Rhythms of Academic Life
Personal Accounts of Careers in Academia
First Edition
Edited by:
- Peter J. Frost - University of British Colombia, Canada
- M. Susan Taylor
Volume:
4
Other Titles in:
Organization Studies (General)
Organization Studies (General)
September 1996 | 536 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
This invaluable source book offers guidance, support and advice for those contemplating or involved in academic careers. The contributions provide rich, personal, sometimes poignant and often humorous accounts of shared and unique experiences of those in the world of academia.
Introduction
PART ONE: CAREER RHYTHMS: FIVE EXEMPLARS
Arthur G Bedeian
Lessons Learned along the Way
Joan V Gallos
On Becoming a Scholar
Miriam Erez
Rhythms of an Academic's Life
Vance F Mitchell
Transitions
Stewart Clegg in conversation with John M Jermier
Creating a Career
PART TWO: EARLY RHYTHMS
Becoming a Teacher
Christina E Shalley
Becoming a Teacher at a Research University
John A Miller
On Learning Why I Became a Teacher
Walter R Nord
Research/Teaching Boundaries
Stella M Nkomo
Teaching as an Act of Scholarship
Doing Research and Getting Published
Edwin A Locke
Using Programmatic Research to Build a Grounded Theory
Mats Alvesson
Developing Programmatic Research
Susan J Ashford
The Publishing Process
Kevin R Murphy
Getting Published
J Keith Murnighan
Revising and Resubmitting
Working with Doctoral Students
Larry L Cummings
The Development of Doctoral Students
Susan J Ashford
Working with Doctoral Students
Linn Van Dyne
Mentoring Relationships
Roderick M Kramer and Joanne Martin
Transitions and Turning Points in Faculty-Doctoral Student Relationships
Getting Tenure
Marilyn E Gist
Getting Tenure
Toni C King
Rounding Corners
Pause Point 1: Integration of Work and Nonwork Lives
James P Walsh
Thoughts on Integrating Your Work and Personal Life (and the Limits of Advice)
Marcy Crary
Holding It All Together
PART THREE: MIDDLE RHYTHMS: TRADITIONAL PATHS
Working Collaboratively
C R Hinings and Royston Greenwood
Working Together
Jane E Dutton, Jean M Bartunek and Connie J G Gersick
Growing a Personal, Professional Collaboration
James G (Jerry) Hunt, Arja Ropo and Päivi Eriksson
Three Voices Reflecting on Scholarly Career Journeys with International Collaboration
Becoming a Reviewer
Elaine Romanelli
Becoming a Reviewer
Huseyin Leblebici
The Act of Reviewing and Being a Reviewer
Alan D Meyer
Balls, Strikes, and Collisions on the Base Path
Becoming a Journal Editor
Janice M Beyer
Becoming a Journal Editor
Robert I Sutton
Work as a Parade of Decision Letters
Becoming a Department Chair and an Administrator
Nancy K Napier
Alice in Academia
Cynthia V Fukami
Herding Cats Part Deux
Allan R Cohen
Becoming an Administrator
Becoming a Full Professor
Ray V Montagno
On Becoming a Professor
Sara L Rynes
Becoming a Full Professor
Pause Point 2: The Overenriched Work Life
Susan E Jackson
Dealing with the Overenriched Work Life
PART FOUR: MIDDLE RHYTHMS: NONTRADITIONAL PATHS
Working as a Consultant
Philip H Mirvis
Midlife as a Consultant
Mary Ann Von Glinow
Working as a Consultant
Developing Innovative Teaching Materials
Robert D Marx
Rhythms of an Academic Life
David A Whetten
Reflections on Championing an Innovation in Academe
Working inside the University
Judy D Olian
Breaking Out, inside the University
WORKING WITH POLICY MAKERS
Paul R Sackett
Working with Policy Makers
Pause Point 3: Another Look at Integrating Work and Nonwork Lives
Robert E Quinn, Regina M O'Neill and Gelaye Debebe
Confronting the Tensions in an Academic Career
Anne Sigismund Huff
Professional and Personal Life
PART FIVE: RHYTHMS OF RENEWAL
Taking a Sabbatical
André L Delbecq
What's Next after 10 Years as Dean? Reflections of a Reemerging Professor
Meryl Reis Louis
A Sabbatical Journey
PART SIX: RHYTHMS OF THE FIELD
A Look at the Future
Raymond E Miles
Business Schools in Transition
William H Mobley
The External and Institutional Context of Business Higher Education
Robert B Duncan
The Changing Role of the Business School's Environment
Marcia P Miceli
Business Schools in Transition
Janet P Near
Stakeholders and You
James P Walsh
Embracing Change
Peter J Frost and M Susan Taylor
Commentary
Conclusion