Mid-February, 2026: Call for paper opens
Late May: Submission form opens
July 14, 2026: Submission deadline
August 20, 2026: Notification of acceptance by e-mail
October 24-25, 2026: Conference
We are pleased to announce a Call for short papers for the international research session held at the 64th AAOS Annual Meeting, where the mode of language is English. We invite management scholars and PhD students, particularly those based in the Pacific and East/South-East Asia.
The session format also aims to create a network of academic dialogue and exchange among researchers who conduct empirical studies of organizational activities or theoretical studies in organizational and business administrative behaviors.
To be specific, the following sub-fields or topics can be listed as examples, but we are open to creative studies not limited to these areas:
Organization Theory
Organizational Behavior
Business Strategy
Business History
Innovation
Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility / Business Ethics
Human Resource Management
International Business and Cross-cultural Management
Entrepreneurship
Small Business
We prioritize papers that make a clear theoretical contribution to management or business research and have practical implications for businesses and any type of organization.
The short paper must be written in English and must be at least four and no more than ten pages in length including;
(a) the first page with title, author information (name, affiliation, and contact details), and abstract, and
(b) references at the end up to 3 pages with APA format.
Please send your manuscript in Microsoft Word or PDF format via the below Google Form or email (ic@aaos.or.jp).
To submit your paper: Submission Form (to be prepared in May)
Important Date
July 14, 2026: Submission deadline
August 20, 2026: Notification of acceptance by e-mail
We will have 9-10 sessions. Each session will consist of three short paper presentations (15-20 minutes each) and Q&A (5-10 minutes each). The accepted short papers can be published in AAOS's proceedings journal, AAOS Transactions (optional; limited to AAOS members).
Date: October 24-25, 2026
Venue: Hitotsubashi University Chiyoda Campus (Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan)
Organizers: The International Committee, AAOS in collaboration with members from Hitotsubashi University
The conference has parallel sessions. Some of the sessions and keynote speeches will be given in Japanese. Although the conference is only open to AAOS members, AAOS membership is not required for accepted paper authors. AAOS members must pay the registration fee of about 6,000 JPY for the AAOS Annual Meeting (including Japanese sessions and these English sessions, excluding the networking dinner fee). Non-members will pay the non-member registration fee, which will not exceed 30,000 JPY (including the networking dinner fee). You need a credit card for the payment. If you do not have any credit cards, please consult us in advance (ic@aaos.or.jp). Please note that AAOS does not cover any travel expenses or support accommodation arrangements.
Some of the international participants must check their necessity to apply for short-term stay visas. AAOS will issue an invitation letter for a visa application, but does not support the whole visa application process.
We look forward to receiving your submissions and seeing you at the conference.
9:30 Registration desk open
10:00-11:00 Keynote speech
11:00-16:00 Parallel sessions
16:00-17:00 General assembly of AAOS
17:30-19:00 Networking
9:30-16:30 Parallel sessions
Jungwook Shim (Professor, Faculty of Commerce, Kansai University) / Family Business
Hiroshi Shimizu (Professor, Faculty of Commerce, Waseda University) / Innovation, and Business History
Yasushi Hara (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Business Administration, Kobe University) / Innovation and Data Science
Yasutaka Jikuya (Associate Professor, Graduate School of International Social Sciences, Yokohama National University) / Entrepreneurship
Yosuke Kanno (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Commerce, Chuo University) / New Product Development
Dongju Kim (Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Business, Osaka Metropolitan University) / Creative Industry
Chi Nghia Nguyen (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics and Management, Tohoku University) / Social Innovation
Jin-ichiro Yamada (Professor, Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University) / Entrepreneurship
Tohru Yoshioka-Kobayashi (Associate Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University) / Technology Management and Innovation Policy
Nobuyuki Chikudate (Professor, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University) / Organizational Theory and Business Ethics
Toshio Murase (Associate Professor, Faculty of Commerce, Waseda University) / Industrial Organizational Psychology
Yoshiko Niwamoto (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Business Administration, Kobe University) / Leadership
Sung-Chul Noh (Associate Professor, School of International Corporate Strategy, Hitotsubashi University) / Human Resource Management
Naoki Wakabayashi (Professor, Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University) / Organizational Sociology
Yutaka Yamauchi (Professor, Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University) / Organization Theory
Yunyue Yang (Associate Professor, Graduate School of International Social Sciences, Yokohama National University) / Human Resource Management and International Business
Xiji Zhu (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Business Administration, Hitotsubashi University) / Human Resource Management
Balazs Fazekas (Associate Professor, College of Business Administration, Ritsumeikan University) / International Business
Shu Watanabe (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University) / Strategic Management