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🔎🎓🏠 AOM MSR Division Open House: Finding Your Research Home

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📅 Date: June 23, 2026, Tuesday

⏰ Time:  🇺🇸 9:00-10:30 AM EDT | 🇪🇺 15:00-16:30 CEST | 🇮🇳 18:30-20:00 IST  

🔗 Registration link:  https://aom-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/Unmpzu9wSNyugrKjXOAVQQ

For many members of the student community, identifying the right intellectual "home" within the Academy of Management (AOM) can significantly shape research trajectories, collaborations, and a sense of scholarly belonging. The AOM Management, Spirituality and Religion (MSR) Division invites you to an engaging online open house designed to introduce participants to a vibrant scholarly community exploring meaning, purpose, and the deeper human dimensions of management and organizations.

MSR division's vision is to promote human flourishing and global consciousness. The division is an interdisciplinary community engaged in both theoretical and applied research, as well as pedagogy, examining the relevance and relationship of spirituality and religion in management.

This online session offers an accessible entry point into the MSR scholarly community-particularly for those engaging with questions about spirituality and religion in organizations, alongside broader concerns of meaning, purpose, ethics, well-being, sustainability, and the deeper human dimensions that influence human flourishing.

Participants from the AOM student community are invited to explore how MSR can complement, extend, or reframe current research agendas and teaching practices.

What you can expect:

💡A clear introduction to the MSR division's foundations, vision, and evolving scholarly agenda

💡Insight into how MSR-related perspectives can enrich management research

💡An understanding of the division's core research themes and their relevance to human flourishing in organizations

💡Opportunities to learn about initiatives of the division, to engage in the upcoming MSR events and to build collaborative networks

💡An interactive Q&A with division members and leadership.

Featured speakers:

🎙️Prof. Jerry Biberman -Flame-keeper, MSR Division, Founding member, MSR Division; former co-editor of the Journal of Management, Spirituality and Religion Professor Emeritus, University of Scranton, USA

🎙️Prof. Payal Kumar - Program Chair, MSR Division; Principal & Academic Mentor, Indian School of Hospitality, India

🎙️Dr. Ekaterina Ivanova - Representative-at-Large, Communications & Outreach, MSR Division; Associate Professor, HSE University Graduate School of Business, Russia

🎙️Dr. Gaëtan Mourmant - Technology Lead, MSR Division; Founder & CEO, XLerateur; Associate Professor, IESEG School of Management, Canada

🎙️Saloni Sinha - MSR Division Active Member & Volunteer; Assistant Professor, Birla Institute of Management Technology, India

Moderator:

🎙️Vineet Arora - Lead, Early Career Mentoring, MSR Division; Joint Doctoral Researcher, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India & La Trobe University, Australia

Whether you are already engaging with MSR themes or simply exploring how research might connect, this open house provides a valuable entry point into the MSR scholarly community.

 🌍 All members of the student community seeking to broaden intellectual horizons are warmly welcome to this inclusive and collegial MSR community.

🔖 We look forward to welcoming new members of the MSR Division!

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Gaetan Mourmant
Gaetan Mourmant Person
Lunenburg NS
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