September 19-20, 2025
The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
We are pleased to invite submissions for the 18th Annual People and Organizations Conference, taking place September 19–20, 2025, at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Overview:
The People and Organizations Conference highlights macro-level research on work and employment, bringing together scholars from across disciplines to examine how organizations and institutions shape the world of work.
We aim to support a vibrant, interdisciplinary community of researchers from organization theory, industrial relations, economics, political science, sociology, and strategy who share common interests and seek a space for thoughtful exchange.
Representative papers from past years have included:
· Studies exploring the effects of workplace practices on organizational performance
· The causes and consequences of worker mobility
· The nature of inequality within workplaces
· The impact of gender on employment outcomes and careers
· The role of social networks in shaping employment outcomes
Human and social capital issues related to business strategy and performance have also become a common theme.
Among topics of particular interest are:
· New developments in work and employment relationships
· The effects of organizational employment practices on firm performance and worker outcomes
· The structure and determinants of careers in and across modern workplaces
· New insights on inequality in the workplace
In addition to a plenary program, we plan to continue our practice of roundtable sessions for specialized topics or works in progress.
Submission Guidelines:
Your abstract (maximum 800 words) should summarize your theoretical or empirical argument, discuss how it relates to the relevant literature and/or an extant debate, spell out the quantitative or qualitative methodology (if your paper is empirical), and highlight your key findings and/or the implications of your work. For empirical papers, a brief overview of at least preliminary results will help our process.
We select papers from the conference through a process of blind review. Unfortunately, space constraints mean we cannot accommodate all submissions.
Authors of accepted submissions will be notified by the end of July.
Submission deadline: May 23, 2025.
Upload Submission To: https://wharton.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_d1fMrv4MUZVbcDY
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Matthew Bidwell
Matthew Bidwell Person
Philadelphia PA
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