CRITICAL MANAGEMENT STUDIES

Conference Symposia Abstracts

BEYOND ETHICS: PASSIONATELY EMBODYING ETHICAL
CONCERN ABOUT THE IMPACTS OF GLOBALIZATION
Chair: Wankel, Charles; St. John's U., New York; wankelc@stjohns.edu
Chair: Malleck, Shaun; U. of California, Irvine; smalleck@uci.edu
This session presents research that is focused on topical issues on ethical concern for the
impacts of globalization. Questions for us as global citizens regarding our capacities for ethical
choice in a complex, interdependent world are put forth. The multi-discipline perspective of
embodied ethics for expanding our conscious capacities is parsed. Six stories are offered which
illustrate these dynamics: three stories reveal the ways individuals felt their own interconnectivity
with others, giving rise to ethical choices with positive global impacts, and three stories reveal the
ways individuals denied their own interconnectivity with others, giving rise to unethical choices
with negative global impacts. Problems with bottom of the pyramid strategies are
analyzed.models. Two precepts are addressed: (1) large corporations remain largely in control of
the globalization process, and (2) the process of globalization is very unlikely to occur ethically if
large corporations remain in control. Even in the face of personal values that oppose a business
decision, business pressures in the American model continue to put profits first as the greatest
good. On a global scale, good, ethical individuals are pressured to negate their personal values
by taking advantage of lax human rights, sweatshops, child labor, and environmental pollution, in
order to increase shareholder value. Indeed, they likely would not have obtained the position as
CEO of a company unless they were willing to make such a sacrifice.
Keywords: Bottom of the Pyramid, Ethics, Globalization

Beyond Ethics: Passionately Embodyiing Ethical Concern about the

Impacts of Globalization
Wankel, Charles; St. John's U., New York; wankelc@stjohns.edu
Malleck, Shaun; U. of California, Irvine; smalleck@uci.edu
Embodied Ethics for Our Interdependent World: How Micro-Level Choices
Lead to Macro-Level Impacts
Maurseth, Julianne E.; Dominican U. of California;
julianne.maurseth@dominican.edu
Unintended Consequences of Business with Four Billion
Landrum, Nancy E.; U. of Arkansas, Little Rock; nelandrum@ualr.edu
Racing to the Bottom: The Effects of Globalization on Global Ethics
Ritter, Barbara A.; Coastal Carolina U.; britter@coastal.edu

CARING TO TEACH ISSUES OF ETHICS AND

RESPONSIBILITY
Speaker: Matten, Dirk; York U.; dmatten@schulich.yorku.ca
Speaker: Contu, Alessia; U. of Warwick; alessia.contu@wbs.ac.uk

Participant: Srinivasan, Vasanthi; Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore;

vasanthi@iimb.ernet.in
Participant: Andersson, Lynne; Temple U.; landerss@temple.edu
Participant: Fleming, Peter; U. of Cambridge; p.fleming@jbs.cam.ac.uk
With this panel symposium we wish to bring together a number of colleagues who have been
involved in pushing the boundaries in teaching issues of ethics and responsibility to business
students. Caring for such endeavour has become paramount for the education of responsible
managers, particularly in the wake of the financial crisis and the impeding decisions regarding a
world concerned with increasing disparity between rich and poor, mounting global social conflicts
and the destructive concequences of climate change. In this symposium panel members will
present, theorise on, and discuss their own experiences of teaching business students in the US,
India, the UK and Canada, the innovations they are pushing forward. All of this and the key
lessons learnt are offered for a general discussion to the audience.
Keywords: None

