Program

Pre-Colloquium Paper Development Workshop PDW-11

Experimental Research in Institutional Theory: Opportunities and Challenges

Wednesday, July 2, 2014, 09:00–13:15

Location: T-building, room T3-38
 

Convenors:

 

Faculty:

  • W. Timothy Coombs, University of Central Florida, USA
  • Vern L. Glaser, University of Southern California, USA
  • Marius T.H. Meeus, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
  • Aafke Raaijmakers, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  • Roy Suddaby, University of Alberta, Canada

 

Program PDW-11: Wednesday, July 2, 2014
09:00 – 09:45

Lynne Zucker: Opening remarks
09:45 – 10:30

Facilitators: Panel on discussing opportunities and challenges of experimental research in institutional theory
10:30 – 11:30

ROUND TABLE I: Discussion of the first project

 

Table A
Chair: Alexandre B. Bitektine
Facilitators: W. Timothy Coombs & Aafke Raaijmakers
Researchers: Derek J. Harmon & Jochem J. Kroezen

 

Derek J. Harmon: The morality of the market: An experimental investigation of the relationship between the market economy and moral decision-making

Table B
Chair: Patrick Haack
Facilitator: Marius T.H. Meeus
Researchers: Bernadette Bullinger & Jonathan Staggs


Bernadette Bullinger: Herding cats and other paradoxes – Professionals' expectations of good employers

Table C
Chair: Lynne Zucker
Facilitators: Vern L. Glaser & Roy Suddaby
Researchers: Elisabeth Does & Sheen S. Levine


Elisabeth Does: Financial risk taking in organisations: (De-)coupling informal norms and formal rules in social interaction through group leaders
11:30 – 11:45

Coffee break
11:45 – 12:45

ROUND TABLE II: Discussion of the second project

Table A
Chair: Alexandre B. Bitektine
Facilitators: W. Timothy Coombs & Aafke Raaijmakers
Researchers: Derek J. Harmon & Jochem J. Kroezen


Jochem J. Kroezen: Iron cage or toolkit? Explaining deviance from dominant institutional logics

Table B
Chair: Patrick Haack
Facilitator: Marius T.H. Meeus
Researchers: Bernadette Bullinger & Jonathan Staggs


Jonathan Staggs: Church response to same sex marriage

Table C
Chair: Lynne Zucker
Facilitators: Vern L. Glaser & Roy Suddaby
Researchers: Elisabeth Does & Sheen S. Levine


Sheen S. Levine: Micro-institutionalization, macro-outcomes: Price bubbles in markets
12:45 – 13:15 Concluding remarks by the convenors

 

Further information on the Round Tables 

  • There will be 2 main Round Table sessions (I and II), of which each comprises 3 parallel Round Tables (A, B and C).
  • At each Table a project will be discussed by two facilitators. The convenors will forward the relevant project proposals/papers to the Table participants.
  • The researcher have to present his/her project to the Table participants (max. 10 minutes). The facilitators then provide development feedback to the researcher.
  • The Round Table will then be opened for discussion among all Round Table participants.