Sub-theme 43: Historical perspectives in organization studies
Convenors:
Behlül Üsdiken, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
Matthias Kipping, Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada
Lars Engwall, Uppsala University, Sweden
Session I: Thursday, July 02, 09:00 to 10:30, E1-2-23
Business, Corporate and Organizational History
Chair: Behlül Üsdiken
Elena Ponzoni
Writing history for the business man
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Rowlinson / Hassard
Christopher M. Hartt, Jean Helms Mills, Albert Mills and Gabriel Durepos
Guiding the Space Age From the Ground Up: Pam Am, Cold War and Guided Missiles.
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Boersma
John Hassard
Business History and Corporate History
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Hartt, Mills, and Helms Mills
Session II: Thursday, July 02, 11:00 to 12:30, E1-2-23
Organizational History, Tradition and Memory
Chair: Matthias Kipping
Maria Lusiani
100 years of administrative history at MIC
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Foster / Suddaby
Roy Suddaby and Elden Wiebe
Organizational history and tradition: Can it be the source of a sustained competitive advantage
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Brunninge
Björn Kjellander and Jenny Helin
Corporate Museums, Memoralization and Organizational Memory
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Zan
Session III: Thursday, July 02, 14:00 to 15:30, E1-2-23
Imprinting and Path Dependency
Chair: Lars Engwall
Simon Oertel and Peter Walgenbach
You can not teach an old dog new tricks, can you? The influence of imprinting on the survival chances of organizations
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Sydow
Jörg Sydow and Georg Schreyögg
Organizational Paths: How History Matters in Organizations
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Maclean
Mairi Maclean
Modelling Path Dependence: Time and Structure in Strategic Change
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Thommes / Oertel
Session IV: Friday, July 03, 09:00 to 10:30, E1-2-23
History and Evolution of Organization Studies
Chair: Behlül Üsdiken
Bernadette Bullinger and Simone Schiller-Merkens
Navigating between Scylla and Charybdis: Business Schools Trying to Make Research More Relevant while Maintaining High Standards
of Rigour
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Maton
The creation of organization studies concepts
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Arena
The Emergence of Organisation Studies in Oxford University (1949-1983): A Historical Unintended Ironic Consequence?
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Bullinger / Kieser / Schiller-Merkens
A Scientization or Scientification of Organization Studies since the 1950s? An Analysis of Graphics and Key Terms in the ASQ
(1956-2008)
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Bort
Session V: Friday, July 03, 11:00 to 12:30, E1-2-23
Institutionalization and Deinstitutionalization Processes
Chair: Matthias Kipping
Paddy Dolan
Organizational centralization as figurational dynamics: movements and countermovements in an Irish sports organization.
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Trompette
and
Institutional Change and Competition Dynamics on Local Markets. The History of the Funeral Market in France (XIX-XXe century)
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Chacar / Schneper
A Process Theory of Institutionalization: Drawing on a Historical Analysis of Major League Baseball
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Connolly
Session VI: Saturday, July 04, 09:00 to 10:30, E1-2-23
International Transfer of Organizational Forms and Management Practices
Chair: Lars Engwall
Kai Luotonen
Ford’s industrial regime as a program of power and Bedaux-system as an instrument of production rationalization in a Finnish
porcelain factory at 1930s
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Pluta
Setting up a new organizational form through importation: The creation of Turkish state economic enterprises, 1933-1946
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Jarvela
Alicja Pluta
The multidivisional structure: Did its international diffusion follow a random walk?
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Aytemur
Session VII: Saturday, July 04, 11:00 to 12:30, E1-2-23
Culture, Religion and Management History
Chair: Behlül Üsdiken
Modernist architecture and scientific management: exploring the British experience
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Lamendour
A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON THE GENEALOGY OF COLLECTIVE ACTION THROUGH THE HISTORY OF RELIGIOUS ORGANISATIONS
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Mutch
Management as a historical concept. An analysis of the representations of management in the French cinema
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Vaujany