Sub-theme 38: New Developments and Applications of the Attention-Based View
Convenors:
William Ocasio, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Violetta Splitter, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Christoph Brielmaier, University of Bamberg, Germany
Session I: Thursday, July 03, 09:00 to 10:30, Pierce-PC 401
Socio-Materiality of Attention
Chair: Violetta Splitter
Tony J. Choi, Yuval Deutsch and Hyeonchung Henry Lee
In the shadows of materiality: An attention-based view on sustainability reporting standards and corporate misconduct
Discussant(s): Loubna Echajari
Loubna Echajari, Imtiez Haddad and Myriam Lewkowicz
Reconfiguring organizational attention: Socio-material insights from railway maintenance operations
Discussant(s): Tony Jaehyun Choi
Introduction by convenors (30 minutes)
Session II: Thursday, July 03, 11:00 to 12:30, Pierce-PC 401
The ABV in a Post-Chandlerian World
Chair: Christoph Brielmaier
Tomoko Yokoi, Daniella Laureiro-Martinez and Stefano Brusoni
Thumbs up: Attention to multiple goals in post-Chandlerian settings
Discussant(s): Piengnapa Pakuthai
Piengnapa Pakuthai, Zi-Lin He, Maria Jacobs, Wouter van Elmpt and Maria Jacobs
Beyond the hierarchy: Dynamics of organizational attention in the post-Chandlerian era
Discussant(s): Jinah Ryu
E. Geoffrey Love, Jinah Ryu and William Ocasio
Firms’ changing use of management concepts in communication: A dynamic attention-based view
Discussant(s): Tomoko Yokoi
Session III: Friday, July 04, 09:00 to 10:30, Pierce-PC 401
Language, Inclusion, and Technology Adoption in the ABV
Chair: William Ocasio
Andrew Sarta
How do firms differ in technological adoption strategies: A study of unique attentional perspectives in incumbent adaptation
to digital financial advice
Discussant(s): Moritz Maier
Moritz Maier, Anastasiya Shylina, Andreas König, Tim Quigley, Michael Kania and Michael Kania
From Transactions to Relations: How Female Representation Affects Ecosystem Orientation in Top Management Teams
Discussant(s): Andrew Sarta
Update: Due to a withdrawal for personal reasons, Christoph Brielmaier will present the paper “Completing the Linguistic Turn
in the Attention-Based View: From Attention ‘Through’ Vocabularies to Attention ‘On’ Vocabularies” (co-authored with Martin
Friesl and David Seidl).
Session IV: Friday, July 04, 11:00 to 12:30, Pierce-PC 401
Attention Allocation as Practice
Chair: Violetta Splitter
Manuel Baeriswyl, Davide Nicolini, Jeanne Mengis and Matthew Hurst
Attentional integration in distributed organizing: A study of attentional alignment as practice-based accountability
Discussant(s): Zuhur Balayah
Zuhur Balayah and Amit Nigam
Attention-crafting practices: Strategies of change agents innovating in attentionally overloaded organizational contexts
Discussant(s): Kirsten Armit
Kirsten Armit and Amit Nigam
How professionals shape the channels that structure attention in organisations
Discussant(s): Manuel Baeriswyl
Session V: Friday, July 04, 14:00 to 15:30, Pierce-PC 401
The ABV, Datafication and AI
Chair: Christoph Brielmaier
Elisabeth Yang
To Err is Algorithmic: How Organizations Can Derive Value from Imperfect Predictive Algorithms
Discussant(s): Panos Desyllas
Katharina Cepa, Fleur Deken, Hans Berends and Wendy Günther
Data in the lead: Ho data attract, direct, and sustain attention across managerial levels
Discussant(s): Elisabeth Yang
Panos Desyllas, Si Li and Michael Mayer
Big data analytics and M&A announcements: An attention-based view
Discussant(s): Katharina Cepa
Session VI: Saturday, July 05, 09:00 to 10:30, Pierce-PC 408
Balancing Competing Demands in Organizational Attention
Chair: William Ocasio
Dimo Ringov, Aman Asija, John Joseph and Gabriel Szulanski
Multiple demands, attentional switching, and organizational learning:
Spatial and temporal replication of routines in multiunit organizations
Discussant(s): Xinyue Li
Xinyue Li, Taghi R. Zadeh and Henk Volberda
Aligning managerial attention through ecosystem identity: Extending the attention-based view in innovation ecosystem
Discussant(s): Pramendra Singh Tank
Pramendra Singh Tank and Nitin Sharma
Balancing attention: CEO attention breadth, dynamic capabilities, and firm survival
Discussant(s): Dimo Ringov
Session VII: Saturday, July 05, 11:00 to 12:30, Pierce-PC 408
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