Business School Presenter Research Articles

Prescribing a Business Research Agenda to Address Human Health Grand Challenges

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed massive flaws in human health systems worldwide. Communities with higher health deficiencies suffered even more drastic effects when COVID-19 interacted with pre-existing diseases—making COVID a more lethal virus. Considering that business can only thrive if their stakeholders enjoy good health and well-being, the critical role of business in improving health spans from occupational health and public health policy and regulations to the health of external stakeholders such as consumers and the surrounding communities. Despite the intrinsic connection between business and human health, business scholars have mainly paid attention to internal stakeholders, such as employees, and public health policy and regulations as they directly affect business, while overlooking the impact of business on external stakeholder health. This symposium intends to open a place for discussion of the role of business in tackling human health challenges and the impact of business on the health of external stakeholders such as consumers and communities. This symposium will also be a springboard to propose a research agenda for business and management scholars interested in health and the advancement in the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for not only SDG 3 on Good Health and Well-being but also related SDGs such as SDG 2 on Zero Hunger and SDG 13 on Climate Action. Coproducing Social Impact Through a Community-Empowered Human Resource Model Presenter: Andrea Maria Prado; INCAE Business School Presenter: Andy Pearson; INCAE Business School Presenter: Silvia Dorado; U. of Massachusetts, Boston Presenter: Ying Chen; U. of Rhode Island Health-Washing in Business Presenter: Remy Balarezo; U. de Piura Presenter: Ivan Montiel; City U. of New York, Baruch College Evaluating the Impacts of Corporate Health Initiatives Presenter: Bryan W. Husted; Tecnologico de Monterrey Presenter: Irene Henriques; York U. Presenter: Lilia Raquel Rojas-Cruz; EGADE Business School, Tecnológico de Monterrey

Pitfalls and Inequalities Complicating the Pursuit of Passion

Pursuing passion for work is highly valuable to both employees and their organizations. However, many employees struggle to pursue and maintain their passion over time, a challenge which may be exacerbated by underlying inequalities. The papers in this symposium demonstrate the pitfalls and underlying inequalities which complicate the pursuit of passion. Across four presentations, we show that (1) the experience of passion is fundamentally self-limiting, that (2) employees do not give up on a job with poor working conditions because of their passion, (3) gender inequalities in the household place an additional burden on women’s pursuit of passion, and (4) mid-performing passionate men are better evaluated than mid-performing passionate women. Together, these presentations recast our understanding of passion, demonstrating that passion can at times drain employees, and may even exacerbate underlying inequalities. Challenge of Maintaining Passion for Work Over Time: A Dynamic Perspective on Passion and Exhaustion Presenter: Joy Bredehorst; Boston Consulting Group Presenter: Kai Krautter; Harvard U. Presenter: Jirs Meuris; U. of Wisconsin-Madison Presenter: Jon Michael Jachimowicz; Harvard Business School People that Give Up on a Passion Overestimate the Negativity of Observers’ Judgments Presenter: Zachariah Berry; Cornell U. Presenter: Brian J. Lucas; Cornell U. How Daily Passion-Fueled Increases in Working Hours Exacerbate Gender Inequality Presenter: Kai Krautter; Harvard U. Presenter: Megan Gorges; Harvard Business School Presenter: Zachariah Berry; Cornell U. Presenter: Sarah Ward; U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Presenter: Jon Michael Jachimowicz; Harvard Business School Perceptions of Passion Boost the Status and Potential of Average-Performing Men Only Presenter: Joyce He; U. of California, Los Angeles Presenter: Celia Moore; Imperial College Business School

Office Work Interrupted: Evolving Understandings of Work and Organizing in the Shadow of COVID-19

