We are delighted to invite you – and especially your doctoral students and early-career colleagues – to the SEE Connect Workshop: Advancing Management Research in Southeastern Europe, taking place on October 2–3, 2026, at the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Organizational Sciences (FON) in Belgrade, Serbia.

SEE Connect is an Academy of Management initiative under the Community Accelerator Program (CAP), designed for doctoral students, young researchers, and early-career academics working across all areas of management research – particularly the domains of the AOM Strategic Management (STR), Technology and Innovation Management (TIM), and Organizational Behavior (OB) divisions, spanning strategy, innovation, technology, and organizational studies. It is a unique opportunity to receive feedback from distinguished scholars and journal editors, form research teams, and build networks in the region.

Program Highlights

Keynote talks by Annamaria Conti (IE Business School) and Milan Mirić (USC Marshall School of Business, AOM STR Division)

CARMA Workshop: advanced research methodology training with Larry J. Williams (Rawls College of Business, Texas Tech University) and Gilad Chen (Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, AOM OB Division)

“Navigating the Journal Review Process”: keynote panel with insights from leading journals

“Why Join the AoM Divisions?”: panel with AOM division representatives, including Patia McGrath (Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, AOM TIM Division) in addition to the previously mentioned professors

Parallel research sessions: each accepted proposal is assigned an expert discussant, and journal editors and senior scholars participate throughout the workshop