Business School Presenter Research Articles

In AI We Trust: Understanding Employee Trust in Artificial Intelligence at Work

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the way we work. The autonomous quality of AI and its ability to perform tasks that previously required human intelligence present a new set of trust challenges to organizations and employees and is reconfiguring the relationship between humans and technology. This symposium responds to a growing consensus of the need to understand employee trust in the context of AI at work. It showcases global research using diverse methodologies to advance novel empirical insights and conceptual developments on 1) the nature and determinants of employee trust and acceptance of AI systems at work, 2) how leaders and employees can manage and navigate AI technology adoption in a way that is enabling, human-centric, and supportive of trust, and 3) how AI integration is affecting trust relationships at work. Understanding Employee Trust in AI-Enabled HR Processes: A Multinational Survey Presenter: Steve Lockey; U. of Queensland Presenter: Nicole Gillespie; U. of Queensland Presenter: Caitlin Curtis; U. of Queensland Trust of Algorithmic Evaluations: On the Importance of Voice Opportunities and Humble Leadership Presenter: Jack McGuire; National U. of Singapore Presenter: David De Cremer; NUS Business School Presenter: Devesh Narayanan; National U. of Singapore Full speed ahead? Exploring the double-edged impact of smart workplace technology on employees Presenter: Simon Daniel Schafheitle; U. of Twente Presenter: Antoinette Weibel; U. of St. Gallen Presenter: Christophe Schank; U. of Vechta Maintaining Employee Trust in Adopting Artificial Intelligence to Augment Team Knowledge Work Presenter: Kirsimarja Blomqvist; LUT U. Presenter: Paula Strann; LUT U. Presenter: Dominik Siemon; LUT U. The Dynamics of Trust in AI and Interpersonal Trust in Organizations Presenter: Brian Park; Georgia State U. Presenter: C. Ashley Fulmer; Georgia State U. Presenter: David Lehman; U. of Virginia

Understanding Job Search Processes for a Better Job Search Experience

Job search scholarship has established the job search as a self-regulatory, within-individual process that individuals engage in as they pursue new employment opportunities. Traditional scholarship has focused on job search quantity –the degree of effort exerted–and offers received as a result of job search efforts potentially at the neglect of understanding factors that impact job search quality. Therefore, recent job search scholarship has begun to shift away from this conventional paradigm to instead focus on the quality of job seekers job search experiences and different factors that impact job seeker well-being and perceptions. This symposium includes four papers that address job seeker well-being (e.g., psychological resources) and job search quality (e.g., types of search effort) as well as investigating psychosocial aspects of job seekers search experiences (e.g., degree of network centrality, volunteer work while unemployed). These papers are indicative of current trends in the job search literature and represent promising new streams for future research areas. The symposium also platforms preeminent job search scholar, Dr. Connie Wanberg, as the discussant of these works in progress. THE ROLE OF JOB SEARCH EXPERIENCE IN THE EMERGENCE OF ANTI-IMMIGRANT ATTITUDES Presenter: Serge P. Da Motta Veiga; EDHEC Business School Presenter: Shuhua Sun; Tulane U. Presenter: Ray Fang; Boise State U. VOLUNTEER WORK DURING UNEMPLOYMENT: DOES IT PAY OFF? A 5-WAVE LONGITUDINAL STUDY Presenter: Sarah Van Den Hee; U. of Amsterdam Presenter: Edwin A.J. Van Hooft; U. of Amsterdam OPPOSING EFFECTS OF HUMAN CAPITAL AND SOCIAL CAPITAL ON JOB SEARCH SELF-REGULATION Presenter: Jomel Wei Xuan Ng; National U. of Singapore THE INFLUENCE OF CHALLENGE AND HINDRANCE APPRAISALS ON SEARCH BEHAVIOR AND IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT Presenter: Rebecca MacGowan; U. of Arkansas Presenter: Mahira Ganster; U. of Arizona Presenter: Nitya Chawla; Texas A&M U. Presenter: Jerel Slaughter; U. of Arizona

