SIG 01 – B4S - Business for Society
S01_01 Business Education for Society – Educating the managers for sustainable development
SIG 01 – B4S – Business for Society
Short description of the Symposium
The contributors to the symposium Business Education for Society seek to advance proposals for pedagogical approaches that place sustainability at the heart of management education.
The content of management education
The pedagogy of management education
The institutions of management education
The outcome of that symposium will consist of the sketch a future book of the Business for Society series directed by Gangi, Méric, Jardat and Daniele: Business education for society.
Contact:
Rémi Jardat, LITEM – Université Evry-Paris-Saclay, remi.jardat@univ-evry.fr
Proponents:
Rémi Jardat, LITEM – Université Evry-Paris-Saclay; Jérôme MERIC, IAE-University of Poitiers; Lucia Michela Daniele, Department of Economics, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli; Francesco Gangi, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli; Julienne Brabet, Université Paris Est Créteil; Jean-Francois Chanlat, DRM UMR 7088, University Paris Dauphine; Eline VIVET-MALADRY, LITEM – Paris Saclay University; Yoann Bazin, Université Paris Nanterre; Anne JANAND, University Paris Sud
S01_02 From Spiritual Values to Organizational Transformation: Rethinking Management for an Uncertain World
SIG 01 – B4S – Business for Society
SIG 09 – OB – Organisational Behaviour
Short description of the Symposium
How can spiritual values become a source of organisational transformation in an era of uncertainty? This symposium explores how culturally embedded spiritual values shape distinctive leadership signatures and become embedded in organisational culture, employee experiences, and everyday management practices. Bringing together international perspectives, the symposium examines how spirituality can foster resilience, ethical innovation, meaningful work, and sustainable organisational transformation, offering new insights into the future of management beyond traditional leadership paradigms.
Contact:
Ola Gamil, Technische Hochschule Lübeck, olaaligamil@gmail.com
Proponents:
Ola Gamil, Technische Hochschule Lübeck
S01_03 Powering Intelligence, Powerless People: Whose Resilience Counts in AI Supply Chains?
SIG 01 – B4S – Business for Society
SIG 02 – COGO – Corporate Governance
Short description of the Symposium
AI is marketed as a driver of resilience, yet the infrastructure behind it runs on strained power grids, drought-stressed water supplies, contested mineral extraction, and invisible digital labour. As EU regulation on corporate due diligence narrows just as AI expansion accelerates, this symposium confronts a question the resilience narrative usually avoids: resilient for whom, and at whose expense? Bringing together leading academics and practitioners from policy, sustainability, and supply chain management, the session moves beyond narrow AI ethics debates toward governance, accountability, and the conditions for a genuinely just and resilient digital future.
Contact:
Akanksha Agnihotri, Sustainability and Human Rights Consultant, akankshaagnihotri91@gmail.com
Proponents:
Akanksha Agnihotri, Sustainability and Human Rights Consultant; Marie Abdi Bergseng Nordby, Metizoft As; Valentina Carbone, ESCP Business School (Paris); Lukas Sonnenberg, German Development Cooperation (GIZ); Simone Vannuccini, Université Côte d’Azur
S01_04 Corporate Governance for a Sustainable Future: New Legal Pathways for Europe
SIG 01 – B4S – Business for Society
SIG 02 – COGO – Corporate Governance
Short description of the Symposium
Europe is exploring new EU legal forms to support competitive and sustainable businesses while advancing company law harmonisation. Alongside discussions on a 28th company law regime, the European Commission (DG GROW) launched a 2026 study on the legal forms and models of impact-driven businesses, reflecting the challenge of aligning competitiveness with sustainability, democracy, and shared prosperity. This symposium will bring together scholars from different disciplines to examine alternative governance and legal models, their theoretical foundations, and how research can inform ongoing European policy debates and future company law reforms.
Contact:
Blanche Segrestin, Mines Paris, Université PSL, Centre de Gestion Scientifique (CGS), i3 UMR9217 CNRS, blanche.segrestin@mines-paristech.fr
Proponents:
Blanche Segrestin, Mines Paris, Université PSL, Centre de Gestion Scientifique (CGS), i3 UMR9217 CNRS
S01_05 A Community-oriented Transition: The Neighbourhood as an Ecosystem for Care & Societal Health
SIG 01 – B4S – Business for Society
SIG 11 – PM&NPM – Public and Non-Profit Management
Short description of the Symposium
Across the Netherlands, twenty neighbourhoods are redesigning health care around a community oriented transition with the radical idea: the neighbourhood itself as a living ecosystem for societal health. This symposium convenes a five-institution research alliance, Nyenrode, Leyden Academy, LUMC, Radboud and Amsterdam UMC each studying the same transition through a different disciplinary lens: caring and learning neighbourhoods; prevention and self-reliance; governance dynamics; the interplay of formal and informal care; and economic impact on care use. Together they investigate how ecosystemic thinking can help people age healthily and happily while supporting one another. One transition, five lenses: join the debate on what management scholarship can learn.
Contact:
Sharda Nandram, Nyenrode Business Universiteit, s.nandram@nyenrode.nl
Proponents:
Puneet Bindlish, Nyenrode Business University; Sharda Nandram, Nyenrode Business Universiteit; Eveline Kiela, Leyden Academy; Sander Sandkuyl, LUMC; Eline Altenburg van den Broek, Amsterdam UMC
S01_06 Managing digital transformations with and for society – A Digital Humanism perspective
SIG 01 – B4S – Business for Society
SIG 14 – Conference General Track
Short description of the Symposium
Digital transformation, accelerated by the adoption of artificial intelligence across all sectors, presents society with a whole range of new challenges. Digital technologies (such as AI, platforms, social media, big data and automation) are sources of innovation and technical progress, but they also raise numerous ethical and sustainability-related challenges, whilst calling into question the nature of the organisations and society we wish to be part of. This symposium aims to bring together perspectives from computer science, the humanities and the social sciences to explore how the management of digital transformation can help ensure a more human-centred approach to technology.
Contact:
Laurence BEIERLEIN, Universite Paris Est-Creteil, beierlein@u-pec.fr
Proponents:
Laurence BEIERLEIN, Universite Paris Est-Creteil; Hans Akkermanns, AKMC Knowledge Management BV, The Netherlands; Anna Bon, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Julienne Brabet, Université Paris Est Créteil; Liana Razmerita, Copenhagen Business School; Cheah Wai Shiang, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS)
S01_07 The Quantum Physics of Flourishing: Information Fields in Management Practice
SIG 01 – B4S – Business for Society
SIG 08 – HRM – Human Resource Management
Short description of the Symposium
This symposium explores an emerging shift in business thinking: findings from quantum physics that point toward an expanded, field-based understanding of reality — and what happens when leaders act from this expanded awareness rather than purely mechanistic models. Grounded in recent scientific work (e.g. Dürr, Ganteför) and real business cases, panellists examine how this shift opens genuinely new fields of action in organisations. Rather than presenting a “tension” between science and consciousness-based approaches, the session treats them as complementary lenses on the same underlying reality, illustrated through concrete transformation stories from practice.
