OMT Keyword List

Below is a list of keywords used to classify papers submitted to the Academy of Management Annual Meeting. This document is posted for your convenience, and is based on a document first created by Henrich Greve.

Constructs and Structures

Cognition
Complexity
Culture
Demography
Entrepreneurship
Evolution
Hierarchy/modularity
Identity/image
Innovation/creativity
Institutions
Knowledge
Language/discourse
Learning
Networks
Organizational forms
Power
Resources
Routines/memory
Social capital
Stakeholders/interest groups
Status/reputation
Technology

Mechanisms and Processes

Agency/interests
Categorization
Communications/information processing
Competition
Conflict
Contradictions/dialectics
Control/coercion
Decision making
Deconstruction/postmodernism
Diffusion
Embeddedness
Exchange/dependencies
Exploration/exploitation
Framing/rhetorics
Gender/feminism/race/ethnicity
Identification
Institutionalization/de-institutionalization
Isomorphism
Legitimacy
Logics/models of action
Norms/roles/socialization
Politics/mobilization/contestation
Sensemaking/enactment
Social construction
Social influence
Structuration
Trust/cooperation
Variation/selection/retention

Managing Within the Organization

Acquisitions/mergers/vertical integration
Adaptation/strategic change
Agendas/attention/issue management
Business and corporate strategy
Coordination
Corporate governance
Human resource management
Knowledge management
Leadership
Multinational management
Organizational design/formal structure
Planning/policy/control
Social responsibility
Symbolic management
Top management/executives

Organizational Phenomena and Outcomes

Bureaucracy/rules
Capabilities/competencies
Ethics/justice/morality/corruption
Intraorganizational relations/networks
Organizational change
Performance/effectiveness
Size/growth
Stratification/inequality/diversity
Work/labor/employment relations

Structures and Processes Beyond the Organization

Alliances
Buyers/suppliers/outsourcing
Capital/financial markets
Communities
Comparative/international
Ecology/populations
Geography/industrial districts
Globalization
Institutional change
Interorganizational relations/networks
Markets/industries
Occupations/professions
Organizational fields
Political economy/state
Social movements
Society/world systems