Welcome to the final program for the Academy of Management Conference in Chicago August 6-11, 1999. You can access the program four ways:

1. Browse the program by day. Click any day and a program guide will show all sessions that are offered that day by time and room in a TV Guide format. Click any session and you will see a display describing the session along with 250-word abstracts of the symposium or papers presented in the session. Click any speaker in the session and up will pop an e-mail window for sending a message to the individual.
2. Search the program for any individual or keywords. For example, if you want to know when you or anyone is speaking in the program, enter "lastname firstname" and you will get a display of the sessions. If you are interested in sessions on any topic (e.g., organization change), enter the topic or keywords and you will see all the sessions in which the topic is listed in the session titles or abstracts. Helpful hints for your search are available by following the "tips for searching" link on the search results page.
3. Create a self-designed personal schedule. Download the "Personal Program Guide" onto your personal computer. You can edit this rich text file with most any word processor. Select the sessions you want to attend and enter your own personal appointments. Then print the file and carry it in your pocket to keep you going at the Chicago conference.
4. Download a printable copy of the Chicago '99 program. Although the printed program is being mailed to all Academy members in mid-May, you can download an Adobe Acrobat copy of parts or the entire program. You will find the Participant Index a particularly useful reference for communicating with any conference participants before, during and after the conference. This index will also be helpful for Interactive Paper authors who are being encouraged to invite five people to discuss their papers. Please respond favorably to these invitations when invited if your schedule permits.

On behalf of the Chicago '99 Conference Committee and Division Program Chairs, we hope you find these new features useful to learn of the incredibly rich and diverse Chicago '99 program of the Academy of Management. We have 279 workshops, 1147 papers and 192 symposia being presented in 849 sessions by 3503 speakers from 962 universities and organizations in 41 countries on the program. We expect 5300 people to attend the conference who teach or train about 2 million students and managers worldwide. Moreover, THANK YOU for making it so! I look forward to seeing you at the conference August 6-11.. It will be a good one!

Andy Van de Ven

Program Chair