Operation and Supply Chain Management (OSCM)
2026 Division PDW Program: Call for Submissions
PDW Chair: Annachiara Longoni, Esade Business School, annachiara.longoni@esade.edu
The Operations and Supply Chain Management (OSCM) Division invites you to submit creative and innovative proposals for Professional Development Workshops (PDWs) for the 2026 Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, USA. PDWs will take place from Friday, July 31st through Sunday, August 2nd 2026. Scholarly sessions will take place from Sunday, August 2nd through Tuesday, August 4th 2026.
The OSCM Division encourages PDWs that build knowledge and share expertise oriented towards emerging research themes and methods as well as management practice in the OSCM area.
PDW sessions are also intended for professional development of the participants, so sessions around innovative research and teaching development are called for. PDWs can take different formats, such as workshops, tutorials, debates, roundtable discussions, panel discussions, facility tours, etc. Feel free to be creative!
We highly encourage PDW proposals that link to other divisions/interest groups with joint sponsorship. Some examples of PDW topics that could be considered in the context of OSCM are about opportunities and threats to use AI and big data in teaching and research to study operations and supply chains, apply LLM to collect and analyze data as well as discuss how geopolitical risks or sustainability trends affects operations and supply chains.
If you have questions or would like to discuss or suggest a potential idea, please contact the 2026 OSCM Division PDW Chair, Annachiara Longoni, at annachiara.longoni@esade.edu. Acceptance of PDW proposals will be based on (a) relevance to the interests of the Division's membership, (b) creativity and innovation, and (c) plan for creating an inclusive, interactive, and developmental session. (Note: Traditional presentations of research papers should be submitted to the Scholarly Program portion of the Annual Meeting).
Proposals must be submitted online via the AOM Submission Center. Please submit all proposals along with any joint-division "sponsorship" suggestions using this website. We certainly welcome proposals that are of interest to members of other divisions (e.g., CTO, ENT, HCM, HR, MC, MOC, OB, OMT, ONE, PNP, SAP, SIM, STR, TIM).
Deadline for Submissions is Tuesday, January 13th 2026 at 17:00 ET (UTC-5/GMT-5). Early submissions are highly encouraged. Please note that all PDW participants must commit to participation in advance.
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Annachiara Longoni
ESADE Business School, Barcelona (Spain)
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