Sub-theme 05: [SWG 05] Multi-Level Approaches to Social Evaluations: From the Micro to the Macro and Back
Convenors:
Alexandre B. Bitektine, Concordia University, Canada
Ashley Fulmer, Georgia State University, USA
Nicole Gillespie, University of Queensland, Australia
Session I: Thursday, July 04, 09:00 to 10:30, U6-P0-01a
Legitimacy Judgments' Validity and Consensus
Chair: Alexandre B. Bitektine
Angelo J. Deleo and Paul Gouvard
Who should I believe? Organizational members’ prioritizations of incoherent validity cues
Joaquin Cestino, Adam Backman, Moritz Scherer and Mart Ots
New organizational forms and alignments of legitimacy judgments in the entrepreneurship industry: The case of a new business
angel fund
Erwanghao Yu, Simone Santoni and Stoyan V. Sgourev
Legitimacy judgements and consensus among cultural intermediaries: Evidence from European art galleries, 1904–1915
Session II: Thursday, July 04, 11:00 to 12:30
- Parallel Stream -
Parallel Stream A: Trust and Trustworthiness - Room: U6-P0-01a
Chair: Nicole Gillespie
Sara M. Kaplan
Sustainability certifier diversification: Effects on perceived trustworthiness and performance
Elanor Colleoni
Trust my eyes, not my peers. The role of multiple intermediaries under signal inconsistency in digital platforms
Selin Öner-Kula and Tobias Polzer
A multi-level perspective on trust in digital co-production: The case of the Austrian COVID-19 contact tracing app
Parallel Stream B: Emotions in Social Evaluations - Room: U6-P1-38
Chair: Ashley Fulmer
Rongrong Zhang, Milo Shaoqing Wang and Jiyin Cao
Manage scandal spillovers with emotions: A mixed-methods study
Kevin Hill and Christian Vandenberghe
Affective organizational commitment as a multilevel social evaluation
Jo-Ellen Pozner, Karen D.W. Patterson and Tim R. Hannigan
Exploring the social side of social evaluation: A symbolic interactionist approach
Session III: Thursday, July 04, 14:00 to 15:30
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Parallel Stream A: Deliberating social evaluations - Room: U6-P0-01a
Chair: Nicole Gillespie
Thomas Roulet, Claire Garnier and Sébastian Stenger
Lost in evaluation: Social construction and political struggles in the auditors’ evaluation Poocess in the Big 4 Firms
David Sieber and Andreas Georg Scherer
Deliberating legitimacy with partisan experts: Dynamics of persuasion and contestation in group discussions with professional
advocates on corporate tax avoidance
Alfredo Grattarola
Emergence, networks, and zeitgeists: Developing the theory of justification with an agent-based model
Parallel Stream B: Measuring social evaluations - Room: U6-P1-38
Chair: Alex Bitektine
Emilie Lapointe, Christian Vandenberghe and Gary Schwarz
Longitudinal change in perceived leadership effectiveness among newcomers: The roles of supervisor behavioral integrity and
supervisor organizational embodiment
Evelina Gillard
Social evaluations inside organizations: Departments of organizations as an object of evaluations
Cynthia Loos and Katharina Spraul
Measuring first-order legitimacy judgments: Development of the corporate profession legitimacy scale
Peter Foreman and Randall Westgren
Individual legitimacy evaluations and their consequences
Session IV: Friday, July 05, 09:00 to 10:30, U6-P0-01a
Organizational Identity
Chair: Ashley Fulmer
Donald Lange, Kristie Rogers, Beth Schinoff and Blake Ashforth
Foiled! How being targeted as an identity contrast can affect the organization and how others see it
Moritz Gruban, Aurélien Feix and Thomas Roulet
Red Bulls versus Rasenball: Identity struggles at RB Leipzig
Maria Luisa Farnese, Angelo Benozzo and Gerardo Patriotta
Overcoming the red-tape stigma: Boundary dynamics to restore stigmatised public administrations identity
Session V: Friday, July 05, 11:00 to 12:30
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Parallel Stream A: Signals, Logics, and Social Evaluations - Room: U6-P0-01a
Chair: Nicole Gillespie
Nicole Giorgi and Laura Illia
What a meme! Do delegitimizing internet memes and consensus over them impact legitimacy?
