Management and
Organization (ICMO 2026)
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"Sustainability is not an endpoint, but a principle of design for the future."
About the Conference
The 8th International Conference on Management and Organization, with the theme "Sustainability by Design: Rethinking Strategy, People & Digital Futures," will be held from June 3-6, 2026, at Hotel Maestral, Pržno, Montenegro. The conference aims to provide an international platform for critical debate, cross-disciplinary engagement, and collaborative exploration of how strategy, people, and digital futures can shape a more sustainable world. It seeks to advance management and organization research that informs, inspires, and impacts society at large.
The quest for sustainability has become one of the most pressing imperatives of our age. It transcends environmental concerns to reshape how organizations strategize, how people work and thrive, and how digital futures are imagined and governed. Sustainability by design calls for a fundamental rethinking: it cannot remain an add-on to existing systems, but must be intentionally embedded into the way strategies are conceived, human potential is organized, and digital technologies are deployed.
This integrative perspective calls for moving beyond familiar trade-offs between economic, social, and environmental goals. Sustainable design embraces paradoxes and complexity - long-term versus short-term, efficiency versus resilience, global integration versus local responsiveness, innovation versus stability - inviting both/and solutions that are not only viable today but regenerative for tomorrow.
Sustainability by Design
The quest for sustainability has become one of the most pressing imperatives of our age. It transcends environmental concerns to reshape how organizations strategize, how people work and thrive, and how digital futures are imagined and governed.
ICMO 2026 aims to provide an international platform for critical debate, moving beyond familiar trade-offs to embrace paradoxes: efficiency versus resilience, global integration versus local responsiveness.
Rethinking Strategy
Embedding sustainability into the core of organizational design.
Conference Snapshot and Highlights
ICMO 2026 brings together scholars, journal editors, doctoral researchers, institutional leaders, and invited voices from business and society to examine how sustainability can be embedded into strategy, leadership, people, and digital transformation.
The conference is designed as an international meeting point for the management and organization community, creating space for rigorous scholarship, editorial dialogue, institutional collaboration, and emerging research agendas.
Conference Highlights and Publication Opportunities
Program Highlights
The conference includes keynote and featured speaker sessions, leadership and industry conversations, Academy of Management community discussions, editorial and publication-oriented activities, doctoral and research development sessions, curated networking moments, a welcome cocktail, conference gala dinner, and a destination-rooted social program.
The MAOM video podcast series will host conversations with selected keynote speakers, scholars, and invited guests during the event, extending the visibility of ideas and partnerships beyond the conference itself.
Publication Pathways
Selected papers will be considered for a fast-track process at Business Strategy and the Environment and the International Journal of Emerging Markets.
High-quality abstracts may be developed for the Dynamic Relationships Management Journal, Economic and Business Review, or book chapters in an edited volume with Springer or Edward Elgar. Participants will also have an opportunity to submit work to a Q1 SSCI-indexed special issue, with details to be announced.
Partners and Institutional Collaboration
The PDF also lists partner and institutional support from the Government of Montenegro, the Ministry of Education, Science and Innovation of Montenegro, the Academy of Management Community Accelerator Program, and the Turkish Academy of Management.
Program and Committees
Conference Chair
Ivan Radević
Faculty of Economics, University of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro; President of Montenegrin Academy of Management.
International Scientific Committee
The PDF describes an International Scientific Committee representing 46 countries, including all 27 European Union member states and a broader academic network across five continents.
Organizational Committee
- Ivan Radević
- Mijat Jocović
- Jovan Đurašković
- Sanja Peković
- Sandra Tinaj
- Aleksandra Jovanović
- Ivan Bošković
- Jelena Jovović
- Marko Vukosavović
- Shira Hodges
- Maša Košak
- Amadeja Lamovšek
- Jure Andolšek
- Sara Dragićević
- Barbara Miklič
- Nikola Abramović
- Sunčica Vuković
- David Vukićević
- Jovana Čabarkapa
- Jovana Milić
- Dragana Ćirović
- Milica Damjanović
- Tamara Stanković
- Jovana Jaćimović
- Anđela Babić
- Ana Slavić
- Magdalena Đurašković
- Dušan Šćepanović
- Rade Jocović
- Đorđije Kustudić
Program Committee
- Metka Tekavčić
- Matej Černe
- Tomislav Hernaus
- Kelly Mitchell
- Miha Škerlavaj
- Boban Melović
- Robert Kaše
- Marko Vukosavović
- Ivana Bulog
- Tomaž Čater
- Mateja Drnovšek
- Mijalche Santa
- Marko Mihić
- Jakov Jandrić
- Emil Knezović
- Nikša Alfirević
- Aleša Saša Sitar
- Mojca Marc
- Jernej Belak
- Nikolina Dragičević Rogge
- Matija Marić
- Ana Aleksić Mirić
- Aleksandra Stevanović
- Nikola Abramović
- Ljupčo Eftimov
- Marina Dabić
Conference Organizers
Conference Tracks
We encourage discussion around the paradoxical challenges in organization and management through the following themes.
Theory and Practice of Sustainability by Design
Regenerative systems; circular organizing; embodied sustainability; design justice; temporal design; human-AI symbiosis; sustainable materialities; multispecies organizing; systemic coherence.
Strategy & Sustainable Organization
Strategic choices under uncertainty; sustainable business models; organization design; paradox management; impact-oriented KPIs; portfolio design for resilience and growth; business models addressing climate change.
People, HRM & Well-being
Engagement, burnout, psychological safety; DEI; rewards; sustainable careers and skills; people analytics; unethical behavior; human-centered work design; distributed, gig, and fluid forms of work; the future of work.
