Sub-theme 50: Organization outside Formal Organizations: Settings, Practices, and Processes
Convenors:
Nils Brunsson, Uppsala University, Sweden
Michael Grothe-Hammer, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
David Seidl, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Session Time Corridor 1: Thursday, July 08, 09:00 to 12:30, Virtual Conference (EventsAir)
Digital Platforms & Organizing intimacy
Break 1: 10:45 to 11:00
Chair: Nils Brunsson
Dzifa Ametowobla and Stefan Kirchner
The organization of digital platforms: Architecture, partial organization and the diversity across domains
Discussant(s): Kurt Georg Rachlitz, Benjamin Grossmann-Hensel
Kurt Rachlitz and Benjamin Grossmann-Hensel
Digital innovation platforms as orchestrators of (non-)decided orders
Discussant(s): Dzifa Ametowobla, Stefan Kirchner
Thorsten Peetz
Organizing intimate games
Discussant(s): Adrienne Hawley
Adrienne Blythe Hawley
The family, welfare and the State: When disorganised private sexual relations become organised in public life
Discussant(s): Thorsten Peetz
09:00-09:45 OPENING
12:00-12:30 SOCIAL GATHERING in a virtual space.
12:00-12:30 SOCIAL GATHERING in a virtual space.
Session Time Corridor 2: Thursday, July 08, 16:00 to 18:15, Virtual Conference (EventsAir)
Acceptance of decided order & Challenges to organization
Break 1: 17:00 to 17:15
Chair: Stefan Kirchner
Céleste Fournier and Ludovic Taphanel
Organizing partial organization through calling: coordination logics, tensions and trade-offs.
Discussant(s): Sari Laari-Salmela, Juha Tuunainen, Kari Kantasalmi, Anu Kajamaa
Sari Laari-Salmela, Juha Tuunainen, Kari Kantasalmi and Anu Kajamaa
Partial organizations as un/decided potentialization: A systems theoretical analysis of decision-making trajectories about
entrepreneurial education in research universities
Discussant(s): Céleste Fournier, Ludovic Taphanel
Nadine Arnold
The organizational dimension of accountability in the Anthropocene: Formal and partial organizations
Discussant(s): Kimberly Rocheville, Ian J. Walsh
Kimberly Rocheville and Ian J. Walsh
Pausing the formal organization amidst adversity: Organizing, sensemaking, and resilience during periods of organizational
dormancy
Discussant(s): Nadine Arnold
Session Time Corridor 3: Friday, July 09, 09:00 to 12:30, Virtual Conference (EventsAir)
Fragmentation and expansion of organizational elements & Revisting Formal Organizations and Networks
Break 1: 10:45 to 11:00
Chair: Michael Grothe-Hammer
Ingrid Gustafsson Nordin, Nils Brunsson and Kristina Tamm Hallström
Why organization happens – the case of macro-organizations
Discussant(s): Wendy J. Kilminster, Alessandro Giudici, Paula Jarzabkowski
Wendy J. Kilminster, Alessandro Giudici and Paula Jarzabkowski
What is this a case of? Alternative conceptualizations of organizations of organizations
Discussant(s): German Bender
German Bender
The political economy of partial organization: Nested partiality, legitimacy and resilience in Swedish wage formation
Discussant(s): Ingrid Gustafsson, Nils Brunsson, Kristina Tamm Hallström
Pedro Monteiro and Paul L. du Gay
The Art of Form: Rethinking the Formal in Formal Organization
Discussant(s): Kazuhito Isomura
Kazuhito Isomura
Examining how customers’ contributions are integrated into an organization on the basis of Chester Barnard’s concept of formal
organization
Discussant(s): Pedro Monteiro, Paul du Gay
09:00-09:15 OPENING
12:00-12:30 SOCIAL GATHERING in a virtual space.
12:00-12:30 SOCIAL GATHERING in a virtual space.
Session Time Corridor 4: Friday, July 09, 16:00 to 18:15, Virtual Conference (EventsAir)
Temporal Orders & Protest and Resistance
Break 1: 17:00 to 17:15
Chair: Nadine Arnold
Renata Araujo Pereira and André Carlos Busanelli de Aquino
Temporal structures at teleworking regimes
Discussant(s): Krzysztof Michal Durczak, Maciej Lawrynowicz
Krzysztof Michal Durczak and Maciej Lawrynowicz
Teleology of partial organization: The problem of persistent and temporal orders
Discussant(s): Renata Araujo Pereira, André Carlos Aquino
Hans Jonas Gunzelmann
Organizing protest outside of organizations: The defense of the voting stations during the 2017 independence referendum in
Catalonia
Discussant(s): Aleksander Groth
Aleksander Groth
“Everyone should be upset.” – The communicative organizing of a firestorm in non-organized collectives
Discussant(s): Hans Jonas Gunzelmann
Session Time Corridor 5: Saturday, July 10, 09:15 to 12:30, Virtual Conference (EventsAir)
Practice Perspectives
Break 1: 10:30 to 10:45
Chair: David Seidl
Elisabeth Krull, Mustafa Kavas, Paula Jarzabkowski and Konstantinos Chalkias
Practices of emerging organizing: The UK insurance industry’s responses to systemic risk
Discussant(s): Zehra Topal, Deniz Tunçalp
Zehra Topal and Deniz Tunçalp
Coworking spaces as surrogate organizationality:Coordinating, collaborating and contradicting practices for organizational
forming
Discussant(s): Elisabeth Krull, Mustafa Kavas, Paula Jarzabkowski, Konstantinos Chalkias
Gianluca Miscione
Digital organizing outside organizations – WikiLeaks’ whistle and Snowden’s flute
Discussant(s): Richard Longman
Richard Longman
Organizationality and alterity: Critical reflections on “Teal organizing” in an online community of practice
Discussant(s): Gianluca Miscione
09:15-09:30 OPENING
11:45-12:30 CLOSING
11:45-12:30 CLOSING