EGOS 2017 COPENHAGEN The Good Organization Aspirations, Interventions, Struggles
Copenhagen, Denmark July 6–8, 2017
33rd EGOS Colloquium egosnet.org/2017_copenhagen egos2017@cbs.dk
EGOS 2017 in Copenhagen If you fly into Copenhagen in July 2017, you will probably get a glimpse of the Øresund Bridge connecting Denmark with Sweden. You may recognize it from the famous television series, where the bridge was both a crime scene and a crucial link between two organizations – the Danish and Swedish police forces. You will soon discover that Copenhagen is a city of bridges and that these play a key role in the organization of its economic and civic life; it is for that reason that perhaps our most famous bridge has found its way into our logo. In the past, our ancestors, the Vikings, sailed the oceans and created a solid self-perception among Danes of belonging to a great maritime nation.
a ferry line and hundreds of jobs obsolete, demand expropriation of houses, disturb natural habitats, or bring together disjointed neighborhoods. And bridges and struggles go together. If you visit the harbor of Copenhagen, you will see a bridge where the ends do not yet meet. It has been standing like that for a long time, due to technical, political and organizational problems. And if you try to cross the Øresund Bridge to Sweden right now, you will find a once quick and easy trip mired in the administrative politics of the refugee crisis; a crisis where Good Organization appears, at present, notably lacking. The 33rd EGOS Colloquium in Copenhagen offers a bridge to discussions concerning the aspirations, interventions and struggles for The Good Organization.
We have now taken to building bridges instead of sailing out to conquer the world. It is good for business, good for branding our talents for engineering and design, and not least good for public life, opening up new views of the city and enhancing its flow.
We consider The Good Organization both a tempting prospect and a project inherently ridden with tensions. Would it ever make sense to talk about “The” Good Organization? What is to count as “Good”? What makes Organization?
But as we know, bridges don’t just appear out of nowhere, they are complex organizational projects driven by aspirations, interventions and struggles.
We welcome you to these and many other explorations in Copenhagen in July 2017.
As landmarks, bridges typically illustrate aspirations to greatness. Bridges are simultaneously interventions in the environment and in society. They can make
Sub-themes #1–25 1: Capitalism, Corporations and Society SWG Christopher Wickert, Andrew Crane, Frank de Bakker 2: The Role of Organized Labour in and around the MNC SWG Graham Hollinshead, Christoph Dörrenbächer, Mike Geppert 3: New Frontiers for the Creative Industries: Digitization, Mediation and Valuation SWG Mukti Khaire, Barbara Slavich, Jesper Strandgaard Pedersen 4: Long-shots and Close-ups: Organizational Ethnography, Process and History SWG Juliette Koning, Sierk Ybema, Merlijn van Hulst 5: The Communicative Constitution of Organizing: Toward and Beyond (Formal) Organization SWG Dennis Schoeneborn, Timothy R. Kuhn, James R. Barker 6: Routines, Transfer and Transformation SWG Luciana D’Adderio, Martha S. Feldman, Paula Jarzabkowski 7: Multi-Level Network Research: Micro-foundations of Organizational Networks SWG Leon Oerlemans, Tiziana Casciaro, Julia Brennecke 8: Management, Occupations and Professions as Contested Terrains SWG Stefan Heusinkveld, Andreas Werr, Daniel Muzio
