Spotlight on Two Outstanding PhD Candidates
ODC Division PhD Consortium Participants 2025
We're excited to put the spotlight on two outstanding PhD students participating in this year's ODC Division PhD Consortium. They each bring fresh perspectives, inspiring research interests, and a strong dedication to the field of organization development and change.
Get to know them below - and don't hesitate to connect with them during the Academy of Management Annual Meeting or through the ODC community!
Huey Chuan "Linda" Huang
Huey Chuan "Linda" Huang investigates the tensions between human agency and human-created AI agency-specifically, the struggle to express personal, unique ideas versus adopting AI recommendations; the friction between human and AI creativity; and the evolving dynamics of human–AI relationships. Her dissertation, Dare to Be Unique: A Two-Wave Mediation Analysis to Understand the Interplay Among AI-Reliance Behavior, AI-Contextualized Personal Sense of Uniqueness, and Innovative Work Behavior, has led to working papers accepted for presentation at the Academy of Management (AOM) 2024 Conference, the American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2025 Conference, and the AOM 2025 and American Psychological Association (APA) 2025 Conferences. Linda is trained in the Organizational Change and Leadership program at the Rossier School of Education and expects to receive her Doctor of Education degree from the University of Southern California in August 2025.
Karolina Drake
Karolina Drake af Hagelsrum, PhD student at Chalmers University of Technology, department of technology management and economics (TME). The purpose of my research is to deepen theoretical understanding and practical application of customer participation and service development in the context of traditional service industries.
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Danny Montfort
Nyenrode Business University
Maasbracht
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