Taking Our Research Global: Attending AOM 2025 in Copenhagen

We're excited to announce that we'll be participating in the Academy of Management's 85th Annual Meeting in Copenhagen from July 25-29, 2025. This marks a significant moment for the Academy as they venture beyond North America for the first time, bringing together over 10,000 management scholars, practitioners, and students from around the globe.

The conference presents an unprecedented opportunity to engage with cutting-edge research that bridges the theory-practice gap we consistently explore in our analyses. With sessions spanning organizational behavior, strategic management, and emerging business challenges, we anticipate encountering fresh perspectives on the implementation challenges that often plague well-intentioned management theories.

Our focus will be on identifying practical frameworks that organizations can deploy, moving beyond the academic abstractions that too often dominate management discourse. We're particularly interested in sessions addressing the implementation of sustainability, the execution of digital transformation, and the real-world application of behavioral insights in organizational settings.

Real-Time Knowledge Sharing

Throughout the conference, we'll be sharing immediate insights, key takeaways, and practical applications via Substack Notes and on LinkedIn. Rather than waiting for post-conference reflection, we believe in the power of real-time knowledge transfer. Expect brief analyses of sessions that offer genuine implementation value, gaps we identify in current research approaches, and connections between academic findings and actionable business strategies.

What We're Watching For

Our lens will be trained on three critical areas:

• Implementation Science: How academic research translates into sustainable organizational change—and where it doesn't.
• Gap Analysis: What's missing from current management thinking, particularly around execution and change sustainability.
• Practical Frameworks: Models and approaches that organizations can actually use, not just admire from a theoretical distance.

We'll return with a comprehensive analysis of trends and practical insights that can inform management practice immediately.

The Academy of Management Annual Meeting represents the world's largest gathering of management scholars—an unparalleled opportunity to identify where academic research meets practical reality, and where gaps remain.