Digital Futures: AI, Data & Tech Governance
GenAI at work; human-AI teaming and communication; data governance & privacy; cybersecurity; platform governance; responsible AI and evaluation.
Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Ecosystems
Open/corporate innovation; university-industry collaboration; deep-tech & funding; regional ecosystems; mission-driven innovation.
Governance, Ethics & ESG Integration
Board oversight of AI/ESG; responsible finance; investor engagement; impact measurement & assurance; compliance and anti-corruption.
International Business & Resilient Supply Chains
Re/near-shoring; geopolitics; sustainable trade; standards & interoperability; risk analytics; emerging markets; cross-cultural analysis.
Public Sector, NPOs & Cross-sector Partnerships
New public management; policy implementation; digital government; social innovation; PPPs; collaborative governance and service design.
Methods, Open Science & Replication
Causal identification (experiments/quasi-); longitudinal modeling; multilevel research; computational text/network analysis; qualitative methods; preregistration; data/code sharing.
Teaching & Learning
Transformative pedagogy; experiential and reflective learning; learning ecosystems; digital and immersive education; design thinking in management education; lifelong and intergenerational learning; sustainability literacy; learning from failure; AI-assisted learning and assessment.
Confirmed Keynote and Invited Speakers
Aligned with the ICMO 2026 PDF speaker list
Keynote Speakers
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Arnold B. Bakker
Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands. Professor of Work and Organizational Psychology.
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Peter Bamberger
Coller School of Management, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Immediate Past President, Academy of Management.
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Oliver Baumann
University of Southern Denmark, Faculty of Business and Social Sciences, Denmark. Professor of Strategy and Organization Design.
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Nancy Bello
Former Senior Wealth Management Leader, Merrill Lynch, USA. Wealth management executive and board advisor.
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Evangelia Demerouti
Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands. President, European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology.
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Bradley L. Kirkman
College of Management, North Carolina State University, USA. General H. Hugh Shelton Distinguished Professor of Leadership.
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Carin-Isabel Knoop
Executive Director of the Harvard Business School Case Research & Writing Group, USA.
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C. Chet Miller
University of Houston, USA. C.T. Bauer Professor of Organizational Studies and Co-Editor in Chief, Academy of Management Discoveries.
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Dana Minbaeva
King’s Business School, King’s College London, UK. Professor of Strategic Human Capital.
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Mark Pattison
Entrepreneur, media executive and former NFL player, USA. High-performance speaker and leadership advisor.
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Taryn Sullivan
Senior Product Manager, Google, USA. Product and business leader with global-scale product experience.
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Larry J. Williams
Texas Tech University, USA. Founder and Director, Consortium for the Advancement of Research Methods and Analysis (CARMA).
Invited Academic and Industry Speakers
Through their diverse roles in research, professional associations, and industry, these speakers strengthen the conference’s academic and practical impact across strategy, international business, innovation, organizational behavior, methods, leadership, and contemporary management research.
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Ilan Alon
Ariel University, Israel. Professor of Business and Economics, University of Agder. Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Emerging Markets.
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Amitabh Anand
Excelia Business School, La Rochelle, France. Professor of Management, Organization, and Entrepreneurship.
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Carole Bousquet
IDRAC Business School, France. Associate Professor and Chair, Management Consulting Division, Academy of Management.
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Xavier Castañer
HEC Lausanne, Faculty of Business & Economics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Professor of Strategy and Past President, IFSAM.
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Jelena Cerar
WU Vienna, Austria. Tenure-track Assistant Professor and post-doctoral researcher at Copenhagen Business School.
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Bonnie Hayden Cheng
City University of Hong Kong, China. Professor and Head of the Department of Management.
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Michael Christofi
Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus. Professor of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation.
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Caroline Fry
Shidler College of Business, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, USA. Associate Professor.
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Ada Guštin Habuš
CEO and co-founder of Kolibri Labs, Slovenia. Expert in technology management, behavioral economics, and coaching psychology.
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Goran Kuljanin
DePaul University, USA. Associate Professor, Department of Management and Entrepreneurship.
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Ivana Milošević
College of Charleston, USA. Associate Professor of Management and Associate Editor, Journal of Business Research.
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Ted A. Paterson
Oregon State University, USA. Professor of Management and Director, Center for Family Enterprise.
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Stevo Pavićević
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Germany. Associate Professor of Strategy.
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H. Cenk Sözen
Turkish Academy of Management, Türkiye. Professor at Başkent University and President, Turkish Academy of Management.
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Alexander D. Stajković
University of Wisconsin–Madison, School of Business, USA. Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior.
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Kayla Stajković
Oregon State University, USA. Lecturer and researcher on gender, leadership effectiveness, and work motivation.
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Natalia Vershinina
Audencia Business School, France. Professor of Entrepreneurship and Deputy Director for Research.
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Ivana Vranješ
Tilburg University, Netherlands. Assistant Professor and Associate Editor, Group & Organization Management.
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Jelena Žikić
York University, School of Human Resource Management, Canada. Professor.
Contact and Invitation
Scholars, institutions, organizations, and partners interested in participating, supporting, or collaborating with ICMO 2026 are warmly invited to get in touch. The conference is designed to connect scholarship, institutions, and practice around the question of how to build more sustainable, human, resilient, and future-ready organizations.
Venue & Accommodation
Hotel Maestral Resort
Pržno, Montenegro
The conference will be held at Hotel Maestral Resort in Pržno, a premium Adriatic venue located between Budva and Sveti Stefan and within convenient reach of both Tivat and Podgorica international airports. Overlooking the Adriatic coastline, the venue combines keynote sessions, parallel research tracks, editorial discussions, partner activities, and informal networking in a single seaside setting.
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