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Advances in Strategic Management Volume 43

Organization Theory Meets Strategy

Edited by

Giada Di Stefano

Bocconi University, Italy

And

Filippo Carlo Wezel

Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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Dedication

To my parents

– Giada Di Stefano

To the colleagues, students, and friends

who contribute to feed my curiosity and to

broaden my research interests

– Filippo Carlo Wezel

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About the Authors

Grace Augustine is an Associate Professor in Strategy and Organizations at the University of Bath School of Management. Her research looks at how social movements spur changes in organizations, through new movement-initiated fields, industries, and occupations.

Anne Bowers is an Associate Professor of strategic management at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. She studies ratings, rankings, and status from the perspective of the third parties that create them.

Gino Cattani is a Professor of Strategy and Organizations at the Stern School of Business, New York University. He received an MA in Management Science and Applied Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 2001 and a PhD in Management from Wharton in 2004. His research focuses primarily on creativity, innovation, social network, and social evaluation. In his research, he makes use of a variety of different methods – from historical case studies, to large sample studies, to lab experiments and simulation – to examine the conditions facilitating the generation of novelty (e.g., an idea, product or technology) and how the recognition of this novelty is then shaped by the features of the evaluating social audiences (e.g., peers, critics, or users). His research has been published in American Sociological Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Research Policy, Strategy Science, Industrial and Corporate Change, and Organization Science, where he also served as Senior Deputy Editor. He also serves as an Associate Editor at Management Science and Strategic Management Journal, and as a Senior Editor at Industrial and Corporate Change. He has been an active member of the Academy of Management Association since 1999.

Tae-Ung Choi is an Assistant Professor of Management at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research focuses on how stakeholders, both inside and outside of organizations, influence organizational change and progress through activism, occupation, and transparency.

Giada Di Stefano is an Associate Professor of Strategy at Bocconi University. Her research examines a variety of factors that foster or inhibit the creation and transfer of knowledge, within and across organizations. Her work is prevalently mixed-method, with a focus on experiments and field work more broadly, and often conducted in the context of creative industries. She currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Strategic Management Journal, and is in the editorial review board of several journals. She also serves as the Program Chair for the Will Mitchell Dissertation Research Grant Program of the Strategic Research Foundation, and on the board of the Consortium on Competitiveness and Cooperation (CCC).

Rodolphe Durand is the Joly Family Professor of Purposeful Leadership at HEC Paris and the founder and academic director of the Society and Organizations Institute (S&O) which he launched in 2009. As a scholar, Rudy's primary research interests concern the normative and cognitive dimensions of firms' performance, and especially the consequences for firms of defining their purpose and coping with the current major environmental and social challenges. Rudy is also a prolific author of books. Most recent: “A Broader Vision of Business” coauthored with Veolia's CEO, Antoine Frérot. As a board member, purpose committee member, and advisor, Rodolphe works with multiple organizations on developing, implementing, and assessing impact strategies that value a firm's purpose and its intangible assets.

Joel Gehman is a Professor of Strategic Management and Public Policy and Lindner-Gambal Professor of Business Ethics at George Washington University. His research examines strategic, technological, and institutional responses to grand challenges related to sustainability and values concerns. He earned a PhD in Management and Organization from Pennsylvania State University.

Stine Grodal is a Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University D'Amore-McKim School of Business in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. She received her PhD from Stanford University in Management Science and Engineering. Her research examines the emergence and evolution of technologies, markets, and industries. She is especially interested in how firms can shape and exploit the socio-cognitive elements of markets during different stages of industry evolution.

Wei Guo is an Associate Professor of Strategy at China Europe International Business School (CEIBS). She received her PhD from the University of Maryland at College Park. Her research centers on two main areas – interfirm rivalry and strategic communication and the intersection between the two. Her work has been published at leading management journals such as the Academy of Management Journal and Journal of Management.

Jaekyung Ha is an Assistant Professor of strategy and organization at EMLYON Business School. She obtained her PhD from Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on how audiences' perceptions about firms' identities affect firms' competitive outcomes in various settings and contexts, such as diversification, stigmatized markets, and entrepreneurial settings.

Greta Hsu is a Professor of Management at the Graduate School of Management. She received her PhD in Organizational Behavior, MS in Statistics, and MA and BA Sociology from Stanford University. Hsu studies how market categories are socially constructed, how they are strategically manipulated by market actors, and how they shape market dynamics. She has published in journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, American Sociological Review, and the British Medical Journal. Hsu is an Associate Editor at Administrative Science Quarterly and coeditor of Research in Organizational Behavior. She was formerly a department editor at Management Science, senior editor at Organization Science, and coeditor of the Culture and Economic Life book series at Stanford University Press.

Brayden G King is the Max McGraw Chair of Management and the Environment and a Professor of Management and Organizations at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. His research focuses on how social movement activists influence corporate social responsibility, organizational change, and legislative policymaking.

Pierre-Antoine Kremp received a PhD in sociology from Princeton University in 2010. He was an Assistant Professor at HEC Paris from 2011 to 2017 while this project was started. Since then, he has left academia for a career in data science in the tech industry. He is currently a senior staff data scientist at Google, where he leads a data science team working at the intersection of statistics and machine learning on the measurement and detection of content quality, the evaluation of ML classifiers, and algorithmic fairness.

