PDW invitation to scholars interested in Managing Involvement in Exceptional Process Research
Engaged and Engaging: Managing Involvement in Exceptional Process Research
Session Type: PDW Workshop
Program Session: 189 | Submission: 11253 | Sponsor(s): (RM, OMT, SAP, TIM)
Scheduled: Friday, Aug 10 2018 6:00PM - 8:00PM at Sheraton Grand Chicago in Sheraton Ballroom III
Organizer: Claus Rerup, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Presenter: Ann Langley, HEC Montréal
Presenter: Majken Schultz, Copenhagen Business School
Presenter: Andrew H. Van de Ven, U. of Minnesota
Presenter: Gail Whiteman, Lancaster U. Management School
Facilitator: Kimberly D. Elsbach, U. of California, Davis
Facilitator: Martha S. Feldman, U. of California, Irvine
Facilitator: Jennifer Howard-Grenville, Cambridge Judge Business School
Facilitator: Paula Jarzabkowski, City U. London
Facilitator: Brian T. Pentland, Michigan State U.
Building off the successful workshops on process research organized over the past 14 years, this year's workshop focuses on managing involvement in exceptional process research. The "involvement paradox" is an important, but overlooked aspect of the qualitative research process (Langley and Klag, 2017). The essence of this paradox is that on the one hand, process scholars want to get as close as possible to the process phenomena and experiences they are studying, and to study them for prolonged periods of time in order to enhance the richness and quality of their understanding and interpretation; yet on the other hand, such deep and long term engagement may sometimes have unsuspected implications for the nature of the knowledge created. Consequently, the workshop is designed to allow junior scholars an opportunity to engage with more experienced experts so as to convey in their own work the richness and emotion enabled by proximity and prolonged engagement, but also to convey adequate professional distance so that their work will not be dismissed as biased, blind, self-serving or unscientific.