Sub-theme 55: Organizing Difference: Communicative Constitution of Organization and Discourse Perspectives
Convenors:
Mie Plotnikof, Aarhus University, Denmark
Timothy Kuhn, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Dennis K. Mumby, University of North Carolina, USA
Session Time Corridor 1: Thursday, July 08, 10:30 to 12:30, Virtual Conference (EventsAir)
Dis/Organizing Identity
Chair: Dennis Mumby
Matthias Wenzel and Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich
Toward a theory of organizational identity as polyphony
Kerrie Howard and Elham Moonesirust
Constructing the good and the lesser: CSR and hegemonic masculinities
Mia Rasmussen and Emilie Bourlier Bargues
Anticipatory socialization in hybrid organizations: The communicative constitution of hybrid identity on career websites
Pekka Pälli and Ari Kuismin
Communicative constitution of employee participation in organizational change
After a 30-minute introduction, the four papers in this session will be presented between 11:00 and 12:30.
Session Time Corridor 2: Thursday, July 08, 16:00 to 20:00, Virtual Conference (EventsAir)
Organizing Boundaries Differently; Doing Difference Differently
Chair: Dennis Mumby/Tim Kuhn
Nicolas Bencherki
Boundaries as difference: The communicative ordering of boundaries
Milena Leybold and Monica Nadegger
Organizing in the shadows of Instagram – A case
of pole dancers reconstructing stigma to fight stigmatization practices
Sean Kenney
Kaleidoscopic inquiries: Queering approaches to organizational diversity work
Daniel Wolfgruber
Are equity, diversity, and inclusion a joke? Humor as a means to engender an inclusive and/or exclusive work environment
Ellen Nathues, Mark van Vuuren and Maaike D. Endedijk
The many paths one picture can paint: Tracing a visual's multimodal boundary work in an interorganizational team
Salla-Maaria Laaksonen, Minna Koivula and Minna Koivula
Constitutive value tensions across organizational boundaries: Organizational value discourses and practices in response to
platformization of news media
Xavier Clark and Anne M. Nicotera
The limited contextualization of race and its implications in organizational studies
Anna Stöber and Dennis Schoeneborn
Sustaining self-managing modes of organizing within hierarchical organizations: Communicative boundary maintenance via nurturing,
exposing, and blending in
This time corridor will consist of two paper sessions. The first, *Organizing Boundaries Differently,* will run from 16:00
to 17:30; it will include the first four papers and be chaired by Dennis Mumby. After a 30-minute break, the second session,
*Doing Difference Differently,* will run from 18:00 to 19:30; it will include the latter four papers and will be chaired by
Tim Kuhn.
Session Time Corridor 3: Friday, July 09, 11:00 to 12:30, Virtual Conference (EventsAir)
Approaching Workplace Practices Differently
Chair: Mie Plotnikof
Diane Burns
Communicatively constituting workplace abuse
Charlotta Levay, Johan Jönsson and Tony Huzzard
The invisible performance of numbers
Camille Toussaint
The role of analogies and metaphors in dis/organizing grand challenges
This session will include four papers, running from 11:00 to 12:30.
Session Time Corridor 4: Friday, July 09, 16:00 to 19:00, Virtual Conference (EventsAir)
Theorizing Difference/Frontiers of Difference
Break 1: 17:30 to 18:00
Chair: Tim Kuhn
Sophie Del Fa
“There is no alternative”: From alternative organizing to organizational variations
Boris Brummans, Camille Vezy and Nicolas Bencherki
Agency without Agents: Theorizing Agency as Communicative Difference in Organizational Becoming
Preston Adcock
Branding and anti-value: Organizing resistance within the circuit of capital
David Hollis and Alex Wright
Big
Mother knows best: The materializing and organizing effects of eponymous
affective atmospheres
John McClellan and Ann Bager
Participatory Discourse Studies: Inviting Organizational Change through Dialogic Research
Sanne Frandsen, Marita Svane and Didde Maria Humle
Who is responsible? The role of timespaces in antenarrative sensemaking during a corporate scandal
This time corridor will consist of two paper sessions. The first, *Theorizing Difference,* will run from 16:00 to 17:30 and
will include the first four papers. After a 30-minute break, the second session, *Frontiers of Difference,* will run from
18:00 to 19:30 and will include the latter two papers and will also include a "wrap-up" session for the sub-theme.
Session Time Corridor 5: Saturday, July 10, 07:00 to 12:30, Virtual Conference (EventsAir)