Organisational Nationalism: Purpose, Reputation, and Strategy in a Deglobalising World

NNRN scholars presented emerging research on organizational nationalism, examining how nationalist discourse shapes organizational strategy, identity, reputation, and stakeholder relationships.

Organizational Nationalism in a Deglobalizing World: Toward a Unified Theoretical Framework

An NNRN workshop developing an integrated theoretical framework for the study of organizational nationalism.

Politics and Organizational Life Workshop

A workshop examining how geopolitics, nationalism, ideology, and political narratives enter organizational life and shape strategy, intelligence, and behavior across micro, meso, and macro levels.

Organizational Nationalism and Computational Analysis at the CEAPS Speaker Series

Lori Yue presented research on organizational nationalism in the Chinese context at a seminar hosted by the Center for East Asian & Pacific Studies (CEAPS). She discussed how Chinese firms use nationalist rhetoric in public communications and introduced computational linguistic methods for measuring firm-level nationalism.

The talk also presented findings on the antecedents and consequences of firms’ nationalist rhetoric. The CEAPS Speaker Series brings leading Asian Studies scholars to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to share current research and projects.

Corporate Nationalism in a Deglobalizing World: Research Agenda, Data, and Methodology

A workshop on the resurgence of nationalism and its influence on geopolitical landscapes and corporate behaviour, bringing together research agendas, data sources, and methodological approaches.

Corporate Rhetorical Nationalism at the Political Economy Seminar Series

Lori Yue presented her research on nationalism as a firm-level phenomenon and introduced a computational text-analysis approach to measuring corporate rhetorical nationalism. The discussion explored its relationship to corporate political activity and firms’ management of state relations.

Co-organized by National University of Singapore, Hong Kong Baptist University, National Taiwan University, and CEIBS.

Lori Yue, Jiexin Zheng, and Kaixian Mao Win the 2025 MOR–RRBM Best Paper Award

Congratulations to Lori Yue, Jiexin Zheng, and Kaixian Mao for receiving the Responsible Research in Business and Management Best Paper Award for research published in Management and Organization Review.

Their paper, Firms’ Rhetorical Nationalism: Theory, Measurement, and Evidence from a Computational Analysis of Chinese Public Firms, makes a novel and timely contribution to the study of nationalism in organizational contexts, particularly in an era of rising geopolitical tensions and nationalist sentiments globally.

Frontier in the Research of Nationalism in Organization, Strategy, and International Business

A showcase of cutting-edge research on civic, economic, and techno-nationalism across organization theory, strategy, and international business.

Nationalism and Organizational Strategy

Four paper presentations and a discussion examined how nationalism creates uncertainties for organizations while offering managers opportunities to shape product meaning and organizational purpose.