Academy of Management Discoveries

Susan K. Cohen is Associate Professor of Organizations and Entrepreneurship at the Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh. Her research addresses the question: How do firms successfully innovate? She has investigated organizational antecedents to innovation performance, including the structure of knowledge and capability, social network position, CEO occupational experience, alliance formation, and ecosystem strategy. Susan’s research builds on resource- and knowledge-based theories of the firm, social network theory, design science and technology frames, and the theory of complex contagion, and contributes to the knowledge base on innovation and commercialization strategies. Her current interests include the roles of firm-specific language in transforming life science business models and how the structure of regional entrepreneurial ecosystems affects new venture strategies to access resources. Her research has appeared in Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Research Policy, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, and Technological Forecasting and Social Change. Susan is an Associate Editor at Academy of Management Discoveries and TIM Division Program Chair–Elect.

Shiko M. Ben-Menahem is Associate Professor of Technology and Innovation Management at the Organization Theory group of the Management & Organization Department, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam, and an affiliate member of the Chair of Strategic Management and Innovation, ETH Zurich. He received his PhD from Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, and his Habilitation from ETH Zurich. His research and teaching interests focus on the interface of digital technology, organizational design, innovation processes, and strategy in the areas of healthcare, medical devices, and life sciences. His work has appeared in academic and practitioner-oriented journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Nature Biomedical Engineering, Academy of Management Discoveries, Research Policy, MIT Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, BMJ Open, and Long Range Planning. Prior to joining AMD, Shiko served as a Special Issue Editor for Research Policy and as an Associate Editor for European Management Journal. He cochaired the AOM Specialized conference in Tel Aviv, Israel. His recognitions include the 2021 AOM Award for Responsible Research in Management, AMD Best Reviewer Award, and teaching awards. Next to his academic activities, Shiko heads a technology Think Tank for a Swiss investment and research firm.

Brianna Barker Caza received her Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan and is now an Associate Professor at the Bryan School of Business and Economics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her research program broadly seeks to understand the resources and processes that produce resilience in turbulent and dynamic work contexts. She is interested in the identity and interpersonal dynamics that allow professionals to thrive amidst unexpected events and pervasive stressors. Her research has been published in many top tier outlets, including Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Discoveries, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. She has received outstanding reviewer awards at Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Academy of Management Discoveries.

Erika Hall is an Associate Professor of Organization & Management at Goizueta Business School at Emory University. Hall earned a PhD in Management & Organizations from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Professor Hall's work has appeared in academic journals, such as Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Psychological Science, Perspectives on Psychological Science, and American Psychologist. As a trained social psychologist, her research explores the powerful impact of stereotypes and the hidden content within them. For example, her MOSAIC theoretical paradigm investigated intersectional stereotyping and earned her the 2020 Academy of Management Review Best Article Award. She also served as Representative-at-Large for the GDO Division of Academy of Management (now DEI). Erika enjoys running, traveling, and spending time with her husband and two kids.

Candace Jones is a Full Professor and the Chair of Global Creative Enterprise at the University of Edinburgh Business School. Her research uses the lenses of institutional theory, materiality, vocabularies and social networks to study creative contexts. Her research focuses empirically on film, architecture, festivals, and music to reveal their social, structural, and category dynamics that are embedded within and shaped by their histories. She was awarded best reviewer award for Academy of Management Review in 2016 and 2018. She coedited the Oxford Handbook of Creative Industries (2015). She has published in top journals, including Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Organization Science, and Organization Studies. She is a member of two £6 million research teams funded by the A.H.R.C.: Policy and Evidence Center for Creative Industries and Creative Informatics. She was Representative at Large from 2009-2011 and Chair of Organization and Management Theory division of the Academy of Management from 2012-2016. She works with Historic Environment Scotland, Edinburgh International Festival and Festivals Edinburgh, and developed the Interdisciplinary Edinburgh Futures Institute MSc on creative industries.

Zhike Lei is a Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior at the IMD Business School in Switzerland. Her research is interdisciplinary and addresses how organizations, teams, and employees cope with errors, failures, and crisis and learn from them. She is also interested in psychological safety, team adaptation, and the nature of system dynamics in management research. Her work has been published in a variety of outlets, including Academy of Management Annals, Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Health Affairs, Academic Medicine, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Academy of Management Discoveries, and Harvard Business Review. Her research on team adaptation and team reflexivity, in collaboration with hospital surgical teams, aviation pilots, and manufacturing engineers, has been recognized by the Best Paper Awards from various academic journals. Zhike has also won prestigious awards and grants to study patient safety, error management, and team processes, including those from the European Commission’s Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Peter Curtius Foundation, and the Juran Center for Leadership in Quality. She has served on the editorial review boards for Academy of Management Review and Academy of Management Discoveries and was a Guest Editor of the AMD special issue on errors in organizations.

Christopher G. Myers is an Associate Professor of Management & Organization and the founding Faculty Director of the Center for Innovative Leadership at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. He also holds a Joint Appointment in Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. His research and teaching focus on individual learning, leadership development, and innovation, with particular attention to how people learn vicariously and share knowledge in health care organizations and other knowledge-intensive work environments. His research has been published in leading management journals, including Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Discoveries, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, as well as in premier medical journals. Chris has served as an elected representative-at-large for the Managerial and Organizational Cognition division of the Academy of Management, and on the editorial boards of several leading journals, including Academy of Management Discoveries. Prior to joining the faculty at Johns Hopkins University, Chris served on the faculty of the Harvard Business School and received his PhD in management and organizations from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business.

Dusya Vera (Ph.D. in Strategy, Ivey Business School, Western University, Canada) is a Professor of Strategy at the Ivey Business School and the Executive Director of the Ian O. Ihnatowycz Institute for Leadership, which elevates the importance of character alongside competence in the practice of leadership.

Dusya's research is in the areas of strategic leadership, leader character, improvisation, and organizational learning. Her work has been published in a variety of outlets, including Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Annals, Organization Science, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Leadership Quarterly, Organization Studies, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Management Learning, Organizational Dynamics, and Business Horizons, among others. She has served as an Associate Editor of the Leadership Quarterly. She is currently an editorial board member of the Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, Journal of Business Research, and Management Learning. She has served on the Editorial Board of journals, such as Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Leadership Quarterly, Management Learning, and IEEE Transactions of Engineering Management. Prior to joining the Ivey Business School in 2022, she was on the faculty of the C.T. Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston in the Department of Management & Leadership for 20 years, where she received multiple awards for research, teaching, and service.

Mike has been AMJ's Managing Editor since 2007. He has also served as Managing Editor for Academy of Management Learning & Education (AMLE) since joining the Academy of Management staff. Mike attended the University of Northern Colorado as a Journalism major before receiving his BA in Communications from Pace University. His professional background has been in the publishing industry, most recently as Senior Editor at Scholastic in the science reference division. Other experience includes editing, writing, and book production for M.E. Sharpe, Inc., Elsevier Science, Oceana Publications, and the American Water Works Association in Denver, CO.

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.

Paul Ingram is the Kravis Professor Business at the Columbia Business School, and Faculty Director of the Columbia Advanced Management Program, Columbia's flagship residential program for senior executives from around the globe. His PhD is from Cornell University, and he was on the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University before coming to Columbia. He has held visiting professorships at Tel Aviv University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the University of Toronto. The courses he teaches on management and strategy benefit from his research on organizations in the United States, Canada, Israel, Scotland, China, Korea and Australia. His research has been published in more than sixty articles, book chapters and books. Ingram's current research examines the intersection between culture and social networks. Recent papers investigate questions such as the role of value similarity to foster business networks, determinants and outcomes of individuals' fit in organizational cultures, and influences on ethical decision making. He has served as President of the College of Organization Science of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS). He is currently an Associate Editor for Academy of Management Discoveries, and has served as a consulting editor for the American Journal of Sociology, a senior editor for Organization Science, an Associate Editor for Management Science and on the editorial boards of Administrative Science Quarterly and Strategic Organization. Paul's undergraduate degree is from Brock University where received the Governor General's Award as the top graduating student. In 2004 he received the Distinguished Graduate Award from Brock's Faculty of Business. At the Columbia Business School, Paul has received the Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence, won the Commitment to Excellence Award, voted by graduating EMBA students four times, and thrice been chosen by graduating EMBA students to deliver the keynote speech at their commencement ceremony. He has consulted on issues of organizational design and strategy to leading companies in the finance, health care, insurance, energy, and consumer products industries. Paul was born in Canada to immigrant parents. He is an alumnus of the proletariat, and the first in his family to attend college.