For many workers, COVID-19 catalyzed a rapid disappearance of the physical organization and a dramatic rise in technologically mediated forms of organizing. Prior research on remote and virtual work has largely focused on what changes enable virtual workers to succeed, under the assumption that these virtual workers would represent a minority of the workforce and would primarily occupy specialized roles. Key questions to be asked are: do we need to revisit our thinking about virtual work in light of our changed, and changing, circumstances? And what might the recent, widespread virtualization of work teach us not just about virtual work, but, also, about workers and organizations, more broadly? Our goal with this symposium is to feature future-of-work scholars who can share their insights into the ways that we might understand virtual work anew, as well as the ways that virtualization can impact how workers understand themselves, their work, and their organizations. The presentations contained in this symposium cover newcomer socialization, the doing of virtual work, the emotional costs of that work, and workers’ reflections upon the transition to virtual work. In so doing, they invite us to question both scholarly and practitioner assumptions about virtual work and highlight the ways in which workers shape their experience of work. Benefits To Onboarding Remotely? Building Trust With Supervisors Without Face-To-Face Contact Presenter: Mailys George; IESE Business School Presenter: Kevin W. Rockmann; George Mason U. The Work Of Getting to Work: Independent Workers and The Articulation Work People Engage In... Presenter: Melissa Mazmanian; U. of California, Irvine Presenter: Ingrid Erickson; Syracuse U. School of Information Presenter: Margaret Jack; Syracuse U. School of Information The Emotional Costs Of Remote Work Arrangements Presenter: Christine Beckman; U. of Southern California Presenter: Cynthia Wilkes; U. of Southern California You Can Take It With You: Worker Adaptation To The Virtualized Organization Presenter: Julia Coff; New York U. Presenter: Frances J. Milliken; New York U. Presenter: Kevin Woojin Lee; U. of British Columbia

‘Resilience Activation’: Exploring Relational Mechanisms in Strategy and Practice

‘Resilience Activation’: Exploring Relational Mechanisms in Strategy and Practice

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Track: Entrepreneurial Scaling

We propose to examine: how do young ventures manage the growth of their organizations and markets as they scale; what approaches account for successful scaling; and how do these approaches vary across contexts? While much research has focused on the founding (e.g., Stuart and Ding, 2006; Shane, 2000; Levine and Rubenstein, 2017) and the later stages (e.g., Nelson, 2003; Hoehn-Weiss and Karim, 2014) of the entrepreneurial life cycle, little work has assessed the in- between “scaling” stage when ventures make critical decisions about the growth of their markets and teams. We propose to bring together four papers presented by a panel of Natalie Carlson (Wharton Business School), Gary Dushnitsky (London Business School), Rembrand Koning (Harvard Business School), and Nataliya Langburd Wright (Harvard Business School), discussed by Ranjay Gulati (Harvard Business School) and Melissa Schilling (New York University). We will reveal the novel mechanisms which shape the scaling process of young ventures and how they vary across institutional and sectoral environments. Stay the Course or Start Over? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment Presenter: Natalie Carlson; The Wharton School, U. of Pennsylvania Presenter: Anselm Hager; Humboldt U. of Berlin Explaining Scaling Disparities Across Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: the Role of Strategy Presenter: Nataliya Wright; Harvard Business School The Uneven Benefits of Silicon Valley: Scaling Technology and Inequality Presenter: Rembrand Michael Koning; Harvard Business School Presenter: Maria Roche; Harvard Business School Entrepreneurial Access in the Era of Low Code Tools Presenter: Gary Dushnitsky; London Business School

Technology Strategy and Competition Track: Pushing the Knowledge Frontier or Spilling the Beans? Corporate R&D Disclosure

Firms in knowledge-intensive industries create important intellectual assets while also aiming to appropriate value from their innovation. Survey-based research highlights that firms prefer secrecy and lead time over other appropriation methods (e.g., patents and scientific papers) in order to profit from their intellectual assets. However, firms frequently choose to disclose their intellectual assets via patenting and scientific publications. This symposium illuminates specific channels which guide firms’ R&D disclosure strategies. The studies in this symposium focus on the private incentives and performance implications for firms that share their valuable knowledge in the public domain. R&D disclosure choices create competitive implications for other stakeholders, potentially changing innovation trajectories of entire industries. The four studies in this symposium analyze antecedents and consequences of corporate R&D disclosure in various sectors such as the medical device industry and Artificial Intelligence using advanced empirical techniques ranging from synthetic control method to difference-in-differences. The studies in this symposium contribute to the innovation strategy literature concerned with strategic interactions of innovating firms. Buyers of First Resort: Guaranteed Markets and Corporate Scientific Research Presenter: SHARON BELENZON; - Presenter: Larisa Cristina Cioaca; Fuqua School of Business, Duke U. Trigger Event and the Evolution of Scientific Research Disclosure Presenter: Nuruddin Ahmed; MIT Sloan School of Management Presenter: Romel S. Mostafa; U. of Western Ontario Who gains and who loses from more information in technology markets? Evidence from the Sunshine Act Presenter: Raffaele Conti; ESSEC Business School Presenter: Lee Branstetter; Carnegie Mellon U. Presenter: Samir Mamadehussene; U. of Texas at Dallas - Jindal School of Management Presenter: Huiyan Zhang; Carnegie Mellon/ Catolica Lisbon Patent Publication and Innovation Presenter: Deepak Hegde; New York U. Presenter: Chenqi Zhu; U. of California, Irvine

