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2024 TIM Panel Recording 🎙️

TIM Plenary 2024: Join us as Aija Leiponen (Cornell), Karim Lakhani (Harvard), Kevin Boudreau (Northeastern), and Lynn Wu (Wharton) share diverse perspectives on AI’s impact on science and innovation. You can listen to the recording right here.

2024 TIM Distinguished Scholar Recording 📽️

TIM Distinguished Scholar Luncheon: Watch insights from Professor Daniel Levinthal (Wharton School) as he delivers an inspiring keynote on pioneering research and innovation at the Distinguished Scholar luncheon. Here is a link to the video recording.

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2024 TIM Distinguished Scholar

The TIM Division is proud to present the 2024 TIM Distinguished Scholar, Professor Daniel Levinthal, Wharton School. Congratulations, and see you at the Academy to celebrate this award with us.

2024 TIM Emerging Scholar

This session highlighted the work of the 2024 TIM Emerging Scholar Award winner, Assistant Professor Callen Anthony, NYU. Congratulations to this achievement!

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  • Teaching Resources from the STR Division

    Are you preparing to teach a strategic management course in early 2025? Did you know that the STR Division website has a phenomenal library of digital resources devoted to teaching that can help you design your course, engage students, enhance learning, and introduce new teaching innovations? From sample syllabi to teaching videos to in-class games and exercises, and even links to external teaching resources, this library is rich with tips, tools and materials that can help you with your upcoming teaching assignments.

    Please explore the STR teaching website at: https://str.aom.org/teaching

    In addition, you may also find STR YouTube teaching playlist useful, available at (also available as podcasts; see the STR home page): https://youtu.be/dgay45yMfbY?si=JvyVyqOsMaQr0faK

    Special thanks go out to the STR Teaching Committee members who have helped collate these materials over the years (and especially Paul Seaborn who carried out the most recent update), and to the STR Communications team members who manage our YouTube account and other STR communication channels. If you run into an STR team member please thank them for their service.

  • wISE Conference in Oceania (co-sponsored by AOM STR)

    The STR Division has adopted a new Global Impact Plan this year that makes a stronger commitment to outreach in underserved and emerging regions of strategic management scholarship. As a part of these efforts, the STR Division is co-sponsoring the 2nd wISE Scholarship in Oceania – Fostering the Innovation, Strategy & Entrepreneurship Community conference. We hope that many of our members, particularly in the ASEAN and Oceania region, will submit papers and attend.

    wISE Scholarship in Oceania Conference (wISE 2025)

    The second edition of the wISE Scholarship in Oceania Conference (wISE 2025) will be held at Macquarie University, Sydney, from 20-21 March 2025. Full details at: https://event.mq.edu.au/wise-conference/.

    Submission deadline: January 9, 2025.

    SUBMISSIONS

    Presenters will be selected based on manuscript submissions, which should be sent to wISE@mq.edu.au. Please include the following (in one single word file), following AOM guidelines:

    ·        Cover page (including all authors and their contact details)

    ·        Working paper (up to 40 pages, including references, tables, and figures). Papers should include research questions addressed, theory/literature review, hypotheses/propositions, research design, and expected results and contribution to scholarship in strategy, innovation and/or entrepreneurship literature(s)

    ·        Stream that you would prefer presenting in (Innovation, Strategy, Entrepreneurship)

    Scholars in the region can attend the conference without presenting a paper.

    IMPORTANT DEADLINES

    ·        Paper submission opens: 15 December 2024

    ·        Paper submission closes: 9 January 2024

    ·        Authors notified of outcomes: 1 February 2025

    ·        Registration closes: 21 February 2025

  • MCD Book Series: The Science of Change

    MCD Learning Lab Series – MCD Book Series - The Science of Change

    Date: November 20, 2024

    Time: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM EST 

    Guest Speaker: Richard Boyatzis, H. Clark Ford Professor, Organizational Behavior, Weatherhead School of Management

    Add to Calendar: [LEARNING LAB] Book MCD - The Science of Change - Management Consulting Division

    Meeting Link: https://wmich.webex.com/meet/david.szabla

    Discover the Science of Change!  