Hyeun J. Lee is an Assistant Professor of strategic management at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. She received her PhD from the R. H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. Her research focuses on gender inequality and corporate governance, with particular emphasis on how access to private and public information affects career outcomes of women, and whether the different types of information held by internal and external stakeholders enhance performance and the quality of corporate governance.

Michael Lounsbury is a Professor and A.F (Chip) Collins Chair in the Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Management Department at the University of Alberta School of Business, where he is also the Academic Director of the eHUB entrepreneurship centre. He is the series editor of Research in the Sociology of Organizations and has previously served as Chair of the Organization and Management Theory Division of the Academy of Management. His PhD is in Sociology and Organization Behavior from Northwestern University.

Ivana Naumovska is an Assistant Professor at INSEAD. She studies corporate practices that are at the edge, or beyond the edge of legality. These practices are seen as potentially profitable for firms; however, they impose high economic and social costs beyond the focal firm. Her research seeks to gain a better understanding of the antecedents and consequences of such practices that are either illegal or counter-normative; specifically, (a) corporate misconduct and (b) controversial practices focusing on capital markets. Ivana's research has been published in leading academic journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Annals, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Review of Finance, and Strategic Management Journal. The findings of her research and expert opinions are frequently featured in leading business media such as Bloomberg, CBS News, Financial Times, Reuters, TechCrunch, and The Wall Street Journal.

Tomasz Obloj is an Associate Professor of Strategy at Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. Before joining IU in 2022, he was a chaired Associate Professor of Strategy and HEC Paris. He earned his PhD from INSEAD in 2011 and was a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan in 2019. His research interests include strategic management, hybrid organizations, equity theory and inclusive economy, incentives, and organizational design. His works has been published, among others, in journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Strategic Management Journal, Nature Human Behaviour, Journal of Management, and Organization Science. His research was featured in the New York Times, Forbes, CNBC, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, WIRED, Yahoo! Finance, and LinkedIn News. In 2017, he was selected by Poets&Quants as one of the Best 40 Professors Under 40.

M. Paola Ometto is an Assistant Professor of Management in the College of Business Administration at California State University San Marcos. She researches the role of communities, social movements, and institutional factors on entrepreneurship and societal change. She received her PhD in Strategic Management and Organization from the Alberta School of Business (University of Alberta) and a PhD in Public Administration from FGV-EAESP (São Paulo – Brazil).

Antoaneta P. Petkova is a Professor of Management and Organization at the Lam Family College of Business, San Francisco State University. She earned her PhD in strategic management from the University of Maryland – College Park. Dr Petkova's research focuses on the organizational processes that take place at the interface between young entrepreneurial firms and their stakeholders. She has studied how the interactions among new ventures, institutional actors, and critical stakeholders influence new ventures' success through complex socio-cognitive processes of sensegiving, sensemaking, and reputation-building. Her most recent studies focus on the broader domain of responsible innovation and entrepreneurship, including women's empowerment through entrepreneurship, reputation-building for new social ventures, and social evaluations of start-ups developing sustainable energy generation technologies. Dr Petkova's work appears in the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Inquiry, Strategic Organization, and Corporate Reputation Review, among others. She has received a number of research awards and recognitions, including the Heizer Award for Outstanding Research in the Field of New Enterprise Development and multiple best paper awards.

Violina P. Rindova is the Captain Henry W. Simonsen Chair in Strategic Entrepreneurship, Director of Research for the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, and a Professor of Management and Organization at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California. Dr Rindova teaches and studies strategic innovation – how firms create value, intangible assets, and new market opportunities through unconventional strategies across a variety of industry contexts. Her research has been published in the premier management journals, including Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Strategy Science, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Strategic Management Journal, and Strategic Organization, among others. Her work has been covered in the business media, including the Economist, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. She served as an Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Review and is currently a Senior Editor at Strategy Science.

Filippo Carlo Wezel is a Professor of Organization and Management at USI Lugano (Switzerland), where he is also the Director of the Institute of Management. He sits on the editorial board of several leading management journals. His research focuses on the impact of socio-cognitive structures like categories and status on various organizational outcomes, and on the organizational determinants of entrepreneurship.

Tieying Yu is an Associate Professor at Boston College. She received her PhD from Texas A & M University. Professor Yu's research focuses on understanding firms' strategic decisions, and how these decisions affect interfirm rivalry and competitive advantages, especially in a multi-market competition context. She has conducted research in various domestic and global settings, including the airline, automotive, and pharmaceutical industries. Her work has been published in journals like Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Journal of International Business Studies.

Anastasiya Zavyalova is an Associate Professor of strategic management at the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University and an International Research Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation. She received her PhD in strategic management from the University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business. Anastasiya's research focuses on socially responsible and irresponsible organizational actions that build, damage, and restore social approval assets, such as reputation and celebrity.

Ezra W. Zuckerman Sivan is the Alvin J. Siteman Professor of Entrepreneurship and Strategy at the MIT Sloan School of Management. If you want to know more about him, you can Google him. But please only read the sites that say flattering things and don't trust the AI-powered search engines since they're apt to hallucinate. Unless they lead you to flattering things about Ezra, those results you can trust.