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Melissa S. Cardon is the Haslam Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation and the Research Director for the Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She has a secondary appointment as a Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Queensland. Her PhD in organizational behavior is from the Columbia University School of Business. Melissa studies the psychology of entrepreneurs as they found, persist, and succeed (or not) with their ventures. Topics of special interest include entrepreneurial passion, resource acquisition, failure recovery, and well-being, as well as coping mechanisms to address pervasive problems. Melissa’s work has been published in journals such as Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Management, and Human Resource Management. She was previously an Associate Editor for the Journal of Management and Journal of Business Venturing and is on the Editorial Boards of Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Business Venturing Insights, and Human Resource Management Review. Melissa has won numerous awards for her research, teaching, and service including the 2022 Vallett Family Outstanding Researcher Award, a 2021 AMR Outstanding Reviewer award, the 2019 Journal of Management Research Impact Award (finalist), the 2018 National Federation for Independent Business (NFIB) Award for Excellence in Research, and the 2016 Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Practice Award. Melissa was the Treasurer for the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management from 2009–2015. She was a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Entrepreneurship & Innovation at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 2022 and is a member of the 21st Century Entrepreneurship Research Fellows.

Danielle Cooper is the G. Brint Ryan Professor of OBHR in the G. Brint Ryan College of Business at the University of North Texas. She received her BA from the University of Texas, Austin and PhD from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests include identification processes, diversity, authenticity, and well-being in teams and organizations. Her work has appeared in Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Annals, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and other outlets. She has served on the Editorial Review Boards of the Academy of Management Review and the Journal of Organizational Behavior.

Aseem Kaul is the Mosaic Company – Jim Prokopanko Professor for Corporate Responsibility with the Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship Department at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. Aseem’s research interests include corporate strategy, nonmarket strategy & social impact, technology & innovation, institutional & organizational economics, and entrepreneurship. He is especially interested in the use of formal analytical models and simulations for theory development. Aseem’s research has been published in Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Management Science, Organization Science, Strategy Science, and Strategic Management Journal, among others, and has received several awards, including the Sumantra Ghoshal Research and Practice Award from Academy of Management (AOM)’s (then) BPS division, and multiple honorable mentions from the Strategic Management Society (SMS). Aseem currently serves on the board of directors of the SMS and the Consortium on Competitiveness and Cooperation (CCC), having previously served on the executive committee of AOM’s Strategic Management division. Aseem served as an Associate Editor at Strategic Management Journal from 2017 to 2022, as well as coeditor of a special issue on "New Directions for the Resource Based View" at the same journal, and currently sits on the editorial boards of Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, and Strategy Science. He received his PhD in management from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, prior to which he worked with the Akanksha Foundation—a education-based nonprofit working with less privileged children in the slum communities of Mumbai—and with McKinsey & Company’s New Delhi office.

Chak Fu Lam is an Associate Professor of Management at City University of Hong Kong. His research examines employee voice behavior, including why employees speak up, how managers respond to employee voice, and what makes employee voice sustainable over time. Chak Fu is also interested in self-determination and well-being at work. He has published research in Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Perspectives, Academy of Management Review, Human Resource Management Journal, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Personality, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Personnel Psychology. He received a B.A. in Psychology and Economics from Middlebury College in Vermont and a doctorate in Management and Organization from the University of Michigan. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Management and Organization Review. In 2001, he was one of five reviewers to be awarded the title of Best Editorial Reviewer for his service to the Journal of Applied Psychology.

Sergio G. Lazzarini (PhD, 2002, Washington University in St. Louis) is the Chafi Haddad Professor of Management at Insper. He does research on the strategy and governance of activities in the public interest, which are executed by diverse actors such as public organizations, impact-oriented firms, and public-private collaborations. Sergio has held visiting positions at Harvard University (2010, 2012), University of St Gallen (2009), HEC Paris (2014), Insead (2015), Brandeis (2016), Imperial College (2017), the University of Utah (2019), and the University of Toronto (2021-22). He is founder of Insper Metricis, a center for the study of impact measurement and investing. Sergio’s research has received several prizes including the Glueck Best Paper Award of the Strategic Management Division of the Academy of Management (2003), Best Presentation Prize of the Strategic Management Society Special Conference in Rio (2011), and Distinguished Paper Award of the Strategy Division of the Academy of Management (2020 and 2022). Sergio also served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Strategy Division of the Academy of Management (2008-2010) and as a board member of the International Society for the New Institutional Economics (2009-2011).

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.

