SUB-THEMES

All sub-themes at the main 39^th EGOS Colloquium (July 6–8, 2023) are listed below.

The sub-themes will take place at three campuses of the University of Cagliari, all located in the city center within walking distance.

For more information on these campuses + their addresses, please click here.
To view the program of ‘your’ sub-theme + its room/s, please click on its title and then on “Program”.

Please note!

17 sub-themes will be held in a HYBRID format!
For further information on these 17 hybrid sub-themes, please click here.

List of Sub-themes

Sub-theme 03: [SWG 03] Social Impact in, and through, Civil Society Convenors: Liesbet Heyse, Gorgi Krlev, Marta Reuter
Sub-theme 04: [SWG] Social Movements and Organizations: Outcomes and Secondary Effects Convenors: Jocelyn M. Leitzinger, Panikos Georgallis, Forrest Briscoe
Sub-theme 05: [SWG] Digitalization of Social Evaluations – Social Media, Platforms, and their Evaluative Roles Convenors: Mike Barnett, Michael Etter, Anastasiya Zavyalova
Sub-theme 06: [SWG] Performing the Future Communicatively: How What Does Not Yet Exist Already Makes a Difference Convenors: Laure Cabantous, Mie Plotnikof, Matthias Wenzel
Sub-theme 07: [SWG] Beyond Social Relations – Different Forms and Shapes of Networks Convenors: Julia Brennecke, Francesca Pallotti, Marco Tortoriello
Sub-theme 10: [SWG] Shaping Desirable Futures – Imagining (Real) Utopias Convenors: Juliane Reinecke, Ali Aslan Gümüşay, Sylvia Grewatsch
Sub-theme 11: [SWG] Explaining AI in the Context of Organizations Convenors: Marleen Huysman, Ella W. Hafermalz, Reza M. Baygi
Sub-theme 12: [SWG] Institutions, Innovation, Impact: How to Conduct Institutional Research that Really Matters Convenors: Tim R. Hannigan, Dennis Jancsary, Tammar B. Zilber
Sub-theme 14: [SWG] The Role Institutions, Networks, and Communities in Extreme Contexts Convenors: Markus Hällgren, Samer Faraj, Linda Rouleau
Sub-theme 15: [SWG] System Change, Not Climate Change: Alternative Futures for a World beyond Environmental Crisis --> HYBRID! Convenors: Paul S. Adler, Zlatko Bodrožić, Steffen Boehm
Sub-theme 16: A Good Life for the Fluid Workforce: Illusion or Reality? Convenors: Aizhan Tursunbayeva, Luigi Moschera, Daniel Samaan
Sub-theme 17: Achieving the Potential of Inclusion in Alternative and Democratic Organizations -> HYBRID! Convenors: Daniel King, Valérie Michaud, Simon Pek
Sub-theme 18: Algorithms We Live by and Resist in Organizational Life -> HYBRID! Convenors: Iris Wallenburg, Lieke Oldenhof, Omid Omidvar
Sub-theme 19: Beyond Ideation: Sustaining Open Innovation in Organizations, Communities, and Markets Convenors: Paul R. Carlile, Karl-Emanuel Dionne, Rebecca Karp
Sub-theme 20: Beyond the Good and Evil of Organizational Legacies: Setting the Conditions for Limitless Imagination ---> CANCELLED! Convenors:
Sub-theme 21: Bricolaging Careers – (Re)Imagining Meaningful Careers for ‘the Good Life’ -> HYBRID! Convenors: Katharina Chudzikowski, Alexandra Bristow, Angelika Schmidt
Sub-theme 22: Bridging the Space between Us: Exploring Connection and Disconnection in Workplace Relationships Convenors: Jennifer Petriglieri, Brianna Barker Caza, Lakshmi Ramarajan
Sub-theme 23: Bright and Dark Sides of Entrepreneurship in Society Convenors: Tim Weiss, Nevena Radoynovska, Ignasi Martí
Sub-theme 24: Career Imagination and Institutional Legacy Convenors: Amit Nigam, Gina Dokko, Candace Jones
Sub-theme 25: Climate Crisis and Organization Theory: Enabling a Positive Climate Legacy ---> MERGED with sub-theme 66 Convenors:
Sub-theme 26: Computational Approaches to Culture and Creativity: Advancing Theories of Organizations and Markets Convenors: Monika Kackovic, Matthew Yeaton, Mitali Banerjee
Sub-theme 27: Constructing Businesses Social and Environmental Responsibilities in the Global South: Tensions between Tradition, Innovation, and Imposition -> HYBRID! Convenors: Pilar Acosta, Joel Bothello, Stefanie Habersang
