Management School's Dean wins OMT Division Joanne Martin Trailblazer Award at AOM 2024
The Dean of the University of Liverpool Management School (ULMS), Professor Julia Balogun, has been announced as one of the award winners at the 84th Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meeting.
Professor Julia Balogun is the winner of the 2024 Organization and Management Theory (OMT) Division Joanne Martin Trailblazer Award along with Professor Paula Jarzabkowski (The University of Queensland), Professor David Seidl (University of Zurich) and Professor Richard Whittington (University of Oxford).
This biannual award recognises scholars who have taken a leadership role in the field of OMT, by opening up new lines of thinking or inquiry.
Trailblazers are boundary-spanners and conversation starters, extending and building the OMT community by shepherding new ideas and new scholarship, often in unconventional ways.
With this award, the OMT Division recognises these award winners for their innovative, energetic, and successful pioneering work in “Strategy as Practice”, which advanced insights, expanded theory, and built a community to develop a practice-theory-based approach to strategy and organisation.
When announcing the award winners, the OMT Division quoting from their domain statement said that since they are dedicated to pursuing “theoretically significant and methodologically rigorous research across analytical levels and phenomena to generate impactful insights in management and organizing” the 2024 award winners’ work on the Strategy-as-Practice perspective is highly relevant to OMT’s mission, and they are indeed worthy of this recognition.
ULMS is delighted to announce this second award for Professor Julia Balogun following her recognition by the Organization Development and Change (ODC) Division for her three decades of research on Strategic Change in 2021, when she was named the 2021 ODC Distinguished Scholar.