Newsletter June 2025

Division Chair Message

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Elena Novelli, Division Chair

Greetings TIM colleagues!

We are making plans for our Annual Meeting in Copenhagen—the first Academy gathering to be hosted in Europe. The Technology and Innovation Management (TIM) community has much to celebrate, and I am delighted to share this year’s highlights with you.

Celebrating TIM’s Momentum

  • Sustained commitment to emerging researchers. Our doctoral and early-career workshops remain vibrant. Thanks to Daniel Armanios, Sandy Yu, Hyunjin Kim and Lauren Lanahan for their excellent work in this area. We have also expanded TIM Travel Awards enabled many young scholars to attend the Annual Meeting.
  • Supporting mid-career scholars. A dedicated Mid-Career Scholars Consortium now offers tailored mentoring, networking, and professional-development workshops. Thanks to Erkko Autio and Dietmar Haroff for their work on this.
  • Expanded global reach. We held two “AOM TIM Division Ideas Development Workshops for Researchers from Low- and Middle-Income Countries,” on December 17, 2024, and March 18, 2025. Conducted via Zoom, each session maintained a 1:1 or 1:2 participant-to-mentor ratio, with mentors drawn from our Research Committee and around 6–8 researchers per session. These workshops reflect our deepening commitment to supporting scholars globally. We have also co-hosted a Paper Development Workshop for Organization Science in London on June 16, 2025, in collaboration with Birkbeck and Innovation Research Caucus. Special thanks to Caroline Fry and Susanne Beck for their support in these areas.
  • Enhanced communications. We have worked on a refreshed newsletter, an active social media presence, and an enlarged communications team to ensure that members receive timely, relevant updates. Huge thanks to such an outstanding team: Amy Zhao-Ding, Paul Hünermund, Jermain Kaminski, Min Jung Kim, Ahmadreza Mostajabi, Aticus Peterson, Sonali Sharp.
  • Sponsors support. TIM’s achievements are made possible by the steadfast support of our sponsors. We extend our sincere appreciation for their generosity to Warwick Business Schoolfor sponsoring the TIM Distinguished Scholar Luncheon, to Stockholm School of Economicsfor sponsoring the TIM Social and Best Paper Award, to Microsoft for sponsoring the TIM Breakfast, to the Katz School of Business for sponsoring the TIM Junior Faculty Consortium, to Innovation: Organization & Management for sponsoring the TIM Best Student Paper Award. Many thanks to our Treasurer Llewellyn Thomas for his thoughtful coordination of the process.

Looking Ahead to Copenhagen 2025

The upcoming meeting promises an outstanding scholarly program. A detailed schedule is available through the , and I encourage you to explore sessions of interest.

For your convenience the Division Secretary Paul Hünermund has also put together a to get to know more about the TIM Division events.

This year the Division will offer a series of social events curated by Paolo Aversa and Arvind Karunakaran. Look out for further announcements! We also look forward to celebrating TIM scholarship with several awards. Thanks to Aldona Kapačinskaitė and Callen Anthony for coordinating this process!

 

A Special Note of Appreciation

I am deeply grateful to Program Chair Valentina Tartari for assembling an inspiring array of paper sessions and symposia, with the support of Patia McGrath and Abhishek Nagaraj; to PDW Chair Tobias Kretschmer for curating an exceptional set of pre-conference workshops; and to Chair-Elect Susan K. Cohen for her invaluable support throughout the year.

On behalf of the entire membership, I thank Past Chair Sonali Shah for five years of dedicated service to TIM—her energy and unwavering commitment have left a lasting imprint on our division. I also extend heartfelt thanks to every author, reviewer, and volunteer whose contributions shape our program.

 I look forward to seeing you in July in Copenhagen for several days of lively debate and fresh insight.

TIM Distinguished Scholar Luncheon

Susan K. Cohen, Division Chair-elect

This year TIM honors Kwaku Atuahene-Gima as the 2025 recipient of the TIM Distinguished Scholar Award.

Kwaku Atuahene-Gima is Founder, President, & Distinguished Professor of Innovation & Marketing at Nobel International Business University (NiBS University) in Accra, Ghana. For five consecutive years (2020-2024), the Stanford University research team lists him among the world's top 2% of scientists whose published research has made the most outstanding contribution to knowledge in their respective fields.

