BPS Division Executive Committee
Mid Winter Meeting
Wharton Campus
Philadelphia, PA
March 24, 2001

Present: Ming-Jer Chen, Avi Fiegenbaum, Anita McGahan, Bruce Lamont, Gabe Szulanski, Javier Gimeno, Diana Day, Bill Bogner, Bert Cannella, Dawn Harris, Russ Coff, Jim Westphal, Peter Lane, Bente Lawendahl

Absent: Ranjay Gulati, Steve Phelan, Aks Zaheer, David Ketchen

The meeting began at 1:10 pm.

1. General
• Welcome – Ming-Jer Chen welcomed all in the attendance and provided an overview of the agenda and timetable for accomplishing the scheduled items.
• Minutes – Bruce Lamont distributed the minutes from the August Executive Committee Meeting provided by David Ketchen. The EC approved the minutes without alterations.
• 5-Year Survey – Ming-Jer Chen provided an overview of the survey procedures and results. Ming-Jer also mentioned the need for better divisional archival records and the possibility of doing so electronically with current technology.
2. Reports
• Budget – Bill Bogner distributed and discussed the attached budget. The overall strong financial position of the division and the need to spend more of the division’s surplus funds for member services were mentioned. The Executive Committee thanked Bill for his contributions. Javier Gimeno requested additional dollars to support some of the new and innovative PDW initiatives this year. The EC approved $1500.
• Professional Development Workshops – Javier Gimeno distributed and reviewed the attached handout about this year’s PDW program. The intent was to create a more permanent template for future PDW programs by adopting a conversational format. Gabe Szulanski mentioned the special financial needs of the workshop on qualitative research methods. There was significant discussion about paying the travel expenses of special speakers in future PDW programs. No decisions were reached.
• Program – Bert Cannella provided an overview of this year’s program developments in Ranjay’s absence. Some of the relevant numbers were summarized.
• 500+ reviewers
• 316 paper submissions
• 35 symposia submissions
• 25 sessions planned
• symposia
•   140+ papers on the program
• Free Press Dissertation Award and Outstanding Educator Award. Bert Cannella noted receiving 13 submissions for the Free Press Dissertation competition. He also noted needing more reviewers due to some Research Committee members declining participation. Russ Coff, Anita McGahan and Diana volunteered. Bert also suggested that it might be useful to have a Chair of the Research Committee. No action was taken, although Dan Levinthal was appointed as Chair of the Research Committee later during the election process. Bert then mentioned the process involved in selecting this year’s Outstanding Educator Award winner: Michael A. Hitt.
• E-initiative – Diana Day provided a background of the Division’s progression from the founding of BPS-Net to today. Anita, Peter and Javier discussed progress of the Web Task Force since August. SMJ will not permit our division to post papers to the Web and then consider them for publication. Anita noted improvements made to the BPS Web page by Steve Phelan and the connections to the main Academy web page. Anita also noted the ease with which the web page could be used for archiving Division information. Peter then noted that the Web could not be run as a for-profit venture due to Academy constraints.
  There was significant discussion about what we might do to enhance member services and Division functioning via the Web in the future. The EC voted to give Steve Phelan the charge to find outside technical support, but maintain guidance, and bring the costs of such support services to the EC via e-mail for their approval. Steve was also charged with using the web-page more as an archival source. Steve was reappointed for a new 3-year term as the BPS Division web-master. Peter Lane then distributed policies and procedures to be used in guiding Web development. These were developed by the Web Task Force. The EC approved their adoption, excepting section 5 as noted on the attachment.
• Major findings of the 5-year Survey – Ming-Jer reviewed and the EC discussed the attached report in detail. The following decisions were made in response to the report.
• Diana agreed to champion the initiative to better link research and practice. A committee was created to help with this charge. One aim would be to select an award- winning paper at each meeting. Others might include inviting managers to discuss research translations, or posting research translations to the Web.
• To better involve members, Anita, and Dawn agreed to visit workshops at the meeting to describe how to get more involved.
• Ming-Jer suggested that the issue of low international involvement might be more a matter of perception than reality. He noted that he would try to better communicate our international outreach efforts in the upcoming newsletter and at the next business meeting.
• Gabe Szulanski volunteered to lead a task force to find ways to better serve our junior colleagues.
3. Nominations and Elections – Bruce Lamont distributed a list of candidates nominated in advance by division members. Diana Day then lead the nomination and appointment process. A slate of candidates was selected by EC for the ballot. Others were appointed to the Research Committee, Teaching Committee, Linking Research with Practice Committee, and as Regional Representatives.

The meeting was adjourned at 6pm.

Respectfully submitted,

Dave Ketchen

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