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Online Workshop on Managing Social Evaluations in preparation for the JMS Special Issue

  • 1.  Online Workshop on Managing Social Evaluations in preparation for the JMS Special Issue

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    Online Workshop on Managing Social Evaluations in preparation for the JMS Special Issue
    10 February 2023

    In preparation for the special issue on "Managing Social Evaluations in a Complex
    and Evolving World" in the Journal of Management Studies, we are calling for the
    submission of long abstracts (up to 1,000 words excluding references, figures, and
    tables) for an online workshop on Friday 10th February 2023.

    The objective is for participants to get feedback on their paper as they prepare it for
    submission to the special issue.

    Deadline for submission of the abstract of 1,000 words: 23rd January 2023
    Notification of acceptance: 30th January 2023

    The workshop will take place online on the 10th of February 2023. We will
    accommodate the time of the workshop with respect to the location of the
    participants.

    Please submit your 1,000 words abstract to: www.shorturl.at/nxCUZ 

    If you have any questions, please contact JMS.socialevaluations@gmail.com or
    business.jms@durham.ac.uk
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    CALL FOR PAPERS FOR A SPECIAL ISSUE
    MANAGING SOCIAL EVALUATIONS IN A COMPLEX
    AND EVOLVING WORLD

    Submission deadline: 1 April 2023

    Guest Editors:
    Marco Clemente (ZHAW, Winterthur)
    Gokhan Ertug (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
    Michael Etter (King's College London, UK)
    Scott Graffin (University of Georgia, US)
    Anastasiya Zavyalova (Rice University, US)
    JMS Editor:
    Yuliya Snihur (TBS Education, France)

    BACKGROUND

    This special issue will provide a platform for scholars interested in studying social evaluations,
    a research topic that has grown tremendously in recent years. Such research includes a range of
    concepts – including status (Podolny, 1993; Ertug and Castellucci, 2013; Graffin et al., 2013),
    reputation (Rindova and Martins, 2012; Ertug et al., 2016), legitimacy (Patriotta et al., 2011;
    Suchman, 1995; Bitektine, 2011; Suddaby et al., 2017, Tost, 2011), organizational misconduct
    (Greve et al., 2010; Palmer, 2012), scandals (Clemente and Gabbioneta, 2017, Piazza and
    Jourdan, 2018; Clemente et al., 2016;), stigma (Vergne, 2012), celebrity (Rindova et al., 2006;
    Wade et al., 2006) and infamy (Zavyalova et al. 2017), as well as studies that look at social
    evaluators, such as news media (Clemente and Gabbioneta, 2017), critics (Kovács et al., 2013),
    rating agencies (Espeland & Sauder, 2007), and, increasingly, individual evaluators empowered
    through digital media (Etter et al., 2019).

    Although the literature on social evaluations has burgeoned in the last three decades, it
    stays fragmented (Pollock et al., 2019). Several issues have emerged, including construct
    proliferation (Bitektine, 2011; Deephouse and Carter, 2005, Devers et al., 2009), an increasing
    range of theoretical approaches, multilevel perspectives (Bitektine and Haack, 2015), as well
    as methodological (Snelson, 2016, Roulet et al., 2017; Bitektine et al., 2020) and empirical
    challenges (Hannigan et al., 2019). It has become clear that different social evaluation
    constructs overlap with each other and that there are common challenges and opportunities for
    future work (Pollock et al., 2019).

    This special issue is timely, given the increasing complexity and dynamism of the
    environment where organizations operate. Organizational and strategy research has long
    studied industries characterized by a high velocity (Eisenhardt, 1989) and hyper-competition
    (D'Aveni, 2010). So, while such an environment is not new, what used to be an exception has
    often become the norm. Terms like VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous)
    environment and strategic agility have become common expressions in the business world
    across industries (Bennett and Lemoine, 2014; Wang et al., 2021). Furthermore, the
    digitalization of information, rise of social media, and stakeholder pressure on companies to
    address grand challenges (e.g., climate change, economic and social inequality) have made
    managing social expectations increasingly difficult and important for both established firms
    and new ventures. Such a context raises many questions for social evaluation research,
    especially about the fragility and stability of social evaluations and what organizations can do
    to influence or respond to social expectations.

    We envision a special issue to help unify social evaluation scholars by providing a
    platform to discuss common challenges and explore cross-fertilization of theories and
    methodologies. We are particularly interested in investigating questions that are related to
    managing social evaluations in an increasingly complex and evolving environment within and
    across levels (e.g., Bitektine and Haack, 2015; Ravasi et al., 2018). In this way, we aim to
    appeal to a wide audience of social evaluation scholars and also engage with the challenges of
    today's world. While the research area on social evaluations has grown steadily in the last few
    years, there remain limitations in the literature and a significant set of open questions, which
    keeps getting replenished by the contemporary relevance of this topic (i.e., the need for us to
    understand, theorize about, and explain what is happening in our world today).