Dana Minbaeva is a Professor of Human Resource Management at King's Business School, King’s College of London, UK. She also has a part-time appointment at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Professor Minbaeva has published over 70 articles in international peer-reviewed journals, numerous book chapters, and reports. Her research on strategic and international HRM has appeared in such top international journals as Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Human Resource Management, and many others.

Professor Minbaeva is the Fellow of the Academy of International Business (AIB). She has received several national and international awards for research achievements, including the prestigious JIBS Decade Award in 2013.

Professor Minbaeva is actively involved in MBA and executive teaching at various European business schools. Previously, she has taught in Denmark, Austria, Kazakhstan, Russia, Lithuania, Kyrgyzstan, Finland, and Germany as well as having held visiting research positions in Ireland, Australia, and Canada. Dana is a founder and research partner of Nordic Human Capital Advisory ApS.

Sebastian Raisch is Professor of Strategy at the University of Geneva, Geneva School of Economics and Management. He is also a permanent visiting professor at the University of St. Gallen. His research on artificial intelligence in management, organizational ambidexterity, and paradox theory has been published in journals such as the Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management, Organization Science, and Strategic Management Journal. Sebastian currently serves on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, and Strategic Management Journal. Faculty page.

Kristie Rogers is an Associate Professor of Management in the College of Business Administration at Marquette University (website). Her research focuses on identity and respect in the workplace. She is particularly interested in understanding how workers thrive in the face of challenges related to stigma, disrespect, and unresolved tensions. Her empirical research often takes place in extreme or unconventional work settings.

Kristie’s research is published in top management journals including Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science and Journal of Applied Psychology. Her awards and grants include the Outstanding Published Article in Positive Organizational Scholarship award from University of Michigan’s Center for Positive Organizations, an Anti-Racism Research Grant from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), and Poets & Quants recognized her as one of the 50 Best Undergraduate Professors of 2022. She’s served on the editorial review boards of Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, and Journal of Applied Psychology.

Kristie earned her PhD in Organizational Behavior from Arizona State University. Prior to pursuing her doctorate, she worked as a stage manager on remote sports broadcasts for ESPN and ABC Sports. Her practice-oriented articles are published in Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, and UC-Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center and her work has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Business Insider.

Christine Shropshire is Associate Professor of Management & Entrepreneurship in the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, where she is also a Fellow of the New Governance Lab. Prior to joining ASU, she was Associate Professor at the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. Christy’s research interests are broadly in the area of corporate governance, including board composition and effectiveness, diversity in the upper echelons, and stakeholder management. Her research seeks to understand strategic decision-making processes and outcomes among individuals and groups at the top of organizations. Among other outlets, her work has appeared in the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Research Methods, Organization Science, and Strategic Management Journal. In addition, her research has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Forbes, New York Times and on National Public Radio. Christy serves on the editorial board of Academy of Management Journal and previously served as Associate Editor at Business & Society and as Chair of the Strategic Leadership and Governance Interest Group within the Strategic Management Society. Prior to academia, she worked in Human Capital consulting, assisting corporate boards and executives and serving domestic and international clients in a variety of industries including healthcare and financial services.

John Paul (J.P.) Stephens, PhD is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. Originally from Trinidad and Tobago, John Paul completed degrees in psychology at Morgan State University (BS) and in organizational psychology (MS and PhD) at the University of Michigan. J.P. studies work relationships and coordination in groups, focusing on how what individuals and teams perceive about their behaviors shapes complex interdependent work. This research has centered on the felt dynamics—emotions and aesthetic experience—that comprise individuals’ experience of relating with others in their work relationships and teams. His research has found that these felt dynamics interplay with cognitive (e.g., attention) and behavioral processes (e.g., contributing actions or information) to enable group coordination, performance, and resilience. His current research, funded by the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, focuses on the development of high-quality relationships, teamwork, and coordination on large construction sites. Other funded research focuses on intervening into role-based communication to improve health care worker resilience. His work has been published in the Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Management Inquiry, Journal of Positive Psychology, Management Learning, and the International Journal of Project Management. J.P. currently chairs the Relational Coordination Collaborative Advisory Board and is a Guest Editor for AMR's Special Topic Forum on “The New Normal: Positive Organizational Impact in an Age of Disruption.”

Paul Tracey is Professor of Innovation and Organization at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School where he serves as the Head of the Organization Theory and Information Systems Group. He is also Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Department of Management and Marketing at the University of Melbourne. He received his BA and PhD from the University of Stirling Management School. His research focuses on how entrepreneurs and established organizations create value of different kinds, particularly social value.

