Academy of Management 2026

I’m organizing three sessions at the 2026 Academy of Management Annual Meeting. Two are paper development workshops that invite submissions and one symposium with a set program.

Geography, Space, and Entrepreneurship

The workshop meets on Friday, July 31, from 12:30 to 3:00 p.m. in Salon 9 at the Sheraton. Full details are on the AOM session page, and you can add it to your Google Calendar.

The workshop runs in two parts. The first is a panel discussion that is open to everyone and needs no pre-registration, where the panelists lay out different theoretical and methodological approaches to the geography of entrepreneurship and then take questions from the audience. The second is a set of small roundtables for participants who want direct feedback on a work in progress, and those roundtables do require pre-registration.

I’m organizing this workshop with Victoria Zhang, and the panelists and discussants are:

Submissions for the roundtable feedback session are open. You can send a two-page extended abstract, with in-text references only, through the workshop submission form, or just email your project to me at gwr45@cornell.edu.

Labor Market Structures and Entrepreneurship

This session runs on Friday, July 31, from 10:15 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. in Seminar B at the Sheraton. The AOM program has the full listing, and you can add it to your Google Calendar.

This paper development workshop looks at how labor market structures shape entrepreneurship. Labor markets determine both how many jobs are available and what those jobs are like, which in turn affects how appealing wage work looks next to starting a venture. Recent research has returned to long-standing ideas about employment discrimination, regulation, and the characteristics of employers, reworking them with new theory, new methods, and new empirical settings to explain who enters entrepreneurship and how they fare. The session is sponsored by the Organization and Management Theory and Entrepreneurship divisions.

I’m organizing this workshop with Katie Apker and Peter Polhill, and the panelists and discussants are:

Submissions for the roundtables are open to projects at any stage. You can share your work through the submission form, or just email your project to me at gwr45@cornell.edu.

Public Policy and Organizations

The symposium takes place on Sunday, August 2, from 9:45 to 11:15 a.m. in Seminar D at the Sheraton. You can find it on the AOM session page, and you can add it to your Google Calendar.

Public policy shapes organizations, and organizations shape public policy in return. Research on both directions has grown across organizational theory, strategy, economics, and sociology, yet it tends to stay walled off by discipline and, even within management, to run in separate streams. This symposium sets four papers from sociology, economics, strategy, and organizational theory side by side so they speak to one another, and it closes with a discussion that draws out a shared cross-disciplinary agenda. It is sponsored by the Organization and Management Theory, Strategy, and Public and Non-Profit Management divisions.

I’m organizing this symposium with Peter Polhill, and Daniel Armanios from Oxford serves as the discussant and the presenters are: