Call For Proposals

Submission Deadline is Monday, October 14

Kia ora, hello, and welcome to MOBTS Oceania, 2025! We look forward to hosting you at the University of Auckland in Auckland, New Zealand from 29-31 January, and warmly invite your proposals.

Conference Theme: Educating for Impact: Management and Organizational Behavior Education in Oceania and Beyond.

The role of business, management and organizational behavior education is critical and ever changing – shaping individuals, organizations, and society in Oceania and beyond. To ensure our teaching practices are impactful, we must adopt a purposeful approach that fosters meaningful and lasting effects for learners.

Our theme, ‘Oceania and beyond’,  celebrates the distinctive features of our region  that inspire impactful education, such as indigenous perspectives, shifting geo-political dynamics, and sustainable development practices, among others.

Join us in 2025 for a forward-looking conference that explores active, experimental, and innovative approaches to educating for impact.

Participate in experiential sessions that transfer the excitement, engagement, and energy of diverse educational practices – whether physical or virtual or hybrid. Connect with like-minded business and management educators, keen to adapt and apply key innovations and learnings to their teaching contexts.

Let’s come together to advance our collective understanding and practice of management and organizational behavior education, ensuring it remains relevant, dynamic, and impactful in Oceania and beyond.

As is the norm at MOBTS Oceania, we provide some form of hybrid conferencing for those who seek to participate virtually. Our hybrid stream includes both virtual presenter and audience options and reflects the ongoing developments around virtual learning and teaching capabilities for management and organizational behavior educators and learners alike.

For presenters, your proposal can be submitted as any of the three following formats:

Alongside the physical conference, MOBTS Oceania provides some form of hybrid conferencing moving forward to enable those that are not able to physically join us to participate in the conference. This includes both presenting and attendance. Your session can be submitted as any of the three following formats:

• In-Person Only: This means that you will only be engaging in your session with people physically at the conference.
• Hybrid: This means that you will be presenting your session in-person, but also allow for simultaneous online engagement.
• Virtual: This means that you will be presenting your session virtually while also engaging with others that are both virtual and physically present at the conference.

Selecting Hybrid does not guarantee that your session will be programmed as we are seeking to provide a slimmer hybrid/virtual program than the general program itself. Additionally, submitted sessions that are slated for in-person and hybrid cannot switch to virtual without going through further review and consideration for its fit in the program.

MOBTS Oceania values innovative, interactive, active sessions with a strong preference for experiential sessions. Proposals can be in the form of interactive exercises, panel/symposium sessions, round table provocation sessions, or Professional Development Workshops (PDW). Sessions are to be 60-minutes long. A noteworthy criterion is that of audience engagement; we encourage submissions that share teaching innovations by showing and doing them. While MOBTS-Oceania is not that place for telling us about your teaching in the style of a traditional research presentation, workshops can help articulate your insights for such outlets.

All submissions are double-anonymous reviewed. Authors should expect to review three other submissions as part of the reciprocity and collegiality that is MOBTS, namely “an environment in which educators at all stages of their careers can reaffirm the relational nature of learning and the values essential to the integrity of the learning process”.

Accepted submissions will have the opportunity to be included in our Conference Proceedings with ISBN.