Maryam AldossariYesterday at GWO #PDW #AOM2025, I talked about Feminist Silences and the Palestinian Genocide — yes, almost two years in, and still wondering why the silence.
André ReichelGood to see “real utopias” entering the circular economy debate at #AOM2025. But let’s not pretend loops alone will change the system. Circularity without a rethink of growth, ownership, and power risks becoming just another management tool. Utopia isn’t a blueprint—it’s a provocation. A way to ask: what are we really trying to sustain?
Steven L. JohnsonMy major task for #AOM2025 today is to make sure the evening CTO doctoral student poster session goes well. After some reconnaissance, unproductive advice/rule seeking, and a shopping trip, I’ve acquired a range of options for temporarily affixing paper to walls
Thoughts on the Regenerative Economy PDW at #AOM2025: honest, reflective, and open to deeper questions. Strong sustainability and rebound effects were discussed. I raised political economy — growth imperatives, fiscal rules, ownership — and the panel was responsive, but it’s still underresearched. Regeneration lets us reclaim growth as an ecological rhythm: not endless accumulation, but renewal, decay, and repair. A metabolism, not a machine.
At #AOM2025 this morning we discussed digitalization and sustainability. But let’s be clear: there is no sustainable digitalization within a capitalist system built on endless growth. Efficiency gains won’t fix a political economy that turns every innovation into more consumption. We need to talk about growth, ownership, and power. Sustainability isn’t a tech issue—it’s a systemic one. And we need to name the system.
🌍 Join us at #AOM2025 for our PDW Organising Degrowth for an Equitable World (Sun, July 27, 08:30, Bella Center A1-m2). We explore how to organize for well-being—human and non-human—beyond the growth paradigm. With Banerjee, Jermier, Lyon, Olaison, Perey, and myself. Let’s rethink organizing in planetary crisis.
Who owns the firm—and who (or what) should? At #AOM2025, the PDW on alternative ownership raised urgent questions. What if we moved beyond ownership as control and toward governance as stewardship? In my work with Robert Perey, we often ask: if nature is a stakeholder, shouldn’t she be included in ownership too? Post-capitalism may already be here—if we allow accumulation to mean regeneration, and expansion to mean care.
At #AOM2025, we explored prospective (future-oriented), prescriptive (normative), and pragmatist (experimental) theorizing. But do these approaches truly confront the ideologies and power structures that resist change? Without engaging with who benefits from the status quo, we risk designing transformation within existing paradigms.
This morning’s #AOM2025 PDW on #microhistory wasn’t just about method—it opened space for deeper ontological questions. I’m exploring how Giddens’ structuration theory might inform this: treating microhistory as the site where modalities of structure—interpretive schemes, norms, resources—become visible. Not a counterpoint to macrohistory, but the medium through which structure unfolds.
ConJunctionPre-Conference Post: The First Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Europe
The first word I encountered right out of the Metro is, of course, “Hygge”.In previous years, I have only blogged after attending international conferences such as the Academy of Management Annual Meeting. However, to some degree, a pre-conference posting might be much more helpful for people who want to meet up. So, having already arrived in Copenhagen, let me briefly and chronologically list sessions and other occasions I will be involved in at this year’s Academy of Management Annual Meeting – the first ever to be hosted outside of North America:
- Friday, 25th at 9 am, “Career Development Workshop for Mid-Career Scholars”, organized by Carola Wolf (University of Liverpool), with fellow panelists Julia Balogun (University of Liverpool), Paul Spee (University of Queensland), Matt Statler (New York University) and Aino Tenhiälä (IE Business School).
- Friday, 25th, 6:30 pm, Offsite Dinner of the Strategizing Activities and Practices (SAP) Interest Group, co-organized by Benjamin Grossmann-Hensel (University of Zurich) and Susan Hilbollling (Aarhus University)
- Saturday, 26th, 10:45 am, Bridging Silos: Toward a Research Agenda for Open Social Innovation, co-organized by Hanna Fults (VU Amsterdam), Susan Hilbolling (Aarhus University) and Philipp Türtscher (VU Amsterdam) and sharing a panel with Anne-Laure Fayard (Nova School of Business and Economics), Lars Bo Jeppesen (CBS), Marion Poetz (CBS) and Ann-Kristin Zobel (University of St. Gallen).
- Saturday, 26th, 3:30 pm, The Future of Strategizing and Organizing as Practice: Extending to Under-Represented Contexts, co-organized by Renate Kratochvil and Yalan Wang (both University of Stockholm) and featuring as speakers David Seidl (University of Zürich), Linda Rouleau (HEC Montreal), Shenghui Ma (Fudan University), Eero Vaara (University of Oxford), Maria Andrea de Villa (EAFIT University) and Rebecca Bednarek (Victoria Management School).
- Sunday, 27th, 2pm, Unconferencing SAP and Beyond: An Open Space for Emerging Topics and Nascent Projects, co-organized with Madalina Pop (Aarhus University) and Maximilian Heimstädt (Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg). Given the BarCamp format of this session, the actual program will be created on the spot by the participants, which include facilitators such as Shenghui Ma (Fudan University), John Bryson (University of Minnesota), Julia Hautz (University of Innsbruck), Birgit Renzl (University of Stuttgart) and Richard Whittington (University of Oxford) among others.
- Monday, 28th, 10:15 am, “Forced to Open Up: A Comparative Analysis of Open Strategizing in Regulated Environments”, paper co-authored with Felix Schmid (University of Innsbruck) and Violetta Splitter (University of Oxford)
- Monday, 28th, 12 pm, Strategy and Organizationality: The More We Strategize, the More We are Organized?, showcase symposium co-organized with Monica Nadegger (LMU Munich), featuring as panelists David Seidl (University of Zurich), Dennis Schoeneborn (CBS), Ann Langley (HEC Montreal), Héloïse Berkowitz (Aix-Marseille University), Birte Asmuß (Aarhus University).
- Tuesday, 29th, “When Frustrations Turn Into a Firestorm: Communicative Constitution of a Collectively Forceful Voice”, paper co-authored with Aleksander Groth (MCI Innsbruck) and Ellen Nathues (University of Twente).
Of course, I also plan to attend several receptions, including Swiss, Oxford, VU Amsterdam as well as the Business Meeting and Social by the SAP Interest Group (Monday, 28th, 5 pm.) See you in Copenhagen!
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