Slides from the OMT 2015 Business Meeting

2. OMT Business Meeting: 2015 Agenda
1. Welcome and Division Chair Report
– Membership , Five Year Review & Sponsorships
– Committee Updates and EGOS
2. Conference Reports
– PDWs
– Program and Awards
3. Educator Award
4. Best Published OMT Paper Award
5. Farewells
6. Artifact and Social Hour

3. Welcome to Our New Officers!!
Davide Ravasi
- PDW Chair-Elect
Nina Granqvist Wendy Smith
– Representatives at large
Bilian Ni Sullivan
- Global Rep

4. Division Chair Report
• Vibrant: 4,097 members (25% students)
– AoM submissions doubled from 2004 (~300) to 2015 (600+)
• Set standards for great scholarship!
– Members are consistent Terry Book Award Winners:
• 2015: Tor Hernes A Process theory of Organization
• 2014: Mark Mizruchi The Fracturing of the American Corporate Elite
• 2013: Thornton, Ocasio & Lounsbury Institutional Logics
– AoM Career Scholar Award 65%
– ASQ Five Year Award 54%
– AMR Yearly Award 53%
– AMJ Yearly Award 46%
• We are OMT +:
– a foundation and bridge for research and teaching
– Our students place well and teach in Strategy 30%, OB 17%, Entrep.
10%, OT 8%
OMT is The Place To Be!

5. Five Year Review
• 21% response rate
• Members’ value
– Quality of scholarship 93% (75% ranked #1, 18% #2)
– Social connections 49% (12% ranked #1, 37% #2)
• Members concerned about size and stratification
– Established developmental workshops besides AoM Consortia
• 4 in 2013: Singapore (ASQ), Istanbul (Org Sci), Sydney (Org Studies),
Montreal
• 3 in 2014: China , Edinburgh (AMJ), Helsinki (Org Studies)
• 2 in 2015: Banff , Poland (Org Studies)
• 1 in 2016: Rotterdam (AMR)
– Created communication chair and committee
• Social media: twitter, emails, facebook, Linkedin, listserv

6. Five Year Review
• Expenses are uncertain due to fluctuations in AoM
conference hotels and city selection
– OMT sought and cultivated external sponsors
» Stabilizes our OMT AoM program

7. Five Year Review
• AoM and OMT growth is International
– AoM membership: U.S. -8% Non-US +10%
– 52% OMT members international versus 47%
AoM
– OMT Asian members grew 50% between 2010 and
2012; now 15% of overall submissions
• Created Membership chair
• Added Global Rep at Large for Emerging
Markets
• Rep at Large and Division Chairs are

8. Division Chair Report
• Cultivating our International Members and collaborative
relations EGOS and IACMR
• EGOS Collaborations
– Executive Committee Collaborations
– Co-Sponsoring Int’l paper development workshops (Poland,
2015)
– Organization Studies/Sage sponsors International Best Paper
Award
– Meet OMT@EGOS in Athens (co-sponsored by Cass Business
School)
– EGOS in increasingly global:
• As of July 1, 2015, EGOS had 2,304 members from 55 countries
• Top Countries; UK 19%; France 12%; Germany 7.5%; USA 7%; Canada
6%;
– Introduce: Markus Höellerer, EGOS Board Member

9. 32nd EGOS Colloquium, Naples 2016
Organizations and the Examined Life:
Reason, Reflexivity and Responsibility
2-4 July, 2015
Naples, Italy
July 7–9, 2016
Organizing in the Shadow of Power

10. 6th Latin American and European
Meeting on Organization Studies
Viña del Mar, Chile, April 6–9, 2016
Subverting organizations:
Reflecting on aims, meanings and
modalities of organizing

11. Communications Committee
• 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
• Diane-Laure Arjaliès, HEC Paris, since
2012
• Marco Clemente, Aalto, since 2012,
EGOS liaison
• Rebecca Henn, Penn State, since 2013
• Shilo Hills, Alberta, since 2013
• Jochem Kroezen, Cambridge, since
2013
• Felipe Massa, Loyola, since 2013
• Michael Mauskapf, Northwestern,
since 2013
• Madeline Toubiana, Alberta, since
2013
• Dalhia Mani, HEC Paris, since 2014
• Eunice Rhee, Seattle, since 2014,
social media liaison
• Teddy DeWitt, Michigan, since 2014
• Laura Claus, Cambridge, since 2015
Outgoing Chair: Joel Gehman, U of Alberta
Incoming Chair: Derek Harmon, USC Marshall

