Call for Papers
We hope you will join us from Tuesday 16 to Friday 19 June 2026 at the School of Business and Law of the University of Agder, Kristiansand (Norway).
The EURAM conference theme is “Navigating High Waters”:
The more recent debate among management scholars has emphasised euphonic topics such as social inclusion, new work, or the democratizations markets. While these are important topics not only in the academic debate but also in practice, many firms currently face more exigent challenges.
The current global challenges are manifold, characterized by complex interdependencies, paradoxical demands, and hard to predict disruptive changes. Geopolitical threats, rapid technological developments, demographic changes, and excessive regulation require a strategic focus on adaptability for navigating in an unpredictable world.
In the age of disruption, management requires agility, innovation, and resilience. This applies to all activities, functions and areas of organizations:
– Strategic disruption includes massive changes in the (geo-)political environment, market structures, technologies, and business models.
– Marketing disruption refers to fundamental changes in the industry status quo, the way customers and firms interact, product and service features are presented, and communication channels.
– Supply chain disruption can lead to unpredictable changes preventing the free flow of products and services.
– Disruption in human resources can be the result of disruptive changes in technology and society.
Disruptive changes not only are fundamental, the often affect the entire organisation and require a holistic approach of management to deal with the challenges.
The conference theme is relevant for all research examining various aspects that enable management to navigate the high waters of disruptive changes. This includes organizational resilience, the management of paradoxes, agility, risk management, and innovative business models.
We welcome scholars to submit their research to the EURAM 2026 Conference and we look forward to seeing you in Agder.
To submit your full paper to EURAM 2026
I. Explore the tracks sponsored by one of the 13 EURAM Strategic Interest Groups (SIGs) here or by the Local Organising Committee and choose the topic and community that correspond best to your research.
II. Respect the deadlines, especially the paper submission deadline: 7 January 2026 – 2 pm Belgian time.
III. Ensure compliance with the authors guidelines.
IV. Statement about the use of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)
I. Explore our SIGs and tracks (for more detail click on the SIG title).
For newcomers to our community: our 13 SIGs are the building blocks of EURAM. SIG Chairs and Officers nurture communities of scholars who are engaged in specific research areas. There are three types of Tracks. General Tracks are the overarching tracks of the SIGs. Standing tracks are ongoing conversations that you can join, and which will continue within a SIG for a number of years. Finally, every year there are Tracks that are selected in a competitive submission and review process (they may become standing tracks in the future if they prove to be of continued interest). Each SIG General Track invites contributions from all areas related to the SIG specific research area but which are not explicitly covered by other tracks within the SIG.
Strategic Interest Groups:
GT01_00 – Business for Society General Track
ST01_01 / ST02_01 – Governance for purpose: Bridging Management and Law for a Responsible Corporation (co-sponsored B4S & CoGo SIGs)
ST01_02 – Performance measurement and management for sustainability
ST01_03 – Finance and Economy for Society: Financial Inclusion, Governance and Sustainability
ST01_04 – Philosophy and business ethics
ST01_05 – Arts, Culture, Craft & Philosophy for Business and Society
T01_06 / T06_09 / T11_04 / T13_ 09 – Action Research in Innovation Management and Management Sciences: Conceptual and Empirical Research Studies.
T01_ 07 / T06_11 / T14_01 – Innovative Pedagogies for Disruptive Times: Rethinking Management Education for Impact and Radical Change
T01_08 – From AI to digital transformation in the Human+ Era: what are the effects on business for society?