Andrew Knight is Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis. He studies the interpersonal dynamics of groups and teams, with a focus on emotions and relationships, and is especially interested in the contexts of healthcare, entrepreneurship, and the military. In the classroom, Knight currently offers courses on leadership, teams, and people analytics for MBA and executive audiences and on organizational research methods for doctoral students. Prior to joining the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis, Knight led research and product development at Pascal Metrics Inc.—a Washington, D.C.–based risk analytics provider in the healthcare industry—from its founding through 2010. He received his B.A. (summa cum laude) in Psychology and Spanish from the University of Dayton; an M.A. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Maryland; and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Managerial Science and Applied Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Jennifer S. Mueller is an Associate Professor of Management at the University of San Diego. She has her PhD in Social and Developmental Psychology from Brandeis University and studies creativity, leadership and teams. Her work reveals the implicit beliefs (e.g., stereotypes, cultural narratives, and lay scripts) that harm effective collaboration, assessments of leadership potential, and the recognition of creative ideas. Jennifer has published many articles in top journals including: Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Discoveries, Management Science, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology and Psychological Science. She is currently on the editorial boards of Organization Science, Journal of Applied Psychology as well as Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. Jennifer's work has been featured in many major media outlets including WSJ, New York Magazine, NPR, CNN, HBR, the Atlantic, Fortune, Forbes, and Fast Company. She recently published a book Creative Change: Why We Resist It…How We Can Embrace It, which was selected as one of Forbes Top 17 Creative Leadership Book Picks for 2017. She previously served on the faculty of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. A native Californian, Jennifer enjoys living near family, daily walks on the beach, mountain-biking, and fussing over her dachshund Sammy.

Sandra Robinson (PhD Northwestern) is a Professor and Distinguished University Scholar in the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia, where she has served as chair of the tenure and promotion committee and is the upcoming Director of the PhD Program.

Sandra is known for her research on the 'darkside' of organization behavior, and has had a keen interest in introducing and developing new focal areas of study under this umbrella. Her work has been some of the earliest in the areas of psychological contract breach and trust betrayal, workplace deviance, territorial behavior and workplace ostracism. She has published in a wide range of well regarded journals, such as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly and Journal of Applied Psychology, and her work has been covered in numerous popular press outlets, such as the Wall Street Journal, The Economist and CNN.

Sandra has earned numerous awards for her research record, such as the Ascendant Scholar of the Western Academy of Management, the JMI Distinguished Scholar, and the Cummings Award from the OB Division of the AoM. She has also earned awards for reviewing, such as from Academy of Management Journal and Academy of Management Discoveries, along with various awards for service. On service, Sandra has held a number of elected professional roles, including Rep-at-Large for the Western Academy, Rep-at-large for the OB Division,of AoM, in addition to serving five years on the Chair Track of the OB Division of AOM, starting with the role of Program Chair and ending with the role of Division Chair.

When not working, Sandra enjoys traveling, most outdoor activities (even in the Vancouver rain), and spending time with her family (husband Ron, daughter Lexi, and her three standard poodles named Wally, Stanley, and Fred).

Dr. Kevin Rockmann is a Professor of Management and Dean's Scholar at the George Mason University School of Business (faculty page). His primary research area is psychological attachment and relationship formation and as such he is particularly interested in theories of identity, social exchange, and attachment. He particularly enjoys studying distributed, on-demand, and other non-traditional work contexts. His research has appeared in Academy of Management Discoveries, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Annals, Organization Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and other outlets. His research has also been covered by Time, The New York Times, NPR, Forbes, and the Chicago Tribune. He is the lead author of the newly published textbook Negotiation: Moving from Conflict to Agreement (Sage). He is a past chair of the Managerial and Organizational Cognition (MOC) Division of the AOM. In addition to biking he enjoys spending time exploring the world both near and far with his wife Alison and two daughters, Naomi and Blake.

Denise M. Rousseau is the H.J. Heinz II University Professor of Organizational Behavior and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon. She is Academic Board President, Center for Evidence-Based Management, and Co-Chair, Campbell Collaboration, Management and Business Coordinating Group (MBCG). Rousseau's research focuses upon the impact workers have on the employment relationship and the firms that employ them. Her publications include over a dozen books and over 230 articles and monographs in management and psychology journals. Rousseau is a two-time winner of the Academy of Management's Terry Award for best management book for I-Deals: Idiosyncratic Deals Workers Bargain for Themselves in 2006 and Psychological Contracts in Organizations: Understanding Written and Unwritten Agreement in 1995. She has served as President of the Academy of Management and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Organizational Behavior. Rousseau received her A.B., M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. Rousseau founded the Evidence-Based Management Collaborative, a network of scholars, consultants, and practicing managers to promote evidence-informed organizational practices and decision making. Her book Evidence-based Management: How to Use Evidence to Make Better Organizational Decisions with Eric Barends (Kogan Page) is also available for teachers and students in an on-line course at www.cmu.edu/oli.