    Join us for our inaugural MCD Book Series Learning Lab, featuring the distinguished Dr. Richard Boyatzis, who will be presenting his groundbreaking new book, The Science of Change. Drawing on over 50 years of extensive research into human behavior and organizational transformation, Dr. Boyatzis delves into the mechanisms that drive meaningful and sustainable change.

    In The Science of Change, Boyatzis explores his renowned Intentional Change Theory (ICT), a unifying multi-level fractal theory that explains how to understand and support lasting change. During this session, participants will have the unique opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of how to apply ICT to real-world challenges. Whether you’re a researcher, leader, manager, coach, or simply someone interested in the science of human behavior, this session will provide valuable insights and practical tools for creating environments that support sustained growth and improvement. Don’t miss this chance to learn from one of the foremost thinkers in the field of behavior change.

  • 2025 Division Scholarly Program: Call for Submissions

    (posted on behalf of @Christina Theodoraki, Program Chair)

    The Entrepreneurship Division now invites paper and symposium proposals for the 2025 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, 25-29 July 2025, in Copenhagen (Denmark). Proposals should align with the Entrepreneurship Division's scope, which includes entrepreneurial ecosystems, self-employment, new venture creation, financing, small business management, family business, innovation, inclusiveness, firm growth, and sustainability. Broader concepts related to identifying, analyzing, and exploiting entrepreneurial opportunities are also welcome. Additionally, proposals may explore novelty, creativity, and innovation in individuals, organizations, and environments, as well as decision-making under uncertainty in various entrepreneurial contexts.
     
    This year's conference is not theme-specific, allowing for a broad rethinking of research in entrepreneurship. The future of organizations and societies remains a central concern for scholars and managers, particularly in the face of political and economic instabilities, inequality, technological disruption, environmental and societal challenges, and other global issues. The 2025 theme emphasizes the critical role of entrepreneurship in shaping effective policymaking (at macro, meso, and micro levels), which is essential for driving innovation and sustainable growth in organizations and societies.
     
    As members of the Entrepreneurship Division, we are uniquely positioned to produce rigorous, practical research that highlights the importance of entrepreneurship in the policymaking process. Our work can help entrepreneurs, managers, policymakers, and stakeholders collaboratively address global challenges more effectively. We encourage division members to contribute to this important conversation, though proposals on any entrepreneurship-related topic are welcome.
     
    Paper and symposium proposals are due Tuesday, 7 January 2025 at 17:00 (5 pm) EST (UTC-5 / GMT-5). The 2025 AOM Annual Meeting Submission Center will be available in the beginning of December 2024. Early submissions are encouraged.
     
    Innovation: 
    Poster submissions: As an innovation this year, we will introduce poster sessions as a new feature! These sessions will take place in high-visibility sessions, offering an interactive and visually engaging platform for sharing your research and ideas. It's a fantastic opportunity to network with fellow attendees and presenters at AOM, fostering collaborations. Further information on the Poster Submission Guidelines and Rules can be found at the AOM Call for Submissions. 
     
    Thank you: 
    We continue to thank all of our members who have submitted, reviewed and volunteered in this and previous years. You have helped make the ENT division collegiate, inclusive, and welcoming and a special place to be for all.
     
    Reviewers needed:
    We strongly encourage all who are submitting to the Entrepreneurship Division to support us by volunteering to review for the Entrepreneurship Division. The Division needs at least 1,500 reviewers. Your help in supporting our community with this task and helping its growth and development is greatly appreciated. The reviewer sign-up system opens early December 2024.
     
    Division Awards:
    The Entrepreneurship Division honors outstanding contributions with several best paper and best dissertation awards as part of the meeting program.
     
    Submission Process:
    All submissions must be made through the AOM submission website. Please review all submission process, submission guidelines and formatting instructions, and policies and ethics carefully before submitting. If any guidelines or formatting instructions are not met, the submission cannot be sent for review. 
     
