The IberoAOM Newsletter Vol 2 2026

July 6, 2026 News

IAOM Events At 🗓️🗒 #AOM2026

Sponsored by the Iberoamerican Division of the AOM at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2026 in Philadelphia, USA.

PDW at AOM 2026 – Global Careers in an Unequal World


Sponsored by Iberoamerican Academy of Management (IAM) – primary sponsor; Social Issues in Management (SIM); Organizational Behavior (OB
Date & Time: Sunday, 2 August 2026, 4:30–6:00 PM
Location: Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel, Philadelphia, Ballroom South

The globalization of management scholarship has not been matched by equitable globalization of academic career opportunities, particularly for scholars in underrepresented regions such as Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa, and Sub‑Saharan Africa. This PDW brings together scholars, editors, and AOM leaders to explore how academic careers can become more inclusive and globally representative.

Our 90‑minute session will include:

  • Emerging insights from the “Career Needs Around the Globe” survey, with a focus on regional inequalities and career trajectories.
  • An expert panel discussing structural constraints, institutional conditions, and possibilities for more inclusive academic career systems.
  • A collaborative activity designed to foster cross‑regional research collaborations and to support early‑career scholars from underrepresented regions.

The PDW is open to scholars at all career stages, with particular emphasis on early‑career researchers and doctoral students from underrepresented regions. No pre‑registration is required for the panel; we will share additional details on any optional developmental components closer to the date.

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IAOM Doctoral Student Consortium 2026

The Consortium offers doctoral students an opportunity to receive guidance, feedback, and mentoring on key aspects of the doctoral journey, while connecting with peers and senior scholars working in management and business research.

Consortium Highlights

  • Transversal training sessions focused on doctoral research and publishing
  • One-to-one speed mentoring with experts across five key areas
  • Networking with faculty and doctoral students from the Iberoamerican community
  • Iberoamerican AoM Research Award for the best doctoral research proposal

Session Agenda (90 minutes)

  • Participant introductions
  • Training Pill 1: Expert talk on writing and publishing a high-impact academic paper (20 minutes)
  • Training Pill 2: The doctoral journey – a PhD student’s experience in academic research and publication (20 minutes)
  • Speed Mentoring (50 minutes)
    • The publication process
    • Quantitative methodology
    • Qualitative methodology
    • Job market and research internationalization
    • Research dissemination
  • Closing session and Research Award announcement

Iberoamerican AoM Research Award

The Iberoamerican AoM Research Award recognizes the best doctoral research abstract in management and business administration, with particular emphasis on originality, scientific quality, and methodological rigor.

The award highlights research focused on the Iberoamerican context and its organizational, economic, and social dynamics. The recipient will receive a certificate of recognition.

August 1, 2026, 10 am to noon at the Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel, Salon 9

Organizing Team

  • Iberoamerican Division, Academy of Management
  • Jesús Molina Gómez – University of Málaga
  • Javier Moreno Arrebola – University of Málaga
  • Mariano Garrido López – Western Carolina University

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Sustainability Research in LatAm: Editorial Insights and Project Co-Creation

With Iberoamerican Academy of Management (IAM); Co-Sponsors: Organizations and the Natural Environment (ONE), Social Issues in Management (SIM)

Date & Time: Friday July 31 2026, 9:30–11:00 AM

Organizer, presenters & facilitators: Tomás Santa María, Universidad del Desarrollo; Angel Sevil, Universidad del Desarrollo; Barbara Galleli, Universidade Federal do Paraná; Pilar Acosta, TBS Education; Punit Arora, City University of New York; Felipe Symmes, EGADE Business School; Susana C. F. Pereira, FGV EAESP; Andrea Lazarte, Centrum PUCP.

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Overview

Sustainability management scholarship is expanding rapidly, yet Latin America remains underrepresented in mainstream conversations, despite being a critical arena for the next generation of sustainability challenges and solutions. The region concentrates globally significant biodiversity and ecosystems, faces acute inequality and informality, and operates under distinctive institutional volatility and extractive-development tensions.

This workshop aims to strengthen a durable Latin American sustainability research network, help participants sharpen theoretically distinctive, publication-ready project framing grounded in regional phenomena, and catalyze cross-country collaborations and multi-institution research initiatives.

The PDW combines editorial perspectives from Journal of Business Ethics and Business & Society with short, high-leverage inputs on theorizing from Latin America and organizing collaborative, large-scale projects. Participants then engage in a structured research-interest mapping exercise and facilitated co-creation roundtables to translate shared interests into concrete project pathways, roles, and next steps for post-PDW follow-up.

