Sub-Plenary 1-6
Organization Studies and Organization Theory Sub-Plenary: Theorizing in Times of Crisis, Fragmentation, and Disorder
Room: Pierce-PC 908–909
Organizers:
Paolo Quattrone, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Tammar B. Zilber, Hebrew University Business School, Israel
Markus A. Höllerer, UNSW Sydney, Australia
Sigrid Quack, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Chair:
Paolo Quattrone, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Speakers:
Paula Jarzabkowski, University of Queensland, Australia
Michael Lounsbury, University of Alberta, Canada
Wendy K. Smith, University of Delaware, USA
Mark J. Zbaracki, Ivey Business School, Canada
We live in a time where order is the exception rather than the rule. Wars, civil wars and conflicts are everywhere, in the middle of Europe, the Middle East, Africa Natural disasters – tropical storms, wildfires, flooding and earthquakes – wreak havoc on various communities. Technological disruption – first and foremost Artificial Intelligence – promises to bring about unimaginable changes to our ways of life. And in between all those global forces, mundane little dramas and disasters inflict disorder on an individual scale. We see pockets of orders, in clubs, in universities, in areas of cities, in architectural spaces, in the intimacy of our personal spaces and times. Still, these are bubbles within bubbles, ready to burst at the first pandemic, the first terrorist attack, the first fractal of a world war, the first personal crisis.