Stephen Lind and Veronica Guo had a paper accepted in Business and Professional Communication Quarterly titled, “Do Synthetic Avatars Need to Match Learners? Testing Belonging and Perceived Effectiveness.”

Richard Sloan and Patty Dechow were guest speakers at the American Accounting Association Global Connect.

Christian Busch has a paper accepted at the Academy of Management Annals titled, "The Dark Side of Organizational Learning: An Integrative Review of the Negative Outcomes of Learning.”

Christian Busch and Cheryl Wakslak received Best Paper designations and were selected for publication in the Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings for a paper titled, “Collaborative Readiness and the Relational Foundations of Serendipity in Modern Workplaces.”

Christian Busch and Cheryl Wakslak received Best Paper designations and were selected for publication in the Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings for a paper titled, “Serendipity Propensity: Why Some Gain and Others Strain from the Unexpected.”

Peer Fiss received the Organization and Management Theory (OMT) Division’s Joanne Martin Trailblazer Award for their pioneering work advancing set-analytic methods and introducing Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) within organization and management research.

Peer Fiss completed his service as Representative-at-Large on the Academy of Management Board of Governors.

Nan Jia received the 2026 Strategic Management (STR) Division Outstanding Service Award for her service as STR Program Chair.

Cheryl Wakslak, Alys Ferragamo, and Dani Yin, had a paper accepted in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology titled, “Abstraction in Service of Connection: On People’s Recruitment of Abstraction To Facilitate Interaction Across Difference.”

Giovanni Luca Cascio Rizzo had a paper accepted in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science titled, “What Drives Virtual Influencers’ Impact?”

Kristen Schiele had a paper accepted in the Journal of Interactive Marketing titled, “Digital Canvases: How Meme Typologies Reveal Ideological Terrain for Marketers.”