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Parallel Session 03: Local Contexts, Global Stakes Location: Seminar Room 6 (Level 2) Session Chair: Olga Hawn, University of North Carolina | |
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DETECTING GLOBAL ISSUES FROM LOCAL CUES 1: University of Macau, FBA, Macau S.A.R. (China); 2: Ivey Business School, Western University (Canada) How can locally dependent organizations detect global issues from local cues? Global issues such as climate change carry profound local implications. For locally dependent organizations – whose competitiveness relies on local natural resources – detecting global issues is essential. We address this topic inductively using rich ethnographic data from Norlha Textiles, an enterprise on the Tibetan Plateau that bridges local nomadic knowledge with global luxury markets through yak-wool textiles production. We find that Norlha cultivated deep local connections, which enabled two complementary attentional processes: connecting, through which decision makers identify patterns among cues, and contrasting, through which they discern salient cues. These processes unfolded continuously and simultaneously, allowing decision makers to recognize global issues without overlooking critical information or exceeding attentional limits. Our findings advance research in two ways. First, we theorize a bottom-up attention mechanism that enables local organizations to detect global issues, whereas prior literature largely investigated a top-down approach. Second, we offer a ‘strong’ process account of organizational attention. | |