Strategic Management Division (STR)

2025 Division Scholarly Program: Call for Submissions 

Program Chair: Isin Guler, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The 2025 Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meeting will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark between Friday, 25 July and Tuesday, 29 July 2025. AOM has announced that the PDWs (Professional Development workshops) will be held Friday, 25 July through Sunday, 27 July 2025 and scholarly sessions Sunday, 27 July through Tuesday, 29 July 2025. The STR team is hard at work organizing the program in ways that we hope will benefit all our members and support the development of the field of Strategic Management.

The STR Division encourages and supports the development and dissemination of knowledge relevant to general managers and those who study, shape, or influence the strategy of organizations, as well as effective teaching of these issues. We invite members of the STR Division to submit paper, symposium, and poster proposals that address fundamental issues of interest to the field of strategic management, with a focus on topic areas such as behavioral strategy, strategic factor markets, corporate and international strategy, organizational structure and relational strategy, nonmarket strategy, strategic entrepreneurship, competitive strategy, knowledge, learning and innovation, strategic leadership, and corporate governance. For more information about the conference, please visit the webpage.

The scale of the STR Division allows us to combine sessions into coherent tracks, which helps to foster interaction among scholars working on similar strategic problems, engaging with particular theories, or leveraging related statistical methods. At the same time, we remain mindful of the need to help integrate research in our field and thereby bring scholars together across different focus areas. In addition, we hope to organize a number of symposia and selected paper sessions shared with other divisions to encourage work in emerging areas of strategic management research and to stimulate valuable conversations across disciplines and divisions. These plans will give our members valuable opportunities to learn about new developments in different research domains and to build new connections across research streams. I will be managing the process for the 2025 conference with the help of Executive Committee members Olga Hawn (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill), Yue Maggie Zhou (University of Michigan at Ann Arbor), and David Tan (University of Washington Seattle).

Submissions

I would like to thank our continuing members and scholars who have submitted their research to the STR Division in prior years. Your contributions enrich our community. Please continue submitting your best research papers and most creative symposia! We also encourage Ph.D. students or other scholars who have not yet submitted to the AOM or to the STR Division to do so. Symposia offer wonderful opportunities for us to foster research collaborations and meaningful scholarly dialogue. The most attractive symposia are those that address important problems within the strategic management field, combine different theoretical lenses or research methodologies to examine such problems, and therefore promise significant advances to our research and teaching.  For the first time this year, the STR division also invites poster proposals for a small number of posters to be exhibited at the conference.

Submission Deadline

The submission deadline is Tuesday, 7 January 2025 at 17:00 ET (UTC-5/GMT-5). The AOM Submission Center will open in early December 2024. The STR Division maintains the same submission requirements as the Academy of Management. Please consult the Academy of Management website for useful information and submission requirements – including details about the session formats for the conference – as we have no further information or control over the submission process. We look forward to seeing your submissions and creating an invigorating in-person program for the conference.

Reviewers Needed!

We strongly encourage all who are submitting to the STR Division to volunteer to review for the STR Division. Reviewing is a valuable service to your colleagues and the Academy, and also a way to learn about research and get socialized into the field. Please visit the reviewer sign-up system.