Strategy and Organization (T)

From confusion to fusion: A new organizational form and the evaluation of category spanning in an established form

webfull — Tue, 20 May 2025 15:10:34 +0000

Authors: Heewon Chae, Daphne Demetry, Deepak Nayak, and Todd Schifeling

Publication: Academy of Management Journal
Forthcoming, Articles In Press: published online 31 March 2025

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Embrace the Unexpected: How Organizations Foster Participatory Improvisation with Customers

webfull — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 13:12:00 +0000

Authors: Daphne Demetry

Publication: Organization Science
Forthcoming
Articles in Advance: published online 10 Sept 2024

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Faculty Achievements: Daphne Demetry Associate Professor in Strategy and Organization appointed Senior Editor Organization Science

webfull — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 13:05:43 +0000

Congratulations to Daphne Demetry, Associate Professor in Strategy and Organization, for the appointment as Senior Editor of the Organization Science.

Remote work brought unfair performance metrics – and employees are gaming them

webfull — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 20:03:50 +0000

According to a survey by the Vancouver-based AI human resources firm Visier, more than four out of five workers have engaged in “fauxductivity” – performative work that makes them appear to be working more time than they actually are. The problem, however, isn’t the workers– it’s the way their performance is measured according to Jean-Nicolas Reyt, Associate Professor of Organizational Behaviour.

Linguistic Inclusiveness in Organizations: A Russophone Bank in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan

webfull — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 18:23:46 +0000

Authors: EunJoo Koo and Anna Kim

Publication: Academy of Management Journal
Articles in advance — published online: April 11, 2024

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Achievements for Professor Anna Kim's paper on sustainable local development through entrepreneurship

webfull — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 21:05:18 +0000

Idealizing specific body types in the workplace causes inequities

webfull — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 20:22:40 +0000

When you think of a shopping centre Santa Claus, a specific body type comes to mind: a bearded, rosy-cheeked, older, white man. In fact, many work in fields where their bodies are intentionally governed by organizational systems intent on shaping them into an idealized image of a worker, argues Assistant Professor of Strategy and Organization Rohini Jalan. While all bodies are encouraged to undergo body work to conform, this affects different body types disproportionately.

Gender homophily: In-group citation preferences and the gender disadvantage

webfull — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 19:36:57 +0000

Authors: Sifan Zhou, Sen Chai and Richard B. Freeman

Publication: Research Policy
Volume 53, Issue 1, January 2024, 104895

Airbus Canada welcomes ��ϲ�� students to Mirabel

webfull — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 18:59:23 +0000

Last month, over 70 ��ϲ�� students from different academic disciplines took part in a tour of Airbus Canada’s headquarters in Mirabel, Airbus’ most important headquarters outside of Europe. Students had the unique opportunity to hear from Airbus Canada CEO Benoît Schultz and nearly 20 other company officials, including ��ϲ�� alumni. Organized by ��ϲ�� Desautels Associate Professor Karl Moore, the idea took flight following Schultz’s Desautels CEO Speaker Series visit in 2022.

Research challenging a startup orthodoxy wins multiple Academy of Management awards

webfull — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 15:53:50 +0000

Rapid scaling funded through venture capital is the holy grail of Silicon Valley startups—and has been hailed as a way to encourage economic growth in impoverished places. Yet, slower growth could yield greater benefits for local economies, according to Anna Kim, Associate Professor of Strategy and Organization at ��ϲ�� Desautels.

Samer Faraj, Professor of Strategy & Organization, named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

webfull — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 20:10:38 +0000

Professor Samer Faraj has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada’s Academy of Social Sciences. This honour is conferred upon Professor Faraj in recognition of his outstanding research and scholarly achievement.

New book by Prof. Henry Mintzberg brings together decades of observation and analysis

webfull — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 19:48:17 +0000

Prof. Henry Mintzberg has been observing, advising and researching organizations since the early 1970s, and has had a profound influence on their study. The most recent book from the John Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies is Understanding Organizations…Finally! Structure in Sevens, and it synthesizes decades of analysis to understand the forces that shape organizations. “I have probably changed more than organizations have,” Mintzberg told Le Devoir.

Ph.D. Jack Sadek and Prof. Robert Nason's paper receives OMT Division Best Paper Award

webfull — Thu, 25 May 2023 16:33:56 +0000

Ph.D. Student in Strategy & Organization Jack Sadek and Associate Professor in Strategy & Organization Robert Nason’s co-authored paper titled “Too Legit to Quit: Discursive Strategies in Cryptocurrency’s Categorical Emergence” has been selected the winner of the 2023 Academy of Management (AOM) Organization & Management Theory (OMT) Division Best Paper Award (A Division of the Academy of Management).

Delve Spring 2023 digital magazine

webfull — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 19:20:29 +0000

What will the firm of the future—and the future of work—look like? In the face of societal and generational change, will organizational hierarchies fall flat?

Research.com recognizes Henry Mintzberg as Canada’s most influential business and management researcher

webfull — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 21:00:38 +0000

The Best Scientist for 2023 rankings are in, and Desautels Prof. Henry Mintzberg was ranked among the top academics in the world. Research.com ranked Mintzberg as the top Business and Management academic in Canada – and #47 worldwide. The rankings are based on the D-index metric, which measures the cumulative impact of a scholar’s work through its influence within a discipline’s peer-reviewed journals. Research.com also recognized Mintzberg with its Business and Management Leader in Canada Award for 2023.