PDW Format

This 90-minute, highly interactive PDW has two integrated components: a panel presentation with plenary discussion and facilitated co-creation roundtables. The plenary component aligns participants around shared expectations for publishing and theorizing sustainability research grounded in Latin American contexts. The roundtable component converts that shared framing into concrete collaboration pathways by mapping interests and matching participants into working groups to develop actionable project concepts.

Session Agenda

Part 1: Panel presentations

00:00 – 00:05
Welcome and short introduction of the goals and significance of the PDW, program, speakers and participation norms.

00:05 – 00:50
Keynote speakers’ presentations:

  • Pilar Acosta, Journal of Business Ethics, Section Editor, Corporate Sustainability; & Punit Arora, Co-Editor in Chief, Business & Society: Editorial Perspectives on the opportunities for the Latin American sustainability research community
  • Felipe Symmes, EGADE Business School: Theorizing from Latin America: opportunities, tensions, and contributions to global sustainability scholarship
  • Susana C. F. Pereira, FGV EAESP: Lessons learned from collaborative sustainability research projects in Latin America

Questions from the audience.

Part 2: Round table discussions

00:50 – 00:60
Interests Mapping & Matching Activity. Participants will complete a short online survey on research interests, methodological expertise and funding opportunities. Input will be lived-shared and used to form roundtables.

00:60 – 00:80
Co-Creation Round tables. Participants will join small groups with a panelist and a co-facilitator to co-create potential collaboration projects. The aim will be to generate 1-2 project concepts per table, including topic, potential research questions, potential funding and roles & next steps.

00:80 – 00:90
Plenary wrap-up and next steps. Share key project ideas across the room, confirm post-PDW coordination, and follow-up channels.

Relevance

This PDW highlights Latin America’s unique sustainability challenges and opportunities within the global sustainability context. Its primary goal is to enable collaboration among academics and practitioners to develop sustainability projects amid the region’s rich biodiversity, complex socio-political landscape, and economic dynamics.

The workshop will engage scholars from the Iberoamerican Academy of Management, ONE, and SIM divisions in discussions on achieving SDGs, sustainable strategies, and academia’s role in fostering sustainability leaders. Participants will explore promising research collaboration ventures tailored to Latin America’s specific needs and opportunities.

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Advancing Management & Entrepreneurship Research: The Latin American Context

Join us for the PDW “Advancing Management & Entrepreneurship Research: The Latin American Context” at AOM 2026.

Latin America offers rich opportunities for advancing management and entrepreneurship scholarship, yet research in and about the region remains underrepresented in mainstream academic conversations. This PDW creates a space for scholars based inside and outside Latin America to connect, exchange ideas, and strengthen collaborative research pathways.

The session will include a panel discussion with invited speakers, followed by interactive roundtables where participants can receive developmental feedback on their research ideas.

Sunday, August 2, 2026
8:00-9:30 a.m.
Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel, Seminar B

All scholars interested in management, entrepreneurship, Latin America, Global South theorizing, contextual research, and collaborative research design are welcome.

Organizers

  • Jose Antonio Cerecedo-Lopez, Elon University
  • Eduardo Cuervo, The University of Tennessee-Knoxville
  • Ava Haddox, The University of Tennessee-Knoxville
  • Jorge Arteaga-Fonseca, Mississippi State University
  • Jorge Eduardo Cruz, The University of Texas at San Antonio

Speakers

  • Jose Ernesto Amoros, EGADE Business School
  • Rodrigo Canales, Boston University
  • Jill R. Kickul, EGADE Business School
  • Paul Sanchez Ruiz, Iowa State University
  • Arkangel Miguel Cordero, The University of Texas at San Antonio
  • Vesna Mandakovic, Universidad del Desarrollo
  • Ileana Maldonado-Bautista, Iowa State University
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Teaching Management and Organization Studies in Latin America: Challenges and Opportunities

Join us for the PDW “Teaching Management and Organization Studies in Latin America: Challenges and Opportunities” at AOM 2026.

This workshop invites scholars to rethink how Management and Organization Studies can be taught in ways that respond to contemporary social, political, technological, and pedagogical changes. The session will focus especially on the need to adapt teaching materials and methods to the social, cultural, and organizational realities of Latin America, rather than relying only on Global North assumptions and examples.

The PDW will include thematic presentations, facilitated roundtable discussions, plenary dialogue, and collective reflections.

Sunday, August 2, 2026
8:00-9:30 a.m.
Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel, Parlor C

All colleagues interested in teaching, pedagogy, Latin America, organization studies, and contextually grounded management education are welcome.

