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Everyone,
Please enjoy our 2019 Spring Newsletter, packed with updates and announcements.
Chair’s Message – Davide Ravasi, University College London, introduces this issue of the OMT Division newsletter and looks ahead to the upcoming Annual Meeting in Boston.
Program Chair Renate Meyer shares an overview of our scholarly program.
PDW Chair Martin Kilduff previews the pre-conference programs.
Research Committee Chair Lori Yue announces our paper and symposium award winners for this year.
Other Conference Activities
Follow these links for details of the Doctoral Consortium, Junior Faculty Consortium, or Dissertation Proposal Workshop, and consider applying to our second annual Doing Organizational Research Around the World – Opportunities and Challenges Workshop.
Be sure to check out our growing list of incredibly popular OMT off-program events, and please attend our Monday morning Distinguished Scholar Breakfast to congratulate Lynne Zucker and hear her award talk.
We continue to strengthen our partnership with EGOS. In addition to our Meet OMT @ EGOS Reception (in Edinburgh), we will be co-hosting our Meet EGOS @ OMT Reception (in Boston).
In Closing
A special thanks to our Sponsors. For future sponsorship information, contact Davide Ravasi, OMT Division Chair.
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17th Annual OMT Dissertation Proposal Workshop
The 17h Annual OMT Dissertation Proposal Workshop will be held on Saturday August 10th in Boston, Massachusetts, between 11.30 and 13.30.
Q: Wait, I’m confused. There are so many different offerings at Academy. Is this one for me at my stage in my doctoral program?
A: The Dissertation Proposal Workshop is aimed at doctoral students who have completed preliminaries and have selected a dissertation topic but have not yet defended their dissertation proposal. If you have a 50-page proposal with data, well-defined hypotheses, and a committee, you are probably too advanced. On the other hand, if you have not narrowed your ideas beyond a broad theoretical or phenomenological space, you are probably too early.
Q: What goes on during the Workshop?
A: The Dissertation Proposal Workshop is a chance for students at the pre-proposal stage to draw on the wisdom and expertise of a group of established OMT scholars to develop a defensible dissertation proposal. It aims to help you improve the focus and framing of research questions, identifying and addressing methodological issues, and/or constructively critiquing conceptual foundations. As well as these important content issues, discussions may also address process issues like managing your dissertation committee, and completing the dissertation. The workshop is built around you getting individual developmental feedback from mentors and peers with similar research interests.
Q: So who are the faculty mentors?
A: Joel Baum, University of Toronto; Christine Beckman, University of Southern California; Eva Boxenbaum, Copenhagen Business School; Marc-David Seidel, University of British Columbia; Peer Fiss, University of Southern California; Candace Jones, University of Edinburgh; Michael Lounsbury, University of Alberta; Nelson Phillips, Imperial College London; Davide Ravasi, UCL School of Management
Q: This sounds good, how much does it cost?
A: There is no fee for attending the workshop although you will need to be registered for the Academy of Management Meetings to attend.
Q: OK, so what do I need to do to get in on this?
A: You submit your application consisting of your CV and a 4-5 page abstract outlining your research area, methodological approach, potential contributions, and one interesting fact about yourself outside of academia by June 14th, 2019 at 5PM (Greenwich Meridian Time) to Davide Ravasi ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ). These abstracts will form the basis of discussions during the workshop and will be shared with other participants. We will notify accepted applicants with a registration code to complete registration. Attendance is strictly limited so early application is advised.
OMT 2019 Chair's Message
Welcome back to the OMT newsletter! Everything is (more or less) ready for the AoM conference in Boston. Thanks the precious help of hundreds of contributors and thousands of reviewers. Renate Meyer and Martin Kilduff have put together an excellent programme, making OMT once again The Place to Be!
OMT has been quite active in the last few months.
On January 31st and February 1st, the UCL School of Management and the Cass Business School have co-hosted in London, United Kingdom, our second Paper Development and Writing Workshop. This event, organized in conjunction with the Winter Meeting of the Executive Committee, has seen 31 young scholars from all over Europe attend talks, socialize, and receive feedback on their work from 13 members of the OMT Executive Committee.
