Navigating Organizations through Multiple Goals

This symposium aims to shed light on the challenges of managing the pursuit of multiple organizational goals. In addition to traditional financial and innovation goals, organizations face growing pressure to meet environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) goals. The pressure comes not only from shareholders but by an increasingly diverse set of stakeholders, including employees, board members, rating agencies, media, and CEOs themselves who are demanded and emboldened to express their political and social values. This symposium aspires to go beyond recognizing the presence of multiple organizational goals and make advances on the following two questions: (1) The varied and nuanced nature of conflicts between different goals (2) The organizational tools employed by managers to facilitate resolving such conflicts.