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Prof. Jean M Bartunek
Boston College

Jean M. Bartunek is the Robert A. and Evelyn J. Ferris Chair and Professor of Organization Studies at Boston College. She is also the director of the Organization Studies PhD Program. She is also a past president of the Academy of Management and past division chair of the Organization Development and Change division. Her doctorate in Social and Organizational Psychology is from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is an associate editor of the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science and is on the editorial boards of several journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, for which she is chair of the advisory committee, Administrative Science Quarterly, and Organization Studies. She has written three books and co-edited another, and has published over 80 journal articles and book chapters. Her substantive research interests center around intersections of organizational change, social cognition, and conflict. Her methodological interests focus on ways academics and practitioners can collaborate in conducting research.

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The Importance of Being Prudence


This year's EURAM theme emphasizes the need for managers to act skillfully in situations for which there are no clear guidelines. Although it is rarely discussed in management research, the character trait most clearly associated with effective action under uncertainty is prudence, or practical wisdom. I will explore and develop scholarly understandings of prudence as well as how it might be applied practically in managerial action.

 

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