During the AoM conference in San Diego in 1985 they realize the lack of a multidisciplinary association in the UK and decided to establish BAM.

The biggest challenges for this new organisation were to set up a constitution and to exercise good governance through a strong executive committee.

The nomadic life of the BAM office and the lack of a centralized system meant that outgoing chairpersons packaged the documents and sent them on to the institution of the new chair.

BAM headquarters had to be moved from one city to another for a bit more than a decade, until they found a stable home in 2002 in London.

[2] In the 1990s, BAM struggled to find conference venues, and to attract persons due to the fact that the attendance was low.

The British Journal of Management (BJM) was launched in early 1990 and had 4 issues a year running into 64 pages.

BJM purpose was to receive articles from a full range of business and management disciplines and to have a multi and inter disciplinary orientation.

The SIG structure proved a thriving way to organise BAM's conferences, offering richer benefits for the membership.

In January 2018 BAM's first CEO, Madeleine Barrows, was appointed to work with the Executive to develop and implement strategy and to lead the office team.

They organise workshop and events on topics relevant to their research area, and take the lead in managing the academic programme at the annual BAM Conference.

It is published four times a year (plus an annual supplement), welcoming papers that make inter-disciplinary or multi-disciplinary contributions, as well as research from within the traditional disciplines and managerial functions.

Each issue is composed of five or six review articles which examine all the relevant literature published on a specific aspect of the sub-discipline.