Dear colleagues and friends,
I just want to inform about a track on EGOS about the (organizational) origins and consequences of competition this summer, 2017.
Competition is one of the central concepts in management and organizational theory. However, despite its wide usage, competition have not been a well-defined or understood concept within the field. It has routinely been conceptualized as an exogenously determined force on organizations, implying "market forces" or "resource overlaps" which are all present, yet beyond the control of those who compete.
While this perspective affords some understanding of competition, it limits our understanding of fundamental questions such as how competition emerges, how it is maintained, and how it affects organizations.
In the track we want to emphasize discussions around how to escape from this "black box" version of competition borrowed from economics, and to provide a deeper understanding, founded in organization theory, of how competition is constructed in and between organizations and with what consequences.
· How do ideas about competition arise and spread
· When is an organizational situation constructed as competition, and when is it not?
· What happens to an organization when it competes?
· How does competition work? What are organizational mechanisms that translate individual motivation to organizational action?
The session will be organized by Nils Brunsson, Raimund Hasse and Stefan Arora-Jonsson
Link: http://www.egosnet.org/jart/prj3/egos/main.jart?rel=de&reserve-mode=active&content-id=1442567999321&subtheme_id=1442568082089
Niklas Bomark
Researcher, PhD
Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University
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Uppsala University
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E-mail: niklas.bomark@fek.uu.se
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