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.

Mo Wang is a University Distinguished Professor and the Lanzillotti-McKethan Eminent Scholar Chair at the Warrington College of Business at University of Florida. His research focuses on retirement and older worker employment, occupational health psychology, expatriate and newcomer adjustment, leadership and team processes, and advanced quantitative methodologies. His work has been published in Academy of Management Journal, Annual Review of Psychology, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Organizational Research Methods, Personnel Psychology, Psychological Bulletin, and Psychological Methods, among others. Mo’s research and professional activities have been recognized with multiple awards from the Academy of Management and other professional organizations. Mo has served in various leadership roles within our professional community, including President of the Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology, President of the Society for Occupational Health Psychology, and the Program Director at the U.S. National Science Foundation. He is an elected Foreign Member of Academia Europaea (M.A.E) and a Fellow of AOM, APA, APS, and SIOP. He is also a member of the Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences (BBCSS) for National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. He was the Editor of The Oxford Handbook of Retirement and an Associate Editor for Journal of Applied Psychology (2010-2020). He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief for Work, Aging and Retirement and a Reviewing Editor of PNAS Nexus. Mo received his joint Ph.D. degree in Industrial-Organizational Psychology and Developmental Psychology from Bowling Green State University.

Gail Whiteman is Director of the Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business at Lancaster University, UK. Her research utilizes organisation theory on knowledge to analyse how a range of actors (companies, civil society, and local communities) make sense of ecological change, and how these actors transform and build resilience across scales given environmental pressures and social inequities. Her research has been published in the Academy of Management Discoveries, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review (forthcoming), Academy of Management Learning and Education, Climatic Change, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Studies, Journal of Cleaner Production, Ecology & Society, and Nature.

Gail is also the Professor-in-Residence at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and was actively involved in building science-based targets including those for a future low-carbon economy. She was a Research Fellow of the Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research (4CMR), a Steering Committee member of the Future Earth Forum in 2014, and is a member of the Resilience Alliance, an international research organisation of scientists and practitioners who collaborate to explore the dynamics of social-ecological systems.

She is also the founder and co-organizer of the Arctic Basecamp side-event at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting at Davos–an idea that originated in the North-West Passage of the Canadian Arctic, and included keynotes speakers such as Al Gore and Christiana Figueres. She has written numerous blogs including a series for the World Economic Forum on the global risks of Arctic change.

Pratima Bansal is the Canada Research Chair in Business Sustainability at the Ivey Business School at Western University. She founded and continues to direct Ivey's Centre for Building Sustainable Value and the Network for Business Sustainability (www.nbs.net). She is also leading Ivey’s Innovation Learning Lab. All of these efforts aim to strengthen research and its ties with practice. She researches the nexus of time, space and scale in business strategy, in order to advance sustainable development. For her contributions to the research and practice of sustainability, Dr. Bansal was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 2018 and named a ‘Distinguished Scholar’ by the Organizations and Natural Environment Division of the Academy of Management in 2017 and a ‘Faculty Pioneer’ by the Aspen Institute in 2008.

Bansal has published over 50 peer-reviewed academic journals in all of AOM's journals, including Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Discoveries, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Perspectives, and Academy of Management Learning & Education. She served as a Deputy Editor (2016-2019) and as an Associate Editor (2010-2013) for the Academy of Management Journal. She has also sat previously on nine editorial review boards. Her research has also been cited in the popular press including The Wall Street Journal, Globe and Mail, and The Independent. She spoke at the TEDx Western event in 2013. Professor Bansal teaches at all levels of the business program, including undergraduates, MBAs, PhDs, and executives.

Marlys Christianson (PhD in Management & Organizations, University of Michigan) is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto (faculty page). Her research interests include sensemaking, coordination of complex and interdependent work, resilient organizing, and error detection and correction. Her work has been published in a variety of outlets, including Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Perspectives, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Management Inquiry, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Organizational Research Methods, and Organization Science. She served as a Representative-at-Large for the Managerial and Organizational Cognition division of the Academy of Management. She has served as Associate Editor at AMD from 2018-2020, and on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Discoveries, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Management Inquiry, and Organization Science.

