Panel Speakers: Sam Warren (University of Surrey); David Buchanan (Cranfield University); Tim Clark (University of Durham); Simon Linacre (Emerald Publishing); Jonathan Schroeder (University of Exeter); Emma Bell (University of Exeter)

The aim of this panel is to raise awareness of the visual dimensions of management and organizational research. As organizational stakeholders become increasingly visually literate, the need to find innovative ways to analyse visual materials becomes paramount. Although a growing number of management researchers are beginning to engage with visual data, the uptake of visually-oriented management research has so far been limited in our community. This panel questions why this might be the case, through critical discussion intended to surface and address some of the theoretical and practical challenges that may be preventing management researchers from incorporating the visual into their research and teaching practice.

Themes for discussion:

• tracking the rising interest in visual studies of management
• assessing the methodological expertise required for visual organizational analysis
• challenges in publishing visual research
• the visual as a resource in managerial practice
• pedagogy in an age of videocy, visual methods in the management classroom

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