Announcements

Posted February 13, 2025

2025 RMD Elections: Call for Nominations

The Research Methods (RM) Division is seeking enthusiastic members interested in volunteer service and leadership opportunities within the division.

Join the RMD leadership team in the five-year leadership rotation or as a representative-at-large for three years. We are also looking for a Co-chair of our well-established and successful Doctoral Student and Junior Faculty Consortium. 

Nominations—including self-nominations—are accepted and encouraged! When you nominate yourself or a colleague for volunteer roles, you help us ensure that RM continues to serve member and community needs.

You must be an active RMD member to submit a nomination.

Nominating is simple: click here to visit the RM Nominations website, and follow the directions on the screen to submit nominees for open volunteer roles in RM.

Please read each open volunteer position’s description before nominating. You may also find a brief description of each position on our open positions page or a more detailed description in our bylaws. 

Serving as a RM volunteer presents a wonderful opportunity to shape the future of the division, create innovative programs and activities for our members, serve as ambassadors, and network and socialize with RM Division colleagues from across the globe. Please consider participating in this important process that ensures our divisional continuity.

The deadline to submit nominations is 28 February.

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Posted February 13, 2025

2025 RMD Awards: Call for Nominations

Greetings Research Methods Division members! 

This year's nomination deadline for Academy of Management (AOM) Research Methods Division (RMD) awards is March 1^st. Please consider nominating deserving colleagues. You can nominate individuals for:

Sage Publications/RMD Distinguished Career Award: Awarded to distinguished scholars who have made significant contributions to the advancement of research methodology. (Note: Nominees who do not win the award in a particular year will be automatically eligible to win the award the 2 years immediately following the year they were initially nominated, without the need to be re-nominated. Therefore, nominees from 2023 and 2024 who did not win the award will be considered this year by default. Beyond this 3-year period, nominees are still eligible for the award, but will not be included again in the nominees' pool unless they are re-nominated.

Sage Publications/RMD/Lawrence R. James Early Career Award: Awarded to scholars who have made distinguished contributions to research methods, practice, and education during their early career stage. Candidates for the 2025 award must have received their Ph.D. no earlier than 2018.

Sage Publications/Robert McDonald Advancement of Organizational Research Methodology Award: Awarded to an organization-related article or book chapter published between January 2019 and December 2023 that has made a significant contribution to research methodology.

Details on the criteria for each of these awards and the nomination process are available on the RMD website (https://rm.aom.org/aboutus/bylaws#appendixb). A list of past winners can be found here.

The RMD will present awards at our annual business meeting during the AOM Conference in July. Thanks to generous donations by Sage Publications, each of these awards offers recognition and a monetary reward. So start thinking about your colleagues and associates who deserve some recognition for their hard work!

For consideration, nominations must be received by March 1^st.

Send your nominations to:
Yihao Liu
RMD Awards Committee Chair & Representative at Large
Department of Management, Terry College of Business, University of Georgia
yihaoliu@uga.edu

Thank you for your nominations!