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2025 AOM Annual Meeting

OMT

17193: Engaging with Morals and Values in Occupations, Organizations, and Markets

Friday, July 25, 2025
13:00 - 15:00 CEST (GMT+2)
Location: Bella Center: Hall B- B2-m9
Session Type: PDW (workshop)
Orientation: Research
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/d6nMXb
This PDW is aimed at bringing together scholars who conduct research that examines how morals shape everyday work within occupations, organizations, and markets. In an effort to move beyond accounts of rational action, scholars have highlighted how morals and values influence collective action in organizations. This influence has been documented from various theoretical perspectives and levels of analysis encompassing several communities within the OMT division - from institutional theorists, to social movement and market sociologists, and ethnographers who closely attend to occupational and professional work in organizations. Although these communities examine the question of how moral values and norms influence work and organizations, the scholarly conversations are frequently siloed. For example, some scholars examine how occupations negotiate and express their values through work. Others emphasize the moral mission of professionals but acknowledge that there is disagreement ‘on the ground’ in organizations that may privilege other logics of action. Yet other theorists adopt a “toolkit” view of morality and culture and explore how actors draw on institutionalized frames to effect change in organizations and markets. The goal of this PDW is to bring these diverse perspectives – cultural, institutionalist, social movement, negotiated orders – into conversation and to consider the connections and opportunities for cross-cutting methodological approaches to developing organizational and management theory that brings morals– which arguably animate organized activity at every level of analysis – into sharper relief.