T01_09 – Humanistic Management and Circular Economy: innovative business models and stewardship to navigate complexities
T01_10 – Responsible management and transformative innovation for sustainable transitions
T01_11 – Market, Regulatory, Social, and Technological Disruptions in Climate Solutions and Carbon Management
T01_12 – Managing Marketing & Technological Disruption for Society – An Emerging Business Perspective
T01_13 – Between Compliance and Commitment: Measuring and Managing Social Sustainability and Resilience in Supply Chains
T01_14 – Relationships, Values, and Community-driven (Social) Innovation in Collaborative Ecosystems
T01_15 – Purpose-driven Organizations in the Digital Age: Leveraging Innovation for a Regenerative Economy
GT02_00 – Corporate Governance General Track
ST01_01 / ST02_01 – Governance for purpose: Bridging Management and Law for a Responsible Corporation (co-sponsored B4S & CoGo SIGs)
ST02_02 – Corporate Governance and Executive Leadership
ST02_03 – Corporate Governance and Diversity
T02_04 – Securing talent for uncertain times: diversity, governance and global challenges
T02_05 – Internal & External Mechanisms of Corporate Governance
T02_06 – Startup Governance
T02_07 – Corporate Governance in Today’s Business Environment
GT03_00 – Entrepreneurship General Track
ST03_01 / ST06_01/ST13_01 – Business Model – Strategy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurial Venturing (co-sponsored ENT / INNO / SM SIGs)
ST03_02 – Entrepreneurship Processes & Digital Technologies
ST03_03 – Entrepreneurial Cognition and Behaviour
ST03_04 – Entrepreneurial Finance
ST03_05 – Entrepreneurship, Regions & Regional Development
ST03_06 – Social and Sustainable Entrepreneurship
ST03_07 – Growth Strategies & Internationalization for SMEs
T03_08 – Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
T03_09 – Entrepreneurial Profiles
T03_10 – Academic Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurship Education
T03_11 – Designing Futures: Life Design, Positive Psychology, and Entrepreneurial Action for Flourishing, Well-Being & Societal Impact
T03_12 – Women Entrepreneurs in Times of Disruption: Adapting, Resisting, and Reimagining
T03_13 – Entrepreneurship as a Cross-Disciplinary Lens
T03_14 – Early-stage entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial support organizations
T03_15 – Entrepreneurship and Creativity in Times of Disruption: Navigating Transformations in the Creative Economy
T03_16 – Macro-preneurship and the Entrepreneurial State: Global Models of Policy-driven Economic Transformation
GT04_00 – Family Business Research General Track
ST04_01 – Behavior, Performance, and Sustainability in Family Firms
ST04_02 – Family Business in Emerging, Developing, and Transitional Economies
T04_03 – Ethical Issues in Family Business
T04_04 – Managing cultural tensions in an era of disruption: Exploring Brand Heritage and Artificial Intelligence in Family firms
T04_05 – Innovation and Internationalization in Family Firms (IIFF)
T04_06 – Succession, Legacy and Legitimacy in Family and Royal Enterprises
T04_07 – Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Value-Based Strategic Decision-Making in Small Family Firms and SMEs
5. Gender, Race and Diversity in Organisations
GT05_00 – Gender, Race and Diversity in Organisations General Track
ST05_01 – Women & Gender in Work, Organisation & Beyond
ST05_02 – Diversity issues in cultural context
T05_03 – Role of Diversity, Equality and Inclusion in Careers and Leadership
T05_04 – Responsible DEI when facing disruption: What (not) to preach, and how to practice it?
T05_05 – Migrants at stake: Intersecting exclusion effects of mobility, ethnicity, religion and race
T05_06 – Queer Perspectives: Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and the Plurality of Self-Concepts in Organizations
T05_07 – Disability and Inclusion in an Age of Disruption: Rethinking Work, Participation and Accessibility
6. Innovation
GT06_00 – Innovation General Track
ST03_01 / ST06_01/ST13_01 – Business Model – Strategy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurial Venturing (co-sponsored ENT / INNO / SM SIGs)
ST06_03 – Digital Innovation: Strategies, Competencies, Theories, and Practice
ST06_05 – Innovation for Sustainability, Circularity and Green-tech
ST06_07 – Open Innovation Engaging Individuals, Communities and Networks
ST06_08 – Managing Creativity for Innovation
T01_06 / T06_09 / T11_04 / T13_ 09 – Action Research in Innovation Management and Management Sciences: Conceptual and Empirical Research Studies.
T06_10 / T13_10 – Innovation ecosystems and platforms: Emergence, construction, and persistence
T01_ 07 / T06_11 / T14_01 – Innovative Pedagogies for Disruptive Times: Rethinking Management Education for Impact and Radical Change
T06_12 – Navigating new product development
T06_13 – University–Industry Collaboration and Knowledge Transfer: Exploring Actors, Processes, and Outcomes
T06_14 – Managing the unknown: new perspectives for innovation and management science
T06_15 – Innovation Management in Healthcare: Challenges and Opportunities for Value Creation
GT07_00 – International Management General Track
ST07_01 – Global Mobility
ST07_02 – Management and cultures: Qualitative organizational research
T07_03 – Responsible Global Leadership: An Emerging Ethics-Based Paradigm for Complex Global Contexts
T07_04 – International Competitiveness
9. Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources Management
GT09_00 – Organisational Behaviour General Track
ST09_01 – Human Resource Management
ST09_02 – Team Performance Management
ST09_03 – Leadership
T09_04 – Sustainable HRM and Responsible Working in Disruptive Times
T09_05 – AI, Big Data, Algorithmic Management and Emerging Tech in Human Resources Management, Employment Relations and Organizational
T09_06 – The Evolution of Power in Modern Organisations: A Multifaceted Approach
T09_07 – Reimagining HRM for the Common Good in a Disruptive Era
T09_08 – Delving into the interplay of organizational design, structures, and behaviors: aligning the stars
T09_09 – Navigating the Unknown & Future Making: Innovations in Learning Leadership for Ecosystemic Flourishing
GT10_00 – Project Organising General Track
ST10_01 – Multi-level Perspectives on Major and Megaprojects
ST10_02 – Project and Society
T10_03 – Managing Projects in Public and Non-Profit sectors
T10_04 – Project Leadership in the Age of Disruption
T10_05 – Navigating Disruption in Project Environments through Agility, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation
11. Public & Non-Profit Management
GT11_00 – Public and Non-Profit Management General Track
ST11_01 – Accounting, Auditing and Sustainability in Public and Hybrid Organizations
ST11_02 – Healthcare Management Research
ST11_03 – Management and governance of culture, heritage and tourism
T01_06 / T06_09 / T11_04 / T13_ 09 – Action Research in Innovation Management and Management Sciences: Conceptual and Empirical Research Studies.
T11_05 – Public–Social Enterprise Collaboration: Hybrid Organizations and Cooperatives in a Changing Policy Landscape
T11_06 – Young people co-producing in public services: Theoretical developments, new approaches and international perspectives
12. Research Methods and Research Practice
GT12_00 – Research Methods and Research Practice General Track
ST12_01 – Beyond the Metaphors: Coevolution and Ecosystems in Management
ST12_02 – Research Methods for Complex Adaptive Systems
T12_03 – Management History, Theory, and Philosophy
T12_04 – Performance Management: research methods and research practice
T12_05 – Inclusive and Creative Management Research
T12_06 – Navigating different Oceans: Configurational Research in the Age of Complex Management Challenges
T12_07 – Tourism research and practice: trends and transitions
T12_08 – Exploring New Horizons: Integrating AI and Machine Learning Methods in Management Research
GT13_00 – Strategic Management General Track
ST03_01 / ST06_01 / ST13_01 – Business Model – Strategy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurial Venturing (co-sponsored ENT / INNO / SM SIGs)
ST13_03 – CENA – Coopetition, Ecosystems, Networks and Alliances
ST13_04 – Mergers & Acquisitions and Divestitures
ST13_05 – Microfoundations of Strategy: Dynamic Capabilities, Behavioural Strategy and Knowledge Mechanisms
ST13_06 – Strategic Ambidexterity: solving the tensions between existing and new processes
ST13_07 – Strategic Processes and Practices
ST13_08 – Ecosystems in disruption: Artificial Intelligence, data-driven innovation, and new frontiers
T01_06 / T06_09 / T11_04 / T13_ 09 – Action Research in Innovation Management and Management Sciences: Conceptual and Empirical Research Studies.
T06_10 / T13_10 – Innovation ecosystems and platforms: Emergence, construction, and persistence
T13_11 – Purpose-Driven Strategies, Transformation, Corporate Governance, and Resilience
T13_12 – Sport Management Responsibility in Times of Disruption
T13_13 – Supply chain strategies for a sustainable business
T13_14 – Strategic Performance Measurement In An Age Of Disruption: Enabling Complexity Management And Long-Term Value Creation
14. Conference Theme: Navigating High Waters
GT14_00 – General Track – Management in an Age of Disruption
T01_ 07 / T06_11 / T14_01 – Innovative Pedagogies for Disruptive Times: Rethinking Management Education for Impact and Radical Change
T14_02 – Strategic management as enhanced, disrupted or challenged by generative AI
II. Deadline
Please respect the deadlines, especially the paper submission deadline: 7 January 2026 – 2 pm Belgian time.
