Welcome From The Dean
Colleagues:
It is my pleasure to welcome you to the distinguished set of Strategic Management Society Fellows. As Dean of the SMS Fellows, together with Carlos Cavalle, the Deputy Dean, I lead the group of 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 governs the Fellows Group (amended with effect from January 15 2009) can be found in these pages.
The Fellows provide a forum for discussion and meeting among persons recognized as Fellows. The 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 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. An additional responsibility is to provide intellectual support for the Society’s conference, particularly the Annual Conference. In that regard, the Fellows Group has undertaken to provide content for one or two plenary sessions at the SMS Annual Conference.
I was privileged to be a part of the Inaugural group of Fellows, and my recent election as Dean of Fellows requires me to provide leadership for the Fellows; to help the Fellows recognize and honor new members; and to make the Fellows an important and cohesive group. 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 2008 and its eight newly elected members. They become Fellows for life and will be forever listed on the rolls of the Fellows, which now number 44 of which seven are deceased.
I look forward to one day working with you as a member of the Fellows Group, and to expand the influence and worth of the strategy field across all our stakeholder constituencies.