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Organizations, Institutions, and Symbols: Introduction to a Point‐Counterpoint Conversation

Daniel Muzio1; Elena Dalpiaz2; Dennis Jancsary3; Christine Moser4; Stephan Leixnering3; Markus A. Höllerer5,6; Nelson Phillips6; Martin Kornberger7; Renate E. Meyer8

1 University of York · 2 Università della Svizzera italiana · 3 WU Wien · 4 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam · 5 University of California, Santa Barbara · 6 UNSW Sydney · 7 Stockholm School of Economics · 8 Copenhagen Business School

Journal of Management Studies 2024 open access

The symbol is one of the key concepts in organization and management scholarship. Yet as indicated by the authors in this debate, it has not been adequately conceptualized and as such it remains rather blunt and opaque. In what is the first systematic conceptual debate on this topic, the authors of this Point‐Counterpoint debate seek to address this issue. The respective essays, despite marked differences in their approaches, offer novel and thought‐provoking accounts of what the symbol is and how it works. Taken together, these contributions offer a series of exciting new avenues to guide and redirect future research in this area.

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