Minutes of the ABO Section Executive Meeting

Friday, October 10, 2008

ABO Research Conference, Providence, RI

 

Respectfully submitted:  Jennifer Joe, Secretary-Treasurer

 

Members present:

Elizabeth Almer

Wendy Bailey

Jean Bedard

Cindy Blanthorne

Steve Bucheit

Tom Clausen

Rich Houston

Jennifer Joe

Don Kent

Theresa Libby

Bill Pasewark

Sean Peffer

Janet Samuels

Axel Schulz

 

  1. Rich Houston called the meeting to order at 10:00 am.

 

  1. Sean Peffer moved and Jean Bedard seconded the motion that the August 2008 minutes that  CONTACT _Con-3DB81DF71 \c \s \l Jennifer Joe circulated prior to the meeting be approved. The motion was met with unanimous approval.

 

  1. There was a discussion about cost of the Doctoral Consortium. It was agreed that Rich Houston and Elizabeth Almer will approach other firms to obtain funding to cover the full cost of the doctoral consortium which exceeds the $6000 that the section currently receives from one of the firms. The AAA reporting combines the conference and consortium expenses.  Jean Bedard volunteered to accumulate the complete cost of the consortium including the doctoral student participants, food during the consortium, registration fees, etc., for the executive committee. 

 

  1. Jean Bedard informed the committee that the section needs a back-up bulb (~$300) and another projector (~$600).  Sean and Elizabeth suggested obtaining locks for the electronic equipment.  At the end of this meeting the equipment will be shipped to Frank Hodge who will chair the 2009 research conference.

 

  1. Theresa Libby presented the editor’s report.  The 2009 volume is still under Bryan Church’s management.  Issue 1 is ready for printing and Issue 2 will have 5 papers, after which, there will be 4-5 papers that will carry forward to 2010 including 2 invited papers.

    There have been 45 submissions since January 2008, 42% were rejected at 1st round and 31% are at the 1st round revise and resubmit stage.  BRIA, along with the other AAA section journals, applied for SSCI listing. BRIA was not selected at this time and will continue to work towards this goal.  Some of the areas that BRIA needs to improve includes having authors who publish in premier journals and BRIA citation in premier journals.  The next evaluation will be 3-5 years.

    Theresa suggested that the section link accepted conference papers to the journal as is done by the Management Accounting Section.  She noted that reviewers would have to be selected carefully.  Wendy Bailey suggested that conference reviewer forms include an option to refer high quality papers to the BRIA editor so that the editor can invite the authors to submit to BRIA.

 

  1. Newsletter – Cindy reported that she handed over editorship to Don Kent effective with the Fall 2008 issue.

 

  1. Webmaster – Charlie Bailey was not present and there was nothing to report.  It was noted that the section needs a volunteer to serve as the ABO coordinator on AAA Commons.  Rich will seek a volunteer during the business meeting.

 

  1. Awards – Kristy was not present but reported that there were 12 submissions.  Jackie Hammersley served on this year’s selection committee and will serve as next year’s committee chair.

 

  1. Annual meeting – Bill Pasewark and Steve Bucheit, co-chairs, reported that a major issue arose in determining the definition of an ABO paper.  There were many submissions to the ABO program that were not consistent with their expectations of an ABO paper. The committee agreed that the liaisons and executive committee should review the section’s statement of purpose and the earlier documentation to determine the original intent when the section was started.  Rich volunteered to obtain the information and circulate it among the committee to obtain input.

    Bill reported that there were complaints from participants in the emerging scholar session.  Some were dissatisfied about the pairing of the new and experienced scholar.  He also reported that there were some problems with discussants and moderators not showing up at their appointed sessions. Wendy recommended that we ask more establish scholars to recommend new scholars that would be responsible discussants and moderators.

 

  1. Research Conference – Jean Bedard reported that there were 164 registrants at the 2008 conference.  The following cities were suggested for the 2010 conference: Denver, Kansas City, and St. Louis.

 

  1. The committee discussed whether the section’s mail list should shared outside of the AAA.  There was unanimous agreement that the mail list should not be sold to for profit groups.

 

  1. The meeting was adjourned.