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2025 AOM Annual Meeting

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18704: Studying Sex-Related Work: From Lap Dancers to OnlyFans: A Research Agenda for Management

Saturday, July 26, 2025
10:00 - 11:30 CEST (GMT+2)
Location: Bella Center: Hall B- B3-m8
Session Type: PDW (workshop)
Orientation: International,Research,Diversity
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/6vpXMY
This PDW aims to gather researchers interested in sex work (SW), taking stock of extant scholarship and building avenues for this understudied area. Indeed, in spite of its widespread diffusion and strong social and human impact, organization studies has been largely silent on the matter. Sex work encompasses various forms of organizing labor around (in)direct sexual arousal and gratification. Crucially, SW has a strong stigma attached, which reflects critical employment, organizational, and industry issues around it. Yet, since recent studies have started to give attention SW, we build on this momentum to bring together a diverse group of scholars currently spearheading new scholarship, reflecting on and sharing how they have approached this phenomenon. Accordingly, we wish to provide a principled and safe space for: take stock of existing knowledge; discuss further avenues of research; share best practices for fieldwork, past failures, and other hands-on advice for scholars keen to cope with the stigma transfer of studying sex work. We propose a PDW based both on a panel discussion between experienced scholars, and on roundtables where participants can engage with guiding questions, whether they already study sex-related work, or have other intersecting interests. This PDW aims to develop a research community on the topic, which the convenors have begun to shape since AoM 2023.

This PDW is open to anyone interested in this topic. Please consider pre-registering so that we can optimally organize the roundtable discussions and take into consideration your views. Walk-ins will also be welcome on the day, space permitting (around 50). Here is the link to the registration form: https://forms.gle/QmdPk9PkrfZLydGL6 (by July 10th).