AAOS 2027: An International Research Session at the 64th AAOS Annual Meeting in Tokyo Hitotsubashi University Chiyoda Campus Tokyo, Japan, October 24-25, 2026

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.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Authors submit the short paper by the deadline.

Please submit your paper to the following URL.

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aaos2027

Submission of title, abstracts, keywords, and a short paper must be written in English.

(1) Title

(2) Abstract (within 200 words)

(3) Keywords (Within 5)

(4) Short paper

The short paper must be at least 4 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 1 page with APA format.

(c) PDF format is required.

After the submission, around the middle of August 2026, authors will receive the review result on this website.

If you have a question, please email ic@aaos.or.jp.

List of Topics

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.

Scientific Committees

Balazs Fazekas (Associate Professor, College of Business Administration, Ritsumeikan University) / International Business

Nobuyuki Chikudate (Professor, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University) / Organizational Theory and Business Ethics

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

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

Chi Nghia Nguyen (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics and Management, Tohoku University) / Social Innovation

Yasushi Hara (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Business Administration, Kobe University) / Innovation and Data Science

Jungwook Shim (Professor, Faculty of Commerce, Kansai University) / Family Business

Hiroshi Shimizu (Professor, Faculty of Commerce, Waseda University) / Innovation, and Business History

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

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

Naoki Wakabayashi (Professor, Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University) / Organizational Sociology

Shu Watanabe (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University) / Strategic Management

Xiji Zhu (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Business Administration, Hitotsubashi University) / Human Resource Management

Venue

The conference will be held in Chiyoda Campus, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan.

Conference Information

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.

Payment and Membership

We welcome submissions and participation of non-AAOS members, 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. Registration and payment will be done on the other website. We will tell accepted authors about it after the acceptance.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to ic@aaos.or.jp.