Organization and Management Theory OMT

We are planning a cozy workshop on Emotions and Institutions on December 11 and 12, 2013, in Toronto, Canada, and we have a few spots open for attendees. If you are working in this area and want to present an emerging paper or a fully developed paper, please submit a 1000 word abstract (for an emerging paper), or full paper by on October 31, 2013 to mtoubiana09@schulich.yorku.ca. There will be no conference fee, but we do ask you to cover your own travel and accommodation expenses. 

Background on the Emotions and Institutions Workshop

The relationship between emotions and institutions is an emerging area of inquiry, beginning to attract some significant interest. Extant work in institutional theory has a cognitive and rational bias that masks both the emotional impact that institutions have on individuals' lives (Creed, Dejordy & Lok, 2010; Creed, Hudson, Olkhuysen & Smith-Crowe, 2012), and the motivational force that emotions have for stimulating institutional work (Voronov & Vince, 2012; Toubiana, Zietsma & Bradshaw, 2013).  As Friedland (2013: 44) described:  "institutional life...demands myriad moments of located passion".   Related areas have also explored the effects of emotions on social outcomes and processes, identifying how anger can be used to mobilize social movement members to action (Goodwin & Jasper, 2006; Jasper 2011), how emotions can be "managed" in the service of organizational outcomes (Hochschild, 1983; Rafaeli & Sutton, 1987), and how emotions can be amplified in social settings (Collins, 2004; Hallett, 2003).

We feel that there is a significant need for institutional theory to take better account of emotions and their interrelationships with institutions. The objective of the Emotions and Institutions Workshop is to form a community of scholars interested in this area, to map the domain of scholarship, and identify some interesting research directions and a strong foundation for inquiry.  Doug Creed and Maxim Voronov will provide a keynote presentation and commentary, respectively, and other scholars will present their work in progress. 

Be part of the conversation...

If you would like to attend the conference but do not have a paper to submit, please email us (mtoubiana09@schulich.yorku.ca) and tell us about your interests.  If you are unable to attend the conference, but would like to be included in future communications on the topic, please let us know. 

...Charlene and Madeline

References 

Collins, R. 2004. Interaction ritual chains. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Creed, W. E. D., R. Dejordy, and J. Lok. 2010. "Being the change: Resolving institutional contradiction through identity work " Academy of Management Journal, 53:1336-1364.

Creed, W. E. D., B. A. Hudson, G. A. Okhuysen, and K. Smith-Crowe. 2012. "Swimming in a sea of shame: incorporating emotion into explanations of institutional reproduction and change." Paper presented at the 28th EGOS Colloquium Helsinki

Friedland, R. 2013. "God, love and other good reasons for practice: Thinking through institutional logics." Pp. 25-50 in Institutional Logics in Action: Research in the Sociology of Organizations, vol. 39A, edited by M. Lounsbury and E. Boxenbaum: Emerald Group Publishing.

Goodwin, J. and J. M. Jasper. 2006. "Emotions and social movements." Pp. 611-636 in Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions, edited by J. E. Stets and J. H. Turner. New York:  Springer.

 Hallett, T. 2003. "Emotional Feedback and Amplification in Social Interaction." The Sociological Quarterly, 44:705-726.

 Hochschild, A.R.1983.  The managed heart: Commercialization of human feeling. Berkeley: University of California Press.

 Jasper, J. M. 2011. "Emotions and social movements: twenty years of theory and research." Annual Review of Sociology, 37:285-303.

 Rafaeli, Anat, and Robert I. Sutton. 1987. "Expression of emotion as part of the work role." Academy of Management Review, 12: 23-37.

 Toubiana, M., Zietsma, C. & Bradshaw, P. 2013.  "The message is on the wall: Emotions, institutional expectations and the dynamics of emotive institutional work."  Paper  presented at the 29^th EGOS Colloquium, Montreal.  

 Voronov, M. and R. Vince. 2012. "Integrating emotions into the analysis of institutional work." Academy of Management Review, 37:58-81.