Strategizing, Activities and Practices Interest Group (SAP)

2025 Division Scholarly Program: Call for Submissions 

Program Chair: Krista Pettit, Ivey Business School 

The Strategizing Activities and Practices (SAP) Interest Group (IG) invites community-building, perspective-shifting and high-caliber submissions to the 85th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management on 25-29 July 2025 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The SAP IG has established an inclusive and diverse community. This year marks an opportunity to celebrate our global membership by gathering, for the first time in its 88-year history, in a European location.   

Shifting the conference location from North America to Copenhagen, housing most of the program in one location (90% of all sessions will be at the Bella Center) and including poster submissions (more below), illustrates how organizations and institutions can rethink and shift ways of organizing and managing. This invites a unique opportunity for our community to highlight emerging perspectives on strategizing practices that enable this rethinking and shifting. By putting day-to-day activities and practices at center stage, SAP research offers many avenues for exploration. Various strands of practice theory, tensions and paradoxes, future-making, sociomateriality, discourse and communication, temporality, space, and power are a few such examples.

We encourage scholars to submit conceptual work, empirical studies and methodological papers within the general domain of the SAP IG, and those that explore the intersections of the SAP IG with Divisions and Interest Groups such as STR, OMT, ODC, RM, TIM, CTO, ONE, SIM, and MOC. We also warmly invite paper and panel symposia that seek to change the conversation on established scholarly approaches and develop new questions and ways of looking at management research and impact from a practice perspective.

The SAP IG also invites poster submissions. A poster submission includes an extended abstract manuscript (more details forthcoming from AOM) that will be reviewed by the SAP IG. If accepted, submitters will be expected to create a poster presentation to be displayed visually that summarizes their research findings, methods, and conclusions. Poster presentations provide a platform for networking but also foster engagement and dialogue by using formats such as graphs, images, and text to make the information clear and engaging. In this format, presenters will have an opportunity to receive immediate feedback on their work. A poster submission (extended abstract) can only be submitted to one DIG. Poster presentations will be scheduled in one-hour in-person poster sessions in a highly visible location at the Annual Meeting Friday, 25 July 2025 through Tuesday, 29 July 2025.

Paper, symposia and poster submissions must be made through the AOM Submission Center (opens early December 2024). The deadline for submission is Tuesday, 7 January 2025 at 17:00 ET (GMT-5/UTC-5). Please carefully review all the submission information and formatting instructions, especially before submitting symposia. The scholarly program takes place from Friday, 25 July in the morning, through Tuesday, 29 July in the afternoon. Submitters are strongly encouraged to discuss potential symposia with Program Chair Krista Pettit.

Strong scholarship requires good reviews. Reviewing peers’ works is a fundamental process through which knowledge advances in a community. If submitting to the SAP Interest Group, please also consider reviewing for the IG!

For more information on Strategizing Activities and Practices, please visit the SAP Interest Group website.