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absel-2021	Burton, Gene E.	The Relative Value of the National ABSEL Meeting: An Analysis of Perceptions by Faculty and Deans	1987	3	.pdf	application/pdf	2268	65	24	Recent Criticisms of Meetings In the process of evaluating professional meetings, one might do well to consider some of the recent complaints about some meetings: (1) too many meetings incur unreasonable costs by locating in the “high cost” cities, such as New York or San Francisco; (2) some meetings increase the travel cost by selecting peripheral sites, such as Miami or Hawaii, when cheaper travel would result from the selection of more central locations, such as Kansas City or Memphis; (3) other meetings are held in “tourist traps” in an effort to increase the number of registrants, with the end result that fewer people attend the professional sessions; (4) some meetings seem to offer the same workshops and the same paper presenters every year, with no concern for creativity or innovation; (5) other meetings are seen as “good ol’ buddy clubs,” administered every year by the same old clique, with no opportunity for newcomers to become meaningfully involved; (6) some administrators expect faculty attendees to perform recruiting duties and, thus, prefer meetings with good placement services and tend to discourage attendance at meetings held too early in the recruiting year (August) or too late in the recruiting year (March/April); (7) some administrators perceive meetings to be little more than attractive nuisances that lure faculty away from their more important campus obligations; (8) still other administrators don’t like the idea of their young stars going to meetings where they will be subjected to aggressive recruiting from other schools; and (9) too many meetings are criticized for the poor quality of the presentations, in spite of the “blind referee” process. The purpose of this study is to measure and compare the perceptions of business school faculty and business school deans with respect to the value of professional meeting, with special interest placed on the National ABSEL Meeting.	cache/absel-2021.pdf	txt/absel-2021.txt