What Role Does Work Design Play in Adaptation to Unprecedented Change? Insights from COVID-19

In this symposium, our goal is to explore adaptation to work during COVID-19 over time, and who was likely to adapt better than others, and why. Multiple studies have demonstrated that mental health and performance deteriorated during COVID-19 (Zacher et al., 2021), with increases in distress (e.g., O’Connor et al., 2020; Pierce et al., 2020), and loneliness (Wang et al., 2020) particularly salient. Yet our preliminary research also shows that not everyone had the same experience. Some employees and organisations were able to adapt to the unprecedented situation and fared better than others, in terms of well-being and performance. Specifically, we draw on a work design perspective to unpack some of the change processes involved. The five included papers highlight work design predictors of positive outcomes (e.g., manageable job demands), and individual (e.g., procrastination, detachment from work) and contextual (e.g., organisational factors) mediators and moderators implicated in positive adaptation. Using a range of methods, from mixture models, to random-intercept cross-lagged panel models, and longitudinal qualitative case studies, we uncover potential change processes which may help explain positive adaptation to work during unprecedented events beyond the pandemic, such as environmental disasters or major life stressors. Further, we explore predictors and moderators of these change processes for different groups of people, including younger and older workers, and entrepreneurs. We discuss important implications for designing work for these different groups of people. We hope to stimulate conversation around the importance of understanding processes underlying adaptation to work during unprecedented events, and the role of work design in adaptive processes. Job Demands, not Resources, Predict Worsening Psychological Distress During COVID-19 Presenter: Caroline Knight; Curtin U., Perth Presenter: Anita Keller; U. of Groningen How COVID-19 shaped the work perceptions of mature Australian employees Presenter: Daniela Andrei; Curtin Business School Presenter: Jane Chong; Curtin Uni Presenter: Leah Zozsak; Curtin U. Presenter: Gretchen Petery; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Presenter: Marian Baird; The U. of Sydney Business School The Impact of Aging Experiences and Coping Responses on Employees’ Work Behaviors During COVID-19 Presenter: Nathan Baker; Michigan State U. Presenter: Chu-Hsiang Chang; Michigan State U. Presenter: Ruodan Shao; York U.-SSB Am I on the Right Track? The Role of Feedback Availability during Change Processes Presenter: Anita Keller; U. of Groningen Presenter: Caroline Knight; Curtin U., Perth A Longitudinal Qualitative Study of How Entrepreneurs Design Their Employees’ Work Presenter: Georgia Hay; Centre for Transformative Work Design / Curtin U. Presenter: M.K. Ward; Curtin U.

Antecedents and Consequences of Entrepreneurial Careers: Integrate Micro and Macro Perspectives

This symposium focuses on the antecedents and consequences of an entrepreneurial career. Underlying this focus is the view that entrepreneurship is a career step along a career path as opposed to a final destination (Burton et al., 2016). Four studies in this symposium examine key issues relevant to different stages of an entrepreneurial career, including the pre-entry learning processes that shape entrepreneurial entry decisions and the type of venture founded, the impact of entrepreneurial experience on entrepreneurs’ personality and skillsets, and former entrepreneurs’ behaviors (e.g., turnover) and performance implications (e.g., innovation) in post- entrepreneurship wage employment. Implications for theory and practice will be discussed. Following the paper presentations, Scott Seibert and Aleksandra (Olenka) Kacperczyk, two distinguished experts on entrepreneurship and careers representing different theoretical traditions (micro and macro, respectively), will serve as our discussants to offer theoretical and practical suggestions, identify promising research opportunities, and stimulate an interactive group discussion. The Entrepreneurial Pre-Entry Process: Evidence from the Informal Economy Presenter: SHELTER SELORM TEYI; Copenhagen Business School Presenter: Marcus Møller Larsen; Copenhagen Business School Presenter: Vera Rocha; Copenhagen Business School Rethinking the personality-entrepreneurship link: Can entrepreneurship change your personality? Presenter: Leigh Mellish; UNSW Sydney Presenter: Siran Zhan; U. of New South Wales Presenter: Amirali Minbashian; UNSW Business School, Australia Prior entrepreneurial experience and voluntary turnover in subsequent wage employment Presenter: Siran Zhan; U. of New South Wales Presenter: Liwen Zhang; U. of Macau Presenter: Yu Wu; UNSW Sydney Hiring Entrepreneurs for Innovation Presenter: Louise Lindbjerg; PhD Student Presenter: Theodor Lucian Vladasel; U. Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona GSE

Organization Learning and Search Track: Innovating Under Constraints Within and Beyond Organizational Boundaries

This symposium offers insights on the role of constraints in creativity and innovation processes within and beyond organizational boundaries. The presenters will share theoretical and empirical investigations of how constraints, such as time pressure, access to resources, and societal challenges affect and shape innovation processes. The research presented in this symposium will involve data collected from various research contexts, such as open innovation to solve societal problems caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany and to develop medical devices to address the ventilator shortage problem around the world, teams competing in an internal innovation competition, creative teams working in the Hollywood animation industry, and creating a new culinary paradigm in fine-dining. Collectively Tackling Societal Challenges: Transcending Boundaries through Open Social Innovation Presenter: Johanna Mair; Hertie School of Governance Presenter: Thomas Karl Gegenhuber; Johannes Kepler U. Linz Presenter: Laura Thäter; Hertie School of Governance Presenter: Rene Lührsen; Hertie School of Governance Breathing Fresh Air into a Broken System: Accelerating the Innovation Process for Ventilators Presenter: Hila Lifshitz-Assaf; New York U. Presenter: Steven Randazzo; - Presenter: Olivia Jung; Emory U. A Problem Half-Solved is a Problem Well-Stated: Team Problem Discovery & Innovation Project Success Presenter: Johnathan Cromwell; U. of San Francisco Presenter: Jean-François Harvey; HEC Montreal Creative Starvation: How Resource Endowments Shape the Financial Resources-Creativity Relationship Presenter: Pier Vittorio Mannucci; Bocconi U. Pressure cooker: The role of constraints in the creation of molecular cuisine breakthroughs Presenter: Ivanka Visnjic; ESADE Business School Presenter: Sebastian Raisch; GSEM - U. of Geneva Presenter: Marcel Planellas; ESADE

Entrepreneurs, Inventors, and Innovative Entrepreneurs: The Exploration of Institutional Forces

The understanding of how institutional environments shape entrepreneurial formation and innovation activities is essential to enhancing participation and success of entrepreneurs and inventors, which are important avenues for creating sustainable competitiveness through economic growth, job creation, and high-impact discoveries. The intersection of business, government, and society has long been a focus for entrepreneurship, economics, and strategy scholars. A large body of research has explored extensively the business legislative pathways to foster entry into entrepreneurship. A separate strand of research has paid great attention to how innovation activities and outcomes are influenced by various regulations. Recently, researchers have started to pay attention to institutional changes that can simultaneously affect entrepreneurial entry and innovation activities. The papers in this symposium aim to facilitate conversations between entrepreneurship and innovation scholars to identify institutional factors that spur and affect innovative entrepreneurs, as well as the mechanisms and boundary conditions. Forced Migration and Entrepreneurship Presenter: Andrea Contigiani; The Ohio State U. Fisher College of Business Fast Friends: Understanding the Impact of Short-term Migration on Firms’ Invention Outcomes Presenter: Hyo Kang; USC Marshall School of Business How Health Social Safety Nets Affect Gender Gap in STEM Entrepreneurship Presenter: Jiayi Bao; UNC-Chapel Hill Presenter: Marwa Ibrahim; UNC-Chapel Hill Protests, Lobbying and Regulations in the Commercial Drone Industry Presenter: Jue Wang; Penn State U. Presenter: Lori Qingyuan Yue; Columbia Business School Presenter: Hayagreeva Rao; Stanford U.

Not Just for Show: How Aesthetics Underpins Work Within and Around Organizations

Organizational aesthetics is a way of understanding organizational life based on sensory reactions to its material components, such as objects and settings (Baldessarelli, Stigliani, & Elsbach, 2022; Strati, 1992). Following the recent material and spatial turn in organization studies (Boxenbaum et al., 2018; Jones et al., 2017; van Marrewijk & Yanow, 2010), scholars have begun to acknowledge and document the role of aesthetics in organizations and institutions. However, the topic remains relatively unexplored, and substantial opportunities exist in management research for further analysis and theorization. This symposium brings together scholars who empirically study aesthetics in relation to key organizational topics (i.e., coordination, creative collaboration, institutionalization, stigmatization) to provide novel insights into how aesthetics contributes to organizational and institutional processes. In particular, the symposium extends management scholarship by emphasizing how aesthetics influences the construction and disruption of meanings across a variety of research settings. The four empirical papers highlight how material and visual artifacts and the subsequent experiences emerging from their use and manipulation support organizational and institutional work by forming or challenging collective understandings. In doing so, the studies point to novel research directions concerning (1) the role of interactions with artifacts that trigger sensory reactions leading to collective achievements, and (2) the use and manipulation of artifacts to strengthen cognitive and symbolic processes that challenge dominant meanings. Inducing Artifactual and Aesthetic Experience to Enable Coordination Presenter: Mercedes McBride; Case Western Reserve U. Presenter: John Paul Stephens; Case Western Reserve U. Clients as Feedback Providers: A Study of Creative Projects Presenter: Giada Baldessarelli; Imperial College Business School Presenter: Ileana Stigliani; Imperial College Business School The Role of Multimodality in the Anti-Vaccination Rhetoric Presenter: Elena Bruni; Luiss Guido Carli U. Presenter: Dennis Clemens Jancsary; WU Vienna Presenter: Renate Elisabeth Meyer; WU Vienna & Copenhagen Business School The Symbolic Manipulability of Market Offerings: Strategies for Mitigating Consumer Resistance Presenter: Anders Dahl Krabbe; King's Business School

