Operations and Supply Chain Management Division (OCSM)

2025 Division Scholarly Program: Call for Submissions

Program Chair: Desirée van Dun, University of Twente

The OSCM division invites scholarly papers and symposia submissions addressing any aspect of operations and supply chain management for the 2025 Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark. We welcome submissions that consider the management of processes that create and deliver products and services. Research may focus on profit or non-profit organizations. Conceptual, empirical, and methodological contributions are encouraged, as are cross-functional linkages and perspectives.

Given that the location of the 2025 Academy of Management conference is Copenhagen, the OSCM division especially encourages papers and symposia focused on the international aspects of our domain. Our research and teaching endeavors have long considered international and multicultural dimensions that heavily influence operations and supply chain management. The past years, with increased globalization, covid-19, the Suez channel disruption, climate change, and geopolitical tensions, these topics have shown to be more important than ever, now and in the future. This includes, among others, topics like international supplier networks, an increasingly cross-culturally diverse frontline, agile adjustments to external shocks, and innovative collaborations, but also operations’ and supply chains’ impact on our planet’s health as well as unbalanced international supplier relationships.

The 2025 conference thus provides an excellent opportunity to showcase associated scholarly work and teaching initiatives. We invite you to explore the international component further and take advantage of exciting opportunities it presents for our division. Symposia proposals are particularly encouraged as they provide conference attendees a coherent, focused session of either a series of authored papers explicitly linked to a common theme, or a group of panelists engaged in a formal interactive discussion around particular issues or questions. 

The OSCM division also encourages submissions from PhD students. Papers with a doctoral student as the first or sole author should be clearly identified at the time of submission.

Division Awards

Chan Hahn Best Paper Award: All accepted papers are automatically entered into the competition. The finalists are selected before the conference, and the award is announced at the conference.
Best Student Paper Award: An accepted paper lead-authored by a doctoral student will be recognized. To be considered, the paper must be identified as a “student authored” paper at the time of submission.

Submission Process

All submissions must be made through the AOM Submission Center website. The submission center is targeted to open early December 2024. The submission deadline is Tuesday, 7 January 2025 at 17:00 ET (UTC-5/GMT-5).

Please carefully review the submission guidelines and formatting instructions before submitting. If any of the guidelines or formatting instructions are not met, the submission cannot be reviewed. Please note that there is limited space on the scholarly program; therefore, not all submissions will be accepted. All submissions will nevertheless make an important contribution to the OSCM division, as the number of submissions impacts future allocation of time on the program. If your paper or symposium is accepted, you are committing to attend the scholarly program, held Sunday, 27 July through Tuesday, 29 July 2025.

And as soon as you have submitted your work, please also make sure to sign up to review for OSCM and pay it forward!

See:  Reviewer Center