We are pleased to announce the 2025 Organization Science Winter Conference (OSWC 2025) at the Luskin Conference Center on the UCLA campus. The 2025 OSWC returns to North American after our first ever international location in Zurich, Switzerland, arriving in the well-connected and typically warm city of Los Angeles. We will continue last year’s successful format of 110-120 attendees in a single track program, with panels, grouped presentations, and vibrant poster receptions. The conference will be preceded on the first morning by the doctoral consortium and workshop first initiated in 2024. We hope the facilities and location will make it accessible to scholars from all over.

This year’s conference honors the legacy of Linda Argote, Thomas Lord Professor of Organizational Behavior and Theory at Carnegie Mellon University. Linda cofounded the OSWC and served as Editor-in-Chief of Organization Science from 2004 to 2010. Linda has had a profound impact on building and growing our community, while her research contributions have shaped theory and practice across fields and disciplines. In particular, her work on learning by, within, and across organizations has been foundational for one of the most important topics across the field of management. Her ability to work with and integrate theory and methods from multiple disciplines and fields has helped bridge academic faultlines in ways that exemplify the community and the journal’s long history of cross- and inter-disciplinary research.

Consistent with Linda’s continuing contributions and legacy, the conference theme will focus on the rapidly changing landscape of knowledge in organizations. Knowledge is of course core to the function and success of organizations, to the advancement of societies, and to individual opportunity at all levels. Knowledge also shapes how people organize, how organizations are designed, and how markets and institutions create, change, and destroy those organizations across time. In an era where technology is rapidly changing how knowledge is generated, shared, appropriated, monetized, and advanced, organizational scholars need to play a continuing leadership role in advancing theory, evidence, policy, and practice for the private and public sectors alike. Just as organizations will be central to the advancement of knowledge, so too will the evolving nature of knowledge restructure how organizations emerge and operate under new technologies, institutions, and markets.

In the spirit of Linda’s work, the conference hopes to feature research from diverse disciplines and fields, highlighting how organizational research has emerged and benefited from so many types of scholars studying the same great challenges and opportunities facing organizations. We hope to create conversations from different primitives, theoretical frameworks, empirical approaches, and institutional settings. We welcome submissions from a wide spectrum of scholars studying knowledge and organizations.

The topic is intentionally broad to encourage innovative problem identification, new research questions, and underrecognized phenomena that demand attention. A few illustrative but not exhaustive topics of interest include: