PAPER DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP ON ORGANISATIONAL AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE
University of Edinburgh Business School, March 9, 2015
This workshop builds on the highly successful paper development workshop held at the University of Edinburgh Business School in 2014. The starting point for the workshop is the recognition that, as our understanding of social processes has developed, so it has become increasingly apparent that the complexities associated with formulating and implementing programmes of transformation remain underdeveloped. Despite a plethora of excellent studies that have examined how change takes place over time, questions remain regarding why some organisations are able to cope with change effectively while others are not; how change processes unfold episodically or continuously; how dynamics such as pacing, sequencing and power arrangements influence change outcomes; and the roles of individuals in different parts of the organisation in facilitating particular change endpoints. Institutional theorists have also become actively involved in understanding change drivers and outcomes. Interesting opportunities have emerged in, among other things, uncovering the ways in which values, norms, and meanings influence change at macro- and micro-levels; the ways in which organisations have to accommodate multiple, often competing, logics; and how the structures of fields alter over time. These topic areas are, of course, indicative rather than comprehensive.
About the Workshop
The purpose of the workshop is to allow scholars the opportunity to receive direct and specific feedback on their ongoing work on organisational or institutional change. The workshop is directed in particular at doctoral students and junior scholars, but is open to anybody with a paper that is broadly aligned with any of the topic areas discussed above. Each paper will have as a discussant a senior scholar who is well published in our leading journals, and has extensive editing and/or editorial board experience with journals that include the following: Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Science, Organization Studies, Journal of Management Inquiry, Strategic Organization, and Organization. Confirmed participants include: