Presentation made during 2012 OMT Division Business Meeting in Boston, MA. 2011-2012 OMT Division Officers Royston Greenwood, Past Division Chair Matt Kraatz, Division Chair Christine Beckman, Division Chair Elect Mike Lounsbury, Program Chair Candace Jones, Program Chair Elect Martin Gargiulo and Bill McEvily, Third Year Representatives-at-Large Eva Boxembaum and Klaus Weber, Second Year Representatives-at-Large Peer Fiss and Martine Haas, First Year Representatives-at-Large Joe Broshak, Research Committee Chair David Touve, Teaching Committee Chair Brayden King, Blogging Committee Chair William (Bill) L. Dougan, Treasurer Joel Gehman, Division Webmaster

2. Division
Chair’s
Report:
Membership
• Good
news
– Over
4000
members
– Growth
numbers
be<er
than
BPS
– 26%
of
our
members
are
students
• Bad
news
– “Over
4000”
=
4001
– EssenIally
flat
over
last
five
years
– AOM
has
had
modest
five
year
growth
(2.75%)
• Issue
requires
a<enIon
– We’re
working
on
it
– You’ll
be
hearing
from
us
about
ways
to
help

3. Division
Chair’s
Report:
Financial
Status
• Good
news
– OMT
is
in
great
financial
shape
– Sponsorships
have
increased
(more
later)
– Modest
endowment
that
allows
us
to
fund
various
iniIaIves
– Haven’t
gone
broke
despite
high
costs
in
Boston
– Bill
Dougan
is
our
treasurer
• Bad
news
– None
of
consequence

4. Division
Chair’s
Report:
Strategic
IniIaIves
• CommunicaIons
strategy
– Outgrowth
of
website
improvements
– Improve
consistency,
reach,
coordinaIon
– Be<er
leverage
technology
and
“do
more”
for
our
membership
• New
OMT
CommunicaIons
Commi<ee
formed
– Joel
Gehman
is
first
chair
(THANKS!)
– Great
opportunity
for
others
to
become
involved
• InternaIonal
iniIaIves
– EGOS
partnership
– InternaIonal
paper
development
workshops
(co-­‐funded)
• Sponsorships
– $19,000
in
total
sponsorships
over
past
year!
– Efforts
are
ongoing
and
insItuIonalized

5. SPECIAL
THANKS
TO
SPONSORS
OF
OMT
ACTIVITIES
• U
of
Toronto
…………….……….
Business
MeeIng
• Wharton
School
……...……….
Junior
Faculty
ConsorIum
• U
of
Alberta
………………………
Division
AcIviIes
• Emerald
…………………….………
Doctoral
ConsorIum
• Oxford
University
Press
…….
DisInguished
Scholar
• Sage
PublicaIons
……….…….
Best
Paper
Awards
• Boston
College
Center
for
Corporate
CiIzenship
………
Best
E&S
Paper
Award
• U
of
Illinois
………………………
Winter
ExecuIve
MeeIng

6. Welcome
to
Our
New
Officers!!
• Nelson
Phillips
– Program
Chair-­‐Elect
• Forrest
Briscoe
– RepresentaIve
at
large
• Chris
Marquis
– RepresentaIve
at
large

7. Thanks
to
Our
Outgoing
RepresentaIves
at
Large!
MarIn
Gargiulo
Bill McEvily

8. Special
Thanks
Royston!
• LasIng
impact
on
OMT
– InternaIonalizaIon,
sponsorships
etc.
• Did
a
million
li<le
things
the
right
way
– Most
invisible
and
thankless
• Made
the
rest
of
us
be<er
– Me
for
sure
• Tremendous
energy
– Especially
for
a
guy
his
age
• Nicer
than
he
seems
– Really!
• InspiraIonal
– Didn’t
do
it
because
he
needed
the
recogniIon
– Put
his
full
self
into
the
job
• Will
be
missed
and
remembered

