Presentation made during 2010 OMT Division Business Meeting in Montreal, Canada.
2009-2010 OMT Division Officers
Willie Ocasio, Past Division Chair
Henrich Greve, Division Chair
Royston Greenwood, Division Chair Elect
Matt Kraatz, Program Chair
Christine Beckman, Program Chair Elect
Diane Burton and Candace (Candy) Jones, Third Year Representatives-at-Large
Damon Phillips and Nelson L. Phillips, Second Year Representatives-at-Large
Martin Gargiulo and Bill McEvily, First Year Representatives-at-Large
Andrew (Andy) Hoffman, Practice Committee Chair
Joe Labianca, Research Committee Chair
Anand Narasimhan, Teaching Committee Chair
Brayden King, Editorial Committee Chair
William (Bill) L. Dougan, Treasurer
Rodney Lacey, Communications Coordinator
Joel Gehman, Website Coordinator
2. PDW Summary
• 19 PDW Sessions sponsored by OMT
• 55 including co‐sponsors
• 850 People in the 19 where OMT was the primary sponsor
• Doctoral Consortium sponsored by:
• THANK YOU!
5. Accepted Submissions by Type
Submission Type Number Accepted Acceptance Rate (as % of
Total Submissions)
Division Papers 161 27%
Division Roundtable Papers 117 19%
Discussion Papers 32 5%
Cross Division Roundtable 10 2%
Papers
Symposia 49 (includes co‐sponsored) 60%
6. Some Popular Keywords
Keyword Number of Papers Using
Performance / Effectiveness 87
Interorganizational Relations 79
Networks 72
Innovation / Creativity 64
Institutions 64
Organizational Forms 59
Organizational Change 57
Corporate Governance 56
Legitimacy and Diffusion 54
Capabilities / Competencies 52
Learning 52
**Note that submitters chose 3 keywords
and that keywords overlap
7. Origin of Paper Submissions
Origin Percentage of Paper Submissions
North America 45% (39% US / 6% Canada)
Europe 39%
Asia 10%
Other 5%
**Note that symposium submissions were
disproportionately North American
8. Reviewer Information
• 891 people volunteered to review for OMT
– THANK YOU!!
• 777 volunteers received papers to review
– Average of 2.58 submissions per reviewer
• 53% of reviewers were from outside of U.S.
• 38% of reviewers were PhD students
• 54% of reviewers have been in AOM for less than 5 years
• Only 12% of reviewers have been AOM members for more
than 10 years…
• …which seems like a problem
9. ABCD Reviewer Awards
(Above and Beyond the Call….)
• Punit Arora, Syracuse U.
• Kimberly A. Bates, Trent U.
• Tammy E. Beck, U. of North Carolina, Charlotte
• Forrest Briscoe, Pennsylvania State U.
• Helena Buhr, U. of Michigan
• Andrea Casey, George Washington U.
• W. L. Dougan, U. of Wisconsin, Whitewater
• Mark Thomas Kennedy, U. of Southern California
• Kenji Klein U. of California, Irvine
• Ming D. Leung, U. of California, Berkeley
• Daniel Malter, U. of Maryland, College Park
• Stuart Anthony Middleton, U. of Queensland
• Vanessa Pouthier, Northwestern U.
• Timothy J. Quigley, Pennsylvania State U.
• Tracy A. Thompson, U. of Washington, Tacoma
10. Other People Who Went Far Above
and Beyond…
• My predecessors in the program chair job
• Faculty Colleagues and PhD students at the
University of Illinois
– Ruth Aguilera, Mike Bednar, Lina Deng, Ricardo Flores,
Young‐Chul Jeong, Geoff Love, Huseyin Leblebici,
Jaegoo Lim, Eric Neuman
• Many emergency reviewers who came through
on very short notice
• Many friends and colleagues at other universities
who received considerably more than 2.58
submissions to review
11. Lou Pondy Award for Best
Dissertation‐Based Paper
• Runner Up: Ming Leung, University of California,
Berkeley
– Dilettante or Renaissance Man? How the Sequence of
Category Memberships Affects Credibility in an Online
Market for Services
• Winner: David Zhu, Arizona State University
– Sparing Boards Will Pay Even Less and Openhanded
Boards Will Pay Even More
• Note that David’s paper also won the Newman
Award for the best dissertation paper across all
AOM divisions!
12. OMT Best
Symposium • Runner‐up: Xiaoqu Luo
(Fordham) and Mi Feng
Award (Stanford)
(Generously – Understanding the Context of
Sponsored by SAGE Entrepreneurial Activities:
Publications) How Social Structures Matter
• Winner: Connie Helfat,
Dartmouth College
– Ambidexterity and Dynamic
Capabilities: Unraveling the
Role of Managers and the
Environment
13. OMT Best Paper • Runner Up: David Zhu (ASU) and
James Westphal (Michigan)
Award
(Generously – Pluralistic Ignorance and the
Sponsored by Persistence of Positive Analyst
Organization Studies) Reactions to Repurchase Plans
• Winner: Maxim Sytch, University
of Michigan
– Where Do Conflictual Ties
Come From? Exploring the Role
of Spatial Distribution of
Principals and Mediating
Agents
15. Wayne Baker Kim Cameron Jane Dutton
Bob Quinn Gretchen Spreitzer Lynn Wooten
16. OMT Best Published Paper Award:
Runners Up
• Wesley D. Sine and Brandon H. Lee, “Tilting at Windmills? The
Environmental Movement and the Emergence of the U.S. Wind
Energy Sector,” Administrative Science Quarterly, 2009.
• Bryant A. Hudson and Gerardo A. Okhuysen, 2009, “Not with a Ten‐
Foot Pole: Core Stigma, Stigma Transfer, and Improbable
Persistence of Men's Bathhouses,” Organization Science, 2009.
• Greta Hsu, Michael T. Hannan, and Özgecan Koçak, “Multiple
Category Memberships in Markets: An Integrative Theory and Two
Empirical Tests,” American Sociological Review, 2009.
• Christopher Marquis and Zhi Huang, “The Contingent Nature of
Public Policy and the Growth of U.S. Commercial Banking,”
Academy of Management Journal, 2009.
17. OMT Best Published Paper Award:
Winner
• Katherine C. Kellogg, MIT
– “Operating Room: Relational Spaces and
Microinstitutional Change in Surgery,” American
Journal of Sociology, 2009.
• Special thanks to Don Palmer for chairing the
Best Published Paper selection committee and
to Joe Labianca for his oversight of the OMT
research committee
24. Community
• OMTweb made for year‐round participation
and blogging; editorial committee
• Consortia used as sounding boards for
program innovations
• Mentoring PDW and mini‐conference to be
oriented toward doctoral student support