Sub-theme 44: Valuation, Strategy and Organization

Convenors:
Laure Cabantous, Cass Business School, City, University of London, United Kingdom
Liliana Doganova, MINES ParisTech, France
Martin Kornberger, emlyon business school, France
Session I: Thursday, July 04, 11:00 to 12:30, CMB - SR 4
Valuation, Expertise, Labour
Chair: Martin Kornberger
Sylvia Marlene Wilz and Christopher Dorn
“So test therefore, who join forever, if heart to heart be found together!” Decision, evaluation, and strategy in organizational processes of personnel selection
Ulises Navarro Aguiar
The politics of strategy practice and the (non-)valuation of expertise: The case of designers
Bernadette Bullinger, Anna Schneider and Jean-Pascal Gond
Placing the displaced: The valuation of forced migrants on the labor market
Olga Lelebina
Defining the value of expertise in organizations: From the evaluation of expert knowledge to the valuation of expertise relations
Session II: Thursday, July 04, 14:00 to 15:30, CMB - SR 4
Valuation, Strategy and Collective Action
Chair: Laure Cabantous
Evan A. Fisher
Strategy practice in a humanitarian NGO. Calculating Value and Finding a Way Forward for MSF's TB Activities in Kenya
Thomas Jalili Tanha, Katy J. Mason and Teea Palo
Bringing competition down-to-earth: Strategic valuation practices in the making of a circular economy for power
Claudia Mendes
Smarter together? Making sense of the encounter between urban planners and business model innovation
Session III: Friday, July 05, 09:00 to 10:30, CMB - SR 4
Valuation, Judgment, Devices
Chair: Liliana Doganova
Erica Coslor, Joel Barnes and Yuval Millo
Indexical judgment: The construction of valuation devices for art and antiques
Maude Paré Plante
Before the hammer falls: Price, account and evaluation in everyday life
Liisa Kurunmäki, Andrea Mennicken and Peter Miller
Territorializing and re-territorializing: Entity choices and adjudicating performance in the NHS England
Session IV: Friday, July 05, 11:00 to 12:30, CMB - SR 4
Valuation, Platforms, Designs
Chair: Martin Kornberger
Katharina Zangerle
Barracudas, piranhas and crowds: The genesis of value of early pharmaceutical ideas in physical and digital strategizing sites
Anne-Sophie Barbe and Caroline Hussler
“Putting stars in their eyes”: Platform providers' faces and forms of micro-power games in platform capitalism
Jacob Reilley, Christoph Bendzulla, Christian Huber and Tobias Scheytt
Valuing professional services through online platforms: Ratings, rankings, and a market for visibility in healthcare
Session V: Friday, July 05, 14:00 to 15:30, CMB - SR 4
Valuation, Capital, Politics
Chair: Laure Cabantous
Sarah Maire, Maude Paré Plante and Richard Pucci
Voices of fair value producers: Valuators managing discomfort with sensemaking
Arnaud Cudennec and Rodolphe Durand
“Some like it odd”: Organizational atypicality, audience expertise and valuation in venture capital
Mathilde Pellizzari
Valuation dissonance in Social Impact Bonds: a reconfiguration of the social and finance
Session VI: Saturday, July 06, 09:00 to 10:30, CMB - SR 4
Valuation and Governance (I)
Chair: Liliana Doganova
Justyna Bandola-Gill, Matteo Ronzani and Sotiria Grek
Valuation practices in transnational governance: a case study on the production of childhood poverty indicators
Annmarie Ryan and Teea Palo
Mobility of valuation practices: The case of bidding for European Capital of Culture
Vivien Blanchet
Framing uncertain value(s) through marketplace mythology: The romanticization of fair trade
Session VII: Saturday, July 06, 11:00 to 12:30, CMB - SR 4
Valuation and Governance (II) / Valuation and Consumption
Chair: Martin Kornberger
Stephanos Anastasiadis and Christel Dumas
Playing the game or gaming the system? Interaction between firms’ instrumental CSR and the normative genesis of ESG ratings
Yutaka Yamauchi, Takeshi Hiramoto and Nao Sato
Reflexive valuation: An ethnomethodological study of wine tasting
Viviane Sergi, Sophie Del Fa and Consuelo Vásquez
Branding as valuation, or valuation practices as the beating heart of branding