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MOC Division Newsletter
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Sucheta Nadkarni
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Comments from the
Outgoing Program Chair
COMMENTS FROM THE
OUTGOING PROGRAM CHAIR
It was yet another great year for MOC! You can all be justifiably
proud of what you were able to accomplish in Anaheim.
Thanks to you we had an outstanding program (if I do say so
myself) with a record number of submissions and sessions in the program.
We received 152 paper submissions and 32 symposium submissions.
We also had an increase in the number of sessions on the program,
which included 10 showcase symposia, 21 jointly-sponsored symposia, 20
paper presentation sessions, 22 visual paper sessions, and 24 papers
selected for interactive presentations.
Our sessions covered a wide range of topics, including decision
making, sensemaking, mental models, learning, attributions, emotions,
and the dynamics of identity, identification, teams, creativity,
innovation, and interpersonal relations.
While in no way meaning to detract from the quality of these many
wonderful sessions, I think the highlight of the 2009 MOC Program was a
presentation by Prof. James
March to a standing-room-only crowd at the MOC Division Welcome
Session on Monday morning.
Following a presentation of our $500 Food for Thought Award to the
Food Bank of Orange County
and the distribution of nearly 500 orange candy slices, Prof. March, the
2008 MOC Distinguished Scholar, provided his audience with a brief
history of theories of choice.
For those unable to attend, the slides from Prof. March’s
presentation are available at the
MOC website.
Based on feedback from both members and non-members, the MOC program
this year was very well received.
Several people commented on the high quality of papers presented
in our program. Among the
excellent submissions, two papers stood out.
This year’s Psychology Press/Routledge
MOC Best Paper Award
went to Sophie Leroy of the University of Minnesota, for her
paper “Why is it so Hard to Do My Work?
The Challenge of Attention Residue when Switching Between Tasks,”
and the British Journal of Management Prize
(sponsored by the British Academy of Management) for the
MOC Best Student Paper
went to Amy Y. Ou and Kevin G. Corley of Arizona State University
for their paper “The Birth and Death of Sensegiving Spirals:
Searching for Meaning during Hong Kong’s SARS Outbreak.”
Congratulations to these authors, and the MOC Division wants to
thank the two publishing houses for their corporate generosity in
sponsoring these awards.
The high quality of the program was due to the efforts of many
individuals, primarily the reviewers who gave so generously of their
time, and as usual for MOC, delivered thoughtful and constructive
reviews. We had 328
reviewers sign up, representing 33 countries.
Each reviewer was assigned on average 1.88 papers to review, and
each paper was assigned to an average of 3.18 reviewers.
I was most impressed by the diligence of so many of the
reviewers, and truly appreciate your efforts.
You know who you are.
Among this great set of reviewers, we recognized six student
reviewers and 19 faculty reviewers for their outstanding reviewing
efforts.
Dan Gruber, Student
Representative on the MOC Executive Committee, convinced two publishers
to provide funding to provide $50 cash awards to six outstanding student
reviewers. Winners of the
Pearson Prentice-Hall
Outstanding Student Reviewer Awards were
Donal Crilly, INSEAD;
Kate Davis, George
Washington University; Marc
Lavine, Boston College and Jose Lejarraga – University of
Carlos III de Madrid. The
Winners of the John Wiley & Sons
Outstanding Student Reviewer Awards were
Frida Pemer, Stockholm
School of Economics and Tara
Wernsing, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
The following reviewers were recognized with the
MOC Best Reviewer Award
for their excellence in providing feedback to paper and symposium
submitters: Fran Ackermann, Strathclyde University; Gary
Ballinger, University of Virginia; Andrea Casey, George
Washington University; Jordi Comas, Bucknell University; Erik
Dane, Rice University; Rita Di Mascio, University of New
South Wales; Jane Dutton, University Michigan, Ann Arbor;
Jacob Eisenberg, University College of Dublin; Megan Endres,
Eastern Michigan University; Frances Fabian, University of
Memphis; C. V. Harquail, Authentic Organizations, Inc.; Mark
Healey, University of
Leeds; Susan Houghton, North Carolina A&T State University;
Laura Illia, University of Cambridge; Tomi M. M. Laamanen,
Helsinki University of Technology; Michael Moch, Michigan State
University; Johan Van Rekom, Erasmus University; and Markus
Vodosek, University of Utah.
Our information gathering has indicated that the high quality of reviews
provided by MOC reviewers is one of the major attractions for submitting
to MOC. We would like to
strengthen this differentiator and recognize those who make it a
perennial strength of the Division.
