Sub-theme 43: Performativity as Politics: Rethinking Performativity and Power Dynamics

Convenors:
Laure Cabantous, City University London, UK
Jean-Pascal Gond, City University London, UK
Yuval Millo, University of Leicester, UK
Session I: Thursday, July 03, 11:00 to 12:30, M3-04
Calculability
Chair: Yuval Millo, Jean-Pascal Gond & Laure Cabantous
Hans Hasselbladh and Eva Bejerot
'All must pass! – Creating a new world in Swedish education
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Erica Coslor & Nicholas de Weydenthal
Kevin McMahon
The lifecycle of a performance metric and its role in determining organizational reactivity and deviance
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Hans Hasselbladh & Eva Bejerot
Erica Coslor and Nicholas de Weydenthal
Orienting art buyers and sellers: An historical analysis in art price indexes
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Kevin McMahon
Session II: Thursday, July 03, 14:00 to 15:30, M3-04
Regulation
Chair: Laure Cabantous
Sine Nørholm Just
Reforming the Basel Accords: Economic performativity as affective circulation
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Emilio Marti
Susi Geiger and John Finch
Market manipulations and pharma patents: The role of narratives in innovating market practices
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Sine Nørholm Just
Emilio Marti
Exploited investors? How the shareholder value orientation gets stabilized through crises it creates
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Susi Geiger & John Finch
Session III: Thursday, July 03, 16:00 to 17:30, M3-04
Paradoxes
Chair: Yuval Millo
Angus Cameron
Modelling paradoxy: The 'imaginary economics' of headless
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Emmanuel Guy
Emmanuel Guy
Paradoxes and identity: Observations from the shipping industry
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Anthony Friend
Anthony Friend, Jianmin Li and Xizhen Zhou
The political dimensions of the performativity of research methodology: A reflexive and empirical exploration of the power dynamics in a comparative study of the discourse on 'soft' power at Castle City Confucius Institute and Baiyun British Council
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Angus Cameron
Session IV: Friday, July 04, 09:00 to 10:30, M3-04
Power and Struggles
Chair: Laure Cabantous
Thijs Willems, Sander Merkus and marcel veenswijk
Manipulating the routine practices of tomorrow: Emerging routines as an resultant of performative struggle
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Ella Lillqvist
Guillaume Carton
The roles of power, discourse and legitimacy in the creation of performative management innovations
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Sander Merkus & Marcel Veenswijk
Ella Lillqvist
Company-stakeholder power relations and the performativity of online discourse
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Guillaume Carton
Session V: Friday, July 04, 14:00 to 15:30, M3-04
Leadership and Performativity
Chair: Jean-Pascal Gond
Leonore van den Ende and Alfons van Marrewijk
The point of no return: Ritual performance as strategic practice in project organizations
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Pauli Pakarinen & Juha Laurila
Tim Freeman
Leadership as performative regulatory fiction: A biographical analysis of leadership and identity in the UK National Health Service (NHS)
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Leonore van den Ende & Alfons van Marrewijk
Pauli Pakarinen and Juha Laurila
The performativity of agency theory:The emergence of top management incentive schemes in Finland between the late 1970s and early 1990s
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Tim Freeman
Session VI: Saturday, July 05, 09:00 to 10:30, M3-04
Macroperspectives on Performativity
Chair: Yuval Millo
Benjamin Taupin and Bastien Nivet
Performation struggles in organizations: Compromises performing European studies in the European External Action Service (EEAS)
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Mélodie Cartel & Franck Aggeri
Marie-Laure Djelic and Reza Mousavi Baygi
Understanding the structural architecture of performative ideologies – The case of Atlas and neoliberalism
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Benjamin Taupin & Bastien Nivet
Mélodie Cartel, Ntsonde Joël and Eva Boxenbaum
The arenas of performativity: Negotiating the details of economic innovations in platforms
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Marie-Laure Djelic & Reza Mousavi
Session VII: Saturday, July 05, 11:00 to 12:30, M3-04
CSR and Social Innovation
Chair: Jean-Pascal Gond
Carole Ferranti, Pascale Trompette and Céline Cholez
NextBillion.net: Staging accountability for performing the BoP
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Marion Maignan
Nicolas Balas, Florence Palpacuer and Clara Roussey
Performing sustainable value chains: A comparative analysis of the performativity of the strategic CSR thesis in the automotive and mining industries
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Carole Ferranti, Pascale Trompette & Céline Cholez
Maignan Marion
The collective interest cooperative company (SCIC), a social innovation: Performativity of alternative models in the third sector organizations
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Nicolas Balas, Florence Palpacuer & Clara Roussey