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Call for Papers for the Annual Conference 2025

• October 9-11, 2025
• University of Regensburg, Germany

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We invite scholars and practitioners to contribute their research and perspectives on how war affects organizations and institutions in the fields of economics, politics, law, history, culture, and beyond. Potential research areas include (but are not limited to):

• Management: International management, supply chain management, crisis management
• Organizational resilience and change
• Leadership under stress
• Institutional transfers and transformations
• Reorientation and management of cultural, epistemic and linguistic hierarchies
• Spatial reorientation of cultural formats
• Translation of meanings, symbols and institutions
• The role of identity and memory in organizational behaviour

Our geographical focus is on Ukraine and other transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Caucasus region, covering not only the current war in Ukraine but also other past and present armed conflicts (e.g. the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the wars in ex-Yugoslavia, etc.).

The conference aims to bring together a broad range of analyses that examine both the immediate impacts of military conflict on organizations and institutions and its long-term implications for theory and practice. We seek to develop a multidimensional understanding of institutions and organizations in times of war, drawing on empirical research, theoretical advancements, and detailed case studies. Thus, conceptual as well as quantitative and qualitative studies are welcome.

The conference language is English.

Submission Guidelines

To join the conference, please submit your application by June 30, 2025.

Alternatively, you may submit a panel proposal comprising three presentations. In that case, please include abstracts and short bios for each presenter in the panel. Notification of acceptance will be sent by July 31, 2025.

We look forward to receiving your submissions and to welcoming you at the University of Regensburg in October 2025!