How Contextual Cues Shape Employee Voice

Employee voice, the proactive communication of ideas, suggestions, concerns, or opinions with the intent to improve organizational functioning, has the power to significantly improve both team and organizational performance. Despite the well-documented benefits of encouraging employee voice in organizations, there is relatively little research about how to empower employees to speak up in organizations, or the contextual cues and employee behaviors that can create an organizational context conducive to voice expression, a key antecedent of voice. This symposium is designed to advance organizational research by building a deeper understanding of how contextual cues – manager and employee behaviors and perceptions –shape the voice context. Specifically, we examine how such cues influence the decision to voice or not, as well as reactions to the decision to voice (including voice recognition and endorsement), and related employee outcomes. Microaggressions Suppress Workplace Voice, but Accountability Can Help Presenter: Alexandra Noel Figueroa; U. of Utah, David Eccles School of Business Presenter: Amelia Stillwell; U. of Utah Presenter: Tamara Calzado Real; U. of Utah Presenter: Elizabeth R. Tenney; U. of Utah, David Eccles School of Business Presenter: Barbara Blair; U. of Utah, David Eccles School of Business How the Changing Nature of Social Hierarchy Impacts Voice Presenter: Patricia Satterstrom; New York U. The Role of Leader Dominance-Orientation in Predicting Voice Endorsement Presenter: Garrett L. Brady; London Business School Presenter: Niro Sivanathan; London Business School Recognizing Silence is Golden: The Role of Managerial Power in Silence Detection Presenter: Yasha Spriha; Robert H. Smith School of Business, U. of Maryland Presenter: Niranjan Srinivasan Janardhanan; London School of Economics Presenter: Taeya Howell; Brigham Young U. Psychological Safety, Workforce Diversity, and Citizenship Behaviors Presenter: Daniel M Cable; London Business School Presenter: Zannie Giraud Voss; Southern Methodist U. Presenter: Glenn Voss; Southern Methodist U.

I Meant What I Said, and I Said What I Meant?: Organizational Rhetoric Around Social Justice Issues

From systematic racism to climate change, institutions in contemporary American society are increasingly expected to wake up to and take a stance on major social and political issues that challenge our societal well-being. Yet such communicative efforts are not always met with unanimous positive reactions. The public, or some social groups, may question the underlying motivation for such efforts, seeing them as nothing more than political performance (Anderson & McClain, 2020). Certain narratives may backfire, too, especially when the effort is described as intending to benefit the bottom line rather than supporting social justice (Carlos & Lewis, 2018; Kim, 2014). Finally, despite the unprecedented wave of public support for BLM in summer 2020, many people were hesitant to rejoice over the “victory” because promises may never become progresses, especially considering that the past sixty years have witnessed a decrease, rather than an increase, in racial equity despite all the talking (e.g., a greater racial wealth gap; Miller, 2011, Shapiro, Meschede & Osoro, 2013). Stating an organization’s intention to contribute to a better, more equitable society is a must, but a deep understanding on how organizations should communicate such intentions, and how their words influence the public’s perception is still lacking. In response to the need for more rigorous and systematic research on how organizations communicate their intention to engage in social justice and how the public responds, this symposium has curated five interrelated empirical papers on this timely topic. Embracing a mixed method approach, these papers have combined the strength of archival analysis with experimental methods to showcase various aspects of an organizations’ decisions around rhetoric and communication style, how these decisions are perceived, and why certain strategies are perceived more favorably than others. Predicting People’s Perceptions of Organizational Statements Following George Floyd's Death Presenter: Xuan Zhao; Stanford U. Presenter: Rachel Song; U. of Washington Presenter: MarYam Hamedani; Stanford U. Presenter: Amrita Maitreyi; Stanford U. Presenter: Clarissa Gutierrez; Stanford U. Presenter: Hazel Markus; Stanford U. Presenter: Jennifer Eberhardt; Stanford U. Perceptions of Organizational DEI Messages that Leverage Moral Claims and Instrumental Claims Presenter: Preeti Vani; Stanford Graduate School of Business Presenter: Benoit Monin; Stanford Graduate School of Business Pain & Punishment: How University Diversity Rationales Affect Responses to Interracial Conflicts Presenter: Jordan Starck; Stanford U. Presenter: Stacey Sinclair; Princeton U. The Efficacy of Leader Rhetoric to Promote Inclusion During Periods of Intergroup Conflict Presenter: McKenzie Preston; The Wharton School, U. of Pennsylvania Presenter: Arianna M. Beetz; The Wharton School, U. of Pennsylvania Presenter: Andrew Carton; The Wharton School, U. of Pennsylvania “But Are They Walking the Talk?”:How People Make Sense of Diversity Communications and Demographics Presenter: James T. Carter; Columbia Business School Presenter: Mabel Abraham; Columbia Business School

Doing Good Better: Limitations of Firm-Led Social Impact Efforts and Solutions Moving Forward

There has been growing scholarly interest in the role and responsibility of firms in addressing societal problems. Prior work has shown that there can exist an economic case for firms’ pursuit of social objectives and that firms possess capabilities that make them better suited to address certain societal issues compared to other organizational forms. However, even though companies are increasingly tackling societal grand challenges, corporate involvement in addressing social problems does not necessarily achieve the desired social outcomes. Realities like tensions between stakeholders of different power or tradeoffs between the pursuit of financial and social objectives can lead to social-oriented efforts that are temporary or that are decoupled from on-the-ground impacts. This symposium takes the position that there is great potential for for-profit firms to further social goals. However, we also posit that there is still much to learn about how companies can do good better. We focus on firms operating in weak institutional contexts, which create problems of economic and human development while also making it more difficult for companies to address them. Through their presentations, our scholars characterize firm-level efforts to address social problems in low- and middle-income economies, theorize the mechanisms for why firms’ efforts do not necessarily achieve desired social outcomes, and ascertain strategies for the improvement of firms’ participation in creating better outcomes, from the perspectives of both managers and policymakers. Pathways to Progress: Product- and Operation-Level Integration of Social Objectives Presenter: Tobias Bünder; Hertie School of Governance Presenter: Nikolas Rathert; Tilburg U. Presenter: Johanna Mair; Hertie School of Governance Getting in the Set: The Counterintuitive Effects of Impact Investing in Global Microfinance Presenter: Tyler Wry; The Wharton School, U. of Pennsylvania Presenter: Eric Y.-F. Zhao; Indiana U., Bloomington Presenter: Jaeho Kim; The Wharton School, U. of Pennsylvania How Electoral Contests Impact Corporate Social Responsibility: Evidence from India Presenter: Christiane Bode; Imperial College Business School Presenter: Aline Gatignon; The Wharton School, U. of Pennsylvania How Firms can Bring Efficiency and Innovation in the Provision of Public Goods Presenter: Luis Ballesteros; Boston U. Questrom School of Business

The Contestation and Appropriation of Public Space

This symposium explores the contestation and appropriation of public space. The ways in which public spaces are used, misused, and even abused have become of growing interest to scholars across the social sciences. However, we know relatively little about the ways how public space is used, changed, and maintained. This has led to the emergence of important questions regarding public space that we begin to address in this symposium, including: How do different groups of individuals define and use public space? What types of public space are needed and for what purposes? How and why has the understanding of public space changed over time? How does the privatization of public spaces impact social stability and equality? To address these questions, we present four studies about public space that embrace a variety of empirical and theoretical contexts. Our intent is that the four papers will set up some lively discussion with members of the audience that will in turn spark new directions of research in an understudied area. The Appropriation of Public Space: Anti-Restriction Protests during the COVID-19 Pandemic Presenter: Giulia Cappellaro; Bocconi U. Presenter: Amelia Compagni; Bocconi U. Reinforcing Systems of Exclusion: The Role of Public Space Presenter: Laura Fey; Doctoral Student Presenter: John Matthew Amis; U. of Edinburgh Where do Places of Social Inclusion come from? Exploring the Institutional Genesis of Public Parks Presenter: Santi Furnari; City, U. of London Presenter: Elena Giovannoni; Royal Holloway School of Business and Management Managing Public Places in Organizational and Institutional Change Presenter: April L. Wright; Warwick Business School Presenter: Gemma Irving; U. of Queensland Presenter: Asma Zafar; Brock U. Presenter: Trish Reay; U. of Alberta

