Professional Organizations: Management

• Academy of Management - The Academy of Management (the Academy; AOM) is a leading professional association for scholars dedicated to creating and disseminating knowledge about management and organizations.

• Eastern Academy of Management - EAM is a learning community of college educators and others dedicated to using their skills and talents to help the world work better.
  
  
• Western Academy of Management - One of WAM's goals is to improve the teaching of management.

• Midwest Academy of Management - MAM is a regional organization whose goal is to improve the teaching of management.

• Southwest Academy of Management - SAM's goal is to provide programs to members and schools within their region to enhance professional development, particularly in the area of effective teaching.

• Southern Management Association - The critical objectives of SMA include the nurturing and mentoring of new entrants into the management profession and the encouragement, development, and dissemination of new ideas and approaches to the study and teaching of management.

• Organizatiomal Behavior Teaching Society - OBTS is a professional organization of approximately 450 individuals who teach in the management disciplines at universities and colleges throughout the world and are interested in innovative and creative learning and teaching processes.

• AoM/IAoM (Association of Management and the International Association of Management) - The AoM/IAoM is dedicated to advancing the theory and practice of management in the fields of organizational, human resources, information systems and technology, health care and international management, educational administration, leadership, and entrepreneurship.

• American Management Association - AMA provides the practical training and business tools needed to improve individual and organizational performance—and achieve bottom-line results.

• The Society for Case Research - The purpose of the Society for Case Research (SCR) is to assist in the development of individual efforts in the field of case writing, case teaching, and case research which enhances business education.

• North American Case Research Association - NACRA is a collaborative organization of some 450 case writers and teachers, mostly in the business disciplines, who support each other's research and writing efforts.

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