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Academy of Management Board of Governors

The Board of Governors, the primary governing body of the Academy of Management has legal and fiduciary accountability for the association and primary responsibility for direction setting and policy development. The board is comprised of 15 individuals, including the president, president-elect, vice president and program chair, vice president-elect and program chair-elect, past president, and nine elected representatives-at-large. The executive director and secretary-treasurer is an ex officio member of the board.

Current Board of Governors

President: Tammy L. Madsen
President-Elect and Coordinator of Professional Divisions: Christopher L. Tucci
Vice President and Program Chair: Deanne N. den Hartog
Vice President-Elect and Program Chair-Elect: Javier Gimeno
Past President: Peter Bamberger

Representatives-at-Large
  • Janet E. L. Bercovitz
  • Russell Coff
  • Peer Fiss
  • Ann Scheck McAlearney
  • dt Ogilvie
  • Abbie J. Shipp
  • Fernando Suarez
  • Laszlo Tihanyi
  • Heli Wang
  • Ian O. Williamson

Incoming Board Members

The Academy extends a warm welcome to the incoming Board of Governors members:

  • Javier Gimeno, Purdue University
  • Janet Bercovitz, University of California, Berkeley
  • Ann Scheck McAlearney, Harvard University
  • dt Ogilvie, The University of Texas at Austin
  • Fernando Suárez, MIT Sloan School of Management

Board of Governors Meetings

AOM's Board of Governors meets three times annually, in December, April, and August, just prior to the Annual Meeting. Highlights of recent meetings are available to members, upon request.


Biographies

Notes on the members of the current AOM Board of Governors

Tammy

Tammy L. Madsen, President

Professor and W. M. Keck Foundation Chair, Strategy and Innovation | Santa Clara University

Tammy L. Madsen (Ph.D., UCLA) is the W. M. Keck Foundation Chair of Strategic Management and Innovation of the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, where she also has served as Associate Dean. Before joining SCU, she was an Assistant Professor faculty at Southern Methodist University. Tammy has been actively engaged with the Academy of Management (AOM) for the last 30 years as: Representative-at-Large, Board of Governors (BOG) of the AOM, Chair of the AOM’s Division and Interest Group Relations Committee (AOM), Chair of the AOM’s Task Force – Reimagining the DIG 5-year Review Process, Chair of the AOM’s Strategic Management (STR) Division (5-year leadership role: PDW Chair, Program Chair, Division Chair-Elect, Division Chair, and Outgoing Division Chair), Member of the AOM’s Strategy task force and Strategy committee, Co-Chair of the STR Doctoral Consortium, Judge – STR Emerging Scholar Award, and member of the STR Executive Committee and Research Committee. Tammy’s other leadership roles include Director of the Strategy Research Foundation’s Dissertation Research Grant Program (Strategic Management Society (SMS)), Associate Editor and Special Issue Co-Editor of the Strategic Management Review, Co-Editor of Special Issues for the Strategic Management Journal and Journal of Management Studies, and Executive Committee of College on Organization Science (5 year leadership role, including Organizer of the OS Dissertation Proposal Competition).

Tammy’s research and teaching is at the intersection of strategy, innovation and evolutionary dynamics – specific themes include competitive heterogeneity and temporary advantage, shocks and growth under uncertainty, and co-innovation. Her work has received various awards from the AOM’s Strategic Management Division (Glueck Best Paper Award; Distinguished Paper Awards) and early in her career, she was recognized as an Ascendant Scholar by the Western Academy of Management. Tammy also has received a Best Reviewer Award from Academy of Management Discoveries. At SCU, her teaching, research and service have been recognized with Extraordinary Faculty Awards as well as the University President’s Special Recognition Award.

