CONFLICT MANAGEMENT (CM)
2026 Division Scholarly Program: Call for Submissions
Program Chair: Dejun "Tony" Kong, University of Colorado Boulder
The Conflict Management (CM) Division invites symposium and paper submissions for the 86th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (2026). The Annual Meeting will be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (July 31 – August 4, 2026). You may send submissions through the AOM Submission Center. Submissions open in early December 2025 and close on January 13, 2026.
Our Domain
The CM division welcomes submissions on a wide variety of topics including team interactions, intercultural relations, organizational diversity, labor relations, workplace disputes, community conflict, and public policy development. We focus on the nature and management of conflicts at the individual, group, organizational, institutional, interorganizational and societal level; power processes including influence, coalitions, coercion, deterrence, and persuasion; bargaining and negotiation, negotiator characteristics and behaviors; collaboration and competition; third party interventions (such as facilitation, arbitration, mediation); trust, trust violations, and trust repair; workplace mistreatment, distributive and procedural justice, restorative justice, and dispute resolution procedures. Major topics include application of the above conceptual foci to a wide variety of contexts including interpersonal conflict, team interactions, intercultural relations, organizational diversity, labor relations, workplace disputes, community conflict, and public policy development. If this describes your research, we hope to see your paper!
Reviewing for CM
Our division is not large, but we are a warm and inclusive group of people who work in and study the domain of conflict. We are good at developing great ideas! We will need your help as a reviewer to keep this tradition alive-and to help us identify our best submissions. Please sign up to review for the Annual Meeting. Your reviewer assignment will be based on keyword matching. We are grateful for your service to the division!
CM Division Awards
The CM Division will award: (a) Best Student Paper, (b) Best Paper: Conflict in Context, (c) Best New Directions Paper, (d) Best Empirical or Theoretical Paper. Note that authors can nominate their own papers. For student papers, only those that are exclusively student authored will be considered for the award.
We look forward to your contribution to our division and to seeing you in Copenhagen! If you have any question, please do not hesitate to contact the Program Chair Tony Kong (Tony.Kong@colorado.edu).
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Dejun "Tony" Kong, Ph.D.
Program Chair, AOM Conflict Management Division
Professor and Ph.D. Director of Organizational Leadership and Information Analytics
Chair, Social Responsibility and Sustainability Division
Leeds School of Business
University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Tony.Kong@colorado.edu------------------------------