2199: New Perspectives on the Interplay of Networks and Culture (12032)

Organizer(s)

• PB

  Pietro Bonaccorsi

  U. of Toronto, Rotman School of Management, Canada
• BM

  Bill McEvily

  U. of Toronto, Canada

Presenter(s)

• MB

  Mitali Banerjee

  McGill U. - Desautels Faculty of Management, Canada
• PB

  Pietro Bonaccorsi

  U. of Toronto, Rotman School of Management, Canada
• GC

  Gino Cattani

  New York U., United States

Discussant(s)

• FG

  Frederic Godart

  INSEAD, France

Presenter(s)

• JC

  Julien Clement

  Stanford U., United States

Networks and Culture represent two foundational theoretical lenses through which scholarship in organizational theory has historically understood and analyzed organizational phenomena. The former focuses on the patterns and formal properties of social relationships in which organizations – or actors within them – are embedded; the latter on the sets of meanings, local practices, repertoires, narratives, beliefs and norms that organizational actors create, adopt and use. While most contributions within organizational theory that consider networks and culture as their explanatory lenses tend to privilege one or the other in isolation, several recent studies situate themselves at their nexus, considering how they mutually constitute each other in organizational contexts, or how their interaction can illuminate our understanding of a host of organizational phenomena. This symposium proposes the presentation of four scholarly papers, each of which examines a facet of the interplay between networks and culture, and brings together scholars of organizational theory, sociology, and strategy whose work reflects a theoretical interest within this space. It aims at advancing scholarly conversation and promote theoretical synthesis in organizational research in this area, exploring, in particular, the agentic mechanisms that individuals and organizations devise in navigating the opportunities or the constraints configured by the cultural and social structural relational spaces in which they are embedded.

Presentations:

• 13:15 – 14:45 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  2199: Valuation of Distinctiveness of Visual Culture: The Case of Modern South Asian Art (12032)
  

  Author: Mitali Banerjee – McGill U. - Desautels Faculty of Management

  Author: Shreeansh Agrawal – The Brattle Group
• 13:15 – 14:45 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  2199: Who Can Afford to Be Different? Social Structural Contingencies of Unconventionality Premia (12032)
  

  Author: Pietro Bonaccorsi – U. of Toronto, Rotman School of Management
• 13:15 – 14:45 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  2199: Novelty Evaluation and Framing Strategies: The Outsider Challenge (12032)
  

  Author: Gino Cattani – New York U.

  Author: Denise Falchetti – George Washington U.

  Author: Simone Ferriani – U. of Bologna
• 13:15 – 14:45 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  2199: When are Managers Needed? How Culture and Coordinative Complexity Predict the Evolution of Reporting Relationships in Organizations (12032)
  

  Author: Danyang Li – U. of California, Berkeley

  Author: Julien Clement – Stanford U.

  Author: Sameer B. Srivastava – U. of California, Berkeley