Creativity Evaluations and Consequences in Organizations

The innovation process in organizations usually involves collaborations and decisions about resource allocation on new ideas. Therefore, creative talents and ideas need to be first recognized to receive the support and resources needed to generate actual value for organizations. Creativity evaluation thus serves as the pivotal link between idea generation and implementation. Despite its nascence, research interest has burgeoned in creativity evaluations due to this topic’s theoretical and practical significance. This symposium is intended to showcase new research on creativity evaluations using novel and diverse theoretical perspectives and methodologies. The papers that comprise this symposium investigate individual or group factors that influence creativity evaluations as well as the downstream consequences of endorsing or rejecting creative ideas. This symposium thus provides a comprehensive view of creativity evaluations. It also illuminates connections between creativity evaluations and various important topics in management research such as diversity, first impressions, status, and deviance. The Effect of Criminal Records on Creativity Evaluation: Evidence from Music Reviews Presenter: Eun Soo Son; Georgia Institute of Technology Presenter: Haoyue Zhang; Washington U. in St. Louis, Olin Business School Presenter: Jiani Zhu; Georgia Institute of Technology The Diversity Heuristic: How Team Racial Composition Influences Judgments of Team Creativity Presenter: Devon Proudfoot; Cornell U. Presenter: Zachariah Berry; Cornell U. Presenter: Min Kay; Duke U. When Uniqueness Brings Us Together: How Initial Cues of Uniqueness Influence Creative Collaborations Presenter: Qing Gong; Georgia Institute of Technology The Idea Endorsement Double Bind: Status Loss Concerns Impede Creative Idea Endorsement Presenter: Wayne Johnson; Cornell SC Johnson College of Business Presenter: Brian J. Lucas; Cornell U. Creative Deviance in the Relationship between Psychological Ownership and Social Undermining Presenter: Jigyasu Shukla; U. of Central Florida Presenter: Ronit Kark; Bar Ilan U. Presenter: Rebecca J. Bennett; U. of Central Florida

Recognizing and Extending Creativity

Creativity, though integral to organizational success, can be difficult to recognize. At times, creativity’s role may be unclear because it functions as a kind of backdrop that sets the stage for productive behaviors that are not necessarily creative in their own right. When creativity is specifically desired, leaders may find themselves unable to recognize or accept it because it is perceived as incongruent with other priorities. Responding to these critical barriers to making the most of creativity at work, the five papers in this presenter symposium all consider some aspect of how creativity might be better recognized and extended in ways that foster its appreciation. Collectively, the papers provide a deeper look into the challenges facing organizations hoping to leverage creativity and suggest a symbiosis between recognizing creativity and extending it – both within the creativity domain and outward into various organizational settings. Create, Compost, and Conserve: The Relationship Between Creativity and Pro-environmental Behavior Presenter: Poornika Anantha Ramakrishnan; Rotterdam School of Mgmt Presenter: Verena Krause; UCL School of Management Why and How Leaders Overcome a Bias Against Novelty in Bureaucratic Contexts Presenter: Yidan Yin; U. of Southern California -Marshall School of Business Presenter: Jennifer Mueller; U. of San Diego Presenter: Matthias Simmons; U.S. Army Research Institute Presenter: Michele Calton; U.S. Army Research Institute Creative Packaging: Disentangling the Impact of Creative Presentation and Creative Content Presenter: Davide Orazi; Monash U. Presenter: Pier Vittorio Mannucci; Bocconi U. A Dynamic Ontology of Creativity and Standardization in High-stakes Work Presenter: Yuna Lee; Columbia U. Presenter: Robert Litchfield; Washington and Jefferson College Presenter: Lucy L. Gilson; U. of Connecticut Creativity as Composition: A Framework and a Research Agenda Presenter: Spencer Harrison; INSEAD Presenter: Arne Carlsen; BI Norwegian Business School Presenter: Miha Skerlavaj; U. of Ljubljana, School of Economics and Business

Gender Inequity in Entrepreneurship: Understanding Barriers, Boundary Conditions, and Opportunities

