Call for Abstracts:
17th ANNUAL PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS CONFERENCE
September 20th and 21st , 2024
The Wharton School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Submission Deadline: June 1st, 2024
We are pleased to invite submissions for the 17th Annual People and Organizations Conference at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
We are currently planning to run the conference in person, at the Wharton School, with options to participate online for those who cannot travel to Philadelphia. We are excited to invite submissions to the conference.
OVERVIEW:
The purpose of the "People and Organizations" Conference is to bring attention to macro-level research on topics associated with work and employment. We aim to support the community of scholars from organization theory, industrial relations, economics, political science, sociology and strategy who share common interests and need a forum for interdisciplinary 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 and race on employment outcomes and careers, and how new technologies are reshaping employment. Human and social capital issues related to entrepreneurship have also become a common theme. We have a special interest in studies that relate to new developments in issues around work and employment. We are particularly seeking studies that have not yet been published nor accepted for publication. We are less interested in studies that have no empirical results, however, unless they are explicitly theoretical.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:
If you are interested in participating in the conference, please submit your abstract here:
https://wharton.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3QPa3pVYte8qxYq
Your abstract 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, the constraints of space mean that we cannot usually accommodate all submissions. Authors of accepted submissions will be notified by the end of July.
Thanks for your interest in the conference!
Feel free to contact any of the members of the organizing committee with questions.
CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Matthew Bidwell, The Wharton School (MBidwell@wharton.upenn.edu)
Diane Burton, Cornell University (Burton@cornell.edu)
Peter Cappelli, The Wharton School (Cappelli@wharton.upenn.edu)
JR Keller, Cornell University (jhk296@cornell.edu)
Peter Sherer, University of Calgary (PSherer@ucalgary.ca)
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Matthew Bidwell
The Wharton School
Philadelphia PA
(215) 746-2524
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