In 2014, Paul cofounded the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation and is currently its codirector. The Centre creates new knowledge about social innovation and social change, and offers a master’s degree in Social Innovation for professionals from the social, corporate, and government sectors. It also supports social entrepreneurs through its social enterprise incubator—Cambridge Social Ventures—which has helped to grow well over 100 social startups to date.

Paul has published widely on many aspects of entrepreneurship and innovation from an organizational perspective, including papers in Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Marketing, and Organization Science. He was a recipient of the AMJ Best Article Award for 2021 and the EGOS 2020 Best Paper Award.

Anastasiya is an associate professor of strategic management at the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University and an International Research Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation. She received her Ph.D. in strategic management from the University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business. Anastasiya’s research focuses on socially responsible and irresponsible organizational actions that build, damage, and restore social approval assets, such as reputation and celebrity.

Irina Burns joined AOM in 2015 with many years of publishing experience, focusing primarily on journals and copyright. She is currently Senior Managing Editor for Academy of Management Perspectives and Academy of Management Review, as well as Licensing Services Manager for the Academy.

Ruth V. Aguilera is the Distinguished Darla and Frederick Brodsky Trustee Professor in Global Business in the International Business and Strategy Department at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University (faculty page) and a Visiting Professor at ESADE Business School in Barcelona, Spain. Ruth's research interests lie at the intersection of strategic organization, economic sociology, and global strategy, specializing in international and comparative corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, and firm internationalization. She has been inducted as a Fellow of the Academy of International Business and the Strategic Management Society.

Sharon Alvarez is the Thomas W. Olofson Chair in Entrepreneurial Studies at the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh. Professor Alvarez is the Past Chair of the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management and was the 2015 Denver Program Chair for the Strategic Management Society as well as Representative at Large for the SMS Entrepreneurship Interest Group.

Alvarez has been a Max Planck Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Entrepreneurship and Economic Systems Research, she has been a visiting professor at Sun-Yet-Sen University in China, the University of Alberta, and the University of Utah. Her current research includes entrepreneurship theory of opportunities, firm, and market emergence. She is associate editor for the Academy of Management Review and past associate editor for Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. She has been published in Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Academy of Management Executive, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Management, and Human Resource Management Journal.

Alvarez’s paper (with Barney) “Discovery and Creation: Alternative Theories of Entrepreneurial Action” won the Academy of Management’s Entrepreneurship Division 2019 Foundational Paper Award as well as the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal Best Paper Award; her paper (with Barney) “Forming and Exploiting Opportunities: The Implications of Discovery and Creation Processes for Entrepreneurial and Organizational Research” was the runner-up for the INFORMS award; and her paper (with Barney) “How Entrepreneurs Organize under Conditions of Uncertainty” won the Journal of Management Best Paper Award.

John M. Amis is Professor of Strategic Management and Organisation at the University of Edinburgh Business School. He received his PhD from the University of Alberta. His research interests center on issues of large-scale organizational, institutional and social change. John has had over 70 book chapters and articles published in journals that include Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, American Journal of Public Health, Human Relations, Organization Science, Organization Studies and Organizational Research Methods. In addition to AMR, John sits on a number of other editorial boards including Organization Studies, Organizational Research Methods and Strategic Organization. His most recent book, Race, Economics and the Politics of Educational Change (co-edited with Paul Wright), published in 2018, provides a multi-disciplinary investigation of the recent Memphis-Shelby County school district merger, the largest in US history. He also co-edited a recent Special Issue of Organization Studies titled "Inequality, institutions and organizations" (with Tom Lawrence, Kamal Munir, Paul Hirsch and Anita McGahan). John has previously studied, among other things, the development and implementation of policies designed to address childhood obesity, large-scale change in innovation processes in a Fortune 100 firm, and transformation of the Canadian Olympic sport system. His current empirical work is focused on issues of inequality, reforms to the Scottish civil justice system, and major change at a Scottish charity. He is past Chair of the Academy of Management's Organization Development & Change division.

Nicholas Argyres is the Vernon W. and Marion K. Piper Professor of Strategy at the Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis. His research interests include inter-organizational relationships and contracting, strategy and organization structure, industry evolution, and competitive dynamics. Nick was a Senior Editor at Organization Science for twelve years, and serves on the editorial board of the Strategic Management Journal. He was previously on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Organization, and the Journal of International Business Studies. Nick also served as the Chair of the (then) Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy of Management.

