2024 annual meeting

The 2024 TOM Society Annual Meeting was organized by Maciej Workiewicz and Chengwei Liu.  The meeting was held in Paris, France, and hosted by Maciej Workiewicz at ESSEC.

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EVENT PROGRAM

June 17, 2024

08:30-09:00 Welcome

09:00-11:00 Plenary Presentations

• Hui Sun: The Invisible Hand of Language: Evolution of Interpretations Through Communication

• Stefano Li Pira: Shaping Hypercompetitive Industries: Implications For Innovation And Imitation Strategies

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-12:30 Plenary Presentation

• Johan Chu: The Dangers Of Centralized, Algorithmic Management: A Model

12:30-14:30 Lunch & Poster Session 1

• Mohsen Jafari Songhori: Impact Of Formal And Informal Networks On NPD Projects: An Empirically Grounded Computational Approach

• Jeroen Struben: Gender Inequality Dynamics: Women’s Participation And Performance In Competitive Chess In The Netherlands 

• Guido Fioretti: Sherlock Holmes Doesn't Play Dice: The Mathematics Of Uncertain Reasoning When Something May Happen, That One Is Not Even Able To Figure Out

• Arkadiy Sakhartov: Real Options: Added Returns Versus Added Risk

• Jerker Denrell: Sharp Thresholds In Learning About Performance

• Taeho Kwak: Structural Distance in Problemistic Search

14:30-15:30 Plenary Presentation

• Madison Singell: The Structure of Divergent Causal Narratives In Organizations

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-18:00 Plenary Presentations

• Jeho Lee: Unpacking Winner's Virtuous Cycles In Schumpeterian Competition

• Pantelis P. Analytis: The Committee Curse: Why Winners In Contests Are Largely Overrated

18:30 Conference Dinner

June 18, 2024

09:00-11:00 Plenary Presentations

• Douglas Guilbeault: Social Learning By Satisficing: A Simple Heuristic Predicts Convergence Dynamics In Coordination Games

• Mohsen Jafari Songhori: How Selective Revealing Impacts Firms’ Performances In Co-evolution

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-12:30 Plenary Presentation

• Jon Atwell: An Ising Model Of Functional Interdependencies: Implications For Search And Learning

12:30-14:30 Lunch & Poster Session 2

• Gael Le Mens: Scaling Political Texts With ChatGPT

• Manuel Romagnoli: The Role Of Task Interdependence And Organizational Decision-making For Automation

• Mads Kock Pedersen: Origins Of Locality During Search

• Dong Nghi Pham: Learning From Hiring

• Constantin Prox: Growth Trajectories In The RBV

• Tom Steinberger: Modeling Problem Representation In Organizations As Constraint Satisfaction Problems

• Scott Ganz: Two-party Duopoly And Violations Of The Median Voter Theorem

14:30-15:30 Plenary Presentation

• Alexandros Gelastopoulos: Cumulative Advantage And Talent Are Generically Confounded In Longitudinal Data On Success

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:00 TOM Society Townhall Meeting

• Reflections And Plan For The Future

17:00-17:15 Closing Remarks