COMPLICATING ETHNOGRAPHY FOR COMPLICATED

ORGANIZATIONS
Chair: Prasad, Pushkala; Skidmore College; pprasad@skidmore.edu
The presenters in this symposium collectively revisit the methodology of ethnography, arguing
that changes in the nature of contemporary organizations and renewed debates about
interpretations of fieldwork need to be given greater consideration in the practice of ethnography.
The first presentation revisits a central ethnographic concept thick description, arguing that it
should include elements of overinterpretation and speculation in order to perform insightful
analyses of organizations. The second presentation makes the case for deliberately adding thin
layers of description (i.e. demographic data) to more conventional thick descriptive studies of
organizations. The third presentation discusses the use of multi-sited ethnography in a study of
workplace diversity in six Canadian corporations. The fourth presentation proposes an
epistemology of workplace that spatially and temporally diffuses the organization and meaning of
work across multiple sites of cultural activity. Altogether, the presentations raise fundamental
questions about the epistemology and methodology of organizational ethnography, and offer
alternative visions about practicing it.
Keywords: Ethnography, Organizational Culture, Methodology

Thickening Thick Descriptions

Svensson, Peter; Lund U.; peter.svensson@fek.lu.se
You're Doing What?!: An Argument for Mixed Methods in the Study of
Organizations
Wells, Celeste; U. of Utah; celestecwells@gmail.com
The Nomadic Turn In Ethnography: From Single to Multi-Sited
Organizational Inquiry
Prasad, Anshuman; U. of New Haven; aprasad@newhaven.edu
Prasad, Pushkala; Skidmore College; pprasad@skidmore.edu
Losing Site? Rethinking the Epistemology of Workplace

Ashcraft, Karen Lee; U. of Colorado, Boulder;

Karen.Ashcraft@colorado.edu
SHOWCASE SYMPOSIUM

CULTIVATING EXCLUSION: COMPLEXITIES OF

SUSTAINABILITY CERTIFICATION IN THE FOOD SECTOR
Organizer: van der Kamp, Maarten; Lancaster U.;
m.vanderkamp@lancaster.ac.uk
Organizer: Welcomer, Stephanie; U. of Maine; welcomer@maine.edu
This symposium provides a critical perspective on sustainability labeling in the food sector. The
contributions in the session explore some of the organizational complexities of standardization
and certification of 'sustainability' criteria of food and farmed commodities. The participants will
explore how third party certification cultivates difference and indeed exclusion. Katarina Sikavica
will explore how political activity can both blend and re-segregate markets simultaneously,
essentially shifting the boundary that delineates organizational forms and consequently enabling
a new configuration of organizations within a defined resource space. Maarten van der Kamp will
argue that making a standard come alive is a highly complex activity involving many different
actors, and involves the making of markets, the emergence of institutions, as well as the day-today messiness of making standards work. Sarah Bigney, Mark Haggerty and Stephanie
Welcomer will draw on empirical work to suggest that the promise of fair trade has not been
realized and that it may mask transformed, but still existing, neo-colonial relationships. Linda
Sama will discuss how efforts to "certify" sustainability affect farming in developing countries. She
will suggest that organizational efforts to standardize sustainability, without full stakeholder
participation, effectively marginalize food producers in more impoverished and non-corporatized
sectors of the global economy. The panel will then pose a series of questions for the audience to
start an interactive, open discussion designed to develop a critical understanding of how
sustainability labeling and third party certification in the food sector can or cannot do to solve the
worlds environmental and social problems.
Keywords: Sustainability, Certification, Standardization

Identity Construction, Political Activity and Market Structure: The Case of

Organic Farming
Sikavica, Kate; U. of Munich; sikavica@bwl.lmu.de
Reproducing standards in organic agriculture: An exploration of how
standards come alive
van der Kamp, Maarten; Lancaster U.; m.vanderkamp@lancaster.ac.uk
Fair Trade: Does it Live Up to Its Promise? A Case Study of Coffee
Producers in Chiapas Mexico
Bigney, Sarah A.; Independent; sarah.bigney@gmail.com
Haggerty, Mark; U. of Maine at Orono; mark.haggerty@umit.maine.edu
Welcomer, Stephanie; U. of Maine; welcomer@maine.edu
Certification of Sustainability Criteria in Food Production: Implications for
the Developing World
Sama, Linda M; St. John's U.; samal@stjohns.edu

