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Division of the Academy of Management
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Organization and Management Theory
Division of the Academy of Management
Now that the Academy meeting in San Antonio is over, I want to give an enormous thank you to everyone for an excellent program!
Joel Baum gave a thought-provoking Distinguished Speaker presentation (click here for photos from the event and a copy of his presentation), and I encourage you to consider his data and offer ideas on the blog about how we might encourage attention to a broader set of OMT authors and research.
At the business meeting, I presented data on our paper submissions and Royston presented data on our membership trends. I want to take an opportunity to share that data here and ask our membership for reactions and ideas (click here to download the complete OMT Business Meeting presentation). In summary, OMT continues to be an international division with fully half of our membership located outside North America. Submissions reflect this trend, with more than half of our submissions coming from outside North America. Asia Pacific accounts for 17% of submissions, and Europe accounts for 36%. Of some concern, our reviewers did not match this distribution of submissions. 9% of OMT reviewers came from Asia Pacific, and 27% came from Europe. If you hail from outside North America, please help rectify this pattern next year!
My stellar doctoral student, Kenji Klein, and I looked at the distribution of research topics by country. It is interesting to note that the most popular topics in Asia Pacific used the keywords Governance & Business Strategy, and Learning, Adaptation & Routines (accounting for 32% and 28% of submissions on those theories). Europe, in contrast, accounted for a higher proportion of submissions in Innovation and Creativity (43%), Institutional Theory (39%), and Behavioral Theory (38%). Finally, North America had the highest proportion of submission for Identity and Categorization (53%), Learning Adaptation and Routines (48%), and Networks and Embeddedness (46%). I encourage you to look at the slides for more detail.
But what should we do with this information? Practically, we can use this data as we plan more paper workshop events outside of the U.S. Depending on where the event is being held, we might focus on topics of most interest to the local communities. More broadly, it raises questions about important institutional or cultural factors that underlie these different theoretical interests. We might profit from a discussion of how our ‘theory of choice’ emerges from our local experiences.
OMT continues to be the division where the top scholarly work is presented. For the second year in a row, OMT took top honors with the Newman and Carolyn Dexter Awards (click here for photos of all the award winners).
I also ask our members to offer suggestions for keywords that should be included in the submission process. As Mike Lounsbury begins work on the program, your input into topic areas or theories that should be options is important to consider. Click here to see the full list of keywords by authors and reviewers.
And finally, send in your "best use of the artifact" photos! I'd love to see the artifacts used in a good number of the 49 countries where our reviewers reside.
