Organizational Design Community's online Idea Workshop

ODC is pleased to announce that it will hold its fourth annual Idea Development Workshop on November 19 & 20, 2025. The virtual workshop is designed to support PhD students and other junior scholars interested in topics related to organization design, by matching each participant with senior scholar mentors who will provide feedback on early-stage work, similar in format to a PhD proposal defense.

Workshop plan

Each day’s program will consist of two parallel feedback sessions of 40 minutes each, followed by a 50-minute Ask The Faculty panel.

Feedback sessions

Each feedback session will consist of a 10-minute presentation by the participant, 5-minute comments by each mentor, and open discussion. The feedback sessions will be open only to program participants and applicants.

Faculty mentors include Oliver Alexy, Oliver Baumann, Carliss Baldwin, Richard Burton, Sendil Ethiraj, Kannan Srikanth, Karin Hoisl, Nan Jia, Tobias Kretschmer, Dan Levinthal, Henning Piezunka, Metin Sengul, Sameer Srivastava, Gurneeta Vasudeva, Massimo Warglien, and Brian Wu.

Faculty Panels

In this year’s faculty panels, we will ask our panelists to reflect on the questions “How do we Study Organization Design with Text Data?” (November 19^th) and “What mistakes do you see junior collaborators/authors make that more experienced academics do not?” (November 20^th). The panel discussions will be open to all ODC members.

How to apply

We welcome participants from all stages of a PhD program, post-docs, and junior faculty, but places in the workshop are limited. Applicants should submit a (maximum) 5-page paper / thesis proposal to the workshop co-chairs Özgecan Koçak (ozgecan.kocak@emory.edu) and Marco Minervini (marco.minervini@ie.edu) by November 1, 2025. Successful applicants will be awarded an annual membership to ODC.