We are pleased to invite you to our (hybrid interactive) presenter symposium "Not Just for Show: How Aesthetics Underpins Work Within and Around Organizations" (session 1363)!
AOM link: Session 1363
When?
Monday, 8 August from 1:00PM to 2:30PM PT/Seattle time (4:00PM EDT; 9:00PM BST; 1:30AM IST; 6:00AM AEST).
Where?
In-person participants: Seattle Convention Center, Tahoma 2 (The Conference Center - Level 3).
Virtual participants: see link above.
OVERVIEW
Organizational aesthetics is a way of understanding organizational life based on sensory reactions to its material components, such as objects and settings. This symposium brings together scholars who empirically study aesthetics in relation to key organizational topics (i.e., coordination, creative collaboration, institutionalization, categorization) to provide novel insights into how aesthetics contributes to organizational and institutional processes. The four empirical papers highlight how material and visual artifacts and the subsequent experiences emerging from their use and manipulation influence organizational and institutional work by establishing or challenging collective understandings. In doing so, the studies point to novel research directions concerning (1) the role of interactions with artifacts that trigger sensory reactions leading to collective achievements, and (2) the use and manipulation of artifacts to strengthen cognitive and symbolic processes that challenge dominant meanings.
KEYWORDS
#aesthetics #visuality #materiality #AOM2022
PAPERS AND AUTHORS
(1) Making Things Sensate: Inducing Artifactual and Aesthetic Experiences to Enable Interorganizational Coordination
Mercedes McBride, Case Western Reserve University
John Paul Stephens, Case Western Reserve University
(2) Clients as Feedback Providers: A Study of Creative Projects
Giada Baldessarelli, Imperial College Business School
Ileana Stigliani, Imperial College Business School
(3) The role of multimodality in the anti-vaccination rhetoric
Elena Bruni, LUISS Guido Carli University
Dennis Jancsary, WU Vienna
Renate E. Meyer, WU Vienna & CBS Copenhagen Business School
(4) The Aesthetic Evolution of Product Categories
Anders Dahl Krabbe, King's College London
Stine Grodal, Northeastern University
DISCUSSANTS
Ileana Stigliani, Imperial College Business School
Candace Jones, University of Edinburgh Business School
ORGANIZER
Giada Baldessarelli, Imperial College Business School
We look forward to meeting you in Seattle or online 🔥
Please do not hesitate to contact the organizer (g.baldessarelli@imperial.ac.uk) if you have questions.
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Giada Baldessarelli
British Academy Research Fellow
Imperial College Business School
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