Recent Advancements in the Application of Attachment Theory to Work

In this symposium, we will present three empirical papers that adopt creative conceptual perspectives and methodologies to advance the attachment theory-based research in the work domain. We will also have in-depth introductions to and discussions about the contributions attachment theory has made to the study of organizational behavior, and more importantly, its potential to inspire future work. Knowledge Sharing Processes across Employee Attachment Configurations Presenter: Matthew McLarnon; Mount Royal U. Presenter: Ian R. Gellatly; U. of Alberta Presenter: David Richards; Lakehead U. Presenter: Ofer Arazy; U. of Haifa Investigating Persistent Low Quality Leader-Follower Relationship from an Attachment Perspective Presenter: Per-Magnus Moe Thompson; BI Norwegian Business School Presenter: Linda Vestnes Saeter; U. of Oslo Stay with Me: The Roles of Leader Attachment Orientations and Tenure in Employee Retention Presenter: Dritjon Gruda; National U. of Ireland, Maynooth Presenter: Annilee Game; U. of East Anglia Presenter: Aoife Kavanagh; Maynooth U., Ireland Presenter: Dimitra Karanatsiou; Aristotle U. of Thessaloniki Presenter: Athena Vakali; Aristotle U. of Thessaloniki

Reinventing Work. The Implications of Modern Work Arrangement for Individuals and Teams

The nature of work is changing rapidly and global trends such as demographic changes, exponential technological growth and changes in individual value systems have accelerated a shift with regards to how, where and when work is organized. Whilst an abundance of research has explored the implications of modern work from economic and sociological perspectives and discussed the consequences for organizations, relatively little is known about how the changing notion of work impacts workers and teams. This symposium addresses this gap by bringing together leading scholars who will shed light on how workers experience changes in work and how this influences their careers, their attitudes and their wellbeing. Using the presentations as a starting point, the aim of the symposium is to discuss common patterns, but also interesting differences in order to identify how individuals benefit from modern work, whilst highlighting potential challenges and drawbacks. Insider to the Team, Outsider to the Organization. Freelancers’ Perceived Insider Status Presenter: Thomas Gigant; ESCP Europe Employee Experiences and Well-being in rapidly transformed Virtual Teams Presenter: Almudena Canibano; ESCP Business School Presenter: Petros Chamakiotis; ESCP Business School Presenter: Emma Russell; U. of Sussex Visibility and Status of Accumulated Professional Knowledge. Effects of Digital Transformation Presenter: Nanna Gillberg; U. of Gothenburg Presenter: Ewa Wikström; School of Business, Economics & Law, U. of Gothenburg, Sweden Can AI Recommendations Mitigate Nepotistic Hiring Behavior? Presenter: Jonathan Edward Booth; London School of Economics and Political Science

Increasing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Organizations

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted and exacerbated social inequality within the U.S. As a result, many organizations have attempted to increase the gender and racial/ethnicity diversity of their organizations to potentially help reduce social inequality. The papers in this symposium test assumptions regarding various diversity efforts to examine the effects of these efforts on organizational perceptions and on people’s feelings of inclusion and belonging. The first paper investigates the effectiveness of asking applicants to provide diversity statements to see whether asking for these statements increases the diversity of applicants/hires and signals to applicants that the organization values equity, diversity, and inclusion. The second paper explores how disclosure of employee diversity data influences impressions of organizations. The third paper investigates concerns that dominant group members may have towards organizational diversity efforts and explores ways to garner support from dominant group members for diversity efforts. Finally, the fourth paper explores how structured evaluation processes may increase employees’ perceptions of inclusion and belonging within organizations. Together, the papers in this symposium provide insights into how managers can potentially increase diversity, equity, and inclusion within organizations. Exploring the Effects of “Personal EDI Statements” on Applicants and Organizations Presenter: Joyce He; U. of California, Los Angeles Presenter: Grusha Agarwal; U. of Toronto, Rotman School of Management Presenter: Sonia Kang; U. of Toronto Disclosing Workforce Diversity Data Increases Perceptions of Progress (Even When There Isn’t Any) Presenter: Evan P. Apfelbaum; MIT Sloan School of Management Presenter: Eileen Y. Suh; Boston U. Questrom School of Business We Need You! Diversity Messages That Enlist Dominant Group Members in Diversity Efforts Presenter: Kaylene McClanahan; U. of California, Los Angeles Presenter: Hannah Birnbaum; Northwestern Kellogg School of Management Presenter: Margaret Shih; U. of California, Los Angeles Structured Evaluations Processes Increase Employees’ Perceptions of Inclusion and Belonging Presenter: Aeroelay Chyei Vinluan; Harvard Business School Presenter: Erika Kirgios; The Wharton School, U. of Pennsylvania Presenter: Edward Chang; Harvard Business School

