Social Issues in Management SIM

Dear SIM colleagues,

I will be arriving in Philadelphia a few days before the AOM Annual Meeting and wanted to ask whether there are any SIM-related activities, informal meetups, doctoral gatherings, or networking opportunities taking place on 28, 29, or 30 July.

I am a doctoral student working on social entrepreneurship, mission drift, impact fidelity, and purpose-driven ventures, with a particular interest in how organizations preserve their social mission while responding to investor, market, stakeholder, and scaling pressures.

I would be especially interested in events or informal gatherings connected to social entrepreneurship, business ethics, sustainability, impact investing, purpose-driven organizations, responsible innovation, or qualitative research. I would also be happy to connect with other PhD students and early-career scholars arriving before the official programme begins.

If you know of any workshops, local events, pre-conference activities, or informal meetups during these dates, I would be very grateful if you could share them.

Many thanks in advance.

Best regards,
Elizaveta Petrovskaia
PhD Researcher, University of Iceland

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Elizaveta Petrovskaia
University of Iceland
Reykjavik
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Dear Elizaveta,

On behalf of SIM Division and the Membership Committee, welcome to the SIM community! You do relevant and fascinating research - and there are many of us whose research intersect with these topics! 

To answer your questions, as of now, I am not aware of informal/official SIM events happening during July 28th to 30th, as most of us might be travelling. However, from July 31st to 4th, there is a fantastic lineup of events in the programme (e.g., PDWs, plenary, keynote, outstanding submissions' sessions, business meeting, reception) - and we are currently also organising off-programme (i.e., informal) events as well. The off-programme events will be circulated via the listserv and also our LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sim-division-aom/posts/?feedView=all There's also a vibrant and supportive PhD community, with an active WhatsApp group- it is a great way to arrange informal meetups too. 

Feel free to email me directly and I will connect you to our PhD rep-at-large!

Looking forward to meeting you in Philadelphia!

Sarah

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Sarah Stephen
University of Liverpool
Liverpool
United Kingdom
sarah.stephen@liverpool.ac.uk
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