Sub-theme 18: Agency in Organization: The Human, More-than- and Other-than-Human
Convenors:
Daniel Milner, Oklahoma State University, USA
Bernard Leca, ESSEC Business School, France
María José (Majo) Murcia, Universidad Austral, Argentina
Session Time Corridor 1: Thursday, July 09, 09:00 to 12:00, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Starting from the individual
Break 1: 10:30 to 10:45
Chair: Daniel Milner
Tamara Volodina, Lukas Goretzki and Jan Pfister
The measured self: Identity work under performance measurement
Nicholas Marzohl, Tracey Dodd and Stephen Zhang
From an individual perspective: How non-executive director background, context and pressures may shape stewardship and agency.
Kerrie Howard
Strategy agents as takers and makers: A Bourdieusian perspective
Shotaro Yagi and Gia Ngan Truong
When Practice Becomes New-Materialist: Response-Ability and Durability in Open-Source Software
Session Time Corridor 2: Thursday, July 09, 16:00 to 19:30, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Relationality, structure, and social change
Break 1: 17:30 to 17:45
Chair: Bernard Leca & Majo Murcia
Mojtaba M. Shourkaei
Human-Centered vs. Relational View of Agency and Its Implications for Business Environmental Sustainability
Sarah Angela Steiner and Wolfgang Mayrhofer
A relational approach to agency: destabilizing the politics of individual responsibilisation in discourses of employability
Lena Fischer, Daniel Pastuh and Jan Goldenstein
When the world moves faster than the habitus of actors
Rachida Bouhid
Reframing Circular Economy Rebound Effects as More-Than-Human Organizing: A Critical Scoping Review
Chantal Hervieux and Wendy Carroll
A preliminary ROR of social innovation and social entrepreneurship literatures: Toward a conceptual model of social change
Session Time Corridor 3: Friday, July 10, 08:00 to 12:00, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Organizational actorhood & leadership
Break 1: 09:45 to 10:00
Chair: Bernard Leca & Daniel Milner
Nils Randriamanantena
How organizational dispositives shape collective agency over time: Evidence from project-based management in the public sector
Anne Moore, Jochen Schweitzer and Natalia Nikolova
The Agentic Organisation: From Roman armies to adaptive social systems and self-determining agents
Maria Esmeralda Palaganas
Agency in Creative Agencies: Finding Agency Signals in early Generative AI Use
Tatiana Shubina, Svetlana Khapova and David Kroon
When leaders struggle. Intrapersonal negotiations of light and dark side leadership in crisis
Mehdi Malekifar
Agency in retreat: Entrepreneurs and strategic disengagement from social conflicts
Gyanda Girisha
Negotiating agency at workplace: exploring female managers' lived experiences through gender microaggression
Session Time Corridor 4: Friday, July 10, 16:00 to 18:30, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Governance & psyche
Break 1: 17:00 to 17:15
Chair: Daniel Milner
Héloïse Haliday
Collective Agency as a Process: The Emergence of a Collective Analytic Function in a High-Performance Sport Staff
Tobias Heinrich, Carolin Krieweth and Malte Brettel
How paranoid CEOs shape their corporate world: Implications for TMT and board composition
Leanne Taylor (Teichner)
Evaluation governance as deep learning opportunities: The discursive conditions that support empathic evaluation cultures
Albin Mékari and François Grima
From organizational role to institutional agency: tracing the emergence of institutional entrepreneurship through authorization
dynamics and received social support in internal mediation
Session Time Corridor 5: Saturday, July 11, 09:00 to 12:30, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Institutions & universities
Break 1: 10:15 to 10:30
Chair: Majo Murcia
Dorian Hannig
Dealing with institutional contexts: What family-business research reveals about agency and institutional theory
Diana Martello and Paola Dubini
Heterogeneity and homogeneity of organizational responses to competing institutional demands: a systematic literature review
in the cultural field.
Samuele Signoretti, Tiziana Carmen Callari and Ylenia Curzi
Narrating agency in a more-than-human university: academic teachers’ identity work in the AI era
Marquis Bureau and Bianca Briciu
Professors’ agency to flourish in academic institutions – A multilevel perspective