Call for Applications:
2026 IM Division Junior Faculty Consortium
AOM Annual Meeting · Philadelphia, PA · Sunday, August 2, 2026
Application Deadline: Monday, June 1, 2026
The International Management Division Junior Faculty Consortium (JFC) is designed for junior and early-career scholars who have defended their dissertations in the last 1–5 years and are actively building their academic careers in international management. The consortium provides a unique opportunity to engage with leading IM scholars from around the world in focused conversations on careers, research, publishing, teaching, and service.
Who Should Attend
• Junior faculty in the pre-tenure phase or comparable early-career positions, who have defended their dissertations in the last 1–5 years
• Scholars for whom international management is a primary or secondary field of inquiry
What to Expect
• Structured panel discussions with leading IM scholars on research strategy, publishing, teaching, and service
• Roundtable conversations on the challenges and opportunities of an academic career in international management
• Informal networking with peers at similar career stages and with established scholars across the field
Application
• Send your current academic resume and a two-page description of your research to the chairs, using "Application to the IM Division JFC" as the email title.
• Include questions or topics you would like to see included in the consortium in the body of your email.
Consortium Co-Chairs
Joao Albino-Pimentel – University of South Carolina
Qian (Cecilia) Gu – Georgia State University
Distinguished Panelists
Marcelo Bucheli (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Chang Hoon Oh (University of Kansas)
Jonas Puck (WU Vienna University of Economics and Business)
Metin Sengul (University of Texas at Austin)
Wei Shi (University of Miami)
Danqing Wang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Georg Wernicke (HEC Paris)
Yan Anthea Zhang (Rice University)
Contact the co-chairs to apply or with any questions:
joao.albino-pimentel@moore.sc.edu · qgu@gsu.edu
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Joao Albino Pimentel
Associate Professor
University of South Carolina
Columbia SC
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