2001: New Data on Organization Design (12829)

Organizer(s)

• PG

  Piyush Gulati

  INSEAD, Singapore
• AM

  Arianna Marchetti

  London Business School, United Kingdom
• PP

  Phanish Puranam

  INSEAD, Singapore

Discussant(s)

• MR

  Marlo Raveendran

  U. of California, Riverside, United States
• MS

  Metin Sengul

  Boston College, United States

Presenter(s)

• SW

  Sarah Wolfolds

  Cornell U.-The Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, United States
• JE

  John Eklund

  U. of Southern California, United States
• HK

  Helge Klapper

  Purdue U., United States

Organization design is concerned with understanding and improving how organizations work through their crucial elements of structure, sorting of actors (into/out of the system), and collective sensemaking. However, observing such constituents of organization design at scale is often challenging. Archival data sets that capture these elements in a granular and reliable manner across firms and over time do not readily exist, and surveying firms about their organization design choice at scale and repeatedly is not only financially taxing but often challenging due to low response rates. This symposium showcases recent empirical efforts to overcome such limitations. These include manual data collection through large-sample surveys and online archives, the use of third-party commercial digital big data comprising firms’ job postings and employee social profiles, the access to granular country-level census data, and the collection of internal data for novel forms of organizing such as open-source and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). These data sets and empirical approaches push the frontier of empirical organization design research and allow us to re-examine old questions as well as tackle new ones through a granular view across large numbers of firms and industries over time. With this symposium, we aim to share these empirical advances, through presentations and active interactions between the speakers and audience, with other members of the academic community interested in organization design within strategic management, technology and innovation management, entrepreneurship, as well as broader organizational and management areas.

Presentations:

• 09:45 – 11:15 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  2001: A New Org Structure Database: Using GenAI to Examine Structure through Executive Management Teams (12829)
  

  Author: Daniel Albert – Drexel

  Author: John Eklund – U. of Southern California

  Author: Lisa Tang – National U. of Singapore
• 09:45 – 11:15 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  2001: The Role of Integrators in Organizations (12829)
  

  Author: Piyush Gulati – INSEAD

  Author: Arianna Marchetti – London Business School
• 09:45 – 11:15 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  2001: Organizational Misalignment: Decentralized Decision-Making Structures (12829)
  

  Author: Magnus Van Haaren – Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus U.

  Author: Helge JD Klapper – Purdue U.
• 09:45 – 11:15 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  2001: On the Heterogeneity of Skill-Biased Management (12829)
  

  Author: Konstantin Felix Scheuermann – UCL School of Management

  Author: Daniela Scur – Dyson School / Cornell U.

  Author: Sarah Wolfolds – Cornell U.-The Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management