Host:
Victor Zitian Chen
University of North Carolina at Charlotte; GoPeaks.org
Facilitators for the micro track:
George Banks
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Frank Bosco
Virginia Commonwealth University; metaBUS.org
Flore Bridoux
University of Amsterdam
Anne Tsui
University of Notre Dame; RRBM.network
Facilitators for the macro track:
Bill Glick
Rice University; RRBM.network
Charles Dhanaraj
Temple University
Steve Sauerwald
University of Illinois at Chicago
Marc van Essen
University of South Carolina
This PDW seeks to explore and encourage the development of multi-disciplinary, meta-theoretical frameworks (“meta-frameworks”) that navigate our knowledge development stocks and help to translate the causes-and-effects for organizational performance. We adopt an inclusive definition of organizational performance. We define it as a plurality of performance metrics concerning all primary stakeholders (investors, customers, employees, and community/ environment), which are considered as the shared set of dependent variables (DVs) for the PDW discussions.
Thus, the purpose of this PDW is to begin the development of a novel umbrella organizing theories, findings, and research agenda to integrate the increasingly fragmented knowledge silos in management studies. We also brainstorm and review ideas on what novel outlets can be created to visualize, host, and curate such meta-frameworks to enable continued updates, and identify what criteria can be used to evaluate the quality of meta-frameworks.
We will group the discussions into micro and macro tracks – each with four concurrent tables, each of which will have one facilitator. Following the concurrent discussions, an integrated discussion will be hosted to further brainstorm a more comprehensive meta-framework covering all levels.
The most important contribution of this PDW is to start valuing the novelty in knowledge integration as a new priority in management research as our field matures.