Before founding NiBS, he was an Innovation Management & Marketing professor at the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), Shanghai, for ten years (2005 – 2014). He developed and taught the school's first innovation management courses in the EMBA, MBA, and executive education programs. He was the founding Research Director of the Centre for Marketing & Innovation, funded by Dow Chemical Corporation. He served as Head of the new marketing department for five years. He developed the start-up strategy for CEIBS Africa Campus in Accra, Ghana, and served as its Executive Director from 2008 to 2014. Before CEIBS, he spent 10 years at the City University of Hong Kong (1994 – 20050), where he was the Founding Director of the Centre for Innovation Management and Organizational Change and Chair of the Department of Management for five years. Since November 2015, Kwaku has been a member of the International Expert Panel of the Russian Science Foundation.

Kwaku is the first and the only African scholar ever to have served on the American Journal of Marketing Editorial Review Board, the world's leading marketing journal, from July 2006 to June 2014. He is also a former Associate Editor of the Journal of Product Innovation Management (JPIM). With his two co-authors, he won the Thomas Hustad Best Paper award in November 2015 for their paper published in the Journal of Product Innovation Management (JPIM). On July 23rd, 2010, he received the Best Professor in Marketing and Innovation Management award at Asia's Best Business Schools Awards by CMO in Singapore. In 2007, his paper, published in the American Journal of Marketing in October 2005, won the prestigious Technology Special Interest Group (TECHSIG) award for significant contributions to technology and innovation management knowledge. In 2012, he ranked as the number two innovation management scholar worldwide based on single-authored research papers published in the top 10 business and management journals.

Kwaku has published in the Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of Marketing, Organization Science, Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Product Innovation Management, and several others. He has visited and presented research at several Universities, including the University of Bocconi, University of New South Wales, Delft University of Technology, Cardiff Business School, Singapore Management University, Aston Business School, University of Newcastle, Halmstad University, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HKPU), Jonkoping International Business School, He has taught previously at the Queensland University of Technology, University of Wollongong, Mannheim Business School, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management (FSFM) in Germany, and SBS Swiss Business School Zurich and others.

TIM is delighted to host Kwaku Atuahene-Gima

at the

Sunday, July 27, 12:00 - 1:30 PM

Bella Center: Treehouse

Please join us to celebrate the extensive contributions of Kwaku Atuahene-Gima to the management of technology and innovation. The TIM division wishes to thank Warwick Business School for their sponsorship of the Distinguished Scholar Luncheon this year.

TIM Distinguished Scholar Luncheon

Valentina Tartari, Division Program Chair

I am incredibly excited about the program that awaits us in Copenhagen, for the very first edition of AoM outside North America! This year, the TIM Division received a record-breaking total of 1167 program submissions (1052 papers and 115 symposia). Thanks to everyone who has elected TIM as their intellectual home and submitted their paper to our Division. Such a large amount of submission has required an unprecedented number of reviewers: I am deeply grateful to the 1200 reviewers who generously offered their time and completed a grand total of 2570 reviews! I am particularly grateful to the volunteers who stepped in as emergency reviewers and delivered their reports in record time! The submitted papers cover a wide range of topics, including traditional TIM topics such as collaborative and open innovation strategies, innovation and technology policy, innovation ecosystems as well as hot topics like artificial intelligence, experimentation, diversity and sustainability. While a significant portion of TIM research is quantitative, we see an increasing methodological variety in our community. Approximately 67 percent of the papers used quantitative data and methods, 23 percent were qualitative, and the remaining 10 percent were conceptual.

As AOM ventures to Europe for the very first time, TIM’s global presence is ever increasing. China is now the largest contributor with 284 submissions, followed by the United States (116), the United Kingdom (71), and Germany (68). Asian scholars now account for the first time for the highest number of papers (39%), followed by Europe and North America (37% and 13%, respectively).

Considering the overall submission volume across all divisions and the available conference space, we were able to accept a total of 522 papers.

