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Sub-theme 10: [SWG] Shaping Desirable Futures – Imagining (Real) Utopias

Convenors:
Juliane Reinecke, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Juliane.Reinecke@sbs.ox.ac.uk
Ali Aslan Gümüşay, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
guemuesay@lmu.de
Sylvia Grewatsch, Brock University, Canada
sgrewatsch@brocku.ca
Session I: Thursday, July 06, 09:00 to 10:30, Magistero – Aggiunto – 1_Magna Capitini
Real Utopias
Chair: Juliane Reinecke
Mohamed Hassan Awad
Materializing solarpunk: How actors construct and enact new imaginaries for real utopias
Jonathan Feddersen and Henrik Koll
Reconfiguring an organizational trajectory to pursue ‘net zero’: The case of Ørsted’s green transformation
Session II: Thursday, July 06, 11:00 to 12:30, Magistero – Aggiunto – 1_Magna Capitini
New Methods
Chair: Ali Aslan Gümüşay
George Kuk and Stephanie Giamporcaro
Prefigurative imaginaries: Realizing alternative currency in Kenyan slums
Nicky Dries, Joost Luyckx and Philip Rogiers
Imagining the (distant) future of work
Ilaria Durante, Claudio Dell'Era, Stefano Magistretti and Cristina Pham
Predictive or imaginative futures? Experimenting alternative approaches to future-making
Session III: Thursday, July 06, 14:00 to 15:30, Magistero – Aggiunto – 1_Magna Capitini
Investing in the Future
Chair: Sylvia Grewatsch
Tanja Ohlson, Sarah L. Carroux, Timo Busch, Falko Paetzold and Timo Busch
Working on a desirable future: how impact investors tackle grand challenges by combining different types of work
Kaja Lilleng and Nina Granqvist
Investing beyond the horizon: How impact investors value distant futures
Kiia Strömmer and Jarrod Ormiston
Impact assessment as future-making: Unpacking the practices of predictive, explorative and normative futuring techniques
Session IV: Friday, July 07, 09:00 to 10:30
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Parallel Stream A: Imagining Desirable Futures - Room: Magistero – Aggiunto – 1_Magna Capitini
Chair: Juliane Reinecke
Sara Dahlman and Lea Katharina Reiss
A library of fantasies – Organizing sexual utopias to promote gender equality
Johanna Ayrault, Joël Ntsondé, Farah Doumit and Joël Ntsondé
Decarbonization of customers, creating a desirable and sustainable future in the energy sector
Caroline Maessen, Kristina Lauche, Remko Vander Lugt and Remko van der Lugt
Scaffolding between possible distant futures and probable near futures to shape strategic direction towards sustainable futures
Parallel Stream B: Science Fiction & Narratives - Room: Magistero – Centrale – 0_SX 15
Chair: Sylvia Grewatsch
Maziar Raz
Three paradigms of imagination
Isabella Scheibmayr
Worlding desirable futures: Science fiction as method for theorizing organizations and organizing
Siri Boe-Lillegraven, Panikos Georgallis and Ans Kolk
Sea change? Sensemaking, firm reactions, and community resilience following climate disasters
Session V: Friday, July 07, 11:00 to 12:30
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Parallel Stream A: Roundtables 1–3 - Room: Magistero – Aggiunto – 1_Magna Capitini
Chair: Juliane Reinecke
Othmar Lehner
Future political theory performativity of social and environmental accounting: Barad’s agential realism and prefigurative politics
Discussant(s): Roundtable 1: Finance >> Paper Discussant: Alawadi et al.
Asma Alawadi, Nada Kakabadse and Andrew Kakabadse
The Decentralized Autonomous Organization Utopia
Discussant(s): Roundtable 1: Finance >> Paper Discussant: Sanches & Diniz
Bruno H. Sanches and Eduardo H. Diniz
From crypto-libertarian utopia to central bank digital currencies: the transfigurative convergence of Bitcoin’s prefiguration
Discussant(s): Roundtable 1: Finance >> Paper Discussant: Lehner
Simone Schiller-Merkens, Philip Balsiger and Birthe Soppe
Prefiguring alternative futures in times of crises: Moral market entrepreneurs' prefigurative organizing during the COVID-19 pandemic
Discussant(s): Roundtable 2: Policies & Markets >> Paper Discussant: de Wit et al.
