Sub-theme 05: [SWG 05] Multi-Level Approaches to Social Evaluations: From the Micro to the Macro and Back
Convenors:
Alexandre B. Bitektine, Concordia University, Canada
Ashley Fulmer, Georgia State University, USA
Nicole Gillespie, University of Queensland, Australia
Session I: Thursday, July 04, 09:00 to 10:30, U6-P0-01a
Legitimacy Judgments' Validity and Consensus
Chair: Alexandre B. Bitektine
Angelo J. Deleo and Paul Gouvard
Who should I believe? Organizational members’ prioritizations of incoherent validity cues
Erwanghao Yu, Simone Santoni and Stoyan V. Sgourev
Legitimacy judgements and consensus among cultural intermediaries: Evidence from European art galleries, 1904–1915
Joaquin Cestino, Moritz Scherer, Mart Ots and Adam Backman
Legitimacy alignment: The role of legitimacy judgments in the emergence of new organizational forms
Session II: Thursday, July 04, 11:00 to 12:30
- Parallel Stream -
Parallel Stream A: Trust and Trustworthiness - Room: U6-P0-01a
Chair: Nicole Gillespie
Sara M. Kaplan
Sustainability certifier diversification: Effects on perceived trustworthiness and performance
Elanor Colleoni and Alessandro Rozza
Digital Intermediaries and Market Dynamics: Evaluating the Impact of Algorithmic Rankings and Consumer Ratings on Consumer
Behavior
Selin Öner-Kula and Tobias Polzer
A multi-level perspective on trust in digital co-production: The case of the Austrian COVID-19 contact tracing app
Parallel Stream B: Emotions in Social Evaluations - Room: U6-P1-38
Chair: Ashley Fulmer
Rongrong Zhang, Milo Shaoqing Wang and Jiyin Cao
Manage scandal spillovers with emotions: A mixed-methods study
Kevin Hill and Christian Vandenberghe
Affective organizational commitment as a multilevel social evaluation
Jo-Ellen Pozner, Karen D.W. Patterson and Tim R. Hannigan
Exploring the social side of negative social evaluation: A symbolic interactionist approach
Session III: Thursday, July 04, 14:00 to 15:30
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Parallel Stream A: Deliberating social evaluations - Room: U6-P0-01a
Chair: Nicole Gillespie
Thomas Roulet, Claire Garnier and Sébastian Stenger
Lost in Evaluation:
Social Construction and Political Struggles in the Auditors’ Evaluation
Process in the Big 4 Firms.
David Sieber and Andreas Georg Scherer
Deliberating legitimacy with partisan experts: Persuasion and contestation in group discussions with professional advocates
on corporate tax avoidance
Alfredo Grattarola
Emergence, networks, and zeitgeists: Developing the theory of justification in organizations with an agent-based model
Parallel Stream B: Measuring social evaluations - Room: U6-P1-38
Chair: Alex Bitektine
Emilie Lapointe, Christian Vandenberghe and Gary Schwarz
Longitudinal change in perceived leadership effectiveness among newcomers: The roles of supervisor behavioral integrity and
supervisor organizational embodiment
Evelina Gillard
Social evaluations inside organizations: Departments of organizations as an object of evaluations
Cynthia Loos and Katharina Spraul
Measuring first-order legitimacy judgments: Development of the corporate profession legitimacy scale
Peter Foreman and Randall Westgren
Individuals’ Evaluations of Legitimacy and Their Consequences:
Towards a Generalizable Approach for Assessing Legitimacy
Session IV: Friday, July 05, 09:00 to 10:30, U6-P0-01a
Organizational Identity
Chair: Ashley Fulmer
Maria Luisa Farnese, Angelo Benozzo and Gerardo Patriotta
Overcoming the red-tape stigma: Boundary dynamics to restore stigmatised public administrations identity
Donald Lange, Beth Schinoff, Kristie Rogers and Blake Ashforth
Foiled! How being targeted as an identity contrast can affect the organization and how others see it
Moritz Gruban, Aurélien Feix and Thomas Roulet
Red Bulls versus Rasenball: Identity struggles at RB Leipzig
Session V: Friday, July 05, 11:00 to 12:30
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Parallel Stream A: Signals, Logics, and Social Evaluations - Room: U6-P0-01a
Chair: Nicole Gillespie
Nicole Giorgi and Laura Illia
What a meme! Do delegitimizing memes and consensus generated by them impact legitimacy?
Fei Song and Alexandre B. Bitektine
A firm’s diversity, equity and inclusion as a social signal: Exploring
the role of institutional logics in social evaluation process
Dana Entenza
That’s for tree-huggers – or maybe not? How institutional logics inform evaluations of hybrid practice legitimacy
Parallel Stream B: Celebrity and its Effects - Room: U6-P1-38
Chair: Ashley Fulmer
Laura D'Oria, Mike Pfarrer and Rhonda K. Reger
Celebrity and organizational change
Sumeet Malik, Chandrika Rathee, Julien Jourdan and Luis Gomez-Mejia
The cost of privilege: Unpacking the nepotism discount in Bollywood
William S. Harvey, Navdeep Arora, Dimitrios Spyridonidis and Graeme Currie
Climbing out of the abyss: White collar professionals seeking a new identity to overcome their liminality in prison
Session VI: Friday, July 05, 14:00 to 15:30
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Parallel Stream A: Social Evaluations and Pro-social Behavior - Room: U6-P0-01a
Chair: Ashley Fulmer
Christina Kannegießer and Laura Marie Edinger-Schons
Profit & purpose – an unlikely friendship? Examining sociopolitical legitimacy in the context of purpose-driven enterprises
Wei Wang
Channels, Information Context,
and Socially Responsible Information Withholding
Nkosana Mafico, Josh Keller, Anna Krzeminska and Charmine Hartel
The social evaluation paradox: Stereotyped interactions between impact investors and social entrepreneurs
Parallel Stream B: Legitimacy during Controversy - Room: U6-P1-38
Chair: Alexandre B. Bitektine
Naoto Nadayama
Discursive legitimation of firms’ controversial internationalization: Exporting nuclear power plant after nuclear disaster
in Japan
Daniel Holm, Nicole Gillespie and Daniel M. Franks
Proto-legitimation: Preparing the ground for legitimacy judgements in situations of controversy
Cédric Legrand, Bernard Forgues and Filippo Carlo Wezel
When do external audiences negatively evaluate hybrid organizations? The effect of perceiving hybridity tensions on audiences’
legitimacy judgment
Session VII: Saturday, July 06, 09:00 to 10:30
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Parallel Stream A: Geographic Stigma - Room: U6-P0-01a
Chair: Alex Bitektine
Emily M. Ulrich and Christopher Bruno
Does stakeholder orientation protect multinational firms from reputational risks?
Diana Muslimova and Giuseppe Delmestri
Breaking
dual-stigma: The case of Russian carbon-intensive organizations
Thibault Daudigeos, Frédéric Bally and Vincent Vindevoghel
The media construction of a territorial stigma over a long time period: The interplay of core and event stigma of ChicaGre,
the ‘French Chicago’ 1992–2022
Parallel Stream B: Identity and Stigma - Room: U6-P1-38
Chair: Nicole Gillespie
Sarah Bützler, Jan Goldenstein, Daniel Pastuh and Mike Geppert
Hazy, suppressed, and lived stigma—Making sense of the individual formation of stigma in a stigmatizable context
Bruna Brito and Diego M. Coraiola
The illusion of inclusion: Understanding bounded destigmatization
Gianlorenzo Meggio and Agnieszka Radziwon
The sociocognitive emergence of category stigma: the case of blockchain
voting in U.S. elections
Session VIII: Saturday, July 06, 11:00 to 12:30, U6-P0-01a
Social Dynamics around Evaluations
Chair: Ashley Fulmer
Tijs Adriaan van den Broek and David J. Langley
The effect of polarization on employees’ legitimacy judgment expression on Glassdoor
Jan Lodge and Bryant A. Hudson
Managing the fear of stigma transfer among incumbent employees: Organizational responses to hiring the formerly incarcerated
Gabrielle Lamont Dobbin, Mabel Abraham and Tristan L. Botelho
The (Re)Production of Inequality in Evaluations: A Unifying Framework Outlining How Gender and Race Shape Evaluative Outcomes*