Sub-theme 08: (SWG): Historical Perspectives in Organization Studies
Convenors:
Matthias Kipping, Schulich School of Business, Toronto, Canada
Lars Engwall, Uppsala University, Sweden
Behlül Üsdiken, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
Session I: Thursday, July 07, 09:00 to 10:45, H-B33
Dynamics of Fields
Chair: Matthias Kipping
R. Daniel Wadhwani
Legal institution formation and the creation of new organizational fields
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Andrea Bernardi
Danielle Logue
Going deeper: Remembering naturalising analogies
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Olivier Berthod
Raluca Kerekes and Peter Walgenbach
Don't be unhappy, you can become perfect! The institutionalization of the field of aesthetic surgery
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Bill Cooke
Session II: Thursday, July 07, 14:00 to 15:30, H-B33
Organizations in Context
Chair: Lars Engwall
Stoyan V. Sgourev and Wim van Lent
The right amount of wrong? Private trade and public interest at the VOC
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Stephanie Decker
Heidi Dahles
Chinese capitalisms in Southeast Asia: Developing the concept of 'institutional legacies' for the analysis of organizational
fields
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Mairi Maclean
Kathleen Park and Gavin Schwarz
CEO leadership styles in merger & acquisition waves: A century-plus of reassembling organizations
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Mick Rowlinson
Session III: Thursday, July 07, 16:00 to 17:30, H-B33
Stories
Chair: Behlül Üsdiken
Stephanie Decker
Narrative strategies for organisational legitimacy: British imperial business in decolonising West Africa, 1945–1965
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Albert Mills
Anna Linda Musacchio Adorisio
Organizational memories, histories and stories: Twenty years in the life of a bank
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Sjoerd Keulen
Anna Soulsby and Ed Clark
Longitudinal organizational restructuring and identity dynamics: A comparative study of the social construction of integration
and disintegration
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Raluca Kerekes
Session IV: Friday, July 08, 09:00 to 11:00, H-B33
Reflections
Chair: Matthias Kipping
Michael Rowlinson and John Hassard
Historical methods in management and organization studies
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Danielle Logue
Albert Mills, Roy Suddaby and William M. Foster
History and the dynamics of institutions
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Juha-Antti Lamberg
Ronald Kroeze and Sjoerd Keulen
The relevance of history for organizations: Accepting the advantages and responsibility of being a management historian
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Yuki Yamauchi
Kai Luotonen
A plea to redress genealogy: A fecund historiography to explicate complex empirical transformations
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Heidi Dahles
Session V: Friday, July 08, 14:00 to 16:00, H-B33
Traditions and Transformation
Chair: Lars Engwall
Mairi Maclean, John A.A. Sillince and Charles Harvey
Living up to the past? Sensemaking and ideology in organizational transition
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Kathleen Marshall Park
Simon Oertel and Kirsten Thommes
Revitalizing strategic resources: The watchmaking industry in East Germany
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Kai Luotonen
Yuki Yamauchi and Takahiro Endo
You are not the only one: The role of multiple actors in new practice creation
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Mary Quek
Manuel Hensmans
TRADITIONS OF RENEWAL How four traditions linking emotion and cognition in different ways allow for strategic renewal ahead
of one’s time
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Anna Linda Musacchio Adorisio
Session VI: Saturday, July 09, 09:00 to 10:30, H-B33
Agency and Structure
Chair: Behlül Üsdiken
Bill Cooke and Bernard Burnes
Prophets without honour: Early British foundations of the application of behavioral science to management and business
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Simon Oertel
Juha-Antti Lamberg, Saku Mantere and Kalle Pajunen
Evolution of a political system: A socio-economic explanation of electorate campaign funding
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Stoyan Sgourev
Mary Quek
Co-evolution of firm's capability and environment: A multinational hotel case study
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Manuel Hensmans
Session VII: Saturday, July 09, 11:00 to 12:30, H-B33
Past and Present
Chair: Matthias Kipping
Andrea Bernardi and Anna Greenwood
The rural co-operative medical system in China: Organization and the lessons of history
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Dan Wadhwani
Olivier Berthod
Using historical methods in processual research on organizations: Empirical issues at stake
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Anna Soulsby
Concluding Discussion