The 80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management has been held this year in a virtual format from August 7-11th.
In the symposium "Advancing the Understanding of Agility and Agile Methods in Organizations", the underlying mechanisms promoting agility as well as the impact of agile methods on organizations have been discussed. The Chair for Information Systems presented a paper on the role of managers in agile information systems development projects (Authors: Veronika Huck-Fries, Barbara Prommegger, Manuel Wiesche and Helmut Krcmar).