EGOS SWG8 program
Please see below for the program for our standing working group on organizational history at EGOS in Naples in July! If you are already at EGOS, we welcome guests.
Sub-theme 08: (SWG) History and Organization Studies: The Ways Forward
Convenors:
Daniel Wadhwani, University of the Pacific, USA, and Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, dwadhwani@pacific.edu
Matthias Kipping, Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada, mkipping@schulich.yorku.ca
Stephanie Decker, Aston Business School, UK, s.decker@aston.ac.uk
Session I: Thursday, July 07, 11:00 to 12:30, T5
Organizational History: The Past and the Future Chair: Matthias Kipping
Peter Miskell Management historians and public perceptions of the past: A neglected area? Presenter/Discussant: Andrew Smith
Michael Rowlinson, John Hassard and Stephanie Decker Organizational memory, history, and forgetting Presenter/Discussant: Mairi MacLean
Session II: Thursday, July 07, 14:00 to 15:30
- Parallel Stream -
Parallel Stream A: Contextualizing Sensemaking & Identity - Room: T5 Chair: Stephanie Decker
Christian Stutz Elaborating the strategic cognition view of issue salience: A historical case study Presenter/Discussant: Rasmus Nykvist
Anna Linda Musacchio Adorisio and Asgeir Torfason Historicizing narratives: Rhetoric and storytelling of the Icelandic financial boom Presenter/Discussant: Michelle Mielly
Lars Geschwind, Rómulo Pinheiro and Bjørn Stensaker To be or not to be: Institutional complexity and identity formation in the organizational field of higher education Presenter/Discussant: Ron Kerr
Parallel Stream B: Entrepreneurial Dynamics - Room: T6 Chair: Dan Wadhwani
Andrew Smith and Eugene Choi A Constitutive Historicism Approach Towards Understanding Sensemaking and Sensegiving in Japanese FabLabs Presenter/Discussant: Tristan May
Giovanni Favero, Vladi Finotto and Anna Moretti Resisting entrepreneurs: A conceptual framework of entrepreneurial imprinting Presenter/Discussant: Charles Harvey
Mirko Ernkvist and Rasmus Nykvist History in the regulatory legitimation of novel organizational forms by new organization Presenter/Discussant: Fanny Simon
Session III: Thursday, July 07, 16:00 to 17:30, T5
Corporate Uses of History Chair: Stephanie Decker
Mairi Maclean, Charles Harvey, John Sillince and Benjamin Golant Intertextuality in organizational transition Presenter/Discussant: Joeri Mol
Jan Frederik de Groot and Nachoem Wijnberg Corporate art collections and organizational history Presenter/Discussant: Elena Giovanni
Ihar Sahakiants, Marion Festing and Thomas Steger Organizational continuity and founder narrative: The role of primary stakeholders in sustaining a socially responsible corporate culture Presenter/Discussant: Diego Coraiola
Session IV: Friday, July 08, 09:00 to 10:30
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Parallel Stream A: Historical Construction of Cultural Goods - Room: T5 Chair: Stephanie Decker
Shiona Chillas, Melinda A. Grewar and Barbara Townley Capitalising on history: The case of Scottish textiles Presenter/Discussant: Jan Frederik de Groot
Tristan May If 6 was 9: Rhetorical history and the multimodal reissuing of a glorious past Presenter/Discussant: Anna Linda Musacchio Adorisio
Michelle Mielly, Gazi Islam and Maria Laura Toraldo Alliance française in India & rhetorical uses of history Presenter/Discussant: Mirko Ernkvist
Parallel Stream B: New Methods, New Frontiers - Room: T6 Chair: Matthias Kipping
Zoi Pittaki Walking a tightrope: business, the tax system and tax conscience in Greece, 1955-1989 Presenter/Discussant: Christian Stutz
Diego M. Coraiola, William M. Foster and Roy Suddaby What is a historical case study? Presenter/Discussant: Giovanni Favero
Wim van Lent and Matthijs den Besten The Multiple Faces of the Span of Control: a Multilevel Analysis of the Dutch East India Company Presenter/Discussant: Stephan Leixnering
Session V: Friday, July 08, 14:00 to 15:30, T5
The Sociohistorical Construction of Value Chair: Dan Wadhwani
Michal Frenkel and Talia Pfefferman On gendered justifications: Resource acquisition and worlds of worth in establishing small enterprises in Palestine, 1930–1947 Presenter/Discussant: Liv Egholm
Elena Giovannoni and Christopher Napier The making of material objects through accounting re-presentations: The Founder's Building at Royal Holloway, 1887-1897 Presenter/Discussant: Karim Ben Slimane
Joeri Mol, Graham Sewell, Miya Tokumitsu and Gerhard Wiesenfeldt The institutionalization of signs of value: Icons, indexes and symbols in art markets Presenter/Discussant: Pamela A. Popielarz
Session VI: Saturday, July 09, 09:00 to 10:30
- Parallel Stream -
Parallel Stream A: Industry Dynamics - Room: T5 Chair: Dan Wadhwani
Karim Ben Slimane, Damien Chaney, Eero Vaara and Tao Wang Between memories and market. Relegitimation of absinthe in France since 1980s Presenter/Discussant: Lars Geschwind
Fanny Simon and Albéric Tellier Imitation game: How coopetition can lead to standardization Presenter/Discussant: Wim Van Lent
Shilo Hills, Maxim Ganzin, Roy Suddaby and William M. Foster Strategic deployment of history and myth in identity construction: A story of the global wine industry Presenter/Discussant: Shiona Chillas
Parallel Stream B: Constructing & Crossing Sectoral Divides - Room: T6 Chair: Stephanie Decker
Stephan Leixnering and Renate E. Meyer Re-discovering an organizational form: Public interest-orientation as corner stone of the modern corporation Presenter/Discussant: Zoi Pittaki
Pamela A. Popielarz Moral dividends: Transpositions between business and Freemasonry in nineteenth century America Presenter/Discussant: Lars Geschwind
Liv Egholm The messiness of common good. Translation of concepts and practices between non-civil and civil spheres: the Egmont Foundation 1920–2014 Presenter/Discussant: Ihar Sahakiants
Session VII: Saturday, July 09, 11:00 to 12:30, T5
New Directions Chair: Stephanie Decker
Ron Kerr and Sarah Robinson Women leaders in the political field in Scotland: Extending the ‘historical turn’ to leadership studies Presenter/Discussant: Talia Pfefferman
Rasmus Nykvist, Robin Gustafsson, Mirko Ernkvist, Christian Sandström, Erik Lakomaa and Zeerim Cheung Towards an integrative digital history approach in organization studies Presenter/Discussant: Peter Miskell