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Désirée Ladwig, Technische Hochschule Lübeck, desiree.ladwig@th-luebeck.de
Proponents:
Prof. Dr. Désirée Ladwig, Technische Hochschule Lübeck
SIG 02 - Corporate Governance
S02_01 Startup Governance in the Age of AI
SIG 02 – COGO – Corporate Governance
SIG 03 – ENT – Entrepreneurship
Short description of the Symposium
Artificial intelligence is increasingly shaping decision-making, risk management, and organizational development in startups. Yet governance research remains largely focused on mature organizations and established governance structures. This symposium explores how governance is being transformed in AI-enabled startups and scaleups, with particular attention to accountability, transparency, decision rights, and responsible innovation. Drawing on perspectives from corporate governance, entrepreneurship, information systems, and digital transformation, the symposium examines how founders, boards, investors, and ecosystems can develop governance mechanisms that support innovation and accountability. The discussion seeks to advance a research agenda.
Contact:
Daniel Yar, University of Borås, daniel.yar@hb.se
Proponents:
Daniel Yar, University of Borås
S02_02 Revolutionizing Research with Immersive Virtual Reality and AI-Driven Experiences
SIG 02 – COGO – Corporate Governance
SIG 13 – SM – Strategic Management
Short description of the Symposium
Throughout history, technology and science have been deeply intertwined. Scientific discoveries have driven technological advancements, which in turn have become crucial tools for further scientific exploration.
Virtual reality (VR) technology is opening new frontiers for social scientists, enabling them to explore aspects of human behavior that were previously inaccessible. VR immersive experiences allows corporate governance and strategic management researchers to conduct studies with unprecedented control, ecological validity, and the potential for groundbreaking insights into human cognition and interaction in a global context.
No prior experience with virtual reality is needed, welcome to all.
Contact:
Sabina Nielsen, Copenhagen Business School, sn.egb@cbs.dk
Proponents:
Sabina Nielsen, Copenhagen Business School; Alon Epstein, AVRIS Technologies
S02_03 What Is It Really Like to Serve on a Board? Honest Conversations with Directors
SIG 02 – COGO – Corporate Governance
Short description of the Symposium
What is it really like to serve on a supervisory board? This symposium brings together experienced board members from different industries for an open conversation about board membership. How do directors experience joining a board, transitioning to a non-executive role, dealing with doubt, and making difficult decisions? What is it like to challenge fellow board members or guide a company through a crisis? By focusing on directors’ lived experiences rather than governance outcomes, the symposium aims to broaden scholarly understanding, generate new research questions, and foster dialogue between academics and practitioners. Audience members are warmly invited to join the conversation.
Contact:
Lisanne Veter, Erasmus University Rotterdam, veter@ese.eur.nl
Proponents:
Lisanne Veter, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Esha Mendiratta, Vlerick Business School
S02_04 Democratizing and Enriching Corporations through Polycentric Governance: A Reassessment of Management Theories and Practices for a Sustainable Future
SIG 02 – COGO – Corporate Governance
Short description of the Symposium
Managing organizations is often described as a top-down “plan, command and control” exercise. This view tends to neglect that corporate resilience requires an engagement in good management practices to ensure a desirable future for all stakeholders. This symposium invites scholars and business practitioners to rise above the management theories practices that have shaped business conduct by re-examining, rethinking and reconceiving the principles of corporate governance and practices that have proven to be economically costly and socially irresponsible. The symposium highlights Ostrom’s polycentric governance principles and how they should be embedded into corporate management and constitutions to ensure a sustainable future.
Contact:
Sharam Alijani, American University of Paris, salijani@aup.edu
Proponents:
Sharam Alijani, American University of Paris
S02_05 Sustain humanity by “rising above” management from local bottom-up stakeholder self-governing regeneration
SIG 02 – COGO – Corporate Governance
SIG 01 – B4S – Business for Society
Short description of the Symposium
A sustainable human future depends on radically redistributing global assets to self-governing self-reliant bioregions. Over half of global assets are controlled by eight individuals through corporations that undermines democracies. Both US Republicans and Democrats support non-self-funding tax incentives for employee ownership that involves only 5% of voters. We propose a self-funding tax incentives for shareholders to engage 100% of voters to share business control with resident stakeholders by book entries over 20 years. A universal wellbeing dividend is created to shrink governments with reinvestments in offspring firms to grow human size businesses and provide succession plans for managers and investors.
Contact:
Shann Turnbull, International Institute For Self-governance, shann.turnbull@gmail.com
Proponents:
Shann Turnbull, International Institute For Self-governance; Sharam Alijani, American University of Paris; Mavura Mavura; R. K. Mishra, Stellenbosch University; Karinya Turnbull, Sunstone Strategies; Peter Jones, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico City
SIG 03 – ENT - Entrepreneurship
S03_01 R.E.Pr.I.S.E. – from lab to market
SIG 03 – ENT – Entrepreneurship
SIG 06 – INNO – Innovation
Short description of the Symposium
How do aspiring entrepreneurs move from the lab to the market?
To answer this question, it is crucial to ask: How are entrepreneurial processes structured? What happens to innovation? Is creating startups the only way to harness innovation?
The “R.E.Pr.I.S.E. – From Lab to Market” symposium focuses on entrepreneurial processes, innovation, and startups from a theoretical and practical perspective. Scholars and entrepreneurs (both aspiring and experienced) will meet to decode the phenomenon and share new insights.
Contact:
Diego Matricano, Department of Management, Università degli Studi della Campania, diego.matricano@unicampania.it
Proponents:
Diego Matricano, Department of Management, Università degli Studi della Campania ; Patrick Spieth, University of Kassel; Raihan Taqui Syed, United Arab Emirates University
S03_02 Beyond the Mainstream: Case studies on how Inclusivity Shapes Entrepreneurship
SIG 03 – ENT – Entrepreneurship
SIG 01 – B4S – Business for Society
Short description of the Symposium
Scholars highlight the importance of moving beyond traditional, stereotypical entrepreneurship studies towards more inclusive research approaches. It’s crucial to explore how challenging circumstances influence entrepreneurs. Often, the true drivers of economic and regional growth are unconventional entrepreneurs who surmount significant adversity. This symposium will explore various entrepreneurial experiences and examine how knowledge about marginalised entrepreneurs is generated. Special focus will be placed on engaged scholarship, co-design, trusted community intermediaries, and long-term relationships with business owners. This prompts questions about whose perspectives are valued, how trust is established, and how research can avoid viewing marginalised entrepreneurs merely as subjects or beneficiaries.
Contact:
Dhara Shah, Deakin University, d.shah@deakin.edu.au
Proponents:
Dhara Shah, Deakin University; Ondrej Dvoulety, Department of Entrepreneurship, Prague University of Economics and Business; Leonie Baldacchino, The Edward de Bono Institute, University of Malta; Monder Ram, Aston University; R Duncan Pelly, Department of Business/Fisk University, Tenesse, USA; Bisrat Misganaw, NEOMA Business School; Laura Bradley-McCauley, Ulster University; Isobel Cunningham, ATU Donegal
S03_03 Perspectives on Intrapreneurship: moving within, looking beyond and rising above
SIG 03 – ENT – Entrepreneurship
SIG 08 – HRM – Human Resource Management
Short description of the Symposium
This symposium brings together scholars from diverse management traditions to discuss the present achievements and future directions of intrapreneurship research. Building on recent advances in conceptual integration, measurement, and educational development, it examines how intrapreneurship can inform debates on resilience, organizational renewal, and sustainable transformation. Aligned with EURAM 2027’s theme ‘Rise Above’, the symposium invites cross-disciplinary dialogue on how organizations can rise above uncertainty through employee agency, innovation, and responsible change from within established organizational settings.
