AOM PDW: Publishing Organization Design Papers: An Editor and Author Perspective Research
Friday, Aug 4 2023 12:00PM - 3:00PM ET (UTC-4) at Boston Marriott Copley Place in Salon F
Despite both its scholarly and practical importance, research on organizational design has received relatively little attention since the 1980s. However, it has recently gone through a renaissance with scholars. Despite this upsurge in popularity, a study on organizational design can be highly challenging to publish. Theoretically, it is often perceived as an “old topic,” requiring scholars to tease out a novel contribution and demonstrate the need for new research. Empirically, it is difficult to collect large-sample data and accurately measure various dimensions of organizational design, as this sensitive information is often not publicly available. Furthermore, as firms tend to endogenously choose their organizational design, scholars face challenges in finding a source of exogenous variation in these dimensions and causally identifying their effects. To help scholars navigate these challenges, we have gathered editors of leading management journals with expertise in this topic and authors who have recently published an organizational design paper. In the first part of our PDW, these editors and authors will share their experiences and advice on how to successfully publish papers in this area. In the second part, attendees will undertake roundtable discussions to discuss their research project ideas receiving feedback from the PDW organizers and panelists - to register for this part of the PDW please complete this form.
Organizer: John Eklund, U. of Southern California
Organizer: Michael Yanche Lee, INSEAD
Organizer: Saerom Lee, The Wharton School, U. of Pennsylvania
Organizer: Trevor Daniel Young-Hyman, U. of Pittsburgh
Panelist: Felipe Csaszar, U. of Michigan
Panelist: Lindred L. Greer, U. of Michigan, Ross School of Business
Panelist: Tomasz Obloj, Indiana U. - Kelley School of Business
Panelist: Metin Sengul, Boston College
Panelist: Sonali Shah, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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John Eklund
Assistant Professor
University of Southern California
Los Angeles CA
(267) 471-3544
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