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  • 2026 OB Division Scholarly Program: Call for Submissions

    By: Harry Wang Harry Wang , one month ago

    2026 OB Division Scholarly Program: Call for Submissions

    Program Chair: Marie Mitchell, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

    PDW and Symposium Chair: Jennifer Nahrgang, University of Iowa

    We welcome submissions for inclusion in the Organizational Behavior (OB) Division's scholarly program at the 86th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2026). Details about the mission and research domain of the OB Division can be found here.

    2026 Program Development Team

    • Eean Crawford
    • Lance Frazier
    • Mel Fugate
    • Mikhail Wolfson
    • Division Leadership (Gilad Chen, Bradley Kirkman, Keith Leavitt, Marie Mitchell, and Jennifer Nahrgang)

    Submission Timeline

    • December 5, 2025 – Submission Center opens
    • Submission deadline – 13 January 2026 17:00 ET (UTC-5/GMT-5)
    • Late March 2026 – PDW Acceptance notifications
    • Late March 2026 – Papers, Posters, & Symposium Acceptance notifications
    • Late May 2026 – Online Program available

    Conference Details

    All program sessions will be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The conference schedule will be organized with PDWs Friday, 31 July through Sunday, 2 August 2026, and scholarly sessions (papers and symposia) Sunday, 2 August through Tuesday, 4 August 2026. Consortia will be offered Friday, 31 July through Sunday, 2 August 2026 and Plenary Sessions Sunday, 2 August through Tuesday, 4 August 2026. Poster sessions will take place Friday, 31 July through Tuesday, 4 August 2026.

    Reviewing for OB

    The OB community aims to provide high-quality, developmental feedback to submitters. To achieve this aim, however, we need your support. Please sign up to review for the OB Division in early December 2025. Your reviewer assignment will be based on the keywords that you indicate to be your areas of expertise. We are grateful for your willingness to volunteer and contribute to the program in this important way. To help you, we will provide reviewers with helpful guidance to complete a review of a conference paper, symposium, or PDW.

    Description of Paper, Poster, and Symposia Submissions

    The scholarly program at AOM's annual meeting consists primarily of three main types of sessions, paper sessions, poster sessions (new this year), and symposia:

    1. Paper sessions are composed of presentations of original and fully developed manuscripts. Author(s) submit a manuscript for consideration to be included in the annual meeting's scholarly program. If accepted, the manuscript is typically assigned by the Program Chair to a session that includes other papers on related topics.
    2. Poster sessions are composed of presentations intended to foster professional connections and immediate feedback. This format is ideal for (but not limited to) early career scholars and first-time AOM attendees. Author(s) submit an extended abstract manuscript. If accepted, participants will prepare a visually engaging poster summarizing their research findings, methods, and conclusions. These posters often feature graphs, images, and text to clearly present the information and facilitate discussions.
    3. Symposia can be submitted as either panel or presenter format:
      • Panel Symposia
      • Presenter Symposia

    Additional details about the submission process can be found here.

    Direct any questions about the submission process to the OB Division's Program Chair, Marie Mitchell, or the OB Division's PDW and Symposium Chair, Jennifer Nahrgang.

    OB Division Awards

    The Division celebrates many awards at the Annual Meeting. Among these are the following awards given for submissions to the conference.

    1. OB Division AOM Meeting 2026 Best Paper Award, recognizing the best overall paper (may be co-authored)
    2. OB Division AOM Meeting 2026 Best Dissertation-Based Paper Award, given to the best paper based on a doctoral dissertation completed within the past three years (must be sole-authored)
    3. OB Division AOM Meeting 2026 Innovative Student Paper Award, for the best paper in which a student was in the lead role (a student must be the sole or first-author)
    4. OB Division AOM Meeting 2026 Outstanding Practical Implications for Management Paper Award, for the paper with the most significant managerial implications (may be co-authored)
    5. OB Division AOM Meeting 2026 Best Paper with International Implications Award, recognizing the paper whose theme and content best reflects an awareness of business and management across national boundaries (may be co-authored)
    6. OB Division AOM Meeting 2026 Best Symposium Award, given to the symposium on the Academy program that best exemplifies interesting, important, and high impact research
    7. OB Division AOM Meeting 2026 PDW awards, three awards given to the PDWs for Most Innovative Format, Best Broad Relevance, and Best Community Building.

    Please note: To be considered for any of the following awards, you should select the appropriate orientation when you submit your paper in the online Submission Center, as follows:

    1. For the OB Division AOM Meeting 2026 Best Dissertation-Based Paper Award, select "Newman Award Nominee"
    2. For the OB Division AOM Meeting 2026 Most Innovative Student Paper Award, select "Student Paper"
    3. For the OB Division AOM Meeting 2026 Most Outstanding Practical Implications for Management Award, select "Practice"
    4. For the OB Division AOM Meeting 2026 Best Paper with International Implications Award, select "International"

    Visit the OB Division website for additional information about the Division, criteria for these awards, or past winners.

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  • Call for Nominations: 2026 OB Division Career Awards

    By: Harry Wang Harry Wang , one month ago

    Call for Nominations

    Please consider nominating a deserving member of our division for one of the following !

    Please find further information and deadlines below.

    Please keep your nominations as succinct as possible and follow the submission instructions. Doing so helps ensure we do not place an unnecessary burden on the volunteers who serve on our awards committees. These volunteers are not members of the OB Executive Committee, and we are deeply grateful for the time and care they devote to this important work.