EXPLORING IDENTITY DYNAMICS AS CRITICAL FOR

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH AND

PRACTICE
Chair: Gagnon, Suzanne M; McGill U.; suzanne.gagnon@mcgill.ca
Chair: Carroll, Brigid Jan; U. of Auckland; b.carroll@auckland.ac.nz
Participant: Gosling, Jonathan; U. of Exeter;
Jonathan.Gosling@exeter.ac.uk
Participant: Cunliffe, Ann L; U. of New Mexico; cunliffe@mgt.unm.edu
Participant: Parker, Polly; U. of Queensland; p.parker@business.uq.edu.au
Participant: Callahan, Jamie L.; Texas A&M U.; jcallahan@tamu.edu
Participant: Sveningsson, Stefan; Lund U.; stefan.sveningsson@fek.lu.se
This proposed symposium aims to highlight and advance scholarly attention to the importance of
identity work (the dynamics, construction and regulation of how social actors understand and
articulate themselves as associated with leadership) to organizational leadership development.
We argue that exploring identity processes brings potential for better understanding of the social
and political embeddedness of leadership development, and in turn, increases our ability as
researchers and practitioners to dare to care about the purposes, processes and practice of
leadership development in a more profoundly integrative manner. As a panel of leadership
development and management education scholars reflecting a range of interpretive and critical
perspectives, we hope to generate debate around these themes with Academy colleagues. We
will start the discussion through each highlighting new empirical or theoretical work around the
main theme, and close the symposium with a set of ideas for further research.
Keywords: leadership development, identity construction, critical management education

EXPLORING ORGANIZATIONAL DISCOURSE OF

PASSION AND COMPASSION IN JAPANESE
MANAGEMENT
Coordinator: Kiyomiya, Toru; Seinan Gakuin U.; kiyomiya@seinan-gu.ac.jp
Coordinator: Aoki, Katsuki; Kanto Gakuin U.; kaoki@kanto-gakuin.ac.jp
Participant: Lennerfors, Thomas; Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm;
thomas.lennerfors@indek.kth.se
Participant: Yotsumoto, Masato; Kanto Gakuin U.; miyabi-4@xa2.sonet.ne.jp
Participant: Takagi, Toshio; Okinawa U.; takagi@okinawa-u.ac.jp
Participant: Enjoji, Takahiro; Tokyo Fuji U.; enjoji@fuji.ac.jp
Discussant: Adler, Paul; U. of Southern California; padler@usc.edu
The notions of passion and compassion have been deeply rooted in Japanese work life, and they
are considered as a key in Japanese harmonious management. This Panel Symposium aims to
contribute to the AOM theme of gDare to Care h by discussing how Japanese management
and organizing are considered as a form of ecompassion management f. Our discussion
includes important issues of Japanese management and organizations, such as Keiretsu system,
HR practices, stakeholders in business ethics, trust in high reliability organization (HRO), strategy
construction in Japanese management. We will consider Japanese ecompassion

management f as a potential positive driver to overcome the deadlock of western management,

while compassion management at the same time might be just a masquerade for upholding
unequal power relations in Japanese management. In these regards, the aim of our symposium is
to pursue two critical objectives: 1) to criticize the western mainstream management contrasting
with Japanese compassion management, and 2) to criticize compassion as hegemony in
Japanese management. We are particularly interested in presenting the multi-faceted discourses
of passion and compassion in Japanese management, and we would like to develop a discussion
of various discursive approaches, such as organizational rhetoric and critical discourse
approaches. In the end, this symposium attempts to suggest future studies and some possible
directions for improving compassion management.
Keywords: Japanese management, discourse, compassion

