June 2-6, 2027
Hong Kong, China

Submission System Open: Midnight 12:00 September 15, 2026, U.S. Eastern Standard Time
Submission Deadline: Midnight 12:00 October 25, 2026, U.S. Eastern Standard Time

The International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR) is pleased to announce its 12th Biennial Conference, to be held in Hong Kong SAR, China, from June 2–6, 2027. The conference will be hosted by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Business School. Under the theme “Advancing Chinese Management Research in the Age of AI,” this conference will explore how AI-driven transformations are reshaping the landscape of Chinese management research and practice.

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and its applications in robotics, automation, and decision-making presents unprecedented opportunities and challenges for Chinese management research in the following critical areas:

1. Human-AI Dynamics: Rapid AI adoption in organizations has generated novel phenomena—from human-AI collaboration to AI-mediated human interactions—offering fertile ground to rethink traditional theories of work behavior, leadership, human capital, organizational design, and stakeholder relations and to develop new theories.
2. Innovation in Chinese Contexts: Chinese firms are pioneering AI integration through distinctive business models, management practices, and indigenous operational logics. Research into these advancements can yield globally relevant insights while highlighting China’s unique contributions to management theory.
3. Methodological Transformation: AI is revolutionizing research methodologies, enabling advanced data analytics, predictive modelling, and simulation techniques. These tools empower scholars to advance our understanding of in both established and emerging management phenomena.

Conference Goals

IACMR 2027 aims to stimulate scholarly dialogue on these themes, fostering theoretical innovation, and methodological advancement. By bridging AI’s technological potential with China’s dynamic managerial landscape, the conference will chart new pathways for impactful, contextually grounded research.

We warmly invite scholars in the field of management who are engaged in China-related research to submit conference papers. The field of management mainly covers the following areas: organizational behavior, human resource management, strategic management, organizational theory, international management, innovation and entrepreneurship, technology and information management, employment relations, social issues related to enterprises, business ethics, and management education. China-related research refers to research related to Chinese or Chinese organizations, including research on Chinese organizations operating globally and research comparing Chinese and non-Chinese organizations. It can also be research based on a Chinese theoretical perspective.

We welcome high-quality Chinese management research that addresses important questions and yields compelling findings. We are open to both conceptual and empirical papers, and encourage a diverse range of methodologies, including surveys, archival analysis, experiments, simulations, big data analytics, AI-driven methods, case studies, and literature reviews.

I. Important Reminders to All Submitters

Academic Ethics. IACMR is a nonprofit voluntary association whose operation, growth, and pursuit of excellence depend on cooperation, involvement, and dedication from all members. All forms of academic dishonesty are prohibited, including plagiarism and impropriety with data collection or analyses. Academic ethics also include professionalism in conference participation. Members should honor all professional commitments by presenting accepted papers in either paper presentation sessions or poster presentations and by fulfilling scheduled roles as chairs, discussants, or panel members at workshops, scholarly programs, and pre-and post-program meetings. If a member must miss a scheduled meeting because of unforeseen circumstances, the member must contact the relevant program or track chair and make alternative arrangements. All responsibilities and obligations should be performed in a timely, diligent and sensitive manner. Failure to do so violates the general standards of professionalism and disrespects many authors, reviewers, organizers, volunteers, and attendees. All authors must commit to upholding IACMR’s high ethical standards through professional and ethical research, reports, and conference presentations. Please read the full statement of “IACMR Commitment to Excellence”. 

Languages of Presentation. Two parallel programs, the English Program and the Chinese Program, have different guidelines for paper submissions, symposium proposals, and professional development workshop proposals. However, authors should NOT submit the same paper or papers with major content overlap as if they were different papers simply because they are written in different languages. Authors must choose whether to submit a paper to the English or the Chinese program, but not to both. Submissions that violate this rule will NOT be reviewed. The Call for Submissions provides guidance for papers, symposia, and professional development workshop proposals written in English. A separate Call for Submissions in Chinese is released as well. Please use that information for submitting papers or proposals written in Chinese.

Submission Limitation. The rule is 3+3+2. Each author (either as a single author or as a coauthor) may submit a MAXIMUM of three submissions, including papers and symposia, to the English Program, and three submissions, including papers and symposia, to the Chinese Program. The fourth submission to a single program will be returned to the author without review. Each person (as a presenter or organizer) can participate in ONLY two professional development workshops.