    Please direct any questions to Christina Theodoraki
     
    See you in Copenhagen! #AOM2025

  • ENT Call for Professional Development Workshops

    ENT Call for Professional Development Workshops 
    (posted on behalf of @Trenton Williams, ENT Division PDW Chair)
     
    Professional Development Workshops (PDWs) are among the most rewarding, stimulating, and enjoyable sessions of the Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meeting. The Entrepreneurship Division invites creative and innovative proposals for interactive PDW sessions for the 2025 AOM Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. We are looking for interesting, engaging, and creative PDW’s on Research (topics and methods), Teaching, and Practice to Scholarship and back. Given its mission, “We Grow Entrepreneurial Scholars,” the ENT Division favors PDW proposals that give participants across career stages the opportunity to learn new skills, share ideas, help other scholars, have new experiences, and build connections. 
     
    How do PDWs contribute to the overall program? 
    PDWs are meant as complements, not substitutes, for the regular AOM program. They should NOT cover conventional themes and topics or be structured as traditional paper or panel sessions. Rather, PDWs should be innovative in content and structure, exploring issues and encouraging interactions not usually featured in the main program. 
     
    PDW sessions are typically structured as workshops, breakout sessions, tutorials, discussion panels, research incubators, or other interactive formats. PDWs should be thought provoking but also a place to safely present and explore new ideas, by linking different views and creating new research opportunities. Through the exchange of ideas and collaboration across different fields and disciplines, we can develop new avenues for research. We welcome submissions featuring innovative topics or themes, new forms of exchange, and experimental formats—for example, sessions that use technology in novel ways, create interactions among participants before or after the session, and engage participants in new ways. 
     
    Bridging Perspectives within the ENT Division and Across Divisions
    Proposals should interest members of the Entrepreneurship Division, or fit its domain, which includes not only the phenomena of self-employment, small-business management, family business, new-venture formation, innovation, and firm growth but also more general ideas about the recognition, analysis, and exploitation of entrepreneurial opportunities; the nature of novelty, creativity, and innovativeness; and how individuals and groups exercise judgment under uncertainty. Sessions with standard paper presentations are more appropriate for traditional symposia. 
     
    PDWs are focused on creating bridges across diverse scholarly sub-communities—both within the ENT division and across the Academy of Management. The most effective PDWs encourage interaction among individuals and groups that do not typically participate in the same sessions, workshops, and activities. Bridging diverse audience perspectives might include (but are not limited to) those of junior and senior scholars; between academics and practitioners; among scholars from different countries; among academics following different career paths; and among perspectives across divisional lines and/or theoretical perspectives across the Academy.  
     
    Hence you are encouraged to work with colleagues within and outside the Division and submit appropriate PDW proposals which have broad appeal to the Academy membership at-large. Indeed, PDWs provide a unique space where previously disconnected communities can come together, share their knowledge and expertise, build new relationships and ultimately contributing to the growth and development of the field of entrepreneurship.
     
    Submission Format and Components
    Please attend carefully to the submission guidelines detailed below. Please note that the submission will not be reviewed if any of the guidelines and formatting requirements are not met. 
     
    Proposal Format Guidelines
    • PDW proposals can be submitted to only ONE sponsor (that is, one [1] division, division interest group [DIG], or affiliate).
    • Proposals should use the following page format:
      • Times New Roman 12-point font
      • Double-spaced
      • 1-inch (2.5cm) margin all around
      • 8.5" x 11”-page setting
      • All submissions must be at least 4 pages but are limited to no more than 8 pages. You may use an appendix as needed to provide information that expands on the proposal.
      • The entire submission must be contained in ONE document and must be either .pdf, .doc, .docx, or .rtf format
     
