2017 AOM Business Meeting Slides

2. Thank you!

3. OMT Business Meeting: 2017 Agenda
1. Welcome and Division Chair Report
– Membership
– Committee Updates and EGOS
– Travel Ban Fall-Out and Responses
2. Conference Reports
– PDWs: Peer Fiss
– The Off-Program Program: Emily Block
– Program and Awards: Davide Ravasi
3. Educator Award
4. Best Published OMT Paper Award
5. Farewells
6. Artifact and Social Hour

4. Division Chair Report
• Vibrant: 4199 members as of 31st July 2017
– 1130 students
– 1899 US; 2310 non-US
• Set standards for great scholarship!
– Members are consistent Terry Book Award Winners:
• 2017: Lauren Edelman Working Law: Courts, Corporations,
and Symbolic Civil Rights
• 2016: Charles Heckscher Trust in a Complex World:
Enriching Community
• 2015: Tor Hernes A Process theory of Organization
• 2014: Mark Mizruchi The Fracturing of the American
Corporate Elite
• 2013: Thornton, Ocasio & Lounsbury Institutional Logics
– More than our share of the ASQ Five Year Award, AMR
Yearly Award, AMJ Yearly Award, Newman Awards

5. Welcome to Our New Elected Officers!!
Renate Meyer
PDW Chair-Elect
Joel Gehman Michael Smets
Representatives at large
Sun Hyun Park
Global Rep

6. And New Committee Members
Costas Andriopoulos
Treasurer
Emily Block
Membership and volunteers
Initiator of the “OMT
Membership Group” (OMG)
Lori Yue
Research Committee

7. Division Chair Report
• We continue to support our international
members and cultivate collaborative
relations with sister associations
• Collaboration with European Group for
Organizational Studies (EGOS)
– Executive Committee Collaborations
– Co-Sponsorship of international paper
development workshops (Romania 2017)
– Organization Studies/Sage sponsors OMT
Distinguished Scholar Breakfast
– Meet OMT@EGOS in Copenhagen (co-
sponsored by Cass Business School)

8. Division Chair Report
• International Paper Development Workshops
– Edinburgh PDW
– Dubrovnik PDW
– Vilnius PDW
– Romania PDW forthcoming
– China PDW exploring potential
– And others in the works…
• Sponsor for first AoM Specialized Conference:
– “Big data and managing in a digital economy”
April 18-20, 2018

9. European Group for
Organizational Studies
EGOS General Assembly
Athens, July 3, 2015
34th EGOS Colloquium
Tallinn (Estonia), July 5-7, 2018
– Hosted and organized by the Estonian Business School (EBS) –
Surprise in and around Organizations: Journeys to the Unexpected
Deadline for short paper submissions [via the EGOS website]:
January 8, 2018
EGOS – European Group
for Organizational Studies

10. European Group for
Organizational Studies
EGOS General Assembly
Athens, July 3, 2015
35th EGOS Colloquium
Edinburgh (UK), July 4-6, 2019
– Hosted and organized by the University of Edinburgh –
Enlightening the Future: The Challenge for Organizations
Deadline for sub-theme proposal submissions [via the EGOS website]:
November 27, 2017
EGOS – European Group
for Organizational Studies

11. European Group for
Organizational Studies
EGOS General Assembly
Athens, July 3, 2015
LAEMOS Conference 2018
Organizing for Resilience: Scholarship in Unsettled Times
IAE Business School, Buenos Aires (Argentina)
March 22-24, 2018
https://www.laemos2018.com
EGOS – European Group
for Organizational Studies

