Academy of Management Learning & Education

Todd Bridgman is Professor and Head of the School of Management at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He completed his PhD in organization studies at the University of Cambridge. Todd’s research interests lie at the intersection of management history, management education, and critical management studies. In particular, he is interested in challenging conventional histories of management that appear in textbooks and writing alternative histories as a way of rethinking how management is taught to students. His most recent books are The Past, Present and Future of Sustainable Management (Palgrave) and A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Management Theory (Sage), both with Stephen Cummings. Early in his career Todd edited The Oxford Handbook of Critical Management Studies (Oxford University Press, 2009) with Mats Alvesson and Hugh Willmott. Todd’s research has won Best Paper prizes in Human Relations (with Stephen Cummings and Kenneth Brown) and Academy of Management Learning & Education (with Stephen Cummings and John Ballard in 2019; and with Stephen Cummings and Colm McLaughlin in 2016). Todd is Emeritus Editor of Management Learning, having served as Coeditor-in-Chief for five years until 2021.

Arran Caza is an Associate Professor of Management in the Bryan School of Business and Economics at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. He studies managers and other leaders, with an emphasis on their cognitions, emotions, and skill development. He has researched and taught on three continents, and had the opportunity to work with a variety of large and small organizations. Before becoming an academic, he worked in program evaluation, health promotion, and law enforcement.

Dr. Laura Colombo is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter Business School (Sustainable Futures group, Penryn Campus). She is a graduate of political science from the University of Milan (Italy), holds an MSc in social economics from the University of Bologna (Italy) and a PhD in management studies from the University of Exeter (UK). Her primary research interest is in the scaling strategies of social and cooperative enterprises and alternative food networks. She has published in leading international journals, including Academy of Management Learning & Education and Organization.

Her teaching philosophy considers learning and teaching as empowering activities, opportunities to engage with the societal and environmental challenges of our time, and to nurture the critical and creative thinking of both students and faculty. She has taught a variety of courses, such as Organizational Behavior, Start-up Entrepreneurship, and Social Enterprise Management at graduate and undergraduate levels; and serves as Program Director for the BSc Business and Environment, an interdisciplinary program that introduces students to issues of sustainable business, global justice, and environmental science.

Before returning to academia, she worked as a project designer, bidding for national and European funding schemes on topics such as food sovereignty, agroecology, environmental justice and transformative learning, building partnerships with NGOs, associations, cooperatives, and environmentally motivated social enterprises.

Diego M. Coraiola is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Peter B. Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria. His primary research interests are in collective action and the strategic uses of symbolic resources. His current research focuses on organizational mnemonics, intergenerational change, and Indigenous organizing. His work has been published in journals such as the Academy of Management Annals, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Studies, and Management Learning.

Diego has taught various courses such as strategic management, entrepreneurship, organization theory, and research methods for both graduate and undergraduate students in Brazil and Canada. His teaching philosophy focuses on helping students become active and autonomous learners through experiential learning and live cases.

Bill Harley is Professor of Management at The University of Melbourne, Australia. His first degree was in political science and his PhD in industrial relations. Bill is best known for his critical work, informed by Labor Process Theory, on employee experiences of labor management practices, but he has also published on methodology and contemporary business schools. His work has been published in journals including Academy of Management Learning & Education, Journal of Management Studies, British Journal of Industrial Relations and Work Employment and Society. He is also the coauthor of the textbook Business Research Methods, with Emma Bell and Alan Bryman.

Bill was previously General Editor of the Journal of Management Studies and since 2019 has been Chair of the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies. He has acted as a consultant to national and international organizations including the OECD and ILO.

Simy Joy is a PhD from Case Western Reserve University, USA, and a Fellow of Higher Education Academy, UK. She served as a faculty member at the University of East Anglia, UK and as a Faculty Fellow at the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK), and was a founding member of the Center of Excellence for Social Innovation at IIMK. Her research interests include institutional and organisational sources of inequality, exclusion and injustice; and social innovations, social enterprises, socio-tech enterprises and micro-enterprises that attempt to engender equality, inclusion and justice. Her work has won awards from the Academy of Management, British Academy of Management, Academy of Management Learning & Education journal, and the Family Firm Institute. Her coedited or coauthored books include Socio-tech Innovation: Harnessing Technology for Social Good, Managing for Social Justice: Harnessing Management Theory & Practice for Collective Good, Being an Impact Champion: Enacting Corporate Social Consciousness, and Indian Cases in Organisational Behaviour (forthcoming). Prior to her PhD, Simy Joy worked in the Indian finance sector in the areas of training and development, organizational restructuring, and change management.

