OMT Business Meeting: 2014 Agenda1. Welcome and Division Chair Report

– Membership

– Updates, sponsorship, and thanks

2. Conference Reports

– PDWs

– Program and Awards

3. Trailblazer Award

4. Best Published OMT Paper Award

5. Farewells

6. Artifact and Social Hour

Welcome to Our New Officers!!

Marc-David Seidel

PDW Chair-Elect

Anne-Claire Pache Patricia Thornton

– Representatives at large

Division Chair Report:

OMT is The Place To Be!• Vibrancy of OMT - 4,057 members (25% students)

• Generativity of OMT – Many exciting theoretical conversations (institutional logics,

categorization, networks, behavioral theory of the firm, practice)

• We set the standards for great scholarship!– Our members win vast majority of AMJ/ASQ Best Paper Awards

– Congrats to Mark Mizruchi, AOM George R. Terry Book Award

The Fracturing of the American Corporate Elite

• Growing International Presence

• Our students place well and teach

a wide variety of topics (OMT + )

OMT is International!

• OMT international (outside US and Canada) membership is now over 50% (from 41% in 2005)

• Paper submissions to OMT from European members exceeded those from N America (43% to 41%) for 2012 AOM meetings in Boston

• Submission growth from Asian scholar grew 50% between 2010 and 2012; now 15% of overall submissions

– 32% of paper subm. on governance & corp strategy and 28% on learning and adaptation from Asian scholars

• Overall OMT submissions has doubled over past decade (~300 in 2004 – over 600 in 2014)

• Paralleled by shifts in EGOS and other venues

– N American attendance at EGOS grew from 5% in 2001 to 15% in 2012 (23% in Montreal 2013)

Based on Beckman survey of previous doctoral

student consortium participants (108 respondents)

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43

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6 8 95

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30%

17%

10%8%

We are Everywhere (OMT+)OMT is a key foundation and bridge for diverse teachings

Division Chair Report:Updates

• Paper Development Workshops– Co-sponsored with universities around the world– 4 in 2011-2012: London, Paris, Milan, Cambridge– 4 in 2013: Singapore, Istanbul, Sydney, Montreal– 3 in 2014: China, Edinburgh, Helsinki

• EGOS Collaborations– Executive Committee Collaborations– Co-Sponsoring Int’l paper development workshops (Next in

Helsinki, September 2014)– Organization Studies/Sage sponsors International Best

Paper Award– Meet OMT at EGOS in Rotterdam– Introductions: Mike Geppert, interim EGOS Chair

31th EGOS Colloquium, Athens 2015

Organizations and the Examined Life:

Reason, Reflexivity and Responsibility

2-4 July, 2015

APROS/EGOS Conference9-11 December 2015, Sydney

Spaces, Constraints, Creativities:Organization and Disorganization

Communications Committee Stand up and take a bow!

Chair: Joel Gehman, U of Alberta

• Pablo Martin de Holan, EM Lyon, since 1994, Listserv moderator

• Evelyn Micelotta, Alberta, since 2010, EGOS liaison

• Mia Raynard, Alberta, since 2010

• Vern Glaser, Alberta, since 2011

• Derek Harmon, USC (Marshall), since 2011, social media liaison

• Diane-Laure Arjaliès, HEC Paris, since 2010

• Rebecca Henn, Penn State, since 2013

• Marco Clemente, Aalto, since 2012, EGOS liaison

• Shilo Hills, Alberta, since 2013

• Jochem Kroezen, Cambridge U, since 2013, social media liaison

• Felipe Massa, Loyola (New Orleans), since 2013

• Michael Mauskapf, Northwestern, since 2013

• Madeline Toubiana, York (Schulich), since 2013

Thanks to outgoing member: Robby White, Iowa State, launched Twitter

Social Media Team!

Planned and led by:

• Derek Harmon (USC Marshall)

• Jochem Kroezen(Erasmus RSM)

• Janet Salmons (Capella)

• Rand Gerges(EM Lyon)

• Thomas Gegenhuber(Johannes KeplerUniversität [JKU])

• Catherine Counts (Tulane)

• Manely Sharifian(Alberta)

• Miriam Krikorian(USC Marshall)

SPECIAL THANKS TO OMT SPONSORS

OMT PDWs: 2014

OMT PDWs Summary• 5 sessions solo sponsored by OMT

• 24 sessions Led by OMT

• 32 sessions co-sponsored by OMT

Of the 56 jointly sponsored sessions

• 46% with BPS

• 25% with OB

• 21% with RM

• 20% with TIM

• 18% with CMS

• 16% with MOC

• 16% with ENT

OMT Program: 2014

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Symposia

Papers

Program Summary• 907 people agreed to review for OMT from 50 countries. THANK YOU!

