Symbolic Management in the 21st Century.

Despite the considerable attention scholars have devoted to studying symbolic management, theoretical integration across disciplines remains limited. This panel symposium brings together researchers from strategy, organizational behavior, and organization theory to address three questions which are foundational to the future of symbolic management research: 1) What common threads characterize our collective understanding of symbolic management across domains of organizational research, 2) What theoretical and practical approaches do managers have at their disposal to accomplish symbolic management, and 3) What role do stakeholder and society play in validating symbolic management efforts? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]