    One of the shortcomings of the literature on social evaluations is that scholars often
    focus on different constructs within their own streams of work, which remain distinct and
    separate from each other. This masks the fact that some of the challenges in the literature are
    common to multiple sub-streams of research within social evaluations, including a shortage of
    multilevel views, outdated methodologies for assessing social evaluations, and an
    underemphasis on the evolving nature of social evaluations in the era of digital media. Indeed,
    in recent years, firms have been increasingly held accountable for not only their financial
    performance but also their ESG performance. Thus, in addition to the increasing pace of
    information disclosure, the metrics by which firms and executives are being evaluated are also
    evolving. Relatedly, new ventures can now access much larger audiences of social evaluators
    through digital media, creating opportunities for the rapid spread of new ideas and business
    models (Seidel et al., 2020), but also risking overly optimistic expectations and evaluations for
    such newly minted celebrities. Having a debate that can bring about the cross-fertilization of
    ideas across different constructs will be helpful to researchers in the area and enhance the
    practical relevance of the insights that come from such research.

    Key topics:
    We invite both theoretical and empirical contributions to this SI. Following is a non-exhaustive
    list of potential question areas. We are interested in addressing these questions both for
    established firms and new ventures.

    Common challenges in social evaluations research:

    1. What are the opportunities to incorporate multilevel theorizing and analysis into
    research on the increasingly dynamic and complex nature of social evaluations
    (Bitektine and Haack, 2015; Ravasi et al., 2018)?

    2. Given the increasing polarization within and across stakeholder groups, what are the
    dark (or negative) sides of positive social evaluations for new and established firms –
    such as celebrity and reputation (Zavyalova et al., 2016) – and the potential
    advantages/benefits of negative social evaluations – such as infamy and stigma?

    3. Social evaluations have been typically theorized as related to one specific audience
    (Roulet, 2019) and unidimensional (Roulet and Clemente, 2018). What are the
    implications when considering multiple audiences and multiple dimensions (Fini et al.,
    2018; Ertug et al., 2016)? Do multiple audiences differentially respond to the same
    information? And what are the implications of considering multiple dimensions of
    social evaluations (Bitektine, 2011; Bundy et al., 2021)?

    Managing social evaluations in a complex and evolving world:

    4. What is the connection between social evaluations and temporality (Ravasi et al., 2018)?
    To what extent do social evaluations remain stable or become fragile over time? What
    can influence stability and fluidity, and what are their consequences? How can
    organizations create, maintain, or change their social evaluations within an evolving and
    complex environment with discursive techniques including framing, narratives, or
    storytelling (Rhee & Fiss, 2014; Snihur et al., 2021; Vaara et al., 2016)?

    5. Many pivotal studies on social evaluations were developed in the pre-social media era.
    What are the implications of social evaluations in a world of increasing consumption of
    social media and digital media more generally (Castello et al., 2016; Etter et al., 2019)?

    6. Organizations are increasingly expected to take a stand on social issues (e.g., climate
    change, social movements, discrimination, inequality) (Hambrick & Wowack, 2021).

    How do social evaluations of such organizations change based on whether and how they
    take a stand? And how can organizations manage scandals and diverging social
    judgments around contested social issues?

    7. Previous research has typically looked at one main social evaluator in a field or
    combined evaluations of multiple social evaluators into one construct. How and why do
    multiple evaluators interact (e.g., Illia et al., 2021)? Why is there heterogeneity among
    evaluations of multiple evaluators? How do observers make sense of the potential
    variance across evaluators?

    8. Social evaluators, such as news media and ranking agencies, not only evaluate
    organizations but are also being evaluated themselves by internal and external
    stakeholders. How do stakeholders evaluate the credibility of social evaluators, and
    what are the consequences? How do social evaluators react to being evaluated? How do
    observers make sense of potential divergent evaluations?

    9. Are current data, operationalizations, and methodologies used to study social
    evaluations up to the task of capturing the way these evaluations happen and affect
    organizations? How can new methods, such as machine learning, automated sentiment
    analysis (Etter et al., 2018), and topic modeling (Hannigan et al., 2019), be applied to
    the contemporary study of social evaluations?

    SUBMISSION PROCESS AND DEADLINES

    • The deadline for submissions is 1 April 2023.
    • Submissions should be prepared using the JMS Manuscript Preparation Guidelines
    (http://www.socadms.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/JMS-ManuscriptPreparationGuidelines.pdf).
    • Manuscripts should be submitted using the JMS ScholarOne system
    (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jmstudies).
    • Papers will be reviewed according to the JMS double-blind review process

    • We welcome informal inquiries relating to the Special Issue, proposed topics, and
    potential fit with the Special Issue objectives. Please direct any questions on the
    Special Issue to the Guest Editors.
    o Marco Clemente: marco.clemente@zhaw.ch
    o Gokhan Ertug, gokhanertug@smu.edu.sg
    o Michael Etter, michael.etter@kcl.ac.uk
    o Scott Graffin, sgraffin@uga.edu
    o Anastasiya Zavyalova, anastasiya.zavyalova@rice.edu
    • Publication is expected in mid-2025.



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