41st British Academy of Management Annual Conference (BAM)

British Academy of Management · in person / online · Official site ↗

Trust

Established · 9/10

Major society or long-running conference. Indexing and committee verified.

Quality: Top 5/5

Flagship conference: verified indexing or a major society, rigorous review.

!Committee international — Sampled 2026 track chairs almost all UK institutions (one IESEG Paris)
?Indexing verified — n/a
✓Archive history — Proceedings archive online
✓Committee listed — 2026 track summaries name 2-5 track chairs per track with affiliations (e.g. CMS, SRB track PDFs); 2027 tracks not yet out
✓Domain age — Long-established society domain
✓Double blind — 2026 submission guidelines: anonymous version for review, no author/institution info, papers with identifying info withdrawn; peer review by fellow authors
✓Indexing specific — Proceedings with ISBN; no database indexing claims
✓Known mill — Not a mill
✓Organizer reputable — British Academy of Management, publishes BJM and IJMR
✓Past editions — 41st edition; proceedings archive 2019-2025

✕Failed !Warning ?Not verified ✓Passed

Promotion (NN 42/2026)

a3 · domestic

0.5 points per paper (≤ 4 authors)

— Committee internationality unknown: a3 until checked.
— 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: TBA
Notification: TBA
Registration: TBA

presenter	regular	€298	· 2026: GBP 257 virtual member early (GBP 356 full)
presenter	early	€536	· 2026: GBP 462 member early bird, in person (non-member GBP 566)
presenter	regular	€651	· 2026: GBP 561 member full rate from 1 Aug (non-member GBP 824)
student	early	€360	· 2026: GBP 310 student member early; GBP 340 full

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.

6-10 Sept 2027 spans virtual day + doctoral symposium + main conference (BAM tender doc). Host University of Warwick / WBS per aggregator - unconfirmed on official site; city set to Coventry (Warwick campus) on that basis. Hybrid: virtual day for online presenters. Tracks include Human Resource Management and Organizational Psychology/OB. Draft full or developmental paper required for review (abstract not sufficient); all accepted papers go into online proceedings with an ISBN (ISBN not stated). 2026 cycle: submissions 7 Jan-27 Feb 2026, notification late April, author registration 12 June. BAM membership required to attend. Fees converted at ~1.16 EUR/GBP.