Call for Applications: 2012 OMT Junior Faculty Consortium
August 3, 2011
(Deadline: June 3, 2012)

The OMT Division is pleased to invite applications for the 2012 OMT Junior Faculty workshop. 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 about how to prosper in your academic career. The workshop focuses on three areas: First, on developing your research for publication with the help of seasoned scholars in your area; second, on strategies for impact and growth as a scholar and teacher, and third, on navigating the early years of building a successful faculty career in diverse institutional settings.  You will have a chance to interact with an exciting team of Faculty Fellows and diverse peers through developmental feedback on your research, panels, roundtable discussions and informal conversations.

For further details visit the Junior Faculty Consortium Workshop page.

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Introduction to Social Network Analysis

8:00am-12:00pm Saturday, August 4

Advanced Networks PDW

Includes presentations of cutting-edge social network research, an ERGM workshop, and small group discussions with experienced network scholars

1:00pm-5:00pm Saturday, August 4

Pre-registration required for the Advanced PDW.  Contact Theresa Floyd at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for registration code.

The Academy of Management will hold its first conference outside of North America on January 7-10, 2013, in Johannesburg, South Africa. This exciting event will feature a unique set of activities designed to facilitate conversations about management scholarship and the impact of research in developing nations.

At this time, the Academy is calling for program submissions based on the four conference track themes. As a member of the OMT Division, your participation in the development of this program is greatly valued. The deadline for all program submissions is May 15, 2012 at 5:00PM EDT.

If you have any questions about the development of this program or about the AOM Africa Conference in general, please follow up with the conference organizers at: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Click here to download the call for papers.

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OMT will again be the place to be in Boston! Due to the collective effort of 1,258 reviewers (a new record!), we were able to provide 2,554 reviews to 695 submitters (another new OMT record!), and have a great foundation of input to select 311 papers and 43 symposia for presentation at the 2012 Academy meeting. Needless to say, the selection process was very difficult and highly competitive. In the end, we will offer a record 89 OMT paper and symposia sessions. In addition, 47 accepted papers will be presented in cross-divisional and discussion paper sessions (with some of our best facilitators) – and another 20 OMT-sponsored symposia that have been scheduled by other divisions. Be sure to look for those in the OMT program when it comes out!

The OMT program will provide a veritable candy store, with a panoply of treats to sample. As has been the trend in recent years, institutional theory submissions dominated—especially those on the rapidly growing topic of institutional logics—and comprise the greatest number of sessions. But we will also have many sessions on networks, corporate governance, identity and categorization, behavioral theory and decision-making, learning, innovation and entrepreneurship, just to highlight a few theoretical areas of great importance to our community. A preliminary schedule is below.

The Academy meeting overall will be dispersed across 5 main venues, but the OMT program will be mainly housed in the Sheraton along with the ENT and MOC division programs. I look forward to seeing you all at the OMT Welcome Breakfast, where we shall hear from this year’s OMT Distinguished Scholar, Linda Argote. Please also make sure to attend the OMT Business Meeting and Social Hour on Monday night. Awards will be announced, the artifact will be revealed, and much more (stay tuned)!

Organizing the program is a once in a lifetime opportunity, and requires a communal effort. I want to especially thank my University of Alberta team—Michelle MacLean and our exceptional students—Lianne Lefsrud, Evelyn Micelotta, Mia Raynard, Pooya Tavakoly and Eric Zhao—who generously dedicated their time to keep me sane and assist in program management and design. And it was a great help that most everyone responded to my “personal favor” pleas to sign up as a reviewer and volunteer to act as chairs and facilitators at the meeting. I am indebted to you all. Having good reviews and reviewers is key to being able to adjudicate submissions adequately and design a great program, not to mention provide our scholarly community with helpful feedback to guide the development of their work. THANK YOU for the opportunity to serve OMT as Program Chair, and for being part of this collective mobilization. See you in Beantown!

