We are pleased to invite submissions for the 18th Annual People and Organizations Conference, taking place September 19–20, 2025, at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Overview:
The People and Organizations Conference highlights macro-level research on work and employment, bringing together scholars from across disciplines to examine how organizations and institutions shape the world of work.
We aim to support a vibrant, interdisciplinary community of researchers from organization theory, industrial relations, economics, political science, sociology, and strategy who share common interests and seek a space for thoughtful exchange.
Representative papers from past years have included:
- Studies exploring the effects of workplace practices on organizational performance
- The causes and consequences of worker mobility
- The nature of inequality within workplaces
- The impact of gender on employment outcomes and careers
- The role of social networks in shaping employment outcomes
Human and social capital issues related to business strategy and performance have also become a common theme.
Among topics of particular interest are:
- New developments in work and employment relationships
- The effects of organizational employment practices on firm performance and worker outcomes
- The structure and determinants of careers in and across modern workplaces
- New insights on inequality in the workplace
In addition to a plenary program, we plan to continue our practice of roundtable sessions for specialized topics or works in progress.
Submission Guidelines:
Your abstract (maximum 800 words) should summarize your theoretical or empirical argument, discuss how it relates to the relevant literature and/or an extant debate, spell out the quantitative or qualitative methodology (if your paper is empirical), and highlight your key findings and/or the implications of your work. For empirical papers, a brief overview of at least preliminary results will help our process.
We select papers from the conference through a process of blind review. Unfortunately, space constraints mean we cannot accommodate all submissions.
Authors of accepted submissions will be notified by the end of July.
Submission deadline: May 23, 2025.