Best Paper Award

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Natalia Vuori

Aalto University

Harnessing Generative AI: Unpacking the Social-Psychological Dynamics Underpinning the Impact of Generative AI on Strategizing and Firm Performance

Anna Plotnikova & Krsto Pandza

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Leeds University Business School

Bridging Expectations: Bidirectional Framing for Navigating Legitimacy Tensions

Maria Skov Jensen

Aarhus University

Resisting Change That Can’t Be Resisted

Pernille Smith and Susan Hilbolling

Aarhus University; Aarhus University

Serendipitous Learning in Collaborative Innovation

Fannie Couture, Paula Jarzabkowski, Jane Kirsten Le

University of Sydney Business School; City University, London; WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management

Assessing the Unintended Consequences of Legitimating Responses to Grand Challenges

Damla Diriker, Amanda Porter, Philipp Tuertscher

VU Amsterdam

What Does it Take to be Open? Sustaining Openness through Closure in Open Organizing Initiatives

Saouré Kouamé

University of Ottawa

CEO’s Temporal Strategies to Pacify Warring Coalitions

Timo Vuori and Quy Huy

Aalto University; Insead

Shaping Top Managers’ Moods: Board Emotion Regulation In The Strategy-formulation Process

Rebecca Bednarek and Laure Cabantous

Birkbeck, University of London; City, University of London

Timing Practices and Material Markers in Coordinating Collective Market Patterns

Eric Knight and Matthew Grimes

University of Sydney; Indiana University

CEO Sensegiving and Legitimacy Projection across Multiple Strategic Change Episodes

Paula Jarzabkowski and Rebecca Bednarek

City, University of London; Birkbeck, University of London

Towards a Social-Practice Theory of Competition