Sub-theme 06: [SWG] Performing Creativity, Innovation, and Change: Communicating to Reconfigure the Organization
Convenors:
Nicolas Bencherki, Université TÉLUQ, Canada
Sophie Del Fa, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada
Alex Wright, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Session I: Thursday, July 07, 11:00 to 12:30, TC.3.05
Communicative Performativity, Performative Communication: Exploring an Emerging Terrain?
Chair: Nicolas Bencherki, Alex Wright and Sophie Del Fa
Panel with François Cooren, Penny Dick, Jean-Pascal Gond, and Consuelo Vásquez.
Session II: Thursday, July 07, 14:00 to 15:30, TC.3.05
Power, Resistances and Authority
Chair: Alex Wright
Boukje Cnossen, Lena Rieck and Blagoy Blagoev
The dynamics of structuring and silencing: how audibility enacts asymmetrical power relations in online meetings
Monica Nadegger, Milena Leybold and Sean Kenney
"Your very existence goes against our community guidelines" – Queering norms of contributorship through poetic speech on Instagram
Joëlle Basque, Linda Rouleau and Nora Meziani
Talking about the “new” boss: Distributing authority through discursive presences
Session III: Friday, July 08, 09:00 to 10:30
- Parallel Stream -
Parallel Stream A: Newness, the Future and Innovation - Room: TC.3.05
Chair: Boukje Cnossen
Frank Meier, Ursula Plesner and Lise Justesen
Extending hope: The communicative constitution of project promises in AI projects
Simeon Vidolov, Andrew Friedman, Donncha Kavanagh, Stefan Klein, Miguel Nicolau and Frank Ryle
Making new ways of making new things
Andrea Fried, Svjetlana Pantic Dragisic, Arne Jönsson and Mona Mirtsch
Communicating preventive innovations – The case of the information security standard ISO/IEC 27001
Parallel Stream B: Entrepreneurship - Room: TC.4.17
Chair: Joëlle Basque
Aurélie Toivonen, Elina I. Mäkinen and François Cooren
Backstage communication activities and the co-construction of entrepreneurial pitches
Matthieu Balay, François Cooren, Simon Mallette, Olivier Germain, Boris Brummans and Jacinthe Dupuis
The communicative reconfiguration of entrepreneurial projects: Roles as relational vectors
Ruben van Werven
Entrepreneurship in religious organizations: How the Church of England developed an entrepreneurial orientation
Session IV: Friday, July 08, 11:00 to 12:30
- Parallel Stream -
Parallel Stream A: Change, Continuity and Fluidity - Room: TC.3.05
Chair: Frank Meier
Nicolas Bencherki and Mie Plotnikof
The communicative constitution of organizational continuity and change over, in and through time
Sari Laari-Salmela, Juha Tuunainen, Kari Kantasalmi and Anu Kajamaa
Alternating states of ‘organizational matter’: A systems theoretical view on organizational stability, fluidity, and dissolution
Cristian Ziliberberg and Romeo V. Turcan
The dialectical flow of fleeting legitimations in organizational change
Parallel Stream B: Language and its Processing - Room: TC.4.17
Chair: Sanne Frandsen
Dieter Gutschi and Patricia Klarner
CEO curiosity and CFO conscientiousness: Changing the organization in tandem
Heidi Hirsto, Merja Koskela and Annukka Jokipii
Performing consensus and tension in financial communication
Salla-Maaria Laaksonen, Minna Koivula, Kaisa Laitinen and Jukka Huhtamäki
Materializing creativity: Slack conversations and the communicative patterns of creative teamwork
Session V: Friday, July 08, 14:00 to 15:30
- Parallel Stream -
Parallel Stream A: Media, Technology and Digital Communication - Room: TC.3.05
Chair: Salla-Maaria Laaksonen
Sanne Frandsen, Mette Morsing and Enrico Fontana
Frontline paranoia: Employees emotional responses to media stigmatization
Isabelle Fabienne Neufang, Jawwad Z. Raja and Thomas Frandsen
Informed
by the past, speaking from the future and performing in the present: A
ventriloquial analysis of digital technology use for classification work
Parallel Stream B: Translating Voices - Room: TC.4.17
Chair: Lars T. Christensen
Charlotte Jewell, Christophe Dubois, Frédéric Naedenoen Naedenoen and François Pichault
Organisation in crisis: Exploring the intensification of digital communication tools by hospital staff in a Belgian general
hospital during the Covid-19 pandemic
Jeannie Holstein and Anniina Rantakari
Stability and novelty in polyphony - Strategizing in the ‘summer camp glee’ of Borgen
Session VI: Saturday, July 09, 09:00 to 10:30, TC.3.05
Attachments
Chair: Alex Wright
Ellen Nathues, David Hollis and François Cooren
Chained to blockchain: Attachments’ swirling forces and dis/organizing consequentiality
Dany Baillargeon and Nicolas Bencherki
What makes (good) ideas hold together? Towards a theory of creative attachments
Nathalie Carol and Hélène Delacour
Exploring the spatial dimension of middle managers’ strategic sensemaking: Towards an integrative approach
Session VII: Saturday, July 09, 11:00 to 12:30, TC.3.05
Matters of Authority and Collective Actorhood
Chair: Nicolas Bencherki
Emma Christensen and Lars Thøger Christensen
Changed by a rainbow? Organizational voicings as sources of collective animation
Dennis Schoeneborn, Leonhard Dobusch and David Seidl
Towards a theory of organizationality: A gradual view on collective actorhood
Rieneke Slager, Emma Sjöström and Jean-Pascal Gond
Mirroring authoritative personae: Shareholder engagement on carbon emissions