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报告人：黄智

讲座题目：A Positional View of Firms’ Reactions to Rankings: Rank Categories and Firm Actions Induced by Category Boundaries

讲座时间：2017年10月16日 下午16:30

讲座地点：9C207

讲座内容简介：To understand organizations’ reactions to popular rankings, this study elaborates a positional view that an organization’s ranking position motivates its reactions. An organization’s ranking position is jointly defined by its rank category (i.e., top, middle, bottom) and its closeness to the boundaries of its rank category. Reactions to rankings are likely to be induced by the boundaries of rank categories, i.e., organizations ranked closer to the boundaries of their rank categories are more motivated to either climb into a higher rank category or avoid falling into a lower rank category. Through examining firms’ CSR investments as reactions to Fortune Magazine’s Most Admired Companies ranking, the analysis supports the positional view. Firms ranked closer to the boundaries of their respective rank categories are more motivated to make CSR investments, especially when they are larger and thus have more resources devoted to CSR and when the ranking itself is more unstable. The effect of ranking positions is also distinct across different rank categories. Firms in both top and bottom rank categories are primarily driven by the lower boundary of their respective rank categories, whereas firms in the middle rank category are oriented towards both the upper and the lower boundary.

主讲人简介：Zhi Huang is an associate professor in the Department of Management. Before joining the University of Kentucky, he was at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He holds a Ph.D. and MA in Organization Studies from Boston College and a BS in Economics from Chongqing University.

Broadly speaking, his research focuses on understanding how social structures, be they status, power, network, and institutional structures, affect organization, group, and individual behaviors and outcomes. He looks at these structural effects through a cognitive lens, and situates his empirical investigation in various contexts such as U.S. collegiate sports, U.S. commercial banking, the global information technology industry, corporate boards, work teams, and Jazz bands. His research has appeared in such outlets as Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Discoveries, and Human Relations. His research has also received recognition from the Academy of Management Association. He sits on the editorial board of Administrative Science Quarterly and Journal of Management, and has been reviewing for a long list of  top management journals.

His teaching centers on Corporate Strategy at the undergraduate level. He received the Dean’s Recognition for Teaching Excellence at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

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