9: The Lived Experiences of Paradoxes: Passions, Defenses and Competing Demands SWG Camille Pradies, Wendy K. Smith, Russ Vince 10: Becoming Good: How to Study the Emergence of Ethical Practice in Organizing SWG Anthony Hussenot, Silvia Gherardi, Caroline Ramsey 11: Are Good Organizations Caring Places? Anne Antoni, Gazi Islam, Marianna Fotaki 12: Being Good or Looking Good? Interrogating the Contradictions and Tensions of Organizational Ethics Carl Rhodes, Alison Pullen, Torkild Thanem 13: Paradigm Plurality to Help us to Decide What ‘Good Organization’ is Henriett Primecz, John Hassard, Laurence Romani 14: De/Humanisation and Organization Ismael Al-Amoudi, David Courpasson, Joe O’Mahoney 15: Trust-based Organizing: Principles and Politics Guido Möllering, Sabina Siebert, Søren Jagd 16: Risk, Value and Virtue in the Audit Society Michael Power, Steve Maguire, Roger Friedland
17: Values, Entrepreneurship and Organizing Christian Garmann Johnsen, Saara L. Taalas, William B. Gartner 18: Civil Society Organizations: The Site of Legitimizing the Common Good Liv Egholm, Michael Meyer, Damien Mourey 19: Organizations and Organizing in a Welfare State Context Linda Wedlin, Josef Pallas, Susanne Boch Waldorff 20: Financialization and its Societal Implications: Rethinking Corporate Governance and Shareholders Emilio Marti, Jeroen Veldman, Hugh Willmott 21: Migration and the Meaning of Inclusion Kyoung-Hee Yu, Jelena Zikic 22: Organizations, Language/s and Mobility/ies Wilhelm Barner-Rasmussen, Marjana Johansson, Martyna Śliwa 23: (Geo)Political Implications of International Business Marie-Laure Salles-Djelic, Nathalie Belhoste, Jonathan Murphy 24: Organizing Business Collective Action Lærke Christiansen, Sean Buchanan, Charlene Zietsma 25: The Political Organization of Markets: Social Movements, Stakeholders, Non-market Strategy Frank den Hond, Forrest Briscoe, Jocelyn M. Leitzinger
Sub-themes #26–51 26: The Role of Organizations in Sustainability Transitions Raghu Garud, Joel Gehman, Jochen Markard
35: Organizing Space and Spacing within Temporal Contexts Renata Kaminska, Natalie Paleothodoros, David Weir
43: Theorizing the Past, Present and Future in Organization Theory David Chandler, Mar Pérezts, Roy Suddaby
27: Practices of Organizing Security: Ethics, Law and Force Mia Rosa Hartmann, Sara Louise Muhr, Jens Rennstam
36: Using Design in, around, and for Good Organizations Fabio Fonti, Davide Ravasi, Ileana Stigliani
44: Rethinking History, Rethinking Business Schools Mads Mordhorst, Ellen S. O’Connor, Michael Rowlinson
28: The Politics of Valuation Claes-Fredrik Helgesson, Monika Krause, Fabian Muniesa
37: Organization in the Age of Digital Reproduction Mike Zundel, Aleksandra Przegalińska, Armin Beverungen
45: Uncovering the Hidden: Psychoanalytic Insights into the ‘Good Organization’ Ishan Jalan, Arnaud Gilles, Bénédicte Vidaillet
29: Justifying the Organization: Dealing with Conflicting Economies of Worth and Legitimacy Struggles Lieke Oldenhof, Jeroen Postma, Jean-Pascal Gond 30: Inequality, Institutions and Organizations Kamal A. Munir, John M. Amis, Johanna Mair 31: Gender, Governance and Organizations Anja Kirsch, Morten Huse, Heike Mensi-Klarbach 32: Organizations as Open Polities: Struggles in the Good Organization Klaus Weber, Simone SchillerMerkens, Daniel Wäger 33: Organizational Struggles over the Natural Environment Amanda Crompton, Daniel Nyberg, Christopher Wright 34: Materiality in Organizing: Space, Technology, Artefacts Perttu Salovaara, Arja Ropo, Lucia Crevani
38: Innovations and New Forms of Organizing in Digitalized Public Space Aina Landsverk Hagen, Elena Raviola, Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist
46: The Entanglement of Individual and Collective Identification Maura Soekijad, Irene SkovgaardSmith, Michael Humphreys
39: The Games Organizations Play – The Uses and Effects of Play at Work Lyndon Garett, Mikko Vesa, Elke Weik
