2013 AOM Leadership Forum Organizational Communication & Information Systems, International Paper Development Workshops

1. OCIS DIVISION
INTERNATIONAL PAPER
DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS
E L I Z A B E T H D A V I D S O N , U N I V E R S I T Y O F H A W A I I
O C I S D I V I S I O N C H A I R , 2 0 1 3
Academy of Management
Leadership Forum
Divisional Best Practices

2. What is OCIS?
 Intersection of two fields
 Organizational Communication
 Information Systems
 Members like to study technology in many forms and forums
 Somewhat eclectic in topics, methods & madness
 Top journals generally grounded in social sciences and US-
style journalistic ‘rigor’
 Division and members committed to Internationalization
 Liz Davidson, Division Chair (soon to be outgoing)

3. What and Why?
 Best practices
 AOM's goals of internationalization
 Innovative Annual Meeting Sessions/PDWs
 Engaging/serving members beyond the annual conference
 International Paper Development Workshop PDW
 The issue: papers from international authors were often
rejected from OCIS program in review cycle.
 Authors had limited experience with the expectations, norms,
and standards for a US-based academic conference.
 How to integrate international authors into our ‘community of
practice’?

4. How and When?
 After the conference program reviews are in
 Past Division Chair organizes the PDW.
 Identify papers with international authors, rejected but
‘promising’
 Invite authors to participate in the International Paper PDW
 If author accepts, list in the online program as PDW participants
 Secure experienced OCIS scholars as “mentors”
 Assign authors to mentors and circulate the papers, e.g.,
 2 mentors to a table of 6 papers or 1 mentor to 3-4 papers
 Assign authors to review/critique each others papers in addition to
the mentor(s)
 Schedule 2 hr PDW as roundtable workshop

5. How and When?
 International OCIS paper development workshops
 Lebanon 2011 (OCIS member /university sponsored)
 Vietnam 2012 (with PACIS)
 Korea 2013 (with PACIS)
 Germany 2013 (OCIS member/ university sponsored)
 Generally, an executive committee member
(international representative) volunteers to organize.
 On conference cite, minimal cost but maximum competition
for attendees, attention.
 University sponsored requires championing and typically
funding for mentors.
International Paper Development Workshop
University of Passau, May 31 2013
Marina Fiedler, Nina Bauer, Heike Wissmann, Sven-Volker Rehm, Kai Spohrer, Verena Dorner, Marcus Giamattei, Ksenia
Koroleva, Ronny Reinhardt, Marcel Allscher, Markus Hummel, Alexander Kornrumpf, Nicola Klaus, Stefan Thalmann, Sabrina
Vieth, Michael Scholz, André Schäfferling, Hella Niemietz, Ivan Zupic, David Wagner,
Mike Chiasson, Thomas Kude, Liz Davidson, Stephen Jeffrey, Yuqing Ren
Home Universities of Participants

6. What’s the payoff?
 OCIS has high participation/submission rate from
international members/ authors
 Viewed as open, receptive division, e.g.,
 2013 Publishing PDW: 39 (62%) international (40% Europe, 15%
Asia, 5% middle east, 4% South America)
 Some papers developed in the PDW have won a 'best paper in
conference' award in subsequent years
 Engaged OCIS members
 Generally, international representatives to our executive
committee sponsor/organize the regional workshops
 Increase awareness of AOM and OCIS

7. Lessons Learned and Unlearned
 AOM IP PDW participation lower in the last 2
years.
 Cost of attending AOM given the economic downturn an issue?
 Legitimacy: Is this a “gimmick” to get funding?
 Optimistically we are 'victims of our own success' as promising
papers are now accepted or authors attending regional events?
 Less optimistically, we need to market more, as there are more
workshop competing for attention.
 To improve: We should keep contact with these
attendees
 to assess effectiveness in terms of future AOM submissions
 to foster the relationships with these authors, OCIS and AOM.