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Call for Submissions | OMT Scholarly The Organization and Management Theory Division (OMT) seeks scholarly submissions of papers and symposia for the 2026 Annual Meeting.

We look forward to receiving your #symposia proposals, #papers, and #posters 💎
Join us in Philadelphia this summer ♥️

www.aom.org/events/annua...

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Calling all OMT senior scholars 📣

This November, we are initiating the 8𝐭𝐡 𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐎𝐌𝐓 #𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐩𝐬 and would love for you to be a part of this popular and extraordinarily successful initiative again – will you please join us?
Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#OMTtheplacetobe

Call for Submissions | OMT PDW The Organization and Management Theory Division (OMT) invites submissions for Professional Development Workshops (PDWs) at the 2026 Annual Meeting.

📢 Call for Proposals: 2026 OMT Professional Development Workshops

We are seeking innovative PDW proposals for the Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Philadelphia (July 31-Aug 3, 2026)

📅 Deadline: January 13, 2026 (17:00 ET)

www.aom.org/events/annua...

#OMT #AOM2026 #OMTtheplacetobe

Check out this nice lil' video by Jo-Ellen Pozner, our new addition to OMT leadership and 2026 PDW chair 😍 and consider submitting your PDW proposals to our division 👏🏻

#AOM2026 #PDW #workshops

Sponsor Spotlight: Organization & Management Theory Division of AOM

Interested in our division? Join the Academy of Management NDSC conversation with Wendy Smith, Ilaria Orlandi, and @emilyblock.bsky.social. They discuss what OMT is, why students should consider joining OMT, the events OMT hosts, and more 💃🕺

open.spotify.com/episode/0pTX...

🏆 Best Paper on Environmental and Social Practices (sponsored by UNSW): Enrico Forti, Joost Rietveld, Alessandro Piazza
🏆 Best Symposium: Michael Jacobides, Peter Zemsky
🏆 Best Social Networks and Organizations Paper (sponsored: Links): Christopher Liu, Waverly Ding, Young-Kyu Kim, Beril Yalcinkaya

🏆 Best Student Paper Award: Yue Zhong
🏆 Best Entrepreneurship Paper Award (sponsored by Macquarie University): Greta Hsu and Elizabeth Pontikes
🏆 OMT Responsible Research: Salem Alsanousi and Dana Kanze

Congratulations to our award winners!

🏆 OMT Division Best Paper Award: Madeleine Rauch
🏆 Louis Pondy Best Dissertation Paper Award (sponsored by IESE): Susie Choe
🏆 Best International Paper Award (sponsored by Organization Studies): Stefanie Beninger, Bernadette Bullinger and Leila Rakib Ortega

Yesterday, we bid farewell to our fearless and visionary outgoing OMT chair, Forrest Briscoe (who, among many other things, got us through the pandemic).

Join us in thanking Forrest for the amazing service to our community ✨✨✨✨

𝗢𝗠𝗧 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗔𝗱𝗱𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗳𝗮𝘀𝘁

Join us for the 2025 OMT Distinguished Scholar event, where we will honor Renate Meyer 🏆

This award honors a scholar whose contributions have been central to the field of organization studies 🙌🏾🙌🙌🏿🙌🏻

Save the date: cdmcd.co/k96xgM
#OMTtheplacetobe

Join our #TeachOMT PDW tomorrow to learn and share how fun, energizing, and interactive teaching OMT can be 👩🏽‍🏫👨🏻‍🏫🧑‍🏫

Info: cdmcd.co/yKAjzW)
🗓️ Saturday 26 July from 14.30-16.00
📍CBS, Kilen building, room K150

#OMTtheplacetobe

Our program has started wonderfully! You are invited to join us this week for more insightful and enjoyable sessions 🎯

#OMTtheplacetobe #AOM2025
Cc: @aomconnect.bsky.social

𝗢𝗠𝗧 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗔𝗱𝗱𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗳𝗮𝘀𝘁

Join us for the 2025 OMT Distinguished Scholar event, where we will honor Renate Meyer 🏆

This award honors a scholar whose contributions have been central to the field of organization studies 🙌🏾🙌🙌🏿🙌🏻

Save the date: cdmcd.co/k96xgM
#OMTtheplacetobe

Check out our www.omtfun.com for this year's OMT off-program events ✨💃🥂

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📣 Time to plan the 2025 off-program 💃 Are you planning a fun activity, a landmark visit, or a cozy coffee shop crawl in Copenhagen? The OMT off-program is your platform to make it happen 🥳
Sign up to host an event here:
forms.gle/QCkVTNNSV9YB...

