Sub-themes

The sub-themes of the 30th EGOS Colloquium 2014 are listed below!

Please note!

In view of technological developments in recent years, as well as the usual last minute changes to individual programs, the EGOS Board and the Organizing Committee of the 30th EGOS Colloquium decided that the programs of the sub-themes will no longer appear in the printed Colloquium book.

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List of sub-themes

Sub-theme 01: (SWG) Beyond the Mainstream: Careers of Special Groups Convenors: Polly Parker, Wolfgang Mayrhofer, Martin Gubler
Sub-theme 02: (SWG) Organizational Trust across Contexts: Towards More Context-sensitive Research Convenors: Nicole Gillespie, Antoinette Weibel, Rosalind H. Searle
Sub-theme 04: (SWG) Critical Approaches to Organizing and Managing Diversity [merged with sub-theme 45] Convenors: Regine Bendl, Elina Henttonen, Frances Tomlinson
Sub-theme 05: (SWG) Strategizing Practices and Resources: Unpacking the Micro-Foundations and Dynamics of Resource Allocation, Deployment, Development and Perception Convenors: Martin Friesl, Patrick Regnér, Carlo Salvato
Sub-theme 06: (SWG) Reconceptualizing Contemporary Public Services Organizations Convenors: Christine Teelken, Ewan Ferlie, Jean-Louis Denis
Sub-theme 07: (SWG) Visualizing Institutions and Knowledge Convenors: Markus A. Höllerer, Walter W. Powell, Tammar B. Zilber
Sub-theme 08: (SWG) Back to the Future: Using History to Study Organizations in Uncertain Times Convenors: Matthias Kipping, Behlül Üsdiken, R. Daniel Wadhwani
Sub-theme 09: (SWG) Leadership in Art, Design and Organization Convenors: Eila Szendy-El Kurdi, Pierre Guillet de Monthoux, Junko Takagi
Sub-theme 10: (SWG) Collaboration and Confrontation: Dynamic Interactions between Corporations and Non-Governmental Organizations Convenors: Frank de Bakker, Frank den Hond, Marie-France Turcotte
Sub-theme 11: (SWG) What's Up in the Contemporary MNC: New Research Perspectives Convenors: Christoph Dörrenbächer, Florian Becker-Ritterspach, Susanne Blazejewski
Sub-theme 12: (SWG) Re-processing Organization Studies: Rethinking Key Organizational Themes through a Processual Lens Convenors: Henrika Franck, Joep P. Cornelissen, Mike Zundel
Sub-theme 13: (SWG) Creative Industries Revamped: Trespassing and Crosspollination Convenors: Candace Jones, Barbara Slavich, Reut Livne-Tarandach
Sub-theme 14: (SWG) Organizational Network Research: Organization and Renewal of Organizational Networks Convenors: Terry L. Amburgey, Jörg Raab, Barak S. Aharonson
Sub-theme 15: (SWG) Organizational Ethnography: The Theoretical Challenge Convenors: Heidi Dahles, Heather Höpfl, Juliette Koning
Sub-theme 16: Theorizing Time and History within Organization Theory Convenors: David Chandler, Roy Suddaby, Rodolphe Durand
Sub-theme 17: Unexpected Events: Sensemaking, Monitoring, Coping Convenors: Daniel Geiger, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe, Georg Schreyögg
Sub-theme 18: Once More unto the Breach: Filling Institutional Voids in Emerging Markets Convenors: Ayse Saka-Helmhout, Marleen Dieleman, Suzana Braga Rodrigues
Sub-theme 19: Appropriating Value from Intra- and Inter-organizational Innovation Convenors: Dries Faems, Alberto Di Minin, Bart Van Looy
Sub-theme 20: M&A Activity in Times of Turbulence: Reshaping Environments, Organizations and Individuals? Convenors: Philippe Véry, Satu Teerikangas, Mélanie Hassett
Sub-theme 21: Emotions, Culture and Stress in the Global Interorganizational Encounters Convenors: Cary L. Cooper, Duncan N. Angwin, Shlomo Y. Tarba
Sub-theme 22: Movements, Markets and Fields Convenors: Brayden King, Simone Schiller-Merkens, Philip Balsiger
Sub-theme 23: Public Sector Reforms and Organizational Responses: Comparing Universities and Hospitals Convenors: Rómulo Pinheiro, Francisco O. Ramirez, Karsten Vrangbæk
Sub-theme 24: Markets, Sociality and Citizenship in Crisis: Marxist and Other Critical Approaches [merged with sub-theme 33] Convenors: Paul S. Adler, Lucia Garcia-Lorenzo, Matt Vidal
Sub-theme 25: Entrepreneurs, Networking and Clusters: A Multi-level Perspective Convenors: Cristina Boari, Tom Elfring, F. Xavier Molina Morales
Sub-theme 26: Emotions and (the Limits of) Institutional Control Convenors: Jaco Lok, Maxim Voronov, Hugh Willmott
Sub-theme 27: Business Models and Strategies: Organizations and Alternative Forms of Organizing Convenors: Stefan Haefliger, Charles Baden-Fuller, Vincent Mangematin
