Sub-theme 62: Take a Walk on the Wild Side: Social Ontologies and Post-Legitimacy Theorizing about Social Structure

Convenors:
Peer C. Fiss, University of Southern California, USA
Mark T. Kennedy, Imperial College, UK
Session I: Thursday, July 02, 11:00 to 12:30, PIERCE-705
Beginning a Conversation
Chair: Mark Kennedy and Peer Fiss
Mark T. Kennedy and Peer C. Fiss
A relational account of social ontologies
Jan Goldenstein, Sebastian G.M. Händschke and Peter Walgenbach
The cognitive grounding of institutions and words in new institutionalism
Discussant: Mukti Khaire
Session II: Thursday, July 02, 14:00 to 15:30, PIERCE-705
Category Emergence I
Chair: Peer Fiss
Hovig Tchalian, Vern L. Glaser and Mark T. Kennedy
Categorical evolution or revolution? How organizations promote emergent categories
Kerem Gurses and Pinar Ozcan
Playing cat and mouse: How US dietary supplement firms created a new category to escape the FDA
Kartikeya Bajpai and Klaus Weber
Privacy in perspective: An ontological view of category emergence
Discussant: Patrick Haack
Session III: Thursday, July 02, 16:00 to 17:30, PIERCE-705
Constructing Organizations
Chair: Mark Kennedy
Grace Augustine and Brayden King
Who are we? It depends: Firms presentation of self through the use of anthropomorphizing language
Joep Cornelissen
Organizations as fictions
Jocelyn Leitzinger, Vilmos Misangyi and Chad Navis
Hidden agendas: An exploration of legitimacy and extra-institutional nonmarket strategies
Discussant: Gina Dokko
Session IV: Friday, July 03, 09:00 to 10:30, PIERCE-705
Category Emergence II
Chair: Peer Fiss
Alfred Vernis and Myrto Chliova
Resonant ambiguity: The emergence and persistence of an ambiguous organizational category
Patrick Haack and Andreas Rasche
The social construction of transnational governance: The case of the UN Global Compact
Min Liu and Arjen van Witteloostuijn
New form emergence and resource partitioning – A community ecology of energy cooperatives in Germany, 1999–2011
Discussant: Lianne Lefsrud
Session V: Friday, July 03, 14:00 to 15:30, PIERCE-705
Institutional Foundations
Chair: Mark Kennedy
Amit Nigam and Gina Dokko
Career scripts as enablers of institutional entrepreneurship
Callen Anthony and Simona Giorgi
Silence is golden: Changing valuation practices in the gold space
Lianne Lefsrud, Heather Graves and Nelson Phillips
Classification and framing as legitimacy work
Discussant: Vern Glaser
Session VI: Saturday, July 04, 09:00 to 10:30, PIERCE-705
Industries and Intermediaries
Chair: Peer Fiss
Mukti Khaire
The importance of being independent: The role of intermediaries in creating market categories
Romeo Turcan and Norman Fraser
On new industry creation and legitimation: Crossing the gulf between no industry and an embryonic industry
Panikos Georgallis, Glen Dowell and Rodolphe Durand
Shine on me: Industry coherence, social movement support, and government endorsement of the solar photovoltaic industry
Discussant: Mark Zbaracki
Session VII: Saturday, July 04, 11:00 to 12:30, PIERCE-705
Challenging Understandings
Chair: Mark Kennedy and Peer Fiss
Mark Zbaracki, Callen Anthony and Claus Rerup
Too big to sink: Emergence and evolution of the ro-ro ferry
Discussant: Hovig Tchalian