Sub-theme 70: Temporary Organizing: A Field at Critical Junctures?

Convenors:
Joana Geraldi, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Dicle Kortantamer, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Jörg Sydow, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Session I: Thursday, July 04, 09:00 to 10:30, U6-P2-2135
Creating Value
Chair: Jörg Sydow
Alfons van Marrewijk
Critical conjunctures: Value creation in the South American Bi-Oceanic Corridor megaproject
Luigi Mosca, Alice Comi and Jennifer Whyte
Future making and megaprojects: A comparative analysis of Thames Tideway Tunnel and Masdar City
Francesco Di Maddaloni, Luigi Mosca, Armando Castro, Jacqueline Glass and Riccardo Vecchiato
Shared governance structures and value creation. The case of mandated collaborations in megaprojects
Session II: Thursday, July 04, 11:00 to 12:30, U6-P2-2135
Tackling Societal Challenges
Chair: Joana Geraldi
Leonore van den Ende
Festivals as living labs for innovation: Temporary organising for sustainable futures?
Daan Peeters
When the process is the content: A temporary space for a regional transition
Session III: Thursday, July 04, 14:00 to 15:30, U6-P2-2135
Organising for Responding to Crisis
Chair: Dicle Kortantamer
Diego Ponte, Marco Zamarian, Alberto Zanutto, Irene Gabutti and Enrico Piras
Temporary organizing in time of crisis: The case of centrale Covid
Anna Dziuba, Wojciech Piotrowicz and Emmanouela Mandalaki
Negotiating the limits of compassion organizing: Relief operations in an extended crisis context of war
Igor Khodachek and Jan Mouritsen
Defining success in temporary organizing: The case of Arctic sailing expedition
Session IV: Friday, July 05, 09:00 to 10:30, U6-P2-2135
Governing
Chair: Dicle Kortantamer
Alessandro Paravano, Giorgio Locatelli and Paolo Trucco
The influence of project governance on institutions: The COTS project developed by NASA and SpaceX
Joana Geraldi and Harvey Maylor
Holding to account: Exploring the process of questioning as project governance practice in the UK’s universal credit program
Jose Arroyo Portillo, Timo Braun and Luzie Nießner
Nudging in the context of organizational temporality: A systematic literature review
Session V: Friday, July 05, 11:00 to 12:30, U6-P2-2135
Connecting Temporary and Permanent Organizing
Chair: Jörg Sydow
Stewart Clegg, Miguel Pina e Cunha, Diórgenes Mamédio and Arménio Rego
Encounters with temporality, materiality and paradox: The project of Rick’s Café Américain, Casablanca
Harriet G. Finnegan and Nicola Mountford
The relationship between temporary organising and institutional logics
Joris J. Ebbers, Angelo Tomaselli and Salvatore Torrisi
Investor bias in project-based enterprises: Assessing reputations of entrepreneurial teams and their distribution partners
Rachel Fishberg and Lise Degn
Dissonant rhythms, unexpected stability: Temporal experiences of semi-temporary organizing in universities
Anette Hallin, Eva Maaninen-Olsson and Julie Delisle
Making sense of the muddy practices in semi-temporary organizing
Session VI: Friday, July 05, 14:00 to 15:30, U6-P2-2135
Evolving Nature of Work Structures and Sectors
Chair: Joana Geraldi
Viktoria Rubin
Temporary leadership for sustainable change: The critical scenarios of interim management
Laure Colin and Hervé Dumez
Cocktails really matter in the defense field configuring events for startup development
Session VII: Saturday, July 06, 09:00 to 10:30, U6-P2-2135
Orchestrating
Chair: Joana Geraldi
Steven Jeanbrun
Between openness and closure: Open organizing as a substitute coordination mechanism in dynamic temporary teams
Zuzana Murdoch and Vibeke Kroken
Getting in line: Synchronizing mechanisms in temporary inter-organizational networks
Ragnhild Kvålshaugen, Andrew Davies and Anna Swärd
The process of mutual adjustment in a large inter-organizational project
Session VIII: Saturday, July 06, 11:00 to 12:30, U6-P2-2135
Constructing Identities and Narratives
Chair: Dicle Kortantamer
Giacomo Dei, Joana Geraldi and Giorgio Locatelli
Multiple pasts and temporary organizations: An analysis of the cross-organizational battles of narratives for Fehmarbelt
Vedran Zerjav, Iben Stjerne and Jonas Söderlund
Identity work in temporary organisations
Graham Winch
Project organizing theory at the crossroads: New directions from conceptual foundations?