Fei Song and Alexandre B. Bitektine
A firm’s diversity, equity and inclusion as a social signal: Exploring
the role of institutional logics in social evaluation process
Dana Entenza
That’s for tree-huggers – or maybe not? How institutional logics inform evaluations of hybrid practice legitimacy
Parallel Stream B: Celebrity and its Effects - Room: U6-P1-38
Chair: Ashley Fulmer
Laura D'Oria, Mike Pfarrer and Rhonda K. Reger
Celebrity and organizational change
Hongqin Li and Will Harvey
Celebrity
and reputation uncertainty in a rapidly growing financial services firm
Sumeet Malik, Chandrika Rathee, Julien Jourdan and Luis Gomez-Mejia
Sociocultural capital and nepotism discount of Bollywood dynasts
Session VI: Friday, July 05, 14:00 to 15:30
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Parallel Stream A: Social Evaluations and Pro-social Behavior - Room: U6-P0-01a
Chair: Ashley Fulmer
Christina Kannegießer and Laura Marie Edinger-Schons
Profit & purpose – an unlikely friendship? Examining sociopolitical legitimacy in the context of purpose-driven enterprisesEnterprises
Wei Wang
Channels, stakeholders, and strategic silence
Nkosana Mafico, Josh Keller, Anna Krzeminska and Charmine Hartel
The social evaluation paradox: Stereotyped relationships between impact investors and social entrepreneurs
Parallel Stream B: Legitimacy during Controversy - Room: U6-P1-38
Chair: Alexandre B. Bitektine
Naoto Nadayama
Discursive legitimation of firms’ controversial internationalization: Exporting nuclear power plant after nuclear disaster
in Japan
Daniel Holm, Nicole Gillespie and Daniel Franks
Proto-legitimation: Preparing the ground for legitimacy judgements in situations of controversy
Cédric Legrand
When do external audiences negatively evaluate hybrid organizations? The effect of perceiving hybridity tensions on audiences’
legitimacy judgment
Session VII: Saturday, July 06, 09:00 to 10:30
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Parallel Stream A: Geographic Stigma - Room: U6-P0-01a
Chair: Alex Bitektine
Emily M. Ulrich and Christopher Bruno
Does stakeholder orientation protect multinational firms from reputational risks?
Diana Muslimova and Giuseppe Delmestri
Breaking
dual-stigma: The case of Russian carbon-intensive organizations
Thibault Daudigeos, Frédéric Bally and Vincent Vindevoghel
The media construction of a territorial stigma over a long time period: The interplay of core and event stigma of ChicaGre,
the ‘French Chicago’ 1992–2022
Parallel Stream B: Identity and Stigma - Room: U6-P1-38
Chair: Nicole Gillespie
Sarah Bützler, Jan Goldenstein, Daniel Pastuh and Mike Geppert
Hazy, suppressed, and lived stigma – A process model on the emergence of individual stigma perception and (non-)response to
stigma
William S. Harvey, Navdeep Arora, Dimitrios Spyridonidis and Graeme Currie
Rising
from the abyss: White colloar prisoners attempting to rebuild their identities
following major reputation loss
Bruna Brito and Diego M. Coraiola
The illusion of inclusion: Understanding bounded destigmatization
Gianlorenzo Meggio and Agnieszka Radziwon
Stigmatization by exemplification: The case of blockchain voting in the U.S. elections
Session VIII: Saturday, July 06, 11:00 to 12:30, U6-P0-01a
Social Dynamics around Evaluations
Chair: Ashley Fulmer
Tijs Adriaan van den Broek and David J. Langley
The effect of polarization on employees’ legitimacy judgment expression on Glassdoor
Jan Lodge and Bryant A. Hudson
Managing the fear of stigma transfer among incumbent employees: Organizational responses to hiring the formerly incarcerated
Gabrielle Lamont Dobbin, Mabel Abraham and Tristan L. Botelho
Inequality and evaluations: Examining how evaluative processes shape disparate outcomes in workplace performance