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Dear Colleagues,

If you will be in Chicago for the Academy of Management's annual meeting, we invite you to join us for a symposium on the role of audiences in organizational social evaluations:

In The Eye of The Beholder: Examining The Role Of Audiences In Organizational Social Evaluations

Tuesday, August 14, 2018, 1:15PM to 2:45PM 

 Chicago E room of the Marriott Chicago Downtown

Sponsored by OMT, MOC

ORGANIZERS

Kisha Lashley and Christi Lockwood, University of Virginia

PANEL PARTICIPANTS

Wesley Helms, Brock University

Jo-Ellen Posner, Santa Clara University

Violins Rindova, University of Southern California

Eero Vaara, Aalto University

OVERVIEW

Social evaluations are highly consequential for organizations and are thus of central interest to management scholars in a variety of traditions. In examining social evaluations primarily as intangible assets and liabilities, most scholars have adopted an organizational perspective. As a result, extant research speaks surprisingly little to characteristics and processes specific to those doing the evaluating: audiences. In this symposium, we redress this shortcoming, conceptualizing audiences as playing a more central role in social evaluations of organizations. Developing a view of social evaluations as the product of social construction processes that implicate multiple, heterogeneous evaluators, we will focus centrally on audiences, addressing potential distinctions among them, the organizational attributes they pay attention to, and the manners in which they interact with each other to form both positive and negative assessments of those attributes. We intend for this symposium to encourage scholarly exchange across theoretical and methodological traditions and, by attending to audiences, add energy and insight to the burgeoning work on social evaluations of organizations.

FORMAT 

Panelists will discuss their work on the role of audiences in social evaluations. We will then have a short panel discussion followed by Q&A with the audience.