Academy of Management Journal

Tal Simons is a professor of Organization Theory at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, the Netherlands. Tal is intrigued by the broad question of how organizations persist and change. She is interested in understanding organizational phenomena and dynamics accompanying or underlying change and/or persistence such as contestation, ideology, creativity and creative processes, and time and history. Tal addresses these issues at the organization, community, and field levels of analysis, using and often combining qualitative and quantitative methods. Her research has been published in Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, Organization Science, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, and Industrial and Corporate Change, among others. Tal’s research has received several Academy of Management awards. Tal received a Ph.D. from Cornell University, a Master of Science from Tel Aviv University, and a Bachelor of Science from Hebrew University (both in Israel). She previously held visiting positions at Columbia University and Carnegie-Mellon University. Tal has served on the editorial review board of Academy of Management Journal. She currently serves also on the editorial review boards of Organization Theory and Academy of Management Discoveries. Previously, Tal served on the editorial review boards of Organization Science and Journal of International Business Studies.

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William (Bill) Wan is a Professor in the Department of Management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his Ph.D. from Mays Business School, Texas A&M University. His scholarly interests are in strategic management, international business, strategies in emerging and transition economies, corporate governance, strategic entrepreneurship, especially in relation to initial public offerings and venture capital firms, and empirical methods, including text analytics. His research has appeared in various top-tier academic journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Global Strategy Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of World Business, Management International Review, Organization Science, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, and Strategic Management Journal, among others. He was an associate editor of Journal of Management (2014–2020) and a consulting editor of Management and Organization Review (2010–2013). He is serving, or has served, on the editorial boards of a number of leading management and international business journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of World Business, Group & Organization Management, and Management and Organization Review. He has received outstanding reviewer awards from Academy of Management Journal and Management and Organization Review. In addition, he was a Representative-at-Large at Strategic Management Society’s Corporate Strategy Interest Group.

John Dencker is a full professor at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University. John’s research examines the effects of corporate restructuring on the employment relationship; the influence of public policy programs designed to help the unemployed transition to self-employment on the entrepreneurship process (necessity entrepreneurship); and the workforce consequences of generational dynamics. His work has been published in such journals as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, American Sociological Review, Industrial Relations, Organization Science, and Strategic Management Journal. John received his MA and Ph.D. from Harvard University, and his BA from Northwestern University. Prior to joining Northeastern University, he was a professor in the School of Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a post-doctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. He has had visiting appointments at ESADE Business School in Barcelona, and at the National University Singapore.

Trevis Certo is the Jerry B. and Mary Anne Chapman Professor of Business in the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship in the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. His research on corporate governance, firm performance, and research methodology has appeared in Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, Organizational Research Methods, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Strategic Organization, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Business Venturing, and several others. Trevis has served on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Journal of Management, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Organizational Research Methods, and Strategic Management Journal. He previously served as Chair of the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship as well as the Senior Associate Dean of Faculty in the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. Prior to joining ASU, he was a professor in the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. His Ph.D. is from Indiana University.

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.

Denis A. Grégoire is a Professor of entrepreneurship and innovation at HEC Montréal (Canada), where he holds the Rogers-J.A.-Bombardier Chair of entrepreneurship research (since 2017) and serves as Associate Director for CDL-Montréal and Academic Director for NEXT AI-Montréal’s business curriculum—two programs led by HEC Montréal’s Executive Education to support the growth of high-potential science- and technology-based ventures. Denis has used bibliometrics, experiments, surveys, verbal protocols, content analyses, interviews, and other quantitative and qualitative methods to study the cognitive processes supporting relevant phenomena in entrepreneurship, innovation, internationalization, management, and strategy. His research has been published in Academy of Management Journal and several other entrepreneurship and management journals listed on the FT50, in addition to a few French-language journals. Denis obtained his Ph.D. in administrative sciences from the University of Colorado—Boulder. He held positions in the United States before HEC-Montréal tempted him to return to French-speaking Québec while he still had an accent. A proud father of two, he blames his children for his increasingly gray hair, but knows they will turn out ok, thanks to their mum! ("Love you, Nat!") Denis was an Associate Editor at AMJ from 2019–2022. Like his dear colleague Floor Rink, Denis returns for a second term as Associate Editor with a mandate to help cross-team transition, further transparency initiatives, and foster research that spans across the macro and micro domains.

