Organization and Management Theory OMT

Research at the Interface of Institutional and Organizational Change: Theoretical Opportunities

Schedule: Saturday, Aug 8, 2015, 12:15PM - 2:45PM

Location: Offsite in UBC Robson Square- Room C150    

Organizers: Namrata Malhotra, Imperial College London; Henri Schildt, Aalto University;

Panelists:

Bob Hinings, U. of Alberta;

Eva Boxenbaum, Mines ParisTech;

Jaco Lok, U. of New South Wales;

Emily S. Block, U. of Notre Dame

Over the years, organizational and institutional change literatures have developed their own conceptual vocabularies, with limited interaction. These mature research traditions have great potential for fruitful interaction. The aim of our PDW is to explore how organizational and institutional change literatures could theoretically inform and enrich each other, generating potential for integrative theoretical frameworks to help address current and emerging questions about change.

The PDW is both integrative and developmental in flavor as it seeks to push scholars situated in either one or both, institutional change and organizational change, domains to think of ways to foster connections between the two areas to build a more complete theoretical toolkit. This would not only help address current challenging questions about 'change' but also open further avenues for interesting research at the cusp of the two domains. The workshop will be of interest to faculty and PhD students. We will have an invited panel of four scholars to initiate the discussion and facilitate roundtable interaction among participants.

The PDW consists of the following three elements:

1.      Introduction and Panelists' opening thoughts (50 minutes)

2.      Roundtable discussions (60 minutes)

3.      Pulling together themes and future directions (40 minutes)

You do not have to pre-register for the session, but we strongly encourage participants to submit a one-page summary/draft on research at the interface of organizational and institutional change. The deadline for submission is June 15, 2015. Please send the papers to n.malhotra@imperial.ac.uk. We will assign accepted one-pagers to different round tables moderated by the expert panelists. The suggested themes for research papers and round tables include (but are not limited to):

1. Resolving and coping with tensions across levels of analysis

2. Institutional hybridity and organizational change

3. Institutional work and organizational change; organizational identity work and institutional change

4. Understanding institutional and organizational changes in the context of inter-organizational adaptation and co-evolution

This PDW offers a great opportunity to create dialogue between institutional change and organizational change scholars and also to those who are already working at the intersection to share their theoretical and empirical challenges.

Session meets Saturday 12:15-14:45 at UBC Robson Square Room C150.

UBC Robson Square is located at 800 Robson Street (between Hornby and Howe Streets).

If you are grappling with interesting theoretical and empirical questions at the cusp of institutional and organizational change, please come and share your thoughts and ideas at our PDW. No pre-registration is required. But we welcome a one-pager beforehand on research/issues you wish to share and discuss. Please see details of the PDW below. Hope you can join us for a rich and lively discussion!