Research Committee Report


Mae McDonnell (Wharton)
Chair of the Research Committee

 

[Note: Content in this report appeared as an announcement in the Spring 2020 newsletter.]

The OMT Research Committee consists of about fifty OMT division members from North America, Europe, and Asia who volunteer their time to help determine award-winning OMT submissions to the Academy of Management Annual Meeting.

As members of the Research Committee, volunteers serve on one of seven sub-committees. Sub-committee members read and rank-order a small subset of manuscripts that have been selected as finalists for awards in the following categories: Best Paper; Best Paper from a Dissertation (Lou Pondy Award); Best International Paper; Best Student Paper; Best Paper on Environmental and Social Practices; Best Paper on Entrepreneurship in OMT; and Best Symposium. The aggregated rankings of sub-committee members determine the winners in each category. The winners of the OMT Lou Pondy Award and Best International Paper automatically qualify as finalists for the Academy of Management’s William H. Newman and Carolyn Dexter awards, respectively.

In addition to paper awards, we also recognize the most dedicated participants of the Research Committee through an annual OMT Research Committee Service Award. Winners of this year's inaugural award have served in the committee for 5+ years and had stellar records during their tenure. In the future, any member of the OMT Research Committee who serves for five years will be entitled to receive this award. Recipients of this year’s award include: Sekou Bermiss (UT-Austin); Vibha Gaba (INSEAD); Sharon Koppman (UC-Irvine); Jennifer Merluzzi (George Washington University); and Hovig Tchalian (Claremont Graduate University).

Please consider becoming a part of this valuable and rewarding committee in service to the OMT division! You will read some of the finest submissions to the OMT division for this year’s Academy of Management meeting. There are still openings available on the committee, as some members are cycling off after several years of valuable and dedicated service. The work of the Research Committee occurs in a compressed, one-week time period near the end of February, well after the regular AOM review cycle is done. Requirements for inclusion on the Research Committee are that you are a member of the OMT division, an active OMT division reviewer for this year’s Academy Meetings, and that you can commit to being available during the time we review papers for awards.

How do you become a Research Committee member? Contact Mae McDonnell. OMT members who volunteer but who cannot be placed on subcommittees this year will be given priority for future openings on the Research Committee.

Be a part of recognizing the excellence of OMT scholarship. Join the OMT Research Committee! After all, OMT, the place to be, works because of you.

 

2020 OMT Award Winners

I am delighted to report that the OMT Research Committee completed the process of selecting winners for all the OMT paper and symposium awards that will presented at the 2020 Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meeting. 

Nominees were identified by Program Chair Martin Kilduff based on the ratings of OMT reviewers.  Then subgroups of Research Committee members read each award-nominated paper or symposium in one of the eight award categories and voted on their picks for the most outstanding work submitted to this year’s AOM conference.    

Congratulations to all the award-winning authors and to those whose paper and symposia were nominated!  The names of winners and runners-up are listed below.

 

OMT Division Best Paper Award

Winner: Nathan Wilmers (MIT) and Maxim Massenkoff (UC Berkeley) Wage Stagnation and the Rise of Merit Pay, 1974-1991

 

Runner-Up: Devi Vijay, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta; Philippe Monin, EMLYON Business School; Mukta Kulkarni, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore.  Strangers at the Bedside: Subaltern Solidarities and New Form Institutionalization.

 

Louis Pondy Best Dissertation Paper Award

Winner: Brittany Bond (MIT) Pride without Prejudice: The Burden of Under-Recognition in Organizations

 

Runner-up: Kate Odziemkowska (Rice) Frenemies: When Firms and Activists Collaborate

 

Best International Paper Award

Winner: Devi Vijay, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta; Philippe Monin, EMLYON Business School; Mukta Kulkarni, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore.  Strangers at the Bedside: Subaltern Solidarities and New Form Institutionalization.

