Conference Schedule

Conference Location:

Segal Graduate School of Business

Simon Fraser University

500 Granville Street

Vancouver, B.C. V6C 1W6

Contact phone numbers:

Angela Leung: (778) 782-7839

Segal Security: (778) 782- 7911

June 17, 2010 – Conference Day 0

Location:

Segal Graduate School of Business

500 Granville St. (Corner of Granville and Pender)

Vancouver Sun Reading Room

6:00 – 7:30

Opening reception

7:30

Dinner adventures departing from the opening reception

June 18, 2010 – Conference Day 1

	Plenary Room 1500	Stream 1 – Power and Agency Host: Tom Lawrence Guests: Bob Hinings, Paul Hirsch Room 2800	Stream 2 – Practice Host: Tammar Zilber Guests: Doug Creed, Kamal Munir Room 2400	Stream 3 – Fields and Logics Host: Bernard Leca Guests: Tina Dacin, Marc Ventresca Room 1500
8:00 – 8:30	Light breakfast
8:30 -9:00	Opening: Bernard, Tammar, Tom
9:00 – 9:45	Keynote: Kamal Munir “Institutions, Work and Society”
10:15 – 10:30		Introduction to the stream	Introduction to the stream	Introduction to the stream
10:15 – 11:45		Brayden King (Northwestern University) & Fabio Rojas (Indiana University) “Breaking the machine of authority: How authority contestation and reproduction work” Discussant: Thibault Daudigeos & Marko Pitesa Thibault Daudigeos & Marko Pitesa (Grenoble Ecole de Management) “Functional experts as institutional workers: The case of OSH professionals” Discussant: Ebony Bridwell-Mitchell	Luc K. Audebrand (University of British Columbia) “The relationship between institutional work and the contradictions in organizational fields” Discussants: Anna Canato, Davide Ravasi & Nelson Phillips Anna Canato (IESEG School of Management), Davide Ravasi (Bocconi University) & Nelson Phillips (Imperial College Business School) “Practice adaptation in cases of low cultural fit: Institutional work in the adoption of Six Sigma at 4post” Discussant: Lisa Cohen	Elena Dalpiaz (Università Bocconi), Violina Rindova (University of Texas-Austin) & Davide Ravasi (Università Bocconi) “Recombining different logics in organizations: An exploratory study of institutional change and strategic renewal” Discussant: Ellen Crumley Ellen T. Crumley (University of Alberta) “Do not enter: How contested practices come into mature fields” Discussants: Robert David, Johnny Boghossian & Tina Dacin
11:45 – 12:45	Lunch
12:45 -2:15		Ignasi Marti & David Courpasson (EMLyon Business School) “Institutional work and emancipation: How actors work to resist oppression” Discussant: Aegean Leung, Charlene Zietsma & Ana Maria Peredo Aegean Leung, Charlene Zietsma & Ana Maria Peredo (University of Victoria) “Revolution of the middle-class housewives: The Seikatsu Club case in Japan” Discussant: Ebony Bridwell-Mitchell	Lisa E. Cohen (London Business School) “Making job designs: A process model of how jobs are designed” Discussant: Kate Cooney & Eve Garrow Kate Cooney (Boston University) & Eve Garrow (University of Michigan) “Institutional work in settings of institutional pluralism: Structuration processes between service and market logics in work integration social enterprises” Discussants: Erwin Danneels, Gianmario Verona & Bernardino Provera	Robert J. David, Johnny Boghossian (McGill University) & M. Tina Dacin (Queen’s School of Business) “Resisting the ascendant logic: Institutional work in the nascent quebec wine-making industry” Discussant: Tim Edwards Tim Edwards & Rick Delbridge (Cardiff Business School) “Complex institutional processes and the co-existence of institutional logics” Discussant: Tim Hargrave
2:15 -2:30	Refreshment Break
2:30 – 4:00		Ebony Bridwell-Mitchell (Brown University) “Agents in the system: The institutional mechanics of public school reform” Discussant: Paul Hirsch and Mary Kate Stimmler Paul Hirsch (Northwestern University) & Mary Kate Stimmler (UC Berkeley) “The Rhetoric of Maintenance as an Agent for Institutional Disruption: How “modernization” returned 21^st century banking to the 19^th century” Discussant: Tom Lawrence	Erwin Danneels (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Gianmario Verona (Bocconi University) & Bernardino Provera (Mercer Consulting) “(De-)institutionalizing organizational competence: Olivetti’s transition from mechanical to electronic technology” Discussants: Kafui Dansou & Ann Langley Kafui Dansou & Ann Langley (HEC Montréal) “Conventionalist theory, institutional work and the notion of test” Discussants: Maria Gondo & John Amis	Timothy J. Hargrave (University of Washington, Bothell) “The institutional work of managing multiple logics in stable organizational fields” Discussants: Amer Khan & Jaco Lok Amer Khan (University of Sydney) & Jaco Lok (University of New South Wales) “Assisting the poor through a financial systems logic: Beyond theorization and rhetoric in institutional change implementation” Discussants: Uchenna Uzo & Johanna Mair
4:15 -5:00	Peering into the future
5:00-7:00	Break
7:00-10:00	Dinner Reception Segal Building Room 1500

