Incoming Editors
The Academy of Management Board of Governors is pleased to announce the next editors of Academy of Management Discoveries (AMD), Academy of Management Learning & Education (AMLE), and Academy of Management Review (AMR). The new editorial teams will begin to receive manuscript submissions on 1 July 2026. The full teams will be announced later this year.
The Academy of Management Board of Governors is also pleased to announce the next editor of Academy of Management Proceedings (Proceedings). The new editor will be responsible for the 2027 Proceedings.
Academy of Management Discoveries
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Erik Ian Dane
Erik Dane is a professor of organizational behavior in the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis. His research focuses on cognition in the workplace. Through a range of methods, he explores how workers can focus their attention, solve problems, and make decisions as effectively as possible. Topics central to his scholarship include epiphanies, expertise, intuition, mindfulness, and mind wandering. His research has been published in a number of leading journals, including Academy of Management Discoveries, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, American Psychologist, Journal of Management, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. At Olin, he teaches courses focused on personal, professional, and organizational transformation. Before joining Olin, he was a faculty member in the Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University, where he twice received the Jones School’s Scholarship Excellence Award. He earned his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and he remembers with fondness the leading lights—and the brisk westerly winds—that surrounded and invigorated him as he worked on his dissertation. His connection to AMD runs deep, as he served as an Associate Editor for the journal from 2020 to 2023.
Academy of Management Learning & Education
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Diego Coraiola
Diego M. Coraiola is a Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Peter B. Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria. His primary research interests are in collective action and the strategic uses of symbolic resources. His current research focuses on organizational mnemonics, intergenerational change, and Indigenous organizing. His work has been published in journals such as the Academy of Management Annals, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Studies, and Management Learning.
Diego has taught various courses such as strategic management, entrepreneurship, organization theory, and research methods for both graduate and undergraduate students in Brazil and Canada. His teaching philosophy focuses on helping students become active and autonomous learners through experiential learning and live cases.
Academy of Management Review
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Aseem Kaul
Aseem Kaul is the Mosaic Company – Jim Prokopanko Professor for Corporate Responsibility with the Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship Department at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. Aseem’s research interests include corporate strategy, nonmarket strategy & social impact, technology & innovation, institutional & organizational economics, and entrepreneurship. He is especially interested in the use of formal analytical models and simulations for theory development. Aseem’s research has been published in Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Management Science, Organization Science, Strategy Science, and Strategic Management Journal, among others, and has received several awards, including the Sumantra Ghoshal Research and Practice Award from Academy of Management (AOM)’s (then) BPS division, and multiple honorable mentions from the Strategic Management Society (SMS). Aseem currently serves on the board of directors of the SMS and the Consortium on Competitiveness and Cooperation (CCC), having previously served on the executive committee of AOM’s Strategic Management division. Aseem served as an Associate Editor at Strategic Management Journal from 2017 to 2022, as well as coeditor of a special issue on “New Directions for the Resource Based View” at the same journal, and currently sits on the editorial boards of Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, and Strategy Science. He received his PhD in management from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, prior to which he worked with the Akanksha Foundation—a education-based nonprofit working with less privileged children in the slum communities of Mumbai—and with McKinsey & Company’s New Delhi office.
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Jill Perry-Smith
Jill Perry-Smith, Ph.D. is Professor of Organization & Management at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School. Her research focuses on the social context, including how social network theories inform creativity and innovation and how family structures and policies inform work experiences. Professor Perry-Smith’s research has appeared in leading management journals such as Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes, and Journal of Applied Psychology. She also has served as associate editor of Academy of Management Journal and has served on numerous editorial boards including the leading journals in which she has published. In addition, Professor Perry-Smith has contributed to outlets such as the MIT Sloan Management Review, the Wall Street Journal, and FastCompany. Professor Perry-Smith earned her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from the Scheller College of Management at Georgia Institute of Technology, an MBA from Pepperdine University’s Graziadio Business School, and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Syracuse University’s College of Engineering & Computer Science. Prior to her academic career, she worked in the oil and gas industry overseeing large refinery expansion projects across the United States. Professor Perry-Smith and her family live in Atlanta, Georgia. She and her husband enjoy running, traveling, and spending time with their adult children.
Academy of Management Proceedings
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Valerie Sy
Valerie Sy is an Assistant Professor of Global Strategy Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University. She holds a Ph.D. in Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship from Texas A&M University, as well as an MBA and a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin.
Prior to joining academia, Valerie spent 17 years at 3M in management roles spanning strategy, business development, marketing services, sales operations, and information technology, working on complex, large-scale organizational and innovation initiatives.
Her research examines technological strategic renewal, interfirm strategic networks, and multinational corporate communication, drawing on longitudinal, network-based, and text-analytic approaches to study how organizations adapt over time. Her work has been published in Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Management Research, and edited volumes on strategy and human capital.