Organization and Management Theory Division (OMT)

2025 Division Scholarly Program: Call for Submissions 

Program Chair: Joel Gehman, George Washington University

The Organization and Management Theory (OMT Division) prides itself on integrating depth of insight with breadth of theories, rigor with relevance, and scholarly ideas with community connections. That is why OMT THE PLACE TO BE. We invite you to join OMT this summer by submitting your symposia and papers, and by signing up to review.

Our Domain

Organization and Management Theory is an inclusive community of scholars who draw on a rich intellectual heritage to build and test theory about organizations, their members, their management, organization-environment relations, organizing processes and broader markets and fields. We pursue theoretically significant and methodologically rigorous research across analytical levels and phenomena to generate impactful insights in management and organizing. We value work that advances theory and has practical implications on a broad range of organizational, managerial and societal issues.

More information about the division is available on the OMT website.

What papers and symposium fit with OMT?

OMT welcomes submissions that highlight insights relevant to organizational and management theory. As our domain statement above notes, OMT celebrates theoretical novelty, methodological pluralism, international research collaborations, and the use of theory to address organizational and societal challenges.

New This Year: Poster Presentations 

In addition to the normal paper and symposia formats, the 2025 program will feature poster sessions. Each poster submission will require an extended abstract manuscript. If accepted, participants will prepare a visually engaging poster summarizing their research findings, methods, and conclusions. Poster presentations will take place during one-hour in-person sessions at a highly visible location at the Annual Meeting, from Friday, 25 July through Tuesday, 29 July 2025. 

Submitted previously? New to OMT? We want your submissions!

We invite people who have submitted to OMT in the past to submit and help us sustain our robust community. We also invite PhD students and faculty who have not previously submitted research to AOM or to OMT to help us expand and explore new ideas. If you have questions about the appropriateness of your submission for OMT, please feel free to contact Joel Gehman, OMT Program Chair.

PLEASE… Sign up to Review for OMT

Our division has a long tradition of providing constructive, high quality reviews.  Please sign up to review.

Here’s the deal … We need almost 800 reviewers at OMT. To get the high-quality reviews that OMT is known for, we need you! We welcome members at all career stages – from PhD students and postdocs, to junior and senior faculty. Plus, OMT’s collegial norms depend on those who have ever submitted a paper,symposium or PDW to pay it forward by reviewing for the division. We use the keywords you supply to make reviewer assignments. The sign-up system opens in early December - Sign up to review now before you forget.

OMT Division Awards 

Each year the OMT Division presents numerous awards at the Annual Meeting: