Welcome From The Dean
Dan Schendel
Dean, SMS Fellows
My Esteemed Colleagues:
It is my pleasure to welcome you to the web pages that follow and which give you information about the Strategic Management Society’s Fellows. I serve as the Dean of the SMS Fellows, a group inaugurated by the Society’s Board of Directors in 2005 on the occasion of the 25th anniversary meeting of the Society. The purpose of the Fellows is to recognize and honor members of the SMS who have made significant contributions to the theory and practice of strategic management, and who exemplify the founding principles and purposes of the Strategic Management Society itself. The current constitution that govern the Fellows Group can be found in these pages.
The Fellows provide a forum for discussion and meeting among persons recognized as Fellows. The Inaugural Fellows have implemented the provisions of the constitution, which include the conduct of an annual meeting of the Fellows, typically at the Annual International Meeting of the Strategic Management Society. While the Fellows have no authority to engage in establishing policy for the SMS, the Fellows take seriously the exercise of leadership in the field of strategic management. Part of that responsibility, perhaps the major part, is to identify and elect new, worthy members to the Fellows Group. An election is held each year for nominees put forth by the membership committee of the Fellows Group. The constitution tells you how that process works.
It was my honor to be a part of the Inaugural group of Fellows, and to be elected Dean to help the Fellows recognize and honor new members and make them part of the on-going activities of the Fellows. I am certain you will agree that the Fellows named elsewhere on this site are worthy of the honor the Board and now the existing Fellows have bestowed. I am pleased at the class of 2007 and its six newly elected members. They become Fellows for life and will be forever listed on the rolls of the Fellows, which now number 36 of which seven are deceased.
I look forward to one day welcoming you as a member of the Fellows Group, and meanwhile keep up the work that has established our field, and which is expanding its influence and worth!