Print VersionGraham Dover
Graham DoverPhD Candidate
Management and Organization Studies
gdover@sfu.ca
http://socialinnovationresearch.wordpress.com/
http://www.outlookforchange.ca/
As a Centre Scholar, Graham is involved in collaborative research with the Centre Director, Tom Lawrence, on two main research projects. The first is a recently funded project to examine the role of "connector organizations" in facilitating innovation in public arenas. This work is funded primarily by the William and Ada Isabelle Steel Fund at Simon Fraser University, and focuses on the role of connector organizations in Vancouver in the opening of Canada's first supervised injection site for intravenous drug users. The second project is the research program (described above in relation to Masoud Shadnam's Centre activity) focusing on study of change processes in the field of drug addiction in Vancouver and across Canada. This project is examining the diffusion and potential diffusion of "supervised injection sites" for intravenous drug users from Vancouver to other cities in Canada.
Publications
Dover, G. (2010). Public sector volunteering: Committed staff, multiple logics and contradictory strategies. Review of Public Personnel Administration.
Dover, G., & Lawrence, T. B. (2010). A gap year for institutional theory: Integrating the study of institutional work and participatory action research. Journal of Management Inquiry.
Dover, G., & Lawrence, T. B. (2010). Technology, institutions and entropy: Understanding the critical and creative role of maintenance work. In N. Phillips, D. Griffiths, and G. Sewell (Eds.) Technology and organization: Essays in honour of Joan Woodward. Research in the Sociology of Organizations.
Conferences & Presentations
Dover, G. (2009). Organizing transformative social innovation: A study of an innovation for the 'hard-to-house'. In ARNOVA, Cleveland, Ohio.
Dover, G. (2008). Nonprofit innovation: The role of power in organizational learning. In ARNOVA, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Dover, G., & Lawrence, T. B. (2008). Creativity in controversial domains: Institutional immunity and connector organizations. In ARNOVA, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Dover, G. (2008) Public sector volunteering: Committed staff, multiple logics and contradictory strategies. In Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Anaheim, California.
Dover, G. (2007). The impact of a social movement organization's legitimacy in achieving social change. In Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Dover, G., & Lawrence, T. B. (2007) Institutional Immunity: Disrupting institutions without reprisal. In Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Papania,
L., Shadman, M., & Dover, G. (2007). Moral frames in continuous play:
Change in a conversational community of organizations. 2nd Workshop on Moral Foundations of Management Knowledge, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Dover, G. (2008). Encouraging close encounters of a different kind: Associating institutional work with participatory action research.
Dover, G. (2008). Stablizing institutions: The role of collective action in insitutional maintenance.
Dover, G. (2007) Inequality within organizations: Connecting structure to disadvantage.Dover, G. (2006) Connector organizations, bricolage and complex social change
Articles on the Web/Magazines
Participatory Action Research Website
Dover, G., & Lawrence, T. B. (2010). Ride the wave: A small change can become a movement if you know where to hop on. CMA Update Magazine (Summer 2010).
Dover, G., & Lawrence, T. B. (2008). Family matters: A different perspective on change. CMA Update Magazine (Summer 2008, PDF).
Lawrence, T. B., & Dover, G. (2008). Fundamentals: We are the champions! CMA Update Magazine (Winter 2008, PDF)
Dover, G. (2006). Branding the local church: reaching out or selling out?
