Sub-theme 54: Re-invigorating Institutional Approaches to Power and Politics: Populism, Post-truth, and the Social Destruction of Reality

Convenors:
Santi Furnari, City, University of London, United Kingdom
Bryant A. Hudson, IESEG School of Management, France
Juliane Reinecke, King’s College London, United Kingdom
Session I: Thursday, July 07, 11:00 to 12:30, D4.0.133
Introduction & Fake News / Fictionalism
Chair: Santi Furnari, Bryant A. Hudson & Juliane Reinecke
Hovig Tchalian
Factionalism and fictionalism: The interplay of logical and ideological commitments in the construction of social consensus
Itziar Castelló Molina, Marie Joachim and Glenn Parry
Symbolic embodiment work in disinformation attacks
Session II: Thursday, July 07, 14:00 to 15:30, D4.0.133
Framing and Discursive Work
Chair: Juliane Reinecke
Chuqiao Zhou, Tal Simons and Mirjam Werner
Framing contests and dialogues around the Belt and Road Initiative: An interactional approach to framing
Dana Entenza
Maintaining collective action frames in adverse environments: An analysis of the anti-Covid movement in Switzerland
Session III: Friday, July 08, 09:00 to 10:30, D4.0.133
Political CSR & Corporate Activism
Chair: Santi Furnari
Zena Al-Esia, Andrew W. Crane and Kostas Iatridis
Political Corporate Social Responsibility and Populism: Towards an Information-based approach
Paul M. Bedford, Kostas Iatridis and Andrew W. Crane
Political Corporate Social Responsibility in small businesses: An identity politics framework
Anna E. McKean
From covert action to overt activism: The evolution of corporate sociopolitical involvement
Session IV: Friday, July 08, 11:00 to 12:30, D4.0.133
Climate (in)action
Chair: Bryant A. Hudson
Mélodie Cartel, Jean-Pascal Gond and Emilio Marti
Anomalies and the Institutionalization of Values Practices
Jochem Kroezen and Mirjam Werner
Divides creeping in? Relational sensemaking and the construction of local participation during the energy transition in De Ronde Venen
Julian Barg and Mark J. Zbaracki
Knowledge, Power, and Deinstitutionalization. The Battle over Keystone XL
Session V: Friday, July 08, 14:00 to 15:30, D4.0.133
Populism and Authoritarianism
Chair: Juliane Reinecke
Kyoung-Hee Yu and Chris Wright
Strategic use of populist rhetoric by major parties: Changes in temporary migration policy in Australia
Marjan De Coster, Joost Luyckx and Patrizia Zanoni
Articulating 'the people'. The discursive neutralization of a populist movement
Farah Kodeih and Myrto Chliova
David Against Goliath: Responses of Civil Society Organizations in Times of Eroding Democratic Institutions
Session VI: Saturday, July 09, 09:00 to 10:30, D4.0.133
Collective Action
Chair: Santi Furnari
Stelios Zyglidopoulos, Elanor Colleoni and Laura Illia
Unity within diversity: The refracted convergence of heterogenous stakeholders in social media
Chenjian Zhang, Juelin Yin, Tao Wang and M. Tina Dacin
Dream big: A new actor's organizational identity work in an established field
Marija Roglić and Florence Palpacuer
Playing the scales: The story of the Pelješac LEADER initiative
Session VII: Saturday, July 09, 11:00 to 12:30, D4.0.133
Complexity, Politics, and Ideology in Management
Chair: Bryant A. Hudson
Juan Francisco Chavez R., Matthew Murphy and Belaid Moa
Unpacking institutional complexity and its consequences for organizational legitimacy: A configurational and bottom-up approach
Maria Missoni
May you live in interesting times: New politics, new control
Winslow A. Robertson and Carlos Rodriguez-Lluesma
Ideology as values versus ideology as optimization: The meaning of ideology in management