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Minutes
Business Meeting
Business Policy and Strategy Division
August 13, 2002
Denver, CO
Division President Ranjay Gulati called the meeting to order at 5:30 pm.
- Reports –
- Election Results – Past President Bert Cannella thanked the outgoing EC members (Dawn Harris, Bruce Lamont, Bente Lowendahl, Anita McGahan, and Jim Westphal) and welcomed the new EC members (Tom Brush, Marjorie Lyles, Rich Makadok, Richard Priem, and Mary Tripsas.) Bert announced that Jim Westphal was elected Assistant Program Chair for 2003. Bert also thanked outgoing Past President Ming-Jer Chen for his tremendous contributions to the division over the last few years.
- Budget - Bill Bogner noted that the division’s finances are in very good shape. The division tries to maintain enough slack so that anyone at any school could be supported as program chair.
- Professional Development Workshops – Assistant Program Chair Margie Peteraf reported that over 1000 people participated in PDWs this year. PDWs fell into five main themes: practice oriented, research oriented, internationally oriented, methodology oriented, and skill development. Thanks were offered to the organizers of the doctoral, new faculty, and mid-career consortia, as well as to the organizers of PDW sessions.
- 2002 Conference Program – Program Chair Javier Gimeno reported that this year’s program included several innovations: the first BPS program run from outside the U.S., the first fully-electronic submission and review process, all papers received 3 of more reviews, reviewers received copies of other reviews, and papers were made available to all session participants.
The division received 502 submissions involving 911 different authors. There were 35 paper sessions (146 papers). BPS had 107 papers in the interactive paper sessions, 11 papers in the shared interest tracks, 26 symposia. In all, 558 authors were involved in accepted submissions.
International participation was substantial. 206 paper submissions included an author outside the U.S. People from 34 countries submitted papers. Accepted papers involved 187 authors from 24 countries. We had 33 international session chairs and discussants. On the review side, there were 289 reviewers from 39 countries.
There were 870 total reviewers for the 2002 program. The following people were named outstanding reviewers: Johghoon Bae, Michael Barnett, Bill Bogner, Bert Cannella, Sven-Olof Collin, David Collis, Jerker Denrell, Ann Echols, Steven Floyd, Jaume Franquesa, Clara Garcia, Ranjay Gulati, Amy Hillman, Constance James, Scott Johnson, Tammy Madsen, Kyle Mayer, Rita McGrath, Gerry McNamara, Silviya Nedeva, J. Rajendran Rajagopalan, Taco Reus, Karen Schnatterly, Matthew Semadeni, Chamu Sundaramurthy, Wenpin Tsai, Raymond Van Wijk, Govert Vroom, and Noam Wasserman.
- BPS Outstanding Dissertation Award – Ranjay Gulati reported that the winner is Glenn P. Hoetker. His dissertation is titled “The role of technical and relational capabilities in the selection of suppliers for technically innovative components in the U.S. and Japan.”
- Glueck Best Paper Award - Margie Peteraf reported that the winners are Tammy Madsen and Gordon Walker for their paper titled “The evolution of heterogeneity in performance.”
- Robert J. Litschert Award – This award is for the best paper by a doctoral student. Margie Peteraf reported that the winner is Alsi Arikan, for a paper titled “Does it pay-off to capture intangible assets through mergers and acquisitions?”
Special thanks were offered to the research committee members involved in the paper awards: Matt Kratz, Michael Leiblein, Tammy Madsen, Jan Rivkin, Melissa Schilling, and Belen Villalonga.
- New Business and Initiatives
- Journal Survey – Bert Cannella reported that division members will soon be invited to complete a survey via the web on their experiences with various top journals.
The meeting was adjourned at 6:25 pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Dave Ketchen
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