Gary A. Ballinger is the Richard D. Wood Bicentennial Professor of Commerce at The University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce. In his research, he focuses on factors that impact the operation of social exchange and trust relationships in the work context. This research investigates questions that touch on research questions in corporate governance, leadership succession, social networks and employee turnover. He has published in Academy of Management Review, Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Personnel Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Strategic Management Journal.

From 2019 to 2024 he served as an Associate Editor for Academy of Management Annals. From 2014 to 2017 he served as an Associate Editor for Academy of Management Review. He has been or is currently a member of the editorial review boards of Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Organization Science and has reviewed for a number of other journals in organizational behavior and strategic management. He is a member of the Managerial and Organizational Cognition, Organizational Behavior, and Research Methods divisions of the Academy of Management.

Professor Ballinger currently teaches undergraduate courses in organizational behavior. In 2023 he was named as one of Poets & Quants 50 outstanding undergraduate business professors and in 2013 he won an All-University Teaching Award from The University of Virginia. He earned his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and Human Resources Management from Purdue University's Krannert Graduate School of Management in 2004.

Jay Barney is a Presidential Professor of Strategic Management and holds the Lassonde Chair of Social Entrepreneurship at the Eccles School of Business at The University of Utah. He also currently serves as the Chair of the Entrepreneurship and Strategy Department. Before joining The University of Utah in 2012, Professor Barney served on the faculty at The Ohio State University for 18 years, where he held the Chase Chair in Corporate Strategy. Prior to Ohio State, he served on the faculties at Texas A&M University and UCLA. Professor Barney has also had honorary faculty appointments at Waikato University (in New Zealand); Peking University, Sun Yat-Sen University, and Nankai University (all in China); and Brunel University (in the UK).

Professor Barney received an undergraduate degree from Brigham Young University and a Ph.D. from Yale University. He has also received three honorary doctorate degrees—from Lund University (in Sweden), from the Copenhagen Business School, and from the Universidad Pontificia Comillas (in Spain).

Professor Barney's research focuses on the relationship between firm resources and capabilities and a firm's ability to gain and sustain a competitive advantage. He has published over 100 articles—including some of the most cited articles in the field of strategic management—and six books. His books have been translated into six languages. He has also presented scholarly papers at the Wharton School of Business, the Harvard Business School, the Tuck School of Business, and the London Business School and at over 100 other universities around the world.

In 2005, Professor Barney won the Irwin Outstanding Educator Award of the Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy of Management. In 2010, he won the Scholarly Contributions Award for the Academy of Management. He has also been elected as a fellow of the Academy of Management and of the Strategic Management Society.

Professor Barney teaches strategic management to undergraduate, MBA, Executive MBA, and Executive students. He has won awards for his teaching at UCLA, Texas A&M, and Ohio State, and has published two strategic management textbooks, one in its fourth edition, the other in its fifth edition.

Professor Barney has served on the Executive Committee and as an officer of the Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy of Management. He has also served on the Board and as an officer of the Stra

Shelley Brickson is an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago (faculty page). She received an M.A. in psychology and Ph.D in organizational behavior from Harvard University as well as a B.A. in psychology from Carleton College. She was also a Fellow at Harvard’s Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations. Before UIC, Shelley was an Assistant Professor at London Business School. Shelley’s overarching phenomenon of interest is how organizations can serve as sources of well-being for members and other stakeholders, an interest that has led her to explore multiple levels of analysis and literatures. Much of her work addresses the role of identity in promoting (or inhibiting) positive relationships and ultimately, well-being. She is interested in identity at both the individual and organizational levels and in relationship dynamics between individuals, groups, organizations and members, and organizations and stakeholders. Some of the lenses she has used to explore well-being include social value, positive outgroup attitudes, and justice. Shelley’s work has been featured in top journals including Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, and Administrative Science Quarterly. She has had the pleasure of serving on the Executive Committee for the Managerial and Organizational Cognition (MOC) Division of AOM and on the Editorial Boards of Organization Science, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and on Special Issues of Academy of Management Review.

Professor Jonathan Bundy’s research takes a behavioral approach to strategic management and focuses on the social and cognitive forces that shape organizational outcomes and behavior. He specifically investigates crisis and impression management, corporate reputation and other social evaluations, firm-stakeholder relationships, and corporate governance. His work has appeared in field-leading journals, including the Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Management, Organization Science, Personnel Psychology, and Strategic Management Journal.

