsored by Medical Care Research and Review. Papers to be considered for this award must be sole-authored and identified at the time of submission as eligible for the Newman Award.
Best Health Care Management Theory to Practice Paper, sponsored by Health Care Management Review. This award is intended to encourage papers relevant to the practicing health care manager. Papers to be considered for this award must be identified as such at the time of submission by selecting "Practice" as the paper orientation.
Best International Health Care Management Paper, sponsored by the Emerald Publishing Group and the Journal of Health Organization and Management. Papers to be considered for this award must be international and identified at the time of submission as eligible for the Dexter Award.
Submission Process: All submissions must be made through the AOM submission system website. The submission system will open on November 10, 2015. The submission deadline is January 12, 2016 at 5:00 PM ET (NY Time) (but earlier submissions are encouraged).
Please carefully review all the submission guidelines and formatting instructions before submitting. If any of the guidelines or formatting instructions are not met, the submission cannot be reviewed. Please, note that there is limited space on the scholarly program; therefore, not all submissions will be accepted.