Are you attending the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management in 2026?
Join our PDW "All Fun and Games? The Entertainment Industry in Organization Research - Vol II" exploring how the entertainment industry, from books, movies, music to video-games, provides fertile ground for advancing and testing management and organization theory!
All Fun and Games? The Entertainment Industry in Organization Research - Vol II
Divisions: CTO (Primary), STR, OMT
When: Saturday August 1st, 12:00 - 03:00 PM
Where: Marriott, Salon L
Workshop Structure
Part 1: Panel Presentations
Featuring expert talks from:
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Noah Askin
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Carmelo Cennamo
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Balazs Kovacs
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Tobias Kretschmer
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Venkat Kuppuswamy
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Milan Miric
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David Waguespack
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Jui Ramaprasad
Part 2: Roundtable Feedback Session
Attendance for the second part of the PDW is limited to selected participants. Moderated by the panelists, this interactive session invites selected participants to present their early-stage research or working papers for feedback and discussion.
Workshop Overview
Research using the entertainment industry as an empirical setting has tripled in leading journals between 2015 and 2023, addressing questions on winner-takes-all dynamics, innovation, digital platforms, and hybrid collaboration. Yet, unique challenges such as data access and content complexity have limited wider adoption.
This PDW brings together scholars who study film, music, and gaming to:
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Highlight opportunities and barriers to research in this field
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Share insights from using text, image, and audio data
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Create a vibrant research community around creative industries
Call for Submissions
We welcome extended abstracts or working papers from scholars working on the entertainment industry as a research context.
Submit your abstract until the 30th of June, 2026: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScKt6sCIeGnp1jOg-opyogRm16lgJDqj4lwTVz6PZo6StjNqA/viewform?usp=dialog
Selected participants will be invited to join the roundtable portion of the workshop.
Final details (date/time/location) will be announced with the AOM program.
Organizers: Franziska Kaiser (University of Zurich), Alexander Staub (HEC Lausanne), Alessio Delpero (Glion Institute of Higher Education)
If you have any questions, feel free to contact the organizers at:
funandgames_pdw@protonmail.com
We look forward to seeing you!
Franziska, Alexander, and Alessio
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Alessio Delpero
Glion Institute of Higher Education
Bulle
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