Sub-theme 08: (SWG) History and Organizations: Moving Research Forward
Convenors:
Behlül Üsdiken, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
Matthias Kipping, Schulich School of Business, York University Toronto, Canada
Lars Engwall, Uppsala University, Sweden
Session I: Thursday, July 05, 09:00 to 10:30, Room 4 – Aalto Executive Education
History, Theory and Method
Chair: Behlül Üsdiken
Andrea Bernardi and Anna Greenwood
Understanding the rift, the (still) uneasy bedfellows of history and organization studies
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): William M. Foster, Roy Suddaby and Elden M. Wiebe
Michael Rowlinson and John Hassard
Historical neo-institutionalism or neo-institutionalist history?
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): R. Daniel Wadhwani
Alistair Mutch
Genealogy or history: Governmentality, Scotland and the history of Protestant pastoral power
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Paolo Quattrone
Session II: Thursday, July 05, 11:00 to 12:30, Room 4 – Aalto Executive Education
Management, Rationality, Bureaucratization
Chair: Matthias Kipping
Karen Dale
Outside management? A brief history of household management and the construction of 'calculating selves and calculable spaces'
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Simona Spedale
Paolo Quattrone
Unfolding rationality: Visual memory, performative accounting and the Jesuit Order
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Luca Zan and Kent Deng
Pamela A. Popielarz
Schools of bureaucracy: Fraternal orders and inequality in the industrializing U.S. Midwest
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Karen Dale
Session III: Thursday, July 05, 14:00 to 15:30, Room 4 – Aalto Executive Education
Creation of Institutions: Long-term Views
Chair: Lars Engwall
Gazi Islam and Macabe Keliher
The ritual construction of history: Grand ceremony and institution building in late imperial China
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Andrea Bernardi and Anna Greenwood
Arijit Chatterjee
Paths to social change: Mobilization, institution building, and entrepreneurship in colonial India
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Wim van Lent and Stoyan Sgourev
Luca Zan and Kent Deng
Searching for managerial micro foundations in West/East divergence
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Rafael Alcadipani and Bill Cooke
Session IV: Friday, July 06, 09:00 to 10:30, Room 4 – Aalto Executive Education
Organizational Fields in Historical Perspective
Chair: Matthias Kipping
Brian King
Venture capital's rise to legitimacy, 1955–1980
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Gazi Islam and Macabe Keliher
R. Daniel Wadhwani
The co-evolution of states and organizational fields: Markets for personal finance in comparative historical perspective
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Pamela A. Popielarz
Simona Spedale
Entrepreneurial action and institutional logics in an inner-city district: The entrepreneurial history of the public house
in Kelham Island (c. 1870–2010)
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Alistair Mutch
Session V: Friday, July 06, 11:00 to 12:30, Room 4 – Aalto Executive Education
Tracing Organizational Populations, Organizations and Organizational Processes over Time
Chair: Behlül Üsdiken
Valentina Goglio
The population of satellite universities in the Italian higher education system
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Kerttu Kettunen, Kimmo Alajoutsijärvi and Henrikki Tikkanen
Wim van Lent and Stoyan V. Sgourev
Local interests in a global business. 200 years of dividend policy at the Dutch East India Company
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Alain Alcouffe and Marek Ćwiklicki
Lars Heide
Opening the black box of innovation systems
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Boram Do and Ian Walsh
Session VI: Saturday, July 07, 09:00 to 10:30, Room 4 – Aalto Executive Education
Institutions of Management Knowledge in Historical Perspective
Chair: Lars Engwall
Kerttu Kettunen, Kimmo Alajoutsijärvi and Henrikki Tikkanen
Operating in two reputation systems: A century of management professionalization in Finnish business schools
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Benoît Roux and Xavier Lecocq
Marek Ćwiklicki and Alain Alcouffe
The dissemination of management innovations through consultancy in the interwar period
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Lars Heide
Rafael Alcadipani and Bill Cooke
The Ford Foundation's 'mess" in Brazil: A counter-deterministic account of US philanthropy and management education
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Valentina Goglio
Session VII: Saturday, July 07, 11:00 to 12:30, Room 4 – Aalto Executive Education
History as Resource and Back to History and Theory
Chair: Behlül Üsdiken
William M. Foster, Roy Suddaby and Elden Wiebe
Activating the past: The persistence of corporate memory
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Arijit Chatterjee
Boram Do and Ian Walsh
Memory recollection, meaning reconstruction, and the experience of nostalgia in the context of organizational demise
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Brian King
Benoît Roux and Xavier Lecocq
Is there a place for theory in business history? Lessons from the famous Fisher Body case
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Michael Rowlinson and John Hassard