Annual Meeting of the Southern Management Association

This year’s Annual Meeting will take place at the Trade Winds Resort in St. Pete Beach, FL from October 24 – 28. Reserve your hotel room by visiting https://www.tradewindsresort.com/sma.

At this year’s conference, two sessions on research methods topics will be hosted by CARMA. The workshops will take place on Wednesday afternoon (10/25) and Saturday morning (10/28). Registrants are expected to attend both sessions. For more information and to register for these workshops, please visit https://smgmt.org/carma-sma-symposium/.

SMA is excited to announce that this year’s meeting in St. Pete Beach will offer on-site childcare options at the TradeWinds resort through a professional partnership with KiddieCorp. This program is open to children ages 6 months through 12 years old. If you know an SMA member who may be interested in this program, please let them know! For information about registration and rates, see this form: https://form.jotform.com/KiddieCorp/smakids

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Early bird rates are displayed. They will end at 11:59 PM ET on Sunday, September 15. The SMA Member Registration fee increases to $375.00 after this deadline. The rate for Student/Emeritus Faculty will increase to $160.00.

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Doctoral consortia participants cannot take part in the Southern Golf Scramble or the Toyota Plant Tour.
The Southern Golf Scramble and the Toyota Plant Tour events overlap. As such, you cannot register for both.

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