Call for Applications [JFC]

Call for Participation:
2026 IM Division Junior Faculty Consortium

Academy of Management Annual Meeting · Philadelphia, PA

AOM Annual Meeting:  Sunday, August 2, 2026  ·  Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia

The International Management Division Junior Faculty Consortium (JFC) is designed for junior and early-career scholars who have defended their dissertations in the last 1–5 years and are actively building their academic careers in international management. The consortium provides a unique opportunity to engage with leading IM scholars from around the world in focused conversations on careers, research, publishing, teaching, and service.

Who Should Attend

  • Junior faculty in the pre-tenure phase or comparable early-career positions, who have defended their dissertations in the last 1–5 years
  • Scholars for whom international management is a primary or secondary field of inquiry

What to Expect

  • Structured panel discussions with leading IM scholars on research strategy, publishing, teaching, and service
  • Roundtable conversations on the challenges and opportunities of an academic career in international management
  • Informal networking with peers at similar career stages and with established scholars across the field

Application

  • Send you current academic resume and a two-page description of your research to the chairs, using “Application to the IM Division JFC” as the email title.
  • Include questions or topics you would like to see included in the consortium in the body of your email.

Consortium Co-Chairs

Joao Albino-Pimentel

University of South Carolina

Qian (Cecilia) Gu

Georgia State University

Distinguished Panelists

Marcelo Bucheli (UIUC)

Chang Hoon Oh (University of Kansas)

Jonas Puck (WU Vienna)

Metin Sengul (University of Texas at Austin)

Wei Shi (University of Miami)

Danqing Wang (HKUST)

Georg Wernicke (HEC Paris)

Yan Anthea Zhang (Rice University)

Contact the co-chairs to apply or to ask questions:

joao.albino-pimentel@moore.sc.edu  ·  qgu@gsu.edu

INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT DIVISION  ·  ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT