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2025 AOM Annual Meeting

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10009: Let’s Form a PACT: How to be the Change You Want to See, and Create a More Positive Academia?

Saturday, July 26, 2025
09:30 - 12:00 CEST (GMT+2)
Location: Bella Center: Hall B- B1-m3
Session Type: PDW (workshop)
Orientation: International,Research,Diversity
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/MK9mA9
The term Positive Academia might conjure up many different visions for an alternative academic future. What most of us will agree upon, however, is that academia just isn’t working the way we would like it to. Many academics have published trenchant critiques on the “state of academia” in our top journals or have even penned entire books on the topic. Going beyond critique, however, some academics are proactively co-creating a more positive future. Pioneering organizations such as RRBM (Responsible Research in Business & Management) are now over a decade old. Recently, however, several new ideas and initiatives have coalesced in this arena. This includes a social media movement initiated by the organizers in January 2022 with a LinkedIn group (3200+ members, https://www.linkedin.com/company/positive-academia/) and two hashtags with regular postings (#PositiveAcademia and #EveryLittleActionCounts). This PDW will galvanise this new momentum to create a PACT (Positive Academia Collective Transformation). We will launch a manifesto laying the foundation for a more positive academia, presenting a concrete and comprehensive re-imagination of both our academic careers and interactions. Our panelists – representing early, mid, senior, and late career stages – will then elaborate on specific elements of this manifesto, empowering individual academics to contribute – each within their own sphere of influence – to a collective transformation. Our PDW will include short presentations, break-out groups, and plenty of audience participation. To ensure the sustainability of our PACT, we will also equip participants with approaches, relationships, and materials to draw on beyond the PDW.

For further information about the history of Positive Academia, please read: https://christasathish.com/2024/12/celebrating-a-synergy-of-passion-reflecting-on-three-years-of-positive-academia/ For recent campaigns and updates visit: • Every Little Action Counts: https://christasathish.com/every-little-counts-campaign-2024-2025/ • The Fables of Academia: https://christasathish.com/feminist-academia/ • #PositiveAcademia – Reimagining academic life: https://harzing.com