Technology Strategy and Competition Track: Emergence: Geography and Markets

The TIM Division and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) co-sponsored a workshop on “Emergence: Organizations, Markets, Platforms, and Regions” in August 2021. This symposium advances the important conversation on the topic of “emergence” begun at this successful workshop that sparked many vibrant conversations and debates. The workshop brought together over 50 leading interdisciplinary researchers in person, and dozens more virtually, who conduct research related to these four emergence themes in order to develop a community of scholars interested in understanding innovation and the dynamics of technological change. The objective of our proposed AOM 2022 symposium is to carry on this conversation with a focus on two sub-themes of emergence: markets and regions. This symposium brings together senior and junior scholars to discuss market and regional emergence at multiple levels of analysis and with varied methodological approaches. These diverse approaches will deepen our understanding of emergence processes in different aspects. Importantly, they include an international view. Specifically, the papers include intensive case study analysis to unpack the detailed process of emergence, rigorous quantitative empirical analysis to discover the antecedents of emergence, and theoretical modeling to address ambiguity and skepticism about existing concepts associated with emergence. Ultimately, by providing a forum for research on emergence and by continuing to foster a community of scholars around this topic, the symposium will advance understanding technology and market development, innovation management, and regional dynamics. Cluster Rebooting: The Role of Co-Localized Ecosystems in Adapting to Technological Shifts Presenter: Paolo Aversa; City U. London Presenter: Mauro Capestro; U. of Padova Presenter: Marco Bettiol; U. of Padova Presenter: Eleonora Di Maria; Department of Economics and Management, U. of Padova Which start-ups benefit most from local organizational sponsorship? Presenter: Paige Clayton; Georgia Institute of Technology Endogenous Shaping in the Photovoltaic Cell Industry: The Emergence of New Markets for Solar Energy Presenter: Charlotte Jacobs; Louisiana State U. Presenter: Gwendolyn Kuo-fang Lee; U. of Florida Disruptive Timing Presenter: Leon Chu; Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business Presenter: Andy Wu; Harvard Business School Presenter: Guang Li; Smith School of Business, Queen's U. Presenter: Brian Wu; U. of Michigan

The Formation and Perception of Authenticity and its Organizational Outcomes

Given the benefits of authenticity for individuals and their organizations, the goal of this symposium is to explore how authenticity is constructed, maintained, and perceived in organizations. In addition, we examine the consequences and outcomes associated with authenticity for organizations, individuals, and leaders. In our first presentation, we consider how individuals experience authenticity within their organizations. Specifically, Horton and colleagues examine the psychological outcomes of a physical decision that we make each day—what to wear. They examine the relationship between authenticity and power as predictors of the important organizational outcome of workplace engagement. Across two multi-day experiments, participants generally reported feeling more authentic when they wore casual attire, relative to professional attire or a mixed strategy. In addition, this casual attire prompted greater workplace engagement. Thus, this paper examines how attire can impact psychological outcomes, and the unique ways attire impacts power and authenticity. In the following two presentations, we consider the relationship between physical expressions, specifically facial expressions, and authenticity. First, Liu finds that emotion expression variability in leaders is an important predictor of perceived authenticity. Specifically, in six studies she describes the benefits of emotion expression variability in leadership using naturalistic and experimental settings. Greater emotion expression variability is associated with greater authenticity judgments which increased leadership effectiveness. Second, Rees considers how sensitivity to being judged impacts the judgment of others’ authentic or inauthentic expressions. In two studies, she finds that when perceivers believe that being respected by others is important, i.e., they are socially sensitive, they are more likely to be influenced by the perceptions of another person’s authenticity. First, she finds that those higher on sensitivity indicate that they pay more attention to interpersonal cues than those less sensitive. They also judge hypothetical coworkers smiling (in)authentically as more(less) authentic, warm, competent, and like a good coworker. She also finds that priming judgers to expect (in)authentic expressions influences judgments even when the actual expression does not differ. In the final two presentations, we turn towards expressions of authenticity. First, Bailey and colleagues explore how social judgments about authenticity can stem from, and prompt greater social status. They investigate how being perceived as authentic results in greater respect and admiration. They find that the reverse is also true, such that individuals of higher status are assumed to be more authentic. These findings speak to the reciprocal relationship between perceptions of authenticity and societal value associated with competence and expertise. In the final presentation of the session, Van Zant explores how inauthenticity via self-promotion underlies the pervasive organizational issue of overconfidence. In three studies, he finds that the prevalence of overconfident advice is not due to a failure to hold advisors accountable for their overconfidence. Rather, actors engage in strategic self-promotion when they deliberately attempt to project competence to an audience. Following the presentations, the discussant, Dana Carney, will discuss what makes authenticity distinct from related concepts such as deception, and the implications of authenticity for theory and practice. Taken together, these presentations consider the antecedents and formation of authenticity within an organization through physical expressions of attire and emotions. This set of papers also considers the important outcomes associated with authenticity, examining work engagement, leadership effectiveness, respect, and admiration. The Impact of Attire on Remote Worker Authenticity, Power, and Engagement Presenter: Erica Bailey; Columbia Business School Presenter: Carl Blaine Horton; Columbia U. Presenter: Adam Galinsky; Columbia U. Does Emotion Expression Variability Help or Hinder Leaders? Presenter: Zaijia Liu; Columbia U. How Sensitivity to Being Judged Shapes Judgments of Others’ (In)Authentic Expression Presenter: Laura Rees; Oregon State U. The Reciprocal Relationship Between Social Status and Perceived Authenticity Presenter: Erica Bailey; Columbia Business School Presenter: Isaac Raymundo; Columbia Business School Presenter: Sheena S. Iyengar; Columbia U. Strategically Overconfident (to a Fault): How Self-Promotion Motivates Advisor Confidence Presenter: Alex Bryant Van Zant; Rutgers Business School

