Step into the flagship PDW of the Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2026.
The Space Economy PDW brings together leading management scholars, space industry pioneers, agency leaders, and investors to shape the future of management research in one of today's most consequential frontier domains.
With a 75-member organizing, facilitation, and contributor team and co-sponsorship from 22 AOM divisions and interest groups, the PDW features distinguished keynotes, academic and industry panels, and interactive roundtables designed to develop a cumulative, collaborative, and publication-oriented research agenda.
Registration is now open. Spaces, especially for roundtables, are limited.
🗓 PDW: Space Economy: Consolidating a Research Agenda
🗓 Date: Saturday, August 1, 2026
🕑 Time: 2:00–6:00 PM Philadelphia time
📍 Location: Loews Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, USA
🔗 Register for AOM members: https://lnkd.in/e3czZT4R
📩 Questions: Mehdi.montakhabi@said.oxford.edu
🛠️ Organizer:
Mehdi Montakhabi - Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
🎤 Distinguished Keynote Speakers:
Clay Mowry - CEO, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Christopher Tucci - President-Elect, Academy of Management
🎙️ Academic Panelists:
Kathleen Eisenhardt - Stanford University
Ron Adner - Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
Matthew Weinzierl - Harvard Business School
🗣️ Industry Panelists:
Dr. James D. Polk - Chief Health and Medical Officer, NASA
Dr. Heriberto Saldivar - Head of Strategy, European Space Agency
Dr. Lucie Low - Chief Science Officer, Axiom Space
Brad Handerson - Chief Commercial Officer, Starlab Space
Dr. Luis Zea - Chief Scientist, Starlab Space
Ryan Reel - Vice President, Outpost Space
Sanjeev Gordhan - General Partner, Type One Ventures
🧭 Interactive Roundtables:
- Entering the Space Economy: Emerging Business Models and New Roles for Non-Space Firms
- Coopetition in the Space Economy: How Firms Collaborate and Compete
- Phenomenon-Driven Research and Space Economy
- Methodological Challenges for Management Scholars Exploring Space Economy
- Contractual Governance and Innovation in the Space Economy
- Research Urgency & Environmental Responsibility in the Space Economy
- Orchestrating Polycentricity in Space Platform Ecosystems
- From International to Space Business? The Emerging New Space Economy and International Business Thought and Practice
- Opportunity Formation under Institutional Constraint: Insights from Space Entrepreneurship
- Beyond Capitalist Realism in New Space: How Can Alternative Organizational Forms Challenge Dominant Structures in the Space Economy?
- Open and Multi-Actor Innovation in the Space Economy
- Social Issues in the Space Economy
🤝 Roundtable Facilitators:
Esteve Almirall, Erkko Autio, Ken Davidian, Sebastian H. Fuchs, Oksana Gerwe, Michael John Gill, Devi R. Gnyawali, Marc Gruber, Tony Guidotti, Fredrik Hacklin, Felix Honecker, Nien-hê Hsieh, Marin Jovanovic, Donald Kuratko, Benn Lawson, Petteri Leppänen, Yong Li, Catherine McDonald, Raj Mahto, Gideon Markman, Lorenzo Massa, Gemma Milne, Xaver Neumeyer, Markus Perkmann, Magdalena Marczewska, Jeffrey Martin, Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli, Kevin Rockmann, Jens Roehrich, Tamara Roth, Yue Song, Brian Squire, Mary Sully de Luque, Paolo Trucco, Tim Vorley, Yueling Zhou
✍️ Proposal Contributors:
Enrique Acebo, Francisca Alvarez Figueroa, Abhishek Behl, Janet Lee Elsie Bercovitz, Elettra D'Amico, Zouheir El Kawas, Carlo Giglio, Ameek Kaur, Stefan Korber, Yuan Li, Marta Lindvert, William Luse, Juergen Meissner, Marco Minciullo, Mayukh Mukhopadhyay, Terry Pagan, Andreas Raspotnik, Elie Saad, Johannes Schmied-Wirén, Piotr Staszkiewicz, Iselin Kristine Mauseth Steira, Felipe Symmes, Beverly Tyler, Andrea Wang, Jinmin Wang, Valentina Zancan, Maurizio Zollo
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Mehdi Montakhabi
Associate Scholar
University of Oxford | Saïd Business School
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