Academic Conference Agenda

1. Bob Gibbons, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: From Chandler to Schein (via Kreps, Henderson, and Geertz): Governance of Shared Interpretation (opens in a new tab)

2. Ann Swidler, University of California, Berkeley: Can We Develop Better (Multilevel, Differentiated) Concepts of Culture? (opens in a new tab)

Discussant: Amir Goldberg, Stanford University 

3. Andrea Freund, Stanford University: Well but Unwanted: The subtle backlash against prioritizing mental wellbeing at work (opens in a new tab) 

4. Jamie Seoyeon Song, INSEAD: Going Beyond Conversational Partners: Entrepreneurs’ Framing and Audiences’ Support for Their Innovations in Online Platforms (opens in a new tab)

5. Jeremy  Yip, Georgetown University: Worry at Work: How Organizational Culture Promotes Anxiety (opens in a new tab)

6. Arianna Marchetti, London Business School: Taking Cultural Heterogeneity Seriously: The Distinct Forms of Cultural Distinctiveness (opens in a new tab)

Discussant: Damon Phillips, Columbia University 

7. Constantinos Coutifaris, University of Pennsylvania: Chief Executive Golfer vs. Chief Executive Mountaineer: The Opposing Roles of CEO Hedonistic and Stimulating Hobbies in Organizational Culture and Performance (opens in a new tab)

8. James Riley, Harvard University: A Bazaar Affair: Market Platforms for Contemporary Art Promise Efficiency but Reveal and Reinforce Hierarchy (opens in a new tab)

9. Lillien Ellis, Cornell University: A Cultural Perspective on Idea Theft in Organizational Settings (opens in a new tab) 

10. Jillian Grennan, Duke University: Communicating Culture Consistently: Evidence from Banks (opens in a new tab)

Discussant: Yang Bai, University of California, Berkeley

11. Jacob Levitt, University of Pennsylvania: How Should We Feel?: Emotion Culture Crafting and its Influence on Team Process and Viability (opens in a new tab) 

12. Jackson Lu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Multicultural Diversity Stimulates Entrepreneurship: Evidence From Two Natural Experiments  (opens in a new tab)

13. Vanessa Conzon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Managing “Disruption”: Flexibility, Relational Style, and Gender (opens in a new tab)

14. Hana Shepherd, Rutgers University: Cultural Change in Groups: Group Structure and the Formation of Consensus in Norm Perception (opens in a new tab)

15. Joel Brockner, Columbia University: Wise Interventions in Organizations (opens in a new tab) 

16. Edgar Schein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Peter Schein, Organizational Culture and Leadership Institute; Daniel Denison, International Institute for Management Development: Thoughts about the Future of Research and Practice on Organization Culture: Keeping Our Humanity Front and Center (opens in a new tab)

17. Jacob Foster, University of California, Los Angeles: Discourses of Death: Extracting the Semantic Structure of Lethal Violence with Machine Learning (opens in a new tab)

18. Michele Lamont, Harvard University: Inclusion and Narratives of Hope after the American Dream (opens in a new tab)

Discussant: Michael Morris, Columbia University

19. Eftychia Stamkou, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands and University of California, Berkeley: Aesthetic Revolution: Art as Culture and Catalyst for Social Change (opens in a new tab)

20. Lara Yang, Stanford University: Language as a Window into the Mind: A Computational Perspective On Organizational Identification (opens in a new tab)

21. Sapna Cheryan, University of Washington: Masculine Defaults: Identifying and Mitigating Hidden Cultural Biases (opens in a new tab)

22. Özgecan Koçak, Emory University: Conflict in Organizations: A Cultural Perspective  (opens in a new tab)

Discussant: Olivia (Mandy) O’Neill, George Mason University 

23. Noah Askin, INSEAD: Live Forever or Slide Away? How Creative Assessments Age and Change  (opens in a new tab)

24. Chad Hartnell,  Georgia State University: Do Patterns Matter?  An Examination of the Predictive Validity of Culture Configurations and Culture Dimensions on Narrow and Broad Unit Outcomes (opens in a new tab)

25. Max Winkler, University of Zurich: Do Disasters Affect Adherence to Social Norms? (opens in a new tab)

26. Paul Gouvard, USI Lugano: It takes two to tango: Firms’ cultural orientation and job seekers’ identity as antecedents of selection and hiring (opens in a new tab)

Discussant: Glenn Carroll, Stanford University 

27. Douglas Guilbeault, University of California, Berkeley: Promoting Shared Understanding Across Cultures: Comparing U.S. and Chinese Populations in an Online Language Game (opens in a new tab)

28. Alexander Zentefis, Yale University: Corporate Culture as a Theory of the Firm (opens in a new tab)

29. Francisco Brahm, London Business School: The mechanics of organizational culture (opens in a new tab)

30. Jennifer Dannals, Dartmouth College: The role of hierarchical rank in social norm perception (opens in a new tab)

31. Jennifer Chatman and Sameer Srivastava, University of California, Berkeley: Synthesis and Discussion