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EVENTS WE ATTEND

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Africa Academy of Management (AFAM)

January 8-10, 2024

Cape Town, South Africa

As we usher in a new decade, our nations, institutions, and communities are facing grand challenges that include the impact of climate change, corruption, poor governance, persistent inequality, and political instability which collectively, define the context of management education and practice.

Southwestern Psychological Association (SWPA)

March 28-30, 2025

Little Rock, Arkansas

SWPA works to promote and strengthen psychology’s scientific, professional and educational facets. At its annual meeting, SWPA offers paper, poster, continuing education sessions, workshops, symposia, and invited talks. SWPA prides itself on serving the psychological community by providing access to scientific advances and professional development within a collegial atmosphere. Students are welcomed and treated as active and valued participants in the discipline.

Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS)

Summer 2025

University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan)

The POS Research Conference is an opportunity to share and advance empirical and theoretical research in the field of Positive Organizational Scholarship. This biennial gathering of scholars promotes research that inspires and enables leaders to build high-performing organizations that bring out the best in people.

European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS)

July 4-6, 2024

Milan, Italy

The purpose of the 39th EGOS Colloquium 2023 is to understand the organizing of a good life as the encounter of legacy and imagination. The former refers to an organization’s ability to build on its own history and to respect the cultural values of the social contexts in which they operate. The latter refers to an organization’s capacity to build better futures through continuous innovation.

Wharton People & Organizations Conference

September 20-21, 2024

The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

The purpose of the "People and Organizations" Conference is to bring attention to macro-level research on topics associated with work and employment. We aim to support the community of scholars from organization theory, industrial relations, economics, political science, sociology and strategy who share common interests and need a forum for interdisciplinary exchange.

Southern Management Association (SMA)

October 29-November 2, 2024

San Antonio, Texas

At its annual meeting, the Southern Management Association meets to present the latest research, learn new pedagogies, and develop research methods skills.

Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)

February 20-22, 2025

Denver, Colorado

The Society for Personality and Social Psychology, founded in 1974, is the world’s largest organization of social and personality psychologists. With over 7,500 members, SPSP strives to advance the science, teaching, and application of social and personality psychology. The core focus of SPSP is to serve its members through educational events, networking opportunities, resources, science funding, publication and promotion of research, and mentoring the next generation of social and personality psychologists.

Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP)

April 3-5, 2025

Denver Colorado

SIOP is the premier professional association for the science and practice of I-O psychology. While an independent organization with its own governance, SIOP also represents Division 14 of the American Psychological Association and is an organizational affiliate of the Association for Psychological Science.

Management & Organizational Behavior Teaching Society (MOBTS)

June 11-14, 2024

Salem, Massachusetts

We encourage members, both long-standing and brand new, to submit ideas, exercises, best practices, and teaching innovations as we celebrate our past and continue to discuss the future of management education and the Society. We encourage all levels of proposals – from simple teaching exercises you have been conducting for a number of years and can share with new members, to advanced teaching methods that will engage and challenge our more experienced members. The idea is to help bridge the learning chasm for new and experienced educators alike.

International Association for Conflict Management (IACM)

June 23-26, 2024

Thessaloniki, Greece

IACM was founded to encourage scholars and practitioners to disseminate research related to negotiation and conflict management in interpersonal, organizational, societal, and international settings. Past participants have come from the fields of communication, labor relations, law, organizational behavior, political science, psychology, sociology, and other related disciplines, and have included researchers, educators, practitioners, and Ph.D. students.

Engaged Management Scholarship

September 5-7, 2024

Henley-On-Thames, United Kingdom

This annual conference is an exciting opportunity for doctoral students, alumni, faculty and managers involved in engaged management research and evidence-based management to network, share ideas, attend inspiring keynotes and interactive sessions.

Rising Scholars Conference

November 2023

virtual

The Rising Scholars Conference originated at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2020 to support doctoral student and faculty diversity, with Harvard Business School hosting the conference in 2021. Chicago Booth was honored to continue this tradition and hosted the third annual conference virtually on November 1 and 2, 2022. The conference's objective was to help rising scholars, particularly those from underrepresented communities, gain research insights, valuable exposure, and faculty mentorship. Conference speakers emphasized the impact of diversity on scholarship and the potential for interdisciplinary collaboration. Students and postdocs presented exciting and innovative work and received real-time feedback from faculty, peers, and session participants.

Southwestern Academy of Management (SWAM)

March 8-12, 2024

Galveston, Texas

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East Coast Doctoral Conference (ECDC)

April 2024

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The East Coast Doctoral Conference ("ECDC") is a conference for doctoral students across management and related disciplines. Hosted annually, it is run by students in the Management PhD programs at Columbia University and NYU Stern.

Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)

June 21-23, 2024

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

At SPSSI’s 2023 annual meeting, once again scheduled in Denver, CO, we invite contributions from a range of perspectives–empirical, policy-oriented, and critical—that use a variety of methods to transform our world through knowledge and social action.

Academy of Management (AOM)

August 9-13, 2024

Chicago, Illinois

The Annual Meeting is the world's premier event for scholarly engagement, and the largest gathering of management and organization scholars in the world. The Annual Meeting offers attendees a chance to expand research, network with colleagues, and disseminate knowledge addressing the 21st century’s most pressing challenges related to management and organizations.

Strategic Management Society Conference

October 19-22, 2024

İstanbul, Türkiye

Our Annual Conferences focus on global issues within the field of Strategic Management and bring together around 1,000 attendees alternating between locations in Europe and North America. These conferences stem from our origins in 1981 with the inaugural meeting in London. Since then, we have hosted conferences in several cities between the two continents. As our annual conferences are larger events, we also take time to honor scholars in the field at an awards ceremony and plan a cultural event in the city we are visiting.

Society for Judgement and Decision Making (SJDM)

November 22-25, 2024

New York, New York

The Society for Judgment and Decision Making is an interdisciplinary academic organization dedicated to the study of normative, descriptive, and prescriptive theories of judgments and decisions. Its members include psychologists, economists, organizational researchers, decision analysts, and other decision researchers. The Society's primary event is its Annual Meeting, at which Society members present their research. It also publishes the journal Judgement and Decision Making

Western Academy of Management (WAM)

March 13-16, 2024

Long Beach, California

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Association for Psychological Science (APS)

May 23-26, 2024

San Francisco, California

The APS Annual Convention is the premier global event in psychological science, providing a forum to share scientific findings and ideas. The program features invited and submitted content from all areas of the field so you can find outstanding programs in your area of research, as well as from other areas that may be relevant to your work.

Academy of International Business (AIB)

July 2-6, 2024

Seoul, South Korea

AIB was founded in 1959 by a close-knit group of like-minded scholars looking to share the ideas and resources that would help define the emerging field of international business. Today, we’re a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to promoting impactful research, improving business education and practice, and collaborating with leaders in policy and interdisciplinary research.

American Sociological Association (ASA)

August 9-13, 2024

Montreal, Quebec

The Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association provides the opportunity for professionals involved in the scientific study of society to share knowledge and new directions in research and practice.

Midwest Academy of Management (MAM)

October 24-26, 2024

Moorhead, Minnesota

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Mid-South Management Research Consortium (MMRC)

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The goal of the Mid-South Management Research Consortium (MMRC) is to strengthen and broaden faculty and doctoral students' research programs as well as foster research collaborations. Members of MMRC meet annually to discuss their preliminary research ideas, study designs, theory development, working research papers, dissertation projects, data-analytic strategies, organizational research methods, and potential collaborative research projects.

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