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Dear everyone,

As you may know, the Strategic Management Society (SMS) will be hosting their 32^nd Annual International Conference in Prague (7-9^th October 2012) with a theme of "Strategy in Transition"

http://prague.strategicmanagement.net/index.php

The Strategy Practice Interest Group (IG) of SMS

(http://strategicmanagement.net/ig/practice_of_strategy.php ) would like to encourage you to submit your best paper proposals (only 7-pages max., inclusive of Reference, Tables and Figures) before the deadline of 23^rd February 2012.

The Strategy Practice IG focuses on the interplay between what strategy practitioners "do" and the practices they use that guide and influence their strategies.

We welcome high quality submissions from Academics (As), Business Practitioners (Bs) and Consultants (Cs), including proposals that advocate the co-production of knowledge between combinations of As Bs and Cs. We are particularly interested in contributions that are novel, interesting and counter-intuitive in advancing the field of strategy practice by addressing any of the following and related questions: What new ways of thinking are required of strategy practitioners operating in transitional and transformative environments? How do the interplay between strategy workers, praxis and practices differ cross-culturally? What are the micro, meso and macro implications of strategizing within and between markets that are in a constant state of flux? Where are the new theories of strategizing? How can we better leverage on a multi-disciplinary approach to inform and advance the strategy practice agenda? What new lessons can we learn in teaching strategy-as-practice? And what are the methodological innovations and challenges in helping organizations create new ways of thinking and doing?

We also want to let members know that our IG also welcomes submissions from practitioners and consultants dealing with the key challenges, issues and unsolved problems facing the work of strategy, strategizing and strategic management. One key fundamental requirement in particular is that we ask such submissions be of a high quality demonstrating clear thinking, well structured, help advance our understanding of complex issues, and that the proposal is substantiated by sources / references.

If you have any questions about this please contact me (msrobert@polyu.edu.hk ) or our Program Chair, Timo at santalainen@stratnet.org

If you would like to help out with our highly interactive Sunday program and have ideas about potential sessions, please contact our Associate Program Chair, Hanna at hanna.lehtimaki@uta.fi

We look forward to putting together a great program for you in Prague!

Here's wishing you all a great New Year in the Year of the DRAGON!

See you in Prague!

Robert Wright, Track Chairperson

On behalf of the Strategy Practice Interest Group Executive Team for 2012/2013:

Timo Santalainen (SMS IG Track Program Chair)

Hanna Lehtimaki (SMS IG Track Associate Program Chair)

Sotirios Paroutis (SMS IG Track Past Chairperson)

Reps-at-Large:

James Faulkner
Wolfgang Guettel
Markus Nordberg

Basak Yakis-Douglas
Martin Friesl
Paul Hunter

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Dr. Robert Wright, FAIM, FHKIHRM, FHKIoD
Associate Professor of Strategy
Department of Management and Marketing
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The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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