Are you attending the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management in 2025?
Join our PDW "All Fun and Games? The Entertainment Industry in Organization Research" exploring how the entertainment industry, from books,movies, music to video-games, provides fertile ground for advancing and testing management and organization theory!
All Fun and Games? The Entertainment Industry in Organization Research
Divisions: CTO (Primary), TIM, STR
Date and time: 26th of July, 11:00 AM – 02:00 PM
Register at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdBY0dS-b5ZmN117OCe4YUOyKQFMTiZDsl-BgeQCE44rhx7Yg/viewform
Workshop Overview
Research using the entertainment industry as an empirical setting has tripled in leading journals between 2015 and 2023, addressing questions on winner-takes-all dynamics, innovation, digital platforms, and hybrid collaboration. Yet, unique challenges such as data access and content complexity have limited wider adoption.
This PDW brings together scholars who study film, music, and gaming to:
- Highlight opportunities and barriers to research in this field
- Share insights from using text, image, and audio data
- Create a vibrant research community around creative industries
Workshop Structure
Part 1: Panel Presentations
Featuring expert talks from:
- Luis Aguiar (University of Zurich)
- Olga Khessina (Gies College of Business)
- Hong Luo (University of Toronto)
- Sumeet Malik (University of Amsterdam)
- Giacomo Negro (Emory University)
- Hakan Özalp (University of Amsterdam)
- Michele Piazzai (University of Edinburgh)
- Yuan Shi (Cornell St. John's College)
Part 2: Roundtable Feedback Session
Attendance for the second part of the PDW is limited to selected participants. Moderated by the panelists, this interactive session invites selected participants to present their early-stage research or working papers for feedback and discussion.
Call for participation and submission
If you are interested in participating in the PDW – either only for the panelist presentation or the roundtable portion – please register for the pdw with the link below.
For those interested in discussing their work with the panelists: We welcome extended abstracts to working papers from scholars working on the entertainment industry as a research context.
Submit your abstract until the 25th of June, 2025
Submission link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdBY0dS-b5ZmN117OCe4YUOyKQFMTiZDsl-BgeQCE44rhx7Yg/viewform
Due to time constraints, we can only accept selected participants to join the roundtable portion of the workshop. We will inform you about a decision after the 10th of July. As with any AOM program activity, registering for the PDW and/or the roundtable portion of the pdw implies a commitment to participate if accepted.
Organizers: Franziska Kaiser (University of Zurich), Alexander Staub (HEC Lausanne), Alessio Delpero (WU Vienna)
If you have any questions, feel free to contact the organizers at:
funandgames_pdw@protonmail.com
We look forward to seeing you in Copenhagen!
Franziska, Alexander and Alessio
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Alexander Staub
University of Lausanne
Chavannes-pres-Renens
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