2022 Conference

 

 

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The BAM2022 Conference will take place from 31st August - 2nd September and will be hosted by Alliance Manchester Business School. We have taken the decision to hold the event in-person. With our commitment to make events sustainable and accessible to all, a number of virtual elements will be incorporated within the programme. During the first day of the Conference, participants who are unable to present in person will have the opportunity to present online. Online attendees will also have access to several plenary panel discussions throughout the Conference. 

Please note Professional Development Workshops will only be available for in-person attendees only. 

29/07/2022 We wish to confirm that the Conference will proceed as planned, including in-person attendance in Manchester. However, we would like to draw delegates’ attention to our statement regarding Covid Precautions at https://www.bam.ac.uk/events-landing/conference/travel-accommodation.html.

Acknowledgements

We are very grateful to the Lead Sponsor Haleon for supporting this year's Conference. Also, a very special thanks to our sponsors European Management Journal, SAGE Publishing and our amazing exhibitors Cesim Business Simulations, Carrington Crisp, Association for Project Management (APM), Wiley, The Case Centre, Emerald Publishing, Oxford University Press, Pearson, Global Investor Simulations, Bristol University Press, Mare Nostrum Group and Palgrave McMillan for their generous support. 

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Theme

Reimagining business and management as a force for good.     

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals confronts us with the need to re-imagine the purpose of business.

We are increasingly aware that reaching Net Zero will require fundamental transitions both in the way we live and our economy. There is a world of difference between the structure of our current economy and the one required to limit global warming to 2^oC.  Closer to home there is a world of difference in prosperity between regions of the UK. Inequalities related to social groups across the regions may already have changed the face of UK politics, and as the flesh is put on the bones of the government’s Levelling Up agenda, difficult questions are being asked about the role of businesses in reinforcing inequalities not just about what they can do to reduce them?

These profound shifts challenge the way we think about and practise business and management, raising fundamental questions about whether sustainable and inclusive productivity growth is possible and - if it is - the new roles business, the public sector and third sector will have to play in attaining it. However, as if these challenges weren’t big enough, there is a world of difference between the pre and post COVID business landscape within which they will need to be addressed. Changes to work patterns and supply chains, combined with labour and skills shortages are converging on firms, managers and employees in ways that could change the world of business for ever. Does the post-pandemic world provide us with new opportunities to plan for new organisational futures? Will we be able to reimagine a new workplace that enhances the health and wellbeing of our workforces, creating ‘good work’ for all?  Or will standard economic and business thinking stifle our ability to reimagine and innovate?

In this new era where the wider societal impact of our research, teaching, and scholarship has never been more important, the current business and management research ecosystem seems to be getting in the way of producing knowledge that is ultimately helpful in addressing the challenges facing business and society.  There remains a world of difference between the kind of partnerships and co-produced research that is required to address these challenges and what we currently do. If business and management scholars are to have a role to play in creating ‘the best of all possible world’, do we also need to change the way we understand, measure and reward good research and good teaching? How will we produce the business and public leaders, managers, engaged scholars and agents for change that we need?

We invite you to join us as at BAM 2022, our 36^th Annual Conference, where business and management scholars, policy setters and business leaders will grapple with these issues. Join us and help us make a world of difference to management practice and theory and ensure that business and business schools can become the force for good that the world needs them to be.

Steering Committee

Prof Emma Parry, Professor of Human Resource Management and Group Head, Changing World of Work, Cranfield School of Management

Prof Savvas Papagiannidis, David Goldman Professor of Innovation & Enterprise, Newcastle University

Prof David Sarpong, Professor of Strategic Management, Brunel University London

Dr Russ Glennon, Reader in Public Management and Strategy, Manchester Metropolitan University Business School

Conference Committee

Conference Chair: Ken McPhail, Professor of Accounting, Alliance Manchester Business School

• Sharon Clarke, Professor of Organisational Psychology,  Alliance Manchester Business School
• Antony Potter, Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management,  Alliance Manchester Business School 
• Sofia Yasmin, Senior Lecturer in Accounting,  Alliance Manchester Business School
• Jane Crombleholme, Managing Director for Executive Education,  Alliance Manchester Business School
• Kathryn Howard, Acting Head of Marketing, Communications and Recruitment,  Alliance Manchester Business School
• Tracy Moreland, Commercial Activities & Conference Manager,  Alliance Manchester Business School
• Jane Pinder, University Head of Conferences and Events, University of Manchester
• Oliver Laasch, Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, University of Manchester
• Justina Senkus, Head of Events & Operations, British Academy of Management
• Lewis Johnson, Conference and Communications Officer, British Academy of Management