British Academy of Management
| Formation | 1986 |
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| Founded at | Warwick |
| Type | Learned society |
| Purpose | "Its mission is to develop the community of management academics for the benefit of members, practising managers, management education and society." |
| Headquarters | London, United Kingdom |
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Membership
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approx. 1700 |
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President
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Professor Sir Cary Cooper |
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Chairman
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Professor Nic Beech |
| Website | https://www.bam.ac.uk/ |
The British Academy of Management (BAM), founded in 1986, is a learned society dedicated to advancing the academic discipline of management in the United Kingdom. It is a member of the Academy of Social Sciences. The academy runs two academic journals: the British Journal of Management and the International Journal of Management Reviews. Once a year, it publishes an article which is presented at the annual conference. The headquartered of the British Academy of Management is in London, United Kingdom.
The British Academy of Management was founded in 1986, exactly 50 years after the AoM was formed in Chicago. Cary Cooper was its first President and Andrew Pettigrew was its first Chairman. During the AoM conference in San Diego in 1985 they realize the lack of a multidisciplinary association in the UK and decided to establish BAM.
The biggest challenges for this new organisation were to set up a constitution and to exercise good governance through a strong executive committee. The inaugural conference of BAM was at the University of Warwick in 1987. This was organised by Andrew Pettigrew. With over 200 delegates, the conference had an immediate success.
From the mid 1980s to the early 1990s, the management of the Academy was still based on an amateur approach, because of the moving from one place to another. The nomadic life of the BAM office and the lack of a centralized system meant that outgoing chairpersons packaged the documents and sent them on to the institution of the new chair. Sometimes, this delivery arrived without all the key papers. BAM headquarters had to be moved from one city to another for a bit more than a decade, until they found a stable home in 2002 in London. Thus, the records eventually delivered to HQ were not very comprehensive.
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