Old Constructs, New Frontiers: Advances in the Study of Culture in Organizations and Markets.

Management scholars have devoted significant attention to the role of culture in organizational life, with over 4,600 articles published on the topic. However, until recently, most studies have relied on surveys to empirically investigate culture. A survey-based approach, while valuable, has limited our ability to undertake large- scale and longitudinal analyses of culture. As a result, our theoretical understanding of several aspects of cultural emergence and evolution remain incomplete. The goal of our symposium is to showcase novel and cutting-edge computational approaches to the study of culture, and to highlight how the new methodologies can favor theory building and help scholars addressing gaps in prior literature. The papers invited to the symposium employ a range of methods ' from formal simulation modelling, to supervised machine learning methods (word- based hierarchical alignment models, neural nets), as well as unsupervised methods (topic modelling) ' to investigate culture as reflected in two crucial products of human interactions: language and images. By the means of such cutting-edge computational approaches, the papers address theoretical gaps in the existing literature with regards to: (i) antecedents of culture emergence, and (ii) dynamics of cultural change and its evolution within organizations and markets. Learning to communicate: Micro-foundations of Communication Code Convergence Presenter: Ozgecan Kocak; Emory U., Goizueta Business School Gender and the Give and Take of Emotions in the Workplace Presenter: Sanaz Mobasseri; Boston U. Questrom School of Business Technology Acquisitions, Cultural Fit, and Synergy Realization Presenter: Arianna Marchetti; INSEAD Cultural Drift in Post-Merger Acculturation Trajectories Presenter: Anjali M. Bhatt; Stanford Graduate School of Business Presenter: Amir Goldberg; Stanford U. Presenter: Sameer B. Srivastava; U. of California, Berkeley Presenter: Jan Overgoor; Stanford Who Becomes Famous Among Creative Pioneers? A Study of the Relationship Between Novelty and Fame Presenter: Mitali Banerjee; HEC Paris Presenter: Daniel Kaplan; Adelphi U. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]