Sekou Bermiss is an Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research explores how human capital impacts firm performance, survival, and growth. He also examines organizational dynamics related to political ideology, status, and diversity. His research has been published in Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, and Research in Organizational Behavior. He has served on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, and Africa Journal of Management. He received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY), and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Management and Organizations from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Laura M. Little is a full Professor of Management and the Synovus Director of the Institute for Leadership Advancement (ILA) at the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. She assumed the role of director of the ILA in July 2014, but has been a professor in the management department since 2008. Laura uses a variety of methodologies to study work-life integration and self-regulation at work. Her work has been published in Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organization Science, and Personnel Psychology, among others. Her work has also been featured in media outlets, including the Washington Post, New York Times, U.S. News and World Report, Forbes, and Bloomberg. Laura’s research has been nominated for several awards, and she received the AMJ best paper award in 2016. Laura received her Ph.D. from Oklahoma State University, her M.B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin, and her B.A. from Vanderbilt University. Before her academic career, Laura was a consultant for KPMG Consulting and worked for Nokia’s Asia Pacific division in Singapore.

Floor Rink is full professor at the faculty of Economics and Business from the University of Groningen (The Netherlands), where she serves as the research director of the Organizational Behavior department (since 2018). Floor applies psychology theory to explain people’s responses to organizational and economic phenomena. She relies on both quantitative and qualitative research methods (e.g., surveys, experiments, ESM, archival data, case studies). Floor's principal areas of expertise are: (1) issues related to social inequality (e.g., diversity, hierarchy), (2) the changing/dynamic nature of work, and (3) strategic leadership and governance (e.g., CEO/board decision making, ethics). Her findings are published in such academic journals as Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Psychological Science, and Academy of Management Annals. Floor's work has received recognition from several (inter)national scientific associations (e.g., SOM research Institute, American Psychology Association), and obtained funding from multiple agencies (e.g., the Dutch Science Foundation, the Dutch Central Bank, the Foundation for Auditing Research). To help bridge science and practice, Floor regularly gives public speeches and provides strategic advice to organizations and policy makers. She received her masters in Psychology from the University of Groningen, and her Ph.D. at Leiden University (with distinction, 2005). She has held visiting positions at Kellogg School of Management and Exeter University. Currently, Floor is a research affiliate of the Global Institute for Women's Leadership at the Australian National University (ANU). Floor served as an Associate Editor of Academy of Management Journal from 2019 to 2022. She will continue this role in the new editorial team (2022–2025), with specific emphasis on transparency and cross-boundary research.

Toyah Miller is full professor at the School of Business at George Mason University, where she serves as Director of Research for Business for a Better World. She uses primary and secondary data to quantitatively explore her interest in cognition, learning, and positive organizational psychology across four interrelated areas: entrepreneurship, innovation and change, international strategy, and corporate governance. Her interests in entrepreneurship include social entrepreneurship, strategic entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurial cognition. Her work has been published in such journals as Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, and Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice. She has served as associate editor of Journal of Management and currently serves on the editorial board of Journal of Business Venturing and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. She received her doctorate in Management at Texas A&M University and has been a faculty member in the business schools of the University of Oklahoma, Indiana University, and the University of Texas at Dallas. Before getting her doctorate, she worked as a management consultant for Ernst & Young.

Jing Zhu is an associate professor at the Nanyang Business School (NBS), Nanyang Technological University. Prior to joining NBS, she was an assistant, then associate professor of management at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Jing uses quantitative, especially longitudinal research methods, to study theoretically driven behavioral changes and development during work-related transitions, such as dynamics of newcomer and expatriate experiences, temporary work, and job search of the unemployed. She also studies teams with a focus on diversity and processes. Her work has been published in Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology and Journal of Management, and has received multiple awards including the International HRM Scholarly Research Award, the Scholarly Achievement Award of the Academy of Management’s HR Division, and finalist of the Academy of Management Journal’s best paper award, among others. Her work has been covered in such media outlets as the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, the Atlantic, and Forbes. Jing received her B.S. in international management from Renmin Business School at Renmin University of China, and her Ph.D. in human resources and industrial relations from the Carlson School of Management at University of Minnesota. She has served on the editorial board of Academy of Management Journal and Journal of Management.