Pieter de Wit, Christopher Wickert, Elco van Burg, Joep Cornelissen and Joep P. Cornelissen
Business in conflict areas: A conceptual model of when firm’s intergroup contact strategies contribute to peacebuilding
Discussant(s): Roundtable 2: Policies & Markets >> Paper Discussants: Schiller-Merkens et al.
Vehap Kola and Sinem Ergun
Imagination and strategy-making: (Fore)telling the future story of a city
Discussant(s): Roundtable 3: Urban Futures >> Paper Discussant: Bally
Frédéric Bally
Shaping cities of the future: How fetishism of nature produces fantasies?
Discussant(s): Roundtable 3: Urban Futures >> Paper Discussant: Raviola & Vildinge
Elena Raviola and Christina Vildinge
Updating urban utopias from the ‘60s: Shedding light on vulnerable links
Discussant(s): Roundtable 3: Urban Futures >> Paper Discussant: Kola & Ergun
Chair Roundtable 1: Mohamed Hassan Awad
Chair Roundtable 2: Jarrod Ormiston
Chair Roundtable 3: Siri Boe-Lillegraven
Parallel Stream B: Roundtables 4–6 - Room: Magistero – Centrale – 0_SX 15
Chair: Sylvia Grewatsch
Katharina Scheidgen, Franziska Günzel-Jensen and Matthias Wenzel
Path-dependent future-making: Imagining futures in the wake of hype
Discussant(s): Roundtable 4: Creating Impact >> Paper Discussant: Klein et al.
Janina Klein, Christine Moser and Elco van Burg
Raising the bar: Direct and indirect scaling for social impact at Tony’s Chocolonely
Discussant(s): Roundtable 4: Creating Impact >> Paper Discussant: Kannegiesser et al.
Christina Kannegießer, Laura Marie Edinger-Schons, Talke Schaffrannek, Laura Marie Edinger-Schons and Talke F. Schaffrannek
Employees as future makers?
Discussant(s): Roundtable 4: Creating Impact >> Paper Discussant: Scheidgen et al.
Michaéla Schippers, Elisabeth de Jong, Diana Rus and Huib Rommers
Shaping ideal futures: Writing a letter to the future
Discussant(s): Roundtable 5: Emotions >> Paper Discussant: Bianco & Hussenot
Abygael Bianco, Anthony Hussenot and Anthony Hussenot
Becoming a community of digital nomads: From emotions to the shaping of a desirable future
Discussant(s): Roundtable 5: Emotions >> Paper Discussant: Johansson & Fried
Janet Johansson and Andrea Fried
Introducing the philosophy of hope to restore the power of imagination in utopian and dystopian discourses in organization research
Discussant(s): Roundtable 5: Emotions >> Paper Discussant: Schippers et al.
Héctor O. Rocha, Michael Pirson and Roy Suddaby
The purpose of business organizations – A practitioner-academic holistic approach
Discussant(s): Roundtable 6: Role of Organizations >> Paper Discussant: Sanasi et al.
Silvia Sanasi, Emanuela Rondi, Alfredo De Massis, Emanuela Rondi and Alfredo De Massis
Seeding imagination: Igniting innovation for building desirable futures in long-established firms
Discussant(s): Roundtable 6: Role of Organizations >> Paper Discussant: Sandu & Levant
Raluca Sandu and Yves Levant
Heterotopias as "enacted" utopias: On “pirate narratives” and the use of imagination in creating alternative organization models
Discussant(s): Roundtable 6: Role of Organizations >> Paper Discussant: Rocha et al.
Chair Roundtable 4: Mazi Raz
Chair Roundtable 5: Majken Schultz
Chair Roundtable 6: Kätlin Pulk
Parallel Stream C: Roundtables 7–9 - Room: Magistero – Aggiunto – 1_9A
Chair: Ali Aslan Gümüşay
Avraham Shnider and Guy Shani
Rounding the Utopia: Exploring the sociocultural logics of four "utopian" organizational structures
Discussant(s): Roundtable 7: Real Utopias >> Paper Discussant: da Trindade e Oliveira et al.