12. Communications Committee
TEAM (year joined)
• Evelyn Micelotta, U of New Mexico (2010)
• Mia Raynard, WU Vienna (2010)
• Diane-Laure Arjaliès, HEC Paris (2012)
• Marco Clemente, SKK GSB (2012)
• Rebecca Henn, Penn State (2013)
• Shilo Hills, Alberta (2013)
• Jochem Kroezen, Cambridge (2013)
• Michael Mauskapf, Columbia (2013)
• Madeline Toubiana, Alberta (2013)
• Dalhia Mani, HEC Paris (2014)
• Teddy DeWitt, Michigan (2014)
• Laura Claus, Cambridge (2015)
• Christopher Corbishley, Imperial (2015)
• Tracey Dodd, U South Australia (2015)
• Saralara Marquez-Gallardo, Cass (2015)
• Bjoern Mitzinneck, Cornell (2015)
• Chris Morin, Calgary (2015)
• Georg Reischauer, Hertie Sch of Gov (2015)
• Julie Ricard, Concordia (2015)
• Sonia Siraz, IE (2015)
• Hovig Tchalian, Claremont (2015)
• Garima Sharma, Ivey (2016)
• Alex Henderson, Queens (2016)
• Valdez Gonzalo, Stanford (2016)
• Maima Aulia Syakhroza, Cambridge (2017)
• Celeste Diaz Ferraro, Penn State (2017)
• Jochem Hummel, VU (2017)
Chair: Derek Harmon, University of Michigan
Social Media Coordinator: Eunice Rhee, Seattle University
Listserv Moderator: Derek Harmon, University of Michigan

13. OMT Social Media
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14. OMT PDWs: 2017
Peer Fiss, PDW Chair

15. OMT PDWs Summary
• Another very strong and diverse program – our
sincere thanks to all of the organizers!
• OMT sponsors more PDWs than any other division
except OB (which has one more)
• Apart from the Doctoral and Junior Faculty
Consortia we again convened the OMT Teaching
Roundtables and the OMT New and Returning
Member Networking
• 34 thematic sessions (79.5 hours scheduled) led by
OMT
– On topics from social movements, to stigmatization,
cybercrime, professional organizations and
performativity
– On dissertations, publishing, and teaching
– On methods

16. An exciting and expanding
“Off-Program” Program
Initiated in Vancouver
Developed in Anaheim
Wow in Atlanta!
Thanks to the OMT
Membership Group
Initiated by Emily Block

17. Off Program OMT Events
Thanks to Emily Block and the OMG team
• Committee Officers: Hovig Tchalian; Madeline Toubiana, Wes Helms
• OMT Runs: Bethany Cockburn, Erica Steckler, Angelique Slade-Shantz
• OMT Outings: Jukka.Rintamaki, Sebastien.Mena, Amit Nigam, Leanne Hedberg,
Rongrong Zhang, Asma Zafar , Paola Ometto , Milo Wang
• OMT Drinks & Eats: Christian Hampel, Wesley Helms, Bryant Hudson, Evelyn
Micelotta, Karen Patterson, Thomas Roulet, Helen Etchanchu, Bob Eberhart
• OMT ASQ Editor Chat: Henrich Greve
• OMT Cafes: Daniel Keum, Michael Mauskapf, Frédéric Godart, Patrick Reilly, Alex
Fortes, Christopher Steele, Madeline Toubiana, Trevor Young-Hyman, Daniel Keum,
Hovig Tchalian, Taehyun Lee, Henrich Greve, Marc-David L Seidel, Innan Sasaki, Davide
Ravasi, Roy Suddaby, Sorah Seong, Jerry Davis, Jocelyn Leitzinger, Sandra
Waddock, Jegoo Lee, Brayden King, Paul Adler, Christian Hampel, Derrin Kent,
Federica Destefano, Marvin Washington, Angelique Slade Shantz, Bob Eberhart,
Eunice Rhee, Derek Harmon
• OMG Volunteers: Angelique Slade Shantz, Anna Roberts, Yong Kim, Derin Kent, Bjoern
Mitzinneck, Richard Haans, Eric Quintane, Karen Patterson, Hamid Vahidnia, Rongrong
Zhang, Derek Harmon, Sonia Siraz, Cyrus Dion, Tina Dacin, Kam Phung, Giussepe
Delmestri

18. OMT Program: 2017
Davide Ravasi
Program Chair

19. Let me start with a few special
thanks…
• Peer Fiss (PDW chair)
… for double-checking on me and
catching all my timetabling mistakes…
• Emily Block (OMG queen)
… for a spectacular OMT event calendar 
• Marc-David Seidel (past Program Chair)
… for helicopter-momming all the way through!

