Sub-theme 44: Micro-institutions: Unpacking the Building Blocks of Organizations and Institutional Fields
Convenors:
Santi Furnari, City, University of London, United Kingdom
Derek J. Harmon, University of Michigan, USA
William Ocasio, Northwestern University, USA
Session Time Corridor 1: Thursday, July 08, 07:00 to 12:30, Virtual Conference (EventsAir)
Session Time Corridor 2: Thursday, July 08, 16:00 to 20:00, Virtual Conference (EventsAir)
Opening Session + Parallel Paper Sessions 1-A & 1-B and Parallel Paper Sessions 2-A & 2-B
Break 1: 17:30 to 17:45
Break 2: 18:45 to 19:00
Chair: Santi Furnari, Derek Harmon, William Ocasio
Henning Piezunka and Oliver Schilke
The effect of organizational aggregation structures on individuals’ voting behavior: An experimental investigation
Discussant(s): Ocasio
Carmelo Mazza
Waiting for the last call: The role of microinstitutions in the field of legal gaming in Italy
Discussant(s): Schilke
Fabien Hildwein
Institutional textual work in alternative mental health organizations: An institutional ethnography
Discussant(s): Mazza
Hovig Tchalian and William Ocasio
Rewriting the Unwritten Rules: The Rise of Corporate Governance and the Logic of Shareholder Value as Micro-Institutional
Process
Discussant(s): Hildwein
Andréanne Rousseau and Charlotte Cloutier
Technology affordance, platformization and institutional change
Discussant(s): Bucher
Anna E. Hartman, Rohan Venkatraman and Erica Coslor
Reproducing the Whisky Field: How consumer critics perform symbolic market-identity work in online reviews
Discussant(s): Cloutier
Eliane Bucher, Peter Schou and Matthias Waldkirch
Sheriffs, patriots and steady hands – Institutional maintenance in online gun rights communities
Discussant(s): Hartman
Enlan Wang and Peer C. Fiss
How Category Interaction Codes Structure Market Exchanges
Discussant(s): Dentoni
Kevin Lee and Beth Bechky
Anachronization: The loss of valued work in a commercializing
opera company
Discussant(s): Fiss
Rob Lubberink, Domenico Dentoni and Oana Branzei
How vibrant materiality animates institutions: An ethnographic study of a Malawian dairy collective enterprise
Discussant(s): Bechky
Emiel Eijdenberg, Rael Onyango and Enno Masurel
Micro responses to macro events: An institutional theory view on micro-entrepreneurship in an emerging economy
Discussant(s): Abumuamar
Constance Banc and Karim Messeghem
The proliferation of corporate accelerators within entrepreneurial ecosystem: The process of entrepreneurial ecosystemic institutional
work
Discussant(s): Onyango
Mohsen Abumuamar
Outsider-driven institutional entrepreneurship:The case of emerging field of positive psychology education
Discussant(s): Banc
Nici Zimmermann and Nici Zimmermann
A simulation model of attentional allocation in decision-making under competing institutional logics
Discussant(s): Lee
Clara Letierce
How inhabitants’ sensemaking affect institutional logics compatibility
Discussant(s): Zhou
Bo-Yi Lee
Variations in employee participation: An institutional logics perspective
Discussant(s): Letierce
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16:00–17:30: Opening Session: The Building Blocks of Micro-institutions – Chair: William Ocasio
Ppresentations by Schilke & Piezunka; Mazza; Hildwein; Tchalian & Ocasio
17:45–18:45: Parallel Paper Session 1-A: Micro-institutions within Online Communities – Chair: Santi Furnari
Presentations by Rousseau & Cloutier; Hartman et al.; Bucher et al.
17:45–18:45: Parallel Paper Session 1-B: Inhabited Micro-institutions – Chair: Derek Harmon
Presentations by Wang & Fiss; Lee & Bechky; Dentoni et al.
19:00–20:00: Parallel Paper Session 2-A: Entrepreneurial Work within Micro-Institutions – Chair: Derek Harmon
Presentations by Eijdenberg et al.; Banc & Messeghem; Abumuamar
19:00–20:00: Parallel Paper Session 2-B: Logics and Micro-institutions – Chair: William Ocasio
Presentations by Zhou & Zimmermann; Letierce; Lee
16:00–17:30: Opening Session: The Building Blocks of Micro-institutions – Chair: William Ocasio
Ppresentations by Schilke & Piezunka; Mazza; Hildwein; Tchalian & Ocasio
17:45–18:45: Parallel Paper Session 1-A: Micro-institutions within Online Communities – Chair: Santi Furnari
Presentations by Rousseau & Cloutier; Hartman et al.; Bucher et al.
17:45–18:45: Parallel Paper Session 1-B: Inhabited Micro-institutions – Chair: Derek Harmon
Presentations by Wang & Fiss; Lee & Bechky; Dentoni et al.
