Sub-theme 50: Activity Theory and Organizations

Convenors:
Yrjö Engeström, University of Helsinki, Finland
Zlatko Bodrožić, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Anu Kajamaa, University of Helsinki, Finland
Session I: Thursday, July 04, 09:00 to 10:30, Decelles, 4th floor, Section Sud, Sorel-Tracy
Change Laboratory and Organizational Transformation I
Chair: Yrjö Engeström
Sylvie Barma, Bruno Lemieux and Thérèse Laferrière
Manifestations of contradictions and transitional actions: Modelling an organizational change in an "alternance" cooperative study program
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Yrjö Engeström
Opening of the sub-theme and keynote speech by Professor emer. Jaakko Virkkunen, Finland: "Business activity transformation as ascending from the abstract to the concrete: Building the tailored fertilizer provision business of Kemira GrowHow"
Session II: Thursday, July 04, 11:00 to 12:30, Decelles, 4th floor, Section Sud, Sorel-Tracy
Change Laboratory and Organizational Transformation II
Chair: Jaakko Virkkunen
Zlatko Bodrožić
Change laboratory as a means to open up a space of possibilities
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Jaakko Virkkunen
Carlos Montoro
Change laboratory in Mexico: A boundary-crossing intervention to build a new approach to language teaching and learning at DICIS (University of Guanajuato)
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Jaakko Virkkunen
Guiseppe Scaratti and Elisa Giulia Liberati
Elaborating on organizational contradictions: Innovative formative interventions to enhance organizational transformation
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Jaakko Virkkunen
Session III: Thursday, July 04, 16:00 to 17:30, Decelles, 4th floor, Section Sud, Sorel-Tracy
Third Generation Activity Theory I
Chair: Zlatko Bodrožić
Juha Mäkinen
Bridged networked Defence Forces' company activities
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Hannamari Heino
Hannamari Heino
Call for activity theory in examining strategy performance
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Juha Mäkinen
Introductory speech by Professor Yrjö Engeström, Finland: "Third generation activity theory and units of analysis"
Session IV: Friday, July 05, 09:00 to 10:30, Decelles, 4th floor, Section Sud, Sorel-Tracy
Third Generation Activity Theory II
Chair: Yrjö Engeström
Alexandra Michel and Stanton Wortham
Mind, body, and banking: The cultural historical plasticity of the body's role in action
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Zlatko Bodrožić
Katsuhiro Yamazumi
Learning through knotworking: An activity-theoretical study of pedagogical practices concerning the two great earthquakes in postwar Japan
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Stanton Wortham
Zlatko Bodrožić, Aleksandra Ivetic and Jelena Igračev
Capturing the complexity of return migration – An activity-theoretical perspective
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Katsuhiro Yamazumi
Session V: Friday, July 05, 14:00 to 15:30, Decelles, 4th floor, Section Sud, Sorel-Tracy
Third Generation Activity Theory III
Chair: Laura Seppänen
Charles Underwood, L. Leann Parker and Anu Kajamaa
Assessment activity as a boundary object: Configuring meaningful strategies for evaluating activity-theoretical programs
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Laura Seppänen
Laura Seppänen, Marianne Cerf and Hanna Toiviainen
Multi-voiced 'customer understanding' in the zone of proximal development of public service networks
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Giuseppe Scaratti
Session VI: Saturday, July 06, 09:00 to 10:30, Decelles, 4th floor, Section Sud, Sorel-Tracy
Third Generation Activity Theory IV
Chair: Mathias Waelli
Mathias Waelli, Marie-Léandre Gomez, Claude Sicotte, Adrián Pablo Zicari, Jean-Yves Bonnefond, Etienne Minvielle and Philippe Lorino
The use of the anesthetic file indicator in French hospitals: Socio-material context, affordances and managerial activities
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Nathalie Angelé-Halgand
Silke Geithner, Klaus-Peter Schulz and Erik Lehmann
Contradictions as triggers for expansive learning: The development of a nursing pool from a capacity compensation tool to an organizational learning platform
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Mathias Waelli
Antonio D'Andreamatteo and Nathalie Angelé-Halgand
Reorganizing work in hospital: An activity theoretical analysis of lean management implementation
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Klaus-Peter Schulz
Session VII: Saturday, July 06, 11:00 to 12:30, Decelles, 4th floor, Section Sud, Sorel-Tracy
Third Generation Activity Theory V
Chair: Claudine Bonneau
Claudine Bonneau
Contradictions and their concrete manifestations: An activity-theoretical analysis of the intra-organizational co-configuration of open source software
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Tiina Rautkorpi
Ton Bruining and Sanne Akkerman
The role of brokers in establishing and sustaining a professional development school as an evolving activity system
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Claudine Bonneau
Tiina Rautkorpi
Building spaces for organizational improvisation and learning in Finnish universities of applied sciences
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Ton Bruining