86th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2026)
📅 July 31 – August 2 📍 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Visit us at Booth #207
We are delighted to be part of the 86th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2026),opens in new tab/window July 31-August 2 in Philadelphia. We will be sharing the latest developments from our Business & Management journals, including the new AOM open access journal launches: Academy of Management Inside Organizations and Academy of Management Organizations and Their Environments. Our activities at AOM 2026 include an exhibit hall breakout session “From Knowledge Production to Real World Impact: Rethinking Business School Strategy” and speed reviews with our editors at our booth (#207).
Session: Impact Reimagined
From Knowledge Production to Real World Impact: Rethinking Business School Strategy
📅 Saturday, August 1 at 2:45 PM to 4:15 PM 📍 Pennsylvania Convention Center Hall A - Exhibit Hall Theater
The traditional business school was established to professionalize management through rigorous, discipline-based research and systematic knowledge dissemination, a model still deeply embedded in today's incentive and accreditation systems. Recent initiatives, including AACSB's Framework for Research Impact, responsible research movements, and the 4th Generation University framework, reflect a broader transformation. Collectively, these approaches propose a shift from viewing impact as an outcome of individual scholarship to understanding it as the product of institution-wide ecosystems that connect research, teaching, industry engagement, policy influence, and regional development.
This session explores how universities are adopting the 4GU framework and will consider what lessons and approaches business schools can put into practice. Drawing on experiences from the 4GU initiative, alongside business school leaders who are actively redefining how their institutions create, recognize, and communicate societal impact, the discussion will examine how schools are redesigning incentive systems, building stakeholder partnerships, and developing new ways of measuring value, with a focus on what has actually worked and how it’s measured. The 4GU framework provides a useful lens for making sense of experience from schools that are already doing this work, helping institutions articulate a more coherent and ambitious vision for their role in regional and global ecosystems.
Drawing on perspectives from university leadership, scholarly publishing, and management research, the discussion will explore implications for deans and faculty. Panelists will briefly address the structural barriers that make this transition difficult: reward systems still dominated by elite journal lists, promotion criteria misaligned with societal engagement, and the challenge of sustaining faculty buy-in for approaches that may not yet be reflected in how their careers are evaluated. The session aims to leave participants with practical insights they can take back to their own institutions.
Speed reviews
Join us at the 86th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2026) at the Elsevier booth (Booth #207) for a face-to-face speed review session with one of our editors!
The speed review sessions serve as an invaluable opportunity for you to engage with our editors, facilitating meaningful discussions surrounding your paper or research concepts. The primary objective is to enable attendees to present a succinct overview of your research project or paper, allowing the editor to provide insightful and constructive feedback.
Each session is 15 minutes long with the editor that you select, and all sessions will take place in-person at the Elsevier booth (Booth #207) during AOM 2026, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Please click hereopens in new tab/window to book a session with one of our editors.
Check sessions per day below (Saturday, August 1 | Sunday, August 2)
Saturday, August 1
Please click hereopens in new tab/window to book a session with one the following editors.