Sub-theme 28: Unsettling Boundaries: Practices of Inter-organizational Collaboration Convenors: Kristina Lauche, Hans Berends, Paul R. Carlile
Sub-theme 29: Rethinking Enterprise Models for the Future: Organizational Evolution towards Sustainability Convenors: Arnaldo Camuffo, Kerstin Neumann, Stefano Brusoni
Sub-theme 30: Challenging Change: Leading and Intervening Successfully [merged with sub-theme 39] Convenors: Ralf Wetzel, Ben Kuipers, Rune Todnem By
Sub-theme 31: Theorizing the Network Organization Convenors: Josh Whitford, Francesco Zirpoli
Sub-theme 32: Leveraging a Paradox Perspective to Reimagine, Rethink and Reshape Organization Tensions Convenors: Ina Aust-Gronarz, Marianne W. Lewis, Valérie Michaud
Sub-theme 33: MERGED with sub-theme 24! Convenors:
Sub-theme 34: The Rise of Accountability: Rethinking Management Accounting, Control and Organization Theory Convenors: Max Visser, Mahmoud Ezzamel, Ed Vosselman
Sub-theme 35: Status Mechanisms in Organizations and Markets: From Networks to Categories Convenors: François Collet, Déborah Philippe, Matthew S. Bothner
Sub-theme 36: Creativity in Doubtful Times: Exploring Challenges and Threats to Creativity Convenors: Jill Perry-Smith, Barbara Imperatori, Rita Bissola
Sub-theme 37: Studying Project-based Organizing through a Temporal Lens Convenors: René M. Bakker, Andreas Schwab, Jörg Sydow
Sub-theme 38: The Corporatization of Politics and the Politicization of Corporations Convenors: Christian De Cock, Daniel Nyberg, Christopher Wright
Sub-theme 39: MERGED with sub-theme 30! Convenors:
Sub-theme 40: Universities in Unsettled Times: Effects of Evaluations, Accreditations and Rankings Convenors: Lars Engwall, Alfred Kieser, Richard Whitley
Sub-theme 41: The Power of Management Experts in Organizations and Society Convenors: Stefan Heusinkveld, Andrew Sturdy, Andreas Werr
Sub-theme 42: Innovation in Organizations Convenors: J. Richard Harrison, Alf Steinar Sætre
Sub-theme 43: Performativity as Politics: Rethinking Performativity and Power Dynamics Convenors: Laure Cabantous, Jean-Pascal Gond, Yuval Millo
Sub-theme 44: Connectivity and Mobility: Organizational Control Meets Disruptive Technologies [merged with sub-theme 52] Convenors: Darl G. Kolb, Kristine Dery, Marleen Huysman
Sub-theme 45: MERGED with sub-theme 04 Convenors:
Sub-theme 46: Organizing the Uncanny: Rethinking the Uncomfortably Familiar in Organization Studies Convenors: Martin Parker, Simon Kelly, Kathleen Riach
Sub-theme 47: Sustaining Inequality? The Impact of Organizational Practices on Individual Employment Outcomes Convenors: Emilio J. Castilla, Isabel Fernandez-Mateo
Sub-theme 48: Reshaping Society through Social Innovation: Organizational, Community and Institutional Foundations Convenors: Damon Golsorkhi, Bernard Leca, Jeffrey Sallaz
Sub-theme 49: Affective Ontologies for Performative Organizations Convenors: Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Marianna Fotaki, Mark Thompson
Sub-theme 50: The Challenge of Configuration: Bridging Perspectives and Methodologies Convenors: Bart Cambré, Peer C. Fiss, Axel Marx
Sub-theme 51: Seeing, Knowing and Governing: The Organization, Institutionalization and Politics of Transparency Convenors: Mikkel Flyverbom, Christina Garsten, Afshin Mehrpouya
Sub-theme 53: Designing Innovative and Responsible Organizations: Cities, Communities and Workplaces [merged with sub-themes 54 and 55] Convenors: Stewart Clegg, Steven Dhondt, Nils Wåhlin, Gilles Crague
Sub-theme 54: MERGED with sub-theme 53! Convenors:
Sub-theme 55: MERGED with sub-theme 53! Convenors:
Sub-theme 56: Markets and (Re-)Valuations inside Sustainability Transformations Convenors: Peter Karnøe, Jeroen Struben, Liliana Doganova
Sub-theme 57: Language and Leadership: Discursive Variations in Ways of Leading Convenors: Doris Schedlitzki, Peter Case, David Knights
Sub-theme 58: Reshaping Firms: Downsizing, Reorganizing, Intervening Convenors: Rick Aalbers, James P. Guthrie, Wilfred Dolfsma
Sub-theme 59: Things Ain't What They Used to Be: Objects, Relations, Materiality Convenors: Dean Pierides, Jon Roffe, Stephen Andrew Linstead
Sub-theme 60: Rethinking Responses to Institutional Complexity Convenors: Royston Greenwood, Patrick A.M. Vermeulen, Charlene Zietsma
Sub-theme 61: Activity Theory and Organizations Convenors: Yrjö Engeström, Anu Kajamaa, Zlatko Bodrožić

Reimagining, Rethinking, Reshaping: Organizational Scholarship in Unsettled Times

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