Academy of Management Review
Incoming Editorial Team
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Aseem Kaul
Aseem Kaul is the Andrew Van de Ven Professor in 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’s (AOM) (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 as associate editor at Academy of Management Review from 2023 to 2026. He received his PhD in management from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, prior to which he worked with the Akanksha Foundation—an 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 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 has also served as associate editor of Academy of Management Journal and on numerous editorial boards, including 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 Fast Company.
Professor Perry-Smith earned her PhD 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 BS 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.
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Jeff Bednar
Jeff Bednar is an Associate Professor in the Management Department at Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Business. His research examines how leaders construct and maintain their identities, and how they respond to various identity challenges, such as legacy dynamics and the impostor phenomenon.
His work has been published in numerous outlets, including the Harvard Business Review, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Perspectives, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Business Ethics, and Journal of Vocational Behavior.
Professor Bednar earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in accounting from BYU’s Marriott School of Business and a doctoral degree from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. He serves as a reviewer for numerous journals and has served on the Academy of Management Review Editorial Board since 2017, where he has been awarded three outstanding reviewer awards. He has also been a guest editor for the AMR’s Special Topic Forum on “Polarization and the Novel Dynamics of Organizing That Surround It.”
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Raina A. Brands
Raina Brands is Professor of Organizational Behavior and EDI Lead at UCL School of Management, University College London. She received her PhD from Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, and was previously on the faculty at London Business School. Her research examines gender inequality in organizations and labor markets, with two main strands: the cognitive processes that shape how people perceive, mobilize, and benefit from informal networks at work, and the recruitment and evaluation processes that shape women’s outcomes. Her work has been published in journals including Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, and Management Science, and has been featured in outlets such as Harvard Business Review, The Economist, Financial Times, and the BBC. Raina has served on the editorial boards of Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Review, and Academy of Management Journal. At UCL, she sits on the Academic Board and the People Committee. Raina is active in the Academy of Management, having previously served as Representative-at-Large for the Organizational Behavior division.
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Andrew Carton
Andrew Carton is an Associate Professor of Management at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. His research focuses on how to unite people in spite of all that divides them. He has published in outlets such as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, and Journal of Applied Psychology. He received his BA from Rutgers University and his PhD from Duke University. Andrew loves music, exercising, and spending an unreasonable amount of time trying to grow basil for homemade pesto, which at least one person has voluntarily eaten twice.
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John Chen
John Chen is an Associate Professor and the Curtis Hankamer Chair in the Entrepreneurship and Corporate Innovation Department at the Hankamer School of Business, Baylor University. He received his PhD from the University of Michigan. His research develops formal theory in entrepreneurship and strategy, primarily through computational simulation, with applications to the Lean Startup, behavioral real options, and ecosystem evolution under systemwide interdependence. His work has appeared in Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, and Journal of Management. John serves on the editorial boards of Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Strategy Science, and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, and has served on the Research Committee of the Academy of Management’s STR division. His research has received several awards, including AOM’s BPS Distinguished Paper Award and the STR Distinguished Entrepreneurship Paper Award. Prior to his academic career, John held various engineering and strategy roles in the wireless communications industry.
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Tracy Dumas
Tracy L. Dumas is a Professor of Management and Human Resources at the Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business, and she has previously served as a senior editor for Organization Science after having received awards for outstanding reviewing in 2019 and 2020. Dumas’ research addresses the effects of employees’ personal, non-work-related roles and identities on their experiences and behaviors at work. Comprehensively, her studies consider personal-professional boundary management as a vehicle for reconciling dissimilarities between work and non-work domains, shaping workplace status perceptions, juggling work and family role responsibilities, and enhancing work engagement. Her research has been published in leading academic outlets, including Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organization Science, and Personnel Psychology. She has also published in Harvard Business Review. Several popular media outlets have profiled her research, including Forbes.com, Harvard Business Review Women at Work Podcast, Fast Company, the Bloomberg Business BNA Workforce Report, The Economist, Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, and Columbus CEO.
Dumas earned her PhD from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and her BS from Northwestern University. Prior to entering academia, Dumas managed client projects for a Chicago-based consulting and research firm specializing in workforce issues. Outside of work, Dumas indulges her artistic side by playing the piano, taking dance classes, or dancing in local productions.
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Aline Gatignon
Aline Gatignon is an Associate Professor of Strategy & Business Policy at HEC Paris. Prior to joining HEC Paris, she was an Assistant Professor of Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Aline’s research examines how organizations design and govern collaborative strategies to address large-scale societal challenges. She is especially interested in cross-sector partnerships, stakeholder governance, nonmarket strategy, corporate social responsibility, and emerging markets. Her work explains how firms, nonprofits, governments, and other stakeholders organize to create social and economic value, particularly in contexts characterized by institutional complexity and resource constraints.
