Top researchers from Lancaster University Management School played an active part at one of the management discipline’s biggest global events.

Faculty members were among the panellists, presenters and award winners at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AoM) in the Danish capital of Copenhagen.

More than 10,000 scholars, educators and professionals from around the world attended the AoM meeting virtually or in-person.

Among the LUMS awards was Distinguished Professor Sarah Jack, who received the AoM award for Mentoring in the Entrepreneurship Division. The award recognises exceptional mentoring activities at all levels of entrepreneurship education, encouraging the future development and growth of the field.

Professor Jack, along with colleagues from the Department of Entrepreneurship and Strategy (ENST), LU Ghana and a former LUMS PhD researcher, was also recognised in the Technology and Innovation Management (TIM) Division.

A Justice Lens on University-Industry Collaboration: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa, by former LUMS PhD researcher Dr Afua Owusu-Kwarteng, now at Northumbria University, along with Professor Lola Dada and Distinguished Professor Sarah Jack, from ENST, and Dr Cynthia Forson, Deputy Provost of LU Ghana, was selected as one of the best papers in that area.

Dr Owusu-Kwarteng was funded in her studies by the RECIRCULATE project, which aimed to help build capacity for a safe circular water economy in Africa. The recognised paper came from her PhD work at Lancaster.

In the Management, Spirituality and Religion Division, Dr Allan Discua Cruz, Director of the Centre for Family Business (CFB), won the Best Paper Award for the paper Understanding the Relationship Between Managers’ Belief in Big Gods and Firm Reputation, co-authored with Dr Nicholas Burton and Dr Nicholas Wong, of Northumbria University, and Dr Andrew Smith, of the University of Birmingham.

As well as collecting prizes, LUMS experts led events and took part in panels in Copenhagen.

Professor Jack was part of the panel for the Entrepreneurship Plenary, Give or Take: Cultivating Supportive Entrepreneurial Communities in the Gen-AI Era, and the symposium Social Networks in Non-Western Settings: A Call for Contextualized Theorizing. She also sat on the Professional Development Workshops (PDWs) Collaboration and Co-authorship in Entrepreneurship Research and The Social Impact of Family Firms panels.

Professor Alfredo De Massis, also of ENST, chaired a symposium entitled Lifting the Veil on Ethnography in Entrepreneurship and Beyond, and was a panellist on the Opportunities and Challenges in Family Office Research symposium.

Dr Sophie Alkhaled was a panellist on the In the Shadows: Tales of Cultural Marginalization in Modern Society and DEI in Academia: Exploring Cross-Institutional Insights on Challenges and Opportunities symposiums; and colleague Dr Sharmin Nahar moderated the Entrepreneurial Finance session.

Dr Discua Cruz chaired the PDW Unpacking the Complexity of Religious Entrepreneurship, and CFB member Dr Bingbing Ge presented on the New Theoretical Perspectives on Intergenerational Entrepreneurship symposium.

Professor Andreas Schroeder, from the Department of Management Science, was a panellist on a symposium on Advancing Servitization: Theoretical Underpinnings, Practical Challenges and Future Trajectories.

Professor Martin Spring, also from the Department of Management Science, was a panellist for the PDW Exploring Service Supply Chain Resilience: A Workshop for Professionals and Researchers; and his colleague Professor Kostas Selviaridis organised and presented at the Understanding the Dynamics of Supply Chain Resilience symposium.

Drs Martin Quinn and Divya Jyoti, of the Department of Organisation, Work and Technology both sat on another PDW panel, Crafting Better Worlds: Organization Theory, Aesthetics, and Leadership in Crisis.

And Professor Jan Bebbington, the Rubin Chair for Sustainability in Business and Director of the Pentland Centre, presented her work during the Navigating Sustainability: CSRD as Drivers of Innovation, Managerial Practices and Transformation session.

In addition to these panel and workshop involvements, many LUMS researchers presented research posters throughout the AoM meeting.