Stuart Middleton is a Senior Lecturer in Strategy at the University of Queensland. His scholarship of teaching and learning interests are in the history of management education and the use of dialogue and stories to facilitate student learning. He is recognized for his innovative work in teaching large courses in strategy, including receiving the Australia New Zealand Academy of Management’s (ANZAM) Innovative Management Educator of the Year for 2020. Stuart’s humorous takes on strategic management are captured in his TikTok account, where he teaches key strategy frameworks and theories by recreating famous movie scenes (TikTok handle @StuMid0).

Beyond his Associate Editor role with AMLE, Stuart also serves on the editorial board for Journal of Management Education. He has published in leading management education journals, including Academy of Management Learning & Education, Journal of Management Education, and Management Teaching Review. He has received best reviewer awards for Academy of Management Learning & Education (2022), and Journal of Management Education (2019). He is currently working on a book on the future of management education research.

Christine Moser is an Associate Professor of Organization Theory at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research is on corporate social responsibility (CSR), knowledge flows in social networks, and the role of technology in social interaction. She is an innovative educator, using blended learning approaches to integrate research in education, and conducts research on these educational approaches. In research and education alike, Christine is interested in the nexus between the social and material dimensions of organizing and social interaction, and strives for achieving impact for sustainable organizing. Her work has been published among others in Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Learning and Education, Research Policy, Human Relations, Organization Studies, Business & Society, New Media and Society, Innovation: Organization and Management, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, and MIT Sloan Management Review. She is an Editorial Board Member of Organization Studies, Innovation: Organization & Management, Organization Theory, Journal of Business Research, and the Responsible Research in Business and Management (RRBM) initiative. Christine is the vice-chair of the European Group of Organizational Studies (EGOS). In addition, she serves on the Executive Committee of the Organization & Management Theory (OMT) division of the Academy of Management as social media cochair, and is the Deputy Vice President Research for the International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management (IFSAM).

Katrin Muehlfeld is Professor of Management, Organization Studies, and HRM at Trier University, Germany. Her primary research interest relates to learning and decision-making processes at the individual and group levels, in both formal and informal settings, and in the context of present-day (grand) challenges related to technology, sustainability, and global perspectives. She has published in journals such as Journal of Management, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, and Journal of Economic Psychology. Katrin has designed and taught a variety of courses at the bachelor and master levels, in Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium. Subjects include strategic management, organization theory, human resource management, institutional perspectives, and research methods. In terms of teaching philosophy, Katrin aims to promote students’ skill development and development of critical thinking through experiential learning, project-based learning, and socially interactive assignments.

Olga Ryazanova is an Associate Dean (Strategy & Governance) in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Maynooth University and a tenured Lecturer at Maynooth University’s School of Business. Olga’s research focuses on the governance and strategic management of higher education institutions, including the study of research performance and academic careers. Olga’s latest projects explore the societal impact of academic institutions, including the impact of academic research on policymaking. At the individual level, she currently studies different “flavors” of academic career mobility. Her work is published in leading international journals, including Academy of Management Learning & Education, Research Policy, and Journal of World Business, and received multiple awards from the Academy of Management.

Olga is an active member of the Academy of Management, where Management Education & Development division is her primary home. She was the MED division’s Secretary and the division’s elected Research Coordinator, serving two years in each role. She currently serves on an Editorial Review Board of British Journal of Management and has been an active reviewer for a wide range of journals, including Academy of Management Learning & Education, Research Policy, and Management Teaching Review. She won an Outstanding Reviewer Award from the Academy of Management Learning & Education and multiple outstanding conference reviewer awards from the Academy of Management.

Olga has taught courses on management and strategy, with the particular focus on engaged teaching of large undergraduate classes. In her institution, Olga has been proactive in introducing technology for large class teaching and assessment, led an initiative focused on peer knowledge sharing among faculty to support teaching and learning, and served as an Undergraduate Director for Teaching & Learning.

Herman Aguinis is the Avram Tucker Distinguished Scholar at the George Washington University School of Business. Previously, he held the John F. Mee Chair in Management in the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. He has held visiting scholar positions at universities in Australia, China, France, Spain, Singapore, South Africa, Malaysia, Puerto Rico, and Argentina. His multi-disciplinary, multi-method, and multi-level research addresses the acquisition, development, and deployment of human capital in organizations and organizational research methods.

