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CfP Business & Society SI: CSR in Times of Societal Polarization, Politicization, and Securitization

By Punit Arora posted 14 hours ago
For over two decades, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has served as the guiding framework for how businesses engage with society's biggest challenges, from climate change and inequality to corporate governance and democracy. It became so widely adopted that many considered it close to a universal norm, with ESG criteria moving from a peripheral concern to a central pillar of corporate strategy. That consensus now appears to have unraveled. A new special issue of Business & Society , guest edited by Dorothee Maria Winkler and David Risi (Bern University of Applied Sciences), Christopher Wickert (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), and Onna Malou ...

The studENT - AOM Annual Meeting 2026

By Josh Wei-Jun Hsueh posted 6 days ago
(posted on behalf of @Sergio Rodriguez-Garnica , PhD Representative) Dear participants in the upcoming AOM Annual Meeting, I thought this month's column could offer some basic advice on how to make the most of the AOM Annual Meeting, especially for those who are currently on the job market or preparing to enter it in the coming years. The Annual Meeting is a wonderful opportunity to learn about the latest research in our field. It is also one of the best occasions to meet colleagues, build relationships, and expand your professional network. One activity I particularly recommend is participating in doctoral consortia. These events allow ...

Practitioner’s Corner: When Practitioners Disagree: Why Our Best Research Begins with Productive Disagreement

By Josh Wei-Jun Hsueh posted 6 days ago
(posted on behalf of @Paul Sanchez-Ruiz , Practitioner-Scholars Committee Chair) As researchers, we often engage practitioners to validate our ideas or provide access to richer data. However, some of the most valuable conversations occur when practitioners disagree with us. When an entrepreneur tells us, "That's not how it works," our instinct may be to defend our theoretical reasoning. We could perhaps, instead, see these moments as opportunities. Disagreement often reveals assumptions we did not realize we were making, uncovers mechanisms our theories overlook, and sharpens the questions we ask. This does not mean abandoning theory whenever ...

From Founder Coaching Research to AI-Native Venture Development: Building Smart Compass

By Anja Hagedorn posted 7 days ago
Over the past few years, I have repeatedly asked myself one simple question: What if we could translate decades of entrepreneurship research into an AI-supported system that helps founders make better decisions? This question eventually became the starting point for Smart Compass (smartcompass.app) . My academic work has focused on founder coaching, entrepreneurial competencies, and decision-making under uncertainty. While conducting research and working with founders, I repeatedly observed the same challenge: founders receive valuable support from mentors, coaches, investors, and peers. However, much of this support remains fragmented, highly individualized, ...

Associate Professorship of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Impact University of Oxford - Said Business School and Wolfson College

By Michelle Rogan posted 10 days ago
Saïd Business School and Wolfson College are recruiting an Associate Professor of Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Impact. The post is tenable from 06 September 2027, or at an earlier date by agreement. The successful candidate will be both a member of Saïd Business School, and a Governing Body Fellow of Wolfson College. Closing date 12:00 midday BST, Monday the 21st of September 2026 https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRV793/associate-professorship-of-innovation-entrepreneurship-and-impact The Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Impact group is interdisciplinary spanning core business disciplines of management, strategy, entrepreneurship, and innovation, ...

Rethinking Entrepreneurial Thinking: Why Entrepreneurial Ideas Change When Perspectives Change

By Victor (Vik) Perez posted 10 days ago
By Victor (Vik) Perez Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) Entrepreneurship is often described as the process of generating new ideas. Yet an equally important question receives far less attention: how do entrepreneurial ideas themselves change once they encounter different ways of thinking? Entrepreneurial ideas rarely evolve in isolation. They develop as they are interpreted, questioned, challenged, and refined through interactions with others. While much entrepreneurship research has explored how opportunities are recognised and evaluated, less attention has been given to how opportunities themselves are reshaped when entrepreneurs are exposed ...

Join us for the AOM's PDW session on teaching practice-based concepts!

By Fannie Couture posted 11 days ago
Friday, Jul 31 2026 | 3:30PM - 5:30PM | Sheraton in Seminar A No registration required This Professional Development Workshop brings together winners and finalists from the SAP Teaching Innovation Competition to showcase high-impact, practice-based pedagogical approaches and help participants design their own. Panelists: · Maria Andrea de Villa – EAFIT · Martha Reyes – EAFIT · Mazi Raz - IVEY Business School · Patia McGrath – Rotterdam School of Management · Jonas Spengler – Cambridge Judge School of Business PART 1 GET INSPIRED The session opens with rotating ...

Join us for the AOM's PDW session on teaching practice-based concepts!

By Fannie Couture posted 11 days ago
Friday, Jul 31 2026 | 3:30PM - 5:30PM | Sheraton in Seminar A No registration required This Professional Development Workshop brings together winners and finalists from the SAP Teaching Innovation Competition to showcase high-impact, practice-based pedagogical approaches and help participants design their own. Panelists: · Maria Andrea de Villa – EAFIT · Martha Reyes – EAFIT · Mazi Raz - IVEY Business School · Patia McGrath – Rotterdam School of Management · Jonas Spengler – Cambridge Judge School of Business PART 1 GET INSPIRED The session opens with rotating ...

