We invite you to submit your research to our track at the 25th European Academy of Management Anniversary Conference (EURAM 2025) in Florence, Italy!
Date: 22-25 June 2025
Venue: University of Florence
Track: T11_04 Exploring Organizational Purposes: Multifunctional Approaches to Resilience, Leadership, and Management Practice
Proponents:
- Andreas Georgiou, University of Exeter Business School, United Kingdom
- Panagiotis Kyriakopoulos, Warwick Business School, United Kingdom
- Margit Neisig, Department for Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, Denmark
- Steffen Roth, Excelia Business School La Rochelle, France, and Next Society Institute, Kazimieras Simonavičius University, Lithuania
- Helen Salavou, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
- Augusto Sales, Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration (FGV EBAPE), Brazil, and Next Society Institute, Kazimieras Simonavičius University, Lithuania
- Vladislav Valentinov, University of Halle, Germany
- Deimantė Žilinskienė, Business Innovation & Communication School, Kazimieras Simonavičius University, Lithuania
Short description: We invite paper submissions focusing on the crucial components that enable organizations to thrive in challenging environments. This track explores the strategies and leadership practices that build resilience, ensuring long-term sustainability. It also addresses how organizations fulfil multiple purposes—political, economic, educational, and scientific. Thus, we are looking for conceptual as well as empirical studies that investigate multifunctional approaches to management and organization. The goal is to comprehend how organizations may handle uncertainty, keep things running smoothly, and produce long-lasting benefits across a range of roles.
The full call for papers is available for download here.
Background literature:
- Sales, A. et al.. (2022). From play to pay: a multifunctional approach to the role of culture in post-merger integration. Management Decision, 60(7), 1922-1946.
- Roth, S. et al. (2020). Harnessing big data for a multifunctional theory of the firm. European Management Journal, 38(1), 54-61.
- Will, M. et al. (2018). From nonprofit diversity to organizational multifunctionality: a systems–theoretical proposal. Administration & Society, 50(7), 1015-1036.
