Attentional Control in Organizations: A Theory and Two Case Studies
William Ocasio, University of Illinois
This talk presents an integrated theory of attentional control in organizations, building on the attention-based view (ABV) and drawing upon...
Culturally Wise Interventions and Their Influence on Meaning Making and Behavior Across Diverse Cultural Contexts
Catherine Thomas, University of Michigan
People are enculturated actors, shaped by their sociocultural and socioecological contexts. A vast empirical literature has documented that,...
When Do Nice Guys Finish Last? Prosociality and the Psychological Model of CEO-Firm Matching
Daniel Keum, Columbia University
Prosocial CEOs increase employee motivation but incur higher costs when implementing layoffs. We present a psychological model of CEO-firm...
Learning to Sustain Success in Creative Industries: The Enduring Impact of Initial Novelty
Justin Berg, University of Michigan
Creators who generate hit products enjoy outsize success in creative industries. But too often, creators fail to learn from their initial...
Money and Meaning in the Climate Change Debate: Organizational Power, Cultural Resonance, and the Shaping of American Media Discourse
Rachel Wetts, Brown University
In this research, I investigate why some framings of climate change are publicized in American mainstream media while others are not,...
