Do you have an interest in the microfoundations of institutions? Are you interested in the topics of institutional work, logics, emotions, identity and/or values? If yes, please join us in attending this fascinating panel symposium!
Values, Emotions, Identity, Logics & Work, Finding the Ties that Bind Us
Monday August 8th, 11:30am in the Platinum Ballroom 2 room of the Anaheim Marriott.
Program Session: 1116
Organizer: Madeline Toubiana, U. of Alberta
Presenter: Maxim Voronov, Brock U.
Presenter: William Ocasio, Northwestern U.
Presenter: Marya L. Besharov, Cornell U.
Presenter: Tammar B. Zilber, Hebrew U. of Jerusalem
Presenter: Joel Gehman, U. of Alberta
Recently there has been a growing acknowledgment that institutions are inhabited by actors who constitute, and are constituted by, institutional activity (Creed, Hudson, Okhuysen, & Smith-Crowe, 2014; Hallett & Ventresca, 2006). As Hallett and Ventresca explained "institutions are not inert categories of meaning; rather they are populated with people whose social interaction suffuse institutions with local force and significance" (2006: 213). The notion of inhabited institutions has given rise to a broad range of perspectives within institutional theory that collectively have been referred to as the "microfoundations" of institutions.
These institutional perspectives combine appreciation for seminal institutional topics like reproduction, change and complexity with a focus on the impact of, and impact on, the actors embedded within institutional domains. Since 2008 there has been substantial progress towards this objective across the institutional theory community: especially within the theoretical perspectives of institutional work, identity, institutional logics, emotions and values.
However, while clearly these diverse institutional approaches have made progress in outlining the microfoundations of institutions, there has been surprisingly limited engagement across and between them. Accordingly, in this symposium we seek to explore what binds and brings these institutional lens together as possible mechanisms for understanding the microfoundations of institutions. To do so we bring together renowned scholars from each of these theoretical domains who will speak to their approach and then reflect on the possibilities and potential for scholarly inquiry connecting their lens to the others brought up in the panel.
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Madeline
Madeline Toubiana PhD
Assistant Professor
Strategic Management and Organization
Alberta School of Business
University of Alberta