20. Submissions to OMT
355
479 488
578 587 581
614 605 606
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Atlanta 2006 Philadelphia
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Anaheim
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Chicago
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Montreal
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San Antonio
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Boston 2012 Orlando
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Philadelphia
2014
Vancouver
2015
Anaheim
2016
Atlanta 2017
Papers Symp

21. Program Summary
• 1205 people signed up to review for OMT from 51 countries
(up 9.5%, 17% of the total). THANK YOU!!!
• 1068 people received papers to review:
– Avg of 2.63 submissions/reviewer (same as last year)
– Avg of 4.04 reviewers assigned/ submission (same as last year)
– 94.7% completion rate (+4%!)
• 371 paper acceptances (61% acceptance rate)
– 338 regular papers; 33 discussion papers
– 33 “best papers” in the 2017 AoM Proceedings
• 77 symposium acceptances (85% acceptance rate)
– 7 showcase symposia

22. Popular Submission Keywords/Trends
Keyword - theories (top 6) Papers ‘17 (‘16) Reviewers
Institutional Theory 163 (159) 494
Networks & Embeddedness 67 (64) 217
Behavioral Theory & Decision Making 52 (47) 217
Learning, Adaptation, Routines & Knowledge
Management
47 (60) 191
Economic Sociology 45 (49) 201
Sensemaking and cognition 44 (41) 208
Keyword - topics (top 8)
Identity & Categorization 55 (60) 222
Status & Reputation 54 (40) 154
Institutional Logics & Complexity 52 (52) 241
Interorganizational Relations/Networks 50 (52) 154
Entrepreneurship 48 (37) 215
Innovation and creativity 45 (33) 232
Change 39 (35) 185
Org. Design, Structure & Control 39 (46) 183
**Note that submitters chose 3 keywords and that keywords overlap

23. 2016 OMT Heatmap
• OMT Eats: Natalya Alonso, Dennis Ma, Jo-Ellen Pozner

24. 2017: OMT Floor mat…

25. AWARDS

26. Research Committee Members
Chair: Lori Yue
Want to join?
Talk to Lori!
Please stand up, thank
you!
Name School
Lomi Alessandro University of Lugano
Costas Andriopoulos Cass Business School
Felix Arndt University of Nottingham
Brandy Aven Carnegie Mellon
Roxana Barbulescu HEC Paris
Marcos Barros Grenoble School of Management
Sekou Bermiss University of Texas at Austin
Daniel Beunza London School of Economics
Lyda Bigelow University of Utah
Emily Block University of Alberta
Gianluca Carnabuci University of Lugano
Aharon Cohen Mohliver London Business School
Benjamin Cole Fordham University
Mathijs de Vaan UC Berkeley
Rich Dejordy Northeastern University
Niki den Nieuwenboer University of Kansas
Robert Eberhart Santa Clara University
Micki Eisenman Hebrew University Jerusalem
Vibha Gaba INSEAD - Singapore
Jianhua Ge Renmin University of China

27. Research Committee Members
Chair: Lori Yue
Want to join?
Talk to Lori!
Stand up, take a bow!
Name School
Simona Giorgi Boston College
Scott Graffin University of Georgia
Peter Groenewegen Vrije University
Dan Halgin University of Kentucky
Derek Harmon University of Michigan
Conor Horan Dublin Institute of Technology
Ruthanne Huising McGill University
Luo Jiao University of Minnesota
Gehman Joel University of Alberta
Takacs-Haynes Kati University of Delaware
Kate Kellogg MIT
Adam Kleinbaum Tuck School of Business
Sharon Koppman UC Irvine
Reut Livne-Tarandach University of Oregon
Dali Ma Drexel University
Nydia MacGregor Santa Clara University
Jennifer Merluzzi Tulane University
Yuri Mishina Imperial College London
Kelly Patterson Santa Clara University
Markus Perkmann Imperial College