Tammy began her professional career as a test and evaluation engineer for the wea

Christopher

Christopher L. Tucci, President-Elect & Coordinator of Professional Divisions

Professor | Imperial College London

Christopher L. Tucci is Professor of Digital Strategy & Innovation at Imperial College Business School, where he directs the Centre for Digital Transformation and is co-Director of I-X, a new campus concept for Imperial College London on AI, data, and digital topics.  Professor Tucci held the Chair in Corporate Strategy and Innovation from 2003-2020 at EPFL and was Dean of the College of Management there from 2013-2018. In 2018, he was Visiting Thought Leader at CEIBS in Shanghai, China.  He received the degrees of Ph.D. in Management from the Sloan School of Management, MIT; SM (Technology & Policy) from MIT; and BS (Mathematical Sciences), AB (Music), and MS (Computer Science) from Stanford University. He was an industrial computer scientist involved in developing Internet protocols and applying artificial intelligence tools in the 1980s. Professor Tucci teaches courses in Co-Creation in AI, Deep Tech Acceleration, Design Thinking, Digital Strategy, AI Ventures, and Innovation Management. His primary area of interest is in how organizations of all kinds make transitions to new business models, technologies, and organizational forms. He also studies crowdsourcing and digital innovations.  He has published articles in, among others, Academy of Management Review (AMR), SMJ, Management Science, Research Policy, Communications of the ACM, SEJ, Academy of Management Annals, and JPIM.  His article with Allan Afuah, “Crowdsourcing as solution to distant search,” won the Best Paper of 2012, Best Practice Implications Award of 2019, and the Decade Award of 2022 for AMR.  He has served in leadership positions in the Academy of Management and the Strategic Management Society. Full CV is available here.

Deanne

Deanne N. Den Hartog, Vice President & Program Chair

University of Amsterdam

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 the Amsterdam Business School. She holds a PhD from VU university in Amsterdam. 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, e.g., cross-cultural, (un)ethical and charismatic leadership, and Organizational Behavior (OB), e.g., individuals’ proactive, innovative, and cooperative behavior at work. She also studies HRM, (the dark side of) personality, culture, trust, proactivity, well-being, and teams. 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 editor of among others Applied Psychology: An International Review and member of many editorial boards.

Deanne 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 Executive Committee. Among other roles, she also served on the Board of Directors of the International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP), she was member of the Board of Governors or the GLOBE foundation and, she also 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. She also served on boards of Dutch associations such as the Dutch HRM network and the board of the Netherlands foundation for Management Development.

Javier

Javier Gimeno, Vice President-Elect & Program Chair-Elect

Full Professor | INSEAD

Javier Gimeno is Professor of Strategy and the Aon Dirk Verbeek Chair in International Risk and Strategic Management at INSEAD's Europe campus in France.. A Spanish national and a cosmopolitan, he earned a Licentiate degree from the University of Zaragoza (Spain) and a PhD in strategic management from Purdue University. He has been a faculty member at Texas A&M and at INSEAD since 2001, where he teaches strategy in degree and executive programs. He has also been a visiting scholar at Wharton, HBS, and CEIBS.

Javier’s research focuses on competitive strategy, competitive dynamics, and entrepreneurship, and has been published in management journals such as AMJ, ASQ, OS and SMJ. His research won the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the AOM’s Strategy division, the IDEA Foundational Paper Award from the Entrepreneurship division, and the Blackrock/NACD Best Paper Award, among other research awards. He is a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society and has served as Senior Editor of Organization Science and Strategy Science.

Javier has a long track record of school and professional service. At INSEAD, he has served as Dean of Faculty, Academic Director of the PhD program, Dean of the Executive MBA, Area Chair, and other roles. At the Academy of Management, Javier served as program and division chair at STR in the early 2000s, as a member of the AOM Board of Governors in the late 2000s, and has been on multiple award committees. At the Strategic Management Society, he chaired the SMS annual conference, was a member of the SMS Board of Directors during the 2010s, most recently serving as President of the Society.

Peter

Peter Bamberger, Past President

Professor | Tel Aviv University

Peter A. Bamberger (PhD Cornell University) is the Domberger Professor of Management at the Coller School of Management, Tel Aviv University and Research Director of Cornell University's Smithers institute. His research examines compensation strategy, interpersonal behavior in teams, and employee wellbeing. Author of several books including Human Resource Strategy (Sage, 2000; Routledge, 2014), Mutual Aid and Union Renewal (Cornell Univ. Press, 2001), and Exposing Pay: How Pay Transparency and Disclosure Impacts Employees, Employers and the Societies in Which We Live (Oxford Univ. Press, forthcoming), Bamberger has published over 120 refereed journal articles.

