Message from the Division Chair

2024-2025 DIVISION CHAIR’S MESSAGE

Division Chair’s Message

Dear SIMians,

I hope this message finds each of you well after our annual meeting in Chicago this summer. It was great to see the energy and engagement within our Division as we gathered together to discuss our work, provide feedback and deepen our connections. The enthusiastic conversations throughout the conference rooms, workshops, and socials where SIM members met are testament to the vibrancy of our community.

As I start my term as SIM Division Chair for the next year, I am honored to serve with a deep sense of responsibility. I’m excited to work with such a dynamic and engaged group. The incredible support and commitment of our members drive our Division’s success, and I extend my heartfelt gratitude for the tireless efforts of all our volunteers.

The SIM Division remains strong—with 1979 members this year and 48% of SIMians registered for the conference. These figures are a bit lower than last year (2069 members and 49% registration) but still above our 5-year average. SIM remains among the top ten largest Divisions (out of 26 Divisions and Interest Groups) in the Academy of Management. A special thanks to our membership committee (Frank de Bakker, Sebastian Hafenbrädl & Sarah Stephen) for the outreach initiatives they’ve developed over the year, including both online and in-person meetings, workshops, social events and speed networking (Thank you Sarah Stephen and Susana Esper), to connect and inform our members and encourage participation.

Much gratitude goes out to those who work so hard to put our program together for the annual meeting. In total SIM received 496 submissions. Rajat Panwar did an excellent job evaluating the PDW submissions, scheduling and supporting the 4 key SIM annual consortia and workshops, scheduling 14 SIM accepted PDWs and determining co-sponsorships of 65 PDWs with other Divisions. Erica Steckler did a wonderful job organizing the reviewing, acceptance decisions, and scheduling of the papers and symposia, with 201 papers and 48 symposia ending up on the program. Erica also implemented several innovations and initiatives on the program, including introducing a series of paper sessions dedicated to finalists for the key SIM awards, piloting a new format interactive paper session, and circulating a slide to inform session participants about our professional conduct norms. Also, I want to send a special thank you to the 65 Associate Editors and the 472 SIMians who signed up to review for the annual meeting—thanks to you we had a very high review completion rate of over 93%. Please remember to sign up again to review for SIM for the 2025 annual meeting.

SIM’s Doctoral Consortium was excellent this year for 33 doctoral students thanks to Sarah Ku, Akwasi Opoku-Dakwa and Harry Van Buren, with gratitude to the Quinlan School of Business at Loyola for hosting and sponsorship. Thanks also goes out to Jason Pattit and Sana Chiu who led a fantastic Junior Faculty Consortium for 22 junior faculty members in partnership with the ONE Division. Appreciation also goes out to Jegoo Lee and Lucas Amaral who led a terrific Research Development Workshop supporting 22 junior scholars. We are especially grateful to all the SIM senior faculty who volunteered to serve as mentors and panelists during these key SIM PDWs.

SIM’s fantastic communication team deserves our gratitude for keeping us updated on all things SIM. The SIMian Newletter is skillfully edited by Jae Lee and David Skandera. We also thank Daniel Alonso for serving as our Webmaster. We are also grateful to David Skandera and Seham Ghalwash for running AOM Connect. And SIM’s Social Media presence is maintained by Susan Cooper—thank you for managing this for SIM!

As SIM’s leadership team gets busy with the new year, I look forward to working with Erica Steckler as the incoming Chair-Elect, Rajat Panwar as the incoming Program Chair, Punit Aurora as the incoming PDW chair and Jason Pattit as SIM’s interim Treasurer. I’m also grateful for the leadership over the last year of Cristina Neesham, who will continue to provide guidance in the role of Past Division Chair. We have some exciting strategic thinking to do, as this is the year for our five-year review under the Academy’s review process. We are putting together a Review Team who will develop a survey to gauge the needs and wishes of our members. The learnings from this survey will be used to evaluate and further develop our SIM Division strategy, in a spirit of continuous improvement. Please do your part and complete the survey when it goes out to SIM members in mid-October, so that we can include your input in our planning.

Thank you once again to everyone for your continued efforts to make SIM a successful and supportive Division. I look forward serving the next year as your Division Chair. I am confident that together we will navigate the challenges of the review to foster growth and enrich our community, and also put together a fantastic first AOM meeting in Europe (Copenhagen, July 25-29, 2025).

Warm regards,

Michelle Westermann-Behaylo

SIM Division Chair, 2024-2025

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2023-2024 DIVISION PROGRAM CHAIR’S LETTER

Erica Steckler

University of Massachusetts Lowell

Dear SIM Members,

Greetings in warm celebration of June’s arrival! It’s already that promising “AOM is almost here!” time of year.

On behalf of the Division’s officers, committees, and generous volunteers, we look forward to gathering with the SIM community at the Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meeting in Chicago.

Building on our Member contributions, the 2024 Program includes timely professional development workshops (PDWs), paper sessions, symposia, and events that serve as important research, career development, and networking resources for SIMians and others. We are proud for this year’s Program to represent the tradition of important, impactful, and inclusive scholarship that is very much at the heart of SIM.

