Conferences Near and Far
OSWC deadline is near, while SMS is far (for me)
Hi folks! It’s just another week in October, except it isn’t, because I’m heading off to the Strategic Management Society conference in Istanbul, Turkiye. I’ve never visited Istanbul, so this is pretty exciting, but if the organizers divide us up by green, blue, red, and white badges, I’m going to get nervous. If you a strategy person and will be there, please stop me and say hi. It’s great to meet new people and see everyone else again, especially the four of you who cited my original job market paper (thanks Claudine!) Once I’m there and can gauge the surroundings, I’ll try to organize some hangout times. Probably not Friday though, in case I’m able to sneak into the SMJ editors meeting to copy more of their great ideas. Safe travels everyone.
The deadline for the Feb. 10-12 Org Science Winter Conference is October 20th, so get your submissions in soon! You can find the call here or on our website, where you can submit your proposals. Remember that there’s a doctoral consortium on the first morning as well. We’re excited to see many of you there! If you need an extra day so you don’t have to turn it in on Sunday, that is fine, but we’ll be immediately going through submissions to organize a program and issue invites. Fortunately, Istanbul to Chicago is a long flight, and one can only watch the Hobbit trilogy so many times (really, just once).
Finally, the Nobel (not technically a) Prize for Economics was awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson for their work on differences in the prosperity of nations, particularly those with historical origins such as colonialism. There’s a funny metric I saw from economics called your “Acemoglu day”, which is the day each year when Daron Acemoglu has more citations in that year than you have in your lifetime. Mine is in late March, while my “Barney day” is more like April. In case you’re curious, Org Science published my 2018 perspectives piece with Leo Kluppel and Jason Snyder partly based on work like Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson, examining the roots of firm variation in historical traumatic shocks. If you want to get acquainted with some of this literature, it’s one good place to start.
Enjoy your week everyone!