The workshop was generously co-sponsored by the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies (SAMS). Additional support was provided by the Samuel Curtis Johnson School of Management, Cornell University, and UBC W. Maurice Young Centre for Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Research. Stay tuned for the next edition – no pressure, Peer :-)
On April 5th and 6th, in Dubrovnik, Croatia (for Game of Thrones’ buffs, that’s where they shot scenes in King’s Landing) Martin Kilduff and I ran a Research Development Workshop, hosted and sponsored by the University of Zagreb, as part of the annual OFEL conference. It was the seventh edition of this workshop. Initially started as an outreach initiative dedicated to young scholars in South-East Europe, it now attracts students from all over Europe amplifying opportunities for networking and socialization.
Finally, Marc-David Seidel and I recently joined Henrich Greve and other representatives of the ASQ editorial team in Bangalore on April 27th and 28th for another outreach initiative intended to deepen the intellectual exchange between scholars of organization theory in South Asia and their peers across the world. The event will be hosted and generously sponsored by the Indian Institute of Management, and is organized by our very own Rep-at-Large, Dalhia Mani, who has put together an impressive schedule, full of talks, seminars, and mentoring sessions.
More initiatives are being explored to reach out to OMTers around the world. Make sure to keep an eye out for upcoming events!
The rest of this newsletter is designed to help you plan the OMT part of your Summer:
In addition to all of your activity, our activities would not be possible without the generous financial support of all of our sponsors. We keep a detail of all of our sponsors online and updated all the time, and I encourage you to have your organization join in supporting with all of these amazing Sponsors.
On behalf of the entire executive board, thank you for continuing to make OMT The Place to Be!
Best wishes,
Davide
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Davide Ravasi
2019 OMT Division Chair
OMT 2019 Scholarly Program Highlights
Dear OMT Community,
First and foremost —our very sincere thank you to all of you who submitted to OMT and all those who participated in this year’s review process. It was terrific to see the response from the OMT community to the calls for reviewers: Close to 1100 reviewers from 54 countries stepped up and devoted their time, work, and energy to helping OMT create another exciting program for this year in Boston. I would like to especially thank all the emergency reviewers who were available on short notice and helped us meet the deadline. Thank you so much!
Scholarly Program
Must-dos
Please be sure to join us, and continue to make “OMT, the Place to Be!”
Best regards,
Renate E. Meyer
OMT Program Chair
OMT 2019 Pre-Conference Programs
OMT features an outstanding set of 36 PDWs this year that cover a wide range of emerging issues and continuing interests. OMT also offers many opportunities to meet, engage, and get to know each other including our Social Events, OMT Cafés, and other off-program events. Here is a glimpse of this year’s program.
Again this year, we have a number of developmental workshops designed to support our doctoral students and early-career scholars. The OMT Doctoral Student Consortium (Friday 7.30am to 4 pm) and the OMT Junior Faculty Consortium (dinner on Thursday August 8, and meetings on Friday 8 am to 5 pm) feature a list of dedicated and diverse mentors to help scholarly development.
These Consortia also include Teaching Roundtables to help you develop your skills. As usual, both events are by invitation after a competitive application process (the application deadline for both is April, 30). The OMT Dissertation Proposal Workshop – established OMT scholars provide wisdom and expertise to help doctoral students developing their dissertation proposals – is a classic by now, and will take place on Saturday, 11.30 am to 1.30 pm, organized by Davide Ravasi. Deadline for applying is June 14, 2019.
If you are new at OMT or have not been participating for some time, please join us at the OMT New and Returning Member Networking and Research Forum (Friday, 5.15 pm to 6.45 pm). We have established this forum to welcome you to our division and make you feel ‘at home’ in our community. Join us and meet leading scholars, long-standing OMT members, and other new members, share your interests with us and discuss your research.
There is once more a great set of method-oriented workshops where research tools and approaches are presented and discussed. We offer a workshop on the visual presentation of data: Evidence Presentation: How to Visualize Your Data and Why It is Important; two workshops that focus on social network analysis (Introduction to Social Network Analysis and Teaching Social Networks), one on Computational Approaches to the Study of Culture, one on Experiments in Institutional Theory and Strategy Research, one on methods to investigate Big Data, Algorithms and Culture; and one on ethnography: Being there/Being Them: The Future of Ethnography.