Michael Lounsbury, University of Alberta, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Monday, August 6th, Sheraton Boston Hotel  (S: Symposia)

Tuesday, August 7th, Sheraton Boston Hotel (S: Symposia)

Call for Nominations: 10th Annual OMT Dissertation Proposal Workshop

The Dissertation Proposal Workshop aims to improve the focus and framing of research questions, identify and address methodological issues, and/or constructively critique conceptual foundations. Discussions may also address process issues like managing your dissertation committee, and completing the dissertation. The workshop consists of roundtable discussions between faculty and doctoral students working on dissertation proposals in the scholar’s area of expertise.

The dissertation proposal workshop is for 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 late.  If you have not moved past “I am interested in institutional theory,” you are most likely too early.

Deadline for Nominations: May 31, 2012. Attendance is limited to 24 students so early application is advised.

For complete details, visit the Dissertation Proposal Workshop page.

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CALL FOR APPLICANTS:  DOCTORAL STUDENT WORKSHOP
10th WEST COAST RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM ON TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Event:  Doctoral Student Workshop on Technology Entrepreneurship

Location:  University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Date:  Thursday, September 6, 2012 (Research Symposium held September 7-8)

Application: The APPLICATION DEADLINE for the Doctoral Student Workshop is Friday, July 6, 2012. If you wish to be considered, please complete the online application at https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/masses/161816

We invite doctoral students to submit applications to attend this workshop. Sessions will focus on technology entrepreneurship, with an emphasis on contemporary work in the field. Faculty leaders and organizers of the workshop are Peer Fiss (USC), Yan Gong (University of California, Irvine), Andrew Nelson (University of Oregon), and Emily Cox (University of Washington). In addition to Professors Fiss, Gong, Nelson, and Cox, faculty mentors include Kathy Eisenhardt (Stanford), Suresh Kotha (University of Washington), Alan Meyer (University of Oregon), Nandini Rajagopalan (USC), Kaye Schoonhoven and Christine Beckman (University of California, Irvine), and others.

The workshop offers an intellectually stimulating experience, maps the theoretical domain of technology entrepreneurship, and builds community. Workshop participants will have opportunities to present their own research interests, to interact with each other, and to get acquainted with faculty members.

The doctoral student workshop offers two separate tracks. Track 1 is designed for doctoral students who have not yet defended a dissertation proposal and who may still be in the process of selecting a dissertation topic. This track will devote attention to the selection of a dissertation topic, research design, and sources of data. Track 2 is intended for students who have defended dissertation proposals (or who are close to doing so). This track will devote attention to completing the dissertation, publishing the dissertation, and early career considerations. The two tracks will join together for selected workshop sessions/panels and for all meals.

All students chosen for the workshop will be invited to attend the two-day Research Symposium that follows on September 7-8. The symposium will showcase cutting-edge work by technology entrepreneurship researchers from the West Coast and around the world. Details on the research symposium are available at the WCRS website: http://theWCRS.org. Each student attendee will be provided with a $250 travel stipend, as well as all meals and three nights lodging (double occupancy). Applicants focusing on the nexus of technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship will be given preference.

The 2012 conference will be hosted by the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Southern California, at the heart of sunny and vibrant Los Angeles. This is a great opportunity for doctoral students to learn from leading scholars and contemporary work in the field. We hope to see you in Los Angeles!

CONFERENCE SPONSORS:

Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of Washington
Stanford Technology Ventures Program, Stanford University
Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship, University of Oregon
Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, University of Southern California
Don Beall Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, University of California at Irvine
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR JOINT OMT WORKSHOPS

OMT members in the Division’s Five Year review asked for greater involvement of and services for our international membership. In response an International Task Force was created and asked to identify specific issues and solutions. One of the task Force’s recommendations was that OMT co-sponsor international workshops that would address issues such as ‘how to successfully submit to the Academy’ and ‘the challenges of publishing in high status journals’.

International Theme Committee (ITC)

2012 Best International Dissertation Award

The International Theme Committee (ITC) is now accepting submissions for the inaugural Best International Dissertation Award, sponsored by the International Theme Committee of the Academy of Management. The deadline for nominations is 15 May 2012, midnight Eastern Standard Time.

Eligibility Criteria

The ITC Award for the best International dissertation or thesis is open to all PhD and DBA students who successfully defended their theses/dissertations between 1 January 2011 and 31 December 2011.

Dissertations/theses submitted to other competitions are eligible.

All applicants must be members of the Academy of Management.

Award Criteria

The dissertation must contribute to basic or applied knowledge on topics within the charge of the International Theme Committee

(a) The theme and content of the dissertation/thesis should reflect an awareness of business and management outside domestic boundaries

(b) The dissertation/thesis should be rich in the appropriate literature, offer new insights, and employ/suggest creative methodologies or models

(c) We value both mainstream and non-mainstream topics and methods

(d) The sample used in the dissertation/thesis should improve the understanding and internationalization of business trade and other forms of organizational transactions. 

Submission Guidelines

Submit electronically a 15-page, double-spaced summary set up with margins of one inch (2.5 cm) on every side and no smaller than 12-point font.  This summary should include the dissertation/thesis title, a description of the dissertation/thesis objective, theoretical foundations, relation to prior research, methodology, findings, limitations, and contributions to the field of international business.  Listings of references are not included within the 15-page limit, but all other text, figures, tables or illustrations are included. Submit the summary in PDF format so that there is no author identification information.  In a separate title page include your current affiliation, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number, the name of the institution where the Ph.D. or D.B.A. was obtained, the name of your thesis advisor, and six keywords describing the topic of your dissertation/thesis.

Submit via E-mail to ITC Dissertation Award Co- Chair, Claire Simmers  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Submission deadline for summaries is 15 May 2012, midnight Eastern Standard Time.

Evaluation Process

The 2012 selection committee consists of:

Claire Simmers (co-chair), Saint Joseph’s University; Eric Zhao (co-chair), University of Alberta School of Business; Adela McMurray, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University; Benson Honig, McMaster University; Adrian T H Kuah, James Cook University; and Rosa Nelly Trevinyo-Rodríguez, EQUUS Parque Corporativo.

The committee will select three to five finalists based on how they meet the ITC criteria.

Finalists are required to present their dissertation/thesis in poster format at the Carolyn Dexter Award Reception.

Please submit your summary ONLY if you agree to this requirement, and agree to be present at the Carolyn Dexter Award Reception at the 2012 Academy of Management Meeting in Boston where the winner is announced.  Being selected as a finalist is an honor with international recognition.

Recognition for first place is a plaque commemorating the winner's outstanding dissertation/thesis.

Contact either co-chair for additional information

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2012 OMT/MOC Doctoral Student Consortium
Academy of Management Annual Meeting
Boston, August 3-7, 2012

Call for Applications -- Deadline May 15, 2012

The Organization and Management Theory (OMT) and the Management and Organizational Cognition (MOC) divisions are pleased to announce that their joint Doctoral Student Consortium will once again be part of the pre-conference activities at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting. The goal of this consortium is to help doctoral students who are broadly interested in organizations, management, and cognition to organize their thoughts about the final phase of their doctoral programs, advance their research, publish their dissertation or parts thereof, find a job in the academic or professional world, and, perhaps most importantly, establish professional networks with colleagues who share similar research interests.

For further details visit the Doctoral Consortium Workshop page.

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Henrich Greve has a blog!!  We're happy to welcome Henrich, an ASQ editor and prolific organizational scholar, to the blogosphere. Henrich's posts discuss the practical implications of papers recently published in organization theory journals. In this post he discusses an ASQ paper by Matthew Bidwell about the performance and pay of external hires versus internal hires. Here he draws on a paper by Elizabeth Boyle and Zur Shapira to assess how organizations manage risks through incentives and monitoring. And in this post he talks about the implications of his own research on corporate deviance and legitimacy loss to assess how Carnival's CEO handled the recent shipwreck of the Costa Concordia.