Submission Procedures. We accept electronic submissions only. Detailed information on the electronic submission process will be posted on IACMR website by September 15, 2026, when the website will open for paper and symposium submissions. It will close at midnight October 25, 2026, U.S. Eastern Standard Time. Submissions for the Professional Development Workshop must be received by midnight November 16, 2026 (EST). To ensure that your submissions are received and reviewed, read the following guidelines and the online submission procedures carefully and submit as EARLY as possible. Last-minute submissions often incur mistakes and cause authors to overlook important information regarding the process. Because the program chairs have a very short period to review the submissions, we will NOT review any that fail to follow the proper procedures or to finalize the submission.

Acknowledgment of Receipt. Corresponding authors will receive email confirmations that we have received the submissions.

Review and Notification. Papers submitted to the Scholarly Program will be double-blind reviewed. Reviewers will evaluate each paper for research quality, contribution to the field of Chinese management, and general interest to IACMR members. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejections by February 25, 2027, EST.

II. The Scholarly Program

The Scholarly Program occurs June 2 to 6, 2027, and includes pre-conference sessions (Teaching workshop, Young Faculty/ Ph.D Student Consortiums), presentations of papers, poster presentations, symposia, keynote panels and PDWs.

i. Papers

We seek original papers that address the main theme of the conference and topics from all disciplinary areas of organization and management. Originality means that the paper has not been presented at any other conferences or published in any academic journals or books, even if those other outlets are in different languages. Once accepted, the list of authors for any paper shall NOT be changed for the conference presentation and/or conference proceedings.

Accepted papers will be presented at the conference as either paper presentations or poster presentations. The program committee will assign papers to a paper or poster session based on the research topic’s theme, not the paper’s quality. Each paper presentation will be about 20 minutes, with 15 minutes for the presentation and 5 minutes for Q&A. For the poster presentations, each paper’s author(s) will have one hour in the poster hall to present and discuss their work to interested attendees.

Preparation and Submission Guidelines

1. Please follow the submission steps as shown by the system and tick the paper language, macro/micro track, major research area, key topics and research methods, and fill up the paper title, abstract and upload the full paper.
2. The full paper must include the following components but WITHOUT author’s information
· Abstract Page (including title, up to 200 words of abstract, no more than five keywords that identify the content area, methodological area: qualitative, quantitative, or both)
· Main Text
· Figures (if any)
· Tables (if any)
· References
3. Number all pages of the paper starting from the abstract page.
4. The maximum length for the paper is 35 pages including all tables, figures, notes, and references.
5. Use Times New Roman 12-point font, double-spaced, with 1-inch (2.5cm) margins all around for the text, including headers and footnotes.
6. Papers must be written in English and follow the current style, including references format, of the official journal of IACMR, Management and Organization Review.
7. To facilitate the blind review process, remove ALL author-identifying information, including acknowledgments, from the text.
8. Check that the paper prints correctly (i.e., all imported figures and tables appear properly) and ensure that the file is virus-free.
9. Please convert your file into PDF format before uploading. The Word version is also acceptable where conversion is difficult.

10. Submitter Pledge and Confirmation Statement

The online submission system will include a confirmation statement pledging: (a) you have not published or presented the paper or symposium elsewhere, (b) you have not submitted another version in a different language to the IACMR conference, (c) at least one author will attend the conference to present the accepted paper in either the oral presentation or roundtable sessions, and (d) you are willing to serve as a reviewer for the conference if needed. You will not be able to complete your submission until you have signed the confirmation statement.

ii. Symposia 

The goal for symposium presentations is to provide a forum for effective exchange and collective learning that will further our knowledge on a topic. With this in mind, we invite submissions of new, creative, and exciting proposals for symposium presentations. We particularly welcome symposia that are related to the conference theme: Empowering Sustainable Growth in a Digital Age. A symposium consists of presentations from three to four presenters. Each symposium will have a total of 90 minutes for presentations, discussions, and Q&A.

Symposium Preparation and Submission Guidelines

1. A title page that has:
a. The Conference-assigned submission number
b. Title of the symposium
c. Complete full name, affiliation, address, phone number, fax number, and d. email address of all presenters, discussant(s) and chair. Add an asterisk (*) next to the name of the corresponding (contact) presenter
e. No more than five words to identify the content area
2. A 5-page overview of the symposium (i.e., the objectives, the content, the synergy among the presentations provided by the different presenters, and the significance of the symposium to Chinese management research)
3. A 2-3 pages synopsis of each presentation, including references
4. The symposium proposal should not exceed 20 total pages. Use Times New Roman 12-point font, double-spaced, with 1-inch (2.5cm) margins all around for the text, including headers and footnotes
5. A signed statement from the organizer declaring: “I have received signed statements from all intended participates agreeing to participate in the entire symposium.”  Symposium submissions will NOT be reviewed unless the statement is included.

iii. Professional Development Workshops 

In addition to paper and symposium presentations in the Scholarly Program, we also invite proposals for Professional Development Workshops (PDWs) that will be held on the last day of the conference, June 6, 2027.

PDWs provide a forum for researchers to explore a common topic. Their goals are educational and informational and are generally conducted in an interactive and participative format. PDWs are not a forum for several standard paper presentations on a common theme—such sessions are part of the scholarly paper program. We especially welcome PDWs that are related to the conference theme of how to conduct research on Chinese management in a digital age. We are open to proposals that focus on contemporary issues relating to Chinese management research, research methods (e.g., how to conduct quantitative and qualitative research), and professional development topics (e.g., how to help junior faculty in conducting and publishing high-impact research or career development issues). Proposals for workshops dealing with teaching methods and content are encouraged. Creative and novel proposals are particularly encouraged.

If you would like to discuss a PDW idea before submission (in advance of the submission deadline), please contact PDW Chair Guoli Chen at guoli.chen@insead.edu. PDW organizers must submit the following proposal items to the conference website by November 15, 2026, EST.

· Title of the workshop
· Full name and contact information of the chair or organizer, indicated with an asterisk (*) by the chair/organizer’s name, and all presenters, including affiliation, title (e.g., Associate Professor), address, phone number, fax number, and email
· Goal of the workshop (i.e., learning objectives)
· Content of the workshop
· Intended participants and admission criteria for the participants
· Time requirement of the workshop

III. Other Important Information

Conference Proceedings We will not publish full paper proceedings after the conference. Submitting paper to IACMR 2027 does not preclude authors from publishing their papers elsewhere in journals or books.

Best Paper Awards We will present five Best Conference Paper awards in the following categories: micro topics (individual and group level analysis), macro topics (organization-level analysis and strategy focus), conference theme, Responsible Research in Business & Management (RRBM), and best student paper. The Conference Theme Best Paper Award recognizes a paper that best captures the theme of the 2027 Conference—Advancing Chinese Management Research in the Age of AI.

Meeting Venue and Registration The conference will be held onsite in Hong Kong, China. Registration for the conference will be open on March 1, 2027.  Detailed information on conference registration procedures, fees, and hotel reservations will be available on the IACMR website beginning by February 20, 2027.

Inquiries For questions about this Call for Submissions or the conference, please contact Professor Xu Huang (xuhuang@hkbu.edu.hk). Questions about the IACMR may be directed to Wei Zhang, Executive Director of IACMR at wei.zhang@gsm.pku.edu.cn. General information about the IACMR may be found on IACMR website.

IV. Call for Reviewers Sign-up

As usual, IACMR needs quality reviewers for the 2027 Conference in Hong Kong. We encourage you to sign up as a volunteer reviewer for the track in which you intend to submit your paper or the track in which you are knowledgeable. In addition to supporting track chairs in their acceptance decisions and helping authors improve the quality of submissions, being a reviewer exposes you to cutting-edge issues in Chinese management research and connects you and your institution to scholars interested in similar topics. The Reviewer Sign-up system will be opened in June, 2026, please sign up and choose your areas of expertise (i.e., keywords) for the track you want to review.  Once you sign up, you may be asked to review up to four submissions for the track (English or Chinese) you selected. Thank you in advance for volunteering to be a reviewer. 

V. 2027 Conference Organizing Committee

Program Chair
Xu Huang, Hong Kong Baptist University

IACMR President:
Wei Shen, Arizona State University

IACMR Past President:
Runtian Jing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Local Arrangement Committee Chair:
Yaping Gong, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Macro Track Chairs (English Program):
Kenneth Huang(Senior Track Chair), National University of Singapore
Eric Zhao (Track Chair), University of Oxford

Micro Track Chairs (English Program):
Jasmine Hu (Senior Track Chair), Tsinghua University;
Erica Xu (Track Chair), Hong Kong Baptist University

Macro Track Chairs (Chinese Program):
Shihua Chen (Senior Track Chair), Dongbei University of Finance and Economics;
Chenjian Zhang (Track Chair), University of Bath

Micro Track Chairs (Chinese Program):
Fuli Li (Senior Track Chair), Xi’an Jiaotong University
Guanglei Zhang (Track Chair), Wuhan University of Technology

PDW Program Chair:
Guoli Chen, INSEAD

IACMR Executive Director:
Wei Zhang, IACMR