An elected fellow of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology and the Academy of Management, he served as an associate editor of the Academy of Management Journal (2007-2010) and founding associate editor and then editor-in-chief of Academy of Management Discoveries (2012-2020). He currently serves as an officer of the Academy of Management's Board of Governors.

Janet

Janet E.L. Bercovitz, Representative-at-Large

Professor | University of Colorado-Boulder

Janet Bercovitz joined the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder in Fall 2017 as Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship and was named the Deming Professor of Entrepreneurship in 2019. She previously taught at the Geis College of Business at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. Professor Bercovitz’s research program consists of two main research streams. The first concentrates on extending understanding of academic entrepreneurship, university-industry technology transfer and technology commercialization. The second stream focuses on issues of organizational structure and inter-organizational contractual relationships. Her research has been published in major journals such as Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Management Science, Strategy Science, and Research Policy.

Professor Bercovitz served on the 5-year leadership team for the TIM (Technology and Innovation Management) Division of the Academy of Management completing her term in August 2023. She has also served on the SMS Cooperative Strategies Interest Group and as Treasurer for the Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics (SIOE). She currently serves on the editorial review boards of Strategic Management Journal, Strategy Science and Research Policy and has previously served terms on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Review and Organization Science.

Janet holds a B.S. degree in chemistry, an MBA, and a Ph.D. in Business and Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley.

Russell

Russell Coff, Representative-at-Large

Professor | University of Wisconsin-Madison

Russell Coff is the Thomas J. Falk Distinguished Chair in Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has over 25 refereed journal articles and more than 11,000 citations. His research explores the role of human capital in innovation, creativity, and ultimately, in competitive advantage. Coff’s work spans micro and macro topics ranging from workers’ perceptions of their knowledge and skills to the structure of M&A deals where people are the target’s most valuable resource. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA and has previously been a faculty member at Emory and Washington Universities.

Professor Coff has also served the scholarly community in a variety of leadership roles. He is currently a Senior Editor at Strategy Science and has served on multiple editorial boards including the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, and Strategic Organization (where he was also a Co-Editor).

Coff has been very active in the leadership of professional associations. At the Academy of Management, he chaired the Business Policy and Strategy Division (now STR) and was a member of the AoM Division and Interest Group Review committee (DIGR). He is a Past President of the Strategic Management Society and the founding chair of the Strategic Human Capital Interest Group.

At his home institution, Professor Coff currently chairs the Management and Human Resources Department and is Director of the Bolz Center for Arts Administration. Previously he was Acting Dean, Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research, and Director of the INSITE Entrepreneurship center.

Peer

Peer Fiss, Representative-at-Large

University of Southern California

Peer C. Fiss is the Jill and Frank Fertitta Chair and Professor of Management & Organization and Sociology (by courtesy) at the University of Southern California. His research interests lie primarily in the areas of organization theory, strategy, and methodology, but he has also published in sociology, political science, and information systems. His early work focused the diffusion and adaptation of organizational innovations and how accounts that “frame” and justify such innovations are constructed. More recently, his research has examined how social categorization, including categorization based on race and gender, affects and shapes markets and life outcomes. Peer has also been working for almost two decades on the use of set-analytic methods in the social sciences, and specifically on the use of set-fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). His work has been published in book form and in journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, American Sociological Review, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, MIS Quarterly, Organization Science, Organization Studies, Strategic Organization, and the Strategic Management Journal, among others. Peer is a former chair of the OMT Division and has served as Associate Editor for the Academy of Management Review and as Senior Editor for Organization Science. At USC he has received multiple teaching and mentoring awards, including the 2020 Marshall PhD Mentoring award. Peer received his PhD jointly in Management & Organization and Sociology from Northwestern University in 2003.