Matthew A. Cronin (PhD 2004, Carnegie Mellon University) is a Professor of Management at George Mason University. His research examines the inter- and intra- personal processes that make collaboration more creative and effective. He is also interested in system dynamics, and the nature of knowledge creation in management research. His work has appeared in top-tier management publications such as The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Annals, Management Science, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. This work has appeared in The Boston Globe, Fortune, and was presented at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He was the 2016 Conflict Management Division Chair. He served as Coeditor in Chief of Organizational Psychology Review, as Associate Editor at Academy of Management Annals, and on the editorial review board of Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Discoveries, Organization Science, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. He coauthored two books: The Influential Negotiator (Sage Publishing, 2020) and The Craft of Creativity (Stanford University Press, 2018), which was a finalist for AOM’s 2019 George R. Terry book award.

Erik Dane is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis. He received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has long been fascinated by how managers focus their attention, solve problems, and make decisions. He has published research on phenomena such as intuition, expertise, mindfulness, mind wandering, and epiphanies in a number of journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Discoveries, Administrative Science Quarterly, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. Previously, he was a faculty member at the Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University where he twice received the Jones School’s Scholarship Excellence Award. He enjoys physical fitness, mindful walking, philosophical conversations, and creative writing.

Elizabeth George (PhD, University of Texas at Austin) is a Professor of Management at the University of Auckland. She has an active research interest in nonstandard work arrangements and diversity in the workplace. Her work has been published in major international academic journals such as Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organization Science, and Academy of Management Annals. In addition, her research has been used by the International Labor Organization and the U.S. Society for Human Resource Management to help inform public policy and management practice. She served on the Board of Governors and the executive committee of the Managerial and Organizational Cognition and the Organizational Behavior Divisions of the Academy of Management. She was Coeditor in Chief of Organizational Psychology Review and Associate Editor at the Academy of Management Annals, Australian Journal of Management, and Organization Studies. She served on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Academy of Management Discoveries. She has held academic positions at universities in Asia, Australia, and the United States.

Denis A. Grégoire is a Professor of entrepreneurship and innovation at HEC Montréal (Canada), where he holds the Rogers-J.A.-Bombardier Chair of entrepreneurship research (since 2017) and serves as Associate Director for CDL-Montréal and Academic Director for NEXT AI-Montréal’s business curriculum—two programs led by HEC Montréal’s Executive Education to support the growth of high-potential science- and technology-based ventures. Denis has used bibliometrics, experiments, surveys, verbal protocols, content analyses, interviews, and other quantitative and qualitative methods to study the cognitive processes supporting relevant phenomena in entrepreneurship, innovation, internationalization, management, and strategy. His research has been published in Academy of Management Journal and several other entrepreneurship and management journals listed on the FT50, in addition to a few French-language journals. Denis obtained his Ph.D. in administrative sciences from the University of Colorado—Boulder. He held positions in the United States before HEC-Montréal tempted him to return to French-speaking Québec while he still had an accent. A proud father of two, he blames his children for his increasingly gray hair, but knows they will turn out ok, thanks to their mum! ("Love you, Nat!") Denis was an Associate Editor at AMJ from 2019–2022. Like his dear colleague Floor Rink, Denis returns for a second term as Associate Editor with a mandate to help cross-team transition, further transparency initiatives, and foster research that spans across the macro and micro domains.

Joachim Henkel is a Professor of Technology and Innovation Management and Vice Dean of Research at TUM School of Management, Technical University of Munich (faculty page). He received his Habilitation in Management from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, a Doctorate in Economics from University of Mannheim, and a Diplom (MS) in Theoretical Physics from University of Bonn. After his Ph.D., he worked for two years with the consulting firm, Bain & Company. His research focuses on digitalization, technology acquisitions, informal collaboration, open innovation, patent management, and value capture. He published his work among others in Academy of Management Discoveries, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Rand Journal of Economics, Research Policy, and Strategic Management Journal. Joachim serves on the editorial review boards of Industrial and Corporate Change, Innovation: Organization & Management, and Research Policy. He was a visiting scholar at University College London, MIT Sloan School of Management, Harvard Business School, and Singapore Management University. He consults regularly for firms in the ICT industries.