Bocconi BAIC (December 3-4) Call for Papers - Submission Deadline July 12

By Charles Williams posted 12 days ago
The Bocconi Assembly on Innovation and Cooperation, a conference that takes place every 18 months, will be taking place December 3rd-4th in Milan. This year will feature keynotes by Saras Sarasvathy (UVA), Stine Grodal (Northeastern), and Dan Davies, author of The Unaccountability Machine. Submission deadline for papers is July 12th. The focus of the conference is innovation and cooperation, but this is broadly meant to span the research interests of department members and includes most areas of management and the social sciences. See link for submission below. More details in the full call for papers below. Conference Organizers: Cedric Gutierrez, Pier Vittorio ...

Bocconi BAIC (December 3-4) call for papers - deadline July 12

By Charles Williams posted 12 days ago
The Bocconi Assembly on Innovation and Cooperation, a conference that takes place every 18 months, will be taking place December 3rd-4th in Milan. This year will feature keynotes by Saras Sarasvathy (UVA), Stine Grodal (Northeastern), and Dan Davies, author of The Unaccountability Machine. Submission deadline for papers is July 12th. The focus of the conference is innovation and cooperation, but this is broadly meant to span the research interests of department members and includes most areas of management and the social sciences. See link for submission below. More details in the full call for papers below. Conference Organizers: Cedric Gutierrez, Pier Vittorio ...

What Happens When Entrepreneurs Start Working Alongside Humanoid Systems?

By Victor (Vik) Perez posted 22 days ago
By Victor (Vik) Perez Imagine a founder preparing for a high-stakes investor demonstration. As questions emerge unexpectedly, a humanoid system assists with product demonstrations, monitors investor reactions, gathers information from the surrounding environment, adapts to changing conditions, and supports real-time decision-making. This may sound futuristic. Yet advances in embodied AI suggest such scenarios may arrive sooner than many expect. For years, conversations about artificial intelligence and entrepreneurship have focused largely on automation: which tasks machines can perform, which activities can be optimized, and which functions may ...

Open Innovation PDW

By Ana Orelj posted 27 days ago
If you're attending the Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, consider joining the Researching Open Innovation Professional Development Workshop. Designed to bring together scholars from across the diverse landscape of open innovation research, this year's workshop creates opportunities for conversations that bridge different perspectives, theories, and research traditions. The goal is to strengthen connections among researchers whose work often addresses similar questions from different angles. The program includes keynote presentations by Carliss Baldwin, Frank Piller, and Marc Gruber, three scholars whose contributions have ...

In Philly for AOM 2026? Join the inaugural Fox Case Conference (July 30)

By Sunil Wattal posted 06-03-2026
Dear Colleagues, If you're heading to AOM in Philadelphia, consider arriving a day early for the inaugural Fox Case Conference 2026, hosted by the Translational Research Center at Temple University's Fox School of Business in collaboration with Ivey Publishing. The Fox School ranks #33 on the Case Center Impact Index, which measures the global reach and impact of an institution's case writing (https://www.thecasecentre.org/impactIndex/2025/default). Taking place Thursday, July 30, 2026 at the Fox School campus, one day before the AOM Annual Meeting opens, this full-day, hands-on workshop is a natural complement to your AOM week. The program ...

Star Educator: Marco van Gelderen from the Vrije Universiteit (Free University) Amsterdam

By Kate Maloney posted 05-29-2026
Marco van Gelderen Vrije Universiteit (Free University) Amsterdam What is your current role and institution, and what courses do you teach? I am Associate Professor at Vrije Universiteit (Free University) Amsterdam. I teach courses in which participants practice enterprising competencies. At the moment, I am also developing online modules for first-year undergraduate business students on awareness, self-awareness, and other-awareness. Another role is that of action editor, together with Andrew Corbett of Babson College, of the learning innovation section of the journal Entrepreneurship Education & Pedagogy. How did you ...

Star Educator: Jian Han from the China Europe International Business School

By Kate Maloney posted 05-29-2026
Jian Han China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) What is your current role and institution, and what courses do you teach? I am a Professor of Management at China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), where I teach in the Executive MBA and executive education programs. My teaching and research focus on strategic human resource management, organizational behavior, and organizational transformation. In recent years, I have taught courses and modules on Strategic HRM, Business Strategy and Behavioral Reflection, Leadership and Organizational Change, and Talent Management in ...

2026 INFORMS/Organization Science Best Dissertation Proposal Competition

By Matteo Tranchero posted 05-19-2026
2026 INFORMS/Organization Science Best Dissertation Proposal Competition Call for Submissions Submission Deadline: June 20, 2026 We invite you to submit your dissertation proposal to the INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition. Now in its 34 th year, this competition is one of the most prestigious available to doctoral students studying organizations. Eight finalists will be chosen, based on reviews by experienced referees. Finalists will present their dissertation proposals in a workshop on Saturday, October 31, 2026, at the INFORMS Annual Meeting held in San Francisco, CA . During the workshop, finalists will ...

The studENT - AI in the Classroom: Shifting the Focus from Doing to Defending

By Josh Wei-Jun Hsueh posted 05-06-2026
(posted on behalf of @Sergio Rodriguez-Garnica ) For many PhD students starting to teach, AI can feel like a bit of a headache. Here’s how I’ve been approaching it (just in case it gives you some ideas). In individual assessments (like exams), limiting AI makes sense. You want to be sure students are building the fundamentals themselves. But once they’re working on assignments, projects, or presentations at home, that approach becomes harder to enforce. Realistically, they will use it anyway. In those stages, AI can actually be useful. When students are working on assignments, I try to encourage them to use AI as a kind of sparring ...