>> Apologies for cross posting.
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>> EGOS 2008 in Amsterdam
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>> Sub-theme: Institutional Work: Understanding How Actors Create, Maintain and
>> Disrupt Institutions
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>> For details:
http://www.egosnet.org/conferences/collo24/sub_22.shtml
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>> Due date for abstracts: January 13, 2008
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>> Convenors:
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>> Tom Lawrence
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>> Simon Fraser University, Vancouver (Canada)
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tom_lawrence@sfu.ca
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>> Bernard Leca
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>> University of Nottingham Business School (UK)
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bernard.leca@nottingham.ac.uk
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>> Roy Suddaby
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>> Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta (Canada)
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roy.suddaby@ualberta.ca
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>> Peter Walgenbach
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>> University of Erfurt (Germany)
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peter.walgenbach@uni-erfurt.de
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>> Call for papers:
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>> Our aim in this sub-theme is to discuss research and theory that focuses on
>> institutions and institutional change as the practical accomplishment of
>> individual and organizational actors. Building on insights gained from
>> research on institutional entrepreneurship and deinstitutionalization, this
>> sub-theme is intended to facilitate the exploration of 'institutional work'
>> - purposive action of individuals and organizations aimed at creating,
>> maintaining and disrupting institutions (Lawrence & Suddaby, 2006).
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>> Recently, scholars working in the institutional tradition have begun to
>> devote considerable attention to the interactions between agents and
>> institutions, primarily under the rubric of institutional entrepreneurship.
>> Such research has documented significant examples of institutional
>> entrepreneurship by individuals, organizations and supra-organizational
>> bodies, but has focused relatively narrowly on instances of transformational
>> change led by individuals or small networks of actors. Relatively neglected
>> in this work, however, has been the work of actors to maintain and to
>> disrupt institutions, as well as the role of loosely and tightly connected
>> networks in creating, maintaining, and disrupting institutions. Also largely
>> missing in this research has been the interplay of material and discursive
>> resources in institutional work, the role of politics and identity in
>> institutional work, the roles of resistance, bricolage and improvisation in
>> institutional work, and the relationship between institutional and symbolic
>> work in and around organizations. We intend to stimulate and connect theory
>> and research across all of these issues.
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>> In order to do so, we welcome empirical papers that describe and analyze
>> practices of institutional work, as well as theoretical papers that discuss,
>> extend, elaborate and challenge the notion of institutional work.
>> Specifically, we are interested in papers that explore the processes by
>> which institutions are created, maintained and disrupted. Hence we are
>> interested in papers that explore and challenge:
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>> · Agents actively engaged in the creation, maintenance or disruption
>> of institutions, including the micro processes of such engagements
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>> · Relationships between discursive, material and practical dimensions
>> in institutional works
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>> · Articulation between practices and institutionalized habits within
>> and across organizations
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>> · Types of agency and power relations in institutional work
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>> · Actors' resistance to institutions and attempts to change
>> institutions
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>> · Cognitive, normative and regulative categories of institutional
>> work
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>> We are particularly interested in papers that further develop the concept of
>> institutional work, either conceptually or empirically. Such papers might
>> take stock of and build on what has already been achieved in our
>> understanding of institutional work in other related areas of inquiry, such
>> as boundaries and boundary work, structuralism and post-structuralism,
>> feminism and queer theory, and the pragmatic sociology of Boltanski and
>> Thévenot.
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>> Other such papers might offer new epistemological and methodological
>> approaches to institutional work such as critical realism, rhetorical
>> analysis, semiotics, phenomenological approaches, action research, or
>> network analysis.
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>> Finally, we are interested in papers that apply and extend the construct of
>> institutional work to new and emerging empirical contexts including social
>> entrepreneurship, new technologies, professions and professional work, and
>> new forms of organizing. Comparative analyses of institutional work are
>> especially welcome.
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