2020 Doctoral Consortium Report
The 2020 OMT Virtual Doctoral Consortium convened 43 doctoral students from around the world selected from a strong pool of applications. They joined for four hours of virtual presentations, round-table discussions, and casual chats with 25 faculty members from 11 countries who generously volunteered their time and expertise to make the first ever OMT Virtual doctoral consortium a success.
Friday’s formal proceedings opened with an inspirational keynote from Damon Phillips (Columbia University) who talked about why being an OMT scholar is so important in our current times. This was followed over the course of the consortium with three sets of roundtable discussions and a panel discussion with editors from three major journals in our field that provided guidance on doing research and getting it published.
The first set of roundtables was on being on the job market and was kicked off in advance of the meeting with a pre-recorded segment addressing some of the issues raised for students on the job market in the time of Covid-19. The second set was the research roundtables on the following eleven themes: Institutional Theories; Networks & Embeddedness; Occupations, Professions & Work; Doing & Publishing Ethnography & Qualitative Research; Managing a Pipeline; Collecting Data during Covid-19; Crafting Stories from Your Data; Finding Cool Data and Research Sites; Managing Collaborations (Local, Global, Virtual) & Retaining Relationships; Ethics in Research (Beyond the IRB); and Doing research with Impact: Sustainability, Covid, Inequality, Grand Challenges & Beyond.
The final set of roundtables were on teaching on the following themes: How to make (our own) research relevant, relatable and engaging in the classroom?; How to teach Organization Theory and OMT topics; How to make remote & online teaching work; How to write a teaching statement & prepare a sample lesson plan; Tips for improving your teaching; How to make teaching more inclusive & experiential; Ethics in teaching, teaching ethics; How to design a new course; What I wish I had known… These roundtables allowed students to discuss more specific questions that arise when teaching for the first time or developing an initial course portfolio in a first job.
Participants also engaged in a series of informal “café chats” in small breakout rooms. The deep insight, but also good humour, with which panellists reflected on their own ‘lessons learned’ set the tone for more personal developmental conversations throughout the day.
Each faculty member was assigned one or two doctoral students for in-depth conversations about their current work in progress that would take place outside of the synchronous portion of the program. These encounters provide opportunities for detailed feedback and close dialogue.
The following faculty served as mentors or speakers, or participated in panels and roundtable discussions – we wish to thank them once more for their valuable contribution to the event:
- Beth Bechky, New York U.
- Christine Beckman, U. of Southern California
- Emily Block, U. of Alberta
- Raina Brands, London Business School
- Joe Broschak, U. of Arizona
- Diane Burton, Cornell U.
- Daisy Chung, City University of London
- Joep Cornelissen, Erasmus U.
- Gregoire Croidieu, EMLyon
- Claudia Gabbioneta, Newcastle U.
- Will Harvey, U. of Exeter
- Dennis Jancsary, WU Vienna
- Heeyon Kim, Cornell U.
- Rajiv Kozhikode, Simon Fraser U.
- Kate Kellogg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Mukta Kulkarni, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
- Massimo Maoret, IESE
- Alan Meyer, U. of Oregon
- Evelyn Micelotta, U. of New Mexico
- Andrew Nelson, U. of Oregon
- Amandine Ody-Brasier, Yale School of Management
- Damon Phillips, Columbia U.
- Andrea Prado, INCAE, Costa Rica / Nicaragua
- Thomas Roulet, U. of Cambridge
- Erica Salvaj, Universidad del Desarrollo
- Christopher Steele, U. of Alberta
- Maxim Voronov, York U.
- Danqing Wang, Hong Kong U. of Science and Technology
- Rene Wiedner, Warwick U.
- Shipeng Yan, Hong Kong City U.
- Eric Zhao, Indiana U.
Lisa Cohen, McGill University
Santi Furnari, City University of London