ASQ Paper Development Workshop (PDW) Call For Papers
Organizations amid social, political, and technological changes
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) January 15, 2027
Social, political, and technological transformations are challenging long-standing assumptions about how organizations are constituted, coordinated, and governed. These developments call for renewed theoretical attention to how organizations define boundaries, exercise authority, develop expertise, sustain legitimacy, and navigate interorganizational relationships.
This Paper Development Workshop welcomes theoretical and empirical research that examines how organizations and their members navigate, interpret, and respond to these transformations. We encourage interdisciplinary perspectives that advance organization theory across multiple levels of analysis.
We welcome a broad selection of both macro and micro topics, including but not limited to the following:
1. Work, Professions, and the Changing Social Order
How workers and occupational groups renegotiate expertise, status, identity, and jurisdiction as social expectations, market pressures, and technologies reshape the meaning and value of work.
2. Political Contestation in Organizational Life
How polarization, state intervention, geopolitical conflict, corruption, distrust, and rule- of-law uncertainty enter organizational life and reshape sensemaking, authority, identity, wrongdoing, and interorganizational ties.
3. AI, Authority, and the Future of Organizing
How AI redistributes authority, accountability, coordination, learning, and agency as humans and technologies jointly participate in organizational action.
Participants From the Journal
Paper Submission
We invite prospective participants to submit a full, original working paper (not previously submitted elsewhere; proposals will not be considered) by October 15, 2026. Please submit your paper as a single PDF file, including a cover page with all authors’ names, e-mail addresses, and affiliations, to asqpdw@ust.hk. Notification of acceptance will be sent by November 15, 2026.
Program Information
The program includes a keynote speech by ASQ editors and a round of paper development workshops in the morning, followed by a second round of workshops and a Top Journal Editors’ Panel in the afternoon. The panel will bring together the Editor-in-Chief of ASQ and editors representing four other leading management journals: MS, AMJ, JIBS, OS, and SMJ.
Top Journal Editors’ Panel
| Beth Bechky Editor-in-Chief at ASQ University of California, Davis | Jiatao Li Department Editor at MS The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Wu Liu Associate Editor at AMJ The Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| Xufei Ma Reviewing Editor at JIBS The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Yanbo Wang Senior Editor at OS The University of Hong Kong | Filippo Carlo Wezel Associate Editor at SMJ The University of Hong Kong |
Refreshments and lunch will be provided at the PDW. Participants are responsible for their own travel and accommodation costs.
For any further enquiries, please contact: Danqing Wang (danqingw@ust.hk) Pavel Zhelyazkov (pzhelyazkov@ust.hk)