Sub-theme 73: The Ontology Strikes Back: Exploring Time–Space Remoteness through Ontological Inquiries
Convenors:
Pierre Guillet de Monthoux, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden, & CBS, Denmark
Friederike Döbbe, School of Management, University of Bath, Bath UK
François-Xavier de Vaujany, Université Paris Dauphine-PSL (DRM), France
Session I: Thursday, July 04, 09:00 to 10:30, U9-P-1-04
Introduction + Mapping and Discussing Ontologies in MOS
Chair: François-Xavier de Vaujany
Jacob D. Rendtorff
Ontology – Key dimensions of ontology of management
Marius Gudmand-Høyer, Morten Thaning, Mads Kogut, Thomas Presskorn-Thygesen, Johan Gersel, Ana María Munar and Cathrine Bjørnholt
Ontology and organizational ontologies: Overview and new avenues
Jessica Geraldo Schwengber
On the turn to critical realism in organization studies and its implications for time and space
Session II: Thursday, July 04, 11:00 to 12:30, U9-P-1-04
Political Ontologies of Timespace
Chair: Pierre Guillet de Monthoux
R. Duncan M. Pelly
There is a little sadist in every room: Theorizing heterotopias where temporal reasoning fails and depravity thrives
Yves Habran and Isabelle Flachère
The politics of temporal work Reconfiguring temporal orientations in patients’ discharge processes
Daniel Hjorth, Damian O'Doherty and Matt Statler
Artificial Leviathan: Ontology, politics and the political in the wake of AI
Session III: Thursday, July 04, 14:00 to 15:30, U9-P-1-04
Fictional, Imaginative Explorations of Ontologies
Chair: Friederike Döbbe
Erik Wikberg and Jonas Bonnier
Does Sherlock Holmes exist? Ontologies laid bare in Fictional Readings
Ulrika Sjödin and Pamela Schultz-Nybacka
Sensuous literacy connecting ontology with epistemology: A case for reading literary fiction among students in a business
school
Jonathan Schunnesson
Career as imaginary, employability as realism: Ontologies of work-life among young graduates
Joeri Mol
From the Big Other to the selfie: A Lacanian history of the subject via Dürer and Vermeer
Session IV: Friday, July 05, 09:00 to 10:30
- Parallel Stream -
Parallel Stream A: Integrating or Decoupling Timespace in Ontologies of Organizing - Room: U9-P-1-04
Chair: François-Xavier de Vaujany
Deniz Tunçalp
Unveiling
the depth of temporal and spatial realities in organizations: A critical
realist approach
Nil Gulari and Anna Dziuba
Ontology of remoteness: Connecting with nonhuman nature through working in collective artist residency
Philippe Mairesse
Living a quantum’s life: A practical aesthetic ontology for living in the multiple incompatible parallel times-spaces of organizations
and organizing
Parallel Stream B: Emotions, Affects and Embodiment - Room: U9-P-1-02
Chair: Pierre Guillet de Monthoux
Brigitte Biehl and Jürgen Weibler
The return of the body: Relationships and resonance in digital leadership
Elen Riot
A simple portrait: How to picture humans In the world today?
Oscar Ahlberg and Ari Kuismin
Organizational atmospheres and the refrain
Christina Lüthy and Silviya Svejenova
Contageous time: The interplay between affective temporalities and organizational processes
Session V: Friday, July 05, 11:00 to 12:30, U9-P-1-04
Critical Ontologies
Chair: Friederike Döbbe
Mollie Painter-Morland and Daniel Hjorth
Ontological challenges in understanding and responding to gender-based violence: Recasting intersectionality as intra-sectionality
Jenny Helin and Alison Pullen
(Re)Reading
feminist theory together – Multiplicity, attention and feminist management
practice
Lauri Laine
Entrepreneurial horror on a broken planet. An emancipatory hex
Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes
Ontological disruptions: Unlearning (corporate) legitimacy while relearning to see the pluriverse in the ecology-in-place
Session VI: Friday, July 05, 14:00 to 15:30, U9-P-1-04
Opening Debates about Ontologies in MOS, Building Agenda (1)
Chair: Friederike Döbbe
Jonatan Sodergren, Mattias Hjelm and Ileyha Dagalp
“You have to look at it from all angles”: Cubist inquiry in consumer research
Onno Bouwmeester
The ontological context and managerial impact of multiple rationality judgements
Rasmus Nykvist
Organization Theory-Scholars in Vats (OT-SIVs)
Session VII: Saturday, July 06, 09:00 to 10:30, U9-P-1-04
Opening Debates about Ontologies in MOS, Building Agenda (2)
Chair: Pierre Guillet de Monthoux
Reilly Smethurst and Mattias Hjelm
Being a loser, untouched by the heroic spirit of business: Ontology and artificial intelligence/intimacy
Mattias Hjelm, Valtteri Kaartemo, Ingo Karpen, Hans Kjellberg, Moritz Kleinaltenkamp and Jaakko Siltaloppi
Mitigating marketing’s metaphysical myopia: Explicating a foundation for process-relational theorizing on grand challenges
Leonhard Gebhardt
Reframing entrepreneurial ecosystems with resonance: Cinematic arguments
Session VIII: Saturday, July 06, 11:00 to 12:30, U9-P-1-04
Fullness and Emptiness, Absence and Presence + Concluding Discussion
Chair: François-Xavier de Vaujany, Friederike Döbbe & Pierre Guillet de Monthoux
Jessica I.M. Backsell and Fredrik Ehlin
Mystery (or magic?) in the making
Paolo Quattrone and Elena Giovannoni
Nothing makes sense. Modes of enquiry into ‘no-things’