III. Authors’ Guidelines for Full Papers
To ensure that it is possible to publish your paper in the proceedings it is essential that all authors strictly follow the guidelines and formatting instructions for both preparation and submission of all papers.
For EURAM 2026, the abstracts and full papers will be published in e-format and for the latter, accessible for registered delegates only.
The proceedings will carry the ISSN 2466-7498 and ISBN 978-2-9602195-8-6.
Each paper will be screened to ensure compliance with EURAM’s author’s guidelines. Papers which do not match the EURAM requirements will be desk-rejected, and authors will not have the opportunity to submit an updated version.
Please read below instructions carefully prior to submitting and remember to select at least one of the Sustainable Development Goals your research addresses (UN SDGs):
1. Each paper can only be submitted to ONE track.
2. Submitted papers must not have been previously presented at a EURAM annual Conference (unless there are significant changes from the original presented proposal).
Submitted papers must NOT have been published or accepted for publication before the EURAM annual Conference (neither in print nor online, in any form – online preprint, working paper, etc.)
3. To facilitate the blind review process, remove ALL authors identifying information (names, affiliations etc.), including acknowledgements from the text, and document/file properties (any submissions with author information will be automatically DELETED; author information and acknowledgements are to be included in the submission form).
4. The abstract should not exceed 400 words and should be included both in the PDF and the submission form.
5. Include 3 keywords in the submission form. A maximum of 6 keywords is allowed.
6. The entire paper (title page, abstract, main text, figures, tables, references, etc.) must be in ONE anonymised document created in PDF format.
7. The maximum length of the paper is 40 pages (including ALL tables, appendices and references). The minimum length of the paper is 10 pages.
8. Use Times New Roman 12-pitch font, double spaced, and 1-inch (2.5 cm) margin all around.
9. Number all the pages of the paper.
10. No changes in the paper title, abstract, authorship, track and actual paper can occur AFTER the submission deadline.
11. Check that the PDF File of your paper prints correctly and ensure that the file is virus-free. Submissions will be done on-line on the EURAM 2026 submission system (platform opens on 1st of December).
12. Only submissions in English shall be accepted for review.
13. In case of acceptance, the author or one of the co-authors should be available to present the paper at the conference.
A presenting author can only present one paper at the conference.
* ONE PRESENTING AUTHOR = ONE PAPER
Each individual is limited to one personal appearance on the programme as a presenting author. This policy precludes acceptance of papers for more than one presentation. In other words, an author can submit and present only one paper. However, a presenter can always be a non-presenting co-author on additional papers.
14. If you submit a paper, you agree to review at least two papers for EURAM 2026 in the track you have submitted your paper to.
IV. Statement about the use of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)
EURAM does not prohibit, in principle the use of generative AI to support research activities. The use of AI to generate ideas and /or research questions, to analyse data, to support writing or for any other purposes in a submission to EURAM should be transparently disclosed in the manuscript, preferably in the literature review and/or methods sections (it has to be visible for the reader and reviewers).
Authors using AI in any step of their research process are responsible for ensuring the accuracy of AI-generated materials. AI tools cannot be listed as an author of a paper. AI tools used should be listed in the bibliography indicating: Author of the AI programme, year of the programme version used (in brackets), Name of AI (in italics), Version, if applicable (in brackets), Publisher, if different from the author, URL, if applicable. Please refer to the example below:
Open AI (2024) ChatGPT 4o (version September 2024), https://chat.openai.com
Upon submission of the paper on EURAM’s platform, the corresponding author will have to fill in a self-declaration statement form to document whether AI tools have been used or not. If AI tools have been used, the corresponding author will then specify in which of the different steps of the research process they were used:
• Conceptualization and literature review
• Design of research and (field) research protocol
• Data collection, field research activities
• Resources and analysis tools
• Data curation, data analysis, formal analysis
• Use of software for data analysis
• Discussion of research results
• Analysis of potential for replication/ reproducibility
• Preparation of draft article
• Review of draft versions of the article
• Generation of diagrams/ tables/ visualizations
• Research project management and project administration.
and will disclose precisely the reasons for this use.
Should you have any hesitation on which track to select for your paper, you may wish to contact a track chair by email to find the best fit for your submission.
For more information, we invite you to visit the conference website.
For general questions, you may contact info@euram.academy.
Best wishes,
On behalf of the Local Organising Committee,
Kalanit Efrat, Co-chair
Bjørn Tore Flåten, Co-chair