This is a must-read blog.

Interview with Joel Baum, OMT Distinguished Scholar 

Conducted by Chris Yenkey

Among the pleasures of winning the Louis Pondy Best Dissertation Paper Award is that you are asked to interview the winner of the Distinguished Scholar Award.  This year’s winner, Joel Baum (University of Toronto Rotman School of Management), agreed to sit down with me (via Skype) to discuss his career path and share his thoughts on trends in the discipline.  The following are excerpts from our conversation:

Chris: Let’s warm up with some easy background questions: What did you do for your bachelor's, and what was your path to grad school?

Joel: I did my undergrad in psych, economics, fine arts, and math, which basically means I had no idea what I wanted to do! But at the time, my mother was dating an OB professor at the Univ. of Toronto who studied leadership, Bob House. He knew I was interested in psych and was thinking about a PhD, and he said, “Whatever you do, do it in a business school, then, when you’re done, there will be a job that pays you well.” And that’s how I ended up in management. Shortly after I came to U of T to start my PhD, Bob left on sabbatical…

2012 OMT/MOC Doctoral Student Consortium

Academy of Management Annual Meeting

Boston, August 3-7, 2012

Call for Applications

(Deadline:  May 15, 2012)

The Organization and Management Theory (OMT) and the Management and Organizational Cognition (MOC) divisions are pleased to announce that their joint Doctoral Student Consortium will once again be part of the pre-conference activities at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting. The goal of this consortium is to help doctoral students who are broadly interested in organizations, management, and cognition to organize their thoughts about the final phase of their doctoral programs, advance their research, publish their dissertation or parts thereof, find a job in the academic or professional world, and, perhaps most importantly, establish professional networks with colleagues who share similar research interests.

The consortium will include a variety of presentations, interactive discussion sessions, and workshops aimed at these goals. It has been designed to allow for high levels of interaction between faculty and students. Faculty participating in this year’s Consortium are:

In order to maintain a high faculty/student ratio, space for this consortium is strictly limited. Interested students must be nominated by their schools. Due to space constraints, doctoral programs should nominate one applicant (maximum two candidates per school can attend). Universities with multiple departments seeking to send students need to coordinate their nominations. Preference will be given to those students who have progressed to the dissertation stage and are either on the job market or considering being on the job market in the coming year. The deadline for nominations is May 15, 2012.

Applications should be e-mailed by the department representative who nominates the student to the two consortium organizers listed below. It should include the following in the body of the e-mail:

• the nominee’s name, address, e-mail address, phone and fax numbers,
• name of affiliated school and university,
• the division (OMT or MOC) that the student considers to be his/her primary affiliation, and
• a statement from the department certifying the nominee's completion of doctoral coursework and comprehensive exams (or equivalent) by August 1, 2012.

Three supporting items should be attached to the e-mail:

1. a brief letter from a faculty member providing a general appraisal of the nominee, including an assessment of his/her progress toward a dissertation defense, expected defense date, and subject of dissertation;
2. a 1 page bio summarizing the nominee’s contact information, research and teaching interests, and publications; and
3. a 3-5 page summary of the student’s research project.

Students selected to attend the Consortium will be sent a registration code that will allow them to register online.

Additional information about the OMT/MOC Doctoral Consortium is available on the OMT and MOC websites and on the 2012 OMT/MOC Doctoral Consortium website.

If you have questions or concerns, feel free to contact Eva Boxenbaum (OMT Rep-at-Large) at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or Frances Fabian (MOC Rep-at-Large) at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

N.B. Please note that the Consortium begins with an opening dinner on the evening of August 2^nd and ends at 5:30 pm on August 3^rd. Participants will be expected to attend the entirety of the Consortium.