He received his bachelor’s and master's degrees from the University of New Mexico and his doctorate in strategic management and organization theory from the University of Georgia.

Professor Bundy has been commended for his contributions to research, most recently winning the Emerging Scholar Award from the Strategic Management Society (2021). He has also been awarded the ASQ Award for Scholarly Contribution (2019) in addition to winning multiple reviewer awards for his service to various journals and conferences.

He recently completed a three-year term as an Associate Editor at Academy of Management Review. He also serves as an International Research Fellow with the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation.

Joanna T. Campbell is an Associate Professor of Management at the Carl H. Lindner College of Business at the University of Cincinnati (faculty page) and a Research Affiliate at the University of Notre Dame. She holds a Ph.D. in Strategic Management from Texas A&M University. She is currently a Representative-at-Large for the Strategic Leadership and Governance Interest Group and for the Research Methods Community of the Strategic Management Society, and previously served as a Co-Program Chair of the SMS Special Conference in Las Vegas on strategic leadership. She has also served the Strategic Management Division and the Research Methods Division of the Academy of Management in various roles. Joanna’s research interests include top executive characteristics and their effects on organizational outcomes, corporate governance, stakeholder strategy, and configurational theorizing and methods of analysis. Most broadly, she seeks to understand how the characteristics of individuals (e.g., CEOs) and groups of individuals (e.g., boards) affect firm outcomes. Her work has been published in several outlets, including the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Organizational Research Methods, Research Policy, and Strategic Management Journal. She serves on the editorial review boards of Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, and Strategic Management Journal.

Prithviraj Chattopadhyay is a professor of management at Cambridge University. His research interests include relational demography and diversity, managerial cognition, and employment externalization. His research has been published in such journals as Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organization Science and Strategic Management Journal. He was an Associate Editor for Academy of Management Journal (2016-2019) and is currently a member of a number of editorial boards, including Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology. In addition to engaging with new ideas within and outside his field, he enjoys hiking and travelling.

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.

David Collings is Professor of Human Resource Management and Associate Dean for Research at Dublin City University Business School. A former Fulbright Scholar, he has held visiting positions at Cornell University, King’s College London and Nanyang Business School in Singapore. He is the Chair-Elect of the HR Division of the Academy of Management and will be 2021-22 Chair of the Division.

His research interests focus on global staffing, talent management and the future of work. He work has been published, or is forthcoming, in leading outlets including Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies and Organization Science, and practitioner outlets such as Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review and eleven books. He is former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of World Business and Human Resource Management Journal and sits on the editorial boards of multiple journals including Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management and Journal of Management Studies.

Amanda Cowen is an Associate Professor at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce. She earned her doctorate and MBA at Harvard Business School. Amanda’s research interests center on corporate governance and strategic leadership. Her work aims to develop socially informed theories that help to explain decision making and outcomes in these domains. She is especially interested in understanding how key stakeholders interpret and respond to organizational failures or controversies. Amanda’s research is published or forthcoming in such journals as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Journal of Accounting and Economics. She has also served on the editorial review board of Academy of Management Review.

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.

Katherine (Katy) DeCelles is a professor of organizational behavior at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Her research focuses on the intersection of organizational behavior and criminology and includes such topics as prison work, inequality and social movements, power, and aggression. Katy has been published in such outlets as Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, among others. Her work has been covered in media outlets, including the New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, the Atlantic, and CNN, and has received awards from the Academy of Management and American Sociological Association. Katy received her Ph.D. in organizational behavior from the University of Maryland, completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan, and has held visiting positions at Stanford University and the Harvard Business School. She previously served as an Associate Editor for Academy of Management Journal from 2016-2019.

Cynthia Devers is the R.B. Pamplin Professor of Management as a faculty member of the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech. Devers most recently served as Lawrence E. Fouraker Professor in Business and associate department head in the Department of Management in the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. She also has been a member of the faculty at the University of Wisconsin, Tulane University, and Michigan State University.

Devers is also an International Research Fellow at the Centre for Corporate Reputation at the University of Oxford and an Executive Committee Member of the U.S.-Pakistan Women’s Council, a public-private partnership between the U.S. Department of State and Texas A&M University focused on increasing women’s economic participation and empowerment.

She previously served as an Associate Editor for Academy of Management Review, and her work has appeared in outlets including Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Management, and others. In her research, she draws on behavioral and social psychological perspectives to examine the roles formal and informal governance mechanisms, social evaluations, and individual differences play in individual and organizational outcomes.

