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Greetings!

The AOM online program is now available, and we are pleased to invite people to attend or present at our PDW called Who's Next? The Second Pecha Kucha about Social Evaluations. Our time is Friday, August 7, from 2:00PM - 6:00PM. Our place is Room 214 of the Vancouver Convention Centre. Our Session is #150, and our Submission is #12926.

There is growing interest in research on social evaluations. Social evaluations are assessments of organizations and their components made by stakeholders, such as customers, investors, current and potential employees, and communities. Many evaluations have been used in past research, including legitimacy, reputation, celebrity, stigma, rankings, and certifications. Social evaluations have been linked to many antecedents and consequences, such as organizational performance, CEO pay, stock market risk, job attractiveness, etc. (Bansal & Clelland, 2004 AMJ; Deephouse, 2000 JoM; Turban & Cable, 2003 JOB; Wade, Porac, Pollock, & Graffin, 2006 AMJ; etc.).

This goal of the PDW is to provide a forum where people and ideas can meet and new ideas and relationships can be developed. Our session will adapt the Pecha Kucha format, an innovation from Japan used in design settings for showcasing new ideas. One summary of Pecha Kucha was given in the title of Daniel Pink's (2007) article in Wired Magazine: "Pecha Kucha: Get to the PowerPoint in 20 Slides Then Sit the Hell Down." He has a useful and entertaining example as a YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NZOt6BkhUg . In this PDW, we are modifying the timing slightly. Each person will present for five minutes with 10 slides, that is, 30 seconds per slide. I will provide presenters with a timed template and will cut off speakers at 5 minutes. Examples from the first Pecha Kucha on Social Evaluations can be found at http://professor.business.ualberta.ca/daviddeephouse/Research

The session is organized as follows. After a brief introduction, there will be twenty-two spaces for presenting new work. New work could include theoretical puzzles, definitional debate, measurement innovations, rich descriptions of practice, ethnographic observations, photographs, video or audio clips, etc. – please use your imagination and creativity. Fourteen of the twenty-two spaces are reserved for assistant professors and doctoral students in order to provide them opportunities to join the conversation. Three senior scholars will serve as raconteurs and present integrative and provocative commentary after all of the new work is presented. Two breaks will provide opportunity for discussion. The Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation has graciously agreed to sponsor a reception.

Here are the people recruited for the conference submission in January.

Introduction

David L. Deephouse; U. of Alberta: Welcome and Overview

Fabrizio Castellucci, Universita' Bocconi, Status.

New Research

Doctoral students, Post-doctoral fellows, and Assistant Professors or Equivalent

Jonathan Bundy, Penn State University

Patrick Haack, University of Zurich

Timothy Hannigan, University of Oxford

Kisha Lashley, Penn State University

Associate and Full Professors or Equivalent

Cindy Devers, Michigan State University (AMR Associate Editor)

Antoaneta Petkova, San Francisco State University

Majken Schultz, Copenhagen Business School

We have places for 15 more people to present new research. This could be you!

Raconteurs

Scott Graffin; U. of Georgia

Mike Pfarrer; U. of Georgia

Tim Pollock, Penn State U.

If you are interested in presenting, please email Mike Pfarrer at mpfarrer@uga.edu  by Monday, June 8. Include your name, position, provisional title, and a 250 word abstract. Submissions will be stratified by position, and then a random draw will be used to select presenters. We will get back to you in mid-June.

Thank you very much for considering this PDW among the many good choices you have for Friday, August 7.

Best wishes,

David Deephouse, University of Alberta, Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation

Scott Graffin, University of Georgia, Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation

Mike Pfarrer, University of Georgia, Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation