Greetings OMT Colleagues,
A gentle reminder of our invitation to attend the following AOM PDW this
Friday morning. No registration is required.
Engaging Ostrom: Why and How Organizational Theorists Should
Friday, Aug 1 2014
10:15AM - 12:15PM
Pennsylvania Convention Center in Room 122 A
PDW organizers:
Jan Lepoutre; ESSEC Business School;
Marc Ventresca; U. of Oxford;
Mike Valente; York U.;
Invited distinguished scholars:
Shaz Ansari; U. of Cambridge;
Frank Wijen; Erasmus U. Rotterdam;
Michael L. Barnett; Rutgers U.;
Desiree F. Pacheco; Portland State U.;
Barbara Gray; Pennsylvania State U.;
Jill M. Purdy; U. of Washington, Tacoma;
Aseem Prakash; U. of Washington;
Alfred Allen Marcus; U. of Minnesota;
Questions of collective action, sustainability, and the governance of
common resources are prominently back on scholarly and policy agendas.
These issues speak to core concerns of theories of organizations and
institutions. Our proposal is that, despite many strengths, work in
organization and management theory has struggled to incorporate questions
of collective action and commons governance. This despite much useful work
on areas as diverse organizational change, intra- and cross-sector
collaboration, collective entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial initiative,
studies of infrastructure and emerging markets, corporate and sector
governance, and the broad set of vexed, lively issues in business and
society. This PDW assembles leading scholars from several of these areas
who share a common concern with the potential contributions of political
scientist Elinor Ostrom and her work on the governance of common-pool
resources for organization theory. The intent of the PDW is to bring the
work of Ostrom and her colleagues into the current vocabulary of
researchers concerned with organizations and institutions, in order to
provide participants with research ideas, theoretical insights, publication
strategies and potential research partners and further research on the
governance of common-pool resources. To accomplish this, we propose an
interaction- rich format that includes a panel with authors who have
recently published Ostrom-inspired research, a sustained period of analytic
problem-focused roundtable discussions, and a closing panel with
distinguished scholars whose work intersects with core Ostrom themes.
Mike Valente
York University
Toronto, Canada