28. Research Committee Members
Chair: Lori Yue
Want to join?
Talk to Lori!
Stand up, take a bow!
Name School
Antoaneta Petkova San Francisco State University
Dionne Pohler University of Saskatchewan
Leung Ricky University at Albany
Greg Robbins Southern Connecticut State University
Michelle Rogan INSEAD
Gokce Sargut Governors State University
Garima Sharma Ivey Business School
Ned Smith Northwestern University
Adina Sterling Stanford University
Maxim Sytch University of Michigan
Hovig Tchalian Claremont Graduate University
Anna Tyllstrom Uppsala University
Maxim Voronov Brock University
Klaus Weber Northwestern University
Jennifer Woolley Santa Clara University
Yanlong Zhang Peking University
Jiayin Zhang Tsinghua University
Eric Zhao Indiana University
David Zhu Arizona State University

29. OMT Best Student Paper Award
Jian Bai Li (N. U. of Singapore)
The Dark Side of Embeddedness: When Family Relationships Give
Rise to Malfeasance
Runners up
Cassandra Chambers (U. of Michigan) Oscillation as a Mechanism for the Maintenance of
Conflicting Organizational Identities
Ishva Minefee (U. of Illinois) Fighting Fire with Fire: Royal Dutch/Shell's Responses to Anti-
Apartheid Activists
Clarissa Weber (U. of Goettingen) Partner selection and trust in inter-organizational
relationships
Gorkem Aksaray (Emory U.) Occupational Concentration, Job Mobility, and Transition to Self-
Employment

30. OMT Division Best Paper on
Environmental & Social Practices
Abhinav Gupta (U. of Washington) and Forrest Briscoe
(PSU)
Organizational Political Ideology and Corporate Responses to
Activist Protest
Runners up
Marlen De La Chaux (U. of Cambridge) Revisiting Total Institutions: Organizing Refugee Camps
Maik Günther (Freie U. Berlin) & George Ferns (U. of Edinburgh). Stigma Work in Action: The Case of
the Global Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement
Yanfei Hu (U. of Surrey) and Claus Rerup (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management) Mediating
Human Rights-based Change in an Authoritarian State
Natalia Aguilar Delgado (HEC Montreal) and Paola Perez-Aleman (McGill U.) Resourcing for Inclusion
of Marginalized Actors in Transnational Governance

31. OMT Division Best International Paper
Laura Claus (U. of Cambridge)
Hakuna Matata or When Cultures Collide: Navigating
Institutional Abundance in Rural Africa
NB. Also winner of the AoM’s Carolyn Dexter Award!!!
Runners up
Mia Raynard (WU Vienna U. of Economics and Business) and Fangmei Lu (U. of
Electronic Science and Technology of China) Institutional Sedimentation:
Navigating China’s Shifting Political Landscape
Christopher Marquis (Cornell U.) and Kunyuan Qiao (Texas A&M U.) Communist
Ideological Imprinting and Internationalization: A Study of Chinese Entrepreneurs

32. OMT Division Best Entrepreneurship Paper
Sampsa Samila (IESE) and Olav Sorenson (Yale U.)
Community and Capital in Entrepreneurship and Economic
Growth
Runners up
Kim Claes (Sungkyunkwan U.) and Balagopal Vissa (INSEAD) Is Homophily Always
Beneficial? Task-Relevant Homophily and VCs’ Valuations and Returns
Lei Zhang (U. of South Florida), Jing Zhang (Old Dominion U.) and Justin Tan (Schulich
School of Business) Network Structure, Partner Features and Performance: Evidence
from Venture Capital Syndicates
Christian Hampel (U. Oxford) and Paul Tracey (Cambridge U.) From Fan to Foe? How
Ventures manage Stakeholder Relations as they move from Start-up to Scale-up