Greg Fisher is the Larry and Barbara Sharpf Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University (faculty page). He holds a Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship and Strategy from the University of Washington in Seattle and an M.B.A. from the Gordon Institute of Business Science in Johannesburg. His research examines issues related to strategy, legitimacy, and resourcefulness in entrepreneurial firms and in emerging market categories. His work has been published in management and entrepreneurship journals including the Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, the Journal of Management Studies, the Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Annals, Organizational Research Methods, and Organization Theory. Greg has served as the editor-in-chief of Business Horizons (2019-2020) and as field editor for the Journal of Business Venturing (2017-2020). In 2018 he was awarded the Emerging Scholar Award from the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management and he also won the award for the most impactful article published in the Journal of Business Venturing in the prior year. In 2017 he was named as the developmental reviewer of the year by the Academy of Management Review.

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.

Stacey Fitzsimmons is an Associate Professor of International Management at the Peter B. Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria, Canada. She is also a Research Associate at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), South Africa. She earned her PhD from the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University (SFU). Her current research examines how globally mobile employees—such as migrants, immigrants, refugees, and other diverse groups—contribute to their teams and organizations. Dr. Fitzsimmons’s research has been published in Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, Human Resource Management Review, Organization Studies, and Organizational Dynamics, among others. She also commonly publishes practitioner translations through Harvard Business Review’s website and The Conversation. She serves on the editorial review boards of Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of International Business Policy, Academy of Management Review, and Journal of Business Research. Dr. Fitzsimmons is currently in her second term on the board of the Women of the Academy of International Business (WAIB). Dr. Fitzsimmons has received several accolades for her contributions to the field, including an Emerging Scholar Award, the International Human Resources Scholarly Research Award from the AOM’s HR Division, and a Best Reviewer Award. During her last sabbatical she held visiting positions at the University of Auckland, University of Sydney, and the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS).

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.

Benjamin Galvin is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources and a Robert A. and Wendy Whitman Fellow in the Marriott School of Business at Brigham Young University. His research has been published in Academy of Management Review and Academy of Management Annals, he served on the editorial review board of Academy of Management Review, and received multiple Academy of Management annual meeting reviewer awards.

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.

Cristina B. Gibson is University Professor and Dean’s Distinguished Professor of Management at Pepperdine University. She works at the nexus of organizational science, international management, and cross-cultural psychology to increase employee dignity, well-being, social impact, and organizational effectiveness.

Cristina focuses on inclusion, technology-enabled innovation, and corporate-community partnerships. Her research gives voice to those with differing approaches, perspectives and knowledge, celebrating and bridging differences. Her passions include helping executives, managers, and employees develop skills for culturally diverse collaboration, working remotely and navigating digital transformation. She has developed both theory and practice to improve global communication through technology.

Cristina’s scientific impact was acknowledged in a Stanford University study as among the top 2% of 7 million scientists across scientific disciplines worldwide. She was the recipient of the 2023 Academy of Management Fellows Award for Responsible Research, the 2022 Academy of Management Mentorship Award, the 2019 Medal for Scholarly Contributions by the Academy of International Business and the Decade Award from the Journal of International Business Studies. In 2018, she received the Humanitarian Impact Award from the American Psychological Association.  She is a Fellow of the Academy of Management, Academy of International Business, American Psychological Association, and Academy of Social Science Australia.

Cristina served as Chair of the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management and in the 5-year executive track.  She has served as an Associate Editor at Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Review, and Organization Science and has reviewed for a broad range of journals in organization, management and psychology.

Patrick Haack is Professor of Responsible Management in the Department of Strategy, Globalization and Society at HEC Lausanne, the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Lausanne (faculty page). He is also an International Research Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation. His research interests center on social evaluations, practice adoption, and the application of experiments and formal models to the study of (de)legitimation and (de)institutionalization. Patrick serves or has served on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Review, Business & Society, Journal of Management Studies, and Organization Studies.

Dr. Morela Hernandez is the Ligia Ramirez de Reynolds Collegiate Chaired Professor at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and Stephen M. Ross School of Business. She is an internationally recognized scholar with deep expertise in applying behavioral science insights to design and improve organizational systems and decision-making practices. Professor Hernandez is widely published in top-tier academic journals and popular media outlets. She is on several editorial boards including Academy of Management Journal and Journal of Applied Psychology, served as Associate Editor for Academy of Management Review, and is a frequent contributor to MIT Sloan Management Review. At the University of Michigan, she teaches courses on leadership and serves as Faculty Director of the Ford School's Leadership Initiative. She has worked as a leadership development coach for senior-level executives throughout her career, and consults with a number of government agencies, social profit organizations, and global companies on topics related to leadership, diversity and inclusion, as well as large-scale organizational change.

