We are very excited to announce the 3rd Annual MIT Sloan BPS Mini-Conference. The conference will take place May 9-10th, 2008 here at the MIT Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

About BPS

The Behavioral and Policy Sciences (BPS) area of the MIT Sloan School of Management brings together researchers exploring a wide range of organizational phenomena using a variety of methods. The substantive content of the scholarship performed within the area ranges considerably--from entrepreneurship to international management, from labor relations to group behavior and more. This diversity of areas is equally matched by the range of methods applied to their study, including ethnography, surveys and interviews, analyses of archival data, and experimental approaches. One of the things that makes BPS such an exciting research community to those who are a part of it is the extent to which contributions from a multitude of disciplinary approaches are valued.

About the Conference

The idea that organizational research is well-served by drawing upon methods and approaches from a diversity of disciplinary backgrounds is the foundation upon which we have built this conference. To this end, we have identified a set of presenters and participants who, though they come from different research traditions, are actively working on problems we think will be interesting to anyone studying organizations and management. This conference is also designed to showcase the work of more junior scholars in the early stages of their careers, in an effort to build ties and relationships to shape the future of organizational scholarship.

Click here for the invitation and instructions on how to register.