Sub-theme 45: Market Spaces, Agency, and Creative Rationality {MERGED with sub-theme 68}
Convenors:
Martina Montauti, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Shubha Patvardhan, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India
Joseph Porac, New York University, USA
Session I: Thursday, July 04, 09:00 to 10:30, U6-P1-37
Living Market Spaces: Positioning
Chair: Martina Montauti
Huajie Shen, Jie Yang and Stan Xiao Li
Rethinking market positioning: A multidimensional approach to distinctiveness and conformity
Johannes Schmalisch
(Re-)discovering the Black Forest distilleries: Finding and defining their position in feature space
Xiaofei Qu and Guang Zhu
Positioning to be perceived: Temporality of organizational structural locus and performance
Session II: Thursday, July 04, 11:00 to 12:30, U6-P1-37
Competing for Market Spaces: Incumbent-Entrant Dynamics
Chair: Shubha Patvardhan
Michele Piazzai
A contextual theory of product evaluations
Matilde Guilhon
Friends or foes? Incumbents’ parallel claims and category creation in banking
Celina (Xinyue) Zhang, Huajie Shen and Xiaobo Wu
Distinctiveness in the digital age: Exploring the impact of investors' risk-averse predispositions
Joanna Li, Yanhao Wang and Eric Zhao
Optimal distinctiveness amid entry dynamics: Evidence from the Chinese retail banking industry
Session III: Thursday, July 04, 14:00 to 15:30, U6-P1-37
Rationality: Theoretical Foundations
Chair: Joe Porac
Alberto Feduzi, Philip Faulkner and Jochen Runde
Rationality, small world representations, and varieties of uncertainty
Vittoria Magrelli and Peter Trümmel
Decentering the mind: A shift from rational-cognitivism to embodied cognitive processes in organizations
Eugene Sadler-Smith
From bounded rationality to intuitive rationality
Truls Erikson, Yangyang Zhao and Agnes D. Clark
Towards a managerial theory of the firm
Session IV: Friday, July 05, 09:00 to 10:30, U6-P1-37
Agency in Action: Entrepreneurship
Chair: Martina Montauti
Daniel Armanios, Sunasir Dutta and Maria Roche
Physical infrastructure and convergent vs. divergent entrepreneurship
Baris Istipliler
Entrepreneurship as an Ill-defined design domain and impact of prior experiences on entrepreneurial performance
Devika Raj, Luca Berchicci, Laura Rosendahl Huber and Arnaldo Camuffo
Entrepreneurs-as-scientists and a process-oriented view of entrepreneurial team formation
Charu Rastogi, Srivardhini K Jha and Sanjay Jain
Path creation through imaginaries: The case of pioneering entrepreneurs in India
Session V: Friday, July 05, 11:00 to 12:30, U6-P1-37
Where Does Creativity Come from?
Chair: Joe Porac
Karl Testor
Creativity – where do novel ideas come from? A theoretical neurocognitive scientific approach on how the new can evolve in
mind
Shubha Patvardhan
Imagination and the microfoundations of creative rationality
E. Geoffrey Love, William Ocasio and Deepak Somaya
Strategic leadership of dynamic capabilities: An attention-based view
Aline Tanno and Kuno Schedler
Creative work of managers – A framework
Session VI: Friday, July 05, 14:00 to 15:30, U6-P1-37
Imagination in Strategizing
Chair: Shubha Patvardhan
Luca Manelli, Josip Kotlar, Ryan Raffaelli and Federico Frattini
Imprinting creative rationality? The evolution of identity elasticity frames and frame flexibility at Moleskine (1997–2022)
Meenal Banga, Violina Rindova and Luis L. Martins
Creating a road to space: Harnessing the structure of counterfactual imagination to narratively shape the future
Sanjay Jain, Habib Islam, Matthew Farrell and Anil Nair
Explicating the role of socio-technical imaginaries in technology transitions: An analytic narrative of the post-ICE age
Adrien Querbes and Stefano Li Pira
Navigating forward: Shaping processes in hypercompetitive industries and their impact on innovative decision-making and imitation
strategies in organizations
Session VII: Saturday, July 06, 09:00 to 10:30, U6-P1-37
Exploring the Consequences of Agency
Chair: Martina Montauti
Constance Dumalanède and Cristian Granados
Be prepared when innovation theater occurs: Encouraging the positive consequences of innovation theater
Laura Fritsch, Aharon Cohen Mohliver and Anantha Divakaruni
Voice and valuation: Female CEOs’ speech patterns predict market responses
Féline Verstappen, Tine Buyl, Rob J.G. Jansen and Marius T.H. Meeus
Delaying problemistic search: Overconfident executives' responses to performance below aspirations
Cyrille Grumbach, Chan Hyung Park and Georg von Krogh
Exploring unfamiliar problem landscapes: The role of problem formulation feedback
Session VIII: Saturday, July 06, 11:00 to 12:30, U6-P1-37
Point/counterpoint: Going forward
Chair: Joe Porac
Group discussion and closing