12. AOM 2015 Social Media Team!
Planned and led by: Eunice Rhee, Seattle
• Madeline Toubiana, Alberta
• Tim Hannigan, Alberta
• Miriam Krikorian, USC Marshall
• Helen Etchanchu, Essec
• Manely Sharifian, Alberta
• Christopher Corbishley, Imperial
• Sonia Siraz, IE
• Diego Moreira Soares, Queens
• Shipeng Yan, IESE

13. OMT on Facebook
Likes as of AOM 2014: 211
Likes as of AOM 2015: 489
(131% increase)

14. OMT on Twitter
Followers as of AOM 2014: 165
Followers as of AOM 2015: 429
(160% increase)

15. OMT PDWs: 2015

16. OMT PDW Issues
Good News
• Many members responded to PDW ideas survey
• Total of 135 hours Requested
• 54% of submissions from outside of USA
Bad News
• Academy budget gave only 62 hours onsite
Result
• Secured off-site room sponsorship
• Maximized onsite hours budget
• Trimmed most sessions

17. OMT PDWs Summary
Good News!
• Record setting program – hooray!
• 48 sessions (119.5 Hours) Led by OMT
• 68 Hours onsite, 51.5 Hours offsite Led by
OMT
• Co-sponsors secured for all except Consortia
and Dissertation Proposal workshop
• 36 additional sessions OMT co-sponsored
• Several new initiatives:
– OMT New and Returning Member Forum
– OMT Cafes
– OMT Bike Rides

18. OMT Program: 2015

19. Submissions to OMT
357 355
479 488
578 587 581
614 605 606
651
73
48
76 74 65 79 60 74 58
92 99
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OMT Submissions 2005-2015
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More good news: Record paper and symposium submissions!

20. Program Summary
• 952 people signed up to review for OMT from 49 countries.
THANK YOU!
• 849 people received papers to review:
– Avg of 2.87 submissions/reviewer
– Avg of 3.25 reviewers assigned/ submission
– Extra THANKS to emergency reviewers!
• 338 paper acceptances
– 308 regular papers; 30 discussion papers
– 32 “best papers” in the 2015 AoM Proceedings
• 81 symposium acceptances
– 48 symposia with OMT as lead sponsor
– 6 showcase symposia

21. Centrality of OMT
Symposium Submission Co-sponsorships
OMT
99
EconomicsPsychology
Sociology
BPS
(strategy)
35OB 30
MOC
(Cognition)
18
TIM
(Technology)
12
ODC
(Change)
10
SIM
(Social
issues)
16
ENT
(Entrepreneurship
10
IM
(International)
11

22. Popular Submission Keywords/Trends
Keyword - theories (top 5) Papers ‘15 (‘14) Reviewers
Institutional Theory 174 (165) 413
Networks & Embeddedness 88 (96) 196
Learning, Adaptation & Routines 58 (50) 143
Behavioral Theory & Decision Making 53 (64) 163
Sensemaking and Cognition 36 (28) 168
Keyword - topics (top 8)
Institutional Logics & Complexity 74 (70) 209
Corporate Governance & Strategy 68 (46) 121
Identity & Categorization 58 (60) 174
Bureaucracy, Org Design, Structure 53 (39) 129
Social Responsibility & Ethics 50 (42) 123
Status & Reputation 47 (42) 123
Organizational Forms 41 (33) 130
Performance & Effectiveness 41 (35) 68
**Note that submitters chose 3 keywords and that keywords overlap

