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Communication, Digital Technology, and Organization Division (CTO)
2025 Division Scholarly Program: Call for Submissions
Program Chair: Roberta Bernardi, University of Bristol
Specific Domain
The Communication, Digital Technology, and Organization (CTO) Division of the Academy of Management (AOM) promotes an interdisciplinary approach to further the understanding of the behavioral, social, and economic processes at the intersection of communication, digital technology, and organizing. CTO emphasizes topics that reflect changes in organizing related to digital technologies, data, and information and communication systems. It constitutes a vibrant, inclusive, and intellectually stimulating community, open to scholars from a wide range of disciplines, theoretical frameworks, and research methods, who are conducting novel and cutting-edge research based on rigorous and creative scholarship.
Major topics of interest integrate digital phenomena and organizing, such as some combination of technologies, communications, data science, or computing in organizations, and can include:
- Sociotechnical perspectives on work and organizational change, organizational forms, organizational design, strategy, and innovation, including digital transformation processes and outcomes as well as Information system implementation.
- Organizing and artificial intelligence and machine learning; autonomous technologies; human-machine augmentation; and the changing nature of work.
- Knowledge work on digital platforms; digitally-enabled design and creativity; autonomous design, generative machine learning, and digital innovation.
- Distributed and virtual work; virtual worlds; virtual/augmented reality; and the Metaverse.
- Organizational implications of data privacy, security, and bias; algorithmic explainability and interpretability; and the ethical implications of data, algorithms, and technologies.
- Online communities; the sharing economy; user-generated content and social media; and digital social networks.
- Organizational benefits and limitations of digital technology-enabled communication practices for inter-personal, inter-group, cross-organizational, intercultural, and mass communication.
- Technology diffusion and infrastructure; design and development; platform governance; processes of digitalization; Internet of Things; digital twins.
- Organizing and computational social science; data science; network science; and process science.
CTO: Come for the research, stay for the network!
The CTO invites the submission of innovative empirical and conceptual papers, symposia, and posters on all themes of interest to the Academy that relate to digital technologies, data, communication, and organizing. More generally, we seek research that critically engages with important issues associated with the design, implementation, and use of digital technologies in organizations and networks, as well as their broad impact on society.
Posters are a new type of submission introduced this year. Poster session presentations will be held in high-visibility areas of the conference, offering a visual format for sharing research and ideas, while also providing networking opportunities.
Division Awards
Division awards will be given for best program paper, best student paper, best reviewers, and best associate editors. The Gerardine DeSanctis Dissertation Award will also be presented. The award, inaugurated by the CTO division at the 2007 Annual Meeting, is open to solo-authored papers based on a dissertation completed within the past three years (see the CTO Division website for more details). The winner of the DeSanctis Award will be automatically nominated for the Academy-wide William H. Newman Award. The CTO Division will also nominate one paper for the Academy-wide Carolyn Dexter Best International Paper Award (see the Orientation and Awards section in the submission guidelines for more details). In addition to these program-related awards, an award will be given to the best paper published by a CTO member during 2024. Finally, the division will award one or more Lifetime Service awards.
The deadline for submissions is January 7, 2025 at 17:00 ET (UTC-5/GMT-5).
We accept submissions made only through the AOM Submission Center: https://submit.aom.org/2025/default.aspx
The Academy of Management Conference will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, 25-29 July 2025.
Please direct any inquiries to the Program Chair with the subject line “AOM2025 Inquiry” using the contact information provided below.
Roberta Bernardi, 2025 CTO Program Chair
85th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
(AOM 2025)
25-29 July 2025
Copenhagen, Denmark
Key Dates
- Submission Center Opens:
Early December 2024 - Reviewer Signup Opens:
Early December 2024 - Submission Deadline:
7 January 2025
17:00 ET (GMT-5/UTC-5) - Review Period:
16 January-13 February 2025 - Registration & Housing Opening:
Mid/late February 2025 - Decision Notifications:
Late March 2025 - Program Available:
May 2025 - 85th Annual Meeting:
In-person
25-29 July 2025
Copenhagen, Denmark
85th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
(AOM 2025)
25-29 July 2025
Copenhagen, Denmark
Key Dates
- Submission Center Opens:
Early December 2024 - Reviewer Signup Opens:
Early December 2024 - Submission Deadline:
7 January 2025
17:00 ET (GMT-5/UTC-5) - Review Period:
16 January-13 February 2025 - Registration & Housing Opening:
Mid/late February 2025 - Decision Notifications:
Late March 2025 - Program Available:
May 2025 - 85th Annual Meeting:
In-person
25-29 July 2025
Copenhagen, Denmark
