Goals & Decision-making: Exploring the Current State & Future Agenda for Goals Research

In this symposium, we seek to advance the current state of several theoretical paradigms that deal with multiple goals at multiple levels. In doing so, we aim to explicate the mechanisms connecting the micro-level processes to organization-level outcomes. We hope to provide a forum for reviewing prior work in this area and identifying new avenues for future research that will further elucidate the complexities of having multiple goals at the individual- and firm-level. Our ultimate objective is to advance scholarship on multiple goals across and between theoretical areas using theoretical, empirical and simulation approaches. A Review of Goal Setting Theory Presenter: Gary P. Latham; U. of Toronto Decisions on Multiple Goals: Uni vs. Multi-Dimensional and Variable vs. Fixed Reference Points Presenter: Zur Shapira; New York U. Multiple Anchor Points and Risk-Taking Presenter: Stefan Maric; Eli Broad School of Business, Michigan State U. Presenter: Shelby Gai; Michigan State U. Presenter: Nicholas Hays; Michigan State U. Multiple Objectives in Organizations: Current Findings and Challenges Presenter: Tomasz Obloj; HEC Paris Power and Organizational Adaptation Presenter: Daniel Levinthal; U. of Pennsylvania Presenter: Dong-Nghi PHAM; ESSEC Business School