23. AWARDS

24. Research Committee Members
Chair: Joe Broschak – University of Arizona
Talk to Jo-Ellen! Stand up, take a bow!
Name University Name University
Felix Arndt University of Nottingham 5 yrs Dali Ma Drexel University 6 yrs
Roxana Barbulescu HEC Paris 4 yrs Nydia MacGregor Santa Clara University 2 yrs
Sekou Bermiss University of Texas at Austin 3 yrs Yuri Mishina Imperial College London 5 yrs
Daniel Beunza London School of Economics
4 yrs
Tom Moliterno
University of Massachusetts at
Amherst
4 yrs
Lyda Bigelow University of Utah
3 yrs Markus Perkman Imperial College London
2 yrs
Emily Block Notre Dame University
4 yrs Antoaneta Petkova San Francisco State University
4 yrs
Gianluca Carnabuci University of Lugano
5 yrs Dionne Pohler University of Saskatchewan
1 yr
David Chandler University of Colorado at Denver 4 yrs Jo-Ellen Pozner University of California, Berkeley 5 yrs
Lisa Cohen McGill University
2 yrs
Greg Robbins
Southern Connecticut State
University
6 yrs
Rich Dejordy Northeastern University 4 yrs Michelle Rogan INSEAD 1 yr
Niki den Nieuwenboer University of Kansas 3 yrs Gokce Sargut Governors State University 4 yrs
Micki Eisenman Hebrew University Jerusalem 3 yrs Ned Smith Northwestern University 3 yrs
Vibha Gaba INSEAD 2 yrs Wendy Smith University of Delaware 1 yr
Scott Graffin University of Georgia 3 yrs Adina Sterling Washington University at St. Louis 1 yr
Peter Groenewegen Vrije University 5 yrs Maxim Sytch University of Michigan 6 yrs
Dan Halgin University of Kentucky 5 yrs Hovig Tchalian Claremont Graduate University 2 yrs
Conor Horan Dublin Institute of Technology 1 yr Balagopal Vissa INSEAD 4 yrs
Ruthanne Huising McGill University 1 yr Klaus Weber Northwestern University 6 yrs
Kate Kellogg MIT 3 yrs Jennifer Woolley Santa Clara University 3 yrs
Sharon Koppman University of California, Irvine 1 yr Eric Zhao University of Indiana 4 yrs
Brandon Lee Melbourne Business School
2 yrs David Zhu Arizona State University
5 yrs

25. Louis R. Pondy Award
for Best Paper Based on a Dissertation
“Explaining Unequal Returns to Social Capital
Among Entrepreneurs”
Mabel Abraham – MIT Sloan
Runners up:
“The Dark Side of Brokerage: Conflicts between Individual and
Collective Pursuits of Innovation”
Russell J. Funk – University of Minnesota
“Organizational Identity and Resistance to Environmental Pressures”
Oliver Schilke – University of Arizona

26. OMT Division Best Paper Award
“Weeding Out the Competition: How Alternatives are
Eliminated during Institutionalization”
Kenji Klein – California State U, Long Beach
Renee Rottner – New York University
Runners up:
“Knowledge Transfer in Multilevel Networks: Contingent Effect of
Organizational and Social Structure”
Alessandrio Lomi – University of Lugano
Paola Zappa – University of Lugano
“Stamps of Power and Conflict: Imprinting and Influence in the U.S.
Senate, 1973-2009”
Christopher C. Liu – University of Toronto
Sameer B. Srivastava – University of California, Berkeley

27. OMT Division Best International Paper
“Gray Matters in the Growth of Markets”
Valentina Assenova – Yale School of Mgmt
Olav Sorenson – Yale School of Management
Runners up
“Faraway, So Close! Field Access and Status Rise in Case of Institutional
Complexity”
Giuseppe Delmestri – WU Vienna
Fabrizio Montanari – University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
“The Nature and Limits of Collective Identity as an Editing Lens for Institutional
Complexity”
Jaco Lok & Anu Gupta – University of New South Wales

28. OMT Best Student Paper Award
“Here’s an Idea: Knowledge Sharing among Competitors
to Build a Critical Mass”
Tristan L. Botelho – MIT Sloan
Runners up
“How Does Nested Categories Influence a Market Emergence? Evidence from
Early American Music Record”
Jaemin Lee – INSEAD
“The Contingent Spillovers of Organizational Wrongdoing”
Jacob Model – Stanford University