Her research has been published in leading management journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, and Organization Science. She has received several honors for her research, including the Emerging Sustainability Scholar Award from the Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability, recognition in the Thinkers50 Radar Class of 2025, and multiple best paper awards and nominations from the Academy of Management and the Strategic Management Society.
Aline serves on the editorial boards of Strategic Management Journal and Organization Science, and has been active in the Academy of Management and Strategic Management Society, including elected service in the AOM Strategic Management division and the SMS Stakeholder Strategy Interest Group. She received her PhD in management from INSEAD, an MSc in Development Economics from Sciences Po Paris, and a BA in Political Science from Sciences Po Paris.
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Nan Jia
Nan Jia is a Professor of Strategic Management at the USC Marshall School of Business. Her research examines how firms navigate the intersection of business, government, and emerging technologies, with a focus on corporate political strategy, business–government relationships, and the organizational and strategic implications of artificial intelligence. Her work has been published in Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, and Organization Science, and she has received multiple best paper and research excellence awards. Her editorial experience includes serving as associate editor for Strategic Management Journal, guest editor of the Strategic Management Journal’s special issue on Strategy and AI, and membership on the editorial boards of several leading journals. Her own work has appeared in AMR on multiple occasions. As an associate editor, she is particularly interested in manuscripts at the intersection of strategy, political economy, and technology, as well as work that bridges micro and macro perspectives on organizing.
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Josh Keller
Josh Keller is Professor of Management and Governance at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, where he co-founded the Organization & Society Network, Australia’s first research cluster focused on the relationship between organizations and society. Prior to joining UNSW, he was an Associate Professor at the Nanyang Business School in Singapore. He received his MBA and PhD from the University of Texas at Austin.
Josh’s papers have been published in many top-tier publications, including the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Organization Studies, Human Relations, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Business Ethics, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.
Josh primarily examines paradox, ambivalence, dilemmas, polarization, conflict, and related phenomena in research on organizations, strategy, entrepreneurship, and international management. His work draws on multiple disciplinary lenses (e.g., anthropology, psychology, and sociology), cultural contexts (e.g., China, Nepal), levels of analysis (e.g., individual, organization, field, and society), methodologies (e.g., experiment, survey, and ethnography), and modalities (e.g., visual representations).
Josh also serves as senior editor at Management and Organization Review and has previously served as associate editor at Journal of Management Inquiry. He was the co-founder of the Paradox Research, Education and Practice (PREP) annual conference. Prior to academia, he worked in the internet sector in the United States and China.
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Lisa M. Leslie
Lisa M. Leslie is a Professor of Management and Organizations at the Stern School of Business, New York University. She received her AB in social psychology from Princeton University and her MA and PhD in organizational psychology from the University of Maryland. Prior to joining Stern in 2013, she spent six years as an Assistant Professor at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. Her research focuses on diversity in organizations, and specifically, understanding why organizational diversity initiatives often produce unintended consequences, both positive and negative. She also has secondary research interests in cross-cultural organizational behavior and conflict management. She has received many awards for her research, which has appeared in journals spanning a number of disciplines, including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Science.
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Charalampos Mainemelis
Charalampos Mainemelis is Professor of Organizational Behavior at Alba Graduate Business School, The American College of Greece. He conducts research at the intersection of creativity and aesthetic states, social structures, and temporal dynamics. His research has been published in the Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Academy of Management Annals, Research in Organizational Behavior, Leadership Quarterly, and other journals. Among other contributions, he developed a theory of creative deviance that received the AMR Best Article Award, and a metatheory of creative leadership that was a finalist for the Academy of Management Annals Best Article Award.
Professor Mainemelis earned his PhD in organizational behavior from Case Western Reserve University. His studies have been featured in the Financial Times, Sunday Times, Forbes, CBS News, and other world media. He served as Chair of the Program and Scientific Committees of the 41st EGOS Colloquium in Athens, Greece. His past service to the Academy of Management Review includes membership in five editorial review boards and four Best Article Award Committees, including once as Chair. He has received two outstanding reviewer awards from AMR.
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Catherine Maritan
Catherine (Cathy) Maritan is a faculty member at the Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University. She studies how firms build and use capabilities, with a focus on resource allocation activities and decisions, and has published in leading outlets such as Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, and Journal of Management, among others.
Cathy previously served as an associate editor at Strategic Management Journal, associate editor and senior associate editor at Journal of Management, and co-editor of special issues of Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, and Managerial and Decision Economics. She is a member of the editorial boards of Strategy Science and Strategic Management Review.
