18969: Unconferencing SAP and Beyond: An Open Space for Emerging Topics and Nascent Projects

Sunday, July 27, 2025

14:00 - 17:00 CEST (GMT+2)

Location: Bella Center: Hall D- D5

Session Type: PDW (workshop)
Orientation: Teaching,Practice,International,Research,Diversity
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/PnYAy8

Organizer(s)

MP

Madalina Pop

Aarhus BSS, Aarhus U., Denmark
LD

Leonhard Dobusch

Universität Innsbruck, Austria
MH

Maximilian Heimstädt

Helmut Schmidt University - University of the Federal Armed Forces of Hamburg, Germany

Facilitator(s)

SM

Shenghui Ma

Fudan U., China
JM

Juliane Moellmann

Aarhus BSS, Aarhus U., Denmark
CB

Christian Bruck

WU Vienna U. of Economics and Business, Austria
JB

John M. Bryson

U. of Minnesota Twin Cities, United States
JH

Julia Hautz

U. of Innsbruck, Austria
AS

A. Paul Spee

U. of Queensland, Australia
BR

Birgit Elisabeth Renzl

U. of Stuttgart, Germany

Participant(s)

RW

Richard Whittington

U. of Oxford, United Kingdom

This Professional Development Workshop (PDW) is a forward-looking event that aims to nurture emerging topics in Strategizing Activities and Practices (SAP) scholarship and incubate nascent research projects of SAP scholars, including PhD students, early-career and senior scholars. This PDW provides an open space for discussing nascent topics, dilemmas, development and research as well as teaching ideas, which fall mostly outside the scope of other parts of the conference program. PDW follows a Bar Camp format, where participants set the topics for three series of open round-table discussions. Overall, Unconferencing SAP and Beyond aims for participants to jointly make sense of topical opportunities and challenges for SAP research, to facilitate the onboarding of junior scholars in the community, and to spur new connections and collaborations between participants. Furthermore, the PDW is an innovative format for the AOM meeting, as it allows for nurturing new ideas, topics, and themes on the Division/Interest Group level through serendipity and ‘structured structurelessness’.

While not compulsory, if you would like to suggest a topic for an open round-table discussion or discuss some nascent project, please, register your idea via (link to this form). If you have any questions, you can contact Madalina Pop at madast@btech.au.dk.