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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 07-21-2025 12:06
    We hope your excitement for AOM is building - ours certainly is!
    As you plan your conference schedule, we warmly invite you to join our PDW:
    Studying Institutional Fields Qualitatively for Advancing Knowledge on Grand Challenges
    Find all the session details 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, who will discuss: How to determine the boundaries of fields and study the interstitial spaces between them
    Nina Granqvist, Aalto University, who will discuss: How to study field emergence
    Stine Grodal, D'Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University, who will discuss: How to use archival data to study fields
    Anna Kim, McGill University, who will discuss: How to study the relational dynamics between diverse field-level actors over time
    Elke Schuessler, Leuphana University, who will discuss: How to mobilize field-configuring events as a site for research
    April Wright, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, who will discuss: How to analyze field-data at multiple levels of analysis
    Charlene Zietsma, School for the Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, who will discuss: How to study field evolution and change
    Tammar Zilber, Hebrew University Business School, who 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.
    Please help spread the word: https://cdmcd.co/jPdv5X
    We are looking forward to insightful conversations and seeing many of you in Copenhagen!





    Debora Sara Anspach,
    Étudiante au doctorat - PhD student
    Department of Management
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