Professor Abrahamson is widely recognized for his research on management fashions in business techniques, bandwagons, interorganizational culture, and disorganized systems.
His work has won some of the most prestigious awards in the management. His coauthored work has won the Award for the Best Article published in the Academy of Management Journal (1995, twice the Best Paper Awards of the Academy of Management Organization and Management Theory Division (1990; 1997), and the OMT Division Best Symposium Proposal Award for the Academy Management Meeting (2008).
He is a past consulting editor for the Academy of Management Review and past program chair of the Organizational and Management Theory division of the Academy of Management. He has been on the editorial boards of the Administrative Science Quarterly, the Academy of Management Review, Human Relations, Strategic Organization, the International Journal of Business Innovation and Research, and the Strategic HRM Journal . He has published numerous articles and book chapters that have appeared in such journals as the Academy of Management Review, the Academy of Management Journal, the Administrative Science Quarterly, Advances in Organizational Behavior, the Journal of Computational and Mathematical Organizational Theory, the Harvard Business Review, Human Relations, the Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, the Journal of Management Studies, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, the Scandinavian Journal of Management, The Journal of Management Inquiry, and Organization Science.
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