The International Academy of Research in Indigenous Management and Organizational Studies
A two-and-a-half-day annual event held on Woi-wurrung Country, featuring keynote presentations, panel discussions, and workshops that bring together leading Indigenous researchers and emerging scholars.
Tuesday 21st - Thursday 23rd October 2025
The International Academy of Research in Indigenous Management and Organizational Studies (IARIMOS) is an annual gathering of leading Indigenous researchers and non-Indigenous senior management scholars in support of the new generation of emerging scholars.
Doctoral students, postdoctoral and early career researchers are supported to explore the expanses of research in Indigenous Management and Organization Studies. They will share the space with global Indigenous intelligencia, knowledge holders and thought leaders.
Through keynote addresses, panel presentations and yarning opportunities, we provide the environment for emerging scholars to test their thinking, create collaborations and gain valuable insights on the path to becoming the next generation of academic leaders.
In 2025, IARIMOS gathers in Terra Cognita Australis, Great Southern Land, for the first time.
We invite you to join us!
Keynote Speaker
We’re excited to announce that Dr Skye Akbar (Wankatha) is our keynote speaker. An enterprise fellow at the University of South Australia, Dr Akbar specialises in Marketing and is a faculty member of Dilin Duwa’s Masters in Indigenous Business Leadership, the only postgraduate business program in Australia that is for, by and with mob.
Call for papers
We welcome IARIMOS submissions led by or co-authored with Indigenous emerging scholars or communities, demonstrating research approaches that both theoretically and in practice demonstrate ‘for with and by’ in Indigenous enterprise, management, organisation and entrepreneurship, especially those intersecting with ideas of sustainability, reconciliation and re-emergence.
Our call for papers embraces a wide range of methodologies, topics, interests, and challenges. Submissions may draw on work-in-progress as part of a thesis, a project for publication, or maybe a new project related to any of IARIMOS’s broad subject areas.
Submission deadline – 30 June 2025
Expanding the network
In addition to representation from Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States (the CANZUS nations) we seek to broaden IARIMOS’s relationships with the globe’s Indigenous custodians.
We invite Indigenous researchers from Global South nations across Asia Pacific, Africa, the Caribbean and South America. Indigenous leaders and Elders' presence at IARIMOS will contribute to research approaches that are connected to place, contribute to self-determination and are grounded in communality, ‘for the benefit of the many’.
Accommodation
There is limited accommodation support for Indigenous Scholars and community members who would like to attend. If you would like to apply for support, please send us an email by clicking below.
If you'd like to book accommodation, please click below to search for options within a 5km radius of the conference.
Dr Ana María Peredo is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair and Full Professor of Social and Inclusive Entrepreneurship at the Telfer School of Management. Previously a Professor of Political Ecology at the University of Victoria, she researches sustainable livelihoods, community-based enterprises, and Indigenous entrepreneurship. A widely published scholar, she also serves as Associate Editor of Organization and Co-Coordinator of the EGOS Working Group on Organization Studies in the Anthropocene.
Academic Committee
“This global gathering is critical for growth and innovation in Indigenous business, management, and organisational studies. Showcasing and inviting emerging Indigenous scholars and scholarship into the global community of practice is at the heart of IARIMOS”.
Dilin Duwa Director, Dr. Michelle Evans, holds a Professorship in Leadership at the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne, with a focus on Indigenous leadership and entrepreneurship. She is the co-founder of the award-winning MURRA Indigenous Business Masterclass Program at Melbourne Business School, where she also completed her PhD.
- Michelle Evans
Dr Sharlene Leroy-Dyer is a Saltwater woman with ties to the Garigal, Awabakal, Darug, and Wiradyuri peoples of NSW. She directs the UQ Business School Indigenous Business Hub and leads curriculum Indigenisation.
The first Aboriginal person to earn a PhD in Business from the University of Newcastle (2016), her research focuses on Indigenous employment and leadership.
An active unionist and advocate, she has received awards including the Dr Robert (Uncle Bob) Anderson Award (2023).
Dr. Stephen Cummings is a Professor of Management and Associate Dean International at Rutherford House, where he co-directs the innovation space "The Atom" (Te Kahu o Te Ao). His research explores how historical perspectives can limit innovation and creativity. An accomplished author, he has co-written 11 books, including Creativities (2022), The Past, Present and Future of Sustainable Management (2021), and A New History of Management (2017).
Dr Ella Henry has a background across multiple disciplines including sociology, business and Māori Indigenous development. She has been actively involved in research, teaching and advocacy for Māori media for over twenty years.
Dr Ella was a Treaty Negotiator for her Iwi, Ngātikahu ki Whangaroa, and has been involved with the Post-Settlement Governance Entity, as Trustee and Chair. Dr Ella is a professor at the Auckland University of Technology’s Business School and a Dilin Duwa Global Member.
IARIMOS 2025 Planning Committee
(Mark Jones, Ash Francisco, Dinah Hippolyte-Blake, Chris Riley, Brooke Murray-Noble)
2025 Program
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Dr Ella Henry
I am so proud to have been part of IARIMOS since its inception, it is a safe harbour, a homeland, for emerging Indigenous scholars across multiple Peoples and disciplines in business. It is an honour to bring IARIMOS 2025 to Australasia, hosted by Dilin Duwa, where our community of Aboriginal and Māori scholars can attend and benefit; a place for us to sit around the metaphorical fire, yarning, whilst reinvigorating our cultures and identities.
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Opportunities exist for participants to stay in Naarm and participate in the Dilin Duwa Dialogues from 29 - 31 October.
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