With Rafael Alcadipani Da Silveira, FGV EAESP and,

Presenters

  • Pablo Daniel Fernandez, IAE Business School – Austral University
  • Paulina Segarra, Anáhuac Mexico University
  • Fernando Ressetti Pinheiro Vianna, Technological Federal University of Paraná
  • Maria Fernanda Rios Cavalcanti, FGV EAESP
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IAOM Social at AOM 2026

Join us for the now-traditional IberoAOM Social at AOM 2026!

Each year, this gathering brings together the IberoAOM community for an evening of conversation, connection, and celebration among colleagues, friends, and new members.

We will meet on August 1, 2026, at 7:30 p.m. at Bodega Bar & Kitchen in Philadelphia.

This is a great opportunity to reconnect, welcome first-time attendees, and strengthen the ties that make our community so special.

All IberoAOM members and friends are welcome. #IAOM2026 #AOM2026

We hope to see you there!

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Management Research, Latest Online First

Arraya, Marco. “Coherent Organizational Structure: Concept and Its Influence on MSMEs Performance.” https://doi.org/10.1108/MRJIAM-11-2024-1639

Martins, Fellipe Silva, Leonardo Vils, José Eduardo Storopoli, and Marcos Antonio Gaspar. “A Microfoundations’ Approach to Understanding the Effects of External and Internal Crises on Job Insecurity and Performance.” https://doi.org/10.1108/MRJIAM-12-2024-1658

Peixe, Roberto Nascimento, Rodrigo Marques de Almeida Guerra, Marcus Frantz Alberto, and Ana Paula Brum Zavarise. “Integration, Readiness, Flexibility and Demand Uncertainty in the Post-COVID-19 Period: Perspectives from a Brazilian Supply Chain.” https://doi.org/10.1108/MRJIAM-08-2024-1583

Ramirez-Lozano, Julianna Paola, and Carlos Arturo Hoyos-Vallejo. “The Influence of Women’s Leadership on the Work–Life Balance of Latin American Women Microentrepreneurs: A Neural Network Analysis.” https://doi.org/10.1108/MRJIAM-06-2024-1549

Simba-Herrera, Michael S., Andrés Robalino-López, and Zanna Aniscenko. “Driving AI-Integrated CRM Adoption in Emerging Markets: The Role of Attitude and Perceived Usefulness Insights from Ecuadorian Organizations.” https://doi.org/10.1108/MRJIAM-03-2025-1708

🗄️ Knowledge resources

While not intended as a comprehensive review, this curated list highlights timely, high-quality research chosen to support the evolving scholarly development of our Iberoamerican academic community. We invite readers to share any important works they strongly feel merit inclusion, which we will gladly consider for future editions.

Research methods/education papers just published or in-press

AOM journals – from the editors

AOM journals – articles

  • Ter Wal, A. et al. (2026) ‘Loosening the Theoretical Reins: A Case for Phenomenon-Driven Research in AMJ’, Academy of Management Journal, 69(3), pp. 441–454. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2026.4003.
  • Laasch, O. (2026) ‘Responsible Ontological Work: Guidance for Doctoral Education and the Ontological Turn’, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Available at: https://doi.org/10.5465/amle.2025.0269.

Other journals

  • Post, C. et al. (2026) ‘Crafting Interdisciplinary Research: Four Cornerstone Practices for Management Scholars’, Journal of Management Studies, Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.70110.

Research methods/education videos or podcasts

Save the date for #IAOM2027 in Mexico City

IPADE Mexico will host the 2027 Ibero-American Academy of Management Conference, a gathering focused on strengthening management scholarship in Latin and Ibero-American contexts.

The conference aims to bring together academics and practitioners from around the world to advance management research in Latin and Ibero-America. The goals are clear: promote collaboration among scholars, strengthen regional research capacity, encourage global dialogue on the region’s distinct management challenges, and support the development of lasting research networks. The event also emphasizes innovation and engagement with key societal and organizational issues.

Submission Tracks

  • Track 1: The Ibero-American Ecosystem of Family Enterprises
  • Track 2: Business Networks and Entrepreneurs in the Ibero-American Contexts
  • Track 3: From Research to Action
  • Track 4: Sustainability Challenges in Ibero-America
  • Track 5: The Relevance of the Human Factor in Regional Development

Key Dates

  • Call for Reviewers and Submissions Available Online – Early June 2026
  • Submission and Reviewer Sign-up System Opens – Early July 2026
  • Deadline for Submissions – November 30, 2026
  • Decision Notifications and Registration Opens – February 2027
  • Online Program Available – April 2027

Featured Speakers

  • Luis Felipe López-Calva, distinguished economist and leading expert
  • Sharon Alvarez
  • Herman Aguinis
  • Ruth V. Aguilera

For more information, contact: [email protected]