“Doing well by doing good” garners broad appeal for Academy of Management Conference

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to report on the 67th Annual Academy of Management Conference held 3‐8 August 2007, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Design/methodology/approach

Conference highlights are categorized into five themes: justice and equality, ethics and social responsibility, power and privilege, harassment and discrimination and diversity and inclusion. A sampling of papers and symposia deemed exemplars for each theme were included in the report.

Findings

The conference theme, “doing well by doing good”, generated theme‐related submissions which are of interest to the EOI readership.

Originality/value

The report offers insights on various themes from authors from different theoretical perspectives and varied research methodologies.

Citation

Johnson, C.D. (2008), "“Doing well by doing good” garners broad appeal for Academy of Management Conference", Equal Opportunities International, Vol. 27 No. 7, pp. 646-653. https://doi.org/10.1108/02610150810904337