A SHARED BRAIN FOR PEOPLE AND SOCIETY
Academic Community for Scientific Research: 
Redesigning the Incentive System

“Knowledge is capable of being its own end. Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.”

-- John Henry Newman (1852) in The Idea of a University


“We contrast a liberal education with a commercial education or professional; yet no one can deny that commerce and the professions afford scope for the highest and most diversified powers of mind.”

-- John Henry Newman (1852) in The Idea of a University

01 EFMD Paper

February 2012: With Charles McMillan, I contributed a paper entitled "Business schools in a changing global world: Who creates best practice and knowledge management?" to the Inaugural EFMD Conference on Higher Education and Research.

02 B-Schools

August 2015: With Henry Mintzberg (McGill), Peter Lorange (former President of IMD), Bill Glick (then chair of AACSB), and JC Spender (former dean of NYIT). I hosted a Panel Symposium on "Designing the future business schools" at Academy of Management Annual Meeting. Attended by 200+ Academy of Management members, this panel discussed ideas to reform the incentive systems of business schools towards a better integration between science and practice.

03 Editors

August 2016: With senior editors from MISQ, ASQ, JOM, JIBS, and JAP, I hosted a Professional Development Workshop on "Creating a more reliable and cumulative knowledge ecosystem" at Academy of Management Annual Meeting. The panel discussed various ideas on the presentations and editorial policies so that knowledge is more accessible and accumulative.

04 Ecosystem

August 2017: With Michael Hitt, I co-organized a Panel Symposium on "Time is ripe for knowledge synthesis: (Re)inventing technologies, outlets, and incentives" at Academy of Management Annual Meeting, with four other former Academy presidents, Denise Rousseau, Jim Walsh, Susan Jackson, and Duane Ireland. The panel discussed ideas to encourage knowledge integration as a new agenda for management studies and how it can complement the existing scientific journal-centric system. 

Read a summary note.

05 Infrastructures

August 2021: With editors-in-chief of top review outlets (AoM Annals, AoM Collections, Annual Review, IJMR, JOM, JIBS, and Oxford Encyclopedia), I am hosting a symposium on "Curating collective wisdom: Exploring new infrastructures for knowledge synthesis" at the 2021 Academy of Management Meeting.

Below is an opening video by the chairs and editors.

Future events

From 2021-2022, I plan to host public meetings with major publishers and funding agencies on developing AI-empowered, cumulative knowledge infrastructures for business and management.

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