Sub-theme 38: Open Strategy: Exploring Different Contexts, Actors, and Domains

Convenors:
David Seidl, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Robin Engelbach, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Winky Wu, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Session Time Corridor 1: Thursday, July 09, 10:30 to 12:00, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Session 1: What’s next in Open Strategy
Chair: Robin Engelbach & Eero Vaara
Felix Schmid
Are You Ready to Get Hurt? Vulnerability as the Litmus Test for Open Strategy
Discussant(s): Bhanu Pratap
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10:30–10:45: Opening: by sub-theme convenors
10:45–11:00: Introduction: Joint round of introduction
11:00–11:30: Kick-off Presentation: Richard Whittington, "Open Strategy: What's Next?"
11:30-12:00: Session 1 (Chair Robin Engelbach), Paper: Felix Schmid
Session Time Corridor 2: Thursday, July 09, 16:00 to 19:30, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Session 2: Participation, Boundaries, and Legitimacy in Open Strategy & Session 3: Structuring Open Strategy
Break 1: 17:30 to 18:00
Chair: Eero Vaara & Violetta Splitter
Jessica A. Crewe-Brown and Peter Smith
From Strangers to Strategists: The journey towards Participation in Open Strategy
Discussant(s): Tatsuyuki Takahashi
Yinfeng (Benny) Shen
Open Strategy as a Legitimacy Process: Evaluation and Contestation in Pluralistic Contexts
Discussant(s): Jessica Crewe-Brown
Tatsuyuki Takahashi and Tomonori Inukai
Corporate alumni networks as open strategy: Bridging organizational boundaries for dynamic capability development
Discussant(s): Yinfeng Shen
Theresa Füreder, Christoph Brielmaier and Martin Friesl
The third way of strategizing: Enabling induced autonomy through structural scaffolding
Discussant(s): Jukka-Pekka Heikkilä
Jukka-Pekka Heikkilä, Mia Leppälä, Jori Mäkkeli and Frank Martela
Scaling philosophies globally through open strategizing: interdiscursive struggles, attention contests, and orchestration in the Burning Man movement
Discussant(s): Laure Marty
Laure Marty
Inclusive organizing under temporal pressure: When participation becomes consequential in open strategy
Discussant(s): Theresa Füreder
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16:00–17:30: Session 2 (Chair Eero Vaara), Papers: Jessica Crewe-Brown, Yinfeng Shen, & Tatsuyuki Takahashi
18:00-19:30: Session 3 (Chair Violetta Splitter), Papers: Theresa Füreder, Jukka-Pekka Heikkilä, & Laure Marty
Session Time Corridor 3: Friday, July 10, 10:30 to 12:00, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Session 4: Openness in the More-than-Human Society
Chair: Josh Morton
Hyacinthe Caldwell
Am I just a QR code to you? Digitally mediated participation, expatriate privilege, and non-human authority during the Shanghai Spring Lockdown
Discussant(s): Lukas Zumbrunn
Lukas Zumbrunn
Understanding levels of transparency in strategic foresight as opportunities for inclusion
Discussant(s): Neringa Kalpokas
Neringa Kalpokas and Ivana Radivojevic
Information Boundary Work in Contested Strategic Change: Configuring Ambiguity, Secrecy, and Staged Disclosure Across Audiences
Discussant(s): Hyacinthe Caldwell
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10:30–12:00: Session 4 (Chair Josh Morton), Papers: Hyacinthe Caldwell, Lukas Zumbrunn, & Neringa Kalpokas
Session Time Corridor 4: Friday, July 10, 16:00 to 18:30, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Session 5: Communicating Openness and Performance & Session 6: Inter-organizational Strategizing
Break 1: 17:30 to 17:45
Chair: Richard Whittington & David Seidl
Cassia Heinzen, Eduardo Guedes Villar and Rosalia Lavarda
Strategic opening as a paradoxical practice: discursive openness and bounded action in a public organization
Discussant(s): Christian Bruck
Josh Morton, Chris Golding, Eero Vaara and Patrick Stacey
Opening strategy after the fact: A genre perspective on reflective strategic communication
Discussant(s): Cassia Heinzen
Christian Bruck, Alexander Engelmann and Werner Hoffmann
Open strategy, environmental dynamism, and firm performance: Evidence from the largest corporations in German-speaking countries
Discussant(s): Josh Morton
Flavio Santana, Maria-Elisa Brandão-Bernardes and Rosalia Lavarda
Transparency in inclusion: Time and Space in the Brazil 2050 Open Strategy Process
Discussant(s): Clarisse Gomes
Clarisse Gomes, Deborah Agostino, Andre Carlos Busanelli de Aquino and Luciano Rodrigues
Who counts as strategists in innovation districts?
Discussant(s): Wendy Kilminster
Wendy Kilminster
Open organizing at the interorganizational level: Comparing alternative conceptualizations of organizations of organizations
Discussant(s): Flavio Santana
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16:00-17:30: Session 5 (Chair Richard Whittington), Papers: Cassia Heinzen, Josh Morton, & Christian Bruck
17:45-19:15: Session 6 (Chair David Seidl), Papers: Flavio Santana, Clarisse Gomes, & Wendy Kilminster
Session Time Corridor 5: Saturday, July 11, 10:30 to 12:30, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Session 7: Celebrating Multiplicity in Open Strategy
Break 1: 11:45 to 12:15
Chair: Winky Wu
Bhanu Pratap and Jitesh Mohnot
Scaling up a firm with contesting subcultures in a highly regulated sector: An open strategy perspective
Discussant(s): Felix Schmid
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10:30–11:00: Session 7 (Chair Winky Wu), Paper: Bhanu Pratap
11:00 –11:45: Expert Panel: with Violetta Splitter & Eero Vaara
12:15-13:00: Wrap-up & Group Picture