For the second year we presented two
MOC Reviewer Service Awards
which goes to reviewers who have received the MOC Best Reviewer Award
for five years. The
recipients of this award this year were Peter Foreman, Illinois
State University and C.V. Harquail, Authentic Organizations, Inc.
We thank both of them for their consistently outstanding
contributions to the MOC Division Program review efforts.
We said farewell to two long-standing Executive Committee members:
Mike Pratt, our
The MOC Program would not have been possible without the hard work of
then-Division Chair, Mary Ann
Glynn and then-PDW Chair,
Gerard Hodgkinson. I
thank them and the rest of the
MOC Executive Committee for their hard work and advice.
I also want to thank Dan
Halgin for his help with the network analysis of submission and
reviewer data that was used in the Theme Session.
I would also like to thank
David Musson of
Oxford University Press for
their kind contribution to offset some of the costs associated with the
justly famous MOC Social Hour.
Finally, I encourage you to carry the momentum from Anaheim into 2009!
Please submit your work to MOC and encourage others to submit as
well. Also, please sign up
to review for the Division.
MOC is a vibrant, intellectually stimulating, growing community of
scholars. It is at the
forefront of innovation in the Academy, in both its regular program and
PDW sessions. I thank you
for making MOC such a strong division, and look forward to your
continued support for, and participation in the Division.
See you in Chicago!
COMMENTS FROM THE OUTGOING PDW CHAIR
(also the incoming Program Chair)
The PDW program ran from Friday August 8th to Sunday, August,
10th. Traditional highlights included the Cognition in
the Rough (CIR) workshop and the doctoral student consortium, which this
year was co-sponsored in conjunction with the OMT Division.
Now in its 11th year Cognition in the Rough was
attended by 32 participants seeking formative feedback on their emerging
research ideas, facilitated by some 20 senior scholars.
As in previous years we are extremely grateful to the senior
scholars for taking the time to read and then offer comments on the
attendees’ research proposals.
Thanks also to the CIR organizers:
Sucheta Nadkarni,
Daniel Gruber,
Morela Hernandez, Nils Plambeck,
and David M. Wasieleski.
Once again, I offer my heartfelt thanks to everyone who helped make the
2008 PDW Program a resounding success and pass on my best wishes to Mark
J. Martinko, as he takes over the PDW Program for the 2009 meeting in
Chicago.
In keeping with our governance process, I have handed my MOC PDW Program
Chair cap to Mark J. Martinko
and taken the MOC Program Chair hat from
Dick Blackburn.
As observed by my predecessor: “this is one big hat!”
There is no question that Dick and his team of reviewers did an
outstanding job in putting together what was a truly excellent
scientific program at the 2008 Meeting in Anaheim.
Following an all-too brief period of respite, once more it is
time to consider the various ways you can participate in the 2009
meetings in Chicago scheduled from August 7th to the 11th.
The most immediate way to become involved in next year’s program is by
signing up to review for MOC on the Academy of Management’s 2009 Annual
Meeting Review System, at:
http://review.aomonline.org.
The sign-up process is quick and convenient. As in previous years
you will be asked to choose among a number divisions or interest groups
the ones for which you would like to review. Please select MOC as
one of your choices. In addition, you will be asked to choose keywords
that reflect your expertise.
These will be used to match submissions with your expressed
interests. Reviewers play
a vital role in shaping our program and if you have not done so already,
I urge you to sign up as an MOC reviewer at your earliest convenience.
If you reviewed last year, thank you and we hope you will sign up
again. If you haven’t reviewed for MOC before, please give us a
chance to get you involved in developing the 2009 program.
Another important way in which you can contribute to the program is by
submitting your papers to the MOC Division. Our division is known
for its creative and thought-provoking sessions, and your previous
submissions are responsible for that reputation.
The theme for the 2009 meetings is “Green Management Matters,”
and you can see more about the meeting theme at the following URL:
http://meeting.aomonline.org/2009/attachments/031_2009AnnualMeetingTheme.pdf
The 2009 theme presents a wonderful opportunity for MOC scholars to
contribute fundamental and applied insights concerning the processes
that variously promote and undermine green management, an issue that
matters to all of us.
Let’s consider the gamut of cognitive processes that shape individuals’
attitudes, beliefs and values towards green policies and the behaviors
such policies seek to promote.
Why do some individuals and groups respond more readily to green
management initiatives than others?
For example, what is the role of individual and collective
self-efficacy as a predictor or moderator of environmentally friendly
policies and behaviors?
What about individual and group differences in the attribution of
company policies directed toward a greener, more sustainable world?
In what ways do individual, social and corporate identities shape
individual and collective responses to the management and utilization of
scarce and increasingly diminishing environmental resources? How do
individual and collective representations of risks associated with
non-compliance vary by organizational and country context and what are
the implications of these differences for the green management agenda?
