How Asia's firms are managed has gained global significance academically and professionally. Researchers and scholars are interested in the unique management practices that result from the cultural roots of Asian societies and the economic, social, political and technological forces that shape them. In short, they are searching for the Asian model that could contribute to the universality of management theory. Business executives are intrigued by the region's growth potential and its enormous markets. They are searching for ways to manage their operations effectively to benefit from this fastest growth region of the world.
The Asia Academy of Management is designed to encourage management research, education and knowledge dissemination that are of relevance to management in Asia. The Asia Academy is a global organization that welcomes both ethnically Asian and non-Asian researchers and managers who are interested in management issues relevant to Asia.
The mission of the Asia Academy is to assume global leadership in the advancement of management theory, research and education of relevance to Asia. In August 1997, more than 60 Academy of Management conference participants met and agreed to set up the Asia Academy of Management with the above mission. They endorsed the principle that the Asia Academy should be an independent organization, run in Asia by Asian scholars, with links to the Academy of Management and other scholarly organizations. The objective of the Asia Academy is thus to encourage contextualized management research with Asia relevance towards global contribution to scholarship.
At present, several individuals from Asia and North America are taking the initiative to incorporate the Asia Academy of Management. The Asia Academy's constitution and registration is in progress. The Inaugural Conference in 1998 is the first formal activity of the Asia Academy, and is sponsored by the Academy of Management. In the near future, activities will be planned aiming at building linkages among scholars interested in management research and practices in Asia.
The organizing committee members are:
| Membership | University |
| Chung-Ming Lau | The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| David K Tse | University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| Kenneth S Law | Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong |
| Carol Yeh-Yun Lin | National Central University, Taiwan |
| Kye-Chung Song | Chungnam National University, Korea |
| Tadao Kagono | Kobe University, Japan |
| Kulwant Singh | National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| R. D. Souza | Goa Institute of Management, India |
| Shouyang Wang | National Science Foundation of China, PRC |
| Ming-Jer Chen | Wharton School , University of Pennsylvania, USA |
| Anthony Butterfield | University of Massachusetts, USA |
Secretariat:
Asia Academy of Management
Faculty of Business Administration
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong
Fax: (852) 2603 5917
e-mail: Asia-AoM@cuhk.edu.hk
web site: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/baf/asia-aom