Nationalism and Organizational Strategy

Academy of Management Conference, Boston | August 2023

This symposium features four papers presentations and a discussion on the topic of nationalism and organizational strategy. Collectively, these papers argue that nationalism can create both uncertainties for organizations and opportunities for managers to bolster the meaning of their products and the purpose of their organizations. Empirically, these papers adopt a variety of methodology, including the machine-learning based text analysis, the difference-in-difference analysis, and the in-depth case analysis. These papers are also featured by the diversity of national contexts and study how nationalism affects organizations in the world's major economic powerhouses, including US, China, Japan, and Europe.

Organizer

Lori Yue
Lori Yue

Columbia Business School

Discussant

University of Michigan

Presenter

Jing Li

Simon Fraser University

Presenter

Angel Saz-Carranza

ESADE Business School

Presenter

Yusaku Takeda

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Sessions

  1. Nationalism, Firm Place Identity, and Firm Value: Evidence from the Catalan Secession Crisis
  2. Unpacking Techno-Nationalism: Evidence from Made In China 2025 and The U.S. Policy Response
  3. Firms’ Rhetorical Nationalism: Theory, Measurement, and Evidence from a Computational Analysis of Chinese Public Firms
  4. Nationalism and Corporate Strategy: From Yamaha Pianos to Motorcycles, 1945–1960