Cc: Ilaria Orlandi
#OMTtheplacetobe #AOM2025

🌿 We’re thrilled to invite you to a Joint Reception at EGOS 2025 in Athens, co-hosted by Organization Theory (OT), Meet OMT@EGOS, and SCANCOR!

📍 Athens Lawn Tennis Club
🗓️ Thursday, July 3 | 19:00–21:00
📌 Leof. Vasilissis Olgas 2, Athina 105 57

#EGOS2025 #OrganizationTheory #OMT #SCANCOR

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📣 Time to plan the 2025 off-program 💃 Are you planning a fun activity, a landmark visit, or a cozy coffee shop crawl in Copenhagen? The OMT off-program is your platform to make it happen 🥳
Sign up to host an event here:
forms.gle/QCkVTNNSV9YB...

Cc: Ilaria Orlandi
#OMTtheplacetobe #AOM2025

"Scholarly Dialogue on Academic #Freedom" 🌈

Join the session on #policy #restrictions' impact on academic work 🌍🌎 Open to all @aomconnect.bsky.social members, led by the DEI division with support from OMT, SIM, MSR, CMS, and ONE

When: May 28, 11-12 ET

connect.aom.org/dei/events/e...

#DEI

Kicking off the 7th edition of #OMTmeetups 💃🕺
If you're a junior scholar, especially a PhD student or postdoc, sign up to chat online with a senior scholar—we have a fantastic roster!

👉🏽 omt.aom.org/discussion/o...

Cc: Anupama Kondayya, Christine Moser and Richard Haans

#OMTtheplacetobe

Vote. Vote. Vote 👏👏🏻👏🏾

OMTers – Wanna help out? Help OMT win a (friendly!) competition. VOTE (now!) in the OMT elections

✔️ You should have received an email with a personal link to vote this past week.
✔️ No email? Write us at OMT@aom.org

#OMTtheplacetobe #votenow 😁

Vote. Vote. Vote 👏👏🏻👏🏾

OMTers – Wanna help out? Help OMT win a (friendly!) competition. VOTE (now!) in the OMT elections

✔️ You should have received an email with a personal link to vote this past week.
✔️ No email? Write us at OMT@aom.org

#OMTtheplacetobe #votenow 😁

"Scholarly Dialogue on Academic #Freedom" 🌈

Join the session on #policy #restrictions' impact on academic work 🌍🌎 Open to all @aomconnect.bsky.social members, led by the DEI division with support from OMT, SIM, MSR, CMS, and ONE

When: May 28, 11-12 ET

connect.aom.org/dei/events/e...

#DEI

Kicking off the 7th edition of #OMTmeetups 💃🕺
If you're a junior scholar, especially a PhD student or postdoc, sign up to chat online with a senior scholar—we have a fantastic roster!

👉🏽 omt.aom.org/discussion/o...

Cc: Anupama Kondayya, Christine Moser and Richard Haans

#OMTtheplacetobe

Time to Vote 🏃🏃🏿‍♂️🏃🏽‍♀️

OMT has four roles up for election 🥳
If you are an OMT member, please check your email (including the spam folder) and vote for the next Division Chair, Rep-at-Large 1, Rep-at-Large 2, and Rep-at-Large 3 🙌🏽🙌🏻🙌🙌🏿

Only 1 day to nominate 🏃

📢 Call for Applications: OMT Global Research Consortium: Doing Organizational Research Around the World 🌍🌎
🗓 Extended deadline: May 11, 2025
📍 Copenhagen | July 26, 2025

Join us to obtain advice, tools, and networks to research understudied (non-Western) settings

omt.aom.org/discussion/c...

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We are very pleased to announce the 2025 OMT Division Travel Awards Program.

🗓️The deadline to apply is May 30, 2025.

To apply, visit: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

For more info: www.linkedin.com/posts/aom-om...

Cc: @aomconnect.bsky.social #OMT #AOM2025

Only 4 days to submit your nomination 🇩🇰 (deadline extended to May 9)

Cc: @katiestephenson.bsky.social

Only 4 days to nominate 🇩🇰

We are excited to share our pre-conference newsletter, featuring our latest news, including #award #winners and upcoming #events 🏆🎤

Check it out here:
omt.aom.org/newsletters/...

A huge thank you to Kevin Lee for the fantastic job of compiling the contributions of our executive committee ✨