Sub-theme 27: Revealing Processes of Design and Change: Organizations in Transforming Societies
Convenors:
Anna Soulsby, Nottingham University Business School, UK
Rebecca Piekkari, School of Economics, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland
Rainhart Lang, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
Session I: Thursday, July 05, 09:00 to 10:30, E-014 – Arkadia
Concepts of 'Management', Entrepreneurship and the Fear of Failure
Chair: Graham Hollinshead
Rainhart Lang and Irma Rybnikova
The meaning of management in CEE countries
Sven M. Laudien and Jörg Freiling
The shadow of new venture failure on transforming societies
Session II: Thursday, July 05, 11:00 to 12:30, E-014 – Arkadia
Patterns of Governance, Ownership and Organizational Fragmentation
Chair: Irma Rybnikova
Thomas Steger
Überholen ohne einzuholen? Similarities and differences between SME supervisory boards in East and West Germany
Laszlo Czaban
Hungarian firms in 21 years of transition
Anna Soulsby and Ed Clark
Processes of organisational disintegration and the survival of fragments of organisational identity and capacity
Session III: Thursday, July 05, 14:00 to 15:30, E-014 – Arkadia
Organizational Structures and Capabilities in Transforming Societies
Chair: Rebecca Piekkari
Lovorka Galetic, Ana Aleksic and Maja Klindžić
Modern aspects of organizational design in Croatian companies:an empirical study
Sarunas Nedzinskas, Asta Punziene, Solveiga Buoziute-Rafanaviciene and Margarita Pilkiene
Dynamic capabilities and organizational inertia interaction in volatile environment
Session IV: Friday, July 06, 09:00 to 10:30, E-014 – Arkadia
Organizational Designs, Alliances and Diffusion of Practices
Chair: Thomas Steger
Ljiljana Kontic
Redesigning the organization: A study from Serbian petrochemical company
Simon Oertel, Kirsten Thommes and Peter Walgenbach
When consulting employees – A view from the business systems literature
Session V: Friday, July 06, 11:00 to 12:30, E-014 – Arkadia
Employee Participation, National Cultures and the Quality of Work Life
Chair: Anna Soulsby
Irma Rybnikova
Pre-designed participation? Patterns of participation in Lithuanian and German fairy tales
Abhishek Totawar and Ranjeet Nambudiri
Organizational justice, job satisfaction and organizational commitment: The mediation of quality of work life and psychological
capital
Session VI: Saturday, July 07, 09:00 to 10:30, E-014 – Arkadia
Empowerment, Managerial Control, and Learning from Transforming Societies
Chair: Rainhart Lang
Tim G. Andrews and John A.A. Sillince
A process model of multiple empowerment adoption patterns and heterogeneity at the MNE subsidiary level
Xinhua Wittmann and Lien Dinh Thi Ngoc
Managerial control in China and Vietnam: A comparative study
Graham Hollinshead and Francesca Gagliardi
Innovation and change in a socialist-market organizational context, the case of pharmaceutical R&D in China
Session VII: Saturday, July 07, 11:00 to 12:30, E-014 – Arkadia
The Establishment of Trust and Processes of Innovation
Chair: Lovorka Galetic
Cláudia Bitencourt and Gabriela Mendel
Establishing trust in multicultural environments: An analysis based on competencies and cultural intelligence
Thamires Evangelista and Conceição Aparecida Pereira Barbosa
Innovation in the development of business models in frozen yogurt franchises