Currently, Cathy is a member of the board of directors of the Strategic Management Society. She led the cochaired SMS Strategy Research Foundation for nine years, overseeing research grant programs, and has held leadership roles in the Strategy Process and Competitive Strategy Interest Groups of SMS. She has served on the executive committee of the (former) Business Policy and Strategy division of the Academy of Management and on the awards committee of the Strategic Management division. Cathy earned a PhD in strategic management from Purdue University, has held visiting appointments at Dartmouth College and Purdue, and served on the faculty of SUNY Buffalo. Before entering academia, she earned a BSc in mining engineering from Queen’s University (Canada) and an MS in management (finance) from Purdue, and worked as a mining engineer and a corporate banker in Canada and the UK.
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Mahka Moeen
Mahka Moeen is an Associate Professor and Skillrud Chair at the Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison. She studies how entrepreneurs and firms create and enter nascent industries, with a focus on the strategies firms undertake during early industry incubation stages. Her areas of expertise include innovation, technology strategy, technology entrepreneurship, entry strategy, nascent markets, and industry emergence, as well as broader themes related to entrepreneurship and strategic management.
Her work has been published in Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Strategy Science, and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. Her research program has been recognized with awards from the Kauffman Foundation, the Strategy Research Foundation, the Academy of Management’s TIM division, the Industry Studies Association, and the Schulze Foundation. She is a double Poets & Quants award winner, named one of the 40 Best Business School Professors Under the Age of 40 in 2022 and one of the Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professors in 2020. Mahka has served as a senior editor of Organization Science, a guest editor for a special issue at Strategic Management Journal, and cochair of the Strategy Research Foundation.
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Hettie Richardson
Hettie A. Richardson (PhD, University of Georgia) is Professor of Management and Leadership and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs in the Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University (TCU). Her scholarly interests include empowerment, involvement, strategic human resource management, and research methods. Hettie’s work appears in journals such as Academy of Management Review, Organizational Research Methods, Journal of Management, and Journal of Organizational Behavior. She has served the Academy of Management in a variety of capacities, including as chair of the Research Methods division (2015–2016) and as one of the division’s Representatives-at-Large (2009–2012). Hettie also served as president of the Southern Management Association (SMA), and she was inducted as an SMA Fellow in 2018. In addition, she has served as senior editor of Research Methods for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Business and Management. She has been a member of the editorial review boards for Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, and Organizational Research Methods, among others. Hettie has been recognized with multiple awards for her scholarship and as a reviewer. She has taught courses on leadership, organizational behavior, human resource management, and international management at the undergraduate, master’s, doctoral, and executive levels.
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Metin Sengul
Metin Sengul is a Professor of Management at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his PhD in strategy from INSEAD. His research focuses on organization design, with a particular emphasis on design choices in complex organizations characterized by multiple interdependent units or multiple and often conflicting goals. Metin’s research has been published in Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Harvard Business Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Organization Design, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, and Strategy Science. His dissertation on delegation and control in multiunit firms was a finalist for the BPS Best Dissertation Award, and his research has received numerous scholarly distinctions. He has served as associate editor (2014–2017) and co-editor-in-chief (2018–2020) at the Journal of Organization Design, and as senior editor (2020–2026) at Organization Science. He served in multiple capacities in the AOM STR division, including as an executive committee member, research committee member, and doctoral consortium cochair, and as chairperson of the SMS Corporate Strategy Interest Group and a Theme Track cochair for the 2024 SMS Annual Conference in Istanbul. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Organizational Design Community.
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Matthew Wood
Matthew Wood is the Michael F. Price Chair in Entrepreneurship at the Price College of Business, University of Oklahoma. He is also the coordinator of the Entrepreneurship PhD Program. He received his PhD in business administration from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and his MBA from Bradley University. His research focuses on understanding how entrepreneurs evaluate new venture opportunities, conceptualizing the nature and emergence of opportunities, and identifying the drivers and timing of entrepreneurial action. Matthew’s work has been published in Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Business Venturing, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, and Small Business Economics. He has received Best Paper Awards from the Journal of Business Venturing and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. Matthew previously served as a field editor at the Journal of Business Venturing and as a co-editor of two special issues. He has also received several outstanding reviewer awards from the Academy of Management Review. He served as a Representative-at-Large for the Entrepreneurship division of the Academy of Management from 2021 to 2025. Prior to becoming a professor, Matthew was an entrepreneur in the commercial printing industry.
Senior Managing Editor
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Irina Burns
Irina Burns joined AOM in 2015 with many years of publishing experience, focusing primarily on journals and copyright. She is currently Senior Managing Editor for Academy of Management Perspectives and Academy of Management Review, as well as Licensing Services Manager for the Academy.
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