Sub-theme 19: Power, resistance and hegemony in the contexts of organizational and institutional change
Convenors:
Alessia Contu, Warwick Business School, UK
Françoise Dany, EM Lyon, France
Damon Golsorkhi, ESC Rouen, France
Session I: Thursday, July 02, 09:00 to 10:30, E1-1-14
Power, resistance and the (un-)making of change
Chair: Mats Alvesson
Myrte Berendse and Widar von Arx
When followers don't follow: the role of professionals in resistance to change
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Nada Endrissat, Myrte Berendse & Widar von Arx
Change and the field of power – Bourdieu and Byteatern
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Olle Duhlin
The making up of artists as 'culturepreneurs'
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Bernadette Loacker & Iain Munro
Session II: Thursday, July 02, 11:00 to 12:30, E1-1-14
Going beyond the classical Power-based understanding of change?
Chair: Julie Battilana
Alexandra Lai
Establishing and Maintaining Hegemony through Path Creation and Vice Versa
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Heiko Breitsohl & Alexandra Lai
Fighting for the Status Quo: Agency and Institutional Guardianship
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Rich DeJordy
Jörg Sydow
Path Dependent Power: Organizational Challengers of Microsoft’s Desktop Domination
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Leonhard Dobusch & Jörg Sydow
Session III: Thursday, July 02, 14:00 to 15:30, E1-1-14
The role of power, politics and hegemony in "(un-)regulating" change
Chair: Iain Munro
Informal Structure, Formal Structure, and Change Implementation in Organizations
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Julie Battilana & Tiziana Casciaro
Regulating moral change as organizational hegemony: The case of Iranian oil industry
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Masoud Shadnam
Michael Tasto
Reflexive Power(s)? Exploring the Dynamics, Contradictions and Paradoxes of Evolving Political Forms in Innovative Organizations.
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Frank Schirmer & Michael Tasto
Session IV: Friday, July 03, 09:00 to 10:30, E1-1-14
Understanding resistance dynamics in changing organizations
Chair: Mike Reed
David Knights
Traffic Jams, Emails and Newsletters: Employing Insights from Actor Network Theory to Enhance our Understanding of Resistance
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Darren McCabe & David Knights
Mats Alvesson
A stupidity-based theory of organizations
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Mats Alvesson & André Spicer
EXCAVATING THE DYNAMICS OF RESISTANCE:PROCESSES OF IDENTIFICATION AND DISIDENTIFICATION
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Hugh Willmott
Session V: Friday, July 03, 11:00 to 12:30, E1-1-14
Hegemony, counter-hegemony and the (un-)happy making of change
Chair: Hugh Willmott
Creative Contradictions: The Hegemony of Change and the Potential of Insurgency.
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Zoe Morrison
Leaderism and the nodal hegemony of modernization in UK public service reform
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Mike Reed & Dermot O’Reilly
NEO-GRAMSCIAN HEGEMONY AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN LARGE MULTINATIONALS IN FRANCE
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Florence Palpacuer & Nicolas Balas
Barbara Poggio
UNMASKING HEGEMONIC PRACTICES. MEN'S STORIES ON GENDER CULTURE IN ORGANIZATIONS
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Annalisa Murgia & Barbara Poggio
Session VI: Saturday, July 04, 09:00 to 10:30, E1-1-14
The role of control, surveillance and obedience in changing organizations
Chair: Gregory Schwartz
From Barbed Wire to Surveillance Camera – Minimising Energy to Produce the Effects of Control in a Military Organisation in
the Information Battle Space
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Aki-Mauri Huhtinen
Mikko Lehtonen and Karlos Artto
Producing Middle Managers’ Obedience – a Critical Discourse Analysis of Two Project Steering Groups
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Riku Ruotsalainen, Mikko Lehtonen & Karlos Artto
Enduring, inverting and resisting change: An ethnography of the nexus between organizational change and floor hegemony
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Helene Ratner
Session VII: Saturday, July 04, 11:00 to 12:30, E1-1-14
Practices as the site of hegemony and resistance in changing organizations
Chair: André Spicer
The Challenge of Less Powerful Actors: Rhetoric and Practice
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Takahiro Endo
Blended practices, a place for creative resistance in a top down strategic change
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Régine Teulier & Nathalie Raulet-Croset
Generating research questions through problematization
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Mats Alvesson & Jorgen Sandberg