NEW HISTORICISM IN ORGANIZATIONAL STUDIES

Participant: Wadhwani, Daniel; U. of the Pacific; dwadhwani@pacific.edu
Organizer: Bucheli, Marcelo; U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign;
mbucheli@illinois.edu
Participant: Kipping, Matthias; York U.; mkipping@schulich.yorku.ca
Participant: Suddaby, Roy R; Alberta U.; roy.suddaby@ualberta.ca
Participant: Kirsch, David A.; U. of Maryland; dkirsch@rhsmith.umd.edu
Participant: Leblebici, Huseyin; U. of Illinois; hleblebi@illinois.edu
Participant: Usdiken, Behlul; Sabanci U.; behlul@sabanciuniv.edu.tr
In recent years there has been growing interest among management scholars in the use of
historical methods and sources in research on organizations. However, there has been little
systematic effort to examine precisely what historical reasoning is or how best to incorporate it
into research on theoretically relevant questions about the nature and behavior of organizations.
This symposium is part of an organized effort on the part of an interdisciplinary group of
professionally trained historians and organizational theorists to consider what it means to reintegrate historical reasoning into organizational studies. It addresses three issues: (1) Why could
historical research and research be valuable in organizational studies?; (2) What theoretical
questions can historical reasoning effectively address?; (3) How can historical methods be
applied to organizational research questions?
Keywords: History, Organization Studies

NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND: WIVES OF THE

ORGANIZATION AND THE PERILS OF CARING TO DARE
Organizer: Calas, Marta B.; U. of Massachusetts, Amherst;
marta@mgmt.umass.edu
Chair: Konrad, Alison M.; U. of Western Ontario; akonrad@ivey.uwo.ca
Participant: Huff, Anne S.; Technical U. Mnchen; annehuff1@gmail.com
Participant: Calas, Marta B.; U. of Massachusetts, Amherst;
marta@mgmt.umass.edu
Participant: Smircich, Linda; U. of Massachusetts, Amherst;

smircich@mgmt.umass.edu
Participant: Fletcher, Joyce K; Simmons College;
joyce.fletcher@simmons.edu
Participant: Harzing, Anne-Wil; U. of Melbourne; harzing@unimelb.edu.au
This panel symposium revolves around a paper, Wives of the Organization, originally delivered
by Anne Huff in 1990. The paper was never published but it has had a wide-ranging readership
over the years, almost as an underground message to which many people are drawn while
feeling it is dangerous to bring it to light. Huffs reflections, that professional women in
organizations, including academic organizations, behave in ways that repeat dynamics of gender
domination and subordination (i.e., wifely behaviors), limiting their professional opportunities, is
accompanied by a careful analysis of how such behaviors play out to disadvantage women but
also of how those same behaviors may bring important values to organizational life. Why does
the paper continue to have resonance today, twenty years after its original delivery? Second, why
is it still unpublished? This panel takes these observations as the basis for a discussion on
contemporary conditions of women and others in organizations in the context of what is deemed
to be professional behaviors. We collectively believe that having this discussion now is of
particular relevance to the theme of the conference: Dare to Care: Passion & Compassion in
Management Practice & Research. Where have we been that today talking about caring in
organizations has to be preceded by a dare? Why is any of this extraordinary today? When/why
were these values lost? Further, how are professional standards in publication decided? To
what effects, for whats knowledge? Reflecting today on the trajectory of Wives of the
Organization might contribute some answers. Huff's original paper and the responses of other
participants in this symposium can be found at: http://www.harzing.com/harzing_com_papers.htm
Keywords: professional women, gendered organizations, caring

RECLAIMING DIVERSITY FOR ORGANIZATION STUDIES:

DARING TO CARE ABOUT EQUALITY AT WORK
Chair: Janssens, Maddy; Katholieke U. Leuven;
maddy.janssens@econ.kuleuven.be
Chair: Zanoni, Patrizia; Hasselt U.; patrizia.zanoni@uhasselt.be
Discussant: Steyaert, Chris; U. of St. Gallen; Chris.Steyaert@unisg.ch
Discussant: Suddaby, Roy R; Alberta U.; roy.suddaby@ualberta.ca
Discussant: Mir, Raza A; William Paterson U.; mirr@wpunj.edu
Critical diversity scholars have attributed the disappointing results of two decades of diversity
management to the neglect for power struggles informing and surrounding workforce
heterogeneity in the diversity paradigm (Prasad, Pringle & Konrad, 2006; Zanoni, Janssens,
Benschop & Nkomo, 2010). Through the contributions included in this symposium, we propose to
address these weaknesses by re-conceptualizing socio-demographic differences from an
organizational perspective. In particular, we would like to encourage diversity scholars and
practitioners to regain the organization at the core of the notion of diversity by 1) engaging in
research that examines the relationship between unequal power relations in contemporary
organizations and diversity in the workforce and, conversely 2) examining how diversity operates
as a fundamental principle of unequal organizing in contemporary organizations.
Keywords: diversity, equality, organization theory

Diversity and power relations in organizations: Local, national and

transnational context
Tienari, Janne; Helsinki School of Economics; janne.tienari@hse.fi
Bringing work back in diversity: A critical theory of the identity-value nexus
in organizations
Zanoni, Patrizia; Hasselt U.; patrizia.zanoni@uhasselt.be
Janssens, Maddy; Katholieke U. Leuven;
maddy.janssens@econ.kuleuven.be
Migrant employees in German organizations: Organizational rationales,
structures, and practices
Ortlieb, Renate; Graz U.; renate.ortlieb@uni-graz.at
Sieben, Barbara; Freie U. Berlin; barbara.sieben@fu-berlin.de

RESTORING HEALTH TO U.S. HEALTH CARE THROUGH

PASSION & INSPIRATION: A CRITICAL & SPIRITUAL
SYNTHESIS
Chair: Heineman-Pieper, Jessica; George Mason U.; jhpieper@gmu.edu
Chair: Thatchenkery, Tojo; George Mason U.; thatchen@gmu.edu
Western healthcare systems are beset by increasing pressures for resource optimization that
have threatened to drive the care out of healthcare. While these growing pressures have been
widely recognized, attempts to resolve them have so far been limited by Western management
thinking itself, with its underlying assumptive structures derived from economics and engineering,
which emphasizes a world-view based on scarcity rather than abundance, and on productivity
rather than caring and compassion. This symposium decided to take an unorthodox approach to
these challenges of the health care system in the United States. Rather than merely looking
within the dynamics of the U.S. health care system and standard management frameworks for
solutions, the four presentations look to unexpected sources of emancipatory inspiration by (i)
distinguishing operative from espoused commitments in current health care trends and policy
proposals and suggesting the central importance, not of resources or managerial/technical
solutions but instead, of restoring the primacy of compassionate commitment in lieu of the
operative commitment to special interests, (ii) exploring ways in which the design of the U.S.
health system can be enriched by the disciplines of Eastern spirituality and mysticism, (iii)
examining defining moments in the lives of six human rights leaders for insights into
transcendental possibilities and the passionate, compassionate commitment that their
extraordinary lives and consciousness can infuse into discussions of U.S. health care, and (iv)
applying the concept of Appreciative Intelligence (Thatchenkery & Metzger, 2006) to foster
learning from globally dispersed examples practically unknown to most U.S. health care
professionals.
Keywords: Health Care, Critical management, Eastern Spirituality

A Systems Analysis of American Health Care Reform: Interest Politics vs.

Designing from Authenticity
Heineman-Pieper, Jessica; George Mason U.; jhpieper@gmu.edu
Spiritual and Mystical Pathways to Transcending the Stalemate in
American Health Care
Srikantia, Param; Baldwin Wallace College; psrikant@bw.edu

Applying Transcendental Intelligence: Awakening the Spirit in U.S. Health

Care
Parameshwar, Sangeeta; U. of Illinois, Springfield;
parameshwar.sangeeta@uis.edu
Catalyzing a Breakthrough in Imagination: Applying Appreciative
Intelligence to Health Care Reform
Thatchenkery, Tojo; George Mason U.; thatchen@gmu.edu
SHOWCASE SYMPOSIUM

