📣 Call for Applicants: SIM–ONE Junior Faculty Consortium | AOM 2026 · Philadelphia 🇺🇸
SIM Division, AOM (primary sponsor), ONE Division, AOM
Organizing team: Sana Chiu (Chair), Limin Fu (Co-Chair), Naomi Gardberg, Maoliang Bu, Francesco Rosati
📅 Event: Saturday, August 1, 2026.
⏰ Application Deadline: April 30, 2026
✔️ Decisions communicated by mid-May 2026
The Social Issues Management and Organizations and the Natural Environment (ONE) divisions invite applications for the 2026 SIM–ONE Junior Faculty Consortium (JFC), a full-day, in-person professional development experience at AOM 2026 in Philadelphia.
If you are an early-career faculty member or postdoc conducting research on social and/or environmental issues in management, this is a great opportunity to receive in-depth feedback, build a mentoring community, and connect with peers across institutions and countries.
✨ What participants can expect
✅ One-on-one mentoring and detailed feedback on a current project
✅ Interactive panels and roundtables on publishing, career strategy, and impact-oriented scholarship
✅ Candid conversations about early-career challenges
✅ A supportive, collegial network that lasts beyond AOM
🌟 2026 Mentors (alphabetical)
· Poonam Arora (Babson College)
· Mike Barnett (Rutgers Business School)
· MK Chin (Indiana University)
. Nicole Darnall (American University)
· R. Edward Freeman (University of Virginia)
· Jennifer J. Griffin (Loyola University of Chicago)
· Minna Halme (Aalto University)
· Irene Henriques (Schulich School of Business)
· Colin Higgins (La Trobe University)
· Bryan Husted (EGADE)
· Brooke Lahneman (University of Montana)
. Sergio Lazzarini (Insper Instituteof Education)
· Jiao Luo (University of Minnesota)
· Kate Odziemkowska (University of Toronto)
· Chang Hoon Oh (University of Kansas)
· Steve Sauerwald (University of Houston)
· Sara Soderstrom (University of Michigan)
· Sandra Waddock (Boston College)
· David Wasieleski (Duquesne University)
· Amanda N Williams (Em Lyon University)
· Harry Van Buren (University of Tennessee-Chattanooga)
· Shipeng Y. (University of Hong Kong)
· Weiting Zheng (University of New South Wales)
👩🎓 Who should apply?
• Within 5 years of first faculty appointment, or currently a postdoc
• Actively engaged in SIM and/or ONE-related research
📝 Application materials
1. CV
2. Brief motivation letter (indicate your primary AOM division and 3-5 keywords that represent your research interests)
3. A working manuscript (<35 pages) that you are preparing for publication. It should be a sole-authored or co-authored paper you lead, and it cannot be already accepted or published.
📬 How to apply
Email your materials with subject line "SIM-ONE JFC Application" to:
📧 Sana Chiu: schiu@bauer.uh.edu
CC: Limin Fu: limin.fu@monash.edu
🔁 Know a junior colleague or postdoc working on sustainability, CSR, stakeholders, or ESG? Please share or tag them!
hashtag#AOM2026 Academy of Management hashtag#Sustainability hashtag#CSR hashtag#ESG
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Nabi Ebrahimi
Doctoral Student
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Lowell MA
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