SIG 14 brings together scholars interested in understanding how management theory and practice evolve under conditions of profound and persistent disruption. The SIG provides a forum for conceptual and empirical research that addresses strategic, organizational, and societal challenges emerging from technological, economic, environmental, and institutional change.
SIG OFFICERS
SIG Chair: Andreas Wald, University of Agder – andreas.wald@uia.no
SIG Co-Chair: Prince Baah-Peprah – prince.baah-peprah@uia.no
GT14_00 – General Track – Management in an Age of Disruption
Short description:
The General Track focuses on the wide-ranging challenges faced by managers and organizations operating in increasingly disrupted environments. These disruptions may stem from digital technologies, artificial intelligence, climate change, shifting institutional regimes, geopolitical tensions, and sudden exogenous shocks.
This track welcomes high-quality contributions using diverse theoretical lenses and methodological approaches. Submissions may address disruption at multiple levels of analysis—individual, organizational, industry, or societal—and examine both short-term responses and long-term transformations.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): Strategic renewal and organizational adaptation under disruption, Leadership, decision-making, and sensemaking in uncertain environments, Business model innovation and ecosystem dynamics, Organizational resilience, agility, and transformation, Institutional change, governance, and regulation, Ethical, social, and sustainability challenges of disruptive change..
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people; Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth; Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure; Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities; Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production; Goal 13: Climate action; Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions; Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
For more information contact:
Andreas Wald, University of Agder – andreas.wald@uia.no
Prince Baah-Peprah (prince.baah-peprah@uia.no)
TRACKS 2026
T01_07 / T06_11 / T14_01 – Innovative Pedagogies for Disruptive Times: Rethinking Management Education for Impact and Radical Change
This special track addresses the rapidly growing influence of generative artificial intelligence on strategic management. Generative AI technologies raise fundamental questions about how strategies are conceived, enacted, and evaluated, as well as about the evolving roles of managers, organizations, and strategic capabilities.
The track invites contributions that explore generative AI as a strategic resource, a cognitive partner, or a disruptive force that challenges established theoretical assumptions.
Topics of interest include: Generative AI and strategic decision-making processes, Human–AI interaction and managerial cognition, AI-enabled competitive advantage and strategy formulation, Organizational capabilities and control in AI-rich contexts, Governance, responsibility, and ethics of AI-driven strategy.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reducing inequalities; Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production; Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Primary Contact:
Marina Schmitz, marina.schmitz@iedc.si
On the occasion of the EURAM 2026 conference, this standing track was merged with GT14_00– Conference Theme.
T14_02 – Strategic management as enhanced, disrupted or challenged by generative AI
This joint track aims to foster cross-SIG dialogue by integrating perspectives from strategy, innovation, and organizational studies. The track encourages interdisciplinary research that examines disruption as a complex, multi-level phenomenon spanning organizational, industrial, and institutional boundaries.
Submissions may combine theoretical traditions and methodological approaches to shed new light on how organizations innovate, collaborate, and compete in turbulent environments.
Topics of interest include: Strategy–innovation interfaces under disruption, Organizational and institutional change across contexts, Inter-organizational collaboration and ecosystem evolution, Cross-level and cross-disciplinary approaches to disruption.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people; Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth; Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure; Goal 10: Reducing inequalities; Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production; Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Primary Contact:
Fred Stronen, fredst@oslomet.no
On the occasion of the EURAM 2026 conference, this standing track was merged with GT14_00– Conference Theme.