Celebrating 20 years of COR and hearing about exciting research conducted by the 2022 COR Small Grants recipients!
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Celebrating 20 years of COR and hearing about exciting research conducted by the 2022 COR Small Grants recipients!
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LOCATION: SB1 5100(Corporate Partners Executive Boardroom)
TITLE: “Coping with a pandemic: Unpacking the underlying dynamics of entrepreneurs’ resilience”
TALK ABSTRACT: We develop a model of the longitudinal unfolding of entrepreneurs’ experience of distress and their subsequent mobilization of relevant coping strategies, which we test with a five-wave survey of 574 entrepreneurs at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We theorize and show that the more emotionally-exhausted entrepreneurs are at the crisis’ beginning, the more uncertainty they later perceive about their resources, and the more this hinders their subsequent mobilization of relevant coping strategies – namely, environmental scanning and reflexivity. In turn, we theorize and show that for environmental scanning to reap benefits in terms of reduced perceived uncertainty and emotional exhaustion, it must be accompanied by deliberate efforts in reflexivity. All in all, our work contributes new insights about the underlying psychological dynamics that explain the mobilization of relevant coping strategies – and of the effects these can have for becoming resilient.
SPEAKER BIO: Jean-François Harvey is an associate professor in the Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at HEC Montréal. His research focuses on how individuals, teams, and organizations learn and adapt, especially in uncertain and ambiguous contexts. His work has appeared in scholarly journals such as Academy of Management Annals and Human Relations, and his book (with Amy Edmondson), Extreme Teaming, reports the findings of a multiple case study on this topic. Harvey received his Ph.D. from HEC Montréal, was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, and completed a two-year postdoc at Harvard Business School.
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DATE AND TIME: Friday, October 21, 2022 at 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM PDT
LOCATION: SB1 5100 (Corporate Partners Executive Boardroom); Zoom link available on request
TITLE: “Frontline Professionals in the Wake of Social Media Scrutiny: Examining the Processes of Obscured Professional Accountability”
TALK ABSTRACT: Professional accountability is considered important to the sustenance of a profession. Prior research has examined the role that scrutiny by constituents, such as supervisors, regulators, auditors, and certification bodies, plays in improving professional accountability. With the advent of social media, a dispersed, diverse, and pseudonymous public can now scrutinize the actions of professionals, especially those at the frontline. In this research, I examine how social media scrutiny from the public impacts the professional accountability of frontline professionals and the consequences to the work of downstream professionals in the ecosystem. Based on an ethnography of 911 emergency management, I find that social media scrutiny of 911 call-takers—the frontline professionals in this setting—can obscure rather than improve professional accountability. I elaborate on the processes that produce these paradoxical outcomes and discuss their theoretical significance. Specifically, I unpack how and why social media scrutiny pushes frontline professionals to deviate from their professional mandate, which, in turn, obscures their sense of professional accountability. Beyond the frontline professionals, these processes also negatively affect the everyday work of downstream professionals (e.g., 911 dispatchers, police officers) in the professional ecosystem, thereby producing a cascading set of unintended consequences for multiple actors across the ecosystem.
SPEAKER BIO: Arvind Karunakaran is an Assistant Professor of Management Science & Engineering at Stanford University. His research examines authority and accountability at work in the context of technological change. Drawing on organizational theory and the sociology of work & professions, his current research focuses on the mechanisms and processes for holding professional groups accountable for their actions, especially during periods of change. He received his Ph.D. from MIT Sloan School of Management, and his research is published in Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, and Research Policy.
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Please join us this Friday at 10:30am for a talk by Carrie Wang in SB1 5200. Carrie is an O&M PhD student and the title and abstract of her talk is below:
Title: Tackling the relevance of management research as a scholarly enterprise
Abstract: The relevance of scholarly research is a central concern in the field of organizations and management, warranting an ever-growing body of literature. However, in this literature, the same challenges and solutions seem to repeat periodically with little progress made. In this review, we address the literature’s sense of dissatisfaction and suggest directions to move the conversation forward. Firstly, we present the different discussions and perspectives prominent in the literature. We build our critique based on two repetitive themes others who have noted: the fragmentated nature of the literature and the simplistic treatment of relevance within it. Next, we add to this critique with insights from peripheral perspectives in the literature, specifically on the nature of social science and on management education. Then, using our review and critique as a starting point, we propose three potential ways of redefining relevance that integrate the fragmented perspectives in the literature in a meaningful way. These three proposals help inform a more comprehensive understanding of the relevance of management research.