Sub-theme 05: (SWG) Strategizing Activity and Practice: Connecting the Material to the Social
Convenors:
Charlotte Cloutier, HEC Montreal, Canada
Paula Jarzabkowski, Aston Business School, UK / S&TS, Cornell University, USA
Andreas Paul Spee, UQ Business School, The University of Queensland, Australia
Session I: Thursday, July 04, 09:00 to 10:30, CSC, 1st floor, Red Section, Salle Louis-Laberge
Welcome; Sociomateriality I
Chair: Charlotte Cloutier
Sara Winterstorm Värlander, Pamela J. Hinds, Brandi Pearce and Bobbi Thomason
Cross-cultural experiences of an "innovation fostering" organizational space: Bringing in a "system view" of culture to the
strategy realm to understand diverse experiences in China, India and the US
Veronika Bashtovaya and Timo Vuori
Physically grounded strategizing
Liisa Naar and Stewart Clegg
Models at work: Strategies for innovating in architectural practice
Session II: Thursday, July 04, 11:00 to 12:30, CSC, 1st floor, Red Section, Salle Louis-Laberge
Three Perspectives on Strategy and Materiality
Chair: Paula Jarzabkowski
Panel discussion featuring François Cooren, Paul Leonardi and Davide Ravasi
Session III: Thursday, July 04, 16:00 to 17:30
- Parallel Stream -
Parallel Stream A: Sensemaking - Room: CSC, 1st floor, Red Section, Salle Aimé Quintal
Chair: Luc Brès
Julien Chevalley, Nada Endrissat and Claus Noppeney
Middle managers' visual competence: Visual-material practices and sensemaking in strategy work
Mark Kelley
Precursor practicing in collective sensemaking: Some key practices
Parallel Stream B: Texts/Narratives - Room: CSC, 1st floor, Red Section, Salle Louis-Laberge
Chair: Stéphanie Dameron
Mikael Lundgren and Martin Blom
Strategy "texts" and recursiveness: The influence of textualization on strategy practice
Jeannie Holstein
Narrative as a strategic practice: The university as axis mundi at the intersection of policy and organizational strategy
Nicolas Arnaud, Céline Legrand, Eric Maton and Colleen Mills
Middle manager as the interface between global strategy and strategy practice. Enacting strategy through materializing
Parallel Stream C: Space and Socio-material Arrangements - Room: CSC, 1st floor, Red Section, Salle Louis-Laberge
Chair: Peter Smith
Paula Jarzabkowski, Gary Burke, Andreas Paul Spee and Michael Smets
Strategizing space: The spatial-material embodiment of risk-trading episodes
Vanessa Brulon Soares and Alketa Peci
Strategy practice in spaces in the margins of State: The case of organizations in the public security field in Rio de Janeiro
favelas
Nils Wåhlin, Maria Kapsali and Tomas Blomquist
Strategizing through urban spaces: Materializing a capital of culture
Parallel Stream D: Conflict - Room: Talvest 1
Chair: Suela Haxhiraj
Jane K. Lê and Paula A. Jarzabkowski
Conflict as a micro process shaping the relationship between strategy process and content
Ann Langley and Andreas Paul Spee
Managing strategy-identity tensions in strategic planning
Patricia MacDonald and Oana Branzei
From conflict to collective agency: Practices of emergence
Parallel Stream E: Strategizing Processes 1 - Room: Talvest 2
Chair: David Seidl
Anna-Karin Stockenstrand and Fredrik Nilsson
Linking financial and operational logics – The strategic role of boundary spanners
Alexandra Lai, Harald Tuckermann and Johannes Rüegg-Stürm
Rebuilding leadership legitimacy – Textual artifacts to balance the participation-selection duality
Anniina Rantakari and Vesa Puhakka
What is strategic? Strategy as the practice of biopower
Session IV: Friday, July 05, 09:00 to 10:30, CSC, 1st floor, Red Section, Salle Louis-Laberge
Provocative Ideas
Chair: Oana Branzei
Søren Madsen
Strategy as a virus
Stéphane Guérard, Ann Langley and David Seidl
Rethinking the concept of performance in strategy research: Towards a performativity perspective
Peter Boxall and Peter Smith
Strategising in a professional service firm
Session V: Friday, July 05, 14:00 to 15:30
- Parallel Stream -
Parallel Stream A: Meso Practices - Room: CSC, 1st floor, Red Section, Salle Aimé Quintal
Chair: Stéphane Guérard
Jan-Florian Schlapfner and Monika Lesner
Surviving in the wild: Determinants and practices of strategic initiative development
Svante Schriber
Integration practices in M&A. Activity patterns for unlocking synergy potential
Parallel Stream B: Tools - Room: CSC, 1st floor, Red Section, Salle Louis-Laberge
Chair: Felix Werle
Nina Bauer, Miguel Pina e Cunha and Stewart Clegg
How do creative professionals use strategy tools? Analyzing the role of objects in strategy making and implementing
Isabelle Corbett-Etchevers and Aura Parmentier Cajaiba
Toying with regulation: 'Strategizing tools' as organizational bricolage
Suela Haxhiraj
Towards a practical guideline for the use of strategy frameworks
Parallel Stream C: Strategizing Processes II - Room: CSC, 1st floor, Red Section, Salle Louis-Laberge
Chair: Céline Legrand
Hajime Kobayashi, Masae Takimoto, Masaaki Takemura and Yoritoshi Hara
Ambidextrous organizational learning and enacted strategy stuff: Combining the strategy-as-practice view and dynamic capability
view
Paula Jarzabkowski, Rebecca Bednarek and Andreas Paul Spee
Materialising uncertain events as financial deals: Performing risk appraisal through practical understanding
Christian Koch and Ole Friis
An arena for things? Sociomaterial staging of strategists, devices and praxis
Parallel Stream D: Objects and Materialization - Room: Talvest 1
Chair: Geneviève Renaud and Véronique Labelle
Patricia Wolf and Jacqueline Holzer
Matter matters: The new performative agential method
Richard Hall, Kristine Dery, Nick Wailes and Sharna Wiblen
Sociomateriality and strategy-as-practice: Taking technology seriously and applying actor-network theory
Lisa Callagher and Peter Smith
Materializing strategy through 'innovation awards': Strategizing tools and deliberate new practice formation in a professional
services firm
Parallel Stream E: Pluralistic Settings - Room: Talvest 2
Chair: Jane Kirsten Lê
Adriana Allocato and Corrado Cuccurullo
Getting strategic consensus in pluralistic contexts
Hsin-Hui Chou
Strategizing to bridge technological change in resource-based inter-organizational structures: A sociomaterial perspective
Session VI: Saturday, July 06, 09:00 to 10:30, CSC, 1st floor, Red Section, Salle Louis-Laberge
Socio-materiality II
Chair: Rebecca Bednarek
Geneviève Renaud, Djahanchah P. (Sacha) Ghadiri, Véronique Labelle and Linda Rouleau
Embodying and materializing strategy through PowerPoint presentations
Luc Brès and Jean-Pascal Gond
Connecting corporate social responsibility materialization and commodification: A study of the engineering practices of consultants
Felix Werle and David Seidl
Structuring the void: Epistemic objects as catalysts of temporary structures in inter-organizational strategizing
Session VII: Saturday, July 06, 11:00 to 12:30, CSC, 1st floor, Red Section, Salle Louis-Laberge
- Group Discussion -
Chair: Paul Andreas Spee
Discussion with the editors of the British Journal of Management's special issue on "Strategizing Material & Materializing
Strategy"