Call for Submissions
Technology and Innovation Management Division (TIM)
2026 Call for Scholarly Program Submissions
Division Program Chair: Tobias Kretschmer, Imperial Business School and LMU Munich
The 2026 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM) will be held in Philadelphia, United States between Friday, 31 July through Tuesday, 4 August 2026. AOM has announced that the PDWs (Professional Development Workshops) will be held Friday, 31 July through Sunday, 2 August 2026 and scholarly sessions from Sunday, 2 August through Tuesday, 4 August 2026. The TIM team is in full flight to put together an interesting, instructive and exciting program to give all our members and the academy as a whole a chance to take stock and contribute to the state of the art of the TIM field.
The Technology and Innovation Division (TIM) encourages multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary scholarship and dialogue to advance knowledge on innovation and technological change, including their antecedents and implications. We understand the field of Technology and Innovation Management broadly, capturing, among others, strategic and organizational management of technology, invention and innovation; the dynamics and mechanisms of research and development, innovation and technological change; the impacts of new technologies on organizational forms and strategy; knowledge, intellectual property, and the economics of science; the role of inventors, scientists and communities in innovation; the scaling and commercialization of technology and innovation including the division of innovative labor; the development and evolution of technological systems, platforms and ecosystems;
We are interested in a wide range of (analog and digital) contexts, including emerging and transformative technologies like artificial intelligence, climate change technologies, “big science” and deep technologies such as quantum computing, fusion, and nuclear technologies. We invite members of the TIM Division to submit papers and symposium and poster proposals that address issues relevant to the division’s members. For more information about the conference, please visit the webpage.
The TIM Division is one of the largest divisions of the AOM, which lets us assemble different session formats, including sessions specialized around specific theories, methods, or contexts, but also cross-cutting sessions and symposia that cross traditional boundaries.
Submissions
This is where you come in: We want your submissions, regardless of whether you have been submitting for many years or if this the first time, or whether you are a chaired professor or a budding PhD student. Your submissions are what makes the TIM division and the community what it is! While most of the submissions will be papers, we are also excited to receive your proposals for symposia of curated contributions around a specific theme, and we are piloting the submission of poster proposals for the first time this year.
Submission Deadline
The submission deadline for next year’s conference is Tuesday, 13 January 2026 at 17:00 ET (UTC-5/GMT-5). The AOM Submission Center will is open. The TIM Division maintains the same submission requirements as the Academy of Management. Please consult the Academy of Management website for useful information and submission requirements – including details about the session formats for the conference – as we have no further information or control over the submission process. We look forward to seeing your submissions and creating an invigorating in-person program for the conference.
Reviewers Needed!
One more request: Please volunteer to review for the TIM Division, especially if you are are submitting your own research to AOM and rely on the feedback of others for your own work and for the best possible program the division can put together. Reviewing is a valuable service to your colleagues and the Academy, and also a way to learn about research and get socialized into the field. Please visit the reviewer sign-up system.
See you in Philadelphia next August!
Tobias Kretschmer, TIM Division Scholarly Program Chair
Imperial Business School and LMU Munich