Volume 1, Issue 2
UPDATES FROM THE ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT
The Changing
Profile of AOM
Membership
See the results of our most recent
membership survey 2
March 2014
Officer’s Corner
3 S ome Thoughts on Our Internationalization
Division and Interest Group Highlights
4 S trategizing Activities and Practices, Gender and Diversity in
Organizations, Managerial and Organizational Cognition
Member Spotlight
7 S tephanie Case Henagan, Ph.D.
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Cover Story
March 2014
The Changing Profile of AOM Membership
Anne Wood, Member Services, Academy of Management
This issue of AcadeMY News shares some of the results of our most recent membership
survey, offering a glimpse into our members’ interests and the changing composition of
our membership over the last five years.
Key Membership Trends
60% 40%
USA OTHER
2008
53% 47%
USA OTHER
2013
In 2013, members listed connecting
and networking within their scholarly domain as their primary reason
for being an Academy member.
Volunteerism and the Profession
•In 2008, our membership composition was 60% U.S./40% other nations.
In 2013, just five years later, our composition is 53%/47%, respectively.
Growth outside of the U.S. remains the driver.
•Students are our future. From 2008 to
present, there has been a 12% overall
increase in student memberships.
•The Academic constituency has grown
5% since 2008.
•Nearly one out of every five Academy
members is over 60, and the age of
Academy members continues to rise. This
stands in contrast to students, of whom
75% are under 40. Although Emeritus
members are a smaller member segment,
less than 2% of overall membership,
they are statistically the fastest growing
constituency with a 7.5% compounded
rate of growth per year since 2008.
Members on Membership
•Executive members remain interested in
seeking tailored services and finding a
home with the Academy.
•In 2008, members told us that their primary reason for belonging was to receive
the Academy journals. In 2013, members
listed connecting and networking within
their scholarly domain as their primary
reason for being an Academy member.
•Regarding member satisfaction, 81% of
respondents to the survey indicated they
were either very satisfied or satisfied
with their membership.
•Some 94% of members would recommend the Academy to their colleagues.
•About 96% would recommend the
Academy to doctoral students entering
the field.
All of the above numbers rank higher than
association industry averages.
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The Academy has a rich history of volunteerism dating back to its founding, and this
tradition endures today. Despite increasing
pressures and demands on professional
time, volunteers continue to come forward
to facilitate the work of the Academy.
Survey respondents tell us that aside from
the intangible benefits that come with
volunteering, such as a sense of satisfaction, accomplishment, and the good feeling
of giving back, volunteers also gain tangible
benefits, including:
•Establishing connections
•Enhancing their careers
•Making an impact
Volunteerism is high throughout the Academy. Some 54% of U.S. members report
volunteer participation; 41.7% of members
from other nations do the same to give
life to the Academy. The majority of these
volunteers work directly with one or more
of the 25 divisions and interest groups, but
others serve on editorial boards, committees, and in ad hoc capacities.
We’d like to thank all members who
participated in the 2013 membership survey
for providing us the insights to help serve
you better.
Officer’s Corner
March 2014
OFFICER’S
CORNER
Some Thoughts on Our Internationalization
What an extraordinary transformation
the AOM has undergone in the past
decade! I am referring not only to an
increase in our membership from about
13,500 to about 18,000, but also to the
dramatic internationalization of our
membership. In 2004, some 33% of our
members were located outside the U.S.
We called these our “international”
members to differentiate them from our
“domestic,” that is, U.S.-based, members. How obsolete those categories are
now, when fully 47% of our members live
outside the United States. The influx of
new members from all parts of the globe
has vastly expanded and enriched the
formal and informal scholarly networks
that are the raison d’être of the AOM.
At our most recent annual meeting in
Orlando, about 46% of the participants
were from outside the USA as compared
to 33% ten years ago. Where once
our journals’ editorial teams and our
association’s leadership teams were
entirely based in the USA, this is no
longer the case. Our internationalization
is notable, too, in the broad range of
Academy committees and task forces
for which our members volunteer so
generously. As a whole, our Academy
members all around the globe are
engaged in a growing range of cross-border and multi-cultural ties in research
and teaching.
Such a process of internationalization,
of course, has numerous causes.
Among these, the greatly reduced cost
of transportation and communication
obviously play a key role. The AOM’s
internationalization also reflects a wider
trend toward the global integration of
economic transactions, civil society,
and epistemic communities. We should
also acknowledge the role of globalized
ranking systems—of journals as well as
universities— in driving the attention of
key stakeholders away from purely local
comparisons.
Encouraged by these forces, our internationalization has had both positive and
negative consequences. On the positive
side, the influx of fresh ideas from different regions of the world has enriched
our work, broadened our intellectual
horizons, and challenged us to engage
new ideas. On the other hand, it has
helped diffuse specifically U.S. norms of
scholarship and publication, with more
mixed effects. The globalized ranking
systems seem to be pushing us toward
increasingly bureaucratized university
systems and toward an increasingly
instrumental-rational, publish-or-perish
research ethos.
If we view this internationalization
process in longer-term perspective, it
seems to me that the balance of benefits
and risks tilts more positive. As Bertolt
Brecht once quipped, better the bad
new days than the good old days. Our
internationalization has helped to
strengthen our members’ communities
within and across an ever-broader
range of regions around the world. Our
members in these various regions are
seizing the opportunities provided by
our globalized scholarly network to
strengthen their own scholarly capabilities and to cultivate their own syntheses
of the local and the global. The AOM’s
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international growth will, I hope,
stimulate the growth of peer Academies
of management based in other regions
of world, and encourage each of these
associations to internationalize their
own memberships.
I look forward to working with you all to
find new ways to benefit from the opportunities afforded by our internationalization. In particular, I should mention that
the Board, building on the extraordinary
success of the South Africa conference
last year, is currently exploring how the
AOM can more actively support scholarly
meetings beyond the Annual Meeting
and outside the U.S. Our goal will be to
collaborate with peer organizations in
organizing such meetings. Stay tuned
for a proposal on this sometime over the
coming year. In the meantime, I would
welcome any thoughts you have on
all of this. You have my email address:
padler@usc.edu.
Paul Adler
Academy of Management President-elect
AOM.ORG
Elections
March 2014
Academy Board of Governors Elections
Ming-Jer Chen, Past President & Chair, Nominating Committee, Academy of Management
The Academy’s election web site is now
open to accept your votes from Feb.
19–March 25, 2014. I strongly encourage
you to vote in this election to choose three
representatives-at-large and a new vice
president-elect/program chair-elect to the
Board of Governors.
The ballots list an impressive group of
proven leaders who have demonstrated
their strong commitment to the mission
and ideals of our professional association.
We are fortunate that they all are willing to
continue their service in these demanding
academy-wide roles.
active “politicking” by voting members and
nominees. It is certainly appropriate to ask
fellow members of the Academy for further
information about a candidate you do not
know, but active campaigning is inconsistent with our professional norms.
Thank you for voting. By doing so, you are
helping to shape AOM’s future. For more
information about the election process,
please visit the nominations and elections
page of the AOM Web site.
Click here to vote. Please vote today—your
vote really does make a difference.
As we begin the election, please be
respectful of AOM’s campaigning philosophy, which values elections that are free of
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March 25
Division and Interest Group News
March 2014
Strategizing Activities and Practices (SAP) Interest Group Offers
Varied Professional Development Opportunities
Saku Mantere, Chair, SAP Interest Group
The Strategizing Activities and Practices
(SAP) Interest Group fosters research
into strategy as something that people in
organizations do rather than something
that firms in their markets have. Such an
interest in the doing of strategy directs our
attention both to the myriad day-to-day
activities on the micro-level that make up
strategy in practice, and the role of the
macro-level institutions in shaping these
strategizing activities.
In 2014, our group focuses on capacity
building by purposefully hosting a number
of PDWs about methodological innovations. These PDWs allow researchers to
examine afresh established wisdom and
spur exciting new lines of enquiry. SAP
sponsored and cosponsored PDWs incorporate such themes as video ethnography,
discourse analysis, process research
methods, and other methodological tools
that can be used to address growing areas
of research, including emotions, materiality,
and performativity. These methods help
generate insights for and collaborations
between conference participants. We will
continue this tradition at the AOM Meeting
in Philadelphia—so keep an eye out for our
exciting program of PDWs!
SAP also has a strong focus on supporting
and mentoring doctoral researchers and
junior faculty. For instance, we will be
running our annual Paper Development
Workshop for the fourth time this year.
This PDW is focused on helping researchers
develop their SAP manuscript through close
interaction with leading SAP scholars. This
PDW will allow researchers to identify ways
to develop their ideas and strengthen their
manuscripts into publishable research articles. The development workshop has been
designed specifically to allow significant
one-on-one time between experienced
SAP researchers and paper development
authors. Don’t miss this opportunity:
submit a manuscript in early June.
