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Dear colleagues,
On behalf of the organizing team, I am delighted to invite you - and especially your doctoral students and early-career colleagues - to the SEE Connect Workshop: Advancing Management Research in Southeastern Europe, taking place on October 2–3, 2026, at the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Organizational Sciences (FON) in Belgrade, Serbia.
SEE Connect is an Academy of Management initiative under the Community Accelerator Program (CAP), designed for doctoral students, young researchers, and early-career academics working across all areas of management research - including strategy, innovation, technology, and organizational studies. It is a unique opportunity to receive feedback from distinguished scholars and journal editors, form research teams, and build networks in the region.
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
Keynote talks by Annamaria Conti (IE Business School) and Milan Mirić (USC Marshall School of Business, STR Division)
CARMA Workshop: advanced research methodology training with Larry J. Williams (Rawls College of Business, Texas Tech University) and Gilad Chen (Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, OB Division)
"Navigating the Journal Review Process": keynote panel with insights from leading journals
"Why Join the AoM Divisions?": panel with AOM division representatives, including Patia McGrath (Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, TIM Division) in addition to the previously mentioned professors
Parallel research sessions: each accepted proposal is assigned an expert discussant, and journal editors and senior scholars participate throughout the workshop
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
We welcome research summaries at all stages of development - from early project ideas to more developed work. Theoretical and empirical contributions using any methodology are welcome.
Length: up to 600 words (excluding references), in English
Format: MS Word or PDF
Suggested structure: title; researcher(s) and affiliation; antecedents/objectives/theory/hypotheses; methodology or intervention (if any); results (if any); theoretical and practical implications, limitations, and future research (if any)
IMPORTANT DATES AND FEES
Submission deadline: September 8, 2026
Acceptance notifications: September 15, 2026
Registration deadline: September 25, 2026 (registration link to follow)
Fee: EUR 150 (EUR 100 for PhD students)
Please feel free to forward this invitation to doctoral students and colleagues who may be interested. For any questions, write to us at seeconnect@fon.bg.ac.rs - we would be delighted to welcome you to Belgrade this October.
Warm regards,
Veljko Jeremić Full Professor, University of Belgrade – Faculty of Organizational Sciences
Program Committee Co-Chair, SEE Connect Workshop 2026 (with co-chairs Slavica Cicvarić-Kostić and Marko Mihić, and Organizing Committee co-chairs Milica Maričić and Dragan Bjelica)
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Veljko Jeremic
Professor
University of Belgrade
Belgrade
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