Rhythms of academic life : personal accounts of careers in academia / Peter J. Frost, M. Susan Taylor. editors.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction to the Series -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Lessons Learned Along the Way: Twelve Suggestions for Optimizing Career Success -- 2. On Becoming a Scholar: One Woman's Journey -- 3. Rhythms of an Academic's Life: Crossing Cultural Borders -- 4. Transitions -- 5. Creating a Career: Observations From Outside the Mainstream -- 6. Becoming a Teacher at a Research University -- 7. On Learning Why I Became a Teacher -- 8. Research/Teaching Boundaries -- 9. Teaching as an Act of Scholarship -- 10. Using Programmatic Research to Build a Grounded Theory -- 11. Developing Programmatic Research -- 12. The Publishing Process: The Struggle for Meaning -- 13. Getting Published -- 14. Revising and Resubmitting: Author Emotions, Editor Roles, and the Value of Dialogue -- 15. The Development of Doctoral Students: Substantive and Emotional Perspectives -- 16. Working With Doctoral Students: Reflections on Doctoral Work Past and Present -- 17. Mentoring Relationships: A Comparison of Experiences in Business and Academia -- 18. Transitions and Turning Points in Faculty-Doctoral Student Relationships -- 19. Getting Tenure -- 20. Rounding Corners: An African American Female Scholar's Pretenure Experiences -- 21. Thoughts on Integrating Work and Personal Life (and the Limits of Advice) -- 22. Holding It All Together -- 23. Working Together -- 24. Growing a Personal, Professional Collaboration -- 25. Three Voices Reflecting on Scholarly Career Journeys With International Collaboration -- 26. Becoming a Reviewer: Lessons Somewhat Painfully Learned -- 27. The Act of Reviewing and Being a Reviewer -- 28. Balls, Strikes, and Collisions on the Base Path: Ruminations of a Veteran Reviewer -- 29. Becoming a Journal Editor -- 30. Work as a Parade of Decision Letters: Pleasures and Burdens of Being an Associate Editor at the Administrative Science Quarterly -- 31. Alice in Academia: The Department Chairman Role From Both Sides of the Mirror -- 32. Herding Cats Part Deux: The Hygiene Factor -- 33. Becoming an Administrator: The Education of an Educator -- 34. On Becoming a Professor -- 35. Becoming a Full Professor -- 36. Dealing With the Overenriched Work Life -- 37. Midlife as a Consultant -- 38. Working as a Consultant: Academic Imprimatur or Taboo? -- 39. Rhythms of an Academic Life -- 40. Reflections on Championing an Innovation in Academe: The Case of Management Skill Education -- 41. Breaking Out, Inside the University -- 42. Working With Policy Makers -- 43. Confronting the Tensions in an Academic Career -- 44. Professional and Personal Life -- 45. What's Next After 10 Years as Dean? Reflections of a Reemerging Professor -- 46. A Sabbatical Journey: Toward Personal and Professional Renewal -- 47. Business Schools in Transition: A Brief History of Business Education -- 48. The External and Institutional Context of Business Higher Education -- 49. The Changing Role of the Business School's Environment: The Threat-Rigidity Response Is Real -- 50. Business Schools in Transition: An Associate Dean's Perspective -- 51. Stakeholders and You -- 52. Embracing Change: We Get By With a Lot of Help From Our Friends -- Commentary -- Conclusion -- About the Editors -- About the Contributors.

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