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We are excited to invite you to our symposium, "Exploring Top-Executive Cognition in Business Ecosystems," at the Academy of Management (AOM) 2024 meeting in Chicago.

🗓 Date: Sunday, August 11, 2024

🕔 Time: 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

📍 Venue: Sheraton, Superior B

🗣️ Panelists: T. Cho, D. Gamache, M. Healey, M. Mannor, M. Tripsas, H. Volberda, T. Vuori

Celebrating the fortieth anniversary of Upper Echelons Theory (UET), our symposium delves into the evolving role of top-executives' cognition in the novel, unique, and increasingly important context of business ecosystems. UET posits that executives' background-their experiences, preferences, and dispositions-significantly shape organizational outcomes. We reexamine UET by exploring how the nature and strategic implications of top-executives' cognition in business ecosystems differ from standard assumptions in the extant literature, given the idiosyncrasies of business ecosystems such as their meta-organizational structure and the focus on collaborative value creation and shared value distribution.

Our symposium explores three interrelated themes:

1. the unique challenges business ecosystems pose to strategic leaders,
2. the idiosyncratic processes and structures of executive cognition influencing sensemaking and decision-making in these ecosystems, and
3. the use of cognitive psychology and linguistics to theoretically and empirically explore the implications of top executives' characteristics in these contexts.

Panelists:

• Theresa Cho, Seoul National University (South Korea)
• Daniel Gamache, University of Georgia (USA)
• Mark P. Healey, University of Manchester (UK)
• Michael J. Mannor, University of Notre Dame (USA)
• Mary Tripsas, UC Santa Barbara (USA)
• Henk W. Volberda, University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
• Timo Olavi Vuori, Aalto University (Finland)

Organizers:

• Anastasiya Shylina, University of Passau (Germany)
• Moritz Maier, University of Passau (Germany)Urszula Wiszniowska Ayache, ESCP Business School (France)

Don't miss this opportunity to gain insights into the evolving dynamics of strategic leadership in business ecosystems and engage with leading scholars in the field. We look forward to seeing you there!