Welcome to OMTWeb

Welcome to the Organization and Management Theory Division Website!

The mid-year meeting of the Executive Committee was held in Vancouver (which belied its reputation and stayed mostly dry) and the agenda covered three main items:

• Progress on our new website – Given that you are reading this message, you can see what it looks like and I hope you are as pleased as I am with it. Many thanks to Webmaster Joel Gehman and to Brayden King for overseeing his team of bloggers (Yuan Hou, Massimo Maoret, Clarissa Chaiy, Mia Reynard and Evelyn Micelotta)!
• Communications with our international members – The Executive Committee received a report from the International Task Force (many thanks to co-chairs Eero Vaara and Candace Jones), and are taking steps to reach out to our international scholars -- especially doctoral students and junior faculty.  Initiatives include co-sponsorship with ASQ and HEC of a paper development workshop – held in Paris. A similar workshop will be held in London in the fall, hopefully in conjunction with Organization Studies. Watch for more details!  We will also be repeating last year’s highly successful Junior Faculty Paper Development International PDW at the Academy under the magisterial organization of Candace Jones
• This year’s Academy Conference.  Program Chair Christine Beckman and PDW Chair Mike Lounsbury reported on a record number of submissions and the invaluable help of you as reviewers. An exciting piece of news is the selection of Joel Baum as this year’s Distinguished Scholar.  Read about the rest of our award winners!

The Executive Committee is delighted to acknowledge the continuing sponsorship of SAGE (for the Best Paper Award) and Organization Studies (Best Symposium Award).  And, this year we have three new sponsors – the University of Bocconi (for the Best International Paper) and the Universities of Alberta and UC (Irvine) who will jointly sponsor Meet OMT.

Finally, for those of you who are interested in participating in the OMT/MOC Doctoral Student Consortium, Dissertation Proposal Workshop, Junior Faculty Paper Development Workshop, or Junior Faculty Consortium, now is the time to submit your name and materials.

Royston Greenwood
OMT Division Chair
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