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 2025, seven members were selected to be honored with induction.

View the biographies of the 2025 inductees below. 

More information about the AOM Fellows is available here.

Paul Beamish

Paul Beamish is Professor of International Business at the Ivey Business School, Western University. He is a past Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Business Studies, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a past Dean of the Fellows of the Academy of International Business.

In 1994, Paul established a major stream of research at Ivey about Japanese Foreign Direct Investment using Toyo Keizai data. This has resulted in nearly 200 publications and served as the primary source for over 30 PhD dissertations. Relatedly, Ivey has long been the leading centre for research on international joint ventures. Its PhD program graduates have authored over 200 publications. Paul has been the largest contributor.

In 2010, Paul established the 39 Country Initiative. It allows the 2000+ universities in the world’s 46 poorest countries to use Ivey cases at no cost and provides 30 face-to-face teaching workshops annually in eligible countries.

The genesis of some of Paul’s scholarly contributions has been the writing of teaching cases. He has authored 170 published cases in the international strategy area. Many have won awards and have been translated into other languages. 4.5 million copies have been studied. 

Deanne N. Den Hartog

Deanne N. Den Hartog is Full professor of Organizational Behavior at the University of Amsterdam Business School (ABS). She also is the director of the Research Institute and heads the Leadership and Management section at ABS. Deanne is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities.

Her research and publications focus on Leadership, Organizational Behavior, HRM, and culture. Results of her research have been published in high quality academic journals including the Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and The Leadership Quarterly. Deanne served on the editorial committee for Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior and was Associate ditor of among others Applied Psychology: An International Review and member of many editorial boards.

She previously served as elected Representative-at-Large of the Board of Governors for the Academy of Management and of the Academy of Management’s OB Division and is now on the Executive Committee for AOM. Among other roles, she also served on the Board of Directors of the International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP), was member of the Board of Governors or the GLOBE foundation, served on the Societal Impact taskforce for European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology, and she served on program and advisory committees for large international conferences.

Adam Grant

Adam Grant is an Organizational Psychologist at Wharton, where he studies work motivation, prosocial and proactive behaviors, leadership, and job design and interpersonal relationships. He has published extensively in top management and applied psychology journals and received scientific contribution awards from AOM, APA, NSF, and SIOP.

As a passionate science communicator, Adam is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of six books that have sold millions of copies, including Think Again, Hidden Potential, and Give and Take. His TED talks have over 35 million views, and his podcasts WorkLife and Re:Thinking have more than 90 million downloads. Adam has been recognized as Wharton’s top-rated professor for seven straight years and one of Fortune’s 40 under 40; he served on the US Department of Defense Innovation Board and wrote the most-read New York Times article of 2021. He received his BA from Harvard and his PhD from the University of Michigan, and he is a former Junior Olympic springboard diver. 

Martin Kilduff

Martin Kilduff is Professor of Organizational Behavior, Director of Research, and Head of the Organizations and Innovation group at the UCL School of Management in London, UK. His research focuses on interpersonal social networks in organizations. He also has research and teaching interests in organization theory and the philosophy of science.

Martin has written three co-authored books on social networks. He publishes widely in leading management and social psychology journals including Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Administrative Science Quarterly, and Journal of Applied Psychology. He helped pioneer the micro-foundations movement in social network research in terms of the personality and cognitive underpinnings of social network interactions.

Martin was Editor in Chief of the Academy of Management Review and Associate Editor of Administrative Science Quarterly. He served as chair of the Organization and Management Theory Division of the Academy of Management. Martin has served on the faculties of INSEAD, Penn State, University of Texas at Austin, and Cambridge University. He earned a PhD in organizational behavior from Cornell University. 

Maria L. Kraimer

Maria L. Kraimer is the Donald S. Carmichael Professor in Organizational Behavior and is the Chair of the Department of Organization and Human Resources at the University at Buffalo, School of Management. She is a leading scholar for research on global work experiences, including expatriation and repatriation, and predictors of career success. Her research has been recognized with nearly a dozen “best paper” awards and she received the 2010 Cummings Scholarly Achievement Award for early-to mid-career accomplishments from the Organizational Behavior Division.

Maria has been actively involved in the Academy of Management, serving in the officer track of the Human Resources Division from 2013-2018. She was a past Associate Editor and past Editor-in-Chief (2017-2019) for Personnel Psychology and is currently the Founding Editor for Journal of Management Scientific Reports. She received her PhD in Human Resource Management from the University of Illinois at Chicago. 

Ronald Mitchell

Ron Mitchell is Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University. Ron has made substantial contributions to the fields of management and entrepreneurship, particularly through his groundbreaking work in stakeholder theory and entrepreneurial cognition research. This research has significantly shaped these disciplines, influencing scholars and practitioners alike. He has approached his academic career from a perspective which suggests that through the study of entrepreneurship and stakeholder relationships, value that is inherent but untapped in human relationships can be identified, problems and possibilities in opportunity emergence can be better understood, and captive value can be liberated to create economic and social well-being. His publications appear in many of the top management and entrepreneurship journals.

Beyond his research, Ron has contributed to the Academy as Entrepreneurship Division Chair, as a member of the AOM Strategic Planning Committee (2008-2010), and also as an architect of key initiatives that foster engagement and recognize research excellence. Notably, with Rich Dino (U. Conn.), he played a vital role in initiatives such as the Entrepreneurship Research Excellence Initiative Exemplars Conferences, and the IDEA Awards, which have highlighted outstanding research and innovation in scholarship. 

Richard Whittington

Richard Whittington is Professor of Strategic Management at the Saïd Business School and Millman Fellow at New College, University of Oxford. Richard is a leader in the field of Strategy-as-Practice research, having published the first paper in the field (1996). Richard is author or co-author of twelve books, including two influential textbooks on strategy: Exploring Strategy, ranked by the Financial Times Teaching Power index as the top strategy textbook worldwide, and What is Strategy – and Does it Matter?, past winner of the Management Consulting Association prize for the best management book of the year.

He has published in leading journals such as the Administrative Science Quarterly, the Journal of Management Studies, Organization Science, Organization Studies and the Strategic Management Journal. He has over 56,000 Google Scholar citations. Richard has served as an Associate Editor of the Strategic Management Journal, a Senior Editor of Organization Studies and a Deputy Editor of the British Journal of Management.

Richard is currently standing Guest Associate Editor at the Strategic Management Journal. In 2024, Richard became President-Elect of the Strategic Management Society. He has previously served as Chair of the Strategy as Practice interest group and on the Executive Committee of the Strategy Division at the Academy of Management. He has a PhD from the University of Manchester, an MBA from the University of Aston and an MA in Modern History from Magdalen College, University of Oxford. He also has an honorary doctorate from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.