Link :
http://www.egosnet.org/conferences/collo22/sub_19.shtml
6-8 July, Bergen, Norway
Dealine for proposals : 6 January 2006
22th EGOS (European Group for Organizational Studies) Colloquium
Sub-theme 19: Action in Institutional Theory: Actors Creating, Maintaining
and Disrupting Institutions
Convenors:
Bernard Leca, ESSEC Business School and IAE of Lille, France
Bernard.leca@free.fr /
leca@essec.fr
Roy Suddaby, Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa, USA
roy-suddaby@uiowa.edu
Thomas B. Lawrence, Simon Fraser University, Canada
tom_lawrence@sfu.ca
Call for papers:
Past research in institutional theory has offered considerable insight into
the conforming influence of institutions on organizations. More recently,
institutional theorists have turned their attention to understanding the
role of individual and organizational actors in the creating, maintaining
and disrupting of institutions. Much of this attention revolves around
understanding processes of institutional entrepreneurship, but it also stems
from research on the process of deinstitutionalization.
We propose that these two streams of research represent unconnected strands
of a larger construct termed "institutional work", which involves the
purposive action of individuals and organizations aimed at creating,
maintaining and disrupting institutions (Lawrence and Suddaby, Forthcoming).
Thus far, research on institutional work has been largely unconnected as
such. The purpose of this research track, thus, is to stimulate and connect
theory and research in this area.
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:
a.. Micro processes of actors engaged in creating, maintaining or
disrupting institutions
b.. Institutional entrepreneurship
c.. Practices of deinstitutionalization
d.. Routines and practices that reproduce institutions within and across
organizations
e.. Types of agency and power relations in institutional work
f.. Actors' resistance to pressures to change institutions
g.. Cognitive, normative and regulative categories of institutional work
Papers might also take stock of what has already been achieved in our
understanding of institutional work and build on this existing knowledge. We
also welcome papers that bring new perspectives to understanding
institutional work such as (but of course not limited to):
a.. Social movements
b.. Actor network theory
c.. The sociology of practice
d.. Bourdieu's critical sociology
e.. The pragmatic sociology of Boltanski and Thevenot
Papers might also offer new epistemological and methodological approaches to
institutional work such as critical realism, rhetorical analysis, semiotics,
phenomenological approaches, action research, or network analysis.
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.
About the convenors:
Bernard Leca is PhD.Student at the ESSEC Business School and at the IAE of
Lille. His research focuses on institutional entrepreneurship and
inter-organizational power relations.
Homepage:
http://claree.univ-lille1.fr/xml_db/view_artics.php?login=LECA
Roy Suddaby is Assistant Professor in the Department of Management and
Organizations at the Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa. His
research focuses on institutional change. His primary empirical context is
professions and knowledge intensive firms. He is on the editorial Board of
Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review and Organization
Studies where he also serves as book editor (North America). He has been a
member of EGOS since the 17th colloquium in Lyon, France in 2001.
Tom Lawrence is the Weyerhaeuser Professor of Change Management at Simon
Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. His research focuses on the dynamics
of power, change and institutions in organizations and organizational
fields. He is a co-editor of the forthcoming Second Edition of the Handbook
of Organization Studies, and sits on the editorial boards of the Academy of
Management Executive and the Journal of Management Inquiry.