Sub-theme 29: Framing, Attention, and Managerial Cognition in an Age of Platform Ecosystems and Artificial Intelligence

Convenors:
Georg Reischauer, WU – Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Krithika Randhawa, University of Sydney, Australia
Andreas König, University of Passau, Germany
Session Time Corridor 1: Thursday, July 09, 08:45 to 12:00, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Sub-theme kick-off / Strategy, Platforms, & Cognitions
Break 1: 10:15 to 10:30
Chair: Krithika Randhawa
Rui Wang and Joel Gehman
Multimodal optimal distinctiveness
Hanaa Hamidi, Julien Cloarec, Giuseppe Pedeliento and Daniela Andreini
From categories to cognition: how GenAI app positioning shapes attention and evaluation.
Ann-Christine Schulz, Arthur Posch, Christian Garaus and Arthur Posch
Digital capabilities and strategic transformation in SMEs: The moderating roles of pressure for change and speed of change
Elmira KhodapanahAghdam and Mahdi Hashemian
Stretching limits when AI raises the bar: Modeling goal dynamics in complex environments
Alexander Engelmann
Repurposing Digital For-Profit Platforms for the Common Good: A Process Model of Purpose Transitions
08:45-09:15 Intro & get2know
09:15-10:15 SESSION 1/5: Paper Wang, Paper Hamidi
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-12:00 SESSION 2/5: Paper Schulz, Paper Aghdam, Paper Engelmann
Session Time Corridor 2: Thursday, July 09, 16:00 to 17:30, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Digital Transformations, TMTs, & Stakeholders
Chair: Andreas König
Luis Hillebrand and Sebastian Raisch
When Bots Compete with Humans: Stakeholder Interactions in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Tali Blank and Gabriel Pinto
Substitutes or Stressors? The Interplay of Angel Investment and Upper Echelon Governance in Digital Platform Survival
Julius Tebruegge
Beyond experience breadth: Managerial cognition and CEO career technological coherence
16:00-17:30 SESSION 3/5: Paper Hillebrand, Paper Blank, Paper Tebruegge
Session Time Corridor 3: Friday, July 10, 08:45 to 12:00, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Framing & Sense-making of Digital Transformations / Sub-theme closing
Break 1: 10:15 to 10:30
Chair: Georg Reischauer
James Bezjian, Veselina Stoyanova, Peter McKiernan and R. Bradley MacKay
How Established Industries Delay Responses to Disruptive Innovation: An Case of Cognitive Freezing and Industry Recipes within the Hollywood Film Industry
Salma Tallaa
Making Digital Garments Make Sense: Framing and Attention Allocation Across Platform Ecosystems
Sarah Mervi Guse, David Rygl , Daniel Werth , David Rygl and Daniel Werth
Navigating Cognitive Frames: Multi-Level Analysis of Ecosystem Transitions in Agricultural Machinery
Kamila Nigmatulina
Collective Analogizing and the Emergence of Organizational Forms in Regulated Fields
Kaire Valge
Constructing Platform Problems: How Managerial Cognition Transforms Ambiguous Platform Signals into Actionable Problems
08:45-10:15 SESSION 4/5: Paper Bezjan, Paper Talla, Paper Guse
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-11:30 SESSION 5/5: Paper Nigmatulina , Paper Valge
11:30-12:00 Outro
Session Time Corridor 4: Friday, July 10, 16:00 to 17:30, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
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Session Time Corridor 5: Saturday, July 11, 08:00 to 12:30, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
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