IT and Strategic Human Capital: Impact on Knowledge-Based Processes, Networks, and Outcomes

Advancements in information technology (IT) can have profound impacts on the development and management of human capital. Extant research has examined how human capital in markets and organizations are shaped by increased digitization and the deployment of strategies relying on collection and analysis of big data, cloud computing, social media, Internet of Things (IoT), and the like. In knowledge-intensive settings, however, IT-enabled mechanisms have heterogenous impacts on issues related to human capital. Although IT potentially expands capacity for collection, storage, and utilization of knowledge, some firms and individuals successfully leverage technology and information systems while others do not--or are even possibly left worse off. This symposium contributes to examining why such discrepancies may exist by shedding light on the market and organizational processes that underlie the intersection of IT and knowledge-based processes, networks, and outcomes as they relate to issues in strategic human capital. Can Social Media Alleviate Inequality? Evidence from Venture Capital Financing Presenter: Gavin Wang; Wharton OPIM Presenter: Lynn Wu; The Wharton School, U. of Pennsylvania Presenter: Lorin Hitt; U. of Pennsylvania Are Knowledge Sharing and Learning Tradeoffs? Linking Performance Incentives with KMS Usage Presenter: Sae-Seul Park; Carnegie Mellon U. - Tepper School of Business Cloud Adoption and Strategic Human Capital: Evidence from Norway Presenter: Derrick Choe; - Presenter: Amir Sasson; BI Norwegian Business School Presenter: Robert Channing Seamans; NYU Stern Hunting For Talent: Firm-Driven Labor Market Search in the United States Presenter: Ines Black; - Presenter: Sharique Hasan; Fuqua School of Business, Duke U.

Institutions and Innovation in China

Management scholars have been increasingly interested in how institutional factors, especially the government, affect innovation in emerging markets. This symposium brings together a unique set of papers exploring different ways governments contributes to firm and scientific innovation in the important emerging market of China. Specifically, the first paper investigates how government-led innovation policies can affect patent growth, including the absolute number of patents and patent novelty, and how policies can yield different results across the country. The second paper describes the effect of government industrial priorities on firm innovation, including targeted firms that lie in prioritized industries as well as non-targeted firms. The third paper examines the effect of talent returnee programs on scientific innovation and explains the performance gaps between returnee scientists and their overseas peers. The last study builds on the institutional view to investigate how the COVID-19 pandemic affects change in innovation between SOEs and non- SOEs and considers the contingent roles of regional R&D funding and firm digitalization. As a set, the papers offer new insights into how institutional factors contribute to the firm and scientific innovation in an emerging market, which can inform organization and management theories and strategic management research. The Limits of State-Led Innovation: Evidence from Chinese Patents Presenter: Yuen Yuen Ang; - Presenter: Nan Jia; U. of Southern California Presenter: Bo Yang; U. of Southern California Presenter: Kenneth Guang-Lih Huang; National U. of Singapore Government priorities and firm innovation in China Presenter: Christopher Marquis; Cambridge Judge Business School Presenter: Qian Wang; Cornell SC Johnson College of Business Can Brain Drain of Elite Scientists be Reversed? Evidence from China’s Young Thousand Talents Presenter: Dongbo Shi; Shanghai Jiao Tong U. Presenter: Weichen Liu; Shanghai Jiao Tong U. Presenter: Yanbo Wang; U. of Hong Kong COVID-19 Pandemic and Innovation of Chinese SOEs and non-SOEs Presenter: Kevin Zheng Zhou; U. of Hong Kong Presenter: Meitong Dong; HKU