Reddi Kotha is an associate professor at the Lee Kon Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University, where he served as Academic Director of the Master of Science in Innovation Program (2018–2022). Reddi uses quantitative research methods, including laboratory and field experiments, to study topics in entrepreneurship, strategic management, and technology & innovation management. His work has been published in Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Business Venturing, and Research Policy, among others. Reddi’s research has been recognized with awards from the Academy of Management and the Journal of Management Studies. Reddi received his Ph.D. from London Business School, University of London. He has an MBA from Babson College. He served as a guest editor of the Journal of Management Studies special issue on market entry.

Mo Wang is a University Distinguished Professor and the Lanzillotti-McKethan Eminent Scholar Chair at the Warrington College of Business at University of Florida. His research focuses on retirement and older worker employment, occupational health psychology, expatriate and newcomer adjustment, leadership and team processes, and advanced quantitative methodologies. His work has been published in Academy of Management Journal, Annual Review of Psychology, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Organizational Research Methods, Personnel Psychology, Psychological Bulletin, and Psychological Methods, among others. Mo’s research and professional activities have been recognized with multiple awards from the Academy of Management and other professional organizations. Mo has served in various leadership roles within our professional community, including President of the Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology, President of the Society for Occupational Health Psychology, and the Program Director at the U.S. National Science Foundation. He is an elected Foreign Member of Academia Europaea (M.A.E) and a Fellow of AOM, APA, APS, and SIOP. He is also a member of the Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences (BBCSS) for National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. He was the Editor of The Oxford Handbook of Retirement and an Associate Editor for Journal of Applied Psychology (2010-2020). He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief for Work, Aging and Retirement and a Reviewing Editor of PNAS Nexus. Mo received his joint Ph.D. degree in Industrial-Organizational Psychology and Developmental Psychology from Bowling Green State University.

Christian Tröster is a Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior at the Kühne Logistics University (KLU) in Hamburg, Germany. Chris uses experiments and surveys to study topics in organizational behavior, such as leadership, social networks, and teams. His work has been published in Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of International Business Studies, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, etc. Chris received his bachelor's and master's degree in sociology from the University of Groningen (NL) and his Ph.D. from the Rotterdam School of Management (Erasmus University Rotterdam) (NL). He has been a visiting scholar at several universities, such as Singapore Management University (SMU), the University of British Columbia (UBC), and Victoria University of Wellington (NZ). He currently serves on the editorial board of The Leadership Quarterly, in addition to serving as associate editor of Academy of Management Journal.

Matthew Grimes is Professor of Organisational Theory and Information Systems at the Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. He also serves as the Academic Co-Director of the Cambridge Judge Entrepreneurship Centre. Matthew uses qualitative and quantitative research methods to study topics at the intersection of entrepreneurship, organizational theory, and identity. Much of this research has explored settings related to social impact, social innovation, and sustainability. His work has been published in Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Business Venturing, and several others. Matthew’s research and reviewing activities have received multiple awards from the Academy of Management (e.g., Entrepreneurship Division’s Emerging Scholar Award, AMJ Outstanding Reviewer Award, AMR Developmental Reviewer of the Year Award). Matthew received his B.B.A from the College of William & Mary, his M.Sc. from the University of Oxford, and his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. He has served on editorial review boards of Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Business Venturing, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice.

Ned Wellman is an Associate Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship and Dean’s Council Distinguished Scholar at Arizona State University’s W. P. Carey School of Business. Ned’s research explores questions pertaining to leadership, traits, hierarchy, and ethics/social responsibility. His work has been published in top scholarly outlets, such as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Personnel Psychology. He employs a variety of methodologies, including surveys, experiments, semi-structured interviews, meta-analysis, and computational modeling. Two of his papers have been finalists for the Organizational Behavior Division’s Outstanding Publication in Organizational Behavior award, and he was named one of Poets and Quants Top 40 Under 40 MBA Professors in 2020. Ned received his Ph.D. in Management and Organizations from The University of Michigan. He has held a visiting position at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill. Ned has previously served on the Editorial Boards of Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Personnel Psychology. He was recognized as an Outstanding Reviewer by Academy of Management Journal in 2016 and 2020.

