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All scholars struggle with two tensions: - If you're building on past work, what's your novel contribution? - If you can make a novel contribution, why tie yourself down to past work? The Indian philosopher Abhinavagupta (950–1016 CE) had the perfect answer 🙏 #AcademicTwitter

Something I've found fascinating in advising two distinct populations of early-stage researchers is how often DBA students' thinking is deeply rooted in real problems, but analyzed lightly, while PhD students' thinking is lightly rooted in real problems, but analyzed deeply.

Perfect example of what organizational scholars might call positive deviance: the Starbucks near me has a fruit fly infestation that's harming food safety, but the district and store managers won't do anything about it. So the employees are handing out cards to warn customers 💪

"History is not produced by dramatic actions and postures of leaders, but by complex combinations of large numbers of small actions by unimportant people." 🙏 - Jim March (from his 2008 documentary on leadership lessons from Tolstoy’s War and Peace)

Another psychology finding that makes for a great factoid, but that likely doesn't hold up analytically. Simply having your phone 📱 around does NOT seem to erode your cognitive ability 🧠 after all! (📄 assets.pubpub.org/mgkf17za/tmb_t…)

This should open up conversation about researcher transparency and bias in qualitative methods. These Yale School of Medicine researchers conducted interviews with the express intent to discredit a study participant—only revealed because of a hot mic moment. Not good. insidehighered.com/news/quick-tak…

Mental effort overwhelmingly feels unpleasant. One of the most interesting consequences of mindfulness training is that it might change our fundamental negative associations about effort, making us more willing to expend mental effort (e.g., doi.apa.org/getdoi.cfm?doi…) 🙏

Some #AOM2024 highlights: Batia Wiesenfeld of NYU Stern outlining the perfect review and Roy Suddaby of UVic Gustavson School of Business unpacking what “events” are and how they shape history.

Packed room discussing the Attention Based View pioneered by William Ocasio—especially in light of the recent Strategic Organization special issue—in this session at #AOM2024 (cdmcd.co/9WbDDn)

I put a lot of effort into my reviews of Academy of Management AMR manuscripts, especially as I've seen firsthand how much an article there can help set your research agenda as an early-career scholar. Delighted to have that effort recognized with an outstanding reviewer award! 😊 #AOM2024

This issue of @osofficer includes an obituary and tribute to Barbara Czarniawska who, among many contributions, wrote what I feel is the definitive work on shadowing as a qualitative method. A great loss for the field and a good reason to re-read her work. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

Fascinating! Given the right set and setting, even a placebo can generate psychedelic 🍄-like experiences, with 61% of participants verbally reporting some effects. Important methodological implications here for the development of psychedelic science. (📄 link.springer.com/article/10.100…)

As author teams grow ever-larger to meet higher publication counts needed for hiring, promotion, etc., it becomes vanishingly possible to know who contributed what—and junior scholars suffer the most. #AcademicTwitter Sole-authored work is a rare honest signal in a sea of noise.

If you read one thing today, read this: philosophersmag.com/terminal-illne…. In it, philosopher Anand Vaidya reflects on the "transformative experience" of a late-stage stomach cancer diagnosis. I found great joy in wrestling with his ideas and will continue to do so even now that he's gone.

This short paragraph in The Atlantic is one of the best indictments I've heard of the kind of flashy psych research that goes on in (top) business schools. Something needs to give 💪 theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

Is there a way to teach an organization theory PhD seminar without it just being a history of ideas? "Well, here's what Weber, Durkheim, and Marx thought. Then Follett, Barnard. Then March and Simon. Then Coase and Williamson. Then Weick. etc." Something that feels more alive? 🤔

One of the best things about teaching Organization Theory is working with real intellectual history: how you can trace current conversations backward by centuries for historical context and then run them forwards for new inspiration 🙏

That feeling when your research gets a proper shoutout in a review article 🥰. We do need to better link collective emotions and collective action! (Review Article 📄: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…, Original Research 📄: pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/or…)

"If you allow me to determine the constraints, I don’t care who selects the optimization criterion" (Hebert Simon, 1964: 3)

Whenever we join a new field of study or occupation we also learn a new mode of thinking. What are the best books that introduce you to a fundamentally new mode of thinking?