Achieving gender equity in entrepreneurship is a pressing societal concern. A growing number of studies have provided consistent evidence for gender disparities and barriers for female entrepreneurs. Yet, research also suggests that under certain conditions, tied to the unique features of the entrepreneurship context, there may also be a female advantage in venture evaluations and funding outcomes. In this symposium, we hone in on this burgeoning line of inquiry by bringing together four presentations that investigate when and why a female (dis)advantage emerges, and how certain features of this context help to mitigate gender bias. Based on a diverse array of methods (archival, experimental, and video metrics) and samples (angel investors, accelerators, and cofounders), the presentations highlight novel mechanisms underlying gender bias in entrepreneurship settings. Overall, this symposium aims to 1) offer actionable insights for recognizing and addressing gender bias in entrepreneurship and 2) identify new directions for gender research more broadly. Women Entrepreneurs Don’t Ask (For Enough) in the Entrepreneurial Negotiation Process? Presenter: Anyi Ma; Tulane U. The Effects of Masculinity Displays by Female Entrepreneurs on Venture Evaluation Presenter: Soojin Oh; Pennsylvania State U. Presenter: Aparna Joshi; Penn State Smeal College of Business How the Functional Titles of Male and Female Cofounders Affect Funding in Mixed-Gender Founding Team Presenter: Steven Gray; U. of Texas at Austin Presenter: Melanie Milovac; INSEAD “Gender Diversity Matching” Helps Ventures Raise Funding: Evidence from a Natural Experiment Presenter: Dana Kanze; London Business School Presenter: Alessandro Piazza; Rice U.

Can’t We Just Talk about This? New Insights into Difficult Conversations

The current symposium provides new insights into difficult conversations. We first highlight which conversations people find difficult, looking at whether people want to initiate sensitive conversations or wait to confess something. We then discuss other factors beside the topic of the conversation that can make conversations difficult. Different class backgrounds might create anxiety for the interlocutors and having different mindsets in a conversation might lead to different outcomes. However, with all these difficulties of having a conversation with someone who is different from you, we show that people still try to find opportunities to talk about difficult topics. What Are You Waiting For? Delaying a Confession Does Not Help Presenter: Katherine Qianwen Sun; Columbia Business School Presenter: Michael Slepian; Columbia Business School Interacting Across Class Lines: Who is Threatened in Cross-Class versus Same-Class Interactions? Presenter: Mindy Truong; Northwestern Kellogg School of Management Presenter: Sarah S M Townsend; U. of Southern California Presenter: Nicole Stephens; Northwestern U. Dialogue vs. Debate: Causes and Consequences of Two Approaches to Disagreement Presenter: Kristina Wald; U. of Chicago Booth School of business Presenter: Anastasiya Apalkova; U. of Chicago Booth School of business Presenter: Xuan Zhao; Stanford U. Presenter: Heather M. Caruso; UCLA Anderson School of Management Presenter: Jane Risen; U. of Chicago Booth School of business “If it’s easy, you’re doing it wrong:” Managing discomfort in conversations about allyship Presenter: Olivia Foster-Gimbel; New York U.

AI and Emerging Technologies Track: Artificial Intelligence and Ethics

This symposium provides four papers that take perspectives on ethical issues that have emerged due to the increased usage of AI within organizations. The first paper provides an overview of algorithmic fairness and bias, and argues the importance of managerial oversight to ensure outcomes are not negatively impacted by the use of AI in decision-making. The subsequent two papers delve further into the usage of AI by managers in hiring and other forms of decision-making, providing some evidence that “managers-in-the-loop” may not be enough to eliminate bias. Lastly, given that AI may not be effectively used by people within the organization, this symposium explores how to alter AI product development to make resulting products more ethical. These papers raise important themes from nascent literature on understanding the ethical limitations of AI and managers in a firm using AI and raising awareness of the risks associated with using “big data” in AI product development, training, and usage. Algorithmic Fairness and Economics Presenter: Bo Cowgill; Columbia Business School Presenter: Catherine Tucker; Stanford U. Human vs. Machine: Biases in Hiring Decisions Presenter: Mike Horia Teodorescu; U. of Washington Presenter: Nailya Ordabayeva; Boston College Presenter: Marios Kokkodis; Boston College Unjust or Just Business?: Manager versus Employee Support for Algorithms Presenter: Mingang K. Geiger; Duquesne U. Presenter: Lily Morse; West Virginia U. Presenter: Kristin Smith-Crowe; Boston U. Presenter: Ann Tenbrunsel; U. of Notre Dame The Cost of Ethical AI Development for AI Startups Presenter: James Bessen; Boston U. Presenter: Stephen Michael Impink; NYU Stern Presenter: Lydia Reichensperger; Boston U. Presenter: Robert Channing Seamans; NYU Stern