Sub-theme 28: Corporate Governance and Enacting Good Life -> HYBRID! Convenors: Marilieke Engbers, Svetlana N. Khapova, Erik van de Loo
Sub-theme 29: Counting the Unimaginable: Calculative Practices for Human Ambitions -> HYBRID! Convenors: Elena Giovannoni, Jan Mouritsen, Matteo Ronzani
Sub-theme 30: Crafting Values: How Craft Can Make Life a Little Better Convenors: Jo-Ellen Pozner, Davide Ravasi, Judith Nyfeler
Sub-theme 31: Elites Misbehaving in a Hypermobile World: Good Life for the Few? --> CANCELLED! Convenors:
Sub-theme 32: Embodying Precarious Work: Intersectional Precariousness and Organizing for a Good Life Convenors: Amanda M. Peticca-Harris, Annalisa Murgia, M.N. Ravishankar
Sub-theme 33: Entrepreneurship in and around Organizations Convenors: Ha Hoang, Markus Perkmann, Dean A. Shepherd
Sub-theme 34: Exploring Paradox’ Meta-Theoretical Potential for Theorizing Convenors: Jonathan Schad, Miguel Pina e Cunha, Natalie Slawinski
Sub-theme 35: Fields of Possibilities: Interstitial Spaces, Institutional Infrastructures, and the Social Topology of the Future Convenors: Santi Furnari, Danielle Logue, Charlene Zietsma
Sub-theme 36: Framing Innovation with Words: A Linguistic Approach Convenors: Gino Cattani, Dirk Deichmann, Simone Ferriani
Sub-theme 37: Futures and Ethics of Care: Reorganizing Work, Labour, and Life -> HYBRID! Convenors: D. Derya Özdemir Kaya, Anne Antoni, Marianna Fotaki
Sub-theme 38: Governing for the Good Life: Secrecy, Transparency, and Accountability in Organizations, Networks, and Society ---> MERGED with sub-theme 71 Convenors: Lars Thøger Christensen, Elisabeth F. Mueller, Jörg Raab
Sub-theme 39: Governing for Sustainability: Exploring How Public and Private Forms of Governance Interact Convenors: Johanna Järvelä, Jette Steen Knudsen, Jean-Pascal Gond
Sub-theme 40: Grand Challenges and the Rhetoric of Collective Action Convenors: Kerstin Neumann, Issy Drori, Yiannis Kyratsis
Sub-theme 41: Imagination and Language: The Poetics of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Becoming [HYBRID] ---> MERGED with sub-theme 46 Convenors: Trevor Israelsen, Irina Liubertė, Dimo Dimov
Sub-theme 42: Imagined Futures for Gender, Diversity, and Intersectionality: Legacies and Opportunities of Theory and Research on Inequalities in Organizations Convenors: Jenny K. Rodriguez, Nasima M.H. Carrim, Regine Bendl
Sub-theme 43: Imagining Roles in New Forms of Strategizing and Organizing Convenors: Christoph Brielmaier, Martin Friesl, Violetta Splitter
Sub-theme 44: Implementing Innovation in Public Health: Organizational Challenges and Implications on Work Convenors: Lorenzo Mercurio, Maddalena Illario, Regina Roller-Wirnsberger
Sub-theme 45: Innovation for the Good Life: Imperative or Bias? ---> CANCELLED! Convenors:
Sub-theme 46: Intergenerational Entrepreneurial Projects ---> MERGED with sub-theme 41 Convenors:
Sub-theme 47: Interorganizational Relationships for Sustainable Development: Collaboration in the Circular Economy Convenors: Sara Scipioni, Xavier Castañer, Nuno Barros De Oliveira
Sub-theme 48: Legacy Firms and Digital Transformation beyond the Dynamic Capability Approach -> HYBRID! Convenors: Filomena Buonocore, Maria C. Annosi, Davide de Gennaro
Sub-theme 49: Managing Public Sector Reforms: Dealing with the Struggle between Internal Challenges and External Consultancy Convenors: Andrea Tomo, Carl Yngfalk, Manuela Barreca
Sub-theme 50: Meta-Organizations and Sustainability Transitions: Challenges and Opportunities -> HYBRID! Convenors: Frank de Bakker, Héloïse Berkowitz, Sanne Bor
Sub-theme 51: Organizational History for Good: Legacy, Collective Memory, and Change --> HYBRID! Convenors: Andrea Casey, Hamid Foroughi, Sonia Coman
Sub-theme 52: Organizational Storytelling Futures: Using History to Enable Becoming ---> CANCELLED! Convenors:
Sub-theme 53: Organizing by and for the Commons: Alternative Values and Affective Intensities Convenors: Emmanouela Mandalaki, Gazi Islam, Christina Lüthy