In addition, several PDWs discuss the analysis of specific research areas, namely emotions: Getting Emotional: Theorizing About and From Data at the Intersection of Emotions and Institutions; sports: Using Sport Data to Advance Management Theory; flows of meaning in social networks: What Do You Mean? How to Research and Interpret Meaning Flows in Social Networks; and Learning from Errors and Failures: Integrating Insights from Macro and Micro Research.
Several workshops focus on core and vibrant OMT topics such as:
There is also a set of PDW’s that are reflective in considering how past research can guide and integrate with new developments. These PDW’s that invoke the past to understand the present and the future include:
This year’s conference theme encourages us to study the inclusive organization. This theme is indeed present across sessions including those on Shared Ownership, Trust, Strategic CSR, Social Movements, and Socialism.
The OMT Cafés and Happy Hours will return as an off-program series of events. These are popular, topically themed discussions in local cafés and restaurants, where scholars come together to meet others with similar interests in a casual self-hosted cafe setting.
Finally, make sure not to miss our major OMT events:
Please come and join us at one or all of these events (just be sure to pre-register for those sessions which require it for logistical reasons). Even if you are not (yet) a member of OMT—all are welcome.
We look forward to welcoming you to OMT, the place to be, in Boston.
OMT 2019 Award Winners
Louis Pondy Best Dissertation Paper Award
Winner
Arvind Karunakaran (Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University) Navigating Status-Authority Asymmetry between Professions: The Case of 911 Emergency ManagementRunner Up
Christian Stutz (U. of Jyväskylä & HWZ U. of Applied Science, Zurich) Fear and deinstitutionalization: The case of identity threat by mass immigration
Also Nominated
Shoonchul Shin (Richard Ivey School of Business) The Restructuring Imperative: Deviation, Performance and CEO Dismissal in the Shareholder Value Era
Callen Anthony (New York U.) Analytical Tools and the Practices of Validation in the Production of Strategic Analysis
Best International Paper Award
Winner
Isabel Brüggemann (U. of Cambridge) and Jochem Kroezen (U. of Cambridge) Turning Antagonists into Supporters: Establishing Legitimacy in Hostile Environments
Runner Up
Sofiane Baba (U. of Sherbrooke), Taieb Hafsi (HEC Montreal), and Omar Hemissi (ESC Alger) Institutional Change as a Discovery Process through the Development of Awareness
Also Nominated
Thomas Luebcke (German Maritime Search and Rescue Service), Norbert Steigenberger (Jonkoping International Business School), Hendrik Wilhelm (U. of Cologne), and Indre Maurer (U. of Goettingen) How Core Actors Coordinate Distal Actors in Organizational Routines
Tomas Farchi (IAE - U. Austral), Danielle Logue(U. of Technology, Sydney), Pablo Fernandez (IAE Business School), Roberto Vassolo (IAE Business School, Argentina and Pontificia U. Católica de Chile, Ingeniería Industrial) Seeking Socially Innovative Solutions to Complex Social Problems.