Fabiola H. Gerpott, Senior Associate Editor, The Leadership Quarterlyopens in new tab/window Available time slots: 10:00 AM to 10:15 AM 10:15 AM to 10:30 AM 10:30 AM to 10:45 AM 10:45 AM to 11:00 AM
Gilbert Adarkwah, Associate Editor, Academy of Management Organizations and Their Environmentsopens in new tab/window Available time slots: 11:00 AM to 11:15 AM 11:15 AM to 11:30 AM 11:30 AM to 11:45 AM 11:45 AM to 12:00 PM
Sunny Lee, Associate Editor, Academy of Management Inside Organizationsopens in new tab/window Available time slots: 12:00 PM to 12:15 PM 12:15 PM to 12:30 PM 12:30 PM to 12:45 PM 12:45 PM to 1:00 PM
Matteo Cristofaro, Deputy Editor, The European Management Journalopens in new tab/window Available time slots: 1:00 PM to 1:15 PM 1:15 PM to 1:30 PM 1:30 PM to 1:45 PM 1:45 PM to 2:00 PM
Phillip Kim, Sociology and Entrepreneurship Area Editor, Journal of Business Venturingopens in new tab/window Available time slots: 2:00 PM to 2:15 PM 2:15 PM to 2:30 PM 2:30 PM to 2:45 PM 2:45 PM to 3:00 PM
Keld Laursen, Editor, Research Policyopens in new tab/window Available time slots: 2:00 PM to 2:15 PM 2:15 PM to 2:30 PM 2:30 PM to 2:45 PM 2:45 PM to 3:00 PM
Sunday, August 2
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Roberto Vassalo, Co-Editor-in-Chief, Long Range Planningopens in new tab/window Available time slots: 9:00 AM to 9:15 AM 9:15 AM to 9:30 AM 9:30 AM to 9:45 AM 9:45 AM to 10:00 AM
Frank Fossen, Economics of Entrepreneurship Area Editor, Journal of Business Venturingopens in new tab/window Available time slots: 10:00 AM to 10:15 AM 10:15 AM to 10:30 AM 10:30 AM to 10:45 AM 10:45 AM to 11:00 AM
Vikas Kumar, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of International Managementopens in new tab/window Available time slots: 11:00 AM to 11:15 AM 11:15 AM to 11:30 AM 11:30 AM to 11:45 AM 11:45 AM to 12:00 PM
Ajai Gaur, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of World Businessopens in new tab/window Available time slots: 12:00 PM to 12:15 PM 12:15 PM to 12:30 PM 12:30 PM to 12:45 PM 12:45 PM to 1:00 PM
Idalene Kesner, Editor-in-Chief, Business Horizonsopens in new tab/window Available time slots: 1:00 PM to 1:15 PM 1:15 PM to 1:30 PM 1:30 PM to 1:45 PM 1:45 PM to 2:00 PM
John Finch, Editor-in-Chief, Asia Nexus Journal of Managementopens in new tab/window Available time slots: 2:00 PM to 2:15 PM 2:15 PM to 2:30 PM 2:30 PM to 2:45 PM 2:45 PM to 3:00 PM
Corine Boon, Editor-in-Chief, Human Resources Management Reviewopens in new tab/window Available time slots: 2:00 PM to 2:15 PM 2:15 PM to 2:30 PM 2:30 PM to 2:45 PM 2:45 PM to 3:00 PM
New AOM journals
Introducing Academy of Management Inside Organizations and Academy of Management Organizations and Their Environments
We are proud to announce that we have launched 2 new open access journals with the Academy of Management (AOM). They are Academy of Management Inside Organizations (AMIO) and Academy of Management Organizations and Their Environments (AMOE).
Academy of Management Inside Organizations
Academy of Management Inside Organizationsopens in new tab/window is a premier open access journal for rigorous, original, and globally accessible research on life inside organizations. AMIO focuses on the internal dynamics of organizing: how organizational actors think, feel, act, interact, lead, learn, and change in the complex realities of work. The Editor-in-Chief is Zhike Lei (International Institute for Management Development, Switzerland).
Academy of Management Organizations and Their Environments
Academy of Management Organizations and Their Environmentsopens in new tab/window is a premier open access journal for research examining the dynamic interplay between organizations and their macro contexts. The journal publishes pioneering research on business units, firms, industries, sectors, institutions, organizational populations with their external environment. Tazeeb Rajwani (University of Surrey Business School, United Kingdom) is the Editor-in-Chief.
Academy of Management Inside Organizations and Academy of Management Organizations and Their Environments will have the following sessions at AOM 2026.
Sunday, August 2: 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM: Writing for AOM's new open access journal: Academy of Management: Inside Organizationsopens in new tab/window (Philadelphia Convention Center, 100 Level, 104B)
Friday, July 31: 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM Reviewing for AOM's new open access journals: Academy of Management Inside Organizations and Academy of Management Organizations and Their Environmentsopens in new tab/window (Philadelphia Convention Center, 100 Level, 106A)
Sunday, August 2: 09:00 AM to 10:00 AM Writing for AOM's new open access journal: Academy of Management: Organizations and Their Environmentsopens in new tab/window (Philadelphia Convention Center, 100 Level, 104B)
Sunday, August 2: 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM Conversations with the editors of Academy of Management Inside Organizations and Academy of Management Organizations and Their Environmentsopens in new tab/window (Philadelphia Convention Center, 100 Level, 104A)
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