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: Saeed Khanagha s.khanagha@vu.nl
SIG Co-Chair: Valérie Duplat v.duplat@vu.nl
GT14_00 – General Track – Rising Above
Short description:
The Conference General Track provides a platform for research addressing the EURAM 2027 theme, “Rising Above: Embracing Resilience, Reimagining History, and Rethinking Management for a Sustainable Future.” It invites scholarship examining how individuals, organizations, networks, institutions, and ecosystems respond to technological, ecological, social, and geopolitical change. Key areas include resilience and transformation, sustainable and responsible organizing, human and collective agency, learning and expertise, and artificial intelligence and digitalization. The track welcomes theoretical, empirical, methodological, and interdisciplinary contributions across management disciplines, while encouraging practitioner-oriented research that generates actionable insights for managers, policymakers, and other stakeholders.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth;Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure;Goal 10: Reducing inequalities;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:
Valérie Duplat, V.U. Amsterdam, v.duplat@vu.nl
TRACKS 2027
T01_06 / T06_09 / T14_01 Innovative Pedagogies for Rising Above: Resilience, History, and Sustainable Future (co-sponsored B4S / INNO / Conference Theme SIGs)
Short description:
Management education stands at a turning point. As disruption becomes the norm, how we teach shapes how future leaders respond to ecological crisis, geopolitical instability, technological change, and social inequality. Echoing EURAM 2027’s call to “rise above,” this track invites bold, inclusive, and future-oriented pedagogies built around three commitments: cultivating resilience, reckoning critically with history, and rethinking management as a moral practice for sustainable, just futures. We welcome contributions on experiential, arts-based, decolonial, AI-enhanced, and systems-thinking approaches, co-created with industry and society. Our aim is to connect educators and scholars cultivating responsible, adaptive, and transformation-ready leaders.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 4: Quality education;Goal 10: Reducing inequalities;Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production;Goal 13: Climate action;Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals.
For more information, contact
Marina Schmitz , IEDC-Bled School of Management, marina.schmitz@iedc.si
T14_02 Exploring Sustainability Agency – An evolving multi-theoretical, multi-level and interdisciplinary field of study
Short description:
Numerous actor types have been identified as active change agents in the pursuit of sustainable futures. This proposal engages the EURAM community in exploring the evolving multi-theoretical, multi-level and interdisciplinary field of study on sustainability agency. The aim is to explore and take stock of this broad, loosely coupled body of knowledge that spans disciplines, involves numerous terms, concepts and theoretical bases, and cuts across levels of analysis. In so doing, the ambition is to create a platform for scholars to engage in, explore and further develop this interdisciplinary field of research.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation;Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy;Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth;Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure;Goal 10: Reducing inequalities;Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities;Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production;Goal 13: Climate action;Goal 14: Life below water;Goal 15: Life on land;Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
For more information, contact
Satu Teerikangas, University of Turku, School of Economics, satu.teerikangas@utu.fi
T14_03 Craftsmanship in Management: Rethinking Quality, Expertise and Sustainable Organising
Short description:
This topic invites contributions that rethink craftsmanship as a management and organisation concept. Craftsmanship is understood not only as manual skill, but as a form of embodied expertise, judgement, care, responsibility, and commitment to quality. In times of digitalisation, automation, efficiency pressure, and sustainability transformation, craftsmanship offers a lens for examining how organisations create durable value, preserve knowledge, support meaningful work, and resist purely short-term performance logics. We welcome conceptual, empirical, and methodological papers addressing craftsmanship in relation to quality, expertise, work practices, innovation, sustainability, and organising.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 4: Quality education;Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth;Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure;Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production;Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
For more information, contact
Isolde Stephan , Vrije University Amsterdam, isolde.stephan@gmx.net
T14_04 Artificial Intelligence and Learning: Rethinking Resilience Organizing
Short description:
The rapid diffusion of artificial intelligence (AI) and cyber-risks calls for broadening the resilience concept to add a systemic perspective shaped by interactions among actors across multiple levels. Learning becomes one of the central mechanisms through which resilience unfolds. AI has the potential to augment human learning by enhancing prediction and decision support. Cyber risks and digital manipulation may, however, weaken critical thinking and collective sensemaking. Systemic resilience requires not only learning with and about AI, but also preserving meaningful human agency, reflexivity, and accountability. Understanding how actors learn with and through AI becomes fundamental to building systemic resilience.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people;Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure;Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities;Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production;Goal 13: Climate action;Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
For more information, contact
Martina Neri , University of Pisa, martina.neri@phd.unipi.it
T14_05 Beyond Bouncing Back: Strategy, AI and Organisational Ecosystem Resilience
Short description:
Organizations increasingly depend on the resilience of wider ecosystems shaped by climate change, biodiversity loss, technological disruption, geopolitical instability, and profound institutional uncertainty. This topic reimagines resilience as a distributed, relational, and contested process that extends beyond organizational boundaries. It explores how firms, stakeholders, communities, technologies, institutions, and natural systems adapt, reorganize, and transform together. Particular attention is given to human–AI collaboration, stakeholder networks, ecological dependencies, adaptive governance, and the politics of responsibility. We invite research that moves beyond “bouncing back” to examine how organizations build regenerative, just and sustainable capabilities across interconnected systems.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure;Goal 13: Climate action;Goal 15: Life on land
For more information, contact
Jacqueline You , University of York, jacqueline.jingyou@york.ac.uk