    Call for the 2026 OB Division Lifetime Achievement Award

    The OB Division Lifetime Achievement Award, established in 2005, recognizes senior scholars who have made exceptional contributions to our discipline throughout their careers. To be eligible for the award, an individual must have completed his or her PhD (or finished his or her training/education) at least twenty years ago. The individual must be a truly outstanding scholar. He or she will have published in the very best journals and conducted research that has had a significant impact on the field. Finally, recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award have contributed not only through their scholarship but through service to the field. For example, they may have served as editors of leading journals, held leadership positions with the Division or the Academy, and/or been exceptional teachers and mentors for doctoral students. The winner is required to attend the annual conference and give a presentation in the same year as receiving the award.

    Please find the full criteria, which are ordered by the OB Division’s principles of rigor, relevance, and relationships (noting the criteria are identical for Lifetime Achievement and Early to Mid-Career Awards, but the expected level of achievement differs).

    For the Lifetime Achievement Award, the nominator must submit the following information as part of the nomination package: 

    1. A nomination letter by an OB Division member, noting that self-nominations are welcome.
    2. A current Curriculum Vitae (CV).
    3. A maximum of three letters of support (and no more than three).
    4. Confirmation that the nominated individual is a member of the OB Division.
    5. Confirmation from the nominated individual that, if they win, they will attend and present at the upcoming AOM Conference.

    The deadline to submit for the 2026 OB Division Lifetime Achievement Award is February 9, 2026 using this .

    Past award winners:

    Call for the 2026 OB Division Early- to Mid-Career Scholarly Achievement Award (formerly the Cummings Award)

    The Early to Mid-Career Scholarly Achievement Award recognizes significant scholarly achievement during the early- to mid-career stage. The award winner will be announced at the Academy of Management conference. To be eligible for this award, an individual must be a member of the OB Division and must have received his or her PhD no more than 12 years ago.

     

    Please find the full criteria , which are ordered by the OB Division’s principles of rigor, relevance, and relationships (noting the criteria are identical for Lifetime Achievement and Cummings Awards, but the expected level of achievement differs). The nomination package should include the following materials:

     

    • A nomination letter by an OB Division member, noting that self-nominations are welcome.
    • A current Curriculum Vitae (CV).
    • A maximum of three letters of support (and no more than three).
    • Confirmation that the nominated individual is a member of the OB Division.

    The deadline to submit for the 2026 OB Division Early to Mid-Career Scholarly Achievement Award is February 9, 2026 using this .

     

    Past award winners:

    Call for the 2026 OB Division Award for Societal Impact

     

    Scholarly work with societal impact is both scientifically credible and valuable to society; it produces societally beneficial knowledge that aims to make the world a better place. This work will often address, but is not limited to, the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, for example: health and well-being, income and social inequality, and environmental preservation. To both recognize and incentivize such work in organizational behavior, the OB Division is inviting nominations for the OB Division Award for Societal Impact.

     

    This award recognizes a body of work, rather than a single conference submission or published article, given that scholarship addressing grand societal problems is often incredibly challenging, unfolding over many years of persistence. The work may be published in traditional research outlets; however, it can also be evidenced in monographs, policy papers, books, curriculum, or interventions that may not receive recognition in other forums. Yet, through its application of organizational behavior scholarship, it has the potential to change the world. The award winner will be announced at the Academy of Management conference.

     

    To be eligible for this award, the scholar’s work must:

    1. Use organizational behavior knowledge to address problem(s) that relate to timely and critical societal challenges in the business, economic, societal or environmental spheres
    2. Demonstrate strong credibility through rigorous methods, analysis, and/ or application
    3. Inform and provide actionable insights for policies or practices to improve the wellbeing and performance of people (employees, managers, customers, suppliers), organizations, and/ or societies.

    The deadline to submit for the 2026 OB Division Societal Impact Award is February 9, 2026 using this.

     

    Past award winners:

    Call for the 2026 OB Division Mentorship Award

     

    The OB Division Mentorship Award recognizes a scholar who has excelled at mentoring others in achieving their career objectives through moral, social, and intellectual support. We define each of these criteria in more detail below:

     

    • Intellectual support: Helps the mentee develop ideas constructively (e.g., by brainstorming, offering a sounding board, suggesting a diverse perspective, providing written feedback) – investing one’s intellectual capital in the service of mentees.
    • Social support: Helps the mentee develop a professional network that will allow him/her to be successful (e.g., introducing them to others, writing reference letters, suggesting them as coauthors/reviewers/editors) – investing one’s social capital in the service of mentees.
    • Personal support: Genuinely cares about the wellbeing and development of the mentee (e.g., encouragement through difficult times, helps maintain self-efficacy, provides perspective or specific career/work strategies) – investing one’s personal energy in the service of mentees.

    Any member of the OB Division is eligible for this award. This award is not meant to recognize research productivity, advocacy activities in the field, or personal longevity in the field but rather to recognize a scholar who has an impactful effect on other scholars through their outstanding mentorship. To be eligible, the person needs a minimum of three mentees who are willing to write a letter of nomination on behalf of their mentor. Based on the letters or recommendation received, a young and upcoming artist, being mentored by a more senior artist, will develop a personalized piece of art representing the award winner as a mentor. The award winner will be announced at the Academy of Management Conference. To nominate an individual for the Mentorship Award, a nomination packet must include:

     

    1. A letter of nomination that identifies the candidate, the individual(s) making the nomination, and a short motivation about why this person is being nominated (one page, single spaced);
    2. As supporting evidence, we ask the three nominators to each write a supporting letter (one page, single spaced) about how this person (mentor) has impacted their development, career and lives. These letters will be used as input for the artist crafting the award. We need a minimum of three, and a maximum of 10, letters per person. Nominations are accepted from all OB Division members.
    3. If you nominated a candidate in a prior year/years who was not successful, you will need to resubmit the nomination materials this year.

    The deadline to submit for the 2026 OB Division Mentorship Award is February 9, 2026 using this.

     

    Past award winners:

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