AOM PDW 2025
Managing with Purpose: Situating B Corps Within the Landscape of Purpose-Driven Organizations"
July 24th – 29th, 2025 Copenhagen, Denmark
Submission Deadline: June 20th, 2025
Link for submission: link
The ONE Division will sponsor a Paper Development Workshop (PDW) titled "Managing with Purpose: Situating B Corps Within the Landscape of Purpose-Driven Organizations" at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Participants will have the chance to receive developmental feedback from scholars with expertise in the field of purpose-driven organizations, specifically B Corps and hybrid organizations.
Organizers:
Leonardo Boni, Polytechnic of Milan, leonardo.boni@polimi.it
Joel Gehman, George Washington University School of Business, gehman@email.gwu.edu
Emily Landry, Washington and Lee University, elandry@wlu.edu
Alyssa Menz, Yale University School of the Environment, alyssa.menz@yale.edu
Martina Pasquini, IE Business School, martina.pasquini@ie.edu
Garima Sharma, Kogod Business School, American University, gsharma@american.edu
Natalia Vidal, University of New Mexico, nvidal@unm.edu
Panelists:
Rachida Justo, IE Business School
Marco Giarratana, IE Business School
Garima Sharma, Kogod Business School, American University
Julie Yen, Questrom School of Business, Boston University
Discussant:
Emily Landry, Washington and Lee University
Round Table Facilitators:
Leonardo Boni, Polytechnic of Milan
Martina Pasquini, IE Business School
Natalia Vidal, University of New Mexico
Garima Sharma, Kogod Business School, American University
The PDW is structured in two sections: the first section will be dedicated to a panel discussion, in which panelists will cover different purpose-driven organizational forms – those committed to making positive impacts on society – and how they relate to the B Corp movement. Panelists and the Discussant will converse about current research gaps and emerging themes involving purpose-driven companies such as governance and legitimacy, integrative frameworks, and sustainable development. Specifically, scholars will explore how B Corps compare with other purpose-driven organizational forms, social enterprises, or other hybrid organizations; the critical governance challenges facing B Corps, including certification-related controversies and stakeholder skepticism; and how insights from B Corps can inform broader debates on the governance of purpose-driven businesses and vice-versa. The final part of this section will be dedicated to Q&A with the audience.
The second section of the PDW is dedicated to participants who have submitted short papers. The admitted participants will receive feedback from the Round Table Facilitators and other participants. The Round Table Facilitators represent different backgrounds and methodological expertise, but all share interests, experience and ongoing research activities about purpose-driven organizations. The organizers will develop themes for each round table so that participants sharing similar interests will be grouped together.
Registration:
Registration is required for Part 2 of the workshop. To register, participants must submit:
· a short (maximum 4,000 words) paper, extended abstract, or project related to purpose-driven organizations (B Corps, benefit corporations, social enterprise, hybrid organizations, ecc..) structured as follows:
o title page
o abstract
o introduction
o literature and theoretical framework
o data
o results or expected results
o potential contributions
· please indicate the stage of the project and the type of feedback that would be most helpful to you
Please submit the paper at the following link, by June 20th, 2025. Please note that you need to be registered for the AOM conference in order to participate in this PDW.
Questions? Please contact the organizers: Leonardo Boni, Polytechnic of Milan, leonardo.boni@polimi.it; Joel Gehman, George Washington University School of Business, gehman@email.gwu.edu; Emily Landry, Washington and Lee University, elandry@wlu.edu; Alyssa Menz, Yale University School of the Environment, alyssa.menz@yale.edu; Martina Pasquini, IE Business School, martina.pasquini@ie.edu; Garima Sharma, Kogod Business School, American University, gsharma@american.edu; Natalia Vidal, University of New Mexico, nvidal@unm.edu
Participants will be notified about the acceptance of their submissions by June 30th, 2025.
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Leonardo Boni, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, Politecnico di Milano
TIRESIA Research Centre, Politecnico di Milano