Monica Higgins (PhD Harvard) is the Kathleen McCartney Professor of Education Leadership at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where her research and teaching focus on the areas of leadership and organizational change (faculty page). Monica’s recent work centers on schools as organizations and the ways in which organization and team-level conditions impact performance, particularly during times of uncertainty. She leads an initiative at Harvard Graduate School of Education called Scaling for Impact, which focuses on helping entrepreneurial initiatives scale their work for even greater impact. Monica teaches in a variety of leadership and organizational change programs across Harvard University, including Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Business School, Harvard Law School, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard Graduate School of Education. She also served as an appointee to the former Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, under President Obama from 2009-2016. Monica’s work has appeared in academic journals, including Academy of Management Discoveries, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Applied Behavior Science, Research in Human Development, Journal of Educational Change. A native New Englander, Monica enjoys the outdoors in all kinds of weather, running and biking, and spending time with her family and their puppy, Leo.

Ann Langley is emerita professor of management at HEC Montréal, Canada, and distinguished research environment professor at Warwick Business School, UK. She received her Ph.D. at HEC Montréal. Ann’s research draws on qualitative methods and deals with strategic management processes and practices in pluralistic settings, with a particular interest in organizational change, decision making, leadership, identity, and professional practice. Her work has appeared in Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Human Relations, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Science, Organization Studies, and Strategic Management Journal, among others. She is a fellow of the Academy of Management and honorary member of the European Group for Organizational Studies. Ann is outgoing coeditor of Strategic Organization and coeditor with Haridimos Tsoukas of the book series Perspectives on Process Organization Studies, published by Oxford University Press. She was co-guest editor of a special issue of Academy of Management Journal on “Process studies of change in organizations and management” in 2013. She has also served on several other editorial boards, including Academy of Management Discoveries, Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Management Inquiry, and Organization Science.

Chi-Hyon Lee (DBA Boston University) is an Associate Professor of Management at the School of Business, George Mason University (faculty page). He studies competitive strategy in networked industries. His work has been published in a variety of outlets including Academy of Management Journal, Advances in Strategic Management, California Management Review, Organization Science, and Strategic Management Journal.

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 weapon control syste

Johanna Mair is a Professor of Organization, Strategy, and Leadership at the Hertie School in Berlin. Her research focuses on the nexus of organizations, institutions, and societal challenges. She is particularly interested in mechanisms enabling organizations to transform social systems and progress on social problems. She is the academic editor of Stanford Social Innovation Review and co-directs the Global Innovation for Impact Lab at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. She has co-directed the Social Innovation + Change Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School, has served on the faculty at IESE Business School, and has held a visiting position at the Harvard Business School and INSEAD. Her book Innovation and Scaling—How Effective Social Entrepreneurs Create Impact (Stanford University Press, 2017), co-authored with Christian Seelos, has won the 2017 Terry McAdam Award at ARNOVA and the 2018 ONE Outstanding Book Award at the Academy of Management Meeting. Her research has won several awards and has been published in the Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Studies, Academy of Management Discoveries, Academy of Management Perspectives, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Research in Organizational Behavior, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Nature Human Behavior, and Stanford Social Innovation Review. In addition, her work has been featured in the Financial Times and Forbes Magazine.

Jochen Menges holds the Chair of Human Resource Management and Leadership in the Department of Business Administration at the University of Zurich in Switzerland (faculty page) and serves as a faculty member in the Organizational Behaviour group at Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge in the UK. His research focuses on the role of emotions and motivation in organizational life and explores the social dynamics between leaders and followers. Jochen has published his work in academic journals that include, alongside Academy of Management Discoveries, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, as well as in managerial outlets such as Harvard Business Review. Jochen is excited about new ideas and rigorously tested discoveries at the forefront knowledge, as well as the implications such insights hold for how leaders and organizations could and should shape the future of work.

Jessica R. Methot is an Associate Professor of Human Resource Management in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University and a Distinguished Research Professor of Management at the University of Exeter Business School, UK. She received her PhD from the Warrington College of Business at the University of Florida. She conducts research at the intersection of interpersonal workplace relationships and social network dynamics, including how formal HR practices transform informal social networks, the functional and dysfunctional consequences of workplace relationships, and their temporal and multidimensional features. Her research in these areas has been published in leading academic journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, and Journal of Organizational Behavior and has been featured in over 300 popular media outlets including Harvard Business Review, NPR, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Nasdaq, Fast Company, and NY Times Magazine. She is an active member of the Academy of Management, where she served for five years on the executive committee of the Organizational Behavior division; she has served as an Associate Editor at Personnel Psychology and on the Editorial Review Boards of Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, and Academy of Management Discoveries; she is the Director of the Rutgers IRHR PhD Program; and a board member for the Rutgers Center for Women and Work (CWW). She is also cofounder of the website WorkTies.org, a cultivated repository for academic research and news on work relationships.