Best Paper Award
Winner
Colleen Stuart (Johns Hopkins U.) and Roman V. Galperin (Johns Hopkins U.) Extra-organizational determinants of careers: Gendered expert authority and attainment of patent examiners
Runner Up
Richard Benton (U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and J. Adam Cobb (The U. of Texas at Austin) Eyes on the Horizon? Fragmented Elites and the Short-Term Focus of the American Corporation
Also Nominated
Ben Rissing (Cornell U.) and Kwan Seung Lee (Cornell U.) Inside Jobs: The Employment of Internal and Domestic Hires in High-skill and High-pay Positions
Michael Smets (U. of Oxford), Amanda Cowan Moss (U. of Rhode Island), Andromachi Athanasopoulou (Queen Mary U. of London), Chris Moos (U. of Oxford), and Tim Morris (U. of Oxford) From taking to making paradox: A multi-level perspective on how CEOs balance nested paradoxes
Best Paper on Environmental and Social Practices Award
Winner
Sunasir Dutta (U. of Minnesota), Daniel Armanios (Carnegie Mellon U., and Jaison Desai (U.S. Army) Why Physical Connectivity Still Matters: New Bridges and Entrepreneurship in Geographic Communities
Runner Up
Madeleine Rauch (Copenhagen Business School) Silencing Emotions: Survival through Narrating and Narrating for Survival
Also Nominated
Vera Blazevic (Radboud U. Nijmegen) and Kristina Lauche (Radboud U. Nijmegen) Working the net: creating momentum for sustainability through a common narrative
Timo Fiorito (U. of Twente) and Michel Ehrenhard (U. of Twente) Understanding organizational integrity from an institutional perspective
Best Student Paper Award
Winner
Eva-Maria Kirchberger (Imperial College Business School) Authentic Adaptation as a way out? Response by de novo category pioneers to de alio entrants
Runner Up
Isabelle Solal (INSEAD) The Gendering of Money: How Gender Influences Matching in the Market for Entrepreneurial Finance
Also Nominated
Kwan Seung Lee (Cornell U.) How Firms Competitively Became Anti-competitive: The Diffusion of Noncompete Agreements, 1996-2015
Best Entrepreneurship Paper Award
Winner
Vera Rocha (Copenhagen Business School) The Impact of Entrepreneurship on Community Integration: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment
Runner Up
Francesca Bacco (U. Ca' Foscari of Venice) and Anna Comacchio (U. Ca' Foscari of Venice) The Role of Boundary Organizations in Collaborations between Incumbent Firms and Start-ups
Also Nominated
Jonathan Sitruk (LMU Munich), Stine Grodal (Boston U.), Fernando Suarez (Northeastern U.), and Ludovic Dibiaggio (SKEMA Business School) Moving Beyond Labels: Text, Images and Biases in Categorization
Dali Ma (Drexel U.) and Cheng Wang (Drexel U.) Civic Engagement in the Creation of Entrepreneurship
Best Symposium Award
Winner
Ronald S. Burt (University of Chicago) and Martin J. Kilduff, (University College London), Brokers Behaving Badly
Runner Up
John Joseph (University of California, Irvine), Cheon Mok Kim (University of California, Irvine), Robert Klingebiel (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management) New Frontiers in Organizational Learning
Also Nominated
M. Tina Dacin (Queen’s University) and Tammar B. Zilber (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Situated Institutions: The Role of Place, Space and Embeddedness in Institutional Dynamics
Chris Klinghardt (University of Edinburgh Business School) and John Amis (University of Edinburgh Business School) The Marginalized, the marginalizing and the quest for legitimacy
Olga M. Khessina (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), O?zgecan Koc?ak (Emory University), and Ying Li, (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) The Role of Communities in Organizational Emergence and Proliferation
2019 OMT Research Committee Members
A hearty thank you to all of the scholars who generously volunteered their time to the OMT Research Committee in 2018! They did all of the hard work in evaluating the nominees and selecting winners, a wonderful service to the division. The Research Committee represents a broad sample of OMT’s membership, as you can see below. Please join me in thanking our committee members, and consider joining the committee next year as a volunteer!
Name School
Yoonjin Choi London Business School
Aharon Cohen Mohliver London Business School
Benjamin Cole Fordham University
Laura Doering University of Toronto
Sunasir Dutta University of Minnesota
Bob Eberhart Santa Clara University
Vibha Gaba INSEAD
Sam Garge HKUST
Jianhua Ge Renmin University of China
Joel Gehman University of Alberta
Simona Giorgi University of Bath School of Management
Abhinav Gupta University of Washington
Derek Harmon University of Michigan
Ruthanne Huising EMLYON Business School
Anna Kim HEC Montréal
Sharon Koppman UC Irvine
Balazs Kovacs Yale School of Management
Ricky Leung University at Albany
Jamber Li National University of Singapore
Ningzi Li University of Colorado, Boulder
Jiao Luo University of Minnesota
Michael Mauskapf Columbia Business School
Mae McDonnell University of Pennsylvania
Jennifer Merluzzi George Washington University
Ivana Naumovska INSEAD
Sarah Otner Imperial College London
Eugene Paik University of Mississippi
Sun-Hyun Park Seoul National University
Kelly Patterson Santa Clara University
Kunyuan Qiao Cornell University
Aruna Ranganathan Stanford Univesity
Wei Shen Arizona State University
Adina Sterling Stanford Univesity
Kati Takacs-Haynes University of Delaware
Hovig Tchalian Claremont Graduate University
Maxim Voronov York University
Danqing Wang Hong Kong University
Song Wang Zhejiang University
Shipeng Yan City University of Hong Kong
Trevor Young-Hyman University of Pittsburgh
Jiayin Zhang Tsinghua University
Pavel Zhelyazkov HKUST
OMT 2019 Doctoral Consortium Reminder
Nominations for the 2019 OMT doctoral consortium are due by April 30 and plenty of candidates have already put their name in the ring. As in previous years, the consortium will kick off with an informal networking dinner on the night before the consortium.
This year, we will gather at Summer Shack for all students and mentors to get to know each other. The main programme will feature a stellar line-up of mentors from all over the globe, covering a broad range of topics, methods and experiences. There will be plenty of time for one-to-one mentoring and personal development and various panels will provide plenty of insight on how to negotiate the job market, how to manage your own research pipeline, and how to think about your career relationships long-term.
We look forward to seeing many of you there. If you don’t want to wait that long, join the conversation at #OMTPhD!
Best,
Michael and Lisa
Doing Organizational Research Around the World: Opportunities and Challenges
When: August 10 (Sat) 2019, 9:00 – 12:30
Where: Boston Public Library at Copley Square, Boston
Proposal Application deadline (Extended): June 15, 2019. Submit to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . (Results will be released by June 21st..)
The Organization & Management Theory Division is hosting a “Global PDW” again at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, titled “Doing Organizational Research Around the World”. The objective of the workshop is to facilitate networking and discussion around the unique challenges and opportunities of planning, implementing, and publishing high quality organizational research using international settings. The PDW is designed to be an interactive session where participants will interact with scholars that have successfully conducted organizational research using data from around the world including Africa, China, India, Israel, and Russia. The participants will also get a chance to get feedback on their own research in small group setting.
At the PDW, participants will interact with a panel of senior faculty members and Editors of the top management journals. We will discuss a range of issues in a panel discussion format and get feedback on individual research proposals in small groups, including topics such as managing access to international research settings and data; sourcing funding; issues related to internal and external validity of your research; writing and publishing research using new and understudied settings; managing the review process. The discussions will be followed by an informal lunch and further conversations.
The panelists for the workshop include:
We invite you to submit a research proposal for this session. The proposal should describe unpublished and not-yet-presented original research. A proposal submission should include the following sections:
(1) Abstract: 200 to 300 words description that summarizes the overall study;
(2) Proposal: Description of your conceptual or empirical study;
(3) Supporting material: Tables, figures, and references that support the proposal.
Overall, the proposal should not exceed a total of 7 pages and 4000 words – 5 pages for the body which can include charts, graphs, diagrams, etc. and up to 2 pages of references. The word count includes all text in the charts, graphs, diagrams, etc. and references. The deadline for the proposal submission is June 15, 2019. All proposals must be submitted to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
Decisions on submissions regarding their inclusion in the conference program will be provided by June 21, 2019. For more information regarding the PDW or to express an interest in participating, please contact Sun Hyun Park (Seoul National University), Dalhia Mani (IIM Bangalore). We look forward to meeting you in Boston!
Sun Hyun Park and Dalhia Mani, OMT Global Representatives
OMT 2019 Off-Program Events
Looking to get involved in OMT? Help organize one of our amazing off-program events:
OMT Eats: These events are designed to provide a place for OMT people who may not have dinner plans. Two or more organizers will choose a restaurant and make a reservation for any number of individuals they choose. Participants will email organizers directly to reserve their space. These events should be scheduled to avoid overlap with the EGOS Presents Meet OMT on Friday and the OMT Busines Meeting and Social on Monday. Organizers are asked to select a time and location at their convenience.