Ecosystems, Stakeholders, and Grand Challenges

The past five years have seen a surge of interest among strategy and organizations scholars in “grand challenges”, which are massive social and environmental problems whose scale and complexity necessitate coordination across diverse stakeholders, yet whose intractable nature renders that collaboration fundamentally challenging. This growing body research has made great strides in illuminating the coordination challenges that grand challenges pose. Yet, less is known about the processes and mechanisms that shape how and when collaborative responses to grand challenges unfold. The goal of this symposium is to advance our collective understanding of these processes. We do so by showcasing cutting-edge unpublished work from top scholars who are publishing in the areas of stakeholder theory, ecosystems, and strategy-as-practice. These papers draw on multiple empirical settings (i.e., healthcare, disaster response, corporate philanthropy, and sustainability) and diverse research methods to explore a set of closely-related, under-researched, and important questions: how do individuals and organizations perceive grand challenges, how do these (divergent) perceptions shape strategic action and resource allocation, and how does institutional context shape the dynamics and efficacy of coordination? Collectively, these papers advance our understanding not only of grand challenges, but also contribute more broadly to research and theory on managerial cognition, ecosystems, industry emergence, and corporate social responsibility. Following the four presentations, two expert discussants will discuss the four studies, as well as the broader research agenda and the theoretical issues they highlight. In the middle of the COVID-storm: A framing perspective on medical professionals in COVID wards Presenter: Madeleine Stefanie Rauch; Stanford U. & Copenhagen Business School Corporate social responsibility and pandemic response: Evidence from India Presenter: Christiane Bode; Imperial College Business School Presenter: Aline Gatignon; The Wharton School, U. of Pennsylvania Presenter: Doron Tadmor; The Wharton School, U. of Pennsylvania Ecosystems as vehicles of robust action against grand challenges Presenter: Douglas Hannah; Boston U. Worlds apart: Stakeholder governance in different institutional environments Presenter: Sinziana Dorobantu; NYU Stern School of Business

What Are We Talking About? Natural Language Processing in Organizations

This symposium is designed to advance research on organizational communication by bringing together leading scholars examining state- of-the-art applications of natural language processing. Language is endemic to almost every aspect of an organization - we talk and write to each other all the time. However, the dominant paradigms for studying social interactions involves indirect measures of communication - for example, by manipulating language in a lab experiment, or by surveying people about their previous interactions. These methods allow researchers to structure their data in advance. But naturally occurring data from communication - the text and speech itself - is unstructured, and presents many common analytical challenges for those who care about the consequences of that communication. The presentations in this symposium demonstrate how that communication can be measured directly. Each presenter considers natural language data from common and difficult conversations throughout an organization. And in each case, natural language processing is used to show that the content of the communication has direct consequences for organizational outcomes. Across different field settings, we show how our analyses can also provide evidence for biases and information gaps that can inform behavioral models of decision-making in an organization. Computational Consumer Segmentation and Brand Management Presenter: Ada Aka; The Wharton School, U. of Pennsylvania Presenter: Sudeep Bhatia; U. of Pennsylvania Presenter: Gideon Nave; - Presenter: Christopher Olivola; Carnegie Mellon U. Language as a Window into the Mind: A Computational Approach to Organizational Identification Presenter: Lara Yang; - Modelling the Tightness-Looseness Tradeoff Between Self-Regulation and Creativity Presenter: Joshua Jackson; U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Presenter: Michele Gelfand; Stanford Graduate School of Business Building an interpretable NLP system to encourage civil discourse Presenter: Michael Yeomans; Imperial College Business School Presenter: Burint Bevis; Imperial College Business School