• 800 people received papers to review:

– Avg of 2.65 submissions/reviewer

– 3 reviews/ submission

– Very few emergency reviews

• Reviewers and AoM Membership:– 14% not AoM Members

– 47% less than FIVE years

– 26% FIVE to TEN years

– 14% TEN plus years

– 63% are FACULTY and 37% PhD STUDENTS

• 301 paper acceptances; 76 symposium acceptances

• Continuing to improve paper matching process

Popular Submission Keywords/TrendsKeyword - theories Papers (Last Yr) Reviewers

Institutional Theory 165 (160) 428

Networks & Embeddedness 96 (79) 192

Learning, Adaptation & Routines 50 (70) 173

Sensemaking and Cognition 28 (39) 192

Keyword - topics

Corporate Governance & Strategy 46 (60) 121

Institutional Logics & Complexity 70 (59) 250

Identity & Categorization 60 (55) 188

Organizational Form 33 (44) 161

Innovation and Creativity 49 (41) 215

Entrepreneurship 46 (41) 159

Performance & Effectiveness 35 (37) 200

**Note that submitters chose 3 keywords and that keywords overlap

AWARDS

Research Committee MembersChair: Joe Broschak – University of ArizonaTalk to Joe!

Stand up, take a

bow!

Louis R. Pondy Award for Best Paper Based on a Dissertation

"Understanding the Evolution of Theoretical Constructs in Organization

Studies: Examining Purpose"

Laura Singleton – Eckerd College

OMT Division Best Paper Award

"Three Unequal States: CorporateOrganization and Income Inequality across

the U.S. States"

Adam Cobb - University of Pennsylvania

Flannery G. Stevens - University of Utah

OMT Division Best International Paper

"When Times Collide: Temporal Brokerageat the Intersection of Markets and

Development"

Juliane Reinecke – University of Warwick Shaz Ansari - University of Cambridge

Special Thanks toSage Editors:Kirsty Smy &

Matthew Waters

OMT Best Student Paper Award

"Task Segregation: A Mechanism for WorkInequality"

Curtis Kwinyen Chan – Harvard University

OMT Division Best Symposium Award

"Industry Evolution Revisited: The Role of Categories in Emerging Market Spaces"

Fernando Suarez – Boston University

Stine Grodal – Boston University

OMT Division Best Empirical Paper on Social & Environmental Practices*

"Commensuration in Dutch SustainabilityReporting"

Koen Van Bommel – VU University Amsterdam

* Sponsored by http://wA special thanks to BCCC Executive Director

Katherine V. Smith!

ABCD Reviewer Awards(Above and Beyond the Call of Duty)

Reviewer Affiliation Reviewer Affiliation

John Almandoz, IESE Business School Poonam Khanna

Chanchal Balachandran, U. of Lugano Bo Kyung Kim, Southern Methodist U.

Marcos Barros, U. du Quebec en Outaouais June-Young Kim, Marquette U.

Andrea Casey, George Washington U. Mingxiang Li, U. of Wisconsin, Madison

Erica Coslor, U. of Melbourne Martina Montauti, U. of Lugano

Santi Furnari , Cass Business School Alan Muller, U. of Amsterdam

Tim Hargrave, U. of Washington Warren O. Nilsson, U. of Cape Town

Marjan Houshmand, U. of British Columbia Kurt Sandholtz, Brigham Young U.

Sanjay Jain, Santa Clara U.

OMT Trailblazer Award

Gibson Burrell

Gareth Morgan

Name University Name University

Steve Boivie Texas A&M University David Ravasi Cass Business School

Diane Burton Cornell University Claus Rerup Western University

Martha Feldman University of California - Irvine Wouter Stam

Hong Kong University of Science &

Technology

Teppo Felin University of Oxford Maureen Scully University of Massachusetts, Boston

Royston Greenwood University of Alberta Maxim Sytch University of Michigan

Paul Hirsch Northwestern University Mike Tushman Harvard Business School

Jennifer Howard-Grenville University of Oregon Hugh Wilmott Cardiff University

Kate Kellogg MIT Amy Wrzesniewski Yale University

Mark Kennedy Imperial College London

2013-14 OMT Best Published Paper Committee Members

Chair: Dave Whetten – Brigham Young University

OMT Best Published Paper Award

“The Bright Side of Bad Times: The Affective Advantages of Entering the

Workforce in a Recession”. Administrative Science Quarterly, 58(4): 587-623.

Emily C. Bianchi - Emory University

Farewell and Thanks

William Dougan

Farewell and Thanks

Martine HaasPeer Fiss

Special Thanks to Our Outgoing Chair

Christine Beckman

• Super Organized

(Re-engineered Program

Keywords)

• Fashionable

• OMT as the place to be! (Survey of Former Doctoral Consortia Attendees)

Artifact and Social Hour

Revealed by … Ann Langley

Social Hour 204A Convention Center

7:30 – 9:00