Contact:
Gentrit Berisha, University of Prishtina, gentrit.berisha@uni-pr.edu
Proponents:
Gentrit Berisha, University of Prishtina; Andrea Caputo, University of Trento, Italy; Sara Sassetti, University of Pisa; Francisco Liñán, University of Seville
S03_04 Academic Entrepreneurship and Innovation Ecosystem Models: What’s working? What needs to change?
SIG 03 – ENT – Entrepreneurship
Short description of the Symposium
This symposium examines the interplay between the university, industry, and the government regarding academic entrepreneurship and university technology transfer (TT) through comparative perspectives from Europe and the United Arab Emirates. The panel will bring together the co-proponents of the EURAM 2024-2026 tracks on Academic Entrepreneurship and the senior managers responsible for technology transfer at their respective universities. By combining scholarly and practitioner viewpoints, the symposium will discuss governance models, intellectual property management, spin-off support, university-industry collaboration, and impact assessment. The session aims to identify common challenges, highlight context-specific practices, and outline a future agenda for research and policy.
Contact:
Laura Castaldi, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, laura.castaldi@unicampania.it
Proponents:
Laura Castaldi, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli; Raihan Taqui Syed, United Arab Emirates University; Matthias Raith, Otto Von Guericke University of Magdeburg; Vadim Grinevich, The University of Bradford School of Management; Luigi Zeni, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli; Domenico Ferrara, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli
SIG 04 - Family Business Research
S04_01 Family Firms in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Reimagining Embeddedness, Resilience and Regional Transformation
SIG 04 – FABR – Family Business Research
SIG 03 – ENT – Entrepreneurship
Short description of the Symposium
Entrepreneurial ecosystem and family business research have developed as influential but largely disconnected streams of scholarship. While entrepreneurial ecosystem research explains how regional actors, institutions and resources foster entrepreneurship, family business research provides unique insights into long-term ownership, stewardship and resilience. This symposium brings together leading scholars to examine how family firms shape entrepreneurial ecosystems, how ecosystems influence family firms, and how integrating these perspectives can advance research on resilience, regional transformation and sustainable development.
Contact:
Samuel Appleton, University of Bergamo, samuel.appleton@unibg.it
Proponents:
Samuel Appleton, University of Bergamo
S04_02 Family Business in a Changing World: Resilience, Renewal and Responsible Leadership for a Sustainable Future
SIG 04 – FABR – Family Business Research
Short description of the Symposium
Family businesses represent a foundational organizational form uniquely balancing continuity with adaptation across generations. However, contemporary crises challenge traditional assumptions of stability, requiring families to “Rise Above” conceptual limits. This symposium aligns with the EURAM 2027 theme by exploring how family firms develop embedded resilience amid persistent uncertainty, critically reimagine their unique history and entrepreneurial legacies as drivers of renewal, and rethink management frameworks to secure a sustainable, regenerative future. Bringing together leading international scholars, the session fosters dialog across governance, ownership, and succession to build a forward-looking research agenda responding to today’s grand societal challenges.
Contact:
Rafaela Gjergji, Università Cattaneo – Liuc, rgjergji@liuc.it
Proponents:
Rafaela Gjergji, Università Cattaneo – Liuc; Sandra Fiedler, University of Cooperative Education DHSN; Samuel Appleton, University of Bergamo; Allan Discua Cruz, CENTRE FOR FAMILY BUSINESS/LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL
SIG 05 - GRDO - Gender, Race, and Diversity in Organisations
S05_01 Reimagining Histories, Reclaiming Futures: Methodological Pathways for Resilience, Equity, and Sustainable Leadership
SIG 05 – GRDO – Gender, Race, and Diversity in Organisations
SIG 12 – RM&RP – Research Methods and Research Practice
Short description of the Symposium
This cross‑SIG symposium examines how management scholars can “rise above” inherited narratives, methodological limits, and structural inequities to build more resilient, equitable, and sustainable futures. Bringing together SIG 05 (GRDO) and SIG 12 (RM&RP), it explores reimagined organizational histories, alternative epistemologies, and methods that center marginalized voices. Through brief provocations and structured dialogue, the session offers actionable insights for integrating justice‑oriented perspectives with rigorous research design, advancing the EURAM 2027 theme on sustainable leadership and organizational futures.
Contact:
Hamid Kazeroony, Walden U., USA, hamid.kazeroony@outlook.com
Proponents:
Hamid Kazeroony, Walden U., USA, Victoria Opara, Dr, Bath Spa University, Henriett Primecz, Johannes Kepler University, Sumita Datta, ISEG, ULisboa, Huiping Xian, University of Leicester
S05_02 From neuro-inclusive to neuro-affirmative organizations: discussing evidence and HRM best practices
SIG 05 – GRDO – Gender, Race, and Diversity in Organisations
SIG 08 – HRM – Human Resource Management
Short description of the Symposium
The Symposium aims to attract scholars’ attention to the emerging topic of neurodiversity in the workplace. As organizations are still mainly neuronormative, thus mirroring the neurotypical way of functioning, neurodivergent individuals face challenges in adapting to it, resulting in lower rates of employment and barriers to thriving in these environments. By presenting pioneering research projects conducted across diverse European contexts, we seek to engage scholars in a dialogue on how organizational cultures, practices, and structures can be reimagined to better accommodate the needs of neurodivergent individuals as well as to explore and envision pathways toward the development of neuro-affirmative organizations.
Contact:
Beatrice Re, University of Pavia, beatrice.re@unipv.it
Proponents:
Beatrice Re, University of Pavia; Cinzia Calluso, LUISS University; Raysa Rocha, University of Essex; Joanna Szulc, Gdańsk University of Technology; Frederike Scholz, HU University of Applied Sciences
S05_03 Voices in the Margins: Feminist Autoethnographies
SIG 05 – GRDO – Gender, Race, and Diversity in Organisations
SIG 12 – RM&RP – Research Methods and Research Practice
Short description of the Symposium
Voices in the Margins: Feminist Autoethnographies. The symposium has three objectives. First, it explores how neoliberal university reforms are enacted through gendered and intersectional patterns of precarity, audit, care work, mobility and exclusion across early-, mid- and later-career stages. Second, it demonstrates feminist autoethnography and writing differently as rigorous collective approaches for making institutional power legible, rather than reducing inequality to indicators alone. Third, it moves from diagnosis to imagination by identifying institutional conditions that would enable sustainable, humane and equitable academic work.
Organisers and panelists all contribute in a book with the title of the symposium.
Contact:
Morten Huse, BI Norwegian Business School, morten.huse@bi.no
Proponents:
Morten Huse, BI Norwegian Business School ; Anna Górska, Kozminski University
S05_04 Women Leaders in Family Businesses: Navigating Identity, Power, and Succession
SIG 05 – GRDO – Gender, Race, and Diversity in Organisations
SIG 04 – FABR – Family Business Research
Short description of the Symposium
Family businesses are the world’s most prevalent organizational form, yet leadership remains disproportionately concentrated in the hands of men. Despite their growing contributions to innovation, sustainability, professionalization, and transgenerational continuity, women in family businesses continue to navigate invisible barriers rooted in gender norms, family expectations, succession practices, and institutional contexts. This symposium advances understanding of women’s leadership in family businesses by examining how gender intersects with family dynamics, governance, and cultural contexts to shape leadership legitimacy, influence, and strategic decision-making, moving beyond traditional succession narratives to explore women’s transformative role in family enterprises.
