ORGANIZATION & MANAGEMENT THEORY (OMT)
2025 Division Scholarly Program: Call for Submissions
Program Chair: Joel Gehman, George Washington University
The Organization and Management Theory (OMT Division) prides itself on integrating depth of insight with breadth of theories, rigor with relevance, and scholarly ideas with community connections. That is why OMT THE PLACE TO BE. We invite you to join OMT this summer by submitting your symposia and papers, and by signing up to review.
- 85th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2025): July 25-29, 2025, Copenhagen, Denmark
- The submission system opens in December 2024. The submission deadline is Tuesday, January 7, 2025 at 17:00 ET (UTC-5/GMT-5).
- Please submit through the AOM Submission Center
Our Domain
Organization and Management Theory is an inclusive community of scholars who draw on a rich intellectual heritage to build and test theory about organizations, their members, their management, organization-environment relations, organizing processes and broader markets and fields. We pursue theoretically significant and methodologically rigorous research across analytical levels and phenomena to generate impactful insights in management and organizing. We value work that advances theory and has practical implications on a broad range of organizational, managerial and societal issues.
More information about the division is available on the OMT website.
What papers and symposium fit with OMT?
OMT welcomes submissions that highlight insights relevant to organizational and management theory. As our domain statement above notes, OMT celebrates theoretical novelty, methodological pluralism, international research collaborations, and the use of theory to address organizational and societal challenges.
New This Year: Poster Presentations
In addition to the normal paper and symposia formats, the 2025 program will feature poster sessions. Each poster submission will require an extended abstract manuscript. If accepted, participants will prepare a visually engaging poster summarizing their research findings, methods, and conclusions. Poster presentations will take place during one-hour in-person sessions at a highly visible location at the Annual Meeting, from Friday, July 25, 2025, through Tuesday, July 29, 2025.
Submitted previously? New to OMT? We want your submissions!
We invite people who have submitted to OMT in the past to submit and help us sustain our robust community. We also invite PhD students and faculty who have not previously submitted research to AOM or to OMT to help us expand and explore new ideas. If you have questions about the appropriateness of your submission for OMT, please feel free to contact Joel Gehman, OMT Program Chair.
PLEASE… Sign up to Review for OMT
Our division has a long tradition of providing constructive, high quality reviews. Please sign up to review.
Here's the deal … We need almost 800 reviewers at OMT. To get the high-quality reviews that OMT is known for, we need you! We welcome members at all career stages – from PhD students and postdocs, to junior and senior faculty. Plus, OMT's collegial norms depend on those who have ever submitted a paper,symposium or PDW to pay it forward by reviewing for the division. We use the keywords you supply to make reviewer assignments. The sign-up system opens in early December - Sign up to review now before you forget.
OMT Division Awards
Each year the OMT Division presents numerous awards at the Annual Meeting:
- The Distinguished Scholar Award recognizes scholars who have been central to the intellectual development of the field of organization and management theory.
- The Joanne Martin Trailblazer Award recognizes scholars who have blazed trails and paved the way for new ideas during the course of their careers (given every other year; to be given in 2026).
- The Distinguished Educator Award recognizes scholars who have had a significant impact through their teaching and interactions with students (given every other year; to be given in 2025).
- The Best Published Paper Award recognizes a journal article published in the previous year that advances our theoretical understanding of organizations, organizing, and management.
- The Best Paper Award recognizes an empirical or conceptual paper submitted to the annual meeting that offers significant contributions to the field of organization and management theory.
- The Louis Pondy Best Dissertation Paper Award recognizes the best paper based on a dissertation in the refereed scholarly program.
- The Best International Paper Award recognizes research regarding themes and content of interest internationally.
- The Best Paper on Environmental and Social Practices recognizes research that advances our understanding of environmental and social dimensions of organizing.
- The Best OMT Entrepreneurship Paper recognizes a paper in the scholarly program that advances understanding of entrepreneurship drawing on organization and management theory.
- The Best Student Paper recognizes a paper authored solely by students and included in the refereed program.
- The OMT Responsible Research Award recognizes a paper that offers both credible and useful knowledge that can potentially advance business practices toward a better society.
- The Best Symposium Award recognizes an event submitted to the annual meeting that stimulates, integrates, or extends discussions about organization and management theory.
- The Ned Smith Rising Star Award recognizes an OMT scholar who has established a research record of exceptional quality and creativity early in their career. The award was first awarded in 2023 in honor of Edward "Ned" Bishop Smith (1981-2021) (given every other year; to be given in 2025).
- The Research Committee Award recognizes the valuable service provided by the most dedicated members of the research committee.
- The Above and Beyond the Call of Duty (ABCD) Award recognizes reviewers who were deemed worthy of special acknowledgment for the helpfulness, extensiveness, and insight of their reviews.
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Kevin Lee
University of British Columbia
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