We hold our DIO workshop every year in May. Each workshop features around 20 papers and is attended by 60+ researchers from all over the world.
DIO 2021 – Virtual Workshop
The fourth DIO Workshop was held virtually on May 20th – 21st, 2021.
Program Committee
- Jean-Nicolas Reyt, McGill University
- Batia Wiesenfeld, New York University
- Yaacov Trope, New York University
- Nira Liberman, Tel Aviv University
- Pamela Smith, University of California, San Diego
- Cheryl Wakslak, University of Southern California
- Ken Fujita, Ohio State University
- Marlone Henderson, University of Texas at Austin
- Kristina Diekmann, University of Utah
Workshop Program
You can download the program by clicking here.
DIO 2020 – Virtual Workshop
The third DIO Workshop was held on May 14th – 16th 2020. Although we had initially scheduled to meet in person in Montreal, we switched to a virtual meeting because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Program Committee
- Jean-Nicolas Reyt, McGill University
- Batia Wiesenfeld, New York University
- Yaacov Trope, New York University
- Cheryl Wakslak, University of South California
- Pamela Smith, University of California, San Diego
- Ken Fujita, Ohio State
Workshop Program
You can download the program by clicking here.
DIO 2019 – New York University
The second DIO Workshop was held on May 16th – 18th 2019 at New York University’s Stern School of Business, in New York City. The workshop started a day early with a doctoral consortium.
Program Committee
- Batia Wiesenfeld, New York University (Co-Chair)
- Jean-Nicolas Reyt, McGill University (Co-Chair)
- Yaacov Trope, New York University
- Nira Liberman, Tel Aviv University
- Cheryl Wakslak, University of South California
- Ramona Bobocel, University of Waterloo
- Ken Fujita, Ohio State University
- Joe Magee, New York University
Workshop Program
You can download the program by clicking here.
Group Photo

DIO 2018 – McGill University
The first DIO Workshop was held on May 11th – 12th 2018 at McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management, in Montréal Canada.
Program Committee
- Jean-Nicolas Reyt, McGill University (Chair)
- Yaacov Trope, New York University
- Cheryl Wakslak, University of South California
- Batia Wiesenfeld, New York University
- Ramona Bobocel, University of Waterloo
- Pamela Smith, University of California San Diego
- Michael Daniels, University of British Columbia
Best Submission Awards
The six researchers who received the highest scores during the blind review process were awarded a Best Submission Award. Faculty members and PhD students competed in two separate categories.
- Best Faculty Submission Award: Andrew Carton for the paper titled “Painting A Clear Picture While Seeing The Big Picture: Leadership, Construal Level Theory, and The Tradeoff Between Concreteness and Scale.“
- Runner-up for Best Faculty Submission Award: Yair Berson and Shaul Oreg for the paper titled “CLT At The Interface Of Managers And Employees During Organizational Change: Introducing The Concept Of Change Construal.“
- Best Student Submission Award: Ashli Carter for the paper titled “The Cognitive Consequences of Group Composition: A Construal Level Framework.“
- Runner-up for Best Student Submission Award: Robert Barrett for the paper titled “Where Is The Conflict? How Construal Level Affects Disagreements In Innovation Team.“
- Runner-up for Best Student Submission Award: Y. Andre Wang for the paper titled “Construal Level Switching: Costs and Consequences.“
Workshop Program
You can download the program by clicking here.