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Organization Development and Change Division (ODC)
2025 Scholarly Program: Call for Submissions
Program Chair: Jody Hoffer Gittell, Brandeis University
Program Vice Chair: James Vardaman, University of Memphis
The Organization Development and Change (ODC) Division invites your scholarly submissions for the 2025 Annual Meeting, with all symposia and paper sessions to be scheduled Sunday, 27 July through Tuesday, 29 July. As a division, our focus is on change and changing. Our values as a division suggest the critical importance of how change happens. Change carried out through inclusive relational processes - with input from multiple stakeholders at multiple levels of action - can be critical for building thriving organizations and communities. At this year’s meeting hosted in the heart of Scandinavia – where multi-stakeholder relationships are often used strategically to achieve sustainable outcomes – our focus on how change happens will be particularly relevant.
We invite you to consider questions such as the following:
- What are the strategies and processes that enable effective change at the individual, group, organization, community, and institutional levels of action?
- What are the strategies and processes that enable multiple diverse stakeholders to work together to achieve sustainable outcomes?
- How can leaders, managers, workers, clients and community members engage effectively in coordinated collective action, using differences as a valued resource?
- What is the role of cross-organizational relationships - whether supply networks or ecosystems - for achieving sustainable change?
- How can leaders and managers best respond to contemporary challenges and trends by using new and different approaches to change?
- How can innovative cross-cutting structures be designed to support multi-stakeholder relationships for sustainable change?
- How do managers, workers, clients, and community members react to the pressures brought to bear by societal and organizational change? Submissions to the ODC division may address these topics—as well as other topics —at the macro, meso, or micro levels of action.
Successful proposals will provoke new ideas and learning. Successful proposals will also integrate cutting-edge scholarship with applied ideas, processes and practices, in keeping with the value our division places on rigor and relevance. Proposals should also be inclusive of participants from a variety of perspectives and backgrounds.
To submit to the ODC Division, please review the Submission Guidelines and refer to the section on information for Professional Development Workshops. The submission deadline is Tuesday, 7 January 2025 at 17:00 ET (GMT-5/UTC-5), but earlier submissions are strongly encouraged. Before writing your submission, we also encourage you to review the ODC Division domain and mission statements. Please contact the Program Chair, Jody Hoffer Gittell, and Vice Chair, James Vardaman, with any questions about scholarly submissions.
Finally, we encourage all those submitting scholarly proposals to sign up as reviewers for ODC! We are grateful to all who contribute to our community and the quality and vibrancy of our program by acting as reviewers for the ODC Division.
Most of all, we look forward to seeing you in Copenhagen!
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
