Dear OMTers,
The OMT officer elections are now complete. The winners are:
Program Chair-Elect (5 year term): Candace Jones, Boston College
Representative at Large (3 year term): Peer Fiss, University of Southern California
Martine Haas, University of Pennsylvania
Thanks to everyone who voted in the election, and special thanks to the candidates themselves. Below, you will find brief biographical sketches for each of our new officers. Please join me in congratulating them and thanking them for their willingness to serve the division and its membership.
Sincerely,
Matt Kraatz
OMT Division Chair-Elect
New Officer Bios
Candace Jones is an Associate Professor in the Organization Studies Dept at Boston College. Her research interests include institutional theory, networks, professions and creative industries. She has published in Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Academy of Management Review, Organization Studies, Journal of Organizational Behavior, as well as numerous book chapters. She serves on the Editorial Review Boards of Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Studies and Journal of Management Studies. She previously served the OMT Division as Representative at Large from 2007 to 2009. During this time, she co-organized the OMT Junior Faculty consortium. More recently, she has worked with Eero Vaara on the International Task Force for the OMT Division, which aims to enhance the experience of International scholars in OMT.
Peer Fiss is the McAlister Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. He is broadly interested in how meaning structures shape organizational actions and has studied this in the context of how practices diffuse, how they change, and how accounts framing and justifying practices are constructed. In addition, he has worked on configurational theory using set-theoretic methods such as fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA). Peer has been a member of OMT since 1999 and has served as a fellow for the OMT Junior Faculty Consortium and the OMT Best Paper Award selection committee.
Martine Haas is an Associate Professor of Management at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her PhD from the Joint Program in Organizational Behavior at Harvard University, and served as an Assistant Professor at Cornell University. Martine's research builds bridges between OMT and several other divisions of the Academy of Management by focusing on collaboration within and across knowledge-intensive organizations, with an emphasis on knowledge sharing and global teamwork. Her papers have been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, Organization Science, and Strategic Management Journal. Her work has received the Academy of Management's William H. Newman Award for outstanding dissertation-based research, and has been nominated for the Academy of Management's Carolyn Dexter Award for best international paper. Martine currently serves on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of International Business Studies, and Organization Science.