Ann

Ann Scheck McAlearney, Representative-at-Large

Distinguished Professor | The Ohio State University

Ann Scheck McAlearney, ScD, MS, is Associate Dean for Health Services Research, Distinguished Professor of Family and Community Medicine, and Executive Director of CATALYST, the Center for the Advancement of Team Science, Analytics, and Systems Thinking in Health Services and Implementation Science Research in the College of Medicine (COM) at The Ohio State University (OSU).. She has over 30 years of health services research experience during which she has been actively involved in both performing research and disseminating research results to academic and practitioner audiences. Dr. McAlearney is internationally known for her expertise in both qualitative and mixed methods analyses, and has been continuously funded for over 25 years. She has authored more than 400 peer-reviewed publications, 11 books/edited books and over 100 book chapters.

Her ongoing research focuses on information technology innovations in health care, leadership and organizational development, healthcare delivery improvement, and management and implementation science. Dr. McAlearney strongly believes that developing others is a primary goal of her role as a senior faculty member and has recruited and trained more than 20 postdoctoral fellows as well as over 50 junior faculty in health services and management science research. The vast majority of these fellows have gone on to successful careers in academic positions, while the faculty have consistently developed and advanced their teaching and independent research programs as well as obtained extramural funding for their work.

Dr. McAlearney received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Stanford University and Harvard University’s School of Public Health.

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dt ogilvie, Representative-at-Large

Professor | Rochester Institute of Technology

dt ogilvie (Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin) is a Research Fellow at the Center for Black Entrepreneurship at Morehouse College. She is Dean Emeritus and Professor Emerita at Saunders College of Business, Rochester Institute of Technology, and former Distinguished Professor of Urban Entrepreneurship & Economic Development. Prior to RIT, she was Professor of Business Strategy & Urban Entrepreneurship at Rutgers Business School and Associate Provost and CIO of Rutgers-Newark. She is a Fellow of the Center for Urban Entrepreneurship & Economic Development at Rutgers, an IC2 Fellow at The University of Texas at Austin, and a Thought Leader Advisor at the Lender Center for Social Justice at Syracuse University.

ogilvie has published in the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations, Cities, Leadership Quarterly, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, Journal of Business Research, and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, among other journals. She received research awards for both her published and conference papers. She co-authored the book, Creativities: The What, How, Where, Who and Why of the Creative Process.

ogilvie has reviewed for STR, DEI, TIMS, MOC, ENT, AFAM, and OB, served on AOM’s Blue Ribbon Panel on Leadership in Management Education for the 21st Century, served two non-consecutive terms on the Executive Board of GDO, served on several AOM committees: Initiative for the Advancement of Civic Engagement and Community-based Learning, People of Color, OBNews Redesign, and International Programs. She was President of the AOM Council and President of the Eastern Academy of Management.

Abbie

Abbie J. Shipp, Representative-at-Large

Texas Christian University

Dr. Abbie J. Shipp is Professor of Management and Chair of the Management and Leadership department in the Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University (faculty page). Prior to joining TCU, she taught at Texas A&M University, as well as the University of North Carolina where she received her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior. Abbie’s research focuses on the psychological aspects of temporal issues at work including how individuals think about the past/present/future, trajectories of work experiences over time, how individuals react to change, and how time is spent on work tasks. Her work appears in premier outlets such as Academy of Management Review, Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, Human Relations, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Personnel Psychology. Abbie has co-edited a special issue on “Time Perspective and Organizational Behavior” at Journal of Organizational Behavior, and a two-volume book entitled, Time and Work. In addition to previous work experience at The Boeing Company and TV Guide, she regularly consults and teaches executive education workshops on issues surrounding employee satisfaction and retention, person-environment fit, survey design, and organizational change.

Fernando

Fernando Suarez, Representative-at-Large

Northeastern University

Fernando F. Suarez is the Jean C. Tempel Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University, and the former Chair of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Department (2016-2023). .Prior to this, founded the Strategy and Innovation Department at Boston University and served as its Chair from 2008 to 2013. He has also held faculty positions at the London Business School (UK), MIT Sloan School (USA), Hitotsubashi University (Japan), SKEMA Business School (France), Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez and ESE Business School (Chile). Prof. Suarez holds a Ph.D. from the MIT Sloan School of Management, a Master's in Regional Planning from MIT, and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Chile.

His widely cited research (10,000+ Google Scholar citations) spans the areas of innovation and technology strategy, entry timing strategies, standards & dominant designs, industry evolution, categorical dynamics, platform competition, entrepreneurship, and the role of services in product firms. His publications have appeared in journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Research Policy, Journal of Management, and others, as well as in top practitioner-oriented publications such as Harvard Business Review. He serves in the Editorial Boards of Academy of Management Review and Organization Science. Prof. Suarez’ teaches at the master’s and doctoral levels on topics directly related to his research and business experience. He regularly conducts executive education programs for C-suite executives of major corporations. Prof. Suarez has also been active in both institutional and private entrepreneurial activities.

Laszlo

Laszlo Tihanyi, Representative-at-Large

William Alexander Kirkland Professor | Rice University

Laszlo Tihanyi is the William Alexander Kirkland Professor of Strategic Management in the Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University, where he serves as the Coordinator and Ph.D. Advisor of the Strategy and Environment Area. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University. Prior to joining Rice, he was the Roberts Chair in Business at Texas A&M University. He held visiting positions at Duke University, Indiana University, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, the University of Groningen, and the University of Melbourne.

Laszlo’s current research explores the involvement of institutional investors in foreign direct investment, the institutional environment of internationalization decisions, and the effects of social movements on multinational firms. His papers have been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, and others.

Laszlo has been active in the International Management, Organization and Management Theory, and Strategic Management Divisions. He served as Associate Editor (2014-2016) and Editor (2020-2022) of the Academy of Management Journal. Following his AMJ editorial service, he joined the Content Portfolio Committee of the AOM Board of Governors, as Editor Liaison.

In addition to his involvement with the AOM divisions and AMJ, Laszlo has volunteered to serve the field in different roles. He was Associate Editor of the Journal of Management Studies (2008-2010) and Co-Editor of the Advances of International Management series (2009-2017). In the Strategic Management Society, he is currently Co-Director of the SMS Annual Conference Best Paper Prize competition. Previously, he served as Co-Director of the Annual Conference Ph.D. Paper Prize competition and Chair of the Corporate Strategy Interest Group.

Heli

Heli Wang, Representative-at-Large

Singapore Management University

Heli Wang is the Janice Bellace Professor of Strategic Management and Dean of College of Graduate Research Studies at Singapore Management University. She received a Ph.D. in Strategic Management from the Ohio State University. Prior to joining SMU in 2012, she was an assistant and then associate professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Her research, which focuses on the resource-based view of the firm, strategic human capital, stakeholder management, technology management, and corporate social responsibility and sustainability, has been published in various management journals including Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Journal of Management, and Journal of Business Ethics. She has served as a consulting editor for Management Organization Review and as an associate editor for both the Academy of Management Journal and the Academy of Management Review.

Ian

Ian O. Williamson, Representative-at-Large

Dean | University of California Irvine

Ian O. Williamson is the Dean of the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine. He is the past Pro-Vice Chancellor and the Dean of the Wellington School of Business and Government at Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand). Professor Williamson has also served on the faculties of the Melbourne Business School (Australia), Rutgers Business School (USA), the Zurich Institute of Business Education (Switzerland), the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland (USA) and Institut Teknologi Bandung (Indonesia). He received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA).

Williamson is a past recipient of the Management Education and Development Division’s best paper award for his research on high performing teams and the Human Resources Division’s best paper award for his research on the effect of employee mobility on firm performance.  He is a recipient of the AOM Best Practices Mentoring Award for his role as the founding President of the Management Faculty of Color Association (MFCA).  Williamson received the Human Resources Division’s Ralph Alexander Best Dissertation Award for his research examining the top management team selection decisions. He has served on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Learning & Education (AMLE), Academy of Management Journal (AMJ) and Academy of Management Review (AMR). He has served on the Board of Directors of the AACSB. Williamson was inducted into the Ph.D. Project Hall of Fame for his efforts to enhance diversity in higher education.

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