Sub-theme 08: (SWG) Back to the Future: Using History to Study Organizations in Uncertain Times

Convenors:
Matthias Kipping, Schulich School of Business, Toronto, Canada
Behlül Üsdiken, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
R. Daniel Wadhwani, Eberhardt School of Business, University of the Pacific, USA
Session I: Thursday, July 03, 11:00 to 12:30, G2-41
History, Theory and Management Today
Chair: Matthias Kipping
Stephanie Decker, Andrew Perchard, Niall MacKenzie and Giovanni Favero
Clio in the business school: Historical approaches in strategy, international business, entrepreneurship and quantitative research
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Diego M. Coraiola
Michael Rowlinson, John Hassard and Julie Wolfram Cox
The genealogy of modern slavery
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Mads Mordhorst
Session II: Thursday, July 03, 14:00 to 15:30, G2-41
History and Strategy
Chair: Behlül Üsdiken
Luca Zan
Complexity, anachronism and time-parochialism. Historicizing strategy and strategizing history
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Carole Jane Elliott
Gerarda Westerhuis and Abe de Jong
The effect of Dutch big linkers on corporate policies and performance, 1903–2003
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Jarmo Seppälä
Catherine Casler
Calling on Chandler: Strategy at a 'crossroads'
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Alistair Mutch
Session III: Thursday, July 03, 16:00 to 17:30, G2-41
Founding Conditions and Imprinting
Chair: R. Daniel Wadhwani
Talia Pfefferman
Gender, identity and entrepreneurship: Identity formation at the founding stage of enterprises, lessons from Israeli society, 1930–1947
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Anindita Banerjee
Yen N. Oon, Jaideep Prabhu and Kulwant Singh
Founding conditions and internationalization: The influence of family founders, and the economic and institutional environment
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Alicia Eads
Cetin Onder and Behlül Üsdiken
Institutional change and imprint persistence in organizational collectivities: Strikes across local industries in Turkey, 1961–1980
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Lise Lillebrygfjeld Halse
Session IV: Friday, July 04, 09:00 to 10:30, G2-41
Accounts of the Past: Narratives and Logics
Chair: Matthias Kipping
Mairi Maclean and Charles Harvey
Coming to terms with the past? Narrative, metaphor and the subjective understanding of transition
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Yen N. Oon
Anna Soulsby
Rethinking and reshaping history: The use of narratives to construct accounts of past in post-communist organizations
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Catherine Casler
Alicia Eads
A tale of two crises: Cultural beliefs and competing crisis solution strategies
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Gerarda Westerhuis
Session V: Friday, July 04, 14:00 to 15:30, G2-41
Explaining/Inventing the Past
Chair: Behlül Üsdiken
Alistair Mutch
The business of religion: Lending and the Church of Scotland in the eighteenth century
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Catherine Glee
Carole Elliott, Ron Kerr and Sarah Robonson
Confecting a corporate historical web identity: Researching the representation of history in the light of the visual/digital turn
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Mairi Maclean
Elena Giovannoni and Paolo Quattrone
Mind the gap: Institutional persistence, absence and the incomplete cathedral
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Talia Pfefferman
Session VI: Saturday, July 05, 09:00 to 10:30, G2-41
History as a Resource: Legitimacy
Chair: R. Daniel Wadhwani
Lise Halse and Ove Bjarnar
About history as organizational resource in the evolution of the maritime cluster in North West Norway
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Luca Zan
Mads Mordhorst
Companies, national identity narratives and legitimacy – The case of the dairy business in Denmark and Sweden
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Stephanie Decker
Diego M. Coraiola and Shilo Hills
Myth, history and wine: A study on corporate history-telling
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Michael Rowlinson
Session VII: Saturday, July 05, 11:00 to 12:30, G2-41
History and the Human Element
Chair: Matthias Kipping
Catherine Glée-Vermande and Danielle Tucker
Theocratic roots and the psychological contract: How history influences views of the employment relationship and makes change difficult
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Elena Giovannoni
Jarmo Seppälä
Explaining the diversity of decisions: A history of local competition and decision-making
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Cetin Onder
Anindita Banerjee and Bill Cooke
Using the concept of boundary object as an epistemology of the past: The case of human relations
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Anna Soulsby