The Academy of Management will hold its 84th Annual Meeting from August 9-13. It is the largest meeting of researchers and scholars in the field of management and organization. The theme for the meeting is “Innovating for the Future: Policy, Purpose, and Organizations.” There will be 19 presenters from the George Washington University School of Business, including doctoral students and faculty members. Taken together, they will deliver more than 50 presentations. Below is a brief synopsis of faculty presentations and sessions. For a full list of presentations by GW School of Business faculty and doctoral students, visit the Academy of Management website.
“Research Methodology: Best Practices for Rigorous, Credible, and Impactful Research,” by Herman Aguinis, Avram Tucker Distinguished Scholar and professor of management, will give an overview of the research process and best practices for performing top-quality and impactful research. Professor Aguinis previously served as president of the Academy of Management. This will be the first of six presentations he will deliver at the conference.
“How Did CEOs Learn Not to Diversify? Institutional Change and MBA Corporate Finance Textbooks” will be presented by Associate Professor of Strategic Management and Public Policy Ernie Englander. The paper explores the reasons behind a shift in corporate decision-making about acquisitions, and how an agency-theoretic perspective shifted CEO’s toward less diversification in the building of conglomerates.
Denise Falchetti, assistant professor of management, will be a panelist in a session titled “Strategic Framing in Multi-Stakeholder Settings: Tensions, Reconciliation Strategies, and Use of AI.” The session will highlight AI’s capacity to yield new questions about how framing can influence multi-stakeholder outcomes.
Joel Gehman, the Thaddeus A. Lindner and Sergius Gambal Professor of Business Ethics and professor of strategic management and public policy, will be a participant in “OMT Navigating the First Years of the PhD,” a session aimed at early-stage doctoral students.
N. Sharon Hill, professor of management, will be presenting “Behind the Publication: Insights from the Publication Process.” The session will give attendees insights about the publishing process and how an article can eventually be published in a top management journal.
Jin Hyung Kim, assistant professor of international business, is an organizer of a session that will focus on “Organizational Wrongdoing and its Deterrence.” It will explain the motivations behind wrongdoing and the reason why particular strategies to deter wrongdoing are effective.
Associate Professor of Management Margaret Ormiston will be presenting in the session “New Perspectives on Stereotyping in Organizations,” on the issue of bias and new research findings on the types of stereotyping that occurs within organizations. The session will discuss the dynamics and consequences of gender stereotypes in the workplace.
Professor Vontrese Pamphile of the Department of Strategic Management and Public Policy is a facilitator of a session called “Insider Social Change Agents: Integrating Research to Innovate for the Future.” Professor Pamphile’s research explores organizational theory, and the intersection of social issues and business. This panel will explore insider change agents, individuals who attempt to get their organizations to have an impact on society. The second part of the session will consider broader scholarship in the areas of society and business.
A presentation co-authored by International Business Professor Anupama Phene, the Phillip Grub Distinguished Scholar at the GW School of Business, will be among several papers by GW faculty featured at the conference. In “Firm Termination of Irresponsible Suppliers: The Role of Severity of Irresponsibility,” Phene and co-author Yuxi Cheng, a professor at the University of Liverpool Management School, asks whether and when a firm should terminate relationships with suppliers that are found to have behaved irresponsibly.
“Where Do We Go from Here? Muddling Through Business Adaptation to Climate Change,” co-authored by Jorge E. Rivera, professor of strategic management and public policy and Tucker-Endowed Fellow, looks at the effects that climate change adaptation strategies can have for firms, using the California wine industry as a model.
Teaching Professor of Management Ayman El Tarabishy, will be a discussant in a session titled “Entrepreneurship and Innovation Ecosystem Communities: Purpose, Policies, Profession, Publication,” which invited experts, policymakers and other stakeholders from civil society who have an interest in the practice of entrepreneurship to have a dialogue about shaping the future of the entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystem.
Roman Terekhin, a faculty member in the Department of Management, will be a presenter for the session “Innovative and Experiential Approaches to Teaching HR,” which will give attendees insight into experiential teaching methods using topics such as compensation and diversity from the field of human resources.
Also being held on the first day of the conference is a session entitled “How to Succeed in the PhD Admissions Process: A Consortium for Pre-Doctoral Students.” Jorge Walter, who serves as chair of the Department of Strategic Management and Public Policy at GW Business, will be among the hosts. The session is part of a four-part professional development workshop series that will be held at the conference, delving into the doctoral admissions process and how candidates can be successful in meeting their career goals with a doctorate.
Professor of International Business Robert J. Weiner will be a distinguished speaker for a panel on “Managing Geopolitical Risks.” Weiner, who also holds joint appointments at GW’s Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration and Elliott School of International Affairs, studies political risks within his scholarly interest areas, which include energy resources and the economic and strategic components of the world petroleum market.
This Academy of Management annual meeting will also have participation from doctoral students Lauryn Burnett, Amando Cope, Ursula Martin, Soolim Park and Rui Wang.