(posted on behalf of @Trenton Williams, Program Chair)
The Entrepreneurship Division now invites paper, poster, and symposia proposal submissions for the 2026 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, 31 July-4 August 2026, in Philadelphia, PA, USA. As you consider your work and its fit with the various formats offered by AOM, I encourage you to please first review the submission guidelines provided here by AOM. Please also carefully review the submission processes and policies & ethics to ensure your work meets the guidelines to be considered.
ENT Division Submissions
Please ensure your submissions to the Entrepreneurship Division align with its scope, which includes entrepreneurial ecosystems, self-employment, new venture creation, financing, small business management, family business, innovation, inclusiveness, firm growth, and sustainability. Broader concepts related to identifying, analyzing, and exploiting entrepreneurial opportunities are also welcome. Additionally, proposals may explore novelty, creativity, and innovation in individuals, organizations, and environments, as well as decision-making under uncertainty in various entrepreneurial contexts.
As members of the Entrepreneurship Division, we are uniquely positioned to produce rigorous, practical research that highlights the importance of entrepreneurship at macro, meso, and micro levels of impact. Our work can help entrepreneurs, managers, policymakers, and stakeholders collaboratively address critical societal global challenges more effectively. We seek contributions from Entrepreneurship Division members touching on important topics for the diverse range of stakeholders we serve. This includes theoretical and empirical contributions, as well as pedagogical innovations and practices that serve our students and communities.
Conference and Other Awards
Each year the Entrepreneurship Division awards high quality work as part of the program. These awards include “Best Empirical Paper,” Best Conceptual Paper,” “Best Family Business Paper,” and “Best Social Entrepreneurship Paper.” We also celebrate our reviewers with “Best Reviewer” awards. In addition to these conference awards, we celebrate innovations in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy and Entrepreneurship Practice as we acknowledge the diverse contributions made to our field. A full list of Conference and Other awards celebrated by the Entrepreneurship Division can be found here. We would love to see your submissions!
Submission Center Opening and Deadlines
The submission center for the 2026 Annual Meeting will open early December 2025. The submission Deadline is 13 January 2026. Early submissions are highly encouraged.
REVIEWERS NEEDED—YES, THAT MEANS YOU!
We strongly encourage all members—especially those who are submitting to the Entrepreneurship Division— to support our colleagues by reviewing for the Entrepreneurship Division. As our membership grows (almost 4,000 members), so too does the number of submissions and therefore the need for reviews. We are in need of over 1,500 reviewers to ensure a fair process for determining accepted submissions and for selecting Conference Paper awards. The reviewer sign-up system opens early December 2025.
- Reviewing benefits others and the field. We all need feedback on our work. By reviewing for AOM you can grant an incredible gift to someone else by engaging with and constructively reviewing their work. Reviewing is a small, simple way that you can have an enormous impact on someone else’s life!
- Reviewing benefits you. Reviewing gives you visibility to AOM and our field’s ‘bleeding edge’ research topics; helps you develop an essential skill for our field; exposes you to topics outside of your immediate domain; and gives you a CV line item that can help stimulate future opportunities.
- Who is eligible to review? You can review as a first-time attendee, doctoral student, early-mid-late-etc. career academic, and practitioner. Has it been a while since you attended AOM? No worries—reviewing is a great way to re-engage! As long as you are interested in entrepreneurship research, we need your expertise and insights.
- Want to help even more? Sign up as an ‘emergency reviewer.’ At times we need someone to come in on a moment’s notice and help us fulfill a review in an ‘emergency capacity.’ If you’re willing to do this because you (a) are a phenomenal human being and/or (b) would not mind the global (intergalactic even?) notoriety and status that comes with it (obviously!), we would greatly appreciate it, as will those who receive your feedback. You can indicate this preference in the AOM Reviewer system.
Thank You—Hope to See You in Philly!
Last year was historic as we held our annual meeting outside of North America in beautiful Copenhagen. It was invigorating engaging with you—many of whom were first-time attendees at AOM. We are excited to build on that energy during our 2026 annual meeting held in Philadelphia, PA, which is known as the “Birthplace of America.” It is our hope that you will join us to take advantage of the many different activities, events, and program features offered by the Entrepreneurship Division.
If you have any questions regarding program submissions to the Entrepreneurship Division, please direct those to Trent Williams (trentonwilliams@byu.edu).
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