Conference Theme

Following the recommendations many of you have shared, we are extending the deadline for the submission until 25th of August so that the projects ideas developed at the Academy of Management can be submitted.

This year’s conference theme is “Digital Transformation for Sustainability”. The world is currently facing some major trends that fundamentally change the ways in which organizations operate. The grand challenges we currently face, such as in areas as climate change, traffic safety, food ecologies and life expectancy, need to be addressed through an integrative, collaborative and global perspective. Accordingly, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have raised a lot of interest of managers and academics alike. At the same time, the digitalization of the economy and society at large keeps growing tremendously with major implications for how individual, organizations and governments operate. Interestingly and importantly, these developments to a large extent require a more inclusive and collaborative approach in order to understand and cope with the underlying uncertainty of the problems and the ambiguity of what the possible solutions may be. For the upcoming WOIC, we propose to connect these themes and call for research on digital transformation and sustainability, either as separate topics or ideally in exploring the intersection between open innovation, digital transformation and sustainability. We specifically call for research that shows how digital solutions help address sustainability challenges in the context of open innovation as well as related work that addresses such interconnections.

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