4th Workshop
New Institutionalism in
Organization Theory
April 3-4, 2008
University of Bergamo
Program
| April 3, 2008 | ||
| 09.45-10:00 | Welcome Addresses (Aula 16) Prof. Gianfranco Rusconi, Director of the Department of Business Administration, University of Bergamo Giuseppe Delmestri, Georg Krücken, Renate Meyer and Peter Walgenbach | |
| | Aula 15 | Aula 16 |
| 10:00-11:30 | