Please join us for a lively debate on the role of community on firm strategy. Our panelists--Woody Powell and Jerry Davis--will expand on the ideas presented by the authors, who use a range of methods and contexts (entrepreneurship, R&D networks, hybrid organizations) to examine how community embeddedness and community values alter organizational strategies.
AoM Showcase Symposium (OMT, BPS, TIM)
Beyond Embeddedness: When Community Engagement Governs Firm Strategy
Scheduled: Monday, Aug 10 2015 3:00PM - 4:30PM at Vancouver Convention Centre in Room 110
Program Session #: 1384
Chair: Renee Rottner; New York U. and UC-Santa Barbara
Discussant: Walter W Powell; Stanford U.
Discussant: Gerald F Davis; U. of Michigan
The concept of embeddedness originally redirected scholarly attention from competition to community, revealing it to be a potent form of governance. Embeddedness theory highlights that all economic systems are situated in a larger social system. Yet this social context-which embeddedness theory was intended to foreground-is commonly treated as given and exogenous. In this symposium, we pull the social context out of the background. By exploring how social context is an antecedent to strategy, this symposium goes beyond embeddedness theory's emphasis on economic objectives to more seriously consider community objectives. The paper presentations reveal how communities themselves have important effects on organizational outcomes, such as firm survival, knowledge creation, and sustainable development. Our discussants Woody Powell (Stanford) and Jerry Davis (Michigan) will build on the presentations (and their own considerable research) and host a lively debate on how community matters for strategy and organization theory.
Surviving or Thriving: Embeddedness and Startup Performance
Presenter: Robert Neal Eberhart; Santa Clara U.
Presenter: Renee Rottner; New York U. & UC-Santa Barbara
Boundary Spanning in a For-Profit Research Lab: Interfaces Between Commerce and Acad...
Presenter: Christopher C. Liu; U. of Toronto
Presenter: Toby E. Stuart; U. of California, Berkeley
The Interplay of Gender and Social Context in the Commercialization of Social Ventures
Presenter: Julie Battilana; Harvard U.
Presenter: Matthew Lee; INSEAD
Presenter: Stefan Dimitriadis; Harvard U.
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