ORGANIZATION & MANAGEMENT THEORY (OMT)
2017 OMT Division Scholarly Program: Call for Submissions and Reviewers
Program Chair: Davide Ravasi, Cass Business School, omt@city.ac.uk
The 2017 Academy of Management meetings in Atlanta, Georgia, USA will run from August 4th-August 8th, 2017. The OMT Executive Board thanks all of our members who have submitted and volunteered in prior years to make OMT the place to be! We are counting on you to continue submitting your best research papers and most creative symposia. We also welcome PhD students and faculty who have not yet submitted research to the Academy or OMT Division before. OMT encompass a diverse range of theories, topics, and people. Our membership is eager to engage with new ideas and welcome new members.
Specific Domain: Organization and management theory involves a building and testing diverse theories at multiple levels including organizations and organizing processes, intra-organizational relations, organization-environment relations, and the role of organizations in society. Some popular topics in recent years have included networks and embeddedness; innovation and change; entrepreneurial organizing; organizational design and new organizational forms; inequality; diffusion, learning and knowledge; social change; environmental and social practices; culture; capabilities and competencies; institutional theory and legitimacy; categories and categorization; corporate governance and top management teams; routines and routine dynamics; power and dependence; work and occupations; identity and identity work; social movements; alternatives to capitalism; practice and process theories of organizing. More information about the division can be found on the OMT website (http://omtweb.org).
Special Instructions: OMT encourages the submission of symposia or papers that develop new theory or that apply our existing theory base to emerging management domains. The division celebrates theoretical novelty, methodological pluralism, international research collaborations, and linkages between theory and practice. Submissions focused on this year's Academy theme – At the Interface – are particularly encouraged. If you have questions about the appropriateness of your submission for OMT, please feel free to contact the Program Chair. The submission system is now open. It closes on Tuesday, January 10, 2017 at 5pm ET (NY Time).
Reviewing for OMT: The norm in the collegial community of OMT is that if you submit a paper or symposium that you also help to develop the program by signing up to review. The sign-up system is already open – so sign up soon before you forget! The success of the OMT program relies upon your active participation in the review process. Your reviewer assignment will be based on the keywords that you indicate are your areas of expertise. Thank you for your willingness to volunteer and contribute to the program in this important way by providing thoughtful and timely reviews. If you have not yet had a chance to review, 2017 is the year to start!
OMT Division Awards
- Best Paper for offering significant contributions to OMT in the refereed scholarly program paper (may be co-authored; may be empirical or conceptual)
- Lou Pondy Best Dissertation Paper for the best paper based on a dissertation in the refereed scholarly program (cannot be co-authored and must be clearly identified as dissertation-based at the time of submission)
- Best Student Paper Award for a paper authored solely by students and included in the refereed scholarly program. The authors must all be students at the time of submission
- Best International Paper in the refereed scholarly program regarding themes and content of interest internationally (this paper is also the Division's nomination for the Carolyn Dexter award)
- Best Entrepreneurship Paper recognizes a paper in the scholarly program that advances understanding of entrepreneurship drawing on organization and management theory
- Best Paper on Environmental and Social Practices in the scholarly program recognizes research that advances our understanding of environmental and social dimensions of organizing
- Best Symposium Award submitted to the annual meeting that stimulates, integrates, or extends discussions about organization and management theory
- ABCD Awards for reviewers that have done Above and Beyond the Call of Duty in providing helpful, extensive and insightful reviews
- Best Published Paper for the best journal article published in the previous year that advances our theoretical understanding of organizations, organizing and management
- Distinguished Scholar Award for a scholar that has been central to the intellectual development of OMT
- Joanne Martin Trailblazer Award for scholar(s) who have blazed trails and paved the way for new ideas during the course of their careers (given every other year; to be given in 2018)
- Distinguished Educator Award for a scholar who has had a significant impact through their teaching and interaction with students (given every other year; to be given in 2017)
Looking forward to receiving your submissions (and welcoming you among our most needed reviewers!). Please do not hesitate to contact me at omt@city.ac.uk for any additional ifnormation.
Davide Ravasi
Cass Business School
OMT Program Chair
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Davide Ravasi
Professor of Management
Director of PhD in Management
Cass Business School
Visiting Professor
Aalto School of Business
Cass Business School
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London, EC1Y 8TZ, United Kingdom
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