33. OMT Division Best Symposium Award
Wanda Orlikowski (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Elizabeth Hansen
(Harvard U.), Youngjin Yoo (Case Western Reserve U.), Emily Truelove (Massachusetts
Institute of Technology), Shane Greenstein (Harvard Business School), and
Christopher Anderson (City U. of New York)
The Digital Frontier: How Digital Technologies Reconfigure
Products, Organizations, and Fields
Runners up
Marjo Siltaoja (U. of Jyväskylä), Markus Höllerer (WU Vienna), and Eero Vaara (Aalto U. School of Business) At the Interface of
Delegitimation Struggles: Social Judgements and Organizational (Il)legitimacy
Federica DE Stefano (Bocconi U.), Matthew Bidwell (U. of Pennsylvania), Arnaldo Camuffo (Bocconi U.), and Clint Chadwick (U. of Kansas)
The Value of Managers: The Role of Managerial Human Capital in Value Creation and Value Capture
Glenn Carroll (Stanford U.), Kieran O'Connor (U. of Virginia), Balazs Kovacs (Yale School of Management), Peter Younkin (McGill U.), and
Ezra Zuckerman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Authenticity in Markets: Organizations, Principals and Audiences
Eunice Rhee (Seattle U.), Yu-Chieh Lo (Drexel U.), Joseph Porac (New York U.), Greta Hsu (U. of California, Davis), Michael Jensen (U. of
Michigan), Chad Navis (Clemson U.), and Ming Leung (U. of California, Berkeley) Identities and Categories: Reflections, Integration, and
Future Directions
Majken Schultz (Copenhagen Business School), Roy Suddaby (U. of Victoria/ Newcastle U.), Tor Hernes (Copenhagen Business School),
Daniel Wadhwani (U. of the Pacific), Anthony Hussenot (U. of Paris, Dauphine), and Juliane Reinecke (U. of Warwick) Time and Agency: Do
Implicit Models of Time Affect Explicit Models of Continuity and Change?

34. Louis R. Pondy Award
for Best Paper Based on a Dissertation
Derek Harmon (U. of Michigan)
When the Fed Speaks: Arguments, Emotions, and
the Micro-foundations of Institutions
Runners up
Letian Zhang (Harvard U.) A Fair Game? Racial Bias and Repeated
Interaction between NBA Coaches and Players
Jiyang Dong (Zhejiang U.) Vary or Not, It’s a Matter of Experience and
Dependence

35. OMT Division Best Paper Award
Paul Ingram (Columbia U.) and Yoonjin Choi (Columbia U.)
From Affect to Instrumentality: The Dynamics of Values
Homophily in Professional Networks
Runners up
Jiwook Jung (U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Yin Lee (U. of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign) Symbolic but Consequential: Securities Analysts’
Forecasts and Corporate Downsizing Decisions
David Clough (U. of British Columbia) and Philipp Reineke (INSEAD)
Untangling the Behavioral and Relational Antecedents of Learning Traps in
Inter-Organizational Ties

36. ABCD Reviewer Awards
(Above and Beyond the Call of Duty)
THANK YOU!!!
Eero Juhani Aalto (Aalto U.) K V Gopakumar (IIM, Ahmedabad) Elisa Operti (ESSEC Business School)
Saad Alsuabei (Cass Business School) Paul Isaac Green (Harvard Business
School)
Eugene Taeha Paik (U. of Arizona)
Santiago Campero Molina (HEC
Montréal)
Henrich Greve (INSEAD) Kalle Pajunen (U. of Jyväskylä)
Francesca Capo (Luiss Guido Carli U.) Wesley Helms (Brock U.) Owen Nelson Parker (Oklahoma State U.)
Giulia Cappellaro (Bocconi U.) Chenguang Hu (Hong Kong U. of Science
and Technology)
Fabio James Petani (U. of Lugano)
Itziar Castelló (U. Carlos III de Madrid) Jochem T. Hummel (VU Amsterdam) Kurt Sandholtz (Brigham Young U.)
Cassandra Chambers (U. of Michigan) Lee Charles Jarvis (Grenoble Ecole de
Management)
Fernando Pinto Santos (Aalto U. School
of Business)
Greetje Frankje Corporaal (U. of Oxford) Burcu Kucukkeles (ETH Zurich) Laura Singleton (Eckerd College)
Diego Coraiola (U. of Alberta) Andrea Lagna (Loughborough U.) Wendy K. Smith (U. of Delaware)
Erica Coslor (U. of Melbourne) Jocelyn M. Leitzinger (McGill U.) Jean-François Soublière (U. of Alberta)
Elena Dalpiaz (Imperial College Business
School)
Alexander Lewis (U. of Texas at San
Antonio)
Stefano Tasselli (Rotterdam School of
Management)
Rocki-Lee DeWitt (U. of Vermont) Sam C. MacAulay (U. of Queensland) Kornelis F. Van Den Oever (Tilburg U.)
Peter Edlund (Uppsala U.) Evelyn Rita Micelotta (U. of New Mexico) Jakomijn Van Wijk (Maastricht School of
Management)
Kate Elgayeva (U. of Illinois at Chicago) Tatiana Mikhalkina (Lancaster U.) Devi Vijay (Columbia U.)
Fabio Fonti (Rennes School of Business) Bjoern C. Mitzinneck (Cornell U.) Georg Wernicke (CBS)
Darcy K. Fudge Kamal (Chapman U.) Ken Ogata (York U.) Hendrik Wilhelm (U. of Cologne)
Hao Gong (Rutgers U.) Abbie Griffith Oliver (U. of Georgia) Anastasiya Zavyalova (Rice U.)

