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Award Announcement: 2023 OMT Distinguished Scholar, Distinguished Educator, and Ned Smith Rising Star Awards

  • 1.  Award Announcement: 2023 OMT Distinguished Scholar, Distinguished Educator, and Ned Smith Rising Star Awards

    Posted 05-12-2023 07:04

    Dear OMTers,
    We are pleased to share with you the awards announcement from Forrest Briscoe, OMT Division Chair-Elect. For more information and details, please refer to the OMT 2023 Preconference
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    Shipeng
    OMT Communications Coordinator

    Award Announcement: 2023 OMT Distinguished Scholar, Distinguished Educator, and Ned Smith Rising Star Awards

    Dear OMTers,

    I am delighted to announce to you the winners of this year's OMT Distinguished Scholar, Distinguished Educator, and Ned Smith Rising Star awards.

    Professor William Ocasio has been chosen as the 2023 OMT Distinguished Scholar. This award recognizes a scholar whose contributions have been central to the intellectual development of the field of organization studies. As individuals, each Distinguished Scholar embodies a career of scholarly achievement and has had a significant impact on OMT scholarship. This is indeed the case for this year's recipient, William Ocasio, who has made many theoretical contributions to our field. These include the development of the institutional logics perspective, seminal research on organizational attention, and myriad further contributions to understanding strategic processes, corporate governance, and organizational and institutional change. Beyond his direct production of scholarship, William Ocasio has also inspired and touched many OMT scholars through mentoring and generosity over his career.

    William Ocasio is currently James F. Towey Professor of Business and Leadership and Director, Illinois Strategic Organization Initiative, at the Gies College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

    William Ocasio will be recognized for this award at the OMT Distinguished Scholar Address at the AoM Annual Meeting in Boston, on Monday August 7. We hope to see you all there.

    We are very happy to announce that the winner of the 2023 OMT Distinguished Educator Award is Ruthanne Huising. This biennial award honors an OMT Division member who has made exceptional contributions to organization and management theory education. The purpose of the award is to celebrate individuals who have positively influenced educational practices within the broader OMT field. Ruthanne Huising is being recognized this year, for her work in founding and leading the Ethnography Atelier, a collaborative space promoting qualitative research through seminars, workshops, blogging, and podcasting. The Atelier offers methodological training for management and organization theory scholars in an inclusive manner, and fosters high-quality standards for ethnographic empirical research. Notably, the Atelier's impactful website has received seventeen thousand visits so far, two-thirds of which come from outside North America.

    The Award will be announced during the OMT Business Meeting at the AoM Conference in Boston on Monday August 7. Please come and join us there!


    Ruthanne Huising is currently a Professor and Director of the Work, Technology, and Organization Research Center at Emlyon Business School.

    This is the inaugural year of the OMT Ned Smith Rising Star Award, which is being awarded to Julia DiBenigno. This new award recognizes an OMT scholar who has established a research record of exceptional quality and creativity early in their career. Established in honor of Edward "Ned" Bishop Smith (1981-2021), it recognizes an individual scholar who has influenced the field of organizational and management theory through bridging academic disciplines and spanning boundaries between research traditions, scholarly conversations, and/or between different societal stakeholder groups. Julia DiBenigno serves as an exemplary initial recipient for this award, having conducted well-regarded boundary spanning research at the intersection of organizations, occupations, and work. Her research draws on both macro sociological and micro psychological theories, and influences diverse academic audiences. In addition, her research has had impact outside academia, including on the design of hospital and behavioral health organizational systems.


    Julia DiBenigno is currently an associate professor of Organizational Behavior at Yale School of Management. She also holds a courtesy appointment in Sociology.

    The Award will be announced during the OMT Business Meeting at the AoM Conference in Boston on Monday August 7. Please come and join us there!

    Forrest Briscoe

    OMT Division Chair-Elect



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    Shipeng Yan
    Assistant Professor
    The University of Hong Kong
    Hong Kong
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