Critical Management Studies Division (CMS)

2025 Division Scholarly Program: Call for Submissions

Program Co-Chairs: Marcus Gomes, Cardiff University and Paulina Segarra, Universidad Anáhuac México

The Critical Management Studies (CMS) Division is inviting scholarly submissions to the AOM 2025 main scholarly program. Considering that the conference will be taking place outside of North America for the first time in its 85-year history and will all take place under the same roof, this year will bring new challenges and experiences to the whole CMS community. The fact that there is no established theme offers us the possibility to celebrate the broad spectrum of the CMS scholarship and push for old and new CMS topics that have been less discussed in the recent years.

We want to encourage submissions of all topics relevant to the CMS community bringing a celebratory moment for our diverse and broad scholarship. This moment also gives us the opportunity to reflect on CSM contributions and commitment to social and environmental change.

The current social and environmental challenges that we are facing require us to think more closely to CMS commitment to emancipation. We welcome submissions that are dedicated to freeing people from oppressive systems, both on micro and macro manifestations. Similarly, we encourage submissions that consider the environmental emergency that we are all witnessing, including challenging capitalism and its inherited nature-society dualism.

The CMS community has a strong and vibrant tradition on critical management pedagogies that challenge, problematize and offer an alternative approach to the management learning and education that narrowly focuses on cost reduction and profit maximization that consolidate inequalities. Therefore, we also welcome submissions that consider critical management education as a strategy to achieve emancipation and shift management learning and education towards more just and conscious societies.

In our 2025 CMS scholarly program, let’s celebrate the fight for emancipation in its various ways and manifestations. Submit your work that showcases the CMS tradition to fight oppression, climate change, environmental crimes and disasters and that theorize for a more, equal and environmental just world! We invite you to not only build on what has already been discussed in CMS such as neoliberalism, (anti)racism, and neocolonialism but to bring new topics which have been less discussed. We would also like you to consider that the main program involves not only papers but symposia.

Please do not hesitate to email us if you wish to discuss a potential submission of papers and symposia or obtain more details about the CMS Division scholarly program.  The 85th AOM conference will be held in-person in Copenhagen, Denmark 25-29 July 2025.

In collaboration with select critical journals, we offer awards to recognize the contributions made to the scholarly program by our members. More details on this are available on the CMS website. There is a dedicated award for the Best Developmental Reviewer and we encourage members to sign up to review submissions. We truly appreciate the effort reviewers make every year since the scholarly program is not possible without not only submitters but reviewers. After two years hosting workshops on Reviewing Critical Work, we will be organizing again in order to support reviewers. Please look out for announcements and contact us if you would like to be involved.

The submission deadline is Tuesday, 7 January 2025 at 17:00 ET (GMT-5/UTC-5). Scholarly sessions (paper sessions and symposia) will take place Sunday, 27 July through Tuesday, 29 July 2025, after Professional Development Workshops (PDWs) that will take place Friday, 25 July through Sunday, 27 July 2025. We look forward to receiving your submissions!