Sub-theme 76: The Topological Imagination: Space, Time, and Organizational Form
Convenors:
Timon Beyes, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany
Robin Holt, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Christina Juhlin, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Session I: Thursday, July 04, 09:00 to 10:30, U7-P0-13
Sites
Chair: Robin Holt
Yuli Liang
Building identity: symbolism in bank headquarters
Discussant(s): Mike Zundel & James Scott Vandeventer
Mike Zundel, Colette Russell and Christian Garmann Johnsen
When institutional maintenance fails: Exploring the role of situational logics in the UK Fire Service
Discussant(s): Yuli Liang & James Scott Vandeventer
James Scott Vandeventer
Organization in the Conceiving: Topological practices of externalizations, imaginings, and deferrals in the design of a hospital
Discussant(s): Yuli Liang & Mike Zundel and/or co-authors
Session II: Thursday, July 04, 11:00 to 12:30, U7-P0-13
Atmospheres
Chair: Timon Beyes
Yihan Liu and Ziyun Fan
Legacy as atmospheric spacing: A topological lens
Discussant(s): Lillan S. Lommel & Melissa Tyler and/or co-authors
Lillan S. Lommel
Tracing multi-sensory experiences in space-times: The constitution of organizationality through atmospheres
Discussant(s): Yihan Liu & Melissa Tyler
Melissa Tyler and Daniela Pianezzi
Mappa morti: Towards a topographical (re)imagining of cemeterial spaces
Discussant(s): Lillan S. Lommel & Yihan Liu
Session III: Thursday, July 04, 14:00 to 15:30
- Parallel Stream -
Parallel Stream A: Writing - Room: U7-P0-13
Chair: Melissa Tyler
Mariel N. Jurriens
What's new?
Discussant(s): Felipe Symmes & Boukje Cnossen
Felipe Symmes
The
‘visceral imagination’: Exploring the entrepreneurial imagination through
Roberto Bolaño’s “The Savage Detectives”
Discussant(s): Timon Beyes
Boukje Cnossen and Nicolas Bencherki
We have always been nomads: Did organization studies really take the spatial turn?
Discussant(s): Felipe Symmes & Mariel N. Jurriens
Parallel Stream B: Organizational Routes and Roots - Room: U7-P-1-07
Chair: Mike Zundel
Fátima Oliveira, Anderson Sant'Anna and Daniela Martins Diniz
Leadership through the lens of lacanian theory: Exploring the imaginary, symbolic, and Real
Discussant(s): Jeannie Holstein and/or co-authors & Will R. Lewis
Jeannie Holstein and Anniina Rantakari
Space and organizing in “ruthless times”: The case for the dialogic perspective
Discussant(s): Fátima Oliveira and/or co-authors & Will R. Lewis
Will R. Lewis
Towards a topological method for studying path dependence in fields of knowledge
Discussant(s): Jeannie Holstein & Fátima Oliveira
Session IV: Friday, July 05, 09:00 to 10:30
- Parallel Stream -
Parallel Stream A: Reimagining - Room: U7-P0-13
Chair: Christina Juhlin
Felippe Oliveira, Ricardo Azambuja and Gazi Islam
‘The times they are a-changin’ – Organizational imaginaries as temporal prefiguration
Discussant(s): Jeannie Holstein and/or co-authors & Will R. Lewis
Margot Leclair and Héloïse Berkowitz
Rapture of the Deep: An Artistic and Cosmopoetic Dive to shift the Organizational Gaze on the ocean
Discussant(s): Fátima Oliveira and/or co-authors & Luca Pareschi and/or co-author
Luca Pareschi and Angelo Gasparre
Everything, everywhere, all at once. Posthuman time/space multiplicities to enhance the understanding of more-than-human work
and organizing
Discussant(s): Margot Leclair and/or co-author & Fátima Oliveira and/or co-authors
Parallel Stream B: Art and Beauty - Room: U7-P-1-07
Chair: Boukje Cnossen