9. OMT
Best
Published
Paper
Award
• Edward
Bishop
(Ned)
Smith
– University
of
Michigan
• IdenIIes
as
Lenses:
How
OrganizaIonal
IdenIty
Affects
Audiences’
EvaluaIon
of
OrganizaIonal
Performance,”
AdministraIve
Science
Quarterly,
2011,
56:
61-­‐84.
– Thanks
to
Bob
Hinings
and
his
19
member
selec7on
commi8ee
– Thanks
also
to
OMT
Research
Commi8ee
Chair
Joe
Broschak

10. Mar4n
Trailblazer
Award

11. 2012 Winner
David Hickson
In
addiIon
to
his
influenIal
scholarship
as
a
leading
member
of
the
Aston
group
(the
group
central
to
the
development
and
findings
on
organizaIon
structure
and
context),
David
was
a
founder
and
first
editor
of
the
mulI-­‐disciplinary
journal
Organiza7on
Studies.
He
was
also
signally
important
in
the
founding
of
the
European
Group
for
OrganizaIon
Studies
(EGOS).
He
has
been
a
trailblazer
in
organizaIon
theory
for
over
30
years,
and
we
are
delighted
to
recognize
his
effort
at
building
the
OMT
community.

12. OMT
PDWs:
2012

13. OMT
PDWs
Summary
• 11
sessions
solo
sponsored
by
OMT
• Doctoral
ConsorIum
• 13
sessions
Led
by
OMT
sponsored
by:
• 32
sessions
co-­‐sponsored
by
OMT
Of
the
45
jointly
sponsored
sessions
• 69%
with
BPS
• 22%
with
ENT
• 22%
with
TIM
• 18%
with
MOC
• 18%
with
RM
• 16%
with
OB
• THANK
YOU!

14. OMT
Program:
2012

15. Submissions
to
OMT

16. Program
Summary
• 1,253
people
agreed
to
review
for
OMT
from
49
countries
A
NEW
RECORD!
THANK
YOU!!!
• 1,116
people
received
papers
to
review:
– Avg
of
2.55
submissions/reviewer;
4
reviews/
submission
• 61%
of
reviewers
have
been
members
of
AoM
for
less
than
5
years
(or
not
at
all);
17%
>
10
years
AoM
• 51%
(311)
paper
acceptances;
54%
(40)
symposium
acceptances
• Con4nuing
to
improve
paper
matching
process

17. Submissions
and
Reviewers
by
Region
(last
year
in
parens)
Number
of
Region Papers
Submissions Reviewers
Submi^ed
Europe 266
(219) 43
(36)% 36
(27)%
United
States 210
(237) 34
(39)% 42
(49)%
Asia
Pacific 91
(100) 15
(17)% 11
(9)%
Canada 43
(35) 7
(6)% 2
(8)%
LaIn
America 7
(8) 1
(1)% 2
(0)%

18. Popular
Submission
Keywords/Trends
Keyword
-­‐
theories
Number
of
Papers
Using
Ins4tu4onal
Theory
160
(591
Reviewers–almost
half!!)
Networks
&
Embeddedness
93
(301
Reviewers)
Learning,
Adapta4on
&
Rou4nes
68
(52
last
year)
Behavioral
Theory/Decision
Making
61
(44
last
year)
Keyword
-­‐
topics
Corporate
Governance
&
Strategy
60
(63
last
year)
Ins4tu4onal
Logics
&
Complexity
56
(44
last
year;
321
reviewers)
IdenIty
&
CategorizaIon
55
(66
last
year)
InnovaIon
and
CreaIvity
50
(45
last
year)
Performance
&
EffecIveness
39
(54
last
year)
**Note
that
submi<ers
chose
3
keywords
and
that
keywords
overlap

19. Most
Popular
Theories
by
Region
(last
year
in
parens)
Behavioral
Ins4tu4onal
Networks
&
Theory
&
Region
Theory
Embeddedness
Decision
Making
Europe 40
(39)% 50
(36)% 44%
United
States 31
(39)% 30
(46)% 30%
Asia
Pacific 10
(11)% 14
(12)% 19%
Canada 16
(10)% 6
(5)% 2%
LaIn
America 1
(1)% 0
(0)% 4%
Middle
East 1
(1)% 0
(1)% 2%

