Fall 2018 Newsletter

Chair’s Message – Davide Ravasi (University College London) introduces our Fall 2018 OMT Division newsletter and recaps the Chicago meeting 

Peer Fiss (University of Southern California) gives us a recap of this year’s academic program.

Renate Meyer (WU Vienna) provides a recap of this year's PDW program.

Lori Qingyuan Yue (University of Southern California) shares important information from our research committee on 2018 award winners.

Past Division Chair Marc-David Seidel (University of British Columbia) provides a recap of the dissertation proposal workshop oriented toward early stage students, which supported a number of doctoral students in developing the conceptualization of their dissertations.

Jo-Ellen Pozner (University of Santa Clara) and Michael Smets (Oxford University) report on the successful OMT Doctoral Consortium, and Tal Simons (Tilburg University) and Joel Gehman (University of Alberta) report on the Junior Faculty Consortium 

Sun Hyun Park (Seoul National University Business School) and Vibha Gaba (INSEAD) announce and report on the newly established OMT workshop, Doing Research Around the World, which facilitates networking and discussion around the unique challenges and opportunities of organizational research using international settings.

Jo-Ellen Pozner announces and reports on the newly launched OMT Practitioner-Scholar Group, which builds academic-professional bridges by bringing together academic and executive members.

Emily Block (University of Alberta) reports on our amazingly successful OMT Membership Group (OMG), which continues to build community among OMT members and friends, old and new.

Hovig Tchalian (Claremont Graduate University) provides an update on the Communication Committee – the team responsible for the website, social media, listserv, and newsletters. And Deborah Anderson (Oxford University) reports on the social media team that was roving the halls at AOM.

Interviews of Award Winners

Pedro Monteiro (2018 Pondy winner) interviews Alan Meyer (University of Oregon), the 2018 Distinguished Scholar Award recipient. Also check out the podcast of Pedro's longer original interview.

Take a look at the wonderful acceptance speech by Alan Meyer (University of Oregon), at the 2018 OMT Distinguished Scholar Breakfast.

Georg Reischauer (WU Vienna) interviews Pedro Monteiro (EMLYON Business School), the 2018 Pondy Award Winner for best paper based on a dissertation.

Shilo Hills (University of Alberta) interviews Nelson Phillips (Imperial College), Cliff Oswick (Cass Business School), and Cynthia Hardy (University of Melbourne), winners of the Joanne Martin Trailblazer Award.

Hovig Tchalian (Claremont Graduate University) interviews Matthew Metzger (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs) and Jennifer Howard-Grenville (University of Cambridge, Judge Business School), winners of the OMT Best Paper Published in 2018.

Laura D’Oria (Iowa State University) interviews Anna Kim (HEC Montreal), the winner of the 2018 Best International Paper Award 

Georg Reischauer (WU Vienna) interviews Tina Dacin (Queen’s University) and Tammar Zilber (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), winners of the 2018 Best Symposium Award.

Upcoming

Academy of Management 2019 in Boston is here! Sign up to review and make sure you submit your paper/symposium/PDW to the program.

The OMT Winter Paper Development & Writing Workshop is coming up in 2019 – January 1st and February 2nd, in London. Make sure to Apply by November 23rd, 2018. Click here for more information. 

If you’re interested in getting more involved, consider joining our OMT Membership Group (OMG) and/or Communications Team.

Also, many of our members are also members of the Organizations, Occupations, and Work (OOW) and Theory sections of the American Sociological Association. So feel free to check them out, if you’re interested.

In Closing

Finally, please like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. And watch for a special announcement on both channels for a Podcast of an extended interview with Alan Meyer, OMT 2018 Distinguished Scholar Award winner.

A special thanks goes out to our 2017-2018 sponsors!  For future sponsorship information, contact Davide Ravasi, OMT Division Chair.