Christine Quinn Trank is a professor of the practice of organizational leadership at the Peabody College of Education and Human Development of Vanderbilt University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in Business in 2001. Chris studies the institutional environment of organizations and occupations, including educational and academic contexts. The shaping of knowledge as it moves across academic, policy, market, and practice boundaries is of particular interest. Most recently, she has studied the role of rhetorical history in identity work in organizations and occupations. Her work has been published in Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Learning and Education, Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, Journal of Business and Psychology, and Advances in Strategic Management. Chris has served as Editor-in-Chief of Academy of Management Learning and Education, Associate Editor of Academy of Management Review, and co-Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Management Inquiry. She currently serves on several editorial boards. She previously served as representative-at-large on the Board of Governors and currently serves on the Academy of Management’s Ethics Education Committee. Chris teaches in the areas of organizational theory and leadership, fields in which she has been recognized with both teaching and service awards. At Vanderbilt, she helped establish an interdisciplinary professional doctorate in Leadership and Learning in Organizations. The program successfully combines faculty from multiple academic fields and students from across functions and sectors, celebrating the connection between scholarship and practice.

Davide Ravasi (d.ravasi@ucl.ac.uk) is Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship and School Director at the UCL School of Management, University College London. He uses qualitative methods, primarily grounded theory and case study, and makes extensive use of visualization tools to support data analysis and theory development. His research primarily examines strategic and organizational changes, with particular emphasis on how organizational culture and identity affect these changes or are affected by them. His more recent work examined the role that history and memory play in these events. He is also interested more generally in socio-cognitive processes surrounding design, craft, and innovation. His work has appeared in Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Annals, Organization Science, Organization Studies, Strategic Management Journal, and Journal of Management Studies, among others. He is also a coeditor of the Oxford Handbook of Organizational Identity. He received his Ph.D. from Bocconi University, Milano. He has been Associate Editor for Journal of Management Studies (2010–2013) and Guest Editor for Organization Studies and Strategic Organization.

Tal Simons is a professor of Organization Theory at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, the Netherlands. Tal is intrigued by the broad question of how organizations persist and change. She is interested in understanding organizational phenomena and dynamics accompanying or underlying change and/or persistence such as contestation, ideology, creativity and creative processes, and time and history. Tal addresses these issues at the organization, community, and field levels of analysis, using and often combining qualitative and quantitative methods. Her research has been published in Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, Organization Science, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, and Industrial and Corporate Change, among others. Tal’s research has received several Academy of Management awards. Tal received a Ph.D. from Cornell University, a Master of Science from Tel Aviv University, and a Bachelor of Science from Hebrew University (both in Israel). She previously held visiting positions at Columbia University and Carnegie-Mellon University. Tal has served on the editorial review board of Academy of Management Journal. She currently serves also on the editorial review boards of Organization Theory and Academy of Management Discoveries. Previously, Tal served on the editorial review boards of Organization Science and Journal of International Business Studies.

Georg von Krogh is full Professor at ETH Zurich. He holds the Chair of Strategic Management & Innovation. He also chairs the Global Advisory Board at ETH Zurich, that advises the university's president on international strategy. Georg is an expert on competitive strategy, technological innovation, and knowledge management. He conducts quantitative and qualitative research, and has a strong interest in artificial intelligence and machine learning methods. He teaches Entrepreneurial Leadership, Strategic Management, and Innovation Theory & Research. Georg's work has been published in Academy of Management Journal, Harvard Business Review, Information Systems Research, Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Organization Science, Research Policy, and Strategic Management Journal, among others. He has received several awards for his work from the Academy of Management and other academic associations. He has been an Assistant Professor (visiting) of Business Policy at Bocconi University, Associate Professor of Strategy at BI Norwegian Business School, and Professor of Management at the University of St. Gallen. Georg holds a Master of Science (Engineering) and a PhD (Industrial Economics and Technology Management) from the Norwegian University of Technology and Natural Science. He served on the National Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), and holds an honorary position as Research Fellow at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. Georg serves on the editorial boards of several scientific journals.