Sub-theme 33: Management Occupations: Exploring Boundaries and Knowledge Flows
Convenors:
Stefan Heusinkveld, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Andrew Sturdy, University of Bristol, UK
Andreas Werr, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
Session I: Thursday, July 04, 09:00 to 10:30, Decelles, 3rd floor, Section Nord, Saguenay
Management Occupations and Knowledge Flows
Chair: Andrew Sturdy
Pernilla Bolander, Andreas Werr and Mikael Klingvall
Making sense of management experts – How managers deal with identity challenges created by external management expertise
Oli Mihalache and Mashiho Mihalache
The influence of TMT learning processes and organizational learning capacity on management innovation
Session II: Thursday, July 04, 11:00 to 12:30, Decelles, 3rd floor, Section Nord, Saguenay
Management Occupations and the Translation of Ideas
Chair: Christian Koch
Monica Rolfsen and Marte Holmemo
After the consultants have left the room
Stefan Heusinkveld, Pascale Peters and Evelien van Damme
Stretching and blending translations: Sharing management ideas across occupational communities
Andreas Diedrich and Petra Adolfsson
From soldier to employee: Constructing the employable individual at the Swedish Armed Forces
Session III: Thursday, July 04, 16:00 to 17:30, Decelles, 3rd floor, Section Nord, Saguenay
Management Occupation and Colonization
Chair: Monica Rolfsen
Christian Koch and Martine Buser
The deflation of a management concept soufflé? The emergence of new consultancy roles in Danish Public Private Partnerships
Gerry McGivern, Sue Dopson, Jean Ledger and Ewan Ferlie
Challenging sensemaking: Elite management consultancy and strategic change in the British National Health Service
Session IV: Friday, July 05, 09:00 to 10:30, Decelles, 3rd floor, Section Nord, Saguenay
Management Occupations: Diffusion and Impact
Chair: Andreas Werr
Ian Towers
Learning how to be a modern manager while sitting on the sofa and watching TV
John McGoldrick, Andrew Sturdy and Robin Klimecki
The theory and experience of insecurity at work – A conceptual review and a research agenda for studying management occupations
Session V: Friday, July 05, 14:00 to 15:30, Decelles, 3rd floor, Section Nord, Saguenay
Constructing Occupations: Identity Work
Chair: Gerry McGivern
Damian Hodgson and Steve Paton
Cosmopolitans, lifers and liminality: Identity work in project management
Lara Maestripieri
The management consulting's identity: At the boundaries between professionals and managers
Session VI: Saturday, July 06, 09:00 to 10:30, Decelles, 3rd floor, Section Nord, Saguenay
Management Occupations and Legitimacy
Chair: Stefan Heusinkveld
Emma Stendahl and Ali Yakhlef
The role of consultants in management
Sara Lindström
Legitimating well-being at work as a management agenda – The case of HR professionals
Session VII: Saturday, July 06, 11:00 to 12:30, Decelles, 3rd floor, Section Nord, Saguenay
Interaction and Learning between Occupations
Chair: Pernilla Bolander
Thierry Beaupré-Gateau, Laurent Simon and Geneviève Dupuis
Reinventing clown scouting and casting at the Cirque du Soleil: Designing a context for boundary practices for talent development
and knowledge creation between a creative powerhouse and an artistic occupational community
Laetitia Legalais and Jérémy Morales
Intra-organisational struggles and 'business partnering': The discursive activity of support function managers as legitimisation
of financialisation
Iryna Mikhailava and Selen Kars-Unluoglu
Towards a new professional future: Embedding knowledge management into human resource practices