Elizabeth (Bess) Rouse is an Associate Professor of Management and Organization at Boston College. She uses qualitative methods to examine topics related to creativity, collaboration, careers, and identity. Her work appears or is forthcoming in various outlets, including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Discoveries, and Academy of Management Collections. Bess received her bachelor’s degree in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from the Massachusetts Institution of Technology and her master’s and doctoral degrees in Management and Organization from Boston College. She recently coedited The Handbook of Research on Creativity and Innovation and has served on the editorial review board for Academy of Management Discoveries.

Sinziana Dorobantu is Associate Professor of Management and Organizations at the NYU Stern School of Business. She joined Stern in July 2012, after completing her Ph.D. at Duke University and a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests span the areas of nonmarket strategy, global strategy, sustainability, and political economy. Sinziana’s research evaluates the strategies through which firms build relationships with different nonmarket stakeholders (local communities, governments, nongovernmental organizations) to gain and maintain support for their operations in different institutional environments and the financial value of these relationships. Her research builds on different theoretical traditions and seeks to contribute to our broader understanding of what it takes to obtain and maintain a “social license to operate.” Her research has been published in Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Corporate Finance, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, and Strategy Science, and has been recognized with various research awards. For more information, please see http://www.sinzianadorobantu.com/.

Anne ter Wal is Associate Professor of Technology and Innovation Management in the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship at Imperial College Business School, London. Anne uses quantitative and qualitative research methods, including survey-based and experimental approaches, to study the role of social networks in technology development, innovation, and entrepreneurship. His research, often in collaboration with leading multinational companies and start-ups, focuses on how individuals access new knowledge and ideas through networks within and between organizations and the challenges they face when seeking to apply these ideas to the creation of novel products and services. He leads a large-scale EU-funded research project titled "Networking for Innovation," studying how networking enables entrepreneurs and innovators to build valuable networks that help them achieve business and innovation success. He also has an interest in the management of creativity, in particular in the role of bootlegging and other deviant forms of creativity in driving innovative outcomes. His work has been published in leading journals in geography, innovation studies and management, including Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Research Policy, and Journal of Economic Geography. Anne received his master and doctorate in Economic Geography from Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He also serves on the editorial board of the Administrative Science Quarterly and Research Policy.

Juliane Reinecke is Professor of Management Studies at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Juliane uses qualitative methods to study transnational commons governance, multistakeholder collaborations, business sustainability, social movements, and time and temporality. Her work has been published in Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Science, and Organization Studies and Research Policy, among others. Juliane’s research has been recognized with multiple awards from the Academy of Management and other professional organizations. Juliane received her MPhil and Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. Previously, she held a Professorship at Warwick Business School and a visiting professorship at Gothenburg University. She is a Fellow at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and Research Fellow at Cambridge Judge Business School. She serves as a trustee of the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies (SAMS). She previously served as Associate Editor of Business Ethics Quarterly (2015–2022) and Organization Theory (2019–2022).

Crystal Farh is a full professor of management and organization at the Foster School of Business of the University of Washington in Seattle (2015–). Previously, she served as an assistant professor at the Broad College of Business of the Michigan State University (2012–2015). Crystal uses quantitative research methods, including experiments, surveys, and observational coding, to study topics related to employee voice, creativity, team dynamics, and leadership. Her work has been published in Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Journal of Applied Psychology. Her work has been covered in media outlets, including Forbes, Huffington Post, New York Magazine, and Seattle Times. She has also won numerous awards for her research from the Academy of Management, the Society of Industrial Organizational Psychology, and was recognized by Poets and Quants as a top 40-under-40 business school professor in 2021. Crystal received her undergraduate degree in psychology at Harvard College, and her Ph.D. in organizational behavior at the Smith School of Business of the University of Maryland at College Park. She has previously served on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Journal of Applied Psychology.