Program

All sessions take place in the Salón de Grados, Puerta de Toledo campus. See the map and campus plan for directions. Breakfast and lunch are served on the balcony, first floor.

Below is the conference program. Click on the day to expand the view and download submitted papers, posters, and slides. You can also download the program in PDF. Please note that we expect attendees to read all papers prior to the conference.

  • 18:00–
    Reception

    Bee Beer Debod
    Calle Ferraz 10, 28008 Madrid

  • 9:00–9:30
    Breakfast

  • 9:30–10:00
    The emergence of producer-audience worlds

    Giacomo Negro and Michael T. Hannan

  • 10:00–10:30
    How typical! The impact of misalignment and plurality on ventures' valuations

    Arnaud Cudennec and Rodolphe Durand

  • 10:30–11:00
    Social satisficing: How a simple cognitive constraint governs the emergence of group conventions

    Douglas Guilbeault, Spencer Caplan, and Charles Yang

  • 11:00–11:15
    Break

  • 11:15–11:45
    Throwing curveballs: Unpacking surprising questions in evaluative settings and probing their origins

    Nandil Bhatia, Wei Cai, and Sameer B. Srivastava

  • 11:45–12:15
    Scaling political texts with Large Language Models: Asking a chatbot might be all you need

    Gaël Le Mens and Aina Gallego

  • 12:15–13:45
    Lunch

  • 13:45–14:15
    Examining when crowds are insufficient yet instrumental for individual problem-solving

    Marlon Alves, Cassandra Chambers, and Pedro Aceves

  • 14:15–14:45
    Championing the flawed gems: In search of contrarian opportunities through minority ruling

    Chengwei Liu

  • 14:45–15:00
    Break

  • 15:00–15:30
    Blazing a trail: Amsterdam cannabis "coffeeshops" and competitive firm responses to social control (2009–2018)

    Laura Dupin and Alessandro Piazza

  • 15:30–16:00
    Optimal distinctiveness decomposed: Balancing functionality and aesthetics in products

    Bryn Choi, Olga Khessina, and Samira Reis

  • 17:00–19:00
    Tour

    Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
    Paseo del Prado 8, 28014 Madrid

  • 19:30–
    Drinks and dinner

    Azotea del Círculo
    Calle Marqués de Casa Riera 2, 28004 Madrid

Sessions
MAKING SENSE OF MARKETS INFORMATION EVALUATION & PROBLEM-SOLVING CONFORMITY AND COMPETITION
  • 9:30–10:00
    Breakfast

  • 10:00–10:30
    Competitor identification and its impact on startup idea development

    Alex Tyulyupo and Balázs Kovács

  • 10:30–11:00
    The spatial ecology of entrepreneurship

    Michael S. Dahl and Olav Sorenson

  • 11:00–11:15
    Break

  • 11:15–11:45
    In the red: How bank concentration fuels debt burden for households, 1995–2019

    Bowei Hu

  • 11:45–12:15
    The geography of density delay: Mortality of German renewable energy cooperatives

    Min Liu and Matthijs B. Punt

  • 12:15–13:45
    Lunch

  • 13:45–14:15
    Why are founders penalized during their return journey to paid employment? Text analyses of the beliefs employers have about former founders

    Seeyon Kim

  • 14:15–14:45
    Moral resistance to AI in the US labor market

    Simon Friis and James Riley

  • 14:45–15:00
    Break

  • 15:00–15:30
    The impact of social movement boycotts and buycotts on firm reviews and ratings: A study of restaurants in Hong Kong

    Fangwen Lin, Lori Yue, Shipeng Yan, and Yishu Cai

  • 15:30–16:00
    In the spotlight and in the shadows: Rankings and racial diversity

    Wooseok Jung and Amanda Sharkey

  • 16:00–17:00
    From confusion to fusion: A new hybrid organizational form and the evaluation of category spanning in an established form

    Heewon Chae, Daphne Demetry, Deepak Nayak, and Todd Schifeling

  • 16:00–17:00
    Giving, caring, and curing: Charity work generates professional expertise and increases client evaluation

    Siyin Chen, Ying Li, and Qiusi Yan

  • 16:00–17:00
    Bans or fans? Stigma of cultural products by heterogeneous audiences

    Anastasiia Prokopenko

  • 16:00–17:00
    Organizational engagement in gender equality and political polarization: Evaluating consumer reactions to gender disclosure in women-owned businesses

    Alicia Barroso, Xiaofei Qu, and Samira Reis

  • 16:00–17:00
    From the boardroom to the bedroom: The historical expansion of management as a cultural logic

    Ziwen Chen, Amir Goldberg, and Douglas Guilbeault

  • 16:00–17:00
    Organizational response to regional stigmatization: Navigating local identities within and beyond stigmatizing areas

    Alicia Barroso, Blanca Moriyon, and Samira Reis

  • 17:00–17:30
    Planning for 2025/2026

Sessions
ENTREPRENEURS ORGANIZATIONAL ECOLOGY LABOR MARKET BEHAVIOR PLATFORM RANKING EFFECTS POSTERS