This year most (but not all!) SIM sessions will take place at our Division’s conference “headquarters” – Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile. SIM PDWs and consortia occur on Friday, August 9^th and Saturday, August 10^th. The SIM Scholarly Program of symposia, plenary sessions, and paper sessions is scheduled from Sunday, August 11^th through Tuesday, August 13^th.

For Monday, August 12^th, please add the SIM Business Meeting (5:00-6:30pm) and SIM Social (6:30-8:30pm) to your high-priority AOM calendars! Additional SIM highlights on Monday include the following four sessions that spotlight best-in-class scholarship: Best Student Paper Finalists (9:45-11:15am), Best Ethics Paper Finalists (11:30am-1pm), SIM Best Paper Finalists (1:15-2:45pm), and Best Dissertation & Book Award Finalists (3:00-4:30pm). Once the 2024 Program officially debuts, please check out additional SIM “highlight” and featured sessions.

Kudos to the many SIM members whose submission and reviewing contributions have resulted in an outstanding 2024 Program! Importantly, SIM continues to make explicit our Division’s norm that those submitting to SIM should also be reviewing for SIM.

Speaking of SIM reviewing… A hearty thank you to SIM’s remarkable – record setting! – team of Reviewers and Associate Editors for the 2024 Program. In total, 472 people signed up to review for SIM this year. While this reflects a slight decrease (-4.6%) from SIM’s 495 reviewers in 2023, this year SIM proudly boasts what may be an AOM-wide Division record: a whopping 93.4% review completion rate, with 1,524 paper and symposia review assignments in total! SIM’s 2023 review completion rate was 88.3% with 1,689 total review assignments. On average, SIM submissions this year received at least 3 reviews (3.3).

In sum, SIM’s reviewing metrics are trending strongly in the right direction thanks to the dedicated efforts of SIMians! We recognize and honor all 472 volunteer SIM Reviewers for their expert and constructive feedback to help strengthen peer scholarship submitted to our Division. Special thanks to 65 experienced SIM Reviewers who served as Associate Editors, as well as for a handful of generous and tireless SIM “Emergency Reviewers” who stepped in on very short notice as the reviewing deadline loomed.

SIM Reviewers directly advance the scholarship mission of our Division. – Each and every SIM reviewing effort is deeply appreciated and celebrated. Again, thank you!

Finally, thank you to everyone who submitted to SIM this year! Submissions for 2024 include 403 papers, 71 symposia, and 22 PDWs resulting in 496 submissions in total. SIM 2024 submissions reflect a 6.8% decrease from 2023, when there were 532 total submissions. Looking ahead to AOM 2025, let’s aim for total SIM submissions to be in the 500s again! – Please continue submitting to SIM, and encouraging colleagues working in our field to do so as well.

This year SIM accepted 201 papers (50%), 48 symposia (70%) and 18 PDWs (80%), covering a wide range of topics and levels of analysis, such as: stakeholder activism; corporate political activity; sustainability; corporate social responsibility; business and human rights; social movements; social entrepreneurship and innovation; governance; ethical decision making; inequality; poverty; justice; diversity; green future-making; flourishing; corporate social irresponsibility; organizational wrong doing; stakeholder orientation and engagement; humanistic management; corporate social identity and purpose; responsible organizational leadership; responsible AI; CSR reporting and accountability; ESG ratings; and many more.

Rajat Panwar

2024 PDW Chair

Congratulations to Rajat Panwar for his leadership of the PDW Program this year! 2024 SIM PDWs cover a dynamic range of topics including historical injustice, polycrisis, stakeholder voice, humanistic leadership, and SDGs, among others.

This year’s PDW Program will again offer four SIM-sponsored sessions and consortia, with endless thanks to our wonderful co-organizer teams! We look forward to welcoming robust cohorts of colleagues to the SIM Doctoral Consortium (Sarah Ku and Akwasi Opoku-Dakwa) and SIM/ONE Junior Faculty Consortium (Jason Pattit and Sana Chiu), respectively. SIM Speed-Networking will once again support the expansion and deepening of SIM community connections (Sarah Stephen and Susana Esper), while the SIM Research Development Workshop (Jegoo Lee and Lucas Amaral Lauriano) will facilitate access to SIMian mentoring and feedback on scholarly work.

Finally, it's been a joy and rich learning experience to work alongside SIM leadership team members Colin Higgins, Cristina Neesham, Michelle Westermann-Behaylo, and Rajat Panwar, who daily bring their good energy, innovative ideas and insights, and extreme dedication to the stewardship of the SIM Division.

I’m honored to have had the opportunity to serve as 2024 SIM Program Chair, and eager for the AOM Program in Chicago to spotlight excellent SIMian scholarship. For questions regarding this year’s SIM program, I can be contacted at: simprogram2024@gmail.com.

See you in August for the 2024 SIM Program at AOM!

Warm regards,

Erica Steckler

2024 SIM Program Chair