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2025 AOM Annual Meeting

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19428: New Pathways to Research in Social Evaluations – A Roadmap for Junior and Emerging Scholars

Monday, July 28, 2025
08:30 - 10:00 CEST (GMT+2)
Location: Bella Center: Hall C- C3-m7
Session Type: Symposium (panel)
Orientation: Research
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/D8EDwm
Social evaluations are "socially constructed, collective perceptions of firms such as status, reputation, celebrity, and stigma" (Pollock, Lashley, Rindova, & Han, 2019: 444). Recent developments, such as financial and humanitarian crises shaking institutional trust and rapid technological advancements, have pushed social evaluation to the forefront of many junior and established scholars' research agendas. As socially constructed phenomena, social evaluations such as trust and legitimacy are among the top concerns among many organizations. In light of invitations to further explore the drivers, contextual importance, and adaptations to social evaluations, junior and emerging scholars may particularly find it challenging to navigate the complexities of the field. Several issues such as identity construction, positioning, construct clarity, potential overlaps, and the publishing process can lead new scholars to feel lost. This symposium will bring together junior, mid-career, and senior scholars from diverse streams of social evaluation research. It will produce an intergenerational debate on how young and more established scholars can work together to contribute to this important field. We will hold a panel with eight eminent scholars, each contributing to different social evaluations (i.e., stigma, trust, legitimacy, status, reputation, and authenticity) to reflect on challenges and opportunities in the field.