Sub-theme 44: Reconciling Systems Theories and Approaches to Organization Studies
Convenors:
Domenico Dentoni, MBS School of Business, France
Silvia Dorado, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA
Sandra Waddock, Boston College, USA
Session Time Corridor 1: Thursday, July 09, 07:00 to 12:00, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Break 1: 08:30 to 10:00
Break 2: 10:30 to 12:00
Chair: Silvia Dorado
Mertijn Weeda, Annelies Bobelyn, Alex Alblas, Bob Walrave, Alex Alblas and Annelies Bobelyn
The paradox of (dis)trust in collaborative innovation: the case of an energy hub
Jan Lodge, Yanfei Hu and Frank Wijen
When hype stalls: Ecosystem dynamics and the unfulfilled promise of vegan meat
Julie Solbreux and Julie Hermans
Narrative mapping for systemic change: a multi-level participatory framework for researching social innovation and its scaling
deep
Fenna Kortstee, Zahra Shams Esfandabadi and Bob Walrave
Systemic Rebound Effects: Cascading Rebound in the Context of Digitally-enabled Sharing Platforms
Nadia Boulmakoul
Taking the ecosystem metaphor seriously: how an ecosystem-based heuristic helps understand the functioning of entrepreneurial
ecosystems
Chiara Andreoli, Guillermo Casasnovas, Leonora Buckland and Lisa Hehenberger
Custodians of Possibility: Philanthropic Foundations for Systems Change and Hope Generation
Aynur Nabiyeva
Reframing Unintended Consequences as Emergent System Responses in Social Entrepreneurship
Valentin Held
Systemic entrepreneuring and natural disasters: Case study of a Spanish community foundation
Session Time Corridor 2: Thursday, July 09, 16:00 to 20:00, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Break 1: 16:00 to 17:30
Break 2: 18:00 to 19:30
Chair: Domenico Dentoni
Sylvia Grewatsch and Alex Ryan
Creating long-term impact in a world that requires short-term results: What is missing from academic discourse on systems
change
Marija Roglić, Domenico Dentoni and Florence Palpacuer
Change everything to change nothing: A systems lens on institutional inertia
Rebecca A.E. Kirley
Exit Leviathan, enter the octopus? Proprioceptive learning in public organizations
Bernard Voz, Arnaud Duhoux, Annie Rioux-Dubois, Marie-Ève Poitras, Morgane Gabet, Ariane Fauteux Duarte, Marlène Karam, Nadia Sourial, Emilie Dufour and Nancy Côté
Organizational pathways through uncertainty: innovative healthcare organizations building autonomy through interdependencies
Annika Voltan
If it’s better, why is it so hard? Unpacking organizational change through the lens of complex adaptive systems
Charlene Zietsma, Luciano Barin Cruz, Bernard Leca and Jean-Pascal Gond
Strengthening and scaling responses to grand challenges: Integrating systems theorizing with institutional work and robust
action
Gabriel Bonifield, Jarrod Ormiston, Martin Bliemel and Martin Tomitsch
Digital twins and future-making: Unpacking the interplay of governance and temporality in addressing planetary health challenges
André Reichel
Organising Beyond Control: Second-Order Systems Perspectives for Organisation Studies
Session Time Corridor 3: Friday, July 10, 07:00 to 12:00, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Break 1: 08:30 to 10:00
Break 2: 10:30 to 12:00
Chair: Silvia Dorado
Anna Margolis and Fenna Blomsma
Embedding Systems Thinking in Organizations: An Action Design Research Study
Elena Mellado-Garcia and Pratima Bansal
Systems-based methodologies for complex management issues: A critical realist framework
Fenna Blomsma and Sigurd S. Vildåsen
Structured pluralism for systemic change: creating knowledge ecologies with the Knowledge Loom
Stephanie Rüegger, Valen Boyd, Michelina Aguanno and Tima Bansal
Systems action: heuristics for navigating complexity without losing the ability to act
Alexa Böckel, Katharina Hug, Domenico Dentoni, Steffen Farny and Viktoria Esker
Participatory governance based on systems thinking in an innovation ecosystem
Britt Smulders and Annemarie Dedden
Towards systems-sensitive strategizing: Entangled action in times of grand challenges
Marco Kiehl and Katharina Spraul
Enabling circular transformation in producing companies through a co-designed framework
Ke Zhou
Discovering System Boundaries in Causal Loop Diagrams: an example of World3 model
Session Time Corridor 4: Friday, July 10, 16:00 to 18:30, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Break 1: 16:00 to 17:15
Break 2: 17:15 to 18:30
Chair: Sandra Waddock
Ryan MacNeil
Epistemic dynamics and scholarly lock-in: Looping ‘innovation systems’ back toward planetary limits
Elif Kus Saillard
The Tetra-Somatic Organization: From Aggregation to Entanglement in the More-than-Human World
Catriona M. Burke
Beyond leverage points? Extending Meadow’s towards a temporal theory of systemic intervention
José Antonio Moncho Muñoz
Systemic organizational constellations as a soft methodology of systemic-teleological and phenomenological modelling for reducing
complexity and revealing invisible dynamics
Vidya Oruganti, Mats Blakstad, Bengt Stavenow and Jan Håvard Skjetne
Collaborative Spaces in Large Systems Change
Tomonori Inukai
Organizational Routines as Socio-Ecological Causal Loops: A Systems Theory Perspective on Unintended Consequences and Transformative
Change
Noah Maurer and Matteo Burato
Tackling Grand Challenges Through Organise Systems Change: A Case Study of Systems Change Agent Systemiq
Johan Holmén and Sofie Peters
Ecological systems and ecological reflexivity in health care transformations: towards a purposeful learning ecology?
Session Time Corridor 5: Saturday, July 11, 08:00 to 12:30, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Break 1: 08:30 to 10:00
Break 2: 10:30 to 12:00
Chair: Domenico Dentoni
Leonie Eising-Mertsch, Laura Fey and Anna Stöber
Developing multilevel resilience in an agroecosystem: A systems perspective
Elda Nasho Ah-Pine and Raphaël De Vittoris
Towards a geopolitics of antifragility: multi-level organizing in systemic crisis
Mengyao (Angel) Yang and Alessia Contu
Cycles of organizational democracy: A systems theory rereading of degeneration
Martina Linnenluecke and Celina McEwen
Preparing with climate risk: Governing shared resilience assets
Lena Kaufmann
Working through paradox as a micro-process of systems change in regenerative organizing
Nici Zimmermann
Using systems thinking in organisation and management research
Bringing together System Theories and Organizational Theory in the context of Urban Risk Regimes: Critical Realism as an
alternative to “Assemblage approach”.
Corentin Gariel
Framing wicked problems as systemic issues: the case of plastic pollution in emerging countries