Management Consulting Division (MC)

2025 Division Scholarly Program: Call for Submissions

Program Chair: Carole Bousquet, IDRAC Business School (France)

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.

Type of Submission

Papers

• Scholarly papers: these papers focus on theoretical, conceptual, philosophical, or methodological development and contribution to the consulting field.
• Empirical papers: these are fully developed papers based on empirical analyses with practical and theoretical implications for management.
• Application papers: these are the results of scholarly work applied to practices or, in reverse, where practitioners demonstrate that their practices are used to enhance scholarly work.
• Case studies papers: these provide reports based on an in-depth study of one organization, or an in-depth study using a comparative inquiry of many organizations.

Doctoral papers

This allows graduate students to engage and write a paper about their dissertations/doctoral work in progress, focusing on the empirical and theoretical findings and implications for the organizations. To qualify, please indicate at the beginning of the abstract the mention: DOCTORAL PAPER.
(8 pages min – 15 000 signs) Page 1: Contact Details + Title + Abstract (150 words minimum); Page 2: Research Object, Research Question and Hypothesis; Page 3 to 4: Theoretical Framework, Page 5 to 6: Methodology Used; Page 7: Results or Expected Results, Page 8: Bibliography. 

Symposium 

This allows scholars, practitioners, and industry executives who are experts on a particular topic in management consulting to present and deliver their opinions and viewpoints. 
Two options: Panel session or Presenter session for a maximum duration: 90 minutes

Caucuses

The premise of a caucus is primarily to provide an opportunity for scholars and practitioners to innovate, share, and discuss emergent ideas that are still in the incubatory stage. For detailed information, please refer to the AOM Call for Submission.

Posters

Poster sessions encourage open dialogue and are a great way for researchers to share their work in a less formal setting compared to traditional presentations while still being an official part of the program. Poster presentations often include graphs, images, and text to make the information clear and engaging, and provide a platform for networking. For detailed information, please refer to the AOM Call for Submission.

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 submissions 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.