 

Runner-up: Yusaku Takeda (Harvard Business School) Enduring Effects of Nationalistic Ideology on Strategy Formation Process: The Case of Nippon Gakki 1938-1960

 

Best Entrepreneurship Paper Award

Winner: Tristan L. Botelho (Yale School of Management); Melody Chang (Yale School of Management) The Perception and Evaluation of Founder Experience by Hiring Firms: A Field Experiment

 

Runner-up: Minjae Kim (Rice University) Breaking Out Without Selling Out: Overcoming Identity-Based Limits to Market Expansion

 

Best Paper on Environmental and Social Practices

Winner: Jiwon Hwang (Columbia Business School), Damon J. Phillips (Columbia Business School), Entrepreneurship as a Response to Labor Market Discrimination for Formerly Incarcerated People

 

Runner-up: Olivier Cristofini (IAE Paris – Sorbonne Business School); Thomas J. Roulet (University of Cambridge).  Playing with Trash: How Gamification Contributed to the Bottom-up Institutionalization of Zero Waste Practices

 

OMT Responsible Research Award

Winner: Kate Odziemkowska (Rice University) Frenemies: When Firms and Activists Collaborate

 

Runner-up: Olivier Cristofini (IAE Paris – Sorbonne Business School); Thomas J. Roulet (University of Cambridge).  Playing with Trash: How Gamification Contributed to the Bottom-up Institutionalization of Zero Waste Practices

 

Best Student Paper Award

Winner: Yusaku Takeda (Harvard Business School) Enduring Effects of Nationalistic Ideology on Strategy Formation Process: The Case of Nippon Gakki 1938-1960

 

Runner-up: Linda Mitrojorgji (Rennes School of Business).  Designing Shared Representations for Open-Ended Needs

 

Best Symposium Award

Winner: M.K. Chin (Indiana University), Abhinav Gupta (University of Washington) Politics, Political Ideology and Organizations

 

Runner-up: Rodolphe Durand (HEC Paris).  Cooking the Books?  Four Manuscripts on Wall Street Management and Mismanagement 

 

2020 OMT Research Committee Members

My sincere, heartfelt thanks go out to the all of the OMT members who volunteered to be part of the 2020 OMT Research Committee.  I would like to especially acknowledge the heroic service of our five members who will be given the Research Committee Service Award this year for serving the committee for five years: Aharon Cohen Mohliver, Robert Eberhart, Ruthanne Huising, Kelly Patterson, and Maxim Voronov.

As you can see below, the Research Committee represents a broad sample of OMT’s membership. Please consider joining the committee next year as a volunteer!

Jon Bundy

Arizona State University

 

Lindsey Cameron

Wharton

 

Yoonjin Choi

London Business School

 

Johan Chu

Kellogg

 

Adam Cobb

UT – Austin

 

Aharon Cohen Mohliver

London Business School

 

Benjamin Cole

Fordham University

 

Laura Doering

University of Toronto

 

Sunasir Dutta

University of Minnesota

 

Robert Eberhart

Stanford University

 

Sam Garg

HKUST

 

Jianhua Ge

Renmin University of China

Joel Gehman

University of Alberta

 

Abhinav Gupta

University of Washington

 

Derek Harmon

University of Michigan

 

Ruthanne Huising

EMLYON Business School

 

Arvind Karunakaran

McGill University

 

Ivana Katic

Yale School of Management

 

Balazs Kovacs

Yale School of Management

 

Kisha Lashley

University of Virginia

 

Ningzi Li

University of Colorado, Boulder

 

Jade Lo

Drexel

 

Jiao Luo

University of Minnesota

 

Massimo Maoret

IESE

 

Sarah Otner

Imperial College London

 

Eugene Paik

University of Mississippi

 

Sun-Hyun Park

Seoul National University

 

Kelly Patterson

Santa Clara University

 

Vanessa Pouthier

University of Melbourne

 

Kunyuan Qiao

Cornell University

 

Aruna Ranganathan

Stanford University

 

Georg Reischauer

WU Vienna

 

Amanda Sharkey

University of Chicago

 

Wei Shen

Arizona State University

 

Kaisa Snellman

INSEAD

 

Chris Steele

University of Alberta

 

Maxim Voronov

York University

 

Song Wang

Zhejiang University

 

Danqing Wang

HKUST

 

Shipeng Yan

City University of Hong Kong

 

Trevor Young-Hyman

University of Pittsburgh

 

Pavel Zhelyazkov

HKUST

 

Tiona Zuzul

University of Washington