Fellow MC Members, on February 19 you received an e-mail from the Academy asking you to vote to approve the revised Domain Statement for our division. Today (March 4, 2020) is the voting deadline. Please VOTE TODAY to approve this revised statement. Here are the details:
Our MC division's domain statement, which was last revised in 1999, has been updated to more accurately represent who we are today. After work with other division leaders and the Academy leadership, the final language which has been approved by the AOM Board of Governors follows:
Management Consulting Division Domain Statement, 2020
The Management Consulting (MC) Division focuses on management consulting as both a diverse field of applied social and managerial sciences (e.g. practices, processes, knowledge, and tools) and an established and evolving industry (e.g. client organizations, businesses and players connected by a network of relations providing consulting services such as consultants, students, educators, faculty-researchers, regulators, and influencers).
Our goals are: (1) to advance knowledge of both the consulting field and the consulting industry; (2) to provide an arena that encourages the development of consultants as scholarly practitioners who connect research, practice, and teaching; and (3) to bridge scholarship and practice about management consulting for the long-term benefit of clients, consultants, organizations, and society. We use scholarship to improve consulting practice, and consulting practice to inform relevant social and managerial science theory.
Our focus areas relate to consulting research, theory, approaches, issues, and dynamics. These areas include consulting practices; processes; knowledge, and tools; ethical issues in consulting; roles and responsibilities of academics in the field; how consultants support strategy; leadership; team development, human resources, and change management; consulting industry trends; consulting firm management; scholar-practitioner education; areas of consulting differentiated by sector, specialty and/or function; ethics in consulting; education and development for consulting careers. The MCD welcomes a rich and varied set of approaches and methodologies that reflect the tension between academic rigor and the reality of the organizational practice.
The link to vote is in the Academy's email to you on February 19. Please check your inbox, find that note and VOTE TODAY.
Please also join me in giving a special thank you to Daniel Degravel, Tonya Henderson, and Jean Neumann, who did the majority of the work on this revision!
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Eric Sanders, MC Division Chair
Elmhurst College & Organization Development Economist
sandersAOM@gmail.com,
eric.sanders@elmhurst.edu+1 (630) 290-8097
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