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.

Stacey Victor's career in publishing has spanned 25 years, beginning in trade publishing at both Time Warner and Random House, and then segueing into the academic and reference world in 2007. Stacey joined AOM in early 2016, where she is Managing Editor for Academy of Management Learning and Education and Academy of Management Annals.