Management Consulting Division (MC)

2025 Division PDW Program: Call for Submissions 

PDW Chair: Dr. Ivory Simms, Case Western University (USA) 

Specific Domain

The Management Consulting Division links transformative research practices with action and intervention models to transform businesses and organizations.

Our aim is to create actionable knowledge with tangible impact for both researchers and practitioners. We belong to different research communities and our role, as Management Consulting Division, is to facilitate the circulation of our members and our practices within these communities to dialogue and co-construct together tomorrow’s knowledge.

We encourage evidence-based approaches that are sustainable and mutually beneficial for business and research.

We are open to cross-divisional and cross-disciplinary collaboration, and we encourage empirical and theoretical submissions geared towards actionable knowledge.

Furthermore, we encourage submissions that are consistent with the Division's on-going interest in research that bridges the gap between science and practice.

Special Instructions

This year's conference is not theme-specific, which allows us to open our horizons to all scholars, practitioners and scholar-practitioners.

However, we invite you to consider the following themes in your submissions:

• How can research and researchers better serve organizations?
• How can organizations make greater use of researchers to develop tomorrow's sustainable performance?
• The role of consultants as a link between scientific research and managerial input that can be applied in practice in companies and organizations.

PDW

Professional Development Workshops (PDW) are a space for dialogue and cross-fertilization between academics and practitioners, as well as with other divisions, whose collaborations enable our members to enrich exploitable knowledge in the fields of transformative intervention dynamics, research methods, strategic management, organizational change, social responsibility, among other exciting topics.  

Duration: 1.5 to 2 hours maximum

A PDW submission must include a minimum of 4 pages and a maximum of 8 pages with the following:

• Page 1) Title page that includes: Submitter (contact person) and presenter(s) information, including each person's name, affiliation, address, phone, and e-mail and abstract (250 word minimum).
• Page 2) Division or Interest Group sponsor solicited and why.
• Page 3) How do you intend to create a productive audience interaction and participation.
• Page 4) The overview of the workshop must include the following: Full description of the workshop, activities, and roles.

This year, the Management Consulting Division will have a special pre-formatted PDW with the following topic:

“How can management consulting impact societal engagement?”

This topic is open to all scholars and practitioners who are interested in collaborating in this pre-formatted PDW. (Maximum of 10 presenters).

• To participate in this PDW, please contact directly the PDW Chair Dr. Ivory Simms.

Doctoral Consortium

We invite doctoral candidates (PhD, Dba, Exec-PhD, DM…) to participate in the Management Consulting Division’s Doctoral Consortium. The Doctoral Consortium will offer doctoral candidates a whole experience of the Academy of Management Annual Meeting in all its aspects: Scholarly, PDW, symposia, posters, caucus, and social times.

To participate, the doctoral candidate will be required to take three actions:

1. Contact Dr. Michael Keady and PDW Chair Dr. Ivory Simms, to inform your intention to participate in the Management Consulting Division Doctoral Consortium.
2. Provide to Dr. Michael Keady & PDW Chair Dr. Ivory Simms a formal message that precise the following information before December 2024, 31st: Surnames/First names - Thesis director - Contact details (mail + phone) - Thesis subject (PhD or DBA).
3. Submit a Doctoral Paper based on the ongoing research process (see Management Consulting Call for Submission) before January 7, 2025 (Mandatory).

To nominate a candidate to this PDW, please contact directly the PDW Chair Dr. Ivory Simms.

NOTE:

• Each author cannot submit more than 3 papers and/or symposia + 3 PDW (3+3 rule) in the same Division. 
• Posters and caucuses are not included in the 3 + 3 rule. 
• The Doctoral Consortium counts as 1 PDW.

Thank you 

Our sincere thanks go to all our members, submitters, reviewers and volunteers who make our division so rich and innovative. We look forward to hearing from you so that we can constantly improve and innovate and develop scientific consulting throughout the world. 

Reviewers needed

We strongly encourage all who are submitting to volunteering to review for the MCD Division.  Each year, the quality of the reviewers enables us to guarantee fair and high-quality selection to all our submitters. Please sign-up to review for us!  

Division Awards

The Management Consulting Division Awards include:

• Management Consulting Division Best Paper
• Management Consulting Division Best Doctoral Paper
• Benedictine University Scholar-Practitioner Collaboration Award
• Information Age Publishing (IAP) Outstanding Paper Award
• Management Consulting Division Award for Outstanding Field Report Paper.
• AGRH (Association for Human Resources Management) Award
• Foundation Henri Savall - ISEOR Award

Submission process  

The deadline for submission is Tuesday, 7 January 2025 at 17:00 ET (GMT-5/UTC-5). Earlier submissions are encouraged.

All submissions must be made through the AOM Submission Center.

The Submission Center will open in early December 2024, so there is plenty of time to avoid the last-minute rush! 

Submission guidelines are available on the AOM website.

Please review all submission guidelines and formatting instructions carefully before submitting. If any guidelines or formatting instructions are not met, the submission cannot be sent for review. Please direct any questions to Program Chair Dr. Carole Bousquet and PDW Chair Dr. Ivory Simms.