Organization and Management Theory OMT

AOM 2025 PDW on studying institutional fields for advancing knowledge on grand challenges

  • 1.  AOM 2025 PDW on studying institutional fields for advancing knowledge on grand challenges

    Posted 5 days ago
    Come join us for an exciting PDW on Studying Institutional Fields Qualitatively for Advancing Knowledge on Grand Challenges!
    Session details can be found here:  https://cdmcd.co/jPdv5X

    Institutional fields are vital spaces for exploring and deepening our understanding of institutional processes. They also provide a particularly powerful lens for researching grand challenges and other complex phenomena. Studying them presents a number of methodological challenges, that we will discuss with some of the most accomplished qualitative scholars who have undertaken in-depth studies of institutional field:

    Santi Furnari, Bayes Business School, will discuss: 

    How to determine the boundaries of fields and study the interstitial spaces between them


    Nina Granqvist, Aalto University, will discuss:

    How to study field emergence


    Stine Grodal, D'Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University, will discuss:

    How to use archival data to study fields


    Anna Kim, McGill University, will discuss:

    How to study the relational dynamics between diverse field-level actors over time


    Elke Schuessler, Leuphana University, will discuss:

    How to mobilize field-configuring events as a site for research


    April Wright, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, will discuss:

    How to analyze field-data at multiple levels of analysis


    Charlene Zietsma, School for the Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, will discuss:

    How to study field evolution and change


    Tammar Zilber, Hebrew University Business School, will discuss:
    How to study fields ethnographically
     
    No papers to prepare!  A panel on key challenges will be followed by structured roundtable discussions with individual scholars. Just come and chat, and gain some useful guidance, advice, and tips for designing, conducting, and publishing studies on the structure and dynamics of institutional fields.

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    Debora Sara Anspach,
    Étudiante au doctorat - PhD student
    Department of Management
    3000, chemin de la Côte‑Sainte‑Catherine
    Montréal (Québec)  H3T 2A7
    514-441-3731