 The TIM program has been organized into tracks. These tracks allow conference attendees to delve into their preferred areas of interest on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday during the main conference. Each paper session has been assigned to one of the twelve tracks:

  • AI in Organizational Transformation and Decision-Making (9 sessions)
  • Business Model, Ecosystem Transitions, and Green Innovation (11 sessions)
  • Digital Innovation Processes, Platforms, and Evaluation (9 sessions)
  • Emerging AI Technologies, Strategies, and Governance (10 sessions)
  • Entrepreneurship and Innovation Processes (10 sessions)
  • Innovation Ecosystems and Collaborative Governance (9 sessions)
  • Policy, Regulation, and Social Perspectives in Innovation (12 sessions)
  • Strategic Digital Transformation and Leadership (9 sessions)
  • Strategic Experimentation and Market Innovation (10 sessions)
  • Strategic Innovation Leadership and Governance (10 sessions)
  • Technology Evolution, Convergence, and Transfer (8 sessions)

This year we were able to accept 82 symposia. Among them, 8 showcase symposia stand out as they tackle novel and significant issues, such as human-AI collaboration, the role of micro-geography for innovation and entrepreneurship, the relationship between immigration and innovation, and the impact of digitalization on platform ecosystems.

TIM will showcase a very exciting Plenary Session titled: . It will delve into the contributions universities make to economic development and innovation, and how open inquiry and intellectual risk-taking are essential for innovation and progress. The panel will feature a stellar group of experts: Janet Bercovitz (University of Colorado), Michaël Bikard (INSEAD), Jerry Davis (University of Michigan), and Adam Jaffe(Brandeis University). Keld Laursen (Copenhagen Business School), former chair of our TIM Division, will moderate the panel.

Finally, I would like to thank a number of people and institutions to whom we are extremely grateful for lending their skills, time, and support:

  • Abhishek Nagaraj (Berkeley University) and Patia McGrath (Rotterdam School of Management), TIM reps-at-large, for helping with the ideation and organization of the TIM plenary session and assisting me as Program Chair.
  • Abhishek Nagaraj (Berkeley University) and Arul Murugan (Berkeley University) for designing and implementing an algorithm for grouping papers into tracks.
  • B.J. Zirger (University of Cincinnati) for her work on the “TIM matching algorithm,” which pairs reviewers with submissions for TIM and now all other AOM divisions
  • Brianna Giampia, Gabe Bramson and all the rest of the team at the Academy of Management Headquarters for their constant and precious support.

Putting together the TIM program is not just a labor of love but first and foremost a large collaborative effort involving our whole community. I believe the result is an interesting, interactive, cutting edge, and thought-provoking program, and I hope you will enjoy it. We look forward to seeing you in Copenhagen, and we particularly welcome all the new members and friends of TIM!

Recognizing Outstanding Reviewers

As we reflect on the success of this year's conference, we want to take a moment to express our heartfelt gratitude to the reviewers whose diligent efforts and valuable feedback made this event possible. Their commitment to excellence has been instrumental in upholding the high standards of our conference.

We are pleased to recognize two groups of exceptional reviewers:

27 Reviewers Who Went Above and Beyond: These individuals completed at least three TIM reviews and received a score of 4.5 for the usefulness of their feedback from the authors. As a token of our appreciation, these reviewers will receive award plaques in recognition of their outstanding contributions. 4 of them did their reviews in less than 2 days!

  • Gabriel Franceschini, University of Bologna
  • Stijn Kelchtermans, KU Leuven
  • Mostafa Khoshbash, University of California Santa Barbara
  • Andresa Erminda Spiess Leal DAvila, Universidade Regional de Blumenau
  • Jan M. W. N. Lepoutre, ESSEC Business School
  • Susanna Mansikkamäki, University of Jyväskylä
  • Mohammad Al Bukhari Marzuki, Sultan Azlan Shah Polytechnic
  • Anh Duc Nguyen, Paris-Saclay University
  • Felix Pinkow, Christian Albrecht University of Kiel
  • Xiangru Qin, The Australian National University
  • Wolf-Hendrik Uhlbach, Tilburg University
  • Elena Veretennik, KU Leuven
  • lka Weissbrod, Dresden University of Technology
  • Leighann Eileithyia Kimble, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  • Maria Theresa Norn, Technical University of Denmark
  • Frank T. Piller, RWTH Aachen University
  • Joe N. Ploog, IE Business School
  • Aparna Venugopal, University of Liverpool
  • Diqiu Wang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • Rui Wang, George Washington University
  • Qingqing Ye, Macquarie University
  • Zhongyu Zhao, The University of Hong Kong
  • Yarid Ayala, TEC de Monterrey
  • Chetan Chawla, North Central College
  • Marco S. Giarratana, IE Business School
  • Na Jin, National Chengchi University
  • Arvind Karunakaran, Stanford University

55 Reviewers for Their Constructive and Timely Reviews: These reviewers completed their TIM reviews by the AOM deadline, wrote at least 180 words and also received a score above 4 for the usefulness of their feedback. Their dedication and valuable insights were crucial to the review process, and we want to acknowledge their efforts by listing their names in this newsletter.

  • Fabrizio Amarilli, Dublin City University
  • Mauro Estefano Kowalski, University of São Paulo
  • Frank Siedlok, University of St Andrews
  • Ting Li, University of Western Ontario
  • Nandini Sharma, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Iris Poon, SKEMA Business School
  • Adrien Querbes, University of Manchester
  • Mo-An Chu, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
  • Xiaofei Song, Beijing Normal University, Hong Kong Baptist University, United International College
  • Julia Christis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  • Luca Vadacca, University of Twente
  • Danilo Pesce, Polytechnic of Turin
  • Mabel Sanchez Barrioluengo, University of Manchester
  • Jubalt Alvarez, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
  • Anne Sophie Barbe, Toulouse School of Management
  • Anders Dahl Krabbe, King's College London
  • Giorgio Di Fiore, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
  • Rajan Goparaju, 3iStrategy Research & Consulting
  • Claudio Dell'Era, Politecnico di Milano
  • Erik Liesola, Aalto University
  • Alberto Bertello, University of Turin
  • Alfonso Cruz-Novoa, Catholic University of Chile
  • Muhammad Arshad, Aix-Marseille University
  • Ann Sophie Lauterbach, University of Konstanz
  • Xi Wang, Rice University
  • Yotam Sofer, Copenhagen Business School
  • Martina Tomasetig, University of Udine
  • Elie Abi Saad, Umeå University
  • Carsten Christian Guderian, LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions / PatentSight GmbH

TIM Doctoral Student Consortium

Hyunjin Kim and Lauren Lanahan, Session Organizers

Date: Saturday, 26 July 2025

Time: 09:00 - 17:00 CEST

Location: In person only: Copenhagen Business School: Solbjerg Plads- SP 113

The consortium is organized around three main events:

  1. Job Market Bootcamp: We will discuss contemporary topics for the upcoming job marketing, such as, how to approach the job market considering the current climate, and, how to prepare for virtual or in-person campus visits including job-talks and interviews. Faculty panelists will also share tips about finishing the dissertation and transitioning from being a student to a faculty member.
  2. Horizon 2030: Congrats, you landed your dream job! Now what? In small roundtable groups, we will work on a five-year visioning exercise (2025 + 5 = 2030) where you will envision your future research statement and then receive detailed feedback from a faculty mentor on how to plot your path from today to tenure.
  3. Research Mentorship: Participants will pitch their research (dissertation or job market paper) to a faculty mentor and receive personalized feedback.

We will also have informal networking sessions throughout and will likely have a group happy hour. 

Faculty mentors: The program will include a keynote speech by Scott Stern (MIT) and a diverse group of faculty mentors: Jiang Bian (HKU), Ryan Coles (University of Connecticut), Gaetan de Rassenfosse (EPFL), Luisa Gagliardi (Boconni), Ying-Ying Hsieh (Imperial College), Nan Jia (USC), Rem Koning (Harvard), Michael Park (INSEAD), Sanghyun Park (NUS), Henry Sauermann (ESMT). 

For any questions, please email the organizers and .