29. OMT Division Best Symposium Award
"What Does Imprinting Mean? New Perspectives on
Imprint Formation and Persistence Processes"
Rolf L. Hoefer – INSEAD
Runners up
“Category Dynamics: Emergence, Change, and Dissolution”
Eunice Y. Rhee – Seattle University
Jade Yu-Chieh Lo – Drexel University
Peer C. Fiss – University of Southern California
“Beyond Embeddedness: When Community Engagement Governs Firm Strategy”
Renee Rottner – New York University
Robert Eberhart – Santa Clara University

30. OMT Division Best Empirical Paper on
Social & Environmental Practices*
• A special thanks to BCCC Executive Director Katherine V. Smith!
"Tea Time: Temporal Coordination for Sustainable Development"
Anna Kim – Western University
Pratima Bansal – Western University
Helen Haugh, University of Cambridge
Runners up
“Smoke Signal or Smoke Screen? Why the
Media do not Disapprove Equally of
Overpaid CEOs”
Jean-Philippe Vergne – Western U.
Georg Wernicke – CBS
Steffen H. Brenner – CBS
“Red, Blue, and Purple Firms: On the
Coherence and Implications of
Organizational Ideology”
Abhinav Gupta –Pennsylvania State U.

31. OMT Division Best Entrepreneurship Paper *
"Cultural Entrepreneurship and the Role of Visuals in Interactive
Frame Alignment Process"
Itziar Castelló, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
David Barberá, Institute of Innovation and Knowledge
Management, INGENIO (CSIC-UPV)
Runners up
“Network Structure and Uncertainty: The
Role of Strong Ties in Venture Capital
Funding Networks”
Demetrius Lewis – Stanford U.
“Broadly Specialized: Identity and Entry
into Entrepreneurship”
Peter Younkin –McGill U.

32. ABCD Reviewer Awards
(Above and Beyond the Call of Duty)
Reviewer Affiliation Reviewer Affiliation
Marcos Barros, Grenoble School of Mgmt Esther Maier, Wilfrid Laurier U.
Nathan Betancourt, U. of Amsterdam David Maslach, Florida State U.
Nathan Bragaw, Louisiana State U. Dirk Moosmayer, Nottingham University
Giulia Cappillaro, Bocconi U. Antoaneta Petkova, San Francisco U.
Jonathan Campbell, Harvard Business School Ryan Raffaeli, Harvard U.
Scott Ganz, Stanford GSB Patrick Reinmüller, Cranfield U.
Wesley Helms, Brock University Paula Ungureanu, U. of Modena
Timothy Hubbard, U. of Georgia Floor van den Born, VU University of Amsterdam
Jean-Baptiste Litrico, Queen’s U. Wang Tao, Grenoble School of Management
THANK YOU!!!

33. The Distinguished Educator Award
Henry Mintzberg
McGill University

34. Name Name
Linda Argote - Carnegie Mellon Pursey Heugens – Rotterdam
Steve Barley – Stanford Tom Lawrence – Oxford
Joel Baum – Toronto Chris Marquis – Cornell
Christine Beckman- U Maryland Renate Meyer – Vienna
Kevin Corley – Arizona State University Danny Miller - HEC (Canada)
Rick Delbridge- Cardiff Christine Oliver - York U
Rudolph Durand - HEC (France) Davide Ravasi - Cass (UK)
Martine Haas – Wharton Trish Reay- Alberta
Cynthia Hardy – Melbourne Paul Tracey- Cambridge
Jennifer Howard-Grenville – Oregon/Cambridge
2014-15 OMT Best Published Paper
Committee Members
Chair: Royston Greenwood – Univ. of Alberta

35. OMT Best Published Paper Award
Cornelissen, J.P., Mantere, S., & Vaara, E.
“The contraction of meaning: The
combined effect of communication,
emotions and materiality on sensemaking
in the Stockwell shooting.”
Journal of Management Studies, 51 (5).

36. Farewell and Thanks
Joe Broschak Joel Gehman

37. Farewell and Thanks
Chris MarquisForrest Briscoe

38. Thanks to Mike Lounsbury,
Our Outgoing Chair
I’ll
take
roses

39. OMT Artifact
Revealed by … Marc-David Seidel
(#BlameMarcDavid)

40. Social Hour
Follow the crowd down the escalator…..
East Ballroom A: 7:30 – 9:00
After Party 9:00-12:00 Steamworks 375 Water St