OMT Drinks: Whether it is a brewery, a distillery, or even the hotel bar, OMTdrinks provides an informal way for OMT members to get together in an informal manner. Organizers may ask for pre-registration or can specify that the event is open to anyone. Organizers are asked to select a time and location.
OMT Cafe: These events are topically focused informal gatherings hosted by two or more scholars in a particular area. These are open drop in events that do not require pre-registration. Organizers are asked to select a time and location.
OMT Moves: These events are designed to couple physical activity with networking - providing OMT members a chance to meet up while exercising. Past events include OMT Yoga, OMT bikes and OMT Runs, but can also include a walk along the river or a pick up game of football. Organizers may choose any time and location that fits their schedule and ask for pre-registration or accept drop in participation.
OMT Events: These are OMT sponsored events that provide a chance for OMT members to share an outing together. Events could include tours to local art museums, shopping, visits to local monuments or even sporting events. Organizers can require pre-registration and are asked to organize any payment required directly with the participants.
OMT Cross Division Mixers: This year we are introducing a new format- the cross-division mixer. We are looking for people to host a traditional OMT Café with members of another division as to promote cross-divisional collaborations.
Email Emily Block at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for more information.
OMT 2019 Distinguished Scholar Announced
Since 1980, the Organization and Management Theory Division has been presenting the Distinguished Scholar Award to scholars whose contributions have been central to the intellectual development of the field of organization studies. As individuals, each recipient embodies a career of scholarly achievement and has had a significant impact on OMT scholarship. Come join the OMT Division to hear from our Distinguished Scholar (and to eat breakfast). Open to all OMT members and prospective members.
2019 OMT Distinguished Scholar Award: Lynne Zucker, UCLA
Lynne's talk will place on Monday, August 12, from 8:00 - 9:30 am.
Past Winners
2018 Alan Meyer - Take a look at the wonderful acceptance speech by Alan at the 2018 OMT Distinguished Scholar Breakfast and also check out the podcast of Pedro Monteiro's interview with Alan.
2017 Jerry Davis - Download his presentation "Design Democracy," watch it here, and read an interview here by Pondy Winner Derek Harmon.
2016 John Meyer - Download his presentation "Institutionalized Organization: Status and Prospects" and read an interview here by Pondy Winner Aruna Ranganathan.
2015 Martha Feldman – Download her presentation "Looking into the Arrow: Learning from Routines." Read an interview with Martha Feldman by Pondy Winner Mabel Abraham.
2014 Royston Greenwood – His talk was published as "OMT, Then and Now" in Journal of Management Inquiry. Download his presentation "Then and Now: The Maturing Field." Read an interview with Royston Greenwood by Pondy Winner Laura Singleton.
2013 Ed Zajac – Download his presentation on "Reducing Certainty and Increasing Open-Mindedness." Read an interview with Ed Zajac by Pondy Award Winer Murad Mithani.
2012 Linda Argote – Download her presentation on "Learning About Organizational Learning." Read an interview with Linda Argote by Pondy Award Winner Kaisa Snellman.
2011 Joel Baum – Download his presentation on "Skew(ered): The Skewed Few and the Many." Read an interview with Joel Baum by Pondy Award Winner Chris Yenkey.
2010 Dan Levinthal – Download his presentation on "Revisiting the Problem of Organizational Goals: From Problems of Motivation to Problems of Direction." Read an interview with Dan Levinthal by Pondy Award Winner David Zhu.
2009 Christine Oliver – Her talk was published as "The Goals of Scholarship" in Journal of Management Inquiry, 19: 26-32. Read an interview with Christine Oliver by Pondy Award Winner Dali Ma.
2008 Woody Powell – His talk was published with co-authors Kelley Packalen and Kjersten Whittington as "Organizational and Institutional Genesis: The Emergence of High Tech Clusters in the Life Sciences" in The Emergence of Organization and Markets, J. Padgett and W. Powell (eds), Princeton University Press 2010. Read an interview with Woody Powell by Pondy Award Winner Elizabeth Pontikes.