Second Acts: Giving Back through Social and Serial Entrepreneurship

The last two decades have seen increasing calls for commercial enterprises to create value beyond that which can be captured by their shareholders. While effective approaches to generating stakeholder value at the organization level are increasingly well-understood, relatively little empirical research examines the factors that influence how direct social impact can be generated at the individual level, i.e., by private sector founders, managers, and employees acting outside their corporate affiliations. The papers in this symposium address this gap through two lenses. First, they explore how individual-level characteristics, either formed in early life or developed through earlier career experiences, shape entrepreneurs’ choices about how to create public and/or private value at a later stage in their careers. Second, they focus on critical events in the entrepreneurial process and examine how they facilitate action-taking by individuals with philanthropic preferences to make social impact. Collectively, the papers in this symposium highlight different pathways on which entrepreneurs might embark at an advanced stage in their careers to create value beyond their current for-profit entrepreneurial endeavors, including engaging in philanthropy, and supporting the larger entrepreneurial ecosystem as experienced founders, joiners, and impact investors. Who Gives Back? Evidence from India on Successful Entrepreneurial Exit & Involvement in Philanthropy Presenter: Leena Kinger Hans; Indian School of Business Presenter: Balagopal Vissa; INSEAD Spinning an Entrepreneurial Career: The Role of Motivation & Attribution in Entrepreneurial Careers Presenter: Hyeonsuh Lee; West Virginia U. Presenter: Sonali Shah; U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Forming Ties for Impact: Cognitive and Emotional Resonance between Entrepreneurs and Investors Presenter: Esther Leibel; Boston U. Presenter: Denise Falchetti; George Washington U. The Making of Social Entrepreneurs: Big Tech Acquisitions & Founder Mobility into Social Initiatives Presenter: Ming zhu Wang; Washington U. in St. Louis, Olin Business School Presenter: Daniel Walter Elfenbein; Washington U. in St. Louis

Unveiling Variations in ‘the Other’: How Relationships Drive Intergroup and Interpersonal Dynamics

Understanding how the self perceives ‘the Other’, in both intergroup and interpersonal contexts, is essential to business and social interactions more generally. Though the psychological distinction between self and other is a fundamental categorization needed to navigate the world, some have questioned the need to distinguish between different ‘Others’ beyond the general categorization of “not me”. This symposium seeks to address this gap by exploring the specific relationships the self has with many more different kinds of ‘Others’: competitors, rivals, friendly rivals, trash-talkers, bigots, and more. The important commonality is each talk considers the underlying relationships at play; that is, exploring the self and other as a unit interacting with each other. The presentations in this symposium offer empirical work examining how relationships between both individuals and groups impact a variety of contexts with a particular emphasis on implications for managing organizations. Social Norms in Rivalries Increase Violence and Societal Harmdoing Presenter: David Andrew Reinhard; U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Rivals with Benefits: Friendly Rivals Motivate Without Encouraging Unethical Behavior Presenter: Valentino Chai; National U. of Singapore The Function of Incivility: Trash-talking Promotes In-Group Love Presenter: Jeremy Yip; McDonough School of Business Georgetown U. Some Perspectives are Harmful to Take Presenter: Garrett L. Brady; London Business School Presenter: Cynthia S. Wang; Northwestern Kellogg School of Management Presenter: Gillian Ku; London Business School The Most-Used Collectivism Scales Use Us vs. Them, Collectivists Don’t Presenter: Thomas Talhelm; U. of Chicago Booth School of business

Cognition as Configuration: A Set-theoretic Approach to Managerial and Organizational Cognition

The jobs of organizational decision-makers are particularly complex, and complex organizational tasks are likely to require complex cognitions too. The Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) – a configurational methodology – offers great potential to investigate such complex forms of cognitions, where multiple mechanisms contribute simultaneously to an outcome in question. To date, however, research that investigates managerial and organizational cognition through configurational lenses is scarce because prior studies have tended to explain complex phenomena by means of a linear logic that each time focuses on a single superior mechanism, in isolation of other mechanisms. The papers presented in this symposium aim at illustrating how the configurational approach works in several lines of research associated to managerial and organizational cognition. The symposium discussion ultimately not only aims at shedding light on the multi-dimensional nature of cognition involved in complex phenomena, but also advances the use of a relatively a novel, underutilized methodological approach to study the impact of configurations of cognitive mechanisms in managerial and organizational phenomena. Decentralized platforms: coordination without managers and early stage growth Presenter: Ying-Ying Hsieh; Imperial College Business School Presenter: Jean-philippe Vergne; UCL School of Management How entrepreneurs generate business ideas: a fuzzy-set analysis of think-aloud protocols Presenter: Zorica Zagorac-Uremovic; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, ETH Opportunities and Challenges of a Neo-Configurational Perspective for Research on MOC Presenter: Johannes Meuer; Kühne Logistics U. Presenter: Maricela Arellano Caro; HEC Montreal Your (un)divided attention: a fuzzy-set analysis of attention and adaptation Presenter: Andrew Sarta; York U.

New Frontiers in Mentorship Research: Communicating Feedback and Advice

Mentoring is an important organizational process that contributes to career development and personal growth. Mentors are uniquely positioned to provide opportunities for learning by sharing important feedback with their mentees, and research on mentoring has demonstrated its ability to help mentees cope with major organizational shocks. The goals of this symposium are to explore new insights and identify communication behaviors that can enable the creation of more positive workplace mentorship relationships. In pursuit of these two missions, in the proposed symposium we bring together four papers to reveal novel theoretical directions and important empirical insights about factors that may aid or hamper beneficial work mentoring relationships. Our discussant, Taya Cohen, will help integrate these papers and facilitate discussion. We hope the findings presented will reveal novel and important empirical insights, and aid business organizations and managers of the future in creating beneficial work mentoring relationships. The Detrimental Effects of High-Status Mentors for Low Performers Presenter: Jennifer Abel; Harvard Business School Presenter: Paul Isaac Green; U. of Texas at Austin Presenter: Ting Zhang; Harvard Business School Presenter: Francesca Gino; Harvard Business School Tips from the Top: Do the Best Performers Really Give the Best Advice? Presenter: David Levari; Harvard Business School Presenter: Daniel Gilbert; Harvard U. Presenter: Timothy Wilson; U. of Virginia The Importance of Honest and Benevolent Feedback in the Workplace Presenter: Kori Krueger; Carnegie Mellon U. - Tepper School of Business Presenter: Binyamin Cooper; Carnegie Mellon U. Presenter: Emma Levine; U. Of Chicago Presenter: Taya R. Cohen; Carnegie Mellon U. - Tepper School of Business Overcoming Interpersonal Hesitance to Give Honest Feedback Through Benevolent Candor Presenter: Ariella Kristal; Harvard Business School Presenter: Michael Yeomans; Imperial College Business School

Data Governance in Digital Ecosystems

The purpose of this symposium is to bring together scholars to discuss data governance in digital ecosystems from different perspectives. In particular, we will focus on opportunities and challenges involved in data governance when heterogeneous actors (having different expectations and motives) interact to co-create value in digital ecosystems. This symposium aims at providing a deeper understanding of data governance tradeoffs in the sustainable development digital ecosystems from strategic, organizational, innovation, infrastructural and practice perspectives. Building on presented papers, this symposium serves as a platform to discuss data governance challenges and issues that may occur during the formation and development of digital ecosystems. In recent years, national and international initiatives on data spaces and infrastructures have attracted the attention of both scholars and practitioners. Thus, we believe a wide variety of scholars could benefit from a holistic understanding of data governance in digital ecosystems, especially when data are exchanged and processed by diverse actors to create value. Standardization in Data Governance Presenter: Agnieszka Radziwon; U. of California, Berkeley & Aarhus U. Presenter: Henry Chesbrough; U. of California, Berkeley Decentralized Data Control Coordination Presenter: Niloofar Kazemargi; Luiss U. Presenter: Paolo Spagnoletti; Luiss U. Orchestrating industrial data ecosystems Presenter: Krithika Randhawa; U. of Technology, Sydney Producing Generative Data Presenter: Hannes Rothe; ICN Business School Presenter: ARTHUR KARI; Freie U. Berlin

The Role of Multinationals in the Energy Transition

The primary aim of the proposed symposium is to discuss research questions focused on the implications of climate change for international business and on the role IB scholars can play in addressing climate change through a multi-level perspective. Building on seminal and own work of the organizers and presenters, the symposium will highlight important aspects at the intersection of climate change and IB as well as possible directions for future research and knowledge generation. It offers a platform for discussion and mutual learning among participants and should ideally ‘produce’ follow-up activities. Public policy, non-market capabilities and energy transition through foreign investments Presenter: Joao Albino Pimentel; U. of South Carolina, Darla Moore School of Business Leveraging dynamic capabilities for the energy transition: balancing energy sources Presenter: Birgitte Grogaard; BI Norwegian Business School Presenter: Helene Loe Colman; BI Norwegian Business School Presenter: Thao Vo; BI Norwegian Business School The oil and gas industry and its role in the energy transition Presenter: Andrew Inkpen; Thunderbird School of Global Management at ASU Interorganizational networks in energy transition collaboration Presenter: Randi Lunnan; BI Norwegian Business School MNE-specific responses to energy transition regulations Presenter: Michael Nippa; Free U. of Bozen-Bolzano Presenter: Markus David Taussig; Rutgers Business School

New Ways of Working: Institutions, Identity, and Power

The Corona pandemic has accelerated the growing trend for organizations to adopt so-called new ways of working, including practices such as conducting meetings and teachings through video conferencing, working from home, when commuting or in co-working spaces as well as hot desk arrangements, agile methods and holocratic structures. What seems to unite these empirical phenomena is the fact that they grant organizational members intentionally increasing discretion in terms of what to work on (autonomy to set priorities), when to work (temporal autonomy) and where to work (spatial autonomy). However, most of our received wisdom of organizational theories and concepts relies on the implicit premise of a 9-5-fixed-desk-clear-hierarchy work environment. As organizational scholars, we thus seem to be witnessing a substantive shift in our 'object of inquiry' that we have yet to fully understand empirically and to theorize conceptually much better. To increase our knowledge on new ways of working and its implications and effects on theory, we want to elaborate these aspects in three paper presentations on the following three conceptual foci: institutions, organizational identity, as well as power and politics. First of all, we see that new ways of working challenge existing institutions. The flexibilization and digitalization of work led to taken-for-granted assumptions being questioned, e.g. with regard to place, time, interactions and boundaries of work. Secondly, we realize that all of these new ways of working affect the mode and modalities of social interactions. Organizational identity as a social construct, though, rely substantively on social processes of meaning negotiations. Thirdly, we recognize that most of these new ways of working are technology enabled. New practices and technology are never innocent. Rather, they affect how power and politics are distributed and enacted in organizations. At the end of the symposium, similarities and differences of these three perspectives shall be further elaborated together with a discussant and the audience. How Office Space Enables and Restricts New Ways of Working Presenter: Andrea Simone Barth; Alanus U. of Arts and Social Sciences & WU Vienna Presenter: Renate Elisabeth Meyer; WU Vienna & Copenhagen Business School Presenter: Markus A. Höllerer; UNSW Sydney & WU Vienna How ‘New Ways of Working’ Shape Organizational Identity Beliefs Presenter: Emamdeen Fohim; U. of Bern Presenter: Claus Jacobs; U. of Bern From Micro- to Macro-Politics of NWOW Presenter: Michel Ajzen; UCLouvain Presenter: Taskin Laurent; Louvain Research Institute in Management and Organizations -LouRIM

Advances in Behavioral Ethics: Moral Consistency, Licensing, Cleansing, and Transgressions

As the research on moral self-regulation, or the psychological processes and cognitive biases by which individuals regulate their moral behavior over time, has gained popularity in management and applied psychology over the past two decades, limitations to our understanding of this theoretical framework have become more salient. This symposium is comprised of three presentations that attempt to address several different, but related, issues. More specifically, the presenters will discuss research designed to: (a) address gaps or inconsistencies in moral self-regulation research for organizational behavior and organizational ethics, and (b) examine how the broader social context effects individual’s moral judgements and moral self-regulatory processes over time. The symposium includes both narrative review and model building, as well as experimental designs. The presenters will discuss the potential implications of their findings for management scholars and practitioners. IntraIndividual (Un)Ethical Behavior in Management: A Review and Recommendations for Future Research Presenter: Benjamin G. Perkins; U. of Arizona Presenter: Nathan Philip Podsakoff; U. of Arizona Presenter: David Welsh; Arizona State U. Giving-by-Proxy Triggers Subsequent Charitable Behavior Presenter: Samantha Kassirer; Northwestern Kellogg School of Management Presenter: Jillian Jordan; Northwestern U. Presenter: Maryam Kouchaki; Northwestern Kellogg School of Management Worse to Be First? Victim and Transgressor Perspectives of “Viral” Violations Presenter: Julia A. Langdon; London Business School Presenter: Daniel A. Effron; London Business School

Examining Dehumanization and Humanization in Organizational Life

The intention of the current presenter symposium is to examine how dehumanization pervades organizational life and to explore the ways in which we can help to re-humanize modern workplaces through our scholarship. With this purpose, our symposium assembles four papers that introduce new ideas and investigate important questions related to (de)humanization at work. Demeaning Those We Help: The Neglect of Psychological Help Relative to Physical Help Presenter: Juliana Schroeder; U. of California, Berkeley Humanization and Anxiety in Performance Situations Presenter: Shane Schweitzer; NUS Business School Presenter: Adam Waytz; Northwestern Kellogg School of Management Human Encounter at Work Presenter: Eun Bit Hwang; U. of Michigan A Window into Coworkers’ Worlds: Examining the Impact of Incidental Learning Presenter: Ashley Elizabeth Hardin; Washington U. in St. Louis Presenter: Beth Schinoff; Boston College Presenter: Rachel McCullagh Balven; Arizona State U. Presenter: Kris Byron; Georgia State U.