Challenges: broader sensemaking; consideration of end users & obligation to taxpayers/society; more diversity; serve on boards; change assessment methods; build impact into research design; wider engagement… Done. Thanks to all attendees/organisers for a brilliant #repsymp22

Great wrap-up subject for last session of #repsymp22 with @drjvredenburg @HarrieVredenbu and Natalia Szablewska - 'Leveraging the Ivory Tower: having #impact beyond academic journal publication

Maybe neurotic is what you want? @strat_prof on the psyche of CEOs under pressure: how traits such as neuroticism and agreeableness impact on behaviour/speed of response in the context of health product recalls #repsymp22

‘Eventually there were more payday lenders than McDonald’s’ - Nick Mmbaga on the survival strategies of a stigmatised industry #cooptation #acquiesence and #decoupling (e.g., set up next to Starbucks) plus exploiting a stigmatised customer base #repsymp22

Jung-Hoon Han on status as a relational construct, and how high status transgressors within industries increase the intensity of scandal risk, newsworthiness, and the importance for firms of strategies to distinguish themselves #repsymp22

... and, 'What it means to trust an #AI. Can AIs be stakeholders? What sort of agency can we attribute to them? Can an AI meaningfully be described as making a decision? And why should we care?' with @jen_enspired, Florian Krause @IWEHSG, and @mrkthmsknndy #repsymp22

Next up at #repsymp22: How social evaluations affect firm behaviours & consequences in the face of negative events & actions, from individual decision making to industry-level dynamics - Jung-Hoon Han @MizzouBusiness Nick Mmbaga @LacySchool & Lorenz Graf-Vlachy (@strat_prof)...

Sameer Srivastava shows how linguistic analysis using machine learning BERT indicates levels of prescience in e.g. political success, how prescience comes from the periphery not from the core, and the love of this field for @sesamestreet #repsymp22

How analysis of people’s position within a network – measured by word-embedding models of emails over time - shows strength of their identification with an organisation/group. Really interesting application by Lara Yang #repsymp22

Paul Gouvard's analysis of company reports showing 1) firms' typicality as an indicator of + likelihood of being taken over 2) in the Q&A, analysts' negative attitudes to atypical behaviour has implications for comms strategies to increase future buy price #repsymp22

First of 2 #AI-focused sessions this pm at #repsymp22: three papers that demonstrate how AI-based approaches can be used to assess different facets of cultural alignment and differentiation in organisations with @GrennanJill Paul Gouvard of @USI_enand Lara Yang @StanfordGSB

Abbie Oliver taking on the notion that a firm with ‘minimal’ individual mental health issues is a healthy firm: towards a concept of firm-level mental health, and a framework that encompasses good individual and organisational structures and performance outcomes #repsymp22

Next up at #repsymp22 'Relational contracts and reputation: in the real world and the world of the model', encompassing #strategy #economics #law #management; and 'Organisations and grand challenges...facilitating positive perceptions of employees as a key stakeholder group'

Does misconduct make you a more or less attractive hire? Uncomfortable insights from studying doping in professional cycling from Maxine Yu, wrapping up a great session at #repsymp22

How public attitudes to business regulation around #humanrights have been affected by #covid - and how people believed in their own consistency and others’ reactivity: #legitimacy #bias #moralidentity #systemjustification explored by @jasinenko #repsymp22

How reputation of firms polarises in right and left media - notably #Twitter - identified by Samantha Darnell @Wharton, who will explore what are the performance effects, and implications, e.g. for firms’ ability to influence policymakers. Great work in prospect #repsymp22

Transparency not an unqualified good - e.g., for police in Seattle might it drive more racially-driven intervention due to public bias/expectation? Important wider implications from Tae-Ung Choi @KelloggSchool #repsymp22

Particularly excited by the range of scholarship in prospect in the Emerging Scholars session, kicking off day 2 #repsymp22. Hopefully the first of many attendances by @jasinenko, Tae-Ung Choi, Maxine Yu & Samantha Darnell (see p24). sbs.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/…

Remixes and bootlegs in dance music, and how illegal creation boosts the activity of creator DJs - and the more law is enforced locally, the greater the potential benefit. Great study from @AmandineOdy to end today’s #repsymp22