How do particular management practices and organizational
policies come to be labeled as ‘green’ and legitimated as such, while
others do not?
The above questions are just a small sample of the myriad of
possibilities that the 2009 theme opens up for scholarly analysis and
debate within the dynamic and vibrant field that constitutes MOC.
While encouraging submissions that address the conference theme,
please bear in mind that submissions with a cognitive orientation to
other topics are equally welcome.
The submission deadline is
January 15, 2009.
As we develop the program, there will be other options for involvement
in the MOC program including the role of session chair and discussant.
I hope that you will be interested and willing to participate in those
program opportunities as well.
I am greatly looking forward to working with you to develop an
outstanding program for the 2009 AOM Annual Meeting.
If you have any questions about how you might be able to assist
in our endeavor, please don’t hesitate to let me know.
My phone number is +44 (0)113 343 4468 and my e-mail address is
moc2009@lubs.leeds.ac.uk
Thank you in advance for your contributions to MOC and to the 2009
Program. I look forward to
greeting you
at a lively and successful event in the Windy City.
COMMENTS FROM PAST DIVISION CHAIR
MOC had a banner year in 2007-08 and saw record growth in membership,
submissions, program content and collaborations with other AOM
Divisions. Thanks to all who made this possible and for your
contributions to making MOC energetic and interesting.
And now, on to Chicago!
As Past Division Chair, I will be responsible for coordinating our
division elections in just a few months.
Please visit the MOC website for descriptions of officers’ roles
at
http://division.aomonline.org/moc/about.htm#2
and, especially, support MOC with your nominations of outstanding
officers. We welcome
self-nominations. We’ll participate, along with the other AOM divisions,
in the online nomination and voting system this Spring, and we’ll be
updating you on the process as the time draws near.
In the meantime, think Chicago!
See you there. Best
regards,
Mary Ann Glynn
COMMENTS
FROM THE FACULTY REPRESENTATIVES-AT-LARGE
We’re happy to report that our efforts at the 2008 AOM meetings were
quite successful. Jenny Rudolph (MOC) and Tim Pollock (OMT) were the
co-organizers, with Kevin Corley (MOC) and Diane Burton (OMT) acting as
understudies. We had 46 student participants (12 MOC participants and 34
OMT participants) from universities on every continent except
Antarctica. The event would not have been a success without the
commitment and efforts of our faculty panelists and facilitators, so
hearty thanks goes out to you all:
Steve Borgatti (University of Kentucky)
Planning is already underway for the 2009 OMT/MOC Doctoral Student
Consortium. The consortium will take place on Friday August 7th
from 8:00am to 5:00pm. We will again have a diverse mix of faculty
serving as panelists and facilitators for the day (if you’re interested
in serving, please contact Kevin Corley at kcorley@asu.edu). The Spring
MOC newsletter will have more details on student registration.
COMMENTS FROM THE OUTGOING INTERNATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE-AT-LARGE
COMMENTS
FROM MOC STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE-AT-LARGE
I hope this message finds you doing well. Over the last year, I have
been working on several student-related initiatives that I want to tell
you about.
We had six student reviewer awards for AOM 2008 in Anaheim sponsored by
Prentice Hall and
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
These new financial awards represent our ongoing effort to increase
funding opportunities to help students attend the Academy Conference. I
hope to continue these awards once again for AOM 2009 in Chicago.
I have also been working on a couple of ways to bring more students to
the MOC business meeting and the social hour following the business
meeting. The publisher
Palgrave Macmillan donated several copies of the book “Authoring a PhD”
that were distributed as door prizes (via a raffle) to help doctoral
students with the dissertation writing process and to encourage them to
attend the event.
Additionally, Dick Blackburn, Mary Ann Glynn, and I represented MOC at
the New Doctoral Student Consortium (NDSC).
We told dozens of new students about the division and let them
know more about Cognition in the Rough and other events that would be
relevant for them. We
distributed a one-page document that I created, “The ABCs of MOC for the
NDSC” – lots of acronyms – that was well-received by the attendees and
provided them with information about some of our key program sessions
and proceedings.
This year I am also working to create and coordinate the Student
Initiatives Committee (under the guidance of Luis Martins).
The committee will work on the existing student programs (e.g.,
student reviewer awards) and will come up with new initiatives to serve
our student members. The committee will let several other students have
the opportunity to make regular contributions to our division.
I am looking forward to working with many of you on this
initiative.
That is the news for now.
Please email me at
dagruber@umich.edu
with any comments or suggestions.
I look forward to sharing more information with you after our
executive committee meeting.
With warm wishes, Dan
COMMENTS FROM THE MOC
ARCHIVIST
COGNITION IN THE ROUGH
WORKSHOP REPORT
The 2008 cognition the rough workshop was another great success with
record number of participants with diverse research interests and
methodological backgrounds. This year we recognized three scholars for
their decade of valuable service to the cognition in the rough
workshops—Frances Milliken (New York University)
and Rhonda Reger (University
of Maryland).
We presented two awards for best proposals:
Yuntao Dong
(University of Maryland) received the award for the best student
proposal, and
Aditya Johri
(Virginia
Tech. University) received the award for the
best faculty proposal. Congratulations to the winners!
My
fellow co-ordinators Morela Hernandez, Nils Plambeck,
David M. Wasieleski, and I would like to thank the invited scholars
who took their time to provide their comments to the work of the
participants:
Fran Ackermann, Andrea Casey, Colin Eden, Dov Eden, Mark Fenton-O'Creevy,
Marlena
Fiol, Raghu
Garud, Gerard Hodgkinson, Susan Houghton, George Huber, Lynn Isabella,
Theresa Lant, Mark Martinko, Stephen Mezias, Frances Milliken, Chet
Miller, Rhonda Reger, Majken Schultz, Mary Waller.
Without their support this workshop would not
be possible!
Our special thanks to Gerard Hodgkinson (PDW Chair), Richard
Blackburn (Program Chair), Mary Ann Glynn (Division Chair),
and Luis Martins (Division Chair-elect) for their help in
organizing this workshop. Finally, I would like to take the chance to
thank my co-ordinators.
PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
The deadline for Professional Development Workshop Proposals is January
15, 2009. PDW's are an excellent way to provide an in-depth focus on
specific issues that can be beneficial to MOC members. When you are
developing your workshop, you are encouraged to contact the PDW program
chair, Mark J. Martinko, Florida State University, USA,
mmartin@cob.fsu.edu to discuses the viability of your proposal. All
proposals should be submitted to the AOM program website:
http://submissions.aomonline.org/2009
<http://submissions.aomonline.org/2008>
Incoming PDW Chair, Mark J. Martinko, Florida State University, USA.
mmartin@cob.fsu.edu
2009 MOC Division Professional Development Workshops: Call for Proposals
The Managerial and Organizational Cognition (MOC) Division is devoted to
understanding individual and collective cognitive processes in
organizational contexts, including, but not restricted to, the nature
and role of mental representations, judgment and decision making, social
identity processes, attribution processes, individual differences,
non-conscious forms of cognitions (e.g. intuition), sensemaking,
categorization, organizational learning and memory, culture, communities
of practice and cognitive institutionalism.
The Professional Development Workshops have become one of the
most intellectually rich and vibrant parts of the MOC program and indeed
of the Academy meetings more generally.
With your help MOC can continue this tradition.
PDW sessions present an opportunity to create innovative events
in which participants are able to explore issues and problems in a more
relaxed and interactive format.
The 2009Annual Meeting will be held in Chicago August 7 - 11. PDW
sessions are scheduled from 8AM to 8PM on both Friday (August 7) and
Saturday (August 8). We encourage you to consider the conference theme –
Green Management Matters
– as you create your proposal.
The 2009 conference theme presents an unusual opportunity to
consider how individual and collective cognitive processes affect and
are affected by the need for organizational practices that are
ecologically sensitive and efficient. Proposals may also address more
traditional topics and concerns. In crafting your proposals, be mindful
that MOC encourages work spanning the macro, meso, and/or micro levels
of analysis. As in previous
years, wherever possible, we encourage you to create proposals that may
be of relevance to more than one division.
Also, please remember that PDW formats are flexible and can be made to
fit a wide range of styles and needs, from PhD students to junior
faculty colleagues to ‘veterans’ from a variety of backgrounds and
disciplines. Some PDWs
might benefit from the inclusion of practitioners as well as academics.
The submission website is
http://submissions.aomonline.org/2009
and the deadline for submission of proposals is January 15, 2009.
Early submissions are encouraged, as there will be limited space in the
PDW program.
For more information, please contact Mark J. Martinko at
mmartin@cob.fsu.edu.
Due January 15, 5:00 pm (EST)
http://submissions.aomonline.org/2009
“Green Management Matters”
If you have an idea for an All-Academy workshop or symposium, feel free
to contact the All-Academy Theme Chair,
Andrew Hoffman,
2009AllAcademy@umich.edu,
by December 15, 2008, for
initial feedback about your idea. Full proposals must be
submitted via the AOM submissions system by January 15, 2009.
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