Contact:
Sumita Datta, ISEG, ULisboa, drsumitadatta@gmail.com
Proponents:
Sumita Datta, ISEG, ULisboa; Allan Discua Cruz, CENTRE FOR FAMILY BUSINESS/LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL; Rajiv Agarwal, S P Jain institute of management and research; Sandra Fiedler, University of Cooperative Education DHSN
S05_05 Inclusion for Impact: DEI Practice case as a Living Case of Rethinking the University
SIG 05 – GRDO – Gender, Race, and Diversity in Organisations
SIG 11 – PM&NPM – Public and Non-Profit Management
Short description of the Symposium
Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) has become institutionally contested — polarized, politicized, and in places prohibited. This symposium presents the DEI practice of the conference’s host, VU Amsterdam, as a best-practice case and shows how it operationalizes the design prescribed in Rethinking the University (Nandram & Bindlish, Springer 2026). From the university’s 2024–2026 DEI redesign we distil transferable practices — values-led “Inclusion for Impact,” dialogue for holding polarities, an ecosystem of decentralized diversity officers, AI-assisted epistemic inclusion, and “You said → We did” accountability — and map each to the book’s model of the university as a harmonizing space.
Contact:
Sharda Nandram, Nyenrode Business Universiteit, s.nandram@nyenrode.nl
Proponents:
Sharda Nandram, Nyenrode Business Universiteit; Puneet Bindlish, Nyenrode Business University; Sujana Adapa, Faculty of Science, Agriculture, Business and Law, University of New England (UNE), Australia; Raysa Rocha, University of Essex; Gaetan Mourmant, Iéseg – School of management
SIG 06 – INNO - Innovation
S6_01 The Becoming of Innovation Ecosystems: Heterogeneous Actor Participation, Collaborative Governance, and Ecosystem Outputs across Ecosystem Lifecycle
SIG 06 – INNO – Innovation
SIG 14 – Conference General Track
Short description of the Symposium
Innovation ecosystems are often viewed as collaborative environments, yet transforming heterogeneous actor participation into sustained collective outcomes remains a major challenge. This symposium explores the becoming of innovation ecosystems by examining how actor participation, collaborative governance, and ecosystem outcomes evolve across key development phases, from emergence to renewal and decline. Bringing together innovation ecosystem and open innovation perspectives, the symposium discusses how governance mechanisms align participation, value creation, and value capture over time, enabling ecosystems to adapt, coordinate and orchestrate diverse actors, and sustain collective outputs in contexts of uncertainty and rapid digital transformation.
Contact:
Nguyen-Duc Anh, University of Évry Paris-Saclay, duc-anh.nguyen@universite-paris-saclay.fr
Proponents:
Nguyen-Duc Anh, University of Évry Paris-Saclay; Simona GRAMA-VIGOUROUX, Y Schools Troyes, Alsace Champagne Ardenne; Nunzia Coco, University of Bologna; Liliana Mitkova, University Evry Paris Saclay; Agnes Radziwon, University of Southern Denmark; Klaudijus Melys, Vilnius University
S6_02 Publishing in Innovation Management Journals: Editor and Expert Panel
SIG 06 – INNO – Innovation
Short description of the Symposium
EURAM SIG Innovation at EURAM 2027: Publishing in Innovation Management Journals: Editor and Expert Panel Do not miss our Editor & Expert Panel on “Publishing in Innovation Management Journals” – a must-attend session to gain insider tips from leading editors of some of the top innovation management journals!
Contact:
Patrick Spieth, University of Kassel, spieth@uni-kassel.de
Proponents:
Patrick Spieth, University of Kassel; Kristel Miller, Ulster University
SIG 07 – IM - International Management
S07_01 Embracing Resilience: The Role of Social Capital and Human Networks in Times of Crisis and Artificial Intelligence
SIG 07 – IM – International Management
SIG 01 – B4S – Business for Society
Short description of the Symposium
This symposium explores how social capital and human networks serve as critical buffers and enablers of organisational resilience during compounding global crises — from geopolitical instability and climate shocks to the disruptive advance of Artificial Intelligence. Utilising social capital frameworks (Putnam, Coleman, Burt), and emerging AI governance scholarship, the session brings together scholars to debate how organisations and individuals leverage trust, bridging ties, and collaborative networks to survive and adapt. The symposium directly responds to the EURAM 2027 “Rising Above” theme by recentring human connection as a cornerstone of sustainable, resilient management.
Contact:
Sven Horak, St. John’s University, horaks@stjohns.edu
Proponents:
Fawaz Alhussan, EMLV Business School; Sven Horak, St. John’s University; Man Zhang, Bowling Green State University; Fadi Alsarhan, ISC Paris Business School; Sa’ad Ali, University of Doha for Science & Technology
S07_02 Beyond borders: How global work shapes social cohesion
SIG 07 – IM – International Management
SIG 08 – HRM – Human Resource Management
Short description of the Symposium
This symposium explores how global work shapes social cohesion in societies. As companies move talent across borders or workers cooperate internationally, their decisions influence workers and the societies in which they operate. Organisations become key actors influencing trust, belonging, inclusion, and shared purpose within communities. While global work creates opportunities for innovation and intercultural exchange, it may also generate (unintended) societal challenges. Yet, we know little about how organisations understand, manage, and evaluate these consequences. Through dialogue between scholars and practitioners, this symposium identifies key research questions and methodological approaches for advancing research on global work and social cohesion.
Contact:
Maike Andresen, University of Bamberg, Maike.Andresen@uni-bamberg.de
Proponents:
Maike Andresen, University of Bamberg; Katarzyna Piwowar-Sulej, Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, Poland; Betina Szkudlarek, The University of Sydney; Helen De Cieri, Monash University; B. Sebastian Reiche, IESE Business School
SIG 08 – HRM - Human Resource Management
S08_01 Navigating Academic Job Markets across Europe: Visibility, Mobility and Hidden Rules for Doctoral Students and Early Career Researchers
SIG 08 – HRM – Human Resource Management
Short description of the Symposium
This symposium brings together scholars from diverse academic systems to explore the structures, challenges, and opportunities of the international academic job market for doctoral students and ECRs within EURAM. Panellists representing the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Türkiye will discuss strategies for building visibility across academic markets and navigating country-specific recruitment practices. The session will address both formal processes and unwritten expectations at key career stages, including identifying and applying for positions, succeeding in interviews and job talks, and evaluating offers. Participants will gain practical insights to support informed short- and long-term career decisions in an increasingly international academic environment.
Contact:
Zeynep Yalabik, University of Bath, zy210@bath.ac.uk
Proponents:
Zeynep Yalabik, University of Bath; S. Kubra Canhilal, ISG Business School; Silvia Dello Russo, LUISS; Douglas Renwick, Nottingham Trent University; CEYDA MADEN EYIUSTA, Ozyegin University; Anne-Katrin Neyer, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
S08_02 The Evolving Landscape of Academic Knowledge Work in the Age of AI
SIG 08 – HRM – Human Resource Management
SIG 14 – Conference General Track
Short description of the Symposium
Following the success of our 2025 and 2026 EURAM symposia on AI and Academia and the publication of the 2025 panel report, this symposium revisits the rapidly evolving role of AI in academic knowledge work. Since the previous discussion, the diffusion of Generative AI has accelerated changes in how academics conduct research, teach, and knowledge work. Building on the insights emerging from the previous symposia, we will explore how the academic workflow has evolved, by identifying new challenges and opportunities, and engage participants in an interactive World Café to shape the next research agenda on AI and academic work.
Contact:
Maarten Renkema, University of Twente, m.renkema@utwente.nl
Proponents:
Maarten Renkema, University of Twente; Aizhan Tursunbayeva, Parthenope University of Naples; Stefano Di Lauro, Universitas Mercatorum; Paweł Korzyński, Kozminski University; Olga Protsiuk, Kozminski University
S08_03 Appreciating the complexities of the ideal female teleworker in the global context
SIG 08 – HRM – Human Resource Management
Short description of the Symposium
Hybrid work has transformed the meaning of flexibility, productivity, and work–life balance, yet its impact on women remains complex and context-dependent. This symposium explores the evolving image of the “ideal female teleworker” navigating professional expectations alongside childcare, maternity responsibilities, and personal needs. Bringing together global perspectives, it examines whether telework represents privilege, necessity, or a new source of inequality. The symposium addresses advantages and challenges of hybrid work, its role during crisis times, and how organizations can create more inclusive, sustainable, and equitable futures of work.
Contact:
Marie-Therese Claes , Vienna University of Economics and Business, marie-therese.claes@wu.ac.at
Proponents:
Marie-Therese Claes, Prof. Dr., Vienna University of Economics and Business, Juliet Townes, Prof., University of Fort Hare, Annette Risberg, Professor, University of Inland Norway, Martine Coun, Dr, Open Universiteit, Anett Hermann, assistant professor, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Sophie Ringler, University of Passau, Dr. Katul Yousef, Assistant Professor, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
SIG 09 – OB - Organisational Behaviour
S09_01 Designing Human Futures: Connecting Life Design, Human Flourishing and Inner Development
SIG 09 – OB – Organizational Behaviour
SIG 14 – Conference General Track
Short description of the Symposium
How can individuals and organisations design meaningful, flourishing, and sustainable futures in times of uncertainty? This symposium brings together scholars from Life Design, Career Construction, Positive Psychology, Flourishing, Inner Development Goals, Meaning Research, Entrepreneurship Education, Human-centred Leadership and Management, and Future of Work research. While these communities often address similar questions around agency, identity, well-being, purpose, adaptability, and human development, they rarely engage in systematic dialogue. The symposium creates an interdisciplinary space for mutual learning, agenda-building, and future collaboration across currently fragmented schools of thought.
Contact:
Bettina Maisch, Munich University of Applied Sciences, bettina.maisch@hm.edu
Proponents:
Bettina Maisch, Munich University of Applied Sciences; Katy Granville-Chapman, Wellington College; Yuliya Shtaltovna, Hochschulen Fresenius GmbH; Kyiv School of Economics ; Matthew Croasmun, Yale Center for Faith & Culture at Yale Divinity School; Karina Zittel, Technische Universität Berlin; Jenna Mikus, Eudae Group; Dana Fulwiler Volk, IPEN | International Positive Education Network
S09_02 Expertise in the Age of Digitalization
SIG 09 – OB – Organizational Behaviour
Short description of the Symposium
Rapid AI advancement disrupts human expertise, creating “artificial certainty” that threatens traditional authority while simultaneously empowering professionals to reclaim strategic work. Crucially, this transformation is uneven, deepening organizational inequalities. By uniquely integrating the sociology of professions (structural credentials) with the sociology of expertise (dynamic relational networks), this symposium moves beyond the simplistic “automation vs. augmentation” debate. This dual perspective offers a powerful, multi-layered framework to analyze how digital systems redraw knowledge boundaries, providing vital insights into the contemporary “crisis in expert authority” and the future of professions.
Contact:
Masashi Goto, Kobe University, mgoto@rieb.kobe-u.ac.jp
Proponents:
Masashi Goto, Kobe University; Frida Pemer, Stockholm School of Economics; Sumati Ahuja, University Of Technology Sydney
S09_03 Between Organizational Values and Individuals’ Work Expectations: Exploring Work Value Congruence in Changing Labor Markets
SIG 09 – OB – Organizational Behaviour
SIG 08 – HRM – Human Resource Management
Short description of the Symposium
This symposium explores the congruence between organizational values and young job seekers’ work expectations in changing labor markets. We aim to deepen, expand, and integrate knowledge of the relationships between espoused organizational values and young job seekers’ expectations for the work. This is framed in the context of person-organization fit theory, building on cognitions from work value studies, social identity theory, employer branding, and institutional theories. The symposium will foster the dialogue on how to increase congruence between espoused organizational values and individuals’ work expectations, and emphasize this topic as a strategic and theoretical imperative in management theory.
Contact:
Zlatko Nedelko, University of Maribor, Faculty of Economics and Business, zlatko.nedelko@um.si
Proponents:
Zlatko Nedelko, University of Maribor, Faculty of Economics and Business; Andreas Hilger, Unviersity of Regensburg; Tobias Gossling, Kedge Business School – Bordeaux; Vojko Potocan, University of Maribor; Andrijana Bojadzievska Danevska, International Balkan University (IBU), Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences; Anna Górska, Kozminski University
SIG 10 - PO - Project Organizing
S10_01 Surfacing and working with tensions and paradoxes in project environments
SIG 10 – PO – Project Organizing
SIG 06 – INNO – Innovation
Short description of the Symposium
Projects are the vehicles for delivering strategy, innovation, sustainability and change, yet this form of temporary organising is shaped by multiple, often paradoxical tensions. This symposium aims to advance new ways of understanding, working with and leveraging tensions in project environments. It explores how project actors notice tensions, engage others, and cultivate the confidence to work productively with them. On project level, the symposium will investigate how tensions arise and can be collectively managed; beyond the project, how to work with tensions that span project boundaries, such as autonomy versus embeddedness, stability and change, and organisations versus project.
Contact:
Anna Wiewiora, Queensland University of Technology, a.wiewiora@qut.edu.au
Proponents:
Anna Wiewiora, Queensland University of Technology; Jörg Sydow, Freie U Berlin
S10_02 Effective Ownership in Government Projects and Programmes – The Role of the Senior Responsible Owner
SIG 10 – PO – Project Organizing
SIG 11 – PM&NPM – Public and Non-Profit Management
Short description of the Symposium
Effective project ownership has been identified as a key factor for project success by contributing to the realisation of the project’s business case and its expected benefits. However, there is much confusion in practice regarding the skills and competences required for effective project ownership in government projects and programmes. In particular, whereas the role of the Senior Responsible Owner (SRO) is considered to be effective in the UK, it is understudied in research and underutilised in most countries. This panel offers an interactive discussion of these issues and invites scholars and practitioners to investigate them.