Laura Aufrère
Understanding artist-run spaces as cultural commons for alternative professionalization
Discussant(s): Judith A. Merkies & Dimitra Petrakaki
Judith A. Merkies, Kathleen A. Stephenson and Svetlana N. Khapova
Beauty as a catalyst for productivity and flourishing in organizations: A review
Discussant(s): Laura Aufrère & Dimitra Petrakaki and/or co-authors
Dimitra Petrakaki, Krystallia Moysidou and Hong Yu Liu
Employed by the crowd: Challenges and opportunities for artists
Discussant(s): Laura Aufrère & Judith A. Merkies and/or co-authors
Session V: Friday, July 05, 11:00 to 12:30
- Parallel Stream -
Parallel Stream A: Work Space - Room: U7-P0-13
Chair: Armin Beverungen
Alessandra Migliore and Alfons van Marrewijk
Transforming workspaces: A topological perspective on multi-location work
Discussant(s): Anna Carreri
Ekaterina Salovskaia
Integrating Top-Down Strategy and Bottom-Up Engagement: Building Virtual Organizational Spaces Through Work Relationships
Anna Carreri
Is the future of work finally here? Rethinking (s)pace in hybrid working
Discussant(s): Alessandra Migliore and/or co-author
Parallel Stream B: Epistemic Hybridity - Room: U7-P-1-07
Chair: Margot Leclair
Jean-Philippe Bouilloud and Emmanuelle Léon
Academic chairs as hybrid third spaces between academic institutions and companies: When creative misunderstanding encourages
the co-production of knowledge
Discussant(s): Lidia Yatluk
Lidia Yatluk
Technoscience on blockchain: unveiling the sociotechnical imaginaries and politics of decentralized science (DeSci)
Discussant(s): Jean-Philippe Bouilloud and/or co-author
Devarchan Banerjee
Paper pushing, Go-getting: A study of robust governance and organisational hybridity
Session VI: Friday, July 05, 14:00 to 15:30, U7-P0-13
Edges
Chair: Robin Holt
Claus P. Pias
Space colonies
Discussant(s): Kerstin Martel & Sunyu Chai
Kerstin Martel
Topologies of in-betweenness: Apprehending “between” as assemblages of regeneration and vital tension (rather than as a state
of ambiguity and transition)
Discussant(s): Claus P. Pias & Sunyu Chai
Sunyu Chai
Materiality beyond visuals
Discussant(s): Kerstin Martel & Claus P. Pias
Session VII: Saturday, July 06, 09:00 to 10:30, U7-P0-13
Stack
Chair: Timon Beyes
Renée Ridgway
Geofenced dystopias: How surveillant assemblages construct Sensorvault subjects through reverse search warrants
Discussant(s): Alessandro Franzó and/or co-author & Armin Beverungen
Alessandro Franzó and Attila Bruni
Gaming Houses As Organizational Spaces: Digital, Physical, And Social Structures
Discussant(s): Renée Ridgway & Armin Beverungen
Armin Beverungen
Elements of Amazon’s urban topologies
Discussant(s): Renée Ridgway & Alessandro Franzó and/or co-author
Session VIII: Saturday, July 06, 11:00 to 12:30, U7-P0-13
Urban
Chair: Christina Juhlin
Francesca Mochi, Daniela Aliberti and Maria Serena Ciambellotti
An open-ended account of organizational spaces: A case study from Milanese organizations
Discussant(s): Andrea Carlo Lo Verso and/or co-authors & Caterina M. Orlandi and/or co-author
Andrea Carlo Lo Verso, Monica Calcagno and Nicola Fuochi
Organizing through and for the urban space. Experiencing of and reflecting on Marghera (mainland Venice)
Discussant(s): Caterina M. Orlandi and/or co-author & Francesca Mochi and/or co-authors
Caterina M. Orlandi and Zografia Bika
‘Transfer visibility work’: Working around institutional boundaries in Northwest France
Discussant(s): Andrea Carlo Lo Verso and/or co-authors & Francesca Mochi and/or co-authors