47: Do ‘Good’ (or ‘Bad’) Emotions Equate to ‘Good’ (or ‘Bad’) Organizations? Dirk Lindebaum, Yiannis Gabriel, Deanna Geddes
40: The Moral of the Story: Aesthetics and Ethics in Organizations Matt Statler, Wendelin Küpers, Pierre Guillet de Monthoux
48: Social-Symbolic Work: Aspirations, Efforts and Struggles Thomas B. Lawrence, Nelson Phillips, Stephanie J. Creary
41: Fiction, the Novel and Literature: Towards Organization 2666? Christian De Cock, Sine Nørholm Just, Damian O’Doherty 42: Anticipation: Models, Technologies and Knowledge in the Making of Organizational Futures Christina Garsten, Mikkel Flyverbom, Afshin Mehrpouya
49: Identity Tensions and Strategizing David Oliver, Virpi Sorsa, Joëlle Basque 50: Open Strategy: Practices, Problems and Perspectives Leonhard Dobusch, Georg von Krogh, Richard Whittington 51: Top Managers and Strategizing Shenghui Ma, Julia Balogun, Ann Langley
Sub-themes #52–69 52: Developing Leadership for the Good Organization Jonathan Gosling, Brigid Carroll, Magnus Larsson 53: Resilient Organizing: Managing in Extreme Contexts and Situations of Crisis Samer Faraj, Daniel Geiger, Markus Hällgren 54: Managing New Management Initiatives in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises: Opportunities and Challenges Darren McCabe, Simon Down, Isabella R. Hatak 55: The Expansion of Management: Agents, Processes and Consequences Lars Engwall, Matthias Kipping, Behlül Üsdiken
60: Sustainable Careers: A New Paradigm for the Contemporary World of Work? Ans De Vos, Monika Hamori, Marijke Verbruggen
68: Dynamics of Practices, Knowledge and Work in Healthcare Organizations Marie-Léandre Gomez, Davide Nicolini, Trish Reay
61: Viewing the Unseen Organization in Practice Feng Liu, Michael Jarrett, Linda Rouleau
69: Organization Studies and Industrial Relations: Overlapping Concerns and New Possibilities Markus Helfen, Andreas Pekarek, Rick Delbridge
62: Secrecy, Secrets and Organizations Jana Costas, Chris Grey 63: Thinking Infrastructures Neil Pollock, Martin Kornberger, Geoffrey C. Bowker 64: Activity Theory and Organizations Yrjö Engeström, Anu Kajamaa, Zlatko Bodrožić
56: Institutional Theory: Taking Stock and Re-tooling Gili S. Drori, Walter W. Powell, Tammar B. Zilber
65: The Organizational Origins and Consequences of Competition Nils Brunsson, Raimund Hasse, Stefan Jonsson
57: The Multiplicity of Institutional Logics Michael Lounsbury, William Ocasio, Patricia H. Thornton
66: Organizational Capability Building: Dynamics, Creative Processes, Failures Christian Berggren, Georg Schreyögg, Solmaz Filiz Karabag
58: Projects, Organizations and Institutions Candace Jones, Jonas Söderlund, Jörg Sydow 59: Organization, Professionalism and Office as a Vocation Haldor Byrkjeflot, Anne Roelsgaard Obling, Thomas Lopdrup-Hjort
67: Experimenting Organization: Becoming by Doing Stewart Clegg, Iris Wallenburg, Roland Bal
The 33rd EGOS Colloquium is hosted by Copenhagen Business School Organizing Committee Jesper Bjørn Lene Lillebro Ursula Plesner Scientific Committee Christina Garsten Dan Kärreman Daniel Hjorth Dennis Schoeneborn Eva Boxenbaum Jesper Strandgaard Lars Thøger Christensen Majken Schultz Martin Kornberger Paul du Gay Timon Beyes Tor Hernes Program Committee Daniel Hjorth Sara Louise Muhr Susanne Boch Waldorff Timon Beyes Ursula Plesner Subplenary Program Eva Boxenbaum Majken Schultz
Submissions and Applications January 9, 2017 Deadline for submissions of short papers (via egosnet.org) January 9, 2017 Deadline for applications (via egosnet.org) for the PhD pre-Colloquium Workshop and the Post-Doctoral & Early Career Scholars pre-Colloquium Workshop
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