He has published about 150 journal articles (e.g., AMJ, AMR, SMJ, JAP) and eight books including “Performance Management and Regression Analysis for Categorical Moderators,” has delivered more than 125 presentations at universities in about 20 countries, and secured US $5 million in extramural funds (e.g., National Science Foundation). His research has been featured by Forbes, The Economist, Bloomberg Businessweek, USA Today, and other media.

A Fellow of the Academy of Management, he received AOM Practice Theme Committee Scholar Practice Impact Award recognizing an outstanding scholar who has had an impact on policy making and managerial and organizational practices, the Research Methods Division Distinguished Career Award for lifetime contributions, and the Entrepreneurship Division IDEA Thought Leader Award. In addition, he has received the best article of the year awards from five different journals. He also received Indiana University’s Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Building Bridges Award for promoting equality, equity, diversity, and justice.

He served as Editor-in-Chief of Organizational Research Methods and as guest editor for special issues of the Journal of Management on bridging micro and macro research domains and personnel psychology on corporate social responsibility. Selective examples of service to AOM include President of the Iberoamerican Academy of Management, Task Force Member for redesigning AOM meetings, and Chair of the Research Methods Division.

Véronique Ambrosini is a Professor of Management (Strategic Management) at Monash University (Australia). She was previously a Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Birmingham and at Cardiff University (UK). She started her career at Cranfield School of Management (UK) where she gained her PhD.

Her research interests include dynamic capabilities, business ecological sustainability, tacit knowledge, causal ambiguity, value creation and management education. Her articles have been published in internationally recognized academic journals such as the Academy of Management Learning & Education, Journal of Knowledge Management, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, British Journal of Management, Long Range Planning, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Journal of Business Ethics or Human Relations. She is the author of 'Tacit and ambiguous resources as sources of competitive advantage', a co-editor of 'Advanced strategic management: A multi-perspective approach' and of 'Business Strategies for Sustainability'.

Véronique is a British Academy of Management (BAM) Fellow and an Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) Fellow. She is a former associate editor of the British Journal of Management. She serves on the editorial review board of the Journal of Management Studies, Academy of Management Learning & Education, British Journal of Management, the International Journal of Human Resource Management and Journal of Management & Organization.

Steve Charlier (Research & Reviews) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management at Georgia Southern University. He holds degrees from the College of William and Mary (BBA/Finance), the University of Denver (MIM/e-commerce) and the University of Iowa (Ph.D./Management). Before returning to academia, Steve held a variety of managerial positions in the information technology/consulting, automotive, and entertainment industries. He has been a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) since 2003, and has consulted with a number of diverse organizations, including various federal government agencies and non-profit organizations. His research interests are focused on the modern work environment (including virtual teams, e-learning, and leadership in a virtual world) and management education. His work has been published in several leading international academic journals, including The Leadership Quarterly, Human Resource Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Journal of Management Education, and Human Resource Management Review.

Beyond his Associate Editor role with AMLE, Steve also serves on the editorial board for Organization Management Journal, and holds an appointed executive board position within the OB Division of the Academy of Management. He is a member of the Academy of Management, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Society for Human Resource Management, and the Project Management Institute. He has taught a variety of courses in organizational behavior, human resources, project management, and strategy at the undergraduate and graduate level, both online and in traditional classrooms.

Gabrielle Durepos, PhD (Research & Reviews) is an Associate Professor at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Canada. Her co-authored book: ANTi-History: Theorizing the Past, History, and Historiography in Management and Organization Studies, addresses the call for an historic turn by drawing on Actor-Network Theory. She is a co-editor of both the SAGE Encyclopaedia of Case Study Research as well as the SAGE Major Work on Case Study Methods in Business Research. Her publications appear in Management & Organizational History, Journal of Management History, Critical Perspectives of International Business, and Organization. Gabrielle is a co-investigator on a SSHRC funded project focused on Reassembling Canadian Management Knowledge with a special interest in dispersion, equity, identity and history. She is the Executive Director of the Atlantic Schools of Business Conference. She is currently engaged in an organizational history of a provincial museum complex in Canada.

Bill Foster is a Professor of Management at the Augustana Campus of the University of Alberta. His primary research interests include rhetorical history, social memory studies, service learning, teaching business ethics and corporate universities. He has been published in journals and books such as Journal of Management, Advances in Strategic Management, Journal of Management Inquiry, Business History and Journal of Business Ethics. He is the incoming Editor of Academy of Management Learning and Education. And he is currently an Associate Editor at Academy of Management Learning and Education and serves on the Editorial Review Boards of Organization Studies and Business History.

He has taught courses in organizational behavior, strategy, sustainability, marketing and management. His teaching style is Socratic and is focused on engaging students through various techniques such as experiential learning, service learning, case studies and classroom discussion.

Dr. Megan Gerhardt (Book & Resource Reviews) is a Professor of Management and Leadership at the Farmer School of Business at Miami University, specializing in individual and team leadership development, where she also serves as co-director of the Isaac & Oxley Center for Business Leadership. Her current research focuses on the leadership of multiple generations in the workplace. Dr. Gerhardt has authored multiple journal articles, appearing in several of the top management publications. In addition, Dr. Gerhardt leads professional development workshops in organizations on the topics of managing multiple generations in the workforce, strengths based leadership, emotional intelligence, authentic leadership, and women in leadership in the twenty-first century. She is founder and owner of The Gerhardt Group, LLC, specializing in leadership development solutions. Dr. Gerhardt received her BA in psychology as well as her PhD from the University of Iowa.

Danna Greenberg is the Walter H. Carpenter Professor of Organizational Behavior at Babson College, where she also serves as chair of the Management Division (faculty page).

Connected to her work at AMLE, Danna’s scholarship centers on the continued changing landscape of higher education as it pertains to how we teach, what we teach, and how we define our lives as academics. She has used this research expertise to lead curriculum reform in the graduate and undergraduate programs at Babson College. More information on this work can be found in her book, The New Entrepreneurial Leader (Berrett-Koehler Publishing, 2011).

Danna’s other research interest focuses on how individuals navigate the relationship between work, family, and community as their careers and lives evolve. Danna’s scholarship is guided by the belief that individuals can and should be able to live full lives at work and at home. Along with Jamie Ladge, she has recently coauthored a book on this topic entitled Maternal Optimism (Oxford University Press, 2019).

Danna has published more than 30 articles and book chapters in leading journals including Academy of Management Perspectives, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Human Resource Management, and Journal of Management Education. She speak nationally and internationally on issues pertaining to work-life and innovation in education.

Danna received her BA in Psychology from Wellesley College graduating magna cum laude and her PhD in Organizational Studies from Boston College graduating with first-year distinction.

Paul Hibbert began his academic career after 15 years in industry and management consultancy. He is a Professor of Management at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, (faculty page)and an Honorary Professor at the University of Auckland Business School. He has experience of senior leadership roles such as Head of the School of Management, Dean of Arts and Vice-Principal for Education at the University of St Andrews.

Paul has also fulfilled leadership roles in learned societies and has extensive editorial experience. He has been a member of the Council of the British Academy of Management, and from 2018-2019 he was the Chair of the Management Education and Development division of the Academy of Management having previously filled the roles of PDW Chair and Program Chair. Paul is currently an Associate Editor of Academy of Management Learning & Education and is a former Associate Editor and editorial board member of both the Journal of Management Education and Management Learning. He is also an editorial board member of Organizational Research Methods. His research has been published in those journals and other leading international outlets, such as the Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Management Studies and Organization Studies. His research has been recognized with awards from Academy of Management Divisions, the Australia & New Zealand Academy of Management and the British Academy of Management.

Richard Klimoski is the Associate Dean for Research for the School of Business at George Mason University, where he is also a Professor of Psychology and Management. Klimoski is the past Editor of Academy of Management Review and served as an Associate Editor for Academy of Management Learning & Education. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Management, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, the American Psychological Association, and the Association for Psychological Science.

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.

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.

Siri Terjesen is Associate Dean, Research & External Relations and Phil Smith Professor of Entrepreneurship at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Boca Raton, Florida, and Professor .2 at the Norwegian School of Economics (Norges Handelshøyskole: NHH) in Bergen, Norway. Her research on entrepreneurship, strategy, corporate governance, and higher education has been published in Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management, Journal of Operations Management, Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics, Leadership Quarterly, and Strategic Management Journal. Her research is featured in international media including Bloomberg, U.S. News & World Report, the Times, and CNBC.

April Wright is Professor of Organisation Studies at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick (faculty page). Her primary research interests are focused on understanding the processes by which institutions are changed, maintained and disrupted, with a particular interest in professions and professional work. Her research in management education has focused on threshold concept learning and evidence-based management. She has published in leading international journals, including Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Business Venturing, Organizational Research Methods, and British Journal of Management. April’s work in management education has been published in Academy of Management Learning & Education, Management Learning, and Journal of Management Education.

Beyond her Associate Editor role with AMLE, April also serves on the editorial boards for Academy of Management Journal and Journal of Management Education. She teaches courses in introductory management and strategy and has received numerous awards for her work in large undergraduate teaching, including a national award for teaching excellence in the Australian Awards for University Teaching in 2018.