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Strategy-as-Practice (SAP) Community Day 2021: The Inclusiveness of Practice Research and Practice Research of Inclusiveness

Convenors:
Yanis Hamdali
European University Viadrina, Germany
Renate Kratochvil
BI Norwegian Business School, Norway
Madalina Pop
BSS Aarhus University, Denmark
Lorenzo Skade
European University Viadrina, Germany
Monique Steijger-Storm
Nottingham University Business School, United Kingdom

Call for Applications

Facilitators:
Stewart Clegg, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Katharina Dittrich, Warwick Business School, United Kingdom
Leonhard Dobusch, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Martin Friesl, University of Bamberg, Germany
Jeannie Holstein, Nottingham University Business School, United Kingdom
Jochen Koch, European University Viadrina, Germany
Bjørn Erik Mørk, BI Norwegian Business School, Norway
Davide Nicolini, Warwick Business School, United Kingdom
Elke Schüßler, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
David Seidl, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Paul Andreas Spee, University of Queensland Business School, Australia
Violetta Splitter, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Eero Vaara, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Richard Whittington, University of Oxford, United Kingdom


Purpose

What is the role of organizing and strategy-making for addressing the issue of an inclusive society? How can SAP research help organization scholars to understand and address the challenge of fostering inclusiveness in organizations, institutions, and environments? Entitled “The Inclusiveness of Practice Research and Practice Research of Inclusiveness”, the SAP Community Day is designed as a space for this important conversation to take place.
 

Format

The SAP Community Day will again consist of interactive sessions and workshops that maximize engagement and dialogue among scholars interested in the practice of strategy-making. Through its focus on inclusiveness, the SAP Community Day also supports the theme of the overall EGOS Colloquium. It consists of two parts with distinct goals:
 
Part 1 [09:00–11:00 CEST] aims to make the SAP community more familiar with researching inclusiveness from a practice perspective but also addresses how practice research can be more inclusive. To this end, we will have two sessions.

First, we will start the day with brief introductory presentations and a subsequent panel discussion amongst experienced scholars:

  • Stewart Clegg: “The power and politics of inclusivity”

  • Katharina Dittrich: “Inclusive practices in research communities”

  • Elke Schüßler: “Grand challenges & inter-org. relationships”

  • David Seidl: “Inter-organizational inclusiveness”

  • Paul Andreas Spee: “Materiality and institutional logics of inclusivity”

  • Eero Vaara: “Discourses of inclusivity and exclusion”

  • Richard Whittington: “Open Strategy and technologies of inclusivity”

These scholars will reflect on their different theoretical approaches towards inclusiveness of practice research and practice research of inclusiveness. Each of the scholars will introduce a theoretical practice-based approach, covering “classic” SAP approaches as well as those using a broader “practice turn” in areas related to strategy.

Second, each panelist will host a hands-on roundtable session in which participants gain deeper insights into and enter conversations about the Colloquium’s theme.

Part 2 [11:00–13:00 CEST] features a paper development roundtable session during which each participant get the chance to discuss their research with leading SAP scholars. The roundtables will be hosted by:

  • Leonhard Dobusch, University of Innsbruck

  • Martin Friesl, University of Bamberg and Lancaster University Management School

  • Jeannie Holstein, Nottingham University Business School

  • Jochen Koch, European University Viadrina

  • Bjørn Erik Mørk, BI Norwegian Business School and Warwick Business School

  • Violetta Splitter, University of Zurich

 
As in previous years, we encourage submissions of short research papers to be discussed at the roundtables. We also encourage the submission of research designs, empirical material, or initial interpretations (e.g., ethnographic vignettes).
 
The SAP Community Day will close with a short presentation on forthcoming Special Issues related to SAP and a summary of the day. In addition to the sessions, we will provide opportunities for informal networking and discussion during breaks.

 

Application

Please submit – via the EGOS website – by April 30, 2021 a single document of application (.docx or .pdf file) that includes the following information:

(1) Name, affiliation, and area(s) of research

(2) Which part(s) of the SAP Community Day 2021 would you like to attend? Please note that it is possible to attend only one part:

  • Part 1: Panel and Roundtable. Please indicate your interest in attending this part.

  • Part 2: Paper Development Roundtable. Please include a document with an abstract of up to 1,000 words (including references). We welcome all types of submissions, including, but not limited to, conceptual, quantitative, and qualitative papers, at any development stage; fully developed research designs that can benefit from feedback; and findings from field data, such as ethnographic vignettes. There is no need to submit full papers.
     

Yanis Hamdali is a Research Associate at the Chair of International Management at the European University Viadrina, Germany. His current research addresses innovation dynamics and decision delegation within and beyond organizational borders as well as the tension between impersonality and inclusiveness in organizations. Yanis engages in conceptual and empirical qualitative research in these topics through a practice- and process-based perspective.
Renate Kratochvil is a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at BI Norwegian Business School, Norway. Her research emphasizes strategizing activities such as problem solving, opportunity capturing, temporal work and decision-making in entrepreneurial settings. Moreover, Renate is Representative-at-Large of the Strategizing Activities & Practices Interest Group at the Academy of Management and a Social Media Officer of the Strategic Management Society.
Madalina Pop is a post-doctoral fellow at Aarhus BSS, Aarhus University, Denmark. Her research centers on inter-organizational strategizing for tackling grand challenges. Madaline also serves as an active member of the extended officer team and coordinator of the Doctoral & Early-Career Program of the Strategizing Activities & Practices Interest Group at the Academy of Management.
Lorenzo Skade is a Research Associate at the European University Viadrina, Germany. His current research interests include time and temporality, digital platforms, and strategic paradoxes. Lorenzo is also a coordinator of the Strategy-as-Practice Research community platform as well as the Doctoral & Early-Career Program of the Strategizing Activities & Practices Interest Group at the Academy of Management.
Monique Steijger-Storm is a 2nd year PhD candidate at Nottingham University Business School, United Kingdom. Her research interests lie in micro- and meso-level open strategizing practices during regulatory consultations in the UK Utilities sector. She is also seminar secretary in the Doctoral Society for Nottingham University Business School.