Sub-theme 54: Organizing for Meaningful Work: Implications for the Good Life -> HYBRID! Convenors: Evgenia I. Lysova, Christopher Michaelson, Catherine Bailey
Sub-theme 55: Organizing for Multiculturalism: Between Conflict and Inclusion [HYBRID] ---> MERGED with sub-theme 76 Convenors: Renate Ortlieb, Sofiane Baba, Miguel Morillas
Sub-theme 56: Organizing for the Good Life between Nationalism and Globalization ---> CANCELLED! Convenors:
Sub-theme 57: Organizing Human–Nonhuman Relations: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Convenors: Damian O'Doherty, Doris Schneeberger, Linda Tallberg
Sub-theme 58: Organizing Risk for Better Futures Convenors: Tommaso Palermo, Julie Mayer, Steve Maguire
Sub-theme 59: Paradoxes, Practices, and Potential of Creatives in Organizational Innovation Convenors: Barbara Slavich, Giulia Calabretta, Natalja Laurey
Sub-theme 60: Places, Emotions, and Organizations Convenors: Mélodie Cartel, M. Tina Dacin, Ewald Kibler
Sub-theme 61: Problems or Solutions? Emerging Technology, Equity & Inclusion at Work Convenors: Lindsey D. Cameron, Pamela J. Hinds, Elisa Mattarelli
Sub-theme 62: Professional Work(ers): Past, Present, and Future/s Convenors: Sumati Ahuja, Andrew Sturdy, Lucie Noury
Sub-theme 63: Professions in an Age of Intelligent Technologies -> HYBRID! Convenors: Caroline Ruiner, Kasper T. Elmholdt, James Faulconbridge
Sub-theme 64: Qualitative Research with Archival Data Convenors: Stine Grodal, Anders Dahl Krabbe, Micah Rajunov
Sub-theme 65: Reimagining the Institutions, Actors, and Practices of Good Work Convenors: Patrizia Zanoni, Markus Helfen, Andreas Pekarek
Sub-theme 66: Reimagining Tradition through Pragmatist Inquiry for Better Futures [HYBRID] ---> MERGED with sub-theme 25 Convenors: Alvin Panjeta, Frithjof E. Wegener, Arijit Paul
Sub-theme 67: Resilient Individuals, Organizations, and Societies: Blenders of Legacy and Imagination Convenors: Maria Laura Frigotto, Mitchell Young, Rómulo Pinheiro
Sub-theme 68: Responsible Management-as-Practice: A Path for Building a Good Life? Convenors: Frederik Claeyé, Marine De Ridder, Luc Brès
Sub-theme 69: Rethinking the Relationship between Businesses’ Financial and Social Commitments Convenors: Matthew Grimes, Tyler Wry, Garima Sharma
Sub-theme 70: Routines Dynamics: Enacting and Crossing Boundaries -> HYBRID! Convenors: Maria Booth, Daniel Geiger, Waldemar Kremser
Sub-theme 71: Secrecy and Transparency in Governing and Regulating a Good Life ---> MERGED with sub-theme 38 Convenors:
Sub-theme 72: Spaces for Creativity and Innovation within and across Organizational Boundaries Convenors: Patrick Cohendet, Amalya L. Oliver, Jörg Sydow
Sub-theme 73: Studying Change in, through and around Organizations with a Practice Sensitivity Convenors: Ignas M. Bruder, Davide Nicolini, Elizabeth Shove
Sub-theme 74: The Dark Side of Social Innovation: Antecedents, Pathways, and Consequences Convenors: Madeline Toubiana, Sophie Bacq, Bryant A. Hudson
Sub-theme 75: The New Faces and Interfaces of Digital Platforms Convenors: Georg Reischauer, Stefan Haefliger, Ivanka Visnjic
Sub-theme 76: Theorizing Organizing in ‘Historically Marginalized Societies’: Embracing, Calibrating or Distancing from Mainstream Organizational and Management Theories? ---> MERGED with sub-theme 55 Convenors:
Sub-theme 77: Translating Leadership: Tensions, Contradictions, and Ambiguities Convenors: Stefan Heusinkveld, Dimitrios Spyridonidis, Marlieke van Grinsven
Sub-theme 78: Universities in Turbulent Times Convenors: Lars Engwall, Georg Krücken, Christine Musselin
Sub-theme 79: Values and Emotions as Animating Forces in Social Symbolic Work Convenors: W.E. Douglas Creed, Gry Espedal, Jose Bento da Silva
Sub-theme 81: Open Sub-theme – Reimagining the Work and the Workplace: Crafting Legacies and Unlocking Creative Potential Convenors: Alessia Contu, Cinzia Priola, Jared M. Poole

Organizing for the Good Life: Between Legacy and Imagination

SUB-THEMES

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List of Sub-themes