Strategizers

🌿 Announcing the Strategy-as-Practice (SAP) Community Day 2026!

We invite you to the SAP Community Day 2026, taking place online on Wednesday, July 8, 2026, from 09:00 to 13:00 CEST. This event will be held ahead of the 42nd EGOS (European Group for Organizational Studies) Colloquium.

Interested in the processes and practices of tackling responsible management and sustainability challenges?

Join us in London, 7–8 September 2026, for an international research workshop bringing scholars together to take stock and explore new directions for practice-based and processual research.

Join the next SAP “Behind-the-Scenes” session
📅 Tuesday Feb 3rd 2026, 4pm (UK)
💻 online (via Zoom)

Mie Plotnikof and Matthias Wenzel will discuss the role of academic reviewing and related challenges.

Register and receive access instructions to this session here: forms.gle/gggdV9ih1WpM...

As we prepare for AOM 2026 in Philadelphia, we need your help! 🙏💪

While we're grateful to those who've submitted and signed up to review, we have not yet reached the required capacity for reviewers!

So when submitting remember to sign up to review too: review.aom.org/2026/default...

Thank you!

Call for Mentors🤝

The SAP Mentoring Program starts a new cycle in 2026. We seek senior SAP scholars to mentor early-career scholars in up to three meetings on research, methods, philosophy, or career topics. One meeting may take place at AOM or SMS 2026.

Sign up by January 2026.🙏

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: AOM Student Community Open House: Get to Know SAP. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. You will receive a direct, thirty-minute briefing on the different submission calls of the SAP interest group in 2026. The SAP Program and PDW Chairs will be available to answer your questions regardi...

#AOM SAP Student Community Open House – Get your submission questions answered 💡

Join the SAP Interest Group on 📅 18 December 2025, 16:00–16:30 CET and receive a thirty-minute briefing on the 2026 submission calls of the IG.

👉 Register here:
aarhusuniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Happy to present the winners of SAP teaching contest! 🥇

🏆 N. González-Salazar and M. Reyes-Sarmiento
SAP: Simulation for Actionable Practice'
🏆 J. Macías-Prada and M. Reyes-Sarmiento
Lived Strategy

Find the teaching materials here: sap.aom.org/inspiring/te...

Congratulations!

📢 SAP Teaching Innovation Contest!
🧠 Got a creative way to teach Strategy-as-Practice?
⏱️ Deadline: Aug 10
✅ Get featured, travel funding, global impact
👉 Apply: lnkd.in/eSBNcT9F

#AOM2025 is on! 🎉 We made a virtual goody bag for all SAP friends:
🪧 2025 Program Flyer
💻 Slide template
💌 Postcards (additional printed versions available in Copenhagen!)
🖊️ Email signatures
Grab yours 👉 higherlogicdownload.s3.amazonaws.com/AOM/b8658241...

#SAP #AOM2025 #OrganizationStudies

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Check out the latest Strategizers newsletter including information on our offers at #AOM2025! www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6fd0f...

Research Clinic – Supporting Promising Ideas 💡🚑

We piloted a Research Clinic to support SMS Conference submissions that couldn’t be accepted. We were impressed by the strength and potential of many submissions! Get in touch with Alexey, our first participant: www.linkedin.com/in/alexey-ul...

🏆 SAP Best Paper Award Finalists! 🥁
🎓 Vuori
🎓 L., Burke, Omidvar & Carrington
🎓 Düsterbeck, Habersang & Reihlen
Big congrats to all! 👏👏👏
Join us July 28 @ 5pm (Bella Center) for the awards + SAP Social!
#AOM2025 #StrategyAsPractice #SAP

🎉 At #EGOS2025 in Athens, we celebrated 20 yrs of Strategy-as-Practice, 10 yrs of SAP Community Days & our new SWG Organizing as Practice! Panels, memories, music & more. Huge thanks to all involved! #SAP #EGOS #StrategyAsPractice #CommunityDay

👏👏👏 Another round of applause!

