Organization and Management Theory OMT

  ----------------- Message requiring your approval (50 lines) ------------------ Dear OMT colleagues,  We invite you to an exciting PDW that we have organized, as follows:  Revitalizing Organization Theory Saturday, August 8, 8:00 - 10:30 am Vancouver Convention Center 214  Join us for a workshop centered on three themes with great potential  for building theory and enhancing our practical relevance.  We have 3  panels with 3 speakers each and final comments from Dick Scott.  We  hope you leave with enthusiasm for new research agendas and/or a  chance to engage with a variety of scholars on the topics in which  you are already engaged.  1)  Big Data in OT. Brian Uzzi (Northwestern), Ming Leung (Berkeley) and Russ Funk  (Minnesota) will talk about opportunities for using Big Data.  Advances in data availability, storage and computational power have  opened up new avenues for organization theorists.  More than just  providing a larger "N" (sample size), such advances prompt different  kinds of questions and ways of doing research from those typical in  organization theory.  2) Organizing activity outside of formal organizations. Nils Brunsson (Uppsala), Marie Laure Djelic (ESSEC), and Silviya  Svejenova (Copenhagen) will talk about how organization theory would  be revitalized by greater attention to organizing elements outside of  traditional organizations. The entities we call organizations contain  a number of common organizing elements, or ingredients: e.g.,  hierarchy, rules, monitoring, sanctions, etc. Indeed, these elements  occur widely in society, including in markets, movements, and  transnational regimes.  3) Extending OT in understudied geographic contexts. Christina Ahmadjian (Hitotsubashi), Chris Marquis (Cornell ), and  Chris Yenkey (Chicago) will talk about the opportunities that market,  regulative, social, and cultural conditions from different  geographies provide to organization theory (and how OT helps us to  improve our understanding of these particular contexts). Organization  theory has largely been developed and tested in North American and  European contexts. Yet, the vast majority of the world's population  lives in other parts of the world (e.g., in Asia, Africa, Eastern  Europe, Latin America).  We hope to see you there!  Robert, Christine, and Dick.