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Rotman School Faculty and PhDs Receive Honours for Research and Teaching from the Academy of Management and American Sociological Association.

Toronto, August 18, 2021 – Faculty members and PhD candidates from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School were honoured for their research or teaching at the recent conferences of the Academy of Management and American Sociological Association. The conferences were held on line earlier this month.

At the conference of the American Sociological Association, a paper co-authored by Laura Doering, an assistant professor of strategic management, with Prof. Kristen McNeill of Brown University, was a co-winner of the Sociology of Development Section Faculty Article Award. Elaborating on the Abstract: Group Meaning-Making in a Colombian Microsavings Program was published in American Sociological Review.

Prof. Joshua Gans, Jeffrey S. Skoll Chair in Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship, was a co-winner for the Innovation in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy Award with Erin Scott of MIT Sloan School of Management and Prof. Scott Stern of MIT Sloan School of Management. The award is presented by the Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division and Yeshiva University for the development and implementation of an innovation in entrepreneurship pedagogy for either graduate or undergraduate education. Gans, Scott and Stern developed “Entrepreneurial Strategy,” a practical and systematic approach for how to undertake the process of exploring and evaluating the core choices that entrepreneurs need to make as they translate their ideas into a reality. This approach is taught at the Rotman School in both the Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) Introduction and CDL Advanced courses.

A paper by Sarah Kaplan, Distinguished Professor of Gender & the Economy, and Director, Institute for Gender and the Economy and Prof. Rachel Goodman of Mercer University, a former post-doctoral researcher with GATE, was the Distinguished Winner of the 2021 Responsible Research in Management Award. The award is co-sponsored by the Academy of Management Fellows Group and the Community for Responsible Research in Business and Management. The paper, Work–life balance as a household negotiation: A new perspective from rural India, was published in Academy of Management Discoveries.

A second paper co-authored by Prof. Kaplan, with Daphné Baldassari, a Rotman PhD candidate in strategic management, and Prof. Aaron Dhir of Osgoode Hall Law School, was a finalist for the best symposium award in the Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division at the Academy of Management. The paper is titled Strategic Responses to Disclosure Regulations for Women on Boards.

A paper by Anita McGahan, University Professor, Professor of Strategic Management and the George E. Connell Chair in Organizations & Society, and Leandro Pongeluppe, a Rotman PhD candidate in strategic management, received the William F. Glueck Best Paper Award from the Strategic Management division of the Academy of Management. The award is for the submission judged to be the best paper submitted to the refereed scholarly program. The paper is There is No Planet B: Stakeholder Governance that Aligns Incentives to Preserve the Amazon Rainforest.

Knowledge Theft in Organizations co-authored by David Zweig, an associate professor of organizational behaviour and human resource management at the University of Toronto Scarborough and Rotman School, and Alycia Damp, a PhD student at UofT’s Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources, was judged to be one of the best papers in the program of the Academy of Management. An abridged version of the paper has been published in the Proceedings of the 2021 Academy of Management Meeting.

As previously announced, Prof. Anita McGahan was the recipient of the Career Achievement Award in 2021 for Distinguished Service from the Academy of Management and Prof. Will Mitchell received the William D. Guth Distinguished Service Award from the Strategic Management division of the Academy of Management.

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