37. OMT Distinguished Educator Award: 2017

38. OMT Distinguished Educator Award
• The Distinguished Educator Award highlights the
importance of good teaching in OMT and is intended to
stimulate discussion on how to improve our impact on
business students.
• This biennial award honors an OMT Division member who
has made exceptional contributions to organization and
management theory education.
• The award is intended as a tribute to individuals who have
positively influenced educational practices within the
broader OMT field. This influence may take many different
forms, including the design of new OMT-related courses,
the authorship of widely used books or cases, the creation
of new conceptual frameworks, and/or the development of
innovative and widely-used educational techniques.

39. OMT Distinguished Educator
Award 2017
Jane Dutton
Robert L. Kahn Distinguished
University Professor Emerita of
Business Administration and
Psychology, University of
Michigan

40. OMT Best Paper Published in 2016
Committee Chair: Linda Argote

41. OMT Best Paper Published in 2016
How did we choose the best paper?
Committee 1
Shaz Ansari
Matthew Bidwell
Joep Cornelissen
John Joseph
Kate Kellogg
Ko Kuwabara
Andrea Prencipe
Maxim Sytch
Committee 2
Paul Leonardi
Joe Porac
Willie Ocasio
Jesper Sorensen
Pam Tolbert
Committee 3
Steve Barley
Joel Baum
Dan Levinthal
Ed Zajac

42. And the winner is…!!!
Berg, J. M. (2016). Balancing on the Creative Highwire:
Forecasting the Success of Novel Ideas in Organizations.
Administrative Science Quarterly, 61(3), 433–468.
Justin M. Berg
Stanford Graduate School of
Business

43. Farewells

44. Farewell and Thanks
Thanks to our
outgoing treasurer
Tom Moliterno for
keeping us solvent.
Thanks to our
fabulous Teaching
Committee Chair
Congratulations on
election to the AoM
Board of Governors!

45. Farewell and Thanks to our Outgoing Reps
Anne-Claire Pache
Pat Thornton
Bilian Ni
Sullivan

46. And finally… a tribute to
Nelson “Alice” Phillips, our amazing
outgoing Division Chair!!!
Who, me?

47. Memorable Moments
Candy Jones introduces Nelson to OMT
(artifact 2012)
Nelson shows us how it’s done
Artifact 2013 A very tough act to follow!

48. Thank you Nelson
from all of us at OMT!
Yes – you!

49. OMT Artifact
Revealed by … Peer Fiss

51. “The bullshitter is neither on
the side of the true or the side
of the false. His eye is not on
the facts at all. He does not
reject the authority of the
truth, as the liar does, and
oppose himself to it. He pays
no attention to it at all. By
virtue of this, bullshit is a
greater enemy of the truth
than lies are.”
Harry G. Frankfurt

52. “The most essential
gift for a good writer
is a built-in, shock-
proof, shit detector.”
Ernest Hemingway

53. The OMT BS Detector

54. OMT Social Hour
next door in
Imperial Ballroom Salon B
from 7:30 – 9:30

55. Social Hour
Just around the corner…..
Imperial Ballroom B: 7:30 – 9:00