Sub-theme 15: Transboundary Risks and Crisis Management
Convenors:
Sytze F. Kingma, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Robert P. Gephart Jr., University of Alberta, Canada
C. Chet Miller, University of Houston, Bauer College of Business, USA
Session I: Thursday, July 07, 09:00 to 10:45, H-D32
Crisis Management
Chair: Sytze F. Kingma
Alexander Fliaster and Albert Angehrn
Organizational learning for transboundary crisis management: The collaborative dimension
Francesco Maria Barbini, Alessandro D'Atri, Laura Tarantino and Stefano Za
EagleVox: An innovative information system to support social sensemaking in the aftermath of large-scale disasters
Christine Pearson and S. Amy Sommer
Leadership challenges of trans-boundary crisis management: Culture's CM consequences
Session II: Thursday, July 07, 14:00 to 15:30, H-D32
Situated Risk Conceptions
Chair: Robert P. Gephart, Jr.
Izidoro Blikstein
The role of corporate discourse in coping with crises and risks: A semiotic analysis of discursive incoherences in companies
Karin Svedberg Helgesson
Trans-boundary risk in local business practice: The case of the risk-based approach to anti-money laundering
Sytze F. Kingma and Joep Binkhorst
Safety versus reputation: Risk conceptions in emerging policy networks regarding school safety in the Netherlands
Christopher Lawless
The fallout from the fallout: Volcanic ash, risk and the liminality of European airspace
Session III: Thursday, July 07, 16:00 to 17:30, H-D32
Organizational Risk Responses
Chair: C. Chet Miller
Véronique Steyer and Hervé Laroche
Making sense of a false alarm: The "swine flu" case
Stéphanie Tillement
The role of objects in risk control practices: What can we learn from studying near-misses in the railway industry?
Anthony Hussenot and Anouck Adrot
Dealing with organizing from the sociomaterial entanglement: Evidence from the 2003 French heat wave crisis
Session IV: Friday, July 08, 09:00 to 11:00, H-D32
Making Sense of Risk
Chair: Sytze F. Kingma
Hooman Attar
The risk renaissance: A critical review of risk and risk management
Cagri Topal and Robert P. Gephart
An application of socio-cultural theories into organizational risk
Paulo Guimaraes
On the heuristics of sensemaking analysis: An ongoing pollution accident in Brazil
Heike Rindfleisch
Sensemaking as precondition for crisis management
Session V: Friday, July 08, 14:00 to 16:00, H-D32
Addressing Business Risks
Chair: C. Chet Miller
Valerie Fiegenwald, Céline Cholez and Thomas Reverdy
Management of transboundary risks in a low-volume industry: The role of boundary objects and boundary spanners
Gordon Müller-Seitz, Jörg Sydow and Frank Lerch
Tackling technological uncertainty by means of interorganizational stretching practices – Explorative evidence from a semiconductor
industry network
Rena Schwarting and
Risk transformation in financial markets – A comparison of credit rating agencies and credit default swaps
Session VI: Saturday, July 09, 09:00 to 10:30, H-D32
Crises Responses
Chair: Robert P. Gephart, Jr.
Dirk Oegema, Friederike Schultz, Sonja Utz and Jan Kleinijenhuis
Crisis responses, news, and shares in the BP oil spill crisis
Bridgette Sullivan-Taylor and Layla Branicki
Safety in numbers: An examination of inter-organizational relationships under conditions of extreme strategic uncertainty
Session VII: Saturday, July 09, 11:00 to 12:30, H-D32
Transboundary Risks
Chair: Sytze F. Kingma, Robert P. Gephart, Jr. and C. Chet Miller
Group discussion: evaluating the stream; discussing the concept of transboundary risks. What did we learn from the disasters
in Japan? Possible publications; plans for the future.