In addition to celebrating achievement in management, the Fellows Group provides opportunities for community and a forum for discussion among the people who have been recognized. For 2024, thirteen members were selected to be honored with induction.

More information about the AOM Fellows is available here.

John Antonakis

John Antonakis is Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. His research is currently focused on leadership, research methods, as well as on general management topics. He has been instrumental in contributing to the “causality revolution” in management studies both in terms of promoting consequential experimental designs as well as the application of econometric methods to observational research. John was Editor in Chief of The Leadership Quarterly, where he had served too as an associate editor; he was also associate editor at Organizational Research Methods. His publications have appeared in journals such as Science, Human Nature Behavior, Psychological Methods, Psychological Science, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Operations Management, and  Journal of Management. John has received many best paper awards for his journal publications and often appears in lists of highly-cited scientists. Apart from his publication impact, he is very active in science communication via social media and in general press outlets.

David Audretsch

David Audretsch is a Distinguished Professor and Ameritech Chair of Economic Development at Indiana University, where he is also serves as Director of the Institute for Development Strategies. He also is a part time Professor at the Department of Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship, University of Klagenfurt, Austria and an Honorary Professor of Industrial Economics and Entrepreneurship at the WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management in Germany.

David’s research has focused on the links between entrepreneurship, government policy, innovation, economic development and global competitiveness. His recent books include The Seven Secrets of Germany: Economic Resilience in an Era of Global Turbulence, with Erik E. Lehmann (Oxford University Press), and Public Sector Innovation, with Mehmet Akif Demircioglu (Cambridge University Press).

David served as a Chair of the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management. He also received the Mentor Award from the Entrepreneurship Division. He was recognized as a Clarivate Citation Laureate in 2021 and was awarded the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research by the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum. He received honorary doctorate degrees from the University of Augsburg, Jönköping University and the University of Siegen. David also was awarded the Schumpeter Prize from the University of Wuppertal.

Derek R. Avery

Derek R. Avery, PhD, is the C. T. Bauer Chair of Inclusive Leadership in the Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston. He received his PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Rice University in 2001. His primary research interests are in workforce diversity (including, but not limited to racioethnicity, sex, age, experience, religion, and culture). His work on diversity climates has established them as: (a) instrumental in reducing demographic differences in employee engagement, absenteeism, turnover, and individual performance and (b) key drivers of unit-level customer satisfaction and sales growth. He is an active member of the Academy of Management and has served as an elected representative on the leadership teams of the DEI and HR divisions. Presently, he is an associate editor of the Journal of Business and Psychology and has served on editorial boards of numerous top tier journals. His publications have earned commendation from the DEI and HR divisions of the Academy of Management and have appeared in outlets such as the Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Organization Science, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. He recently served as the lead consultant on the Joint Inspector’s Unit of the United Nations’ Project on Racism & Racial Discrimination.

Talya Bauer

Talya Bauer is the Cameron Endowed Professor of Management at Portland State University. Talya currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Applied Psychology, and is the former Editor of Journal of Management. She conducts research about relationships at work including candidate reactions to selection, leadership, onboarding, online privacy and data security, overqualification, recruitment, as well as employee stress and success. Her work has been supported by grants from NSF, NIH, and the SHRM and SIOP Foundations and has been published in research outlets such as the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Personnel Psychology, and Academy of Learning and Education Journal. She has worked with dozens of government, Fortune 1000, and start-up organizations and has been a Visiting Scholar in France, Italy, Spain, and at Google Headquarters. Her work has been discussed in the New York Times, BusinessWeek, Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, USA Today, and NPR’s All Things Considered. She is an award-winning teacher and researcher and recipient of the Heneman Career Award, SIOP Distinguished Teaching Award, and Academy of Management HR division’s Innovative Teaching Award. She is a fellow of SIOP, the American Psychological Association, and Association for Psychological Science. She earned her PhD in Management from Purdue University.

Alfonso Gambardella

Alfonso Gambardella is Professor of Corporate Management in the Department of Management & Technology of Bocconi University, Milan. In his career, he has worked on two main projects. The first one focused on the rise and growth of markets for technology. Together with Ashish Arora and Andrea Fosfuri, he developed and documented that technologies can be exchanged through the market giving rise to an efficient division of innovative labor among firms specialized upstream and downstream in the innovation value chain. His research on this topic is well represented by his 2001 MIT Press book Markets for Technology, written with two co-authors. The second project explores whether entrepreneurs and top managers more generally can make better strategic decisions under uncertainty by developing theories and experiments like scientists. This research, developed with Arnaldo Camuffo and several colleagues, was first published in 2020 in Management Science, and a large-scale extension and replication of it published in Strategic Management Journal in 2024. In 2021, he was awarded a prestigious 5-year grant of the European Research Council (ERC) on this topic. He is a former co-editor (2013-2020) of Strategic Management Journal, and is currently Department Editor of Business Strategy of Management Science. Alfonso is also a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society, Academia Europea, and the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), London. He advised many successful PhD students, and in 2019 was awarded a Honorary Doctorate from the Business School of the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich.

Melissa E. Graebner

Melissa E. Graebner is the Robert C. Evans Endowed Professor of Business Administration and Director of the Initiative for Qualitative Research in Innovation and Entrepreneurship (INQUIRE) at the University of Illinois Gies College of Business.  She also serves as chair of the Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and International Business area at Gies. Melissa is former co-editor of the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal (2018 – 2023). Her interests include strategy and resource acquisition in entrepreneurial firms, M&A decision-making and implementation, and qualitative research methods.  Her research has received honors including best paper awards from the Academy of Management Journal and Strategic Organization.  Melissa has held visiting appointments at INSEAD and at the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University, and has held elected positions in the Academy of Management and the Strategic Management Society.  She is a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society and has worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Co., where she focused on technology mergers and acquisitions.  She earned her MBA and her PhD in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University.

Steve W. J. Kozlowski

Steve W. J. Kozlowski, PhD is a World Class Scholar and Distinguished University Professor at the University of South Florida. He is a recognized expert in the areas of dynamic multilevel organizational systems theory and computational process theorizing; team leadership and team effectiveness; and learning, development, and adaptation. The goal of his programmatic research is to generate actionable theory, research-based principles, and deployable tools to develop adaptive individuals, teams, and organizations. His research has generated over $11M in funded work and has been cited over 46,000 times. Dr. Kozlowski is a recipient of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award and the Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research, McGrath Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Study of Groups. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Management Association, the American Psychological Association (APA), the Association for Psychological Science, the International Association for Applied Psychology, and SIOP. He is a member of the APA Publications and Communications Board (P&C, 2021-2026) and the P&C Journals Advisory Committee. He is a Past-President of SIOP (2015-2016), a former SIOP Research and Science Officer (2017-2023), and a former member of the APA Advocacy Coordinating Committee (2019-2021). He was the first Chair of the APA Open Science and Methodology Committee (2019-2020). Dr. Kozlowski received his BA in psychology from the University of Rhode Island, and his MS and PhD degrees in organizational psychology from The Pennsylvania State University.

Jeff LePine

Jeff LePine is the PetSmart Chair in Leadership at the W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University. His research, which has been supported with funding from NIH, NASA, Army Research Institute, and Office of Naval Research, focuses on a variety of topics that relate broadly to the functioning and effectiveness of individuals and teams in challenging work contexts. Jeff received numerous best paper awards, as well as the Cummings Early to Mid-Career Scholarly Achievement Award from AOM, and the Distinguished Early Career Contributions Award from SIOP. Jeff is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. He served as associate editor for Academy of Management Review and the  Journal of Applied Psychology. Jeff has served on over two dozen PhD committees, and chaired or co-chaired more than half of them. Jeff earned his PhD in organizational behavior from Michigan State University. Prior to beginning his academic career Jeff was an officer in the U.S. Air Force.

Elizabeth Wolfe Morrison

Elizabeth Wolfe Morrison is the ITT Harold Geneen Professor in Creative Management and Vice Dean of Executive Programs at the Stern School of Business at New York University. Her research focuses on different ways in which employees are proactive at work, factors that enable or constrain proactive behavior, and how proactive behaviors impact career success.  She also studies employee voice and silence, with a particular interest in why employees are often reluctant to speak up about problems and concerns. Elizabeth has published her work in a number of leading journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Annals, and Journal of Applied Psychology. She has won several awards for her research, including the Cummings Early to Mid-Career Scholarly Achievement Award from the OB division of AOM. Elizabeth has served as associate editor at Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Annals, and Behavioral Science and Policy, as chair of the OB Division of AOM, and as Vice Dean of Faculty at NYU-Stern. She earned her PhD on Organizational Behavior from Northwestern University, and her BA in Psychology from Brown University.

Sharon K. Parker

Sharon K. Parker is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow, Director of the Centre for Transformative Work Design at Curtin University, and a John Curtin Distinguished Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Curtin Faculty of Business and Law. She is a recipient of the ARC’s Kathleen Fitzpatrick Award for mentoring, and the Academy of Management OB Division Mentoring Award. Her research focuses particularly on job and work design, employee performance, proactive behaviour, organizational change, and quasi-experimental designs. She has published more than 250 internationally refereed articles, including publications in top tier journals such as the Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and the Annual Review of Psychology on these topics and, in November of 2019, Sharon was named among the world’s most influential scientists and social scientists in the 2019 Highly Cited Researchers list released by the Web of Science Group, and the only female in Australia appearing on this list in the field of Economics and Business. Sharon is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences, and a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology. She is a past Associate Editor for the Academy of Management Annals and the Journal of Applied Psychology, and she has served on numerous editorial boards. Professor Parker has attracted competitive research funding worth over $70,000,000, and has worked as a researcher and consultant in a wide range of public and private organizations. She created the SMART Work Design model and co-created the mental health model Thrive at Work.  Her research has been cited more than 47,000 times, and has shaped work health and safety policy in the USA, UK, and Australia. She is a present and past member of multiple boards and committees, such as the Woolworths Well-Being Advisory Council and the Corporate Mental Health Alliance.

Linda L. Putnam

Linda L. Putnam is the Distinguished Research Professor Emerita in the Department of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She conducts research on organizational communication with a specific focus on conflict, negotiation, paradoxes, and discourse practices. She has co-edited three volumes of the Handbook of Organizational Communication (SAGE) and recently co-authored Performing Organizational Paradoxes (Routledge), with Gail T. Fairhurst. Linda is a past chair and co-founder of AOM’s Conflict Management Division, former member of the AOM Board of Governors, recipient of the AOM Career Achievement Award for Distinguished Service, and a Distinguished Lecturer for two divisions--Organizational Communication and Information Systems (now CTO) and Organizational Development and Change. She is also a Fellow of the International Communication Association as well as the International Association for Conflict Management, a Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association, and a recipient of Lifetime Achievement Awards from the International Association for Conflict Management and the journal Management Communication Quarterly. She has received Honorary Doctorate degrees from Science in Economics and Business at Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland and the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Montreal in Canada. She earned her PhD in Communication from the University of Minnesota.

Maurice Schweitzer

Maurice Schweitzer is the Cecilia Yen Koo Professor of Operations, Information, and Decisions and Management at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He studies negotiations, trust, and emotions. He has won several best paper awards, but it most grateful for winning the Mentoring Award in the OB Division at the Academy of Management in 2018. He has served as an Associate Editor for Negotiations and Conflict Management Research, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and  Management Science. He co-authored the book “Friend & Foe: When to Cooperate, When to Compete, and How to Succeed at Both.” He is the Academic Director for Wharton’s Effective Decision-Making Program, the Director of the Wharton Behavioral Lab, and a Past President and Fellow of the International Association for Conflict Management.

Sandra Waddock

Sandra Waddock is Galligan Chair of Strategy, Carroll School Scholar of Corporate Responsibility, and Professor of Management at Boston College's Carroll School of Management, and a BC Schiller Institute for Integrated Sciences Faculty Affiliate. She has published over 180 papers and chapters and 16 books and received multiple lifetime achievement awards. Her newest book is Catalyzing Transformation: How to Make System Change Happen (Business Expert Press, 2023. Other books include Intellectual Shamans (Cambridge, 2014) and Transforming towards Life-Centered Economics (Business Expert Press, 2020)  Current research interests include transformational system change, memes and narrative, flourishing life, intellectual shamanism, management education, and wisdom, among others.