June 19, 2010 – Conference Day 2

	Plenary Room 1500	Stream 1 – Power and Agency Host: Tom Lawrence Guests: Bob Hinings, Paul Hirsch Room 2800	Stream 2 – Practice Host: Tammar Zilber Guests: Doug Creed, Kamal Munir Room 2400	Stream 3 – Fields and Logics Host: Bernard Leca Guests: Tina Dacin, Marc Ventresca Room 1500
8:30 – 9:00	Light Breakfast
9:00 – 9:15	Welcome: Bernard, Tammar, Tom
9:15 – 10:00	Keynote: Doug Creed “Institutions, work and identity”
10:15 -11:45		Thomas B. Lawrence (Simon Fraser University) “Social innovation in contested domains” Discussants: Barbary Gray, Jennifer Kish Gephart & Lindsey Pilver Barbara Gray, Jennifer Kish Gephart & Lindsey Pilver (Pennsylvania State University) “‘Class Work’: Understanding the micro-processes that reinforce and challenge inequality in organizations” Discussants: Girts Racko, Michael Barrett, Eivor Oborn & Bob Hinings	Maria Gondo (University of New Mexico) & John Amis (University of Memphis) “Institutional work as elaboration: The adoption of a legitimate practice” Discussants: Candace Jones, Felipe Gorenstein Massa & Massimo Maoret	Uchenna Uzo & Johanna Mair (IESE Business School) “Institutional work in the Nigerian movie industry: Strategic interactions in local ethnic communities to resolve institutional ambiguity” Discussants: Marvin Washington & Karen Patterson Marvin Washington (University of Alberta) & Karen D.W. Patterson (University of New Mexico) “Agents and institutions: Changes in work inputs and outcomes resulting from the megachurch movement” Discussants: Klaus Weber & Kathryn Heinze
11:45 -12:45	Lunch
12:45 – 1:30	Bernard, Tammar, Tom: Reflections on the conference – looking forward to the *Organization Studies* Special Issue on Institutions and Work.
1:00 – 2:30		Girts Racko (University of Cambridge), Michael Barrett (University of Cambridge), Eivor Oborn (Royal Holloway) & Bob Hinings (University of Alberta) “Institutional work as a relational practice: A case study of a North American healthcare corporation” Discussant: James Vardaman and John Amis James M. Vardaman (Mississippi State University) & John M. Amis (University of Memphis) “Understanding the discontinuity between field-level diffusion and local implementation: Workers, work, and sensemaking” Discussant: Brayden King	Candace Jones, Felipe Gorenstein Massa & Massimo Maoret (Boston College) “Building Meaning Through Artifacts: Institutional Work In The Creation And Preservation Of Symbolic Boundaries In Architectural Profession” Discussant: Aarti Sharma Aarti Sharma (University of South Florida) “Communicating for institutional change: A dialogic perspective” Discussant: Luc Audebrand	Klaus Weber & Kathryn L Heinze (Northwestern University) “Field work: The theorization of an insurgent institutional logic in alternative agriculture” Discussants: Trish Reay & Beth Goodrick Klaus Weber & Kathryn L Heinze Trish Reay (University of Alberta) & Beth Goodrick (Florida Atlantic University) “The identity work of maintaining a professional role: A historical view of U.S. pharmacists” Discussant: Elena Dalpiaz, Violina Rindova & Davide Ravasi
3:00 – 4:00	Closing Panel: Marc Ventresca, Bob Hinings, Tina Dacin: Issues facing the study of institutions and work
4:00 – 4:15	Goodbye: Bernard, Tammar, Tom

Note on Streams:

The purpose of allocating papers and authors to streams is to maximize the potential for deep, meaningful, constructive, intellectual conversation and development. We have worked hard to develop streams that have meaningful connections across papers and a diversity of authors in terms of backgrounds, geography and stage of career. We would like to ask you not to “shop around”, but to stay in your streams and contribute to it as an emerging conversation over the two days.

Format for paper presentation sessions:

Also in the spirit of fostering great conversations, we are asking authors not to “present” their work. All papers have discussants who will give a gift of constructive feedback to the authors. All participants have had the papers far enough in advance to read them, and so will be looking forward to asking questions and providing their own insights. Thus, the format we are proposing is the following:

40 minutes per presentation (5 minutes for transition and lost time)
- 10 minutes – Discussants comments
  - Give the gift of considered feedback to the authors
  - Feedback as a gift is:
    - understandable (specific, concrete, focused);
    - acceptable (balanced, descriptive);
    - useful (focused on changeable elements, highlighting a few major points).
- 8 minutes – Author’s plea for help.
  - Focus on ‘asking for help‘.
  - The 1 or 2 issues on which you want us to focus
- 22 minutes – Discussion

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