Message from Tatiana Kostova, Chair, IM Division, Academy of Management 2008-2009

Fellow Members of the International Management Division,

On behalf of all officers of the division, thank you for entrusting us with the important task of managing our community in 2008-2009.  It is a great honor and privilege to serve!  I would like to share with you our vision and priorities for the coming year. 

We are excited about the opportunities that we have as a community to make a significant contribution to scholarship.  We believe we are uniquely positioned within the Academy to develop the highest impact management research.  While many of us hold allegiances to other divisions in addition to IMD, it is through the international research which is the focus of this division, that we can have the most notable impact.  The international context that we study presents unique opportunities for novel theory building and research.  It challenges major assumptions and boundary conditions of management theories that have been typically developed for domestic organizations in Western countries.  Re-examining these theories in the international context, under new assumptions and boundary conditions, can potentially lead to major modifications or expansions of the theories or to the creation of completely novel theoretical insights altogether.  That is why it is extremely exciting to be part of the IMD scholarly community and have IMD as our primary affiliation in the Academy.