Contact:
Christine Unterhitzenberger, University of Leeds, UK, c.unterhitzenberger@leeds.ac.uk
Proponents:
Christine Unterhitzenberger, University of Leeds, UK; Ofer Zwikael, Australian National University; Francesco Di Maddaloni, University College London; Andrea Bonomi Savignon, University of Rome Tor Vergata; Lorenzo Costumato, University of Rome Tor Vergata
SIG 11 - PM&NPM - Public and Non-Profit Management
S11_01 Rethinking management from a polycentric governance perspective: Competing demands and institutional complexity in public management
SIG 11 – PM&NPM – Public and Non-Profit Management
SIG 13 – SM – Strategic Management
Short description of the Symposium
This symposium explores how polycentric governance – a complex system of decision centres that participate in various arenas to coordinate their decision making about overlapping issues – can be used to rethink management. Today’s societies are increasingly fragmented due to many pressures, which generate competing demands in public management. Can polycentric governance offer a renewed approach to managing social heterogeneity? Or does it offer analytical capacity to understand decision making processes and the drivers behind it? The symposium aims to introduce management scholars to polycentric governance, and its usefulness and pitfalls when using polycentric governance for rethinking management.
Contact:
Ingo Bousema, University of Groningen, i.t.j.bousema@rug.nl
Proponents:
Ingo Bousema, University of Groningen; PAUL DRAGOS ALIGICA, MERCATUS CENTER AT GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY & UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST
S11_02 Achieving greater equity and resilience through user and community co-production
SIG 11 – PM&NPM – Public and Non-Profit Management
Short description of the Symposium
As social inequalities increase across European countries, there is increasing interest in how civil society and public agencies can identify more equitable solutions and strengthen resilience through user and community co-production. This Symposium will compare different approaches to increasing social equity and resilience in public services through increased user and community co-production based on selected case studies by the proponents and interactive group work, addressing the questions:
Under which conditions may co-production support more equitable solutions in public services which benefit prioritised communities?
How can co-production strengthen user, community and service provider resilience to prevent, manage or recover from crises?
How can resilience and social equity be sustained?
Contact:
Denita Cepiku, University of Rome Tor Vergata, cepiku@economia.uniroma2.it
Proponents:
Denita Cepiku, University of Rome Tor Vergata; Elke Loeffler, University of Birmingham; Taco Brandsen, Radboud University Nijmegen
SIG 12 - RM&RP - Research Methods and Research Practice
S12_01 Rising Above Methodological Hierarchy: What Does Rigour Really Mean for Qualitative and Case-Based Research?
SIG 12 – RM&RP – Research Methods and Research Practice
Short description of the Symposium
Qualitative single-case research occupies an “uncharted territory” in management studies, often viewed as exploratory or lacking the scientific validity of large-N quantitative designs. This symposium brings together three convergent perspectives: adaptive research design in complex organisational contexts, microfoundational depth through action research, and the rigour and transferability of single-case research, including the use of AI tools in qualitative work. It argues that qualitative methods represent a distinct and necessary mode of knowledge production for studying complex phenomena, and invites both established academics and postgraduate researchers into an open dialogue to strengthen and legitimise qualitative inquiry on its own terms.
Contact:
Claire-Lise Speisser, Cnam Paris – HEC Lausanne, claire-lise.speisser@lecnam.net
Proponents:
Claire-Lise Speisser, Cnam Paris – HEC Lausanne; David Yates, University of Sheffield, UK; Georgia Achlada, Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Strategy, Strathclyde Business School, University of Strathclyde
S12_02 Research in AI in the Public Sector: Rethinking Research Practice in the Age of Intelligent Governance
SIG 12 – RM&RP – Research Methods and Research Practice
SIG 11 – PM&NPM – Public and Non-Profit Management
Short description of the Symposium
Artificial Intelligence is rapidly transforming public organizations, but it is also changing how scholars research the public sector. New forms of digital data, algorithmic decision-making, AI-generated documents, and human-AI interactions challenge established research methods and require researchers to rethink data collection, interpretation, validity, ethics, and researcher agency. This symposium explores how research practice must evolve to study AI-enabled public organizations. Bringing together leading scholars from public management, organization studies, and research methods, the session will discuss methodological innovations, ethical challenges, and new standards for producing rigorous and responsible knowledge about AI in government and nonprofit organizations.
Contact:
Nicola Capolupo, San Raffaele Roma University, nicola.capolupo@uniroma5.it
Proponents:
Nicola Capolupo, San Raffaele Roma University; Matteo Cristofaro, University of Rome Tor Vergata
S12_03 Agentic AI in Business Education: Early evidence, design choices, and responsible integration
SIG 12 – RM&RP – Research Methods and Research Practice
SIG 06 – INNO – Innovation
Short description of the Symposium
Agentic AI are LLM-based systems that plan, adapt, and act as learning companions. They are entering business-school classrooms faster than our evidence base can follow. Unlike reactive chatbots, these systems can structure tasks, monitor progress, and personalize instruction, raising pedagogical promise and governance questions. This symposium brings together scholars piloting agentic AI in management education to debate what we know: early experimental evidence on learning outcomes, the design choices that matter, risks of over-reliance, and the role of human oversight. Panelists present findings from ongoing projects, followed by a structured discussion on a shared research agenda for responsible integration.
Contact:
Ana Alina Tudoran, Department of Economics and Business Economics, BSS, Aarhus University, anat@econ.au.dk
Proponents:
Ana Alina Tudoran, Department of Economics and Business Economics, BSS, Aarhus University; Dulce Redin, Universidad de Navarra; Surabhi Verma, Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University; Anna Holm, Aarhus University; Vibhav Singh, Great Lakes Institute Of Management, Gurgaon; Malene Kallestrup-Lamb, Aarhus University
S12_04 Generative AI in Management Research: State of the Art
SIG 12 – RM&RP – Research Methods and Research Practice
SIG 13 – SM – Strategic Management
Short description of the Symposium
Generative AI (GenAI) is being adopted across management research faster than shared standards can form. Large language models (LLMs) now annotate, summarize, simulate and extract information from text at a scale and cost that humans cannot match, yet their outputs are non-deterministic, prompt-sensitive, and opaque. We will examine how Large Language Models (LLMs) and agentic AI are transforming content analysis, literature reviews, qualitative coding, simulation and theory building. By bringing together early adopters and methodologists, this session offers a critical evaluation of GenAI’s capabilities, focusing on practical workflows, reproducibility, ethical transparency, and the future of human-AI collaboration in knowledge creation.
Contact:
Ivan Zupic, Goldsmiths, University of London, ivan.zupic@gmail.com
Proponents:
Ivan Zupic, Goldsmiths, University of London; Oskar Kosch, Krakow University of Economics; Andrea Caputo, University of Trento, Italy
S12_05 Developing research methods articles with compelling methods contributions
SIG 12 – RM&RP – Research Methods and Research Practice
Short description of the Symposium
This symposium aims at researchers who may have the expertise to contribute to advancing the research methods literature but may be uncertain how to do so. We will discuss strategies for developing methodological contributions suitable for crafting research methods articles. We will highlight requirements for different publication outlets, including Organizational Research Methods as the leading methods journal in the organization sciences, to orient researchers toward actionable paths to publishing methods work. Additionally, a key purpose of this symposium is to facilitate the nurturing of a community of research methods scholars in the European Academy of Management.
