Call for Submissions

2026 Call for Professional Development Workshop (PDW) Proposals

Division PDW Program Chair: Julia Hautz, University of Innsbruck

For AOM 2026 in Philadelphia we encourage PDW proposals that help build our community, enhance methodological and personal skill and are aimed at shifting perspectives on how organizations strategize, innovate, compete, deal with societal challenges and transform. We also invite PDW proposals that connect SAP research across other practice-and process theoretical research streams including e.g. entrepreneurship-as-practice and leadership-as-practice and other related domains. We welcome diversity and encourage different, innovative and interactive approaches to PDWs. The below is offered to stimulate creative thought and is by no means complete: 

• What are methodological frontiers that SAP scholars should engage in?
• What are emerging theoretical trends that have the potential to shape SAP research going forward?
• Are there important empirical phenomena in the realm of strategizing and organizing that warrant closer attention from a practice perspective? Such sessions could engage with technology (e.g. AI), inter-organizational organizing or strategic conduct and organizing in specific (extreme) context, different organizational forms as well as governance modes. This list is indicative and proposals are not limited to these themes.
• How can we support doctoral students and junior faculty in their career paths?
• How can we support SAP scholars in the R&R and publishing process?
• Are there important innovations and new approaches in teaching strategizing and organizing?

Please note that PDWs will take place any time between Friday, 31 July through to Sunday, 2 August 2026. 

We strongly encourage PDWs that appeal to a wide range of audiences and themes beyond the SAP community by building linkages with other Divisions and Interest Groups. Please indicate potential cosponsors in the submission document (e.g., CTO, ENT, OMT, ODC, MC, RM, STR, TIM). For AOM in Philadelphia the minimum duration of a PDW is 1 hour, but submitters are welcome to request different durations if they feel it would better serve the workshop, session flow, and attendee engagement. We especially encourage session formats that emphasis different forms of engagement, interaction and active participation of attendees. The duration request must be documented in the uploaded proposal document itself at the time of submission. The PDW Chair can adjust the session duration of any submitted PDW if they feel it would better serve the group’s member experience.  

Submissions must be made through the AOM Submission Center (opens early December 2025) by 13 January 2026, at 17:00 ET (UTC-5/GMT-5). Please keep an eye on aom.org for updates regarding the submission deadlines.  Submitters are strongly encouraged to discuss potential PDWs with SAP PDW Chair Julia Hautz.  

For more information on Strategizing Activities and Practices, please visit the SAP Interest Group website.