Call for Submissions
Strategizing, Activities and Practices Interest Group (SAP)
2026 Call for Scholarly Program Submissions
Program Chair: Martin Friesl, University of Bamberg
The Strategizing Activities and Practices Interest Group (SAP) invites community-building, perspective-shifting and high-caliber submissions to the 86th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management on 31 July – 4 August 2026 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The SAP IG has established an inclusive and diverse community and we look forward to a rich and stimulating conference.
The SAP IG is a friendly and development-oriented forum for all researchers interested in the day-to-day practices of strategizing and organizing. We welcome submissions that investigate strategizing and organizing from various theoretical perspectives such as practice theory, tensions and paradoxes, future-making, sociomateriality, discourse and communication, temporality, space, and power, etc.
We encourage scholars to submit conceptual work, empirical studies and methodological papers within the general domain of the SAP IG, and those that explore the intersections of the SAP IG with Divisions and Interest Groups such as STR, OMT, ODC, RM, TIM, CTO, ONE, SIM, and MOC. We also warmly invite paper and panel symposia that seek to change the conversation on established scholarly approaches and develop new questions and ways of looking at management research and impact from a practice perspective.
To promote inclusivity and ensure that all scholars with accepted papers can share their work, contribute to discussions, and engage with our community, AOM now offers a new On-Demand Session option. This option allows accepted presenters who are unable to attend in person to prerecord their presentation and share it with others through our secure online platform. Please have a look at the AOM submission pages for further detail.
In line with the previous conference, the SAP IG also invites poster submissions. A poster submission includes an extended abstract manuscript that will be reviewed by the SAP IG. If accepted, submitters will be expected to create a poster presentation to be displayed visually that summarizes their research findings, methods, and conclusions. Poster presentations provide a platform for networking but also foster engagement and dialogue by using formats such as graphs, images, and text to make the information clear and engaging. In this format, presenters will have an opportunity to receive immediate feedback on their work. A poster submission (extended abstract) can only be submitted to one DIG. Poster presentations will be scheduled in one-hour in-person poster sessions taking place in a highly visible location at the Annual Meeting Friday, 31 July 2026 through Tuesday, 4 August 2026.
Paper, symposia and poster submissions must be made through the AOM Submission Center (opens early December 2025) by Tuesday, 13 January 2026 at 17:00 ET (UTC-5/GMT-5). Please carefully review all the submission information and formatting instructions, especially before submitting symposia. The scholarly program takes place from Sunday, 2 August in the morning, through Tuesday, 4 August in the afternoon. Submitters are strongly encouraged to discuss potential symposia with Program Chair Martin Friesl.
Strong scholarship requires good reviews. Reviewing peers’ works is a fundamental process through which knowledge advances in a community. If submitting to the SAP Interest Group, please also consider reviewing for the IG!
For more information on Strategizing Activities and Practices, please visit the SAP Interest Group website.