MSC at the 2025 AOM Annual Meeting
MSC was well represented at the 85th AOM Annual Meeting, which took place at Bella Center, Copenhagen, on 25 – 29 July 2025, for the first time ever outside the United States.
More than 50 members of MSC staff were among the around 10.000 participants at the conference. They acted as presenters, session or workshop organisers, panelists, as well as part of the audience in numerous paper sessions, professional development workshops, poster sessions, etc. Find details about the Annual Meeting in the programme and read more here about the Academy of Management.
Awards
For MSC, highlights of this year’s Annual Meeting included the reception by two members of staff of awards granted by the AOM division Social Issues in Management (SIM):
Jeremy Moon, Professor of Sustainability Governance at MSC, received the Sumner Marcus Award, which is ‘given in recognition of and appreciation for outstanding contributions of service and scholarship to the field’. The award coincides with MSC celebrations of Jeremy Moon’s long-standing scholarship and academic career at CBS as well as Nottingham University (and beyond).
Onna Malou van den Broek, Marie-Sklodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at MSC, together with co-authors Stefano Pascucci and Laura Spence, won the SIM Best Paper Award for their paper: "Governing sustainability locally: a place-based Cornish case study". As expressed on the SIM website: ‘Honoring the best paper submitted to the division, the paper receiving this award is recognized for its relevance to SIM, contribution to the field, methodological or theoretical rigor, and presentations’.
Strong panel message
One of the concluding sessions, fittingly titled ‘Half-Way Towards 2050 Net-Zero: What is Needed from Organizational and Management Research’, was organized by CBS colleague Majken Schultz (Dept. of Organisation (IOA) and involved MSC Professor Mette Morsing (CBS and University of Oxford) as Discussant in a panel featuring CBS President Peter Møllgaard, Professor Andrew J. Hoffman (University of Michigan), Professor Gail Whiteman (University of Exeter Business School), and Professor Tor Hernes (CBS/IOA).
A key message during the debate, forcefully argued by Hoffman, was that Business Schools shoulder a particular responsibility to (further) step up their research on Sustainability and Climate Change; and, crucially, to offer a strong portfolio of teaching in the area, thus equipping their students with the tools and knowledge to prepare them for action and leadership for sustainable futures. The message aligns closely with one of the core research foci and strategic aims of MSC and underscores the great value and importance for the department of participating in international conferences such as the AOM Annual Meeting.
Other Late July Conference Activities at MSC/CBS
Leading up to/partially overlapping with the AOM, the Society for Business Ethics (SBE) as usual had its Annual Meeting/Conference, this year hosted by MSC at Solbjerg Plads (and with Andreas Rasche as the MSC/CBS Academic Liaison) from 24-29 July.
On 29 July, MSC also hosted the event Sustainability Mindset, at the Station – again benefitting from a relevant research community’s participation in the AOM (with Maria Figueroa as the MSC/CBS Academic Liaison).
Of course, another ‘classic’ July conference, with significant MSC participation, was as usual EGOS (the European Group for Organizational Studies) always early July, this year in Athens, and with Mikkel Flyverbom as the MSC academic Lead Liaison in the usual CBS Triad (MSC, IOA and BHL (Dept. of Business Humanities and Law)) that organizes the traditional and highly popular CBS (well …. MSC/IOA/BHL) Reception.
For further information about MSC activities, please contact HoD Dorte Salskov-Iversen, dsi.msc@cbs.dk.