AOM 2026 Annual Meeting PDW Call for Submissions
AI and the Carnegie School: Collaborative Pathways to Advancing Strategy and Organizational Research
Time: Saturday, Aug 1 2026 9:00AM - 12:00PM ET (GMT-4/UTC-4)
Location: Convention Center in 113A
Submission Deadline: July 5, 2026
This PDW examines emerging theoretical and empirical agendas at the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and the Carnegie School of organizational research, by engaging three core questions: (1) how AI reshapes foundational assumptions and mechanisms of the Carnegie tradition; (2) how AI helps resolve longstanding theoretical challenges within this framework; and (3) how advances in AI enable the extension of well-established Carnegie ideas through novel data, methods, and analytical approaches. The PDW consists of two parts:
Part 1 features five presentations by our panelists who offer insights and connections between AI and the Carnegie School tradition. This portion of the PDW is open to all attendees.
Part 2 is an interactive roundtable session, where participants will join one of our organizers and facilitators, each serving as a discussion leader at their table, to receive tailored feedback on their paper. Attendees at any career stage, including doctoral students, are invited to submit a 2-page extended abstract of their paper (excluding references, tables, and figures) using the upload link below to receive personalized input. Roundtable discussions will focus on papers submitted by invited participants. The submission deadline is July 5. Selection decisions will be communicated by July 15.
Submission Link
Organizers
Harsh Ketkar - University of Texas at Austin
Sunkee Lee - Carnegie Mellon University
Luke Rhee - University of California, Irvine
Panelists
Stefano Brusoni - ETH Zürich
Vibha Gaba - INSEAD
Kenneth G. Huang - National University of Singapore
Paul Leonardi - University of California, Santa Barbara
William Ocasio - University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Facilitators
Daniel Albert - Drexel University
Sanghyun Park - National University of Singapore
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Luke Rhee
Associate Professor
University of California Irvine
Irvine CA
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