International Workshop on Institutional Work

The International Workshop on Institutional Work took place on May 31st 2007.

"The purpose of this workshop is to share with each other our research and writing, build the foundation for an outstanding edited volume of our work, and have some fun while doing so. In order to accomplish these goals, the workshop will be structured so as to emphasize feedback, discussion and conversation, both in the formal presentation periods and the social opportunities that connect them."

This workshop has been made possible because of the support of our sponsors - The Faculty of Business at Simon Fraser University (SFU), The University of Alberta School of Business and the CMA Centre for Strategic Change & Performance Measurement at SFU.

Participant Information - Schedule & Presentation Information.
Workshop Papers - List of papers to be presented (Participant access only).

Workshop Overview

	Thursday, May 31
6:30-9:00	Evening Reception	Vancouver Sun Reading Room, Room 1900, Segal Graduate School of Business
	Friday, June 1
8:00	Breakfast	Room 2800, Segal Graduate School of Business
8:30	Welcome and introduction	Tom Lawrence, Roy Suddaby & Bernard Leca
8:50	Elaborating the concept of institutional work	Tom Lawrence, Roy Suddaby & Bernard Leca
9:40	Institutional pluralism and the possibility of organizational leadership	Matthew Kraatz, University of Illinois Discussant: Roy Suddaby
10:25	Break
10:55	Siberian Federalism	Arthur Stinchcombe, Northwestern University Discussant: Bob Hinings
11:45	The paradox of embedded agency: Straw man argument or central epistemological issue?	Julie Battilana & Thomas D'Aunno, Harvard Business School and INSEAD Discussant: Bernard Leca
12:30	Lunch
1:15	Political strategies of institutional work	Tim Hargrave & Andrew Van de Ven, University of Washington, Bothell and University of Minnesota Discussant: Royston Greenwood
2:05	Institutional "dirty work": Preserving institutions through strategic decoupling	Paul Hirsch & Y. Sekou Bermiss, Northwestern University Discussant: Tom Lawrence
2:50	Break
3:10	Leveraging Scandinavian institutionalism	Eva Boxenbaum and Jesper Strandgaard, Copenhagen Business School Discussant: Bob Hinings
4:00	Peddlers of legitimacy: Institutional work in the context of competing proto-institutions	Charlene Zietsma & Brent McKnight, University of Western Ontario Discussant: Roy Suddaby
4:45	Reception
7:00	Dinner
	Saturday, June 2
8:00	Breakfast	Room 2800, Segal Graduate School of Business
8:30	Identity stories, post-trauma meta-narrative and socialization in a rape crisis center: Institutional maintenance and the individual	Tammar Zilber, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Discussant: Bernard Leca
9:20	Maintaining legitimacy in a changing organizational field: The institutional work of legitimating agencies	Christine Quinn Trank & Marvin Washington, Texas Tech University and University of Alberta Discussant: Tom Lawrence
10:05	Break
10:25	Bringing change into the lives of the poor: Entrepreneurship outside traditional boundaries	Johanna Mair & Ignasi Marti, IESE Discussant: Roy Suddaby
11:15	Doing which work? A practice approach to institutional pluralism	Paula Jarzabkowski, Jane Matthiesen & Andrew Van de Ven, Aston Business School and University of Minnesota Discussant: Royston Greenwood
12:00	Lunch
12:45	Reflections, reactions and provocations	Royston Greenwood & Bob Hinings, University of Alberta
1:30	Next steps and closing	Tom, Roy, Bernard