Relevant AOM Divisions/Interest Groups: OB, STR, HR, OMT, SIM, DEI, MH
This integrative track welcomes scholarship that addresses foundational questions about management, leadership, and organising in contexts of technological disruption, social inequality, ecological crisis, and institutional complexity.
Illustrative Sub-Themes
- Responsible, ethical, and purpose-driven leadership, including moral courage, stewardship, and paradoxical leadership.
- Power, politics, and inequality, including voice, control, marginalisation, and elite reproduction within organisations.
- Decision-making under uncertainty and complexity, including cognitive biases, sensemaking, and strategic judgement.
- Hybrid work, algorithmic management, and the future of managerial work, including human–AI collaboration and digital governance.
Indicative Research Questions
- How is the nature of managerial work and leadership being transformed under conditions of algorithmic governance, hybrid organising, and global uncertainty?
- How is AI transforming the role of human employees in service work?
- How do leaders balance purpose, performance, and planetary responsibility in contexts of institutional and moral complexity?
- What new models of governance, coordination, and organising are emerging in response to grand societal challenges?
- How are historical patterns of management thought and practice being reinterpreted in contemporary organisational life?