architectures, performance evaluation, and feedback to career rewards (e.g., promotions) and compensation-related topics (e.g., pay-for-performance, total rewards, executive compensation, pay transparency). PRIO aims to foster a scholarly community that bridges the disciplines of human resource management, strategy, organizational behavior, and industrial relations; integrates a broad theoretical and methodological spectrum (i.e., drawing from economics, psychology, and sociology); and offers a vibrant forum for intellectual exchange. To ensure a diverse, global dialogue, PRIO encourages contributions from scholars around the world, especially junior scholars.
Each PRIO conference has a specific focus. The focus of the 2026 conference is “merit pay.” Examples of questions to be addressed include:
- Revisiting merit: Who defines it, who benefits, and who is left behind?
- Merit pay between HR structure and managerial autonomy
- Communicating merit in times of pay transparency
- The new paradox of meritocracy: Equity in times of AI and data analytics
The 2026 PRIO conference welcomes high-quality research on the conference’s specific focus topic, as well as on all topics within the broader field of PRIO as described above.
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
We are pleased to invite submissions for the 1st PRIO conference
Submission deadline: July 1, 2026
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Please submit an extended abstract of no more than 800 words by July 1, 2026, via the following link: https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/13804af8-7461-2252-f015-9e45adddf1fb . Your abstract should briefly summarize your theoretical or empirical argument, discuss how it relates to the relevant literature and/or an extant debate, and highlight your key findings and/or the implications of your work. For empirical papers, the quantitative or qualitative methodology should be summarized and the abstract should include a brief overview of results, if available. Authors will be notified of decisions on their abstracts by the end of July.
Feel free to contact Ingo Weller (weller@lmu.de) with questions. Thanks for your interest in the PRIO conference!