New Data on Organization Design
Date: Tuesday, August 13, 2024
Time: 09:45 – 11:15 CT
Location: Sheraton, Chicago Ballroom VI
Link to AOM Program Page: Link (Session #2001)
Sponsors: STR, OMT, TIM
Dear colleagues,
We would like to invite you to the New Data on Organization Design presenter symposium at AOM 2024.
Organization design research is concerned with understanding how organizations work by examining their structure, sorting (of people 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. Surveying firms about their organization design choice at scale and repeatedly is financially intensive and challenging due to low response rates. This symposium showcases recent empirical efforts to overcome such limitations. These include data collection through large-sample surveys and online archives, the use of generative AI for data labeling, the use of third-party digital big data comprising firms' job postings and employee social profiles, and the collection of internal data for novel organizational forms such as open-source and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs).
Presentations:
1. A New Organizational Structure Database: Using Generative Artificial Intelligence to Examine Structure through Executive Management Teams. John Eklund (USC)
2. The Role of Integrators in Organizations. Piyush Gulati (INSEAD)
3. Organizational Misalignment: Decentralized Decision-Making Structures. Helge Klapper (Purdue)
4. On the Heterogeneity of Skill-Biased Management. Sarah Wolfolds (Cornell)
Discussants: Marlo Raveendran (UC Riverside), Metin Sengul (UT Austin)
Organizers: Piyush Gulati (INSEAD), Arianna Marchetti (LBS), Phanish Puranam (INSEAD)
We look forward to seeing you at the symposium. Please feel free to reach out to any of the organizers in case you have any questions.
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Piyush Gulati
INSEAD
piyush.gulati@insead.edu------------------------------