Dr. Caroline Stratton, Assistant Professor from the School of Information, traveled to Seattle for the Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meeting. 

AOM is the professional association for management and organization scholars, and the annual meeting brings together members from all around the world to present their work and exchange ideas. 

Stratton presented her work in a symposium titled “Work and Collaboration Across and Between the Global South and Global North,” which features research about the international ties of organizations and individuals’ experiences of global work. Stratton (and co-author Karim Jetha from the University of Georgia) shared their paper “Maintaining Local and Interpartner Legitimacy in North-South Partnerships in International Development: A Study from the Local Partner Perspective.” The paper addresses how non-governmental organizations located in the Global South must work to simultaneously convey legitimacy to funders in the Global North and manage legitimacy in their local communities to succeed. 

“I’m eager to share this work and get feedback from other symposium panelists, the discussant, and the audience about the motivation for the paper and its contribution,” says Stratton. “I hope that the conversation will get me thinking about how to better develop my ideas and to pursue future research.”

When asked what she was most excited about going into the meeting, she said, “I’m most excited to be in conversation with other scholars who have similar interests in organizations and technology. The majority of this scholarly community is made up of researchers in business schools and it’s exciting to me to be in a different disciplinary setting.”