The AOM selects only the top 5% of submitted papers (among approximately 6,400 papers submitted this year). Both Curran’s and Georgallis’ work will be published in the Proceedings of the 2025 Academy of Management Meeting.

Financially viable social enterprises

Kevin Curran’s paper Ghosts of forms past: Structured attention and social enterprise performance examines whether social enterprises— organisations that deliver both social and economic impact— can remain viable long-term. Through analysis of a large longitudinal dataset from the UK, the paper shows that ‘born-hybrids’ (new ventures) are both profitable and resilient. This challenges prevailing views about the fragility of social enterprises.

Social movements and market formation

Panikos Georgallis’ paper Assembling the market puzzle: Social movements, opportunity configurations, and market formation explores how markets that address grand challenges emerge and grow. Using historical data from the European solar energy market and a mixed methods research design, this paper identifies different pathways to market adoption during industry emergence.

The  Academy of Management conference is the largest gathering of management and organization scholars in the world. The conference will take place in July 2025 in Copenhagen, Denmark.