Here are the #SAP Pushing the Boundary Award Finalists 🧠✨
🔹 Safavi & Alvarenga
🔹 Schulz & Müller-Seitz
🔹 Leuk, Wacker, Ortner & Hautz
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oin us July 28 @ 5pm (Bella Center) for the big reveal! 🎉
#AOM2025 #StrategyAsPractice

SAP 20th Birthday Party at EGOS The 2025 EGOS Colloquium will mark two significant milestones: the 20th anniversary of the SAP Standing Working Group and the 10th anniversary of SAP Community Day. As a valued member to the SAP commu...

We will also have a great birthday party featuring:
🎶 A live band (with one of our SAP scholars!)
🎧 DJ sets to keep the dancing going
🍹 A FREE open bar
🏖️ A beautiful beach setting
🎁 Surprises, vibes, and fun guaranteed!

🗓️ Spots are limited – sign up now!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Any questions? Contact Christoph Brielmaier, Christian Bruck, Jessica Crewe-Brown, Robin Engelbach, Rebecca Lu, David Montens, Kristina Stoiber, Violetta Splitter, or Winky Wu.

⏲️ Our SAP event schedule is live!

Part 1: A celebration of strategizing & organizing, led by Violetta Splitter with a stellar panel – Jarzabkowski, Balogun, Seidl & Whittington.

Part 2: Paper development roundtables with top SAP scholars.

Let’s reflect, connect & shape what’s next!

📢 EGOS is just around the corner along with our Strategy-as-Practice Community Day on July 2nd at #EGOS2025 in Athens

🎉We look forward to welcoming over 60 attendees to this year's extra special event Celebrating 20 Years of Strategy-as-Practice at EGOS: Honoring the Past, Creating the Future!

🏆 SAP Best Student Paper Finalists! 🏆

We’re thrilled to announce this year’s #AOM2025 nominees in Copenhagen:

📌 Friesl & Brielmaier
📌 Supryn
📌 Stoiber, Ortner, Degischer & Hautz

Join us Mon July 28 @ 5pm (Bella Center) to celebrate! 🎉
#StrategyAsPractice #Awards

🎉 Proudly welcoming our newly elected SAP IG members at AoM!
🌟 Julia Hautz – PDW Chair
🌟 Silvia Sanasi – Rep-at-Large
🌟 Omid Omidvar – Rep-at-Large
🌟 Rosalia Lavarda – Rep-at-Large
🌟 Mustafa Kavas – Treasurer (returning)
Excited for what’s ahead! 👏

🌟 Kicking Off the SAP Mentoring Program 2025! 🌟

We’re thrilled to have launched this year’s SAP Mentoring Program! It was a pleasure to welcome such an inspiring group of mentors and mentees, committed to mutual support and deepening their engagement with SAP.

🔗 sap.aom.org/connecting/s...

AOM PDW 2025: The future of strategizing and organizing as practice: extending to under-represented contexts This PDW is divided into two parts: (1) Panel and (2) Roundtable for Paper discussions. The second part needs registration through this form until June 20th. This AOM PDW is organized in connection ...

📢 AOM PDW: The Future of Strategizing & Organizing as Practice

🗓 Sat, July 26 | 3:30–6:00 PM (CBS)

👥 Part 1: Panel
On underrepresented geographies, new phenomena & building bridges

🧠 Part 2: Idea/Paper Development Roundtables
🔗 Submit your work by June 20: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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📣 The SAP July newsletter is coming—spotlighting AoM Copenhagen! Got a PDW, meetup, new publication, CFP, or research to share? Send your update (1 page max, Word) to skade@europa-uni.de by June 15!

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📣 Reminder: Vote for your SAP Community Leadership Team at AOM! 🗳️ Check your inbox for the election email & make your voice heard. Help shape the future of our scholarly community! 🙏 #AOM2025 #SAPCommunity

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