The Strategy and International Business track at this year’s IAM conference offers an exciting opportunity for national and international scholars to debate trends and share insights on management challenges in a range of organisations, from large multinationals to SMEs, state agencies and NGOs. The track highlights papers focusing on a range of issues such as managing technological change in international settings, home and host country effects, the increasing pressure from a changing geopolitical environment, international markets and industries impacted by new competitive forces, the reduction of traditional sources of advantage and the increasing range of pressures on managers for accountability and transparency. The track chairs are Dr. Dónal O’Brien and Dr. Yanyi Wang (Technological University Dublin).

The Responsible Business, Global & Societal Impact, Grand Challenges track at Irish Academy of Management Conference 2004 covers a wide range of topics looking at how business can have a positive impact and address the challenges facing humanity.

The Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management track at the 2024 Irish Academy of Management Conference offers a unique opportunity to get new insights into current research by  leading academics into the impact and influence of a mutlitude of factors on entrepreneurship and small business. This year, the main focus is on how recent advancements in digital technologies are transforming entrepreneurship and small businesse. The sessions will include the presentation of papers on important topics such as: the impact of digitisation and technology on entrepreneurship, sustainability entrepreneurship, entrepreneural success and scaling,  gender, passion, stakeholder engagement and entrepreneuring in crisis from management scholars and researchers spread across 11 national and international universities. 

The Marketing, Tourism and Services Management track at this year’s Irish Academy of Management Conference offers a unique opportunity to examine the changing world of tourism & marketing. The track provides insight into the latest trends in marketing, in addition to papers focussing on the tourism discipline. The sessions will include the presentation of papers from academics across seven Universities in Ireland, and one from Malysia. The topics covered include: Tiktok and eWom, the adoption of AI within the marketing discipline, market orientation, brand engagement, marketing literary festivals, and Halal family tourism.

The Business Information Systems and Technology track at this year’s Irish Academy of Management Conference offers an opportunity to explore cutting-edge insights into digital innovation and transformation across diverse industries.

Join us for stimulating discussions on the adoption of new and established technologies and the associated challenges in higher education, software development, agriculture, healthcare, the gig economy, and the public sector. The track will bring together leading Irish and international scholars and practitioners from three continents who will present ground-breaking research featuring important empirical findings and theoretical advancements.

The track will host more than a dozen exciting presentations covering collaborative innovation, AI in the workplace, smart farming technologies, novel approaches to digital transformation management and IS design, as well as critical issues of trust and trustworthiness in AI applications.

“The Accounting, Finance and Corporate Governance track at this year’s Irish Academy of Management Conference offers some very interesting and insightful studies looking at the impact of sustainability, the disclosure of climate targets and climate related reporting and the use of AI all of which are currently very topical. The session will include the presentation of papers on the disclosure of climate targets and performance against these targets, new ways of using AI to determine the influence of facework in annual reports, institutional logic/change within a family firm and carbon performance. Furthermore, the session offers the chance to see the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in conducting research work.

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The Leadership and Organisational Behaviour track at this year’s Irish Academy of Management Conference offers a unique opportunity to get new insights from leading academics into the impact of leadership and organisational behaviour research globally.
The sessions will include the presentation of papers on important topics in organisational contexts, such as: ethnic minorities and leadership; violations of trust in leadership; the prevalence of stereotyping in leadership; digital and AI leadership; climate, sustainability and green servant leadership.