69th Southwest Academy of Management Annual Meeting (SWAM)

Southwest Academy of Management · in person · Official site ↗

Trust

Trusted · 8/10

Legitimate. Long history and real committee; small gaps, e.g. next year's fees not out yet.

Quality: Mid 3/5

Good conference, but indexing or review rigour only partly verified.

✕Committee international — All named officers at US institutions
!Committee listed — Only 6 officers named (5 with affiliations, Leadership page); 2027 CFP names no track chairs or programme committee
?Indexing verified — Nothing to verify
✓Archive history — Proceedings PDFs 2008-2026 and programs 2004-2026 on Past Conference Proceedings/Programs pages
✓Domain age — swaom.org registered 2020-03-13; older proceedings hosted on swaom.files.wordpress.com
✓Double blind — Full papers double-blind reviewed (developmental papers not)
✓Indexing specific — No indexing claimed
✓Known mill — Single annual society meeting
✓Organizer reputable — Regional academy, part of FBD
✓Past editions — 69th annual meeting

✕Failed !Warning ?Not verified ✓Passed

Promotion (NN 42/2026)

no category

0.0 points per paper (≤ 4 authors)

— Abstracts only: no full paper in proceedings, so it doesn't count as a scientific paper.
— Proceedings papers can supply at most 1/3 of the required minimum points.
— Max 1 paper per author per proceedings volume.

Deadlines & fees

Abstract: TBA
Full paper: 11-10-2026
Notification: 30-11-2026
Registration: 01-03-2027

presenter

regular

€318

· USD 370 total SWAM registration, converted at ~0.86 EUR/USD

Indexing

What is trust?

Trust is ANA's verdict on whether a conference is a real scientific event rather than a fee-collecting mill. It says nothing about prestige or promotion points; those are shown separately.

Established	9–10	Major society or long-running conference. Indexing and committee verified.
Trusted	7–8	Legitimate. Long history and real committee; small gaps, e.g. next year's fees not out yet.
Plausible	5–6	Probably legitimate, but key claims (indexing, review, committee) are only partly verified.
Doubtful	3–4	Several checks failed or couldn't be verified. Check it yourself before submitting.
Avoid	1–2	Matches a known conference mill or has serious red flags.

How it's scored: every conference starts at 3. Points are added for a listed committee, an international committee, 3+ past editions, a domain and archive several years old, and a university or society organiser. Points are taken off for vague indexing ("major databases"), an indexing claim that turns out false, review faster than 7 days, a brand-new domain, missing committees, or many unrelated conferences on one site. A known conference mill is capped at 2.

Quality is a separate 1–5 score for whether it's worth presenting there: the conference's tier (flagship, mid, regional), verified WoS/Scopus indexing, double-blind review, a reputable organiser and an international committee. A small regional conference can be fully trusted and still Modest.

Top	5/5	Flagship conference: verified indexing or a major society, rigorous review.
High	4/5	Strong international conference with solid review and a reputable host.
Mid	3/5	Good conference, but indexing or review rigour only partly verified.
Modest	2/5	Real but small or regional, little verified indexing. Fine for networking and a2/a3 points.
Low	1/5	Real, but little evidence of selectivity or reach.

Venue: Renaissance Dallas Richardson Hotel, Richardson TX (Dallas area), with the Federation of Business Disciplines. Submission deadline 2026-10-11 23:59; decisions 2026-11-30; registration and hotel open 2026-12-15. 2027 tracks: Strategy & Org Theory; Organizational Behavior; Human Resources & Ethics; Ops/Supply Chain/Sustainability; Small Business & Entrepreneurship; Tourism & Hospitality; Management Education; IS/Technology. Developmental papers (abstract to near-complete) are not double-blind reviewed and not in proceedings. At least one author must register and present. registration_deadline here is the 2027-03-01 cut-off stated for panels/workshops. Proceedings are a 6-page abridged version (not full paper). Fee USD 370 (one-time FBD cost increase from USD 350).