TIM Junior Faculty Consortium

Sandy Yu and Daniel Armanios, Session Organizers

Date: Saturday, 26 July 2025

Time: 08:30 - 14:00 CEST

Location: Copenhagen Business School: Solbjerg Plads- SP 212 (by invitation only)

The Consortium will provide insights that you need to thrive in the increasingly challenging academic environment. It focuses on strategies for building a career and increasing impact as a scholar and teacher. It will feature outstanding senior faculty members with proven research and teaching records, who will lead interactive discussions about how to balance the competing pressures of teaching, research and service. They will provide first-hand and detailed advice about how to build a successful academic career in a range of different institutional settings. Most importantly, participants will receive feedback on their "research trajectory" from their peers and senior faculty.

Faculty mentors: Confirmed mentors include Janet Bercovitz (CU-Boulder), Mercedes Delgado (CBS), Kenneth Huang (NUS), Keld Laursen (CBS), Mahka Moeen (UWisconsin), Rob Seamans (NYU), and Rosemarie Ziedonis (BostonU).

For any questions, please .

TIM Mid-Career Consortium

Erkko Autio and Dietmar Harhoff, Session Organizers

Date: Saturday, 26 July 2025

Time: 09:00 - 12:00 CEST

Location: Copenhagen Business School: Solbjerg Plads- SP 214

 The TIM Division will hold a Mid-Career Consortium in 2025 (TIM MCC 2025) for the first time. The overall objective is to support TIM scholars who have recently achieved tenure or a similarly significant career advancement to develop a strategy for the next stages of their careers. Towards this objective, leading TIM scholars will reflect on their experience and provide practical advice and mentorship regarding research, teaching, outreach, networks, administrative functions, and other topics.

TIM MCC 2025 will feature a small number of participants to allow for a highly interactive and personalized consortium. We will have a number of group discussions on topics of particular interest to the participants. Attendees will participate in roundtable discussions with senior scholars and receive otherwise hard-to-obtain feedback and input on their mid-career concerns. Topics include mid-career priorities, opportunities, and challenges; institutional differences in the progression from associate to full professor; strategies for maximizing research quality, impact, and productivity (including the role of grant funding, branching into new research topics, collaboration for data access); ethics in research; trends and innovations in assessing scholarly impact; and balancing research, teaching, and service – especially institution building.

Faculty mentors: The final composition of the faculty board will be announced shortly. Confirmed participants are: Marc Gruber (EPF Lausanne), Karin Hoisl (University of Mannheim), Henning Piezunka (Wharton School), Riitta Katila (Stanford University), Markus Perkmann (Imperial College). The event is being organized and chaired by Erkko Autio (Imperial College) and Dietmar Harhoff (Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition).

Participation: Please to pre-register for the TIM MCC. Participation is limited to 25 scholars on a first come-first served basis. Please note that is also required to participate.

For any questions, please email the organizers and/or .

2025 TIM Election Results

Sonali Shah, Past Division Chair

We are thrilled to announce the newest members of the TIM Leadership Team. Please join us in congratulating this fantastic group who will oversee the fantastic programming and activities that the TIM Division sponsors year round and during the annual conference!

Division Program Chair-Elect

Florenta Teodoridis (University of Southern California) will be the TIM Program Chair-Elect for the 2025-2026 academic year. And, she will continue to Program Chair, Division Chair-Elect, Division Chair and Past Division Chair over the next five years. Thank you, Florenta!

 Representatives at Large

The following individuals were elected for a two-year term to the TIM Executive Committee as Representatives-at-Large:

  • Stefano Baruffaldi (Polytechnic University of Milan)
  • Alicia DeSantola (University of Washington)
  • John Eklund (University of Southern California)
  • Jennifer Kao (University of California, Los Angeles)
  • Jennifer Kuan (California State University, Monterey Bay; Representative-at-Large for Mid-Career Activities)
  • Hakan Özalp (Amsterdam Business School)
  • Elie Sung (HEC Paris)

Thank you to everyone who voted in the TIM Division elections. We experienced our highest voting rate since 2016: 25% of our membership voted! Way to go! 

If you are interested in becoming a part of the “TIM team”, please reach out to me or any of our elected officers and reps-at-large.

TIM is in excellent hands!

2025 TIM Emerging Scholar Award

Maria Roche, Recipient of the 2025 TIM Emerging Scholar Award

Please join us in congratulating this year’s recipient of the TIM Emerging Scholar Award: Dr. Maria Roche.

Dr. Roche will tell us more about her work and her path at this year’s annual Academy of Management conference. The award session (25099) will be held on Monday, 28 July from 11am-noon in the Bella Center: Hall D- D3-m4. .

Maria Roche is an Assistant Professor in the Strategy Unit of Harvard Business School. Her research examines how specialized knowledge is commercialized and how micro-geographic environments, such as neighborhoods, buildings, or even office layouts, shape innovation outcomes. Her work demonstrates that organizations can achieve outsized innovation and performance gains by strategically designing and leveraging their physical and social environments. 

Dr. Roche’s research has been published in leading journals, including Management Science, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Organization Science, and Research Policy, and has been featured in outlets such as The Atlantic, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, and Handelsblatt. She is a recipient of best dissertation awards from the Technology and Innovation Management division of the Academy of Management and from the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies (EGOS). She serves on the editorial review boards of Organization Science, the Strategic Management Journal, and Strategy Science. In 2025, she was the recipient of the Wyss Award for Excellence in Mentoring Doctoral Students at HBS.

She earned her PhD in Management (Strategy and Innovation) from the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she was awarded a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant. She also holds an MS in Business Administration and a BA in International Cultural and Business Studies from the University of Passau in Germany. Before entering academia, Professor Roche worked in a variety of sectors, including venture capital and film, and has lived and pursued professional opportunities in Canada, Germany, Austria, Spain, and the United States.

The TIM Emerging Scholar Award is given annually to a scholar who has completed their PhD in the last 7 years and whose scholarship shows exceptional quality and great promise of becoming influential in the area of technology and innovation management. Nominations are solicited each year and the winner is selected by a committee involving past TIM Division Chairs.

2025 TIM Best Paper Award Finalists

Callen Anthony, TIM Best Paper Awards Organizer

We are thrilled to announce the finalists of the TIM Best Paper and TIM Best Student Paper Awards! These exceptional papers highlight important contributions to our research community.

Before we unveil the names, let's take a moment to explain the selection process. The Awards Committee began with a set of the highest-ranked papers from the regular review process. We had 14 manuscripts in the pool of best conference papers and 6 manuscripts in the pool of student papers. For a manuscript to qualify as a student paper, the primary and first author had to be a student at the time of submission. The papers were sent to 25 reviewers, all scholars whose work falls within the purview of TIM. We carefully matched papers and reviewers based on expertise, while ensuring there were no conflicts of interest. We deeply appreciate these reviewers, who graciously agreed to review and score the manuscripts. Their scores determined both the finalists for each award and the ultimate winners. The finalists are the following:

TIM Best Paper Award Finalists

  • “Igniting Innovation: Evidence from PyTorch on Technology Control in Open Collaboration” by Daniel Yue (Georgia Institute of Technology) & Frank Nagle (HBS)
  • “Migration and Local Problem-Solving” by Caroline Fry (University of Hawai’i at Mānoa) & Gauri Subramani (Lehigh University)
  • “The Impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence on Innovation: Evidence from Software Products” by Erdem Doğukan Yilmaz (INSEAD) & Tim Meyer (University of St Gallen)

The TIM division wishes to express its gratitude to Stockholm School of Economics for their sponsorship of the Best Paper Award this year.

TIM Best Student Paper Award Finalists

  • “Artificial Intelligence and Resource Orchestration: Industry Leaders Amid Technological Change” by David Wagner (University of St Gallen), coauthored with Naomi Haefner (University of St Gallen), Vinit Parida (Luleå University of Technology) & Joakim Wincent (Hanken School of Economics & University of St Gallen)
  • “Lean Thinking, Deep Impact? Exploration Strategies and Commercialization of Deeptech Ventures” by Vinay Subramanian (Wharton)
  • “Opening AI: Selective Revealing of AI System Components” by Leonard Hanschur (Technical University of Munich), co-authored with Joachim Henkel (Technical University of Munich)
  • “The Interplay of Alliance and Knowledge Networks in Strategic Value Creation” by Dana Jongyoun Baek (INSEAD)

The TIM Division wishes to thank Innovation: Organization & Management Journal (Taylor & Francis) for their sponsorship of the Best Student Paper Award Finalists this year.

We will honor these finalists at the during the AOM Annual Meeting where we will also announce the winners of the Best Paper Award and the Best Student Paper Award. We look forward to seeing you all there!

We graciously acknowledge the following scholars who served as reviewers:

Best Conference Paper Award Reviewers

  • Moshe Barach, U of Minnesota
  • Sen Chai, McGill
  • Sungyong Chang, Cornell
  • Emily Cox Pahnke, U of Washington
  • Alicia DeSantola, U of Washington
  • Cheng Gao, U of Michigan
  • Doug Hannah, Boston University
  • Sukhun Kang, UC Santa Barbara
  • Harsh Ketkar, UT Austin
  • Sina Khoshsokhan, UC Boulder
  • Hong Luo, Rotman
  • Rory McDonald, U of Virginia
  • Mahka Moeen, U of Wisconsin
  • Yuan Shi, Cornell
  • Natalya Vinokurova, Lehigh University
  • Tiona Zuzul, HBS

Best Student Paper Award Reviewers

  • Trey Cummings, Johns Hopkins
  • Summer Jackson, HBS
  • Soomi Kim, Columbia
  • Anders Krabbe, CBS
  • Alex Murray, U of Oregon
  • JF Soublière, HEC Montreal
  • Jeremy Watson, U of Minnesota
  • Jane Wu, UCLA
  • Alan Zhang, Columbia

2025 TIM Best Dissertation Award Finalists


Aldona Kapačinskaitė, TIM Best Dissertation Award Organizer

The Technology and Innovation Management (TIM) Division of the Academy of Management invited submissions for the 2025 TIM Best Dissertation Award in December 2024. Per the Division’s domain statement, we welcomed dissertations from different disciplinary perspectives including management (strategy, organization theory, organizational behavior etc.), as well as economics, technology studies, sociology, etc. We considered dissertations across a broad range of methodologies and encouraged applications of underrepresented groups.

This year, the TIM division received 28 eligible submissions for the award and involved 21 scholars with wide-ranging research expertise in a double-blind review process to select the Best Dissertation.

During the first round, each five-page dissertation abstract was sent to five to six different reviewers who then ranked them. Each reviewer ranked 7 dissertation abstracts. From this first round of evaluations, the top 5 dissertations out of the initial submissions were selected as the finalists for the 2025 Best Dissertation Award.

Please join us in congratulating the five finalists (listed in alphabetical order of their last names):

  • Rohin Borpujari, Assistant Professor, University College London (PhD from London Business School)
  • Yang Liu, Assistant Professor, Fordham University (PhD from Cornell University)
  • Jino Lu, Assistant Professor, Washington University in St. Louis (PhD from University of Southern California)
  • Joe N. Ploog, Assistant Professor, IE University (PhD from University College London)
  • Daniel Yue, Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology (PhD from Harvard Business School)

These five finalists then submitted a 30-page summary of their respective dissertations, which were then sent to a panel of 20 reviewers. The reviewers once again evaluated and ranked these dissertations. These final rankings were used to determine the winner of the 2025 TIM Best Dissertation Award. Please note that the winner will be announced at the (Sunday, July 27, 5:30PM, Bella Center: Hall C- C1-m1). The five finalists will present their work during a at the Academy on Monday, July 28, 2:00PM at Bella Center: Hall D- D3-m4.

 We express our deepest thanks to the reviewer panel who contributed to the selection of the 2025 TIM Best Dissertation:

Danielle Bovenberg, Trey Cummings, Mara Guerra, Kenneth G. Huang, Sukhun Kang, Jennifer Kao, Ying Li, Xuege (Cathy) Lu, Giacomo Marchesini, Amisha Miller, Milan Miric, Hakan Özalp, Francisco Polidoro, Vera Rocha, Lia Sheer, Thiago J. Soares, Shirley Tang, Tony Tong, David M. Waguespack, Rosemarie Ziedonis and Amirhossein (Miros) Zohrehvand.

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