19:00–20:00: Parallel Paper Session 2-A: Entrepreneurial Work within Micro-Institutions – Chair: Derek Harmon
Presentations by Eijdenberg et al.; Banc & Messeghem; Abumuamar
19:00–20:00: Parallel Paper Session 2-B: Logics and Micro-institutions – Chair: William Ocasio
Presentations by Zhou & Zimmermann; Letierce; Lee
Session Time Corridor 3: Friday, July 09, 07:00 to 12:30, Virtual Conference (EventsAir)
Session Time Corridor 4: Friday, July 09, 16:00 to 19:00, Virtual Conference (EventsAir)
Parallel Paper Sessions 3-A & 3-B and Parallel Paper Sessions 4-A & 4-B + Closing Session
Break 1: 17:00 to 17:15
Chair: Santi Furnari, Derek Harmon, William Ocasio
Hannah Schupfer and Birthe Soppe
Let’s rethink our partners! Incumbent-entrant collaborations as micro-institutional practice during institutional change
Discussant(s): Zheng
Debbie Harrison and Anne Kokkonen
Institutional change for sustainability: Embedding an institutional logic by developing micro institutions into organizational
practices
Discussant(s): Soppe
Yu Zheng, Agnes Szunomar, Tina Miedtank, Agnieszka Mccaleb and Agnieszka McCaleb
New bosses, older workers: A micro-institution perspective on Human Resource Management in Chinese invested firms in Europe
Discussant(s): Harrison
Stephanie Koornneef, Achim Oberg and Tal Simons
Symbolic bridges and false friends: When symbols cross organizational field boundaries
Discussant(s): Kalita
Andrea Carlo Lo Verso and Cristina Boari
Argumentative interactions in emerging fields: How institutional multiplicity sparks new meaning systems
Discussant(s): Simons
Bandita Deka Kalita and Joel Gehman
What are logics worth? Mutability and transposability as alternative pathways of institutional logics’ transformation
Discussant(s): Boari
Andrea Jia
Exceptions and Improvisations in a self-organising process of crafting micro-institutions for capability development
Discussant(s): LaFont
Lee Jarvis, Elizabeth Goodrick and Bryant A. Hudson
On bullshit: Lying as institutional work
Discussant(s): Jia
Matthew LaFont and Olivia Aronson
Stabilizing Emergent Assemblages Using Maintaining Institutional Work to Reduce Entropy
Discussant(s): Goodrick
Elena Giovannoni and Paolo Quattrone
Magic numbers, figures and digits: The power of
tricks and wonder-full quantifications from accounting to cryptocurrency
Discussant(s): Sharma
Maria C. Annosi, Cameron McRae, Spencer Moore and Laurette Dubé
From ICT4D to human-digital ecosystem building
for sustainable transitions to modernity: A multi-level institutional processes
analysis of the eKutir social enterprise in rural India
Discussant(s): Quattrone
Sarika Sharma and Ingrid Erickson
The microfoundations of cyberinfrastructure legitimacy: From communicative events to data infrastructures
Discussant(s): Annosi
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16:00–17:00: Parallel Paper Session 3-A: Micro-institutional Practices – Chair: Derek Harmon
Presentations by Schupfer & Soppe; Harrison & Kokkonen; Zheng et al.
16:00–17:00: Parallel Paper Session 3-B: Micro-institutional Boundary Work – Chair: Santi Furnari
Presentations by Koornneef et al.; Lo Verso & Boari; Kalita & Gehman
17:15–18:15: Parallel Paper Session 4-A: Micro-institutional Work – Chair: Derek Harmon
Presentations by Jia & Olatunji; Jarvis et al.; LaFont & Aronson
17:15–18:15: Parallel Paper Session 4-B: Micro-institutions and New Technologies – Chair: William Ocasio
Presentations by Quattrone & Giovannoni; Annosi et al.; Sharma & Erickson
18:20 –19:00: Closing Session – Chair: William Ocasio
16:00–17:00: Parallel Paper Session 3-A: Micro-institutional Practices – Chair: Derek Harmon
Presentations by Schupfer & Soppe; Harrison & Kokkonen; Zheng et al.
16:00–17:00: Parallel Paper Session 3-B: Micro-institutional Boundary Work – Chair: Santi Furnari
Presentations by Koornneef et al.; Lo Verso & Boari; Kalita & Gehman
17:15–18:15: Parallel Paper Session 4-A: Micro-institutional Work – Chair: Derek Harmon
Presentations by Jia & Olatunji; Jarvis et al.; LaFont & Aronson
17:15–18:15: Parallel Paper Session 4-B: Micro-institutions and New Technologies – Chair: William Ocasio
Presentations by Quattrone & Giovannoni; Annosi et al.; Sharma & Erickson
18:20 –19:00: Closing Session – Chair: William Ocasio
Session Time Corridor 5: Saturday, July 10, 07:00 to 12:30, Virtual Conference (EventsAir)