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Roundtables for Critical Management Scholars Now Open: AOM 2026 PDW on the Space Economy

  • 1.  Roundtables for Critical Management Scholars Now Open: AOM 2026 PDW on the Space Economy

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    Dear CMS colleagues, this PDW includes space for critical engagement with the political economy of New Space, including power, ownership, alternative organizational forms, commons, privatization, and the limits of dominant market-driven structures.

    We are delighted to invite colleagues to the PDW "Space Economy: Consolidating a Management Research Agenda" at AOM 2026.

    A core feature of this year's PDW is the interactive roundtable format. The session is designed to help scholars develop concrete research questions, data strategies, and collaboration opportunities around predefined themes.

    Participants will be able to join one of the following roundtables:

    1. Entering the Space Economy: Emerging Business Models and New Roles for Non-Space Firms
    2. Coopetition in the Space Economy: How Firms Collaborate and Compete
    3. Phenomenon-Driven Research and Space Economy
    4. Methodological Challenges for Management Scholars Exploring Space Economy
    5. Contractual Governance and Innovation in the Space Economy
    6. Research Urgency & Environmental Responsibility in the Space Economy
    7. Orchestrating Polycentricity in Space Platform Ecosystems
    8. From International to Space Business? The Emerging New Space Economy and International Business Thought and Practice
    9. Opportunity Formation under Institutional Constraint: Insights from Space Entrepreneurship
    10. Beyond Capitalist Realism in New Space: How Can Alternative Organizational Forms Challenge Dominant Structures in the Space Economy?
    11. Open and Multi-Actor Innovation in the Space Economy
    12. Social Issues in the Space Economy

    The PDW will also include a keynote, practitioner panel, and academic panel. The main goal is to create a collaborative forum where scholars from different AOM communities can work together on publishable research ideas around this fast-growing domain.

    🗓 August 1, 2026 | 2:00–5:30 PM
    📍 Loews Hotel, Philadelphia, USA
    🔗 Register: https://lnkd.in/e3czZT4R
    📩 Questions: Mehdi.montakhabi@said.oxford.edu



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    Mehdi Montakhabi
    Associate Scholar
    University of Oxford | Saïd Business School
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