Annual Meeting

Making Connections Committee

Making Connections Committee logoThe mission of the Making Connections Committee is to enhance the overall experience of OB members, primarily by (1) helping all members feel “at home” in the division (2) welcoming new members to the division, (3) promoting research excellence, (4) facilitating career progression, and (5) integrating research with practice.

Making Connections Committee Information and FAQ

Curated Schedules


The Making Connections Committee and the Global Committee have curated a set of ready-to-go schedules for the 2024 Annual Meeting geared for different stages and interests. Click the link below that best matches where you are in your academic journey.

Open OB Division Calls

Call for Paper and Symposia Submissions

AOM 2026 Call for Submissions

Engage with your professional community by sharing and presenting your research while helping to shape the future of management and organizational scholarship in today’s world. 

Prepare to submit:

The Annual Meeting submission deadline has passed.

Decision Notification will be available late March 2026.

Call for Professional Development Workshops (PDWs)

Professional Development Workshops (PDWs) include a wide variety of session formats and learning experiences led by experts in the topic with intended takeaways for the participants. They include doctoral consortia and junior faculty consortia that are organized by AOM's Division and Interest Groups and Affiliates who have designated PDW Chairs to manage the session selection procedure. Workshops can take various forms, such as tutorials, town hall meetings, breakout sessions, debates, roundtables, tours or research incubators. All PDWs contain a clear interactive component. Proposals will be evaluated on their ability to draw an audience from the specific discipline or across AOM, as well as its innovativeness and potential impact on the professional success of participants. PDW's including consortia will be held in-person from Friday through Sunday.

Before submitting a PDW proposal, consider the following questions: 

  • Does the workshop offer a high quality and high level learning experience that has a significant positive impact on the professional development of the participants?
  • Does the workshop provide participants with a clear takeaway? (E.g. learn a new skill; develop a new research plan)
  • Does the workshop have a theme and a group of participants that will draw a strong audience regardless of competing sessions or scheduling restrictions?
  • Does the workshop encourage multi-way conversation and interaction among participants from multiple divisions, disciplines, regions, career stages, or demographic backgrounds?
  • Is the workshop creative and innovative in all of its elements?

William L. Dougan of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater has provided an additional resource in the form of A Guide for Creating and Managing a Good Professional Development Workshop.
Call for Award Nominations

The Division celebrates many awards at the Annual Meeting. Among these are the following awards given for submissions to the conference.

  1. , recognizing the best overall paper (may be co-authored); sponsored by Sage on behalf of Group & Organization Management
  2. , given to the best paper based on a doctoral dissertation completed within the past three years (must be sole-authored; sponsored by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Journal of Organizational Behavior)
  3. , for the best paper in which a student was in the lead role (a student must be the sole or first-author)
  4. , for the paper with the most significant managerial implications (may be co-authored; sponsored by the Mercer Workforce Sciences Institute)
  5. , recognizing the paper whose theme and content best reflects an awareness of business and management across national boundaries (may be co-authored)
  6. , given to the symposium on the Academy program that best exemplifies interesting, important, and high-impact research
  7.  given to the paper with the most significant implications for entrepreneurship scholarship (sponsored by the Kaufmann Foundation)
  8. , given to the paper in which a student was in the lead role (a student must be the first or sole author), and that has the most significant implications for entrepreneurship scholarship (sponsored by the Kaufmann Foundation)

Please note: To be considered for any of the following awards, you could select the appropriate orientation when you submit your paper in the online Submission Center, as follows:

  1. For the OB Division AOM Meeting 2023 Best Dissertation-Based Paper Award, select "Newman Award Nominee"
  2. For the OB Division AOM Meeting 2023 Most Innovative Student Paper Award, select "Student Paper"
  3. For the OB Division AOM Meeting 2023 Most Outstanding Practical Implications for Management Award, select "Practice"
  4. For the OB Division AOM Meeting 2023 Best Paper with International Implications Award, select "International"
  5. For the OB Division AOM Meeting 2023 Best Paper with Entrepreneurship Implications, select "Entrepreneurship"
  6. For the OB Division 2023 AOM Meeting Best Student Paper with Entrepreneurship Implications Award, select "Kauffman student paper"

Visit the  for additional information about the Division, criteria for these awards, or past winners.
Call for Reviewers

Help shape the Annual Meeting program by volunteering to review! Choose up to two Divisions or Interest Groups as well as TLC@AOM and review up to three proposals for each group you select.

Why review?

  • Reviewers are essential to help ensure academic quality and integrity.
  • Reviewing engages you in your scholarly community.
  • Reviewing exposes scholars to disciplines outside their domain.
  • Reviewing provides emerging scholars an introduction to the scholarly process.

Read the .

The AOM 2026 review period has passed. Please volunteer to review in 2027. The call will be posted in the Fall of 2026.

Open OB Division Calls