Gender & Diversity in Organizations (GDO) Division: Attracting and
Engaging the Next Generation
Stacy Blake-Beard, Chair, GDO Division
The theme of “The Changing Face of AOM
Membership and Attracting the Next
Generation” is particularly relevant to
GDO. We use this charge as a foundation for
many of the activities that we plan for our
members at the Annual Meeting. Specific
activities that are designed to attract and
GDO Plenary Speaker Dr. Rohini An and, Senior VP and
Global Chief Diversity Officer at Sodexo and Gwendolyn
Combs, 2012-2013 GDO Division Chair
welcome members include the Doctoral
Consortium, the Junior Faculty Consortium,
receptions on Friday and Monday evening,
our Business Meeting, and the efforts of the
International Committee.
In addition to our efforts to support our
membership, GDO is also interested in
highlighting the perspectives and insights
from leaders in organizations who have
taken up this charge. Through the invitation
of Dr. Gwendolyn Combs, we were fortunate
to have Dr. Rohini Anand, Senior VP and
Global Chief Diversity Officer at Sodexo,
as our plenary speaker at the 2013 Annual
Meeting. I appreciated that she shared not
only the best practices, but also some of the
challenges that she has negotiated in her
role managing diversity and inclusion at this
large global organization. Her comments
were instructive and highlighted the
importance of forward-thinking planning
and action in relation to attracting and
retaining diverse talent. Whether or not we
think of it in this way, we are faced with the
same issue: How do we welcome the next
wave of members to our organization?
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To answer that question, I reflect back on
my initial interactions with the Academy
of Management. I was a graduate student,
so excited to be joining this professional
association, but not quite sure about where
or how to jump in. GDO was welcoming to
me as a graduate student—leadership in
the division appeared to be reaching out to
invite me in. Attending the doctoral consortium, volunteering to review papers for the
conference, and partaking in the welcome
reception and business meeting all made
attending the Academy of Management
meeting a more engaging experience. The
welcome that I felt, 24 years ago, also made
me want to contribute to GDO; each year
I eagerly looked forward to seeing how I
could help. The current leadership of GDO
is building on that legacy of welcome and
inclusion. This intent is critical because
our future as a division, and more broadly
speaking as a professional association,
depends on attracting and engaging the
next generation of membership.
AOM.ORG
Division and Interest Group News
March 2014
The Changing Face of Managerial and
Organizational Cognition (MOC) Division
Membership—Thinking About the Future
MOC Division Executive Committee
The MOC Executive Committee recently
engaged in an exercise of clarifying and
reviewing who we are as a division and
how we can best meet the needs of our
members. Our membership numbers show
that like all divisions of the Academy, we
too are becoming more international in our
membership. In addition, while our membership has grown slowly over the past five
years, we are very cognizant that we need
to keep track of the distribution of members
at different stages of their careers. While
the proportion of student members has
remained fairly constant over the past five
years (about 27% of the divisional membership), the number of emeritus members has
grown about 33% during that period (2% of
divisional membership).
What does the Division mean to these
members? Our members recognize that
cognition is the central feature of the
Division, but how cognition relates to other
areas is also important. We don’t focus
juston cognition, but on cognition AND. . .
It is a community where micro and macro
scholars can come together to draw on
shared interests in cognition to understand
organizational phenomenon. We try to
showcase interesting, boundary-spanning
scholarly work.
a suite of professional development
workshops that help students and junior
scholars work with more senior scholars
on reviewing (Reviewing-in-the-Rough),
writing papers (Cognition-in the-Rough),
and developing academic careers (Diamonds- in-the-Rough). We are working on
creating opportunities for individuals with
an interest in teaching (Teaching-in-theRough) and research methods (Methods,
but not “in the Rough”). In the past two
years, we have hosted cognition-related
workshops at two conferences in Ireland
and Slovenia. This year, we will participate
in the Slovenia conference again and have
another event planned for Denmark. We
have also put out a call for members to
help us run more events around the world.
As we take “Cognition on the Road,” we
hope to be able to become more accessible
to our international members, especially
those who are unable to attend the Annual
Meeting. You can read about some of these
initiatives in our winter newsletter, and we
hope to see you at our events during the
Annual Meeting and/or somewhere around
the world!
So, what are we doing to meet the needs
of these different types of members?
During the Annual Meeting, we now have
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Registration Open
Be a part of the 74th Annual Meeting
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Registration is now open to secure
your place among thousands of
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networking.
REGISTER TODAY AT
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Did You Know?
The first Annual Meeting was held
in 1937 and had just 24 attendees.
Today, the Annual Meeting welcomes
about 10,000 attendees from
across the globe.
Committee Spotlight
March 2014
Diversity & Inclusion Theme Committee
Established in September 2010, the
Diversity and Inclusion Theme Committee
(D&ITC) is charged with helping to ensure
that the Academy fully supports and
leverages the scholarly contributions of its
diverse members and contributes to their
professional development.
The D&ITC’s work is guided by the following
core values and principles: (1) Diversity is all
of the multiple lines of difference that characterize our current and future membership; (2) Inclusion means that all members
have the opportunity to be represented,
to have their voices heard and valued, and
to have influence on the AOM; (3) Inclusion
requires identifying and removing barriers
to all members’ full participation in the
activities and decision-making of the AOM;
(4) The growth and success of the AOM are
dependent upon having a globally diverse
perspective and broadening the scope and
impact of our field; and (5) the AOM will be
strengthened and improved to the degree
that we incorporate the knowledge and
perspectives of its diverse membership and
constituents.
The committee aims to provide innovative
learning and outreach opportunities that
foster a diverse and inclusive AOM community. In addition to providing a focused
and thematic PDW program at the Annual
Meeting each year, the D&ITC has begun to
achieve an important strategic objective
for the Academy by launching a survey to
provide insight into the nature, climate and
culture of diversity and inclusion within the
AOM. Preliminary findings from this survey
were shared at the 2013 Annual Meeting
and a formal report will be available to
the membership after this year’s meeting
in Philadelphia. The committee has also
planned several new projects to encourage
greater diversity and inclusion within the
Academy, including identifying areas of
inclusion/exclusion and best practices
across the Academy, and planning for a
new committee-level award to recognize
outstanding efforts within our member
communities, just to name a few.
D&ITC Executive Committee
Chair: Eddy Ng
PDW Chair: Christina Stamper
Past Chair: Bernardo Ferdman
Communications Chair: Isabel Metz
Metrics Chair: Patrick McKay
Best Practices Chair: Yvonne Benschop
Ambassadors at Large: Regine Bendl, Jenny
Hoobler, Douglas Johnson, Stella Nkomo,
Ron Ophir, Lynn Shore
To learn more about these exciting
initiatives and the work of the committee,
visit the D&ITC Web site at: http://group.
aomonline.org/ditc/.
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AOM.ORG
Member Spotlight
March 2014
Stephanie Case Henagan, Ph.D.
Academy Member Since 2000
Stephanie Case Henagan received her
doctor of philosophy degree from Louisiana
State University with a major in organizational behavior and human resources. Her
research on interpersonal relationships in
the workplace has appeared in journals
such as Academy of Management Journal,
Journal of Applied Social Psychology,
Journal of Vocational Behavior, and Group &
Organization Management. She has served
the Academy of Management as a reviewer
in the Organizational Behavior Division for
many years; as the Management History
Division Student Representative and PDW
Chair; and as the Membership Committee
Chair. She is currently serving as a Membership Committee member and Management
History Division Program Chair.
Check out our interview with Stephanie
Case Henagan from the 2013 AOM Annual
Meeting on YouTube.
 With the encouragement of my professors when I was in graduate
school, I joined the Academy of Management and began volunteering
immediately by serving as a reviewer. I reviewed manuscripts,
presented papers, and served as a discussant and as a student
representative on an executive board, all as a doctoral student. The
Academy is not a place that is run by an elite group of established
professionals pushing their ways onto the incoming generations —it
is run by anyone who chooses to volunteer and be involved. Because
of this, you can contribute your thoughts and ideas from the first
day you join, and you therefore have the opportunity to influence
the group to be your group and to meet your needs. Since joining
14 years ago, I have seen the Academy change in many ways as
volunteer leaders strive to meet the ever-changing needs of the
members. Get involved. Make it yours. 
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Publications
March 2014
New Tools for the Next Generation
of Communication
Academy of Management Publications, publications@aom.org
Over the past several years, advances in
technology have impacted the scholarly
publishing industry on numerous fronts.
Massive amounts of research and data are
now just a click or two away. Electronic
forms of journals and published articles
are now accepted as the versions of record.
Demand for print is decreasing as new
distribution methods, such as the Web,
mobile apps, and e-readers, continue to
improve and evolve. The next generation
of Academy of Management members are
“digital natives,” and the “screen-agers” of
today will be tomorrow’s industry leaders.
With this in mind, AOM continues to focus
on how we can use technology to improve
our publications and provide access via a
variety of delivery mechanisms.
One of the most common questions we
receive from AOM members is: “I don’t want
to get the print journal any more. How can
I change my journal delivery options?” This
is something any member can accomplish
easily with just a few clicks. Simply log in
to aom.org and click the link for “My AOM.”
There, you will see a link labeled “Update
my journal delivery options.” Click that,
change your delivery method to “electronic
only,” and click the “Save Changes” button.
It’s hard to believe that the iPad has only
been around for four years. In that short
time, the tablet has become a major
delivery mechanism for publishers. The
AOM Journals Mobile App has been
downloaded by thousands of users from
all over the world, enabling them to read
AOM articles “on the go.” Members from
the United States, UK, Japan, Australia,
India, and China—everywhere—are taking
advantage of our app. For users who do not
use an Apple device, we’ve created a mobile
optimized Web site which delivers an
“app-like” experience. Information about
how to download the app and AOM Mobile
Publications can be found at http://aom.
org/publications/mobile/
We continue to work on improving our
Publications Portal and making new tools
available that enhance the user experience.
One of the most popular features is the
personalized alerting system. Members
have the ability to now set up email alerts
for ahead of print In-Press papers and new
articles, using specific keywords for their
areas of interest. If you’d like to learn more
about personal alerts and other features of
the Publications Portal, you may view this
short video: http://youtu.be/u0LgKV3bz_w.
Within the scholarly community as a whole,
we are seeing other new initiatives that
should interest AOM members. One such
measure is ORCID. As explained on their
Web site: “ORCID provides a persistent
digital identifier that distinguishes you from
every other researcher and, through integration in key research workflows such as
manuscript and grant submission, supports
automated linkages between you and your
professional activities ensuring that your
work is recognized.” We encourage AOM
members to visit www.orcid.org and take a
minute to sign up.
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AOM.ORG
News Briefs
March 2014
In Memoriam
Management History (MH) Division
Program Notes
The Management History Division invites all
members to explore the upcoming program
at the Annual Meeting. A particularly
novel PDW will look at the role of historical
research in sport and how researchers
can create databases to explore both
the business and social aspects of sport.
Long-standing topics in research and
research development will return, with
many ways to get involved and deepen your
professional contributions.
AOM Press Room
Hide knowledge from co-workers? It just doesn’t pay, study finds
It’s mastery climate vs. performance climate, with creativity in the balance
How to respond to a co-worker’s request for
information or knowledge? New research
finds that, notwithstanding the possibility
of occasional gains from knowledge-hiding,
it is, in general, a no-win proposition. In the
words of a paper in the current Academy
of Management Journal, workers “should
reconsider and be careful about hiding
knowledge from their co-workers because...
what goes around comes around. More
specifically, employees who intentionally
hide more knowledge seem bound to
receive such selfish behavior in return from
their co-workers, which will ultimately hurt
them and decrease their creativity. This
could also be described using the metaphor
of ‘shooting yourself in the foot.’”
John E. Fleming, Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern
California Marshall School of
Business, passed away on February
2, 2014. He will be remembered by
those who knew him as a kind man
of compassion, intelligence, humor,
grace, service to others, and an endearing smile. You may learn more
about John and his contributions
from the published obituary and
through a blog post in The Ethicist
in honor of John, including one of
his many works.
Read More >
Call for Papers: ISR Special Issue on
Collaboration and Value Creation in
Online Communities
Information Systems Research (ISR)
publishes a call for papers for a special
issue on Collaboration and Value Creation in Online Communities. The editors
are Samer Faraj, Georg von Krogh, Karim
Lakhani, and Eric Monteiro. Deadline for
submitting papers is November 1, 2014.
Keith Provan, McClelland Professor of Management, University of
Arizona’s Eller College of Management, former Associate Editor of
Academy of Management Journal
and former Division officer of the
Public and Nonprofit Division of
the Academy, died on February 16,
2014.
The Loss of Keith Provan (Organization and Management Theory
Division Website)
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