Amy Hillman is a Professor of Management and the Charles J. Robel Dean’s Chair of the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. She received her PhD from Texas A&M University in Strategic Management and Business & Public Policy and was formerly on the faculty of Michigan State University and University of Western Ontario.

She is former editor of Academy of Management Review, former associate editor of Academy of Management Journal, a Fellow of the Academy of Management and in 2018 received the Academy of Management’s Distinguished Educator Award. Her previous service to Academy of Management also includes the editorial boards of AMJ, AMR, and AMLE as well as serving the STR (BPS) division as a member of the executive committee and research committee, co-chairing mid-career and new faculty consortia, and on the SIM best paper committee. She is currently a member of the STR and OMT divisions.

Her research focuses on corporate political strategies, boards of directors, and corporate strategy. Hillman’s corporate experience includes serving as the general manager of a retail and manufacturing clothing business prior to joining academia, consulting for major corporations on corporate strategy and facilitating strategic planning, and advising companies on strategies to influence public policy. She serves as director and chair of the Nominating/Governance committee of Nasdaq traded CDK Global, a member of AMERCO’s independent governance committee, and serves on the non-profit boards of the Association for the Advancement of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and the ASU’s Research Park.

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.

Peter H. Kim is a Professor of Management and Organization at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business. He is the Chair of the Academy of Management's Conflict Management Division (2017-2018), has served on the Administrative Board for the International Association for Conflict Management, is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Trust Research, and has served on the Editorial Boards for several other journals including the International Journal of Conflict Management, Negotiation and Conflict Management Research, Organization Science, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. He has a PhD from Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management and has held visiting positions at Washington University in St. Louis and INSEAD. Peter's research concerns the dynamics of interpersonal perceptions and their implications for negotiations, work groups, and dispute resolution, with particular attention to matters of trust and its repair after a violation. His work examines how these perceptions develop and go awry, their divergent effects on behavior, what happens when we communicate these perceptions to others, and the ways in which these perceptions can be managed and/or changed. This research has been published in many leading management and psychology journals, including the Academy of Management Review, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Management Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and Strategic Management Journal. This research has also received ten national/international awards, including the 2011 Most Influential Article Award by the Academy of Management's Conflict Management Division, and has been reported in a wide range of media outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, and National Public Radio.

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.

Rich Makadok is a thought leader in strategic management research (webpage). Using his "Four Theories of Profit" framework, he focuses on developing a comprehensive overall understanding of the four main mechanisms that determine the profitability of a business (competitive advantage, rivalry restraint, information asymmetry, and commitment timing) and how those mechanisms affect each other.

He has also developed an innovative theory of hybrid governance forms that merge elements of both an organizational hierarchy and a market transaction. His empirical work focuses on developing indirect measures for the elusive concept of organizational capability and using these measures to predict the performance and strategic decisions of firms, in order to test theories of competitive advantage.

Rich's research has been honored with the Academy of Management Review's Best Paper Award in 2009, and with three awards from the Academy of Management's Business Policy and Strategy division -- the Glueck Best Paper Award in both 1997 and 2007, and Distinguished Paper Award in 2006.

Prior to his academic career, Rich worked as Manager of Software Development for Century Management Consultants, Inc., where he designed and wrote The Century Promotion Manager, a software package to help consumer product companies manage their retail trade promotions more effectively.

Before joining the faculty of the Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business, Rich served on the faculties of Purdue University's Krannert School of Management, Emory University's Goizueta Business School, and Tulane University's A.B. Freeman School of Business.

Rich is the founder of the Atlanta Competitive Advantage Conference. He serves on the editorial boards of Strategic Management Journal (SMJ) and Academy of Management Review (AMR), and as Guest Editor for the June 2018 SMJ special issue on "New Theory in Strategic Management" and for a forthcoming AMR special issue on "Sociocognitive Perspectives in Strategy and Strategic Management."