2007 Ronald Burt – Read an interview with Ron Burt by Pondy Award Winner Jerry Kim.
2006 Stephen Barley – Read an interview with Steve Barley by Pondy Award Winner Chris Marquis.
2005 Joanne Martin
2004 David Whetten
2003 Michael Tushman
2002 Kathy Eisenhardt – Her talk was entitled "Organizations: Present and Future?"
2001 Jane Dutton – Her talk was published as "Breathing Life Into Organization Studies" in Journal of Management Inquiry, 12: 1-19, where it was selected as the winner of the "Breaking the Mold" Award for Best Paper in 2003!
2000 Howard Aldrich – His talk was published as "Who Wants to Be an Evolutionary Theorist?" in Journal of Management Inquiry, 10: 115-127.
1999 Bob Hinings
1998 Paul Hirsch
1997 Andy Van de Ven, His talk was published as "The buzzing, blooming, confusing world of organization and management theory" in Journal of Management Inquiry, 8, 2: 118-125.
1996 Henry Mintzberg
Mayer Zald (1931-2012)
Richard Cyert (1921-1998)
Eric Trist (1909-1993)
If you can help us confirm any of the details missing from the list above, please email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
OMT & EGOS Receptions 2019
The OMT Division has a long-standing collaboration with the European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS). Their Chairperson participates in our Executive Committee meetings, and, vice versa, a member of our Executive Committee has the pleasure of participating in theirs.
In addition to hosting the usual Meet OMT@EGOS reception at the annual EGOS Colloquium, EGOS and OMT will for the second time co-sponsor the AOM OMT pre-conference reception – since 2018 renamed Meet EGOS@OMT!
Call for Applications:2019 OMT Junior Faculty Consortium
Application Deadline: Extended to May 15, 2019
The OMT Division is pleased to announce the 2019 OMT Junior Faculty Consortium. If you have started a faculty position in the last few years, this workshop is for you!
The workshop provides an intimate forum for interacting with senior colleagues and peers to enable you to prosper in your academic career. The workshop focuses on:
1) developing your research for publication with the help of seasoned scholars in your area
2) exploring strategies for impact and growth as a scholar and teacher
3) navigating the early years for a successful faculty career in diverse institutional settings
You will have the opportunity to interact with an exciting team of faculty mentors and peers, gain developmental feedback on your research, hear advice from relevant panels, participate in roundtable discussions and informal conversations, and build potentially lifelong networks.
This year’s faculty mentors offer diverse scholarly and geographic perspectives. Among them they have editorial boards/editors experience at leading journals, and won research and teaching awards.
The workshop will be held on the Friday prior to the Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Boston. On Thursday, August 8, we start with an informal dinner and reception at 6:00 pm. On Friday, August 9, the program runs from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. To insure an integrative experience for everyone, attendance throughout the entire event is required. Highlights of the program include: research and professional development roundtables, interactive panels, and teaching roundtables. Throughout the program you will have the opportunity to talk with exemplary scholars in small groups about techniques for high impact research and teaching as well as ethical considerations.
Application Process
To facilitate close personal engagement, space for this workshop is limited and participation is by application only. We expect about 40 participants. If you hold a faculty position as an Assistant Professor or a comparable rank and your research focuses on OMT related topics, we encourage you to apply. We also invite deans, department chairs, former workshop alumni, and other faculty to encourage their junior colleagues to apply.
When you apply online please have the following details ready:
1) Your name, email address, title, institutional affiliation and other details
2) Your curriculum vitae
3) An extended abstract of a working paper you wish to receive feedback on (5 pages maximum)
4) An indication of three faculty mentors who are of most interest to you
Online Application: https://goo.gl/forms/q85HtRWqy0EYzJE93
We encourage you to apply early to guarantee consideration. The (newly extended) deadline for applying is May 15, 2019. ÂÂÂ Please note, if accepted, there is a $150 registration fee for the workshop. We have some (limited) funds to provide assistance to participants for whom the fees constitute an obstacle to attending. If you believe this applies to you, or if you have any other questions, please contact the organizers as soon as possible: Joel Gehman ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) and Olenka Kacperczyk ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ).
We look forward to meeting you in August!
Joel Gehman and Olenka Kacperczyk
OMT Representatives-at-Large
The OMT Junior Faculty Consortium is sponsored by:
