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What will business organizations look like in the new normal? While the spreading uncertainty challenged many organizations and social structures, several lessons were nonetheless learned. The innovative strides made during these last couple of years illustrate that business has the capacity to address world problems at a pace and scale that few would have predicted. During these last two years, disparities around the world and within countries were laid bare.

However this period also led to a new awareness for organizations and managers as well as scholars of management; this could be an opportunity to reset organizational practices that enable the creation of new future organizational arrangements. Business organizations, managers, and stakeholders will be challenged by society as perhaps never before in history. So too will scholars of management be challenged.

In many parts of the world, society increasingly expects business organizations to help solve problems of environmental degradation, inequality, and poverty. There seems to be a growing awareness of the vital role of business organizations, managers, and stakeholders in tackling societal challenges including environmental sustainability; inter-generational trade-offs where future generations cannot make their voices heard today; and issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

And business organizations and their managers are beginning to respond. Still, many challenges lie ahead for business and for us the scholars who study and inform management.

This transition from the past two years to a better future leads to the following questions:. These and many more questions will need to be examined as we move towards a new normal. The abridged 6-page format is used because publication of papers at their full length would preclude subsequent journal publication. The abridged papers will be available only to conference registrants of the Academy of Management Annual Meeting through 31 October Download the Proceedings submission guidelines for best paper authors.

We trust that the full length manuscript will vary a great deal from the condensed Proceedings version and we will, therefore, agree to review manuscripts of this kind. Distinguished Service Award. Closing Remarks. For the first time, non-members and members who did not attend the Annual Meeting can purchase access to conference materials after the Annual Meeting.

Registrants receive unlimited access to the Annual Meeting website, recorded sessions, supplemental materials, and full papers. Learn more and register. Click here for an alternate video link. Be sure to visit the Seattle Exhibit booth for a sneak peek at what to expect next year. Eugene Cha, Keio University - alternate video link. Yaminette Diaz-Linhart, Brandeis University - alternate video link. Jimmy Dongwook, University of Pittsburgh - alternate video link.