This website contains the recordings from the Special Issue Conference on “Experiments in Organization Theory,” co-organized by Oliver Schilke, Associate Professor of Management and Organizations at Eller. The conference was held on October 17, 2022 via Zoom. We thank the presenters for their participation in the conference and their willingness to share the talks.

Experiments in Organization Theory Presentations

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• Andreea Gorbatai, Peter Younkin, Gordon Burtch. Collateral Damage - The Relationship Between High-Salience Events and Variation in Racial Discrimination

• Carsten Bergenholtz, Oana Vuculescu, Ali Amidi. Microfoundations of Adaptive Search in Complex Tasks - The Role of Cognitive Abilities and Styles

• Cynthia S. Wang, Jennifer A. Whitson, Brayden G King, Rachel L. Ramirez. Social Movements, Collective Identity, and Workplace Allies - The Labeling of Gender Equity Policy Changes

• Daniella Laureiro-Martinez, Jose Arrieta. Attentional Engagement Predicts Problem-Solving Strategies - Evidence from Think-Aloud Protocols and Behavioral Experiments

• Ethan S. Bernstein, Jesse C. Shore, Alice J. Jang. Network Centralization and Collective Adaptability to a Shifting Environment

• Giada Di Stefano, Maria Rita Micheli. To Stem the Tide - Organizational Climate and the Locus of Knowledge Transfer

• Hazhir Rahmandad, Michael Shayne Gary. Delays Impair Learning and Can Drive Convergence to Inefficient Strategies

• Jérôme Hergueux, Emeric Henry, Yochai Benkler, Yann Algan. Social Exchange and the Reciprocity Roller Coaster - Evidence from the Life and Death of Virtual Teams

• John R. Hamman, Miguel A. Martínez-Carrasco. Managing Uncertainty - An Experiment on Delegation and Team Selection

• Kevin Boudreau, Nilam Kaushik. Gender Differences in Responses to Competitive Organization? A Field Experiment on Differences between STEM and non-STEM Fields from an Internet-of-Things Platform

• Mario Molina, Victor Nee, Hakan Holm. Cooperation with Strangers - Spillover of Community Norms

• Marlon Fernandes Rodrigues Alves, Vincenzo Vastola, Simone Vasconcelos Ribeiro Galina, Maurizio Zollo. When Reflection Hurts - The Effect of Cognitive Processing Types on Organizational Adaptation to Discontinuous Change

• Michael Christensen, Christian M. Dahl, Thorbjørn Knudsen, Massimo Warglien. Context and Aggregation - An Experimental Study of Bias and Discrimination in Organizational Decisions

• Nevena Radoynovska, Rachel Ruttan. A Matter of Transition - Authenticity Judgments and Attracting Employees to Hybridized Organizations

• Robert Gibbons, Manuel Grieder, Holger Herz, Christian Zehnder. Building an Equilibrium - Rules vs. Principles in Relational Contracts

• Sabine Pittnauer, Martin Hohnisch, Andreas Ostermaier, Andreas Pfingsten. Effects of Social Information on Risk Taking and Performance - Understanding Others’ Decisions vs. Comparing Oneself with Others in Short-Term Performance

• Sourobh Ghosh, Andy Wu. Iterative Coordination and Innovation - Prioritizing Value over Novelty

• Tijs van den Broek, David J. Langley, Michel L. Ehrenhard, Aard Groen. When Do Evaluators Publicly Express Their Legitimacy Judgments? An Inquiry into the Role of Peer Endorsement and Evaluative Mode

• Viktoria Boss, Linus Dahlander, Christoph Ihl, Rajshri Jayaraman. Organizing Entrepreneurial Teams - A Field Experiment on Autonomy over Choosing Teams and Ideas

• Vontrese Deeds Pamphile, Rachel Lise Ruttan. The (Bounded) Role of Stated-Lived Value Congruence and Authenticity in Employee Evaluations of Organizations

• Xirong (Subrina) Shen, Huisi (Jessica) Li, Pamela S. Tolbert. Converging Tides Lift All Boats - Consensus in Evaluation Criteria Boosts Investments in Firms in Nascent Technology Sectors