Alexandre da Trindade e Oliveira, Rosana Cebalho Fernandes and Rosana Cebalho Fernandes
The conditions for building popular hegemony: Paulo Freire’s ‘inédito viável’ and the experience of the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST)
Discussant(s): Roundtable 7: Real Utopias >> Paper Discussant: Kirchberg & Blieffert
Volker Kirchberg and Svea Blieffert
Imagining real utopias. An empirical exploration of organizing urban and rural projects for the good life
Discussant(s): Roundtable 7: Real Utopias >> Paper Discussant: Shnider & Shani
Viktor M. Salenius
Innovating for desirable sustainable futures in an ambiguous present: Theorising comparative innovation for the sustainability transition
Discussant(s): Roundtable 8: Technology & AI >> Paper Discussant: Young Choi
Soo Young Choi
The future of the human: Imaginaries of working with AI
Discussant(s): Roundtable 8: Technology & AI >> Paper Discussant: Särner et al.
Elinor Särner, Gunnar Holmberg and Nicolette Lakemond
AI augmented prospective sensemaking – A path to desired futures?
Discussant(s): Roundtable 8: Technology & AI >> Paper Discussant: Salenius
Vera Karina Gebhardt Fearns, Claudio Sidler, Julian Paul Kolbe and Jesper Kollerup
Voyages réel-utopiques, or: Collective explorations into alternative management education futures
Discussant(s): Roundtable 9: Education & Role of Researchers >> Paper Discussant: Skoglund & Tjhin
Annika Skoglund and Daniel Aditya Tjhin
Organizational Imaginaries – A conceptualization by first growing theoretical breasts
Discussant(s): Roundtable 9: Education & Role of Researchers >> Paper Discussant: Nascimento & Fayard
Rita Nascimento and Anne-Laure Fayard
The role of universities in making inclusive futures
Discussant(s): Roundtable 9: Education & Role of Researchers >> Paper Discussant: Gebhardt Fearns et al.
Chair Roundtable 7: Blagoy Blagoev
Chair Roundtable 8: George Kuk
Chair Roundtable 9: Nicky Dries
Session VI: Friday, July 07, 14:00 to 15:30
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Parallel Stream A: Roundtables 11 & 12 - Room: Magistero – Aggiunto – 1_Magna Capitini
Chair: Juliane Reinecke
Haitao Yu
Sense of Place and Sustainable Development: The Case of a Tibetan Luxury Enterprise
Discussant(s): Roundtable 11: Sustainable Business Practices >> Paper Discussant: Harborth
Lisa Harborth
“We borrow the earth from our children”: How organizations create desirable futures through imaginaries of sustainability
Discussant(s): Roundtable 11: Sustainable Business Practices >> Paper Discussant: Hennchen
Esther Hennchen
The role of shared responsibility in multi-stakeholder initiatives: A process model to address grand challenges
Discussant(s): Roundtable 11: Sustainable Business Practices >> Paper Discussant: Yu
Sunny Mosangzi Xu
Temporal translating the dystopian unknown future
Discussant(s): Roundtable 12: Rethinking Organization Studies >> Paper Discussant: Hughes & Land
Kathleen Hughes and Christopher Land
In defence of unrealistic utopias: Desire, imagination, and the ‘real’ of social change
Discussant(s): Roundtable 12: Rethinking Organization Studies >> Paper Discussant: Mngqibisa & Romanova
Nontsikelelo Mngqibisa and Gergana Romanova
The interplay between organisational legacies and imagined utopias: The case of the Atlantis Special Economic Zone, South Africa
Discussant(s): Roundtable 12: Rethinking Organization Studies >> Paper Discussant: Xu
Chair Roundtable 11: Catriona M. Burke
Chair Roundtable 12: Tor Hernes
Parallel Stream B: Roundtables 13 & 14 - Room: Magistero – Centrale – 0_SX 15
Chair: Sylvia Grewatsch
Peter Trümmel, André Presse, Vittoria Magrelli and Alfredo De Massis
Traveling through time: How founders build legacy through participation
Discussant(s): Roundtable 13: Framing Futures >> Paper Discussant: Richard et al.