    Proposal Structure
    • Page 1: Title page which contains:
      • the Academy submission system-assigned 5-digit submission number
      • title of the workshop (in Title Case)
      • name of the proposed sponsor (Division—e.g., ENT Division) and a list of other Divisions or Interest Groups who might be cross-listed given common interests.
      • up to 250-word abstract of the workshop
    • Page 2: One (1) page explanation as to why the workshop should be of interest to (a) the ENT division as the primary sponsor and (b) other divisions or interest groups
    • Page 3: One (1) page description of the workshop’s format
    • Pages 4-6: One to three (1-3) page overview of the workshop
    • Optional Appendix: You can use space in an appendix to capture references, Tables (e.g., detailed agenda for the workshop), and/or Figures that support the proposal
    Proposal Evaluation Rubric
    Proposals will be evaluated on their ability to draw an audience from the specific discipline or across AOM, as well as its innovativeness and potential impact on the professional success of participants. While new iterations of previous PDWs are not discouraged, proposals that are a simple repeat – without new innovative content beyond what has already been covered – from previous years will not be considered favorably. In contrast to the refereed scholarly program that has a double-blind review process and standardized time blocks and formats, the PDWs include a wide variety of session formats, are a minimum of 1-hour in duration, and are reviewed by the PDW Chair. 
     
    The PDW Chair will use the following criteria to evaluate proposals:
    a) Expected substantive and networking benefit for participants. Clearly specify the target audience(s) for the PDW and how your proposed session will facilitate their development. 
    b) Plans for creating an interactive and engaging session. Explain how you will structure the session to foster interaction amongst participants and promote inter-disciplinary ‘bridge-building.’
    c) Breadth of interest of the session for individuals and groups within the Division and the broader Academy. Specify the anticipated breadth of interest, noting that you do not need to be ‘all things for all groups.’
    d) Novelty of the topic or the format. Explain how the topic and/or how your proposed PDW format is novel and why introducing that novelty is useful for addressing program goals. 
    e) The effective use of program time. PDWs are typically at least two hours long, though sessions may be as short as 1.5 hours but must a minimum of 1-hour in duration. Ensure that you explain and justify why the requested time is needed to accomplish your goals and how you plan to maximize the use of that time. In doing so, consider that program time is zero-sum: your requests will ‘trade-off’ program time for other program participants.  
     
    Additional resources and questions to ask
    William Dougan of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater has provided an additional resource in the form of A Guide for Creating and Managing a Good Professional Development Workshop. You might consider those guidelines as you explore your proposal. Before submitting a PDW proposal, consider the following questions in seeking to assess how well you are addressing the PDW rubric:
    • Does the workshop offer a high quality and high-level learning experience that has a significant positive impact on the professional development of the participants?
    • Does the workshop provide participants with a clear takeaway? (E.g. learn a new skill; develop a new research plan)
    • Does the workshop have a theme and a group of participants to draw a strong audience regardless of competing sessions or scheduling restrictions?
    • Does the workshop encourage multi-way conversation and interaction among participants from multiple divisions, disciplines, regions, career stages, or demographic backgrounds?
    • Is the workshop creative and innovative across topical and/or structural elements?
    Submission Process and Deadlines
    Proposals should be submitted to the AOM Annual Meeting Submission Center, which is available at the AOM website beginning in early December of 2024. Early submissions and expressions of interest are encouraged. 
    The deadline for submissions is January 7, 2025, at 5PM ET (NY Time). The PDW program runs from Friday through Sunday (July 25-27, 2025—PLEASE NOTE THE JULY DATE). 
     
    All named PDW participants must commit to participation in advance. All proposals require a statement indicating that all named participants have consented to participate in the PDW. The AOM’s “Rule of Three” for the PDW program is that “no one may submit or be associated with more than 3 PDW submissions; or appear in more than 3 PDW sessions during the preconference from Friday to Saturday, regardless of whether the sessions are held on-site or off-site.” 
     
    If you have questions or would like to discuss a potential workshop idea, please contact the Entrepreneurship Division’s PDW Chair, Trent Williams at TrentonWilliams@byu.edu. To ensure sufficient time to develop your proposal, please forward your general inquiries before December 15, 2024. 
     
    See you in Copenhagen! #AOM2025

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