The Space Economy at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management 2026
Takeaways for managers, policy makers, and management scholars, from the keynotes, industry, and academic panels
Mehdi Montakhabi, Christopher Tucci, Magdalena Marczewska, Clay Mowry, James D. Polk, Heriberto Saldivar Massimi, Lucie Low, Brad Handerson, Sanjeev Gordhan, Ryan Reel, Kathleen Eisenhardt, Ron Adner, Matthew Weinzierl
For the 2026 edition, “Space Economy: Consolidating a Management Research Agenda”, the PDW brought together more than 75 academic contributors and industry speakers from NASA, ESA, AIAA, Axiom Space, Starlab, Type One Ventures, and Outpost Space. It combined academic engagement with space industry practitioners and aimed to build a management research agenda around the Space Economy, with a particular focus on new research opportunities for management scholars in entrepreneurship, strategy, and innovation.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23562399 · CC BY 4.0