The 2015 ABO Midyear Meeting will be held at The DoubleTree by Hilton Nashville Downtown. The meeting will commence with a doctoral consortium on Friday morning (October 9, 2015), followed by the Midyear Meeting Friday afternoon and Saturday, October 9–10, 2015. A limited number of rooms have been set aside for conference participants at the rate of $209 per night, single or double occupancy. If you are planning on attending, we suggest that you reserve a room early. For more hotel information, please Click Here.

Submission and Volunteer Information

The ABO Section is now accepting submissions of research papers. Papers may encompass any topical area involving human or organizational behavior.

The deadline for submissions is June 22, 2015. There will be a $25 submission fee for all faculty members. To pay the fee, please Click Here. Once you have paid the submission fee, you may submit your paper through the electronic submissions system. During the submission process, you will be asked to provide a Submission Fee Acknowledgement Code, which you will receive via email upon completing the fee payment form. NOTE: Doctoral students are not required to pay the submission fee.

During the submission process, doctoral students should enter "Doctoral" where the Submission Fee Acknowledgement Code is required. Authors (and others) are also highly encouraged to volunteer as a reviewer, discussant or moderator which can also be done through the electronic submission system.

Please Click Here to access the submission system using your AAA member ID and password. If you have forgotten your AAA member ID/password, Click Here to retrieve them. If you do not have a AAA member ID/password, please Click Here to obtain AAA login credentials. Then create an account in the new system, using your AAA login credentials.

Emerging Scholars

Emerging Scholars (i.e., doctoral students and faculty who have graduated in the past three years) are encouraged to submit their work for consideration. Emerging Scholar papers selected for the conference will be assigned to sessions with senior discussants who will provide detailed constructive feedback. Please be sure to indicate in the submission system if you wish your paper to be designated as an Emerging Scholar paper.

Finally, the ABO awards two outstanding paper awards for the conference: Outstanding Manuscript and Outstanding Emerging Scholar Manuscript.