Sub-theme 16: Societal accountability: Understanding and negotiating the identity of individuals, societies and institutions *

Convenors:
Carmelo Mazza, Grenoble Ecole de Management, France
Paolo Quattrone, Saïd Business School & Christ Church, University of Oxford, UK
Stephen Woolgar, Saïd Business School University of Oxford, UK
Session I: Thursday, July 02, 09:00 to 10:30, E2-2-210
The limits of transparency
Chair: Stephen Woolgar
No-one is Perfect: the limits of transparency and ethics of accountability
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Markus A. Höllerer
George Cheney
Transparency as Societal Accountability: A Critical Analysis of Transparency as a Corporate Account Technology
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Daniel Neyland
‘Hide and seek’. Transparency, opacity, and the shadow side of accountability in CSR
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Elena Simakova
Session II: Thursday, July 02, 11:00 to 12:30, E2-2-210
Corporate social responsibility as societal accountability?
Chair: Carmelo Mazza
The Social Construction of Corporate Social Responsibility Metrics
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Brian Rappert
Renate E. Meyer
Corporate social responsibility: Accountable to and responsible for whom? On social categorization of stakeholders among Austrian corporations
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Stephen Woolgar
Heidi Hirsto and Johanna Moisander
Contemporaneous Views on Corporate Responsibility - Online discussion as a site of democratic participation in the global marketplace
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Maja Korica
Session III: Thursday, July 02, 14:00 to 15:30, E2-2-210
Accountability in the public domain
Chair: Dean Neu
Struggling to Define and Legitimate a New Organization
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Lars Thøger Christensen
Maja Korica and Paolo Quattrone
Practicing "socie-ties": Governance and accountability in a university as an organization in the public interest
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Wes Sharrock
Evidencing Similarity: The Language of Judgement, Spin, and Accountability
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Christina Garsten
Session IV: Friday, July 03, 09:00 to 10:30, E2-2-210
Health, disease and accountability
Chair: Maja Korica
Anja Svejgaard
Licenced patients
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): John Roberts
Parasitic Accountability
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Susanne Boch Waldorff
Multiple accountabilities and the ordering of work
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Annegrete Juul Nielsen
Session V: Friday, July 03, 11:00 to 12:30, E2-2-210
Accountabilities of/with technologies and scales
Chair: Paolo Quattrone
Wes Sharrock
Project Failure As An Organisational Account
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Jean-Pascal Gond
Accountabilities of Scale: the example of the middle range
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Signe Vikkelso
Making Nano Matter: organising accountability relations for emerging technologies
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Merja Porttikivi
Session VI: Saturday, July 04, 09:00 to 10:30, E2-2-210
- Group Discussion -
Provocation in Royal Palace of Pedralbes park
Provocation pieces followed by discussion
Note: Location subject to fine weather
Session VII: Saturday, July 04, 11:00 to 12:30, E2-2-210
- Group Discussion -
Chair: Carmelo Mazza, Paolo Quattone, Stephen Woolgar, Maja Korica
Recap discussion and next steps