20. Most
Popular
Topics
by
Region
(last
year
in
parens)
Governance
Ins4tu4onal
Iden4ty
&
Region
&
Strategy
Logics/Complexity
Categoriza4on
Europe 33
(28)% 52% 30%
United
States 33
(35)% 35% 53%
Asia
Pacific 29
(32)% 4% 11%
Canada 5
(5)% 8% 6%
LaIn
America 0
(0)% 2% 0%
Middle
East 0
(0)% 0% 0%

21. AWARDS

22. Louis
R.
Pondy
Award
for
Best
Paper
Based
on
a
Disserta4on
Winner:
Kaisa
Snellman,
Harvard
University
Window
Dressers
and
Closet
Conformists:
Organiza7onal
Decoupling
Revisited

23. OMT
Division
Best
Paper
Award
Winner:
Sco^
Graffin
(U
of
Georgia),
Jonathan
Bundy
(U
of
Georgia),
James
Wade
(Emory),
Joseph
Porac
(NYU),
and
Dennis
Quinn
(Georgetown)
Nega7ve
Returns
to
Status:
The
2009
Expense
Scandal
and
its
Impact
on
Parliamentary
Elites

24. OMT
Division
Best
Interna4onal
Paper
…also
winner
of
All-­‐Academy
Carolyn
Dexter
Award
Winner:
Patrick
Vermeulen
(Radboud
U
Nijmegen),
Tal
Simons
and
Joris
Knoben
(Tilburg)
A
Community-­‐Level
Theory
of
Organiza7onal
Resistance
to
An7-­‐Smoking
Regula7on

25. OMT
Division
Best
Symposium
Award
Winner:
Mark
Kennedy
U
of
S.
California)
and
Muk4
Khaire
(Harvard)
Toward
Emergence
Studies:
A
Sensemaking
Symposium

26. OMT
Division
Best
Empirical
Paper
on
Social
&
Environmental
Prac4ces*
Winner:
Joel
Gehman,
University
of
Alberta
Categorical
Cleaning:
An
Exploratory
Study
of
Sustainability
Induced
Dives7tures,
1992-­‐2010
* Sponsored by http://www.bcccc.net/index.cfm
A special thanks to BCCC Executive Director Katherine V. Smith!

27. ABCD
Reviewer
Awards
(Above
and
Beyond
the
Call….)
• Amelie Boutinot - Grenoble • Mia Raynard – U of Alberta
• Giulia Cappellaro – Cambridge • Rhonda Reger – U of Maryland
• Charlotte Coleman – Leeds U • Taekjin Shin – U Illinois, Urbana-
• Natalie C. Cotton-Nessler – U Champaign
of Michigan • Silviya Svejenova - ESADE
• Rich DeJordy - Northeastern • Pooya Tavakoly – U Lugano
• W.L. Dougan – U Wisconsin, • Patricia Thornton – Duke U
Whitewater • Anna Tyllström - Uppsala
• Santi Furnari – City U • Michael C. Withers – Texas A&M
• Joel Gehman – U of Alberta • Eric Zhao – U of Alberta
• Evelyn Micelotta – U of Alberta • Tammar Zilber – Hebrew U of
• Marcos Pereira Fernandes de Jerusalem
Barros – HEC Montreal

28. Other
People
Who
Went
Far
Above
and
Beyond…
• My
predecessors
in
the
Program
Chair
job
– A
special
thanks
to
Chris4ne
Beckman
who
helped
me
tremendously!
• Lianne
Lefsrud,
Evelyn
Micelo^a,
Mia
Raynard,
Pooya
Tavakoly,
&
Eric
Zhao
(Alberta
PhD
students);
Michelle
Maclean
(asst.)
• Everyone
that
signed
up
to
review
and
came
through
on
their
commitment!!!

29. 55 subthemes
161 convenors
...and all that jazz
See you
in Montreal!