Contact:
Thomas Greckhamer, Louisiana State University, tgreck@lsu.edu
Proponents:
Thomas Greckhamer, Louisiana State University; Tine Koehler, The University of Melbourne
SIG 13 – SM - Strategic Management
S13_01 Beyond the grant – transformative legacies and durable partnerships in European research collaborations
SIG 13 – SM – Strategic Management
SIG 01 – B4S – Business for Society
Short description of the Symposium
This symposium examines how European research collaborations generate legacies beyond funded-project lifecycles. Moving from consortium formation to project afterlives, it asks how temporary grants become platforms for durable strategic partnerships, future project applications, joint publications, doctoral supervision, researcher mobility and broader research agendas. Aligned with EURAM 2027’s invitation to rise above fragmentation, embrace resilience and rethink management for a sustainable future, the session foregrounds institutional memory, inclusive participation and long-term societal value. Through an interactive roundtable, participants will develop a research agenda on factors enabling temporary European projects become enduring engines of academic transformation after funding ends.
Contact:
Rosana Reis, ISG International Business School, rosana.reis@isg.fr
Proponents:
Rosana Reis, ISG International Business School; Luca Pistilli, University College Dublin; Francesco Gangi, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli; Daniel Alonso Martínez, University of Leon
S13_02 How To Govern R&D Alliances For Sovereignty?
SIG 13 – SM – Strategic Management
SIG 14 – Conference General Track
Short description of the Symposium
Technological sovereignty has become a strategic imperative for firms, governments, and international coalitions. Yet achieving sovereignty paradoxically requires deep collaboration with heterogenous actors (small and large, public and private, competitors and non-competitors) in R&D alliances— creating complex governance challenges. This symposium explores how organizations manage these challenges. By bringing together scholars and practitioners, it aims to map the current state of knowledge, identify critical research gaps, and co-develop a forward-looking agenda for governing R&D alliances for sovereignty.
Contact:
Audrey Rouyre, MBS School of Business, a.rouyre@mbs-education.com
Proponents:
Audrey Rouyre, MBS School of Business; Anne-Sophie Fernandez, University of Montpellier; Isabel Estrada, University of Groningen; Frederic Le Roy, Montpellier University; Shanthi Gopalakrishnan, New Jersey Institute of Technology
S13_03 Learning from the Past: Historical Perspectives in Mergers & Acquisitions
SIG 13 – SM – Strategic Management
Short description of the Symposium
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have long served as a prominent context for studying corporate change. Landmark transactions such as AOL–Time Warner or Daimler-Chrysler continue to shape our understanding of decision-making, integration, and value creation. Yet history offers more than a collection of textbook cases. Historical perspectives enable researchers to revisit foundational theories, examine long-term patterns, uncover overlooked transactions, and challenge established assumptions. They also open new methodological opportunities through archival sources, digitized records, and longitudinal analyses. This symposium aims to bring together scholars and practitioners interested in how history can advance M&A research by inspiring novel research questions and broadening methodological repertoire.
Contact:
Oleksandra Kochura, ESSCA School of Management, oleksandra.kochura@essca.fr
Proponents:
Oleksandra Kochura, ESSCA School of Management; Nicola Mirc, Toulouse School of Management; Audrey Rouzies, Toulouse School of Management – University of Toulouse Capitole; Yueling Zhou, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
S13_04 Purpose Value Drivers: Strategic Leadership between Earnings Calls, Resilience, and Societal Impact (Bridging Management Practice and Academic Scholarship in Measuring Purpose)
SIG 13 – SM – Strategic Management
SIG 14 – Conference General Track
Short description of the Symposium
Boards and senior leaders face growing pressure to show that corporate purpose delivers real strategic value, not only on the quarterly earnings calls but across organisational resilience and societal impact. Answering the call of the conference, this panel investigates Purpose Performance Measurement, the emerging research and strategic practice that must satisfy investors, employees, and society at once. The session is deliberately built to rethink current approches and combine empirical studies from multiple European coutries and management perspectives of leading Dutch companies such as ING, Philips and practitioners from the Chief Purpose Officer Network.
Contact:
Albena Björck, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, bjoe@zhaw.ch
Proponents:
Albena Björck, Zurich University of Applied Sciences; Henk Volberda, Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam; Wendy Chapple, WU Vienna; Alvaro Lleo, University of Navarra; Carlo Pugnetti, Institute of Financial Services Zug IFZ; Nicole Steller, ESCP Madrid Campus
S13_05 Implementing Strategy through Projects and Programmes
SIG 13 – SM – Strategic Management
SIG 10 – PO – Project Organizing
Short description of the Symposium
This symposium explores how multidiscipline research could lead to new strategic management theories and major programmes of research being undertaken that could explain how organisations create value through projects in coordination with a diversity of stakeholders, including stakeholders with specific institutionally-shaped expectations of the wider impacts that organisational projects should make. Recent research on the strategy implementation process, project benefits realisation and project management models of value creation, and the market and non-market institutions that shape these expectations suggests that projects should be governed to create value for the organisation and to also improve social and economic development outcomes.
Contact:
Angelina Zubac Link, King’s Own Institute, az@strategylink.com.au
Proponents:
Angelina Zubac Link, King’s Own Institute; Ofer Zwikael, Australian National University; ANDREAS WALD, ; Peter Bryant, IE University; Linda Duxbury, Carleton University
S13_06 Whose Purpose Is It Anyway? Ownership, Accountability, and the Architecture of Purpose
SIG 13 – SM – Strategic Management
SIG 02 – COGO – Corporate Governance
Short description of the Symposium
Corporate purpose has moved from the margins to the mainstream of management debate. Yet a critical question remains underexplored: who actually owns it — and who is accountable when it fails? This symposium interrogates the architecture of purpose across three domains: how it is embedded and tested in strategy (including the purpose-washing risk), how legal and ownership structures can anchor it durably, and how it drives innovation success. The session unfolds in two complementary parts: a structured panel discussion and the presentation of three real-world case studies from the upcoming book Corporate Purpose and Common Good (Cambrige Universty Press).
Contact:
Gianluca Gionfriddo, Scuola Superiore Sant’anna Pisa, gianluca.gionfriddo@santannapisa.it
Proponents:
Gianluca Gionfriddo, Scuola Superiore Sant’anna Pisa; Albena Björck, Zurich University of Applied Sciences; Julia Schmitt, Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU); Alvaro Lleo, University of Navarra; Henk Volberda, Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam; Agnieszka Słomka-Gołębiowska , Warsaw School of Economics
S13_07 Rethinking management for sustainability: emerging governance systems for embedding purpose and driving organizational change
SIG 13 – SM – Strategic Management
SIG 02 – COGO – Corporate Governance
Short description of the Symposium
The symposium explores how anchoring purpose within governance structures can catalyze organizational change for creating sustainable organizations. The session aims at bridging strategic management and corporate governance research streams, attracting the interest of scholars with expertise in exploring organizational frameworks required for the creation of long-term societal impact. We investigate how reimagining fiduciary duties, board oversight, and stakeholder accountability enables firms to operationalize purpose strategically. By rethinking the legal and systemic forms organizations take, this discussion offers novel insights into managing the tensions between short-term financial performance and enduring, purpose-driven sustainability.
