Sub-theme 29: Idea work: Creating and becoming in everyday organizational practice

Convenors:
Stewart Clegg, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Elena P. Antonacopoulou, University of Liverpool Management School, UK
Arne Carlsen, SINTEF Technology and Society, Oslo, Norway
Session I: Thursday, July 02, 09:00 to 10:30, E2-2-211
Opening Ideas
Chair: Conveners
Guje Sevon
Of Managers, Ideas and Jesters
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Conveners
Jan van den Ende
Boomerang Effects of Networked Ideas
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Tea Lempiälä and Tiina Tuominen
Tiina Tuominen
Innovative pursuits or routine performance - perceptions of creativity in idea work
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Dirk Deichmann
The conveners will start with introducing the sub-theme and the participants
Session II: Thursday, July 02, 11:00 to 12:30, E2-2-211
Cultural Fields in Idea Work
Chair: Stewart Clegg
Amanda Mead and Richard J. Badham
THE TRANSLATION PERFORMANCE An Ethnography of Success in Critical Executive Education on Managing Change
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Marie-Léandre Gomez
The politics of idea work: An indigenous perspective
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Richard Badham/Amanda Mead
Isabelle Bouty
The social dimensions of idea work in Haute Cuisine: a Bourdieusian perspective
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Jarrod Haar/Judy Motion/Shirley Leitch
Session III: Thursday, July 02, 14:00 to 15:30, E2-2-211
Idea Work across Empirical Settings
Chair: Elena Antonacopoulou
Consultants are strategists too you know: Consultants' creating and becoming in strategy work
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Laura Lucia Parolin
Performing new idea in industrial design
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Beth Altringer
Origins of the SME directors good thinking about creativity and design practice
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Alex Wright
Beth Altringer
Different Strokes For Different Folks: an analysis of team member perceptions of the creative process in advertising and product design teams in the USA and China
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Gaëlle Dechamp-Goy
Session IV: Friday, July 03, 09:00 to 10:30, E2-2-211
Vitality and Identity in Idea Work
Chair: Arne Carlsen
Ideas, Antenarratives and the “Compassionate Turn” for Workers with Multiple Sclerosis (MS): Towards the Facilitation of Management Learning
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Nic Beech/Robert Macintosh
Idea Work is Real Work: A Correspondence Analysis of Ideas and Identities
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Margaret Vickers
Robert MacIntosh
The Idea of Vitality: stories, constructions and their implications
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Ronit Kark
Abraham Carmeli
Alive and Creating: The Mediating Role of Vitality in the Relationship between Psychological Safety and Creative Work Involvement
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Udo Staber
Session V: Friday, July 03, 11:00 to 12:30, E2-2-211
Theorizing Idea Work
Chair: Stewart Clegg
The Shaping of Ideas: Geometric Representations of Organizing
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Michel Avital
Dialectics of thought and feeling
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Grant Michelson
Michel Avital and Wietske Van Osch
The Generative Archetypes of Idea Work
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Robert Miles Farrands
Session VI: Saturday, July 04, 09:00 to 10:30, E2-2-211
Becoming Ideas– Objects, Artistry, Spaces.
Chair: Arne Carlsen
Hooman Attar and Richard J. Badham
The Mapping is the Territory: Existential Artistry in Converting Uncertainty into Risk in the early Stages of Product Innovation
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Aina Landsverk Hagen/Gudrun Rudningen/Tord Mortensen
Caroline Keen
Napkin Notes: Cafes and 'idea work'
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Attar Hooman/Richard Badham
Gudrun Rudningen and Tord Mortensen
Creativity as Sidetracking − On Recognizing Peak Moments in a Turning Stream of Ideas
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Janet Sayers
Session VII: Saturday, July 04, 11:00 to 12:30, E2-2-211
- Round Table -
Chair: Elena Antonacopoulou
Idea Summaries: What have we learned? Which new ideas emerged? The conveners provide brief summaries of the sessions to guide the discussion.

Idea Awards: Four awards will be given: i) ‘Best Idea Work Paper’-award, ii) ‘Most Novel Idea’-award, iii) ‘Most Energizing Discussant’-award, and, iv) the ‘Bob’-award.