Kyle Mayer is a Professor of Strategy at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California (faculty page). He has been at USC since receiving his doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley in 1999. Prior to attending Berkeley, he worked as a project manager in Silicon Valley for several years, primarily in the area of new product development. He was a fixture in the core curriculum of the Marshall MBA program for over 15 years, and has won awards for his teaching, research and service, including being named the Marshall Educator of the Year in 2006 and winning multiple Golden Apple teaching awards. Dr. Mayer teaches MBA courses on competitive strategy, corporate and global strategy, strategic alliances, and decision-making, and has designed course models for executives on strategy, global strategy, alliances, framing strategic opportunities, organization design and organizational change. He has over a decade of experience working with executives and running training programs in a wide variety of industries, including but not limited to entertainment, technology, aerospace, biotechnology, finance, and health care.

Dr. Mayer’s research examines outsourcing decisions and the management of inter-organizational relationships, with a focus on the strategic role of contracts in managing these relationships. He has published articles in a wide variety of outlets including the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, the Strategic Management Journal, Management Science, the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, and the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization among others, as well as several book chapters. He has also made numerous presentations at scholarly conferences such as the Academy of Management, the Strategic Management Society, the Wharton Technology Conference and the Atlanta Competitive Advantage Conference among others. He served as an Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Journal from 2010-2013 and has served as an Associate Editor for the Strategic Management Journal since 2016.

Shad Morris is the Georgia White Associate Professor of Management at the Marriott School of Business, Brigham Young University (faculty page). He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University. In addition to co-authoring 5 books on people management and international business, he has over 30 scholarly publications in journals such as Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Strategic Management Journal, and Harvard Business Review. In addition, Professor Morris conducts research and consults in many emerging markets within Asia, Latin America and Africa. He has been a visiting professor at the Indian School of Business, China Europe International Business School, the Copenhagen Business School, and the Sloan School of Management at MIT. He has been a Fulbright Scholar and a Research Fellow at Cambridge University. He has also received numerous awards for his international research, including one of the top research awards from the Academy of Management. Prior to becoming an academic, he worked for the World Bank, for Management Systems International, and for Alcoa. He speaks Bulgarian and has working knowledge of Serbo-Croatian.

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.

Dr. Robert E. Ployhart is the Bank of America Professor of Business Administration and Chair of the management department at the University of South Carolina's Darla Moore School of Business. He has a Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Michigan State University (1999), a M.A. from Bowling Green State University (1996), and a B.S. from North Dakota State University (1994).

Rob's most recent research focuses on the intersection of psychology with human capital resources and organizational strategy. This research program is reflected in his work on personnel selection, recruitment, staffing-related legal issues, turnover, human capital resources, and applied statistical models (particularly multilevel and longitudinal models). Rob has published over 100 scholarly articles and chapters on these topics and written two books. His publications have appeared in such outlets as the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, and Personnel Psychology.

Rob has served as Associate Editor for the Journal of Applied Psychology, Guest Associate Editor for Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Co-Editor for a special issue at Organizational Research Methods, and editorial board member for six journals. He has received many scholarly and teaching awards that include the American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contributions to Applied Psychology, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology's M. Scott Meyers Award for Applied Research in the Workplace and the William A. Owens Scholarly Achievement Award, and the Journal of Management's Best Paper Award and Scholarly Impact Award. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Rob's research has been funded by a variety of private and public organizations.

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.

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.

Roy Suddaby is the Winspear Chair of Management at the Peter B. Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria, Canada and Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Carson College of Business, Washington State University, USA. Professor Suddaby also holds adjunct positions at IAE Business School, Argentina, Ritsumeikan University, Japan and the University of Liverpool Management School, UK. His research focuses on the critical role of symbolic resources—legitimacy, authenticity, identity and history—in processes of entrepreneurial change and innovation. Roy is a Fellow of the Academy of Management and is a past editor of the Academy of Management Review.

Sherry M.B. Thatcher is the Skinner Professor of Business in the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville’s Haslam College of Business. She also currently serves as the Chair of the Management Department. Her Ph.D. is in organizational behavior from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania (2000). Prior to joining UofSC she served on the faculties of the University of Louisville and the University of Arizona. She also spent a number of years developing businesses in Micronesia and working throughout Southeast Asia.

Her research interests focus on diversity, identity, and conflict, and she is one of the leading experts in the area of team faultlines. She work appears in the top journals of our field, including the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Annals, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organization Science, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Systems and Decision Support Systems. Sherry has received numerous awards including the prestigious Educational Foundation Award for Research from the University of South Carolina in 2016 and numerous best paper awards. She has given over 100 presentations related to her research and is often hosted by international universities as a visiting scholar. Her research has been funded by both private and public organizations, including the National Science Foundation. She has served as an Associate Editor at the Academy of Management Review and serves or has served on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management, Small Group Research, and Group and Organization Management.