Contact:
Chiara Pantalena, Politecnico di Milano, chiara.pantalena@polimi.it
Proponents:
Chiara Pantalena, Politecnico di Milano; Edoardo Cortesi, POLITECNICO DI MILANO; Nicole Steller, ESCP Madrid Campus; Albena Björck, Zurich University of Applied Sciences; Henk Volberda, Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam; Jürgen Hamann, Technical University Munich
S13_08 Beyond Value Creation: Strategy as a Coordination and Value Distribution Mechanism in Sustainability-Oriented Ecosystems
SIG 13 – SM – Strategic Management
SIG 06 – INNO – Innovation
Short description of the Symposium
Sustainability-oriented ecosystems often emerge around shared societal aspirations, yet sustaining participation over time remains a significant challenge. We argue that strategy plays a critical role not only by creating a shared direction but also by enabling the distribution of forms of value across heterogeneous actors. Building on ecosystem, strategy-as-practice, and sustainable development research, the symposium explores how actors coordinate around economic, social, environmental, human, and institutional goals. We examine strategy as a relational process through which resources are mobilized, expectations negotiated, and value distributed, thereby sustaining engagement, coordination, and collective action in ecosystems addressing complex societal challenges and sustainability transitions.
Contact:
Maria Carmela Annosi, Wageningen University and Research, maria.annosi@wur.nl
Proponents:
Maria Carmela Annosi, Wageningen University and Research, Stefano Pascucci, Professor, University of Exeter, Nuno Oliveira, Tilburg University, Marcel Bogers, Eindhoven University of Technology, Paul van Fenema, Tilburg University.
SIG 14 - Conference General Track
S14_01 Into the Storm: Viking Exploration, Radical Resilience, and Management for Uncharted Waters
SIG 14 – Conference General Track
Short description of the Symposium
When stability is an illusion and the horizon is pure chaos, incremental management fails. To “rise above” modern crises, this edgy symposium weaponizes the ultimate historical archetype of radical resilience: Viking exploration. Moving past myths, we analyze how historic crews navigated extreme, existential uncertainty through fluid hierarchies, total accountability, and decentralized execution in uncharted territory. This session challenges scholars to strip away corporate bureaucracy and look to the open seas. We investigate how modern organizations can leverage raw adaptability, shared risk, and exploratory grit to conquer today’s volatile geopolitical and ecological storms.
Contact:
Eythor Ivar Jonsson, Akademias, eythor@akademias.is
Proponents:
Eythor Ivar Jonsson, Akademias
S14_02 The Fellows’ Symposium on the Financing of Higher Education: Business Models, Funding Strategies and Institutional Sustainability at Stake
SIG 14 – Conference General Track
SIG 01 – B4S – Business for Society
Short description of the Symposium
Higher education institutions are facing unprecedented financial pressures that are reshaping their business models, governance, and strategic choices. This Fellows’ Symposium brings together leading international scholars and academic leaders to examine how institutions are responding to these challenges through new funding models, organisational transformation, and strategic alliances. Drawing on diverse national contexts and complementary expertise, the panel will explore the opportunities, risks, and long-term implications of these developments for institutional sustainability and academic quality. The symposium offers a unique international forum to discuss one of the most pressing issues confronting higher education today.
Contact:
Jérôme MERIC, IAE-University of Poitiers, jerome.meric@univ-poitiers.fr
Proponents:
Jérôme MERIC, IAE-University of Poitiers; Julienne Brabet, Université Paris Est Créteil; DOROTA DOBIJA, Kozminski University; Panos Desyllas, University Of Bath; Silke Machold, Leeds Becket University; Kathrin Moeslein, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg & HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management
S14_03 Beyond Answers: The Philosophy of Inquiry for Inclusive Innovation
SIG 14 – Conference General Track
SIG 06 – INNO – Innovation
Short description of the Symposium
As artificial intelligence increasingly shapes organisational decisions, an important question emerges: are we becoming better at generating answers, or worse at asking meaningful questions? This symposium explores the Philosophy of Inquiry as a perspective for inclusive innovation, examining how dialogue, critical judgement, and reflective thinking can complement AI. Bringing together scholars across disciplines, it invites participants to rethink innovation not as a search for better algorithms, but as the capacity to cultivate better questions, wiser decisions, and more inclusive organisational futures.
Contact:
Rafailia Nikoletta Kallioupi, National And Kapodistrian University Of Athens, rafnikolkal@ba.uoa.gr
Proponents:
Rafailia Nikoletta Kallioupi, National And Kapodistrian University Of Athens; Jan-Philipp Ahrens, University of Mannheim; George Tsourvakas, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
S14_04 Rising Above the Algorithm: Generative AI and the Resilience of the Management Journal Ecosystem
SIG 14 – Conference General Track
SIG 12 – RM&RP – Research Methods and Research Practice
Short description of the Symposium
Generative AI is reshaping how management research is written, reviewed, and evaluated, raising urgent questions about the resilience and sustainability of the journal system. This symposium convenes editors from European Management Journal, European Management Review and Long Range Planning to debate what ‘rising above’ means for scholarly publishing in an AI-saturated environment. Panellists address the sustainability of volunteer peer review as AI-generated submissions grow, divergence in authorship and AI-disclosure policies across journals, whether generative AI homogenises theorising even as it democratises access for non-native English writers, and what a resilient editorial model looks like, closing with open debate on augmentation versus erosion.
Contact:
Adina Dudau, Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, Adina.Dudau@glasgow.ac.uk
Proponents:
Adina Dudau, Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow; Andreas Strobl, Lancaster University; Michael Morley, University of Limerick; Davide Secchi, Paris School of Business; Tom Lawton, Brunel University
S14_05 What IS Work? Emic Approaches to Agency, Authenticity, and Meaning at Work
SIG 14 – Conference General Track
SIG 07 – IM – International Management
Short description of the Symposium
For two decades, positive organizational behavior research centered on individual agency, generating concepts like job crafting, positive psychological capital, and authentic leadership. Yet core constructs, such as “agency”, “authenticity”, and “meaning” itself, lack consensus definitions, particularly across cultures.
This symposium brings together experts in workplace agency, job crafting, authentic leadership, cross-cultural behavior, and research methodology to critically examine how agency, authenticity, and meaning at work are understood across cultures. Through debate on quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods approaches, panelists interrogate these concepts and their universality and implications for values-led leadership and employee motivation, charting future directions for research and practice.
Contact:
Rashimah Rajah, University of Twente, r.b.rajah@utwente.nl
Proponents:
Rashimah Rajah, University of Twente; Rawan Ghazzawi, Tilburg University; Michael Bender, Tilburg University; Arnold Enklaar, University of Twente; Karsten Müller, Osnabrück University
S14_06 The Quadruple Helix Collaboration: How algorithms shape public-private partnerships
SIG 14 – Conference General Track
SIG 06 – INNO – Innovation
Short description of the Symposium
What does the arrival of intelligent algorithms mean for triple-helix collaboration and data-driven decision-making? This symposium dives into the traditional view of business, universities, and the public sector by exploring a fourth non-human actor: intelligent algorithms. Pertinent questions are: who actually holds the power to make decisions? What different perspectives on algorithms change existing power dynamics, and what does this mean for data governance? Additionally, as universities face growing pressure toward entrepreneurial orientation, how does that reshape their position? We invite the audience to explore not just whether algorithms belong here, but what role they play, and what this means for responsible algorithms.
Contact:
Eefje de Louw, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, e.de.louw@vu.nl
Proponents:
Eefje de Louw, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Christine Moser, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Krijn Turkenburg, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Tom Griffioen, Clappform