Angèle Richard, Romain Gandia and Elodie Gardet
Le rôle de l'utopie dans l'élaboration d'un modèle d'entreprise innovant et durable : une approche cognitive appliquée aux stations de ski de montagne
Discussant(s): Roundtable 13: Framing Futures >> Paper Discussant: Ivarsson
Frida Ivarsson
Future making in digital transformation and beyond: The role of frame shifting and frame blending
Discussant(s): Roundtable 13: Framing Futures >> Paper Discussant: Trümmel et al.
Anika Wiese
A space in-between: Exploring alternative organizing in the performing arts
Discussant(s): Roundtable 14: Dream Making >> Paper Discussant: Bernard
Louise Bernard
Art practice as research to imagine an alternative future in a French coastal urban community
Discussant(s): Roundtable 14: Dream Making >> Paper Discussant: Pascucci
Stefano Pascucci
Dream-making food futures
Discussant(s): Roundtable 14: Dream Making >> Paper Discussant: Wiese
Chair Roundtable 13: Simone Schiller-Merkens
Chair Roundtable 14: Isabella Scheibmayr
Parallel Stream C: Roundtable 10 - Room: Magistero – Aggiunto – 1_9A
Chair: Ali Aslan Gümüşay
Svenja K. Tobies, Laura Marie Edinger-Schons and Douglas Schuler
Paradise Lost? The Boundaries of Organizing for Desirable Futures
Discussant(s): Roundtable 10: Foresight & Resilience >> Paper Discussant: Smulders et al.
Britt Smulders, Arjan Markus, Georges Romme and Rianne Valkenburg
Imagining desirable futures: Redesigning established practices in mature domains for sustainable transformation
Discussant(s): Roundtable 10: Foresight & Resilience >> Paper Discussant: Sharif
Khurram Sharif
Using social construction theory to map future opportunities for entrepreneurial growth – Findings from a rapidly transforming economy
Discussant(s): Roundtable 10: Foresight & Resilience >> Paper Discussant: Tobies et al.
Chair Roundtable 10: Amanda Williams
Session VII: Saturday, July 08, 09:00 to 10:30
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Parallel Stream A: Identity & Future Making - Room: Magistero – Aggiunto – 1_Magna Capitini
Chair: Sylvia Grewatsch
Hannah Schupfer
Enacting futures: The role of interdependent organizations in realizing sustainable future imaginaries
Verena Meyer and Matthias Wenzel
Organizational identity formation in a real utopia: Provisional identity and the interplay between desirable and undesirable futures
S.M. Musa and Pursey P.M.A.R. Heugens
Whatif tomorrow never comes? Organizing for a better future in the perennialpresent of the Kutupalong refugee camp
Luis L. Martins, Violina Rindova and Meenal Banga
Projecting imagined value games and the shaping of future possibilities
Parallel Stream B: Temporality & Future - Room: Magistero – Centrale – 0_SX 15
Chair: Juliane Reinecke
Miriam Feuls, Tor Hernes and Majken Schultz
Putting distant futures into action: Path enactment toward distant-future goals
Ines Kuric
Concretizing the future: How cities translate global urban imaginaries
Kätlin Pulk
Remembering a desirable future
Blagoy Blagoev and Patricia Helena Hein
Organizing desirable sustainable food futures
Session VIII: Saturday, July 08, 11:00 to 12:30, Magistero – Aggiunto – 1_Magna Capitini
Systems View & Closing
Chair: Juliane Reinecke, Sylvia Grewatsch & Ali Aslan Gümüşay
Amanda Williams, Kathleen Klaniecki and Christian Dorninger
Innovating Systemic Solutions for the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Catriona M. Burke and Michael J. Morley
Toward a fourth mandate for organisational scholarship? On utopia as process and phronetic knowledge as outcome in the stewarding of grand societal challenges