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Organization and Management Theory
Division of the Academy of Management
Joe Labianca, University of Kentucky, tells us about the 2011 research award winners and the sad news that he is stepping down as committee chair.
2011 OMT Award Winners
Congratulations to all of the award-winning paper and symposia authors! The formal announcement of the OMT Division’s best paper award, best symposium award, and the Pondy Award for best paper from a doctoral dissertation will take place in August, 2011 at the OMT business meeting in Montreal. We’ll also announce the OMT nominee for the Dexter Award for best paper that internationalizes the Academy of Management. We hope you all will join us there to congratulate the winners in each category and to sign up to be involved in the Research Committee.
OMT Division Best Paper Award
Winner:
“Helping Other CEOs Avoid Bad Press: Impression Management Support among CEOs toward Journalists”
Westphal, James -- U. of Michigan Park, Sun Hyun -- U. of Michigan McDonald, Michael -- U. of Central Florida Hayward, Mathew -- U. of Colorado, Boulder
Nominees:
“Embeddedness and the Dynamics of Brokerage Positions: Antecedents and Performance Consequences of Persistence of Brokerage Positions”
Min, Jungwon -- Keio U. Mitsuhashi, Hitoshi -- Keio U.
“Predicting Organizational Identification at the CEO Level”
Lange, Donald -- Arizona State U. Boivie, Steven -- U. of Arizona Westphal, James -- U. of Michigan
“Momentum and the Performance-Risk Relationship: Evidence from Professional Football”
Lehman, David -- National U. of Singapore Hahn, Jungpil -- Purdue U.
“Reconnection Choices and the Dominance of the Irrelevant Past”
Levin, Daniel Z. -- Rutgers U. Walter, Jorge -- George Washington U.
Louis R. Pondy Best Paper Based on a Dissertation (also AoM Newman Award nominee)
Winner:
“Ethnic Homogeneity and Susceptibility to Network-Based Learning: An Individual-Level Analysis of New Investor Recruitment Into Kenya’s Nairobi Stock Exchange”
Yenkey, Christopher – Cornell University
Nominees:
“Institutional Heterogeneity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship in the U.S. Biodiesel Fuel Sector”
Hiatt, Shon -- Harvard Business School
“Organizations and Ethics: Field-Level Versus Firm-Level Sources of Adoption and Implementation”
Chandler, David -- U. of Texas, Austin
“Organizational Identity Formation: Identity Imprinting and Enactment in Dutch Microbreweries”
Kroezen, Jochem – Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus U.
“Go With Your Gut: A Theory of Emotion and Inequality in Hiring”
Rivera, Lauren – Northwestern U.
Carolyn Dexter Nominee (OMT’s nominee for AoM Best International Paper)
Winner/officially nominated paper:
“Misery Loves Microfinance – Sometimes: A Cross-National Investigation of Patriarchal Logics and the Emergence of Microfinance Organizations”
Zhao, Eric Yanfei -- U. of Alberta Wry, Tyler Earle -- U. of Alberta
Other Nominees:
“Grobalization, Glocalization and Theorization in the Ontario Wine Industry”
Voronov, Maxim -- Brock U. De Clercq, Dirk -- Brock U. Hinings, C.R. Bob -- U. of Alberta
“Bowling Alone? A Critical Look at Accounts of Inclusive Growth at the ‘Bottom of the Pyramid’”
Ansari, Shahzad -- U. of Cambridge Gregg, Tricia -- U. of Cambridge Reinecke, Juliane -- U. of Warwick
“The Categorical Alternative: Global Defense Contractors and the Stigmatization Dilemma”
Durand, Rodolphe -- HEC Paris Vergne, Jean-Philippe -- HEC Paris
OMT Division Best Symposium
Winner:
"Shifting Power and the Changing U.S. Employment Relationship"
Briscoe, Forrest – The Pennsylvania State University Cobb, J. Adam – U. of Michigan
Nominees:
“Enabling Innovation Outside the Firm: Understanding the Economic, Strategic and Organizational Principles of Distributed Innovation and Its Performance Implications”
Tushman, Mike – Harvard Business School Lakhani, Karim – Harvard Business School Lifshitz-Assaf – Harvard Business School
“Enhancing Relevance: Video Ethnography and Practitioner Engagement”
Smets, Michael – Aston U.
“Horizontal Coordination Across Occupations and Locations: New Insights From the Field”
Kellogg, Katherine C. – MIT DiBenigno, Julia -- MIT
“Organizational Misconduct: Who Cheats More and How Do They Respond When Discovered”
von Nordenflycht, A. – Simon Fraser U. Pozner, Jo-Ellen – U. of California Berkeley
Best Published Paper Award
OMT began honoring the Best Published Paper in Organization and Management Theory with its new award, which was announced in August, 2010. A committee of distinguished OMT scholars named Katherine C. Kellogg’s 2009 paper, “Operating Room: Relational Spaces and Microinstitutional Change in Surgery,” American Journal of Sociology, Volume 115, Number 3: 657–711, as the inaugural winner. Don Palmer, Professor of Management at UC Davis and former editor of the Administrative Science Quarterly, chaired last year’s Best Published Paper Committee.
C.R. (Bob) Hinings, Professor Emeritus of Strategic Management and Organization at the University of Alberta, has graciously agreed to chair this year’s Best Published Paper Committee. Please join us at the OMT Business Meeting to find out which paper from 2010 wins!
Incoming OMT Research Committee Chair – Joe Broschak
It is with more than a touch of sadness to report that this is my final OMT Research Committee Newsletter report. I will be stepping down as Research Committee Chair after this year's Academy meeting in San Antonio, TX. The Executive Committee has named Joe Broschak, Associate Professor of Management and Organizations at the University of Arizona, as the incoming chair. Joe has been shadowing me since January, 2011, in order to make for a smooth transition. Joe is an excellent scholar, has been a longtime member of the Research Committee and he's shown great commitment to service in OMT in general, and the Research Committee in particular. I know that I'll be leaving the committee in excellent hands. I also know that this is a great committee, full of very professional and dedicated individuals, and I hope those of you reading this newsletter consider volunteering to be a member of the Research Committee.
Q: How do I become a member of the OMT Research Committee?
A: Volunteer!
Every member of the OMT division that volunteered to join the Research Committee was placed on the committee. Some of the volunteers have been providing this professional service for many years and are due to cycle off the committee this coming year. If you want your voice heard as to which papers and symposia should win awards, please volunteer to join. Simply contact Giuseppe (Joe) Labianca, University of Kentucky, via email ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) or phone (859-257-3741), to join.
2011 OMT Research Committee Members
Special thanks go out to the volunteer members of the 2011 OMT Research Committee, who provide a wonderful professional service in evaluating all of these potential award winners. As you can see below, they represent a broad sample of OMT’s membership. Please consider joining the committee next year as a volunteer!
Emmanuel A. Abégunrin - Capella University
Mona Al-Amin, University of Florida
Felix Arndt, University of Lausanne
Prasad Balkundi, SUNY Buffalo
Roxana Barbulescu, McGill University
Eva Boxenbaum, Copenhagen Business School
Daniel J. Brass, University of Kentucky
Wayne Brock, University of Phoenix
Joe Broschak, University of Arizona
Gianluca Carnabuci, University of Lugano
Jordi Comas, Bucknell University
Kevin Corley, Arizona State University
Jason Davis, MIT
Dick de Guilder, Vrije University
Rich Dejordy, Northeastern University
Glen Dowell, Cornell University
Teppo Felin, Brigham Young University
Nina Granqvist, Helsinki School of Economics
Peter Groenewegen, Vrije University
Dan Halgin, University of Kentucky
Sanjay Jain, Santa Clara University
Naim Kapucu, University of Central Florida
Tomi Laamanen, Helsinki University of Technology
Xiaowei (Rose) Luo, INSEAD
Dali Ma, Drexel University
Yuri Mishina, Michigan State University
Amit Nigam, NYU
Hongseok Oh, Yonsei University
Amalya Oliver, Hebrew University
Praveen Parboteeah, University of Wisconsin at Whitewater
Jo-Ellen Pozner, University of California at Berkeley
Patrick Reinmoeller, Cranfield University
Greg Robbins, U of South Florida Polytechnic
Gregory Schwartz, University of Bath
Sengün, Ayse Elif, Baskent U.
Willow Sheremata, York University
Andrew Shipilov, INSEAD
Bruce Skaggs, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Paul Skilton, Arizona State University, Polytechnic
Giuseppe Soda, Universita Bocconi
Maxim Sytch, University of Michigan
Dara Szyliowicz, University of the Pacific
Adam Tatarynowicz, Tilburg University
Andrew Ward, Lehigh University
Klaus Weber, University of Michigan
April Wright, University of Queensland
David Zhu, Arizona State University
Report submitted by:
Giuseppe (Joe) Labianca
Associate Professor of Management
Gatton College of Business & Economics
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University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506
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