THE FUTURE OF DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT

Chair: Gulrajani, Nilima; London School of Economics; N.Gulrajani@lse.ac.uk
Chair: McCourt, Willy; U. of Manchester; willy.mccourt@man.ac.uk
Participant: Andrews, Matthew; Harvard U.;
Matt_Andrews@hks.harvard.edu
Participant: Cooke, Bill; Lancaster U.; b.cooke@lancaster.ac.uk
Participant: Mowles, Chris; U. of Hertfordshire; chris@redkitepartners.co.uk
Participant: Murphy, Jonathan; Cardiff U.; murphyj3@cf.ac.uk
Participant: Turner, Mark; U. of Canberra; Mark.Turner@canberra.edu.au
The panel will review the achievements of management in development, assess the current state
of the field and canvass ways forward in the light of current development challenges.
Keywords: international development, development management, public management in
development

THE FUTURE OF DIVERSITY STUDIES: REALIZING THE

CRITICAL POTENTIAL OF DIVERSITY IN
ORGANIZATIONS
Chair: Benschop, Yvonne; Radboud U. Nijmegen; Y.Benschop@fm.ru.nl
Participant: Foldy, Erica Gabrielle; New York U.; efoldy@gmail.com
Participant: Litvin, Deborah R.; None; dlitvin@aol.com
Participant: Nkomo, Stella M.; U. of Pretoria; stella.nkomo@up.ac.za
Participant: Ozbilgin, Mustafa F; U. of East Anglia; m.ozbilgin@uea.ac.uk
Participant: Zanoni, Patrizia; Hasselt U.; patrizia.zanoni@uhasselt.be
Business motives seem to have replaced equality motives as the drivers to pay attention to
diversity. In spite of both moral and business drivers, research shows that change is slow and
that inequalities persist. Ongoing patterns of exclusion and marginalization continue to
characterize our organizations. The core question for this panel symposium is how we are to
proceed in our research and practice if we are to create organizations that care passionately for
inclusivity and social justice? The panel draws specifically on critical diversity studies, a strand of
diversity research that takes issues of power and privilege at heart. An international group of
scholars from different disciplines and backgrounds will discuss five themes that are can further
the conversation about future diversity studies. The first issue is how to realize the critical

potential of diversity in practice to address issues of inequality, dominance and privilege. Second,
the concept of diversity itself is interrogated, to understand its conceptual and practical strengths
and weaknesses. Third, the conversation will turn to how transnational perspectives of diversity
can connect diversity to broader processes of globalization. The fourth issue is a classic
discussion in critical perspectives: the importance of class relations. The final theme, the
embodiment of diversity, pertains both to how bodies matter at work, and to methodological
questions about how our bodies impact our research. Together, these themes can inspire the
articulation of new research questions and of new emancipatory forms of organizing.
Keywords: critical diversity studies, inclusivity

SHOWCASE SYMPOSIUM

THE POTENTIAL OF CRITICAL GENDER AND DIVERSITY

STUDIES FOR ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE
Chair: Benschop, Yvonne; Radboud U. Nijmegen; Y.Benschop@fm.ru.nl
Discussant: van den Brink, Marieke; Radboud U. Nijmegen;
mcl.vandenbrink@fm.ru.nl
Abstract The symposium brings together an international group of scholars working on new or
underutilized forms of feminist theory and research. Their presentations will emphasize as well
questions emerging from these approaches as they connect with necessary organizational
changes. In summary, the symposium presentations will address the following questions: 1) What
are new or underutilized forms of feminist theorizing including post-feminist perspectives? 2)
What questions would be addressed in contemporary organizational research if inspired by these
theoretical perspectives? 3) What kind of feminist interventions would be required if one were to
bring any of this to praxis? The presentations are organized under three main themes. The first
two themes, Embodiment and Otherness, articulate commonalities within each themes
theoretical perspectives and their focus of concern. The last theme, Feminist Interventions,
addresses approaches to organizational change that may follow from the first two themes. Finally,
the discussant will further guide the presented arguments toward challenges and opportunities for
introducing critical frameworks into the practice of organisational change.
Keywords: Gender & Diversity studies, Organizational Change, Feminist Theory

