May 27, 2009
2009 SMA Elections
 
The 2009 SMA Elections are now open. To vote, visit www.southernmanagement.org/vote/.

Feb 17, 2009
2009 SMA Nominations
 
The 2009 SMA Nominations are now open. To nominate, visit www.southernmanagement.org/nominate/.

Feb 16, 2009
IN MEMORY - Robert P. Vecchio

Robert P. Vecchio, SMA Fellow, of Granger, Indiana, died on February 9, 2009 in Memorial Hospital, South Bend, Indiana, after a head injury incurred from a fall. He was 58 years old.

He was born in Chicago on June 29, 1950 to Dominick and Angeline Vecchio. He received his B.S degree in June, 1972 from DePaul University. He went on to earn his doctorate from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in 1976. While in Champaign, he married his high-school sweetheart, Betty. Robert and Betty moved to South Bend in 1976 when Robert joined the faculty of the University of Notre Dame as a Professor of Management. He served as Chairman of the Department of Management from 1983 to 1990. Robert has held the Franklin D. Schurz Chair in Management since 1986. In 1995, he assumed the role of Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Management, the first journal to be headquartered in the College of Business Administration. In addition to teaching undergraduate and graduate business students, Robert served on many editorial boards, published numerous articles, and authored books in the areas of leadership and organizational behavior. Robert loved his work at the University, but what he valued most was time spent with his wife and children.

He was predeceased by his mother and father, and is survived by his wife, Betty, daughter Julie, and son Mark. He is also survived by a brother, Thomas.

Visitation will be held Friday, February 13, 2009, from 3-9 PM at the Haben Funeral Home, (Habenfuneral.com), 8057 Niles Center Road, Skokie, Illinois, and on Sunday, February 15, 2009, from 2-8 PM at the Kaniewski Funeral Home, 3545 N. Bendix Drive, South Bend, Indiana.
A Memorial Mass will be held Tuesday, February 17, 2009, at 3:30 PM in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Notre Dame.
Memorial contributions may be made through Kiva.org.
To send condolences online, please visit Kaniewski.com.

July 25, 2008
IN MEMORIAM - James G. (Jerry) Hunt

The Southern Management Association lost one of our long-time members and a great contributor to the organization. James G. (Jerry) Hunt, 76, of Lubbock, passed away Tuesday, July 22, 2008 at Vista Care Hospice of emphysema caused by a rare, life-long, genetic enzyme deficiency. Jerry lived many years past the life expectancy of people with that condition.

He was born February 2, 1932 in Denver, CO to Newell and Rosalind Hunt. Jerry married Donna Rose in 1956 and had three children and two grandchildren. He graduated from the University of Illinois in 1966 with a Ph.D. in Business and taught at several universities around the U.S. before settling at Texas Tech University in 1981.

Jerry had a long and prestigious career as a Professor of Management. He was a Paul Whitfield Horn Emeritus Professor and founding Director of Texas Tech's Institute for Leadership Research. He was a Fellow of the Academy of Management and the Southern Management Association and has authored, co-authored, edited, or co-edited more than 20 books and monographs and over 200 articles, book chapters, and related materials. His work has been cited over 700 times in scholarly academic literature. Jerry was a former editor of the Journal of Management and The Leadership Quarterly. He served on the national governing board of the Academy of Management, as chair of the Academy's organizational behavior division, as president of the Southern Management Association and as chair of the Midwest Academy of Management. He won several career-long regional and national service awards and won Texas Tech's Bernie Rushing award for outstanding research. Jerry has been a visiting professor at universities around the world. He retired in December of 2007.

He is survived by his wife Donna; son Douglas Hunt and wife Linda of St. Louis, MO; daughters Holly Darling of San Antonio and Robin Hunt of Dallas; grandchildren Adrienne Hunt and Hunter Darling; and sister Phyllis Johnson of Chassell, Michigan. Memorial contributions may be made to the Jerry and Donna Hunt Scholarship Endowment at the Texas Tech University Rawls College of Business, P.O. Box 42101, Lubbock, TX 79409-2101, ATTN: Bob Rhoades. The memo section should say: Jerry and Donna Hunt Scholarship Endowment.

The Southern Management Association mourns Jerry's passing.

May 30, 2008
2008 SMA Elections now open
 
The 2008 SMA Elections are now open. Members are invited to cast their vote at http://www.southernmanagement.org/vote/.

March 12, 2008
SMA Member Publication
 
Does one lousy worker or coworker make it difficult to perform your job? Is your organization losing its best workers because it chooses not to deal with its bad bosses? Ella and David Van Fleet address these and related concerns in their book titled, Workplace Survival: Dealing with Bad Bosses, Bad Workers, Bad Jobs. For more details, visit http://www.publishedauthors.net/vanfleet/index.html.

February 29, 2008
2008 SMA Nominations
 
The 2008 SMA Nominations are now open. To nominate, visit www.southernmanagement.org/nominate/.

February 20, 2008
CARMA Summer Short Courses
 
The Center for the Advancement of Research Methods and Analysis (CARMA) at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia will host several Summer Short Courses on management research methods topics in May. For additional details, click here.

November 16, 2007
SMA Fellows inducted at group meeting
 
The SMA Fellows group met on Thursday, November 8, at the Nashville City Club. Three new Fellows were inducted: Jerry Ferris, Mark Gavin, and Dave Ketchen. Congratulations to each of them. In addition, David Van Fleet was elected Dean to succeed Bob Ford. David was Deputy Dean of the SMA Fellows from 1996 through 1998 and Deputy Dean of Academy of Management Fellows from 1996 through 1999. Micki Kacmar will serve as Deputy Dean.

November 16, 2007
New Editor-Elect for Journal of Management
 
The Journal of Management's new Editor-Elect is Professor Talya N. Bauer of Portland State University. Dr. Bauer's team will begin accepting new submission on July 1, 2008.

June 9, 2007
SMA touches all time high of 1000 members
 
SMA membership grew to a record 1000 people today. Thanks go out to all the SMA Officers and members who made this happen!

March 1, 2007
2006 SMA Survey results available
 
The 2006 SMA Survey results are now available online. Click here to access the survey results.

January 30, 2007
SMA 2006 Meeting photos now online
 
Photos from SMA 2006 Meeting in Clearwater Beach, Florida have been added to the archive for that meeting on this website.  Click here to view the photos.

October 29, 2006
Record Attendance for the SMA 2006 Meeting
 
Attendance at the 2006 SMA Annual Meeting in Clearwater Beach reached record levels with 425 members. Thanks go out to all the SMA Officers and participants who made this meeting possible!

September 15, 2006
SMA Election Results
 
Thank you to all of our candidates, and all who voted in this years elections. Peg Williams will become our new Program Chair Elect. Our new incoming members of the Board of Governors will be David Allen, Angela Miles, and Hettie Richardson. Congratulations to all!

September 15, 2006
SMA Board holds mid-year meeting in Atlanta
 
SMA officers and members of the Board of Governors held their annual mid-year meeting in Atlanta at the recent Academy of Management meetings. Among the topics of discussion were plans for our upcoming meetings in Clearwater Beach, the continued enhancement of the success of the Journal of Management under Russell Cropanzanos editorial team, and preliminary results from our recent member survey.

September 15, 2006
Thank you for your survey input
 
Peg Williams and Claudia Cogliser are busy proceeding with analysis of the data from this summers member survey. A special thank you goes to the 437 of you who responded to the survey. Well have a full report of the results this fall.

April 1, 2005
Call for Proposals: JOM 2007 Review Issue
 
The editorial board of the Journal of Management would like to invite authors to submit proposals for the 2007 Review Issue. Call for Proposals

October 28, 2005
New Officers/Board Members Elected
 
We are pleased to announce that Allen Amason, University of Georgia has been elected as the Vice President-Program Chair Elect for SMA.  Allen will serve a five year terms as an officer within SMA.  Additionally, three new board members have been elected for a term of 2005-2009:  Claudia Cogliser, Texas Tech University; Jim Combs, Florida State University; and Tim Barnett, Mississippi State University.

October 20, 2005
Hurricane Relief for SMA Members
 
In response to the devastation caused by the recent hurricanes, the Southern Management Association (SMA) would like to offer some help to our members in the affected disaster areas. Click here for more information.

July 1, 2005
Russell S. Cropanzano takes over as JOM editor
 
Dr. Russell S. Cropanzano (University of Arizona) takes over as editor of the Journal of Management effective today (July 1, 2005).
The top-rated Journal of Management is the official journal of the SMA. More Information on the Journal of Management can be found at http://jom.sagepub.com.

April 20, 2005
Record submissions received for the SMA 2005 meeting
 
The SMA received an all time record number of manuscripts (385 manuscripts) submitted for possible presentation at its 2005 annual meeting. The high submission level promises to result in a high quality program.
More information on the SMA 2005 meeting can be found at http://sma.aquinex.com.

March 1, 2005
Aquinex Services to provide Association Management services to SMA
 
Aquinex Services will provide SMA with a range of Association Management services, including online manuscript submissions, web based conference registration & payment, website management, membership management, and web based elections. These services will be rolled out in the coming months, and promise to add significant value to SMA members.