Corporeal Feminism
Knights, David; Keele U.; david.knights@virgin.net
Undoing Gender
Pullen, Alison; U. of Technology, Sydney; alison.pullen@uts.edu.au
Postsecular Feminism
Hope, Angela; St. Mary's U.; angela.hope@hotmail.com
Transnational Feminism
Calas, Marta B.; U. of Massachusetts, Amherst; marta@mgmt.umass.edu
Smircich, Linda; U. of Massachusetts, Amherst;
smircich@mgmt.umass.edu
Integracism
Ozbilgin, Mustafa F; U. of East Anglia; m.ozbilgin@uea.ac.uk
Feminist Interventions

Martin, Joanne; Stanford U.; martin_joanne@gsb.stanford.edu

Benschop, Yvonne; Radboud U. Nijmegen; Y.Benschop@fm.ru.nl

THE ROLE OF MEETINGS IN STRATEGY PRACTICE

Organizer: Seidl, David Nils; U. of Zurich; david.seidl@iou.uzh.ch
Discussant: Feldman, Martha S.; U. of California, Irvine; feldmanm@uci.edu
The proposed symposium explores insights from recent research on meetings. Despite their
pervasiveness within organizational life and their central role as a focal point for communication
and social interaction, meetings are still a relatively neglected organizational phenomenon. In
particular, the effect of meetings on the strategic orientation of organizations has not been
properly addressed. The proposed symposium presents recent research illuminating the strategic
role of meetings. It includes presentations on meetings (1) as bundles of meeting practices
affecting the emergence, development and selection of new strategic ideas, (2) as ritualistic
organizational practice that reinforces cultural stability, (3) as a forum where individuals employ
discursive practices to contest existing and negotiate new strategic agendas, and (4) as an
organizational phenomenon where extra-discursive practices play a key factor in determining
strategic outcomes. A reaction to the presentations will be provided by Martha Feldman.
Keywords: None

Meetings as Bundles of Practices Affecting the Stability/Change of

Strategic Orientations
Seidl, David Nils; U. of Zurich; david.seidl@iou.uzh.ch
Meetings as Ritual: Empirical Findings
Floyd, Steven W; McIntire School of Commerce, U. of Virginia;
steven.floyd@unisg.ch
Discursive Practices in Meetings: a Critical Discourse Perspective
Kwon, Winston; Lancaster U.; w.kwon@lancaster.ac.uk
Clarke, Ian Michael; Newcastle U., UK; i.clarke@newcastle.ac.uk
Bodies and Artifacts in Meetings: A Video-based Study of Strategic
Conversations and Sensemaking
LeBaron, Curtis; Brigham Young U.; lebaron@byu.edu
Whittington, Richard; Said Business School;
richard.whittington@sbs.ox.ac.uk

THEORY, PERFORMATIVITY AND SOCIAL REALITY: THE

CASE OF ORGANIZATIONS AND MARKETS
Participant: Felin, Teppo; Brigham Young U.; teppo.felin@byu.edu
Participant: Ferraro, Fabrizio; IESE Business School; fferraro@iese.edu
Participant: Foss, Nicolai; Copenhagen Business School; njf.smg@cbs.dk
Participant: Kogut, Bruce; INSEAD; bruce.kogut@insead.edu
Participant: Millo, Yuval; London School of Economics; y.millo@lse.ac.uk

Theories have consequences. Theories play a role not just in explaining reality but also in
shaping and constructing reality. The purpose of this proposed panel symposium is to bring
together a set of scholars to discuss the theory-social reality relationship, with specific emphasis
on the role that theories and models play in organizations and markets. In particular, recent
market dynamics, such as the financial crisis, provide an important window to understand the role
that models and theories play in shaping reality. Furthermore, we are interested in exploring the
actors and mechanisms of the theory-reality relationship. Each panelist is asked to highlight their
own work on these issues, and to also offer their own assessment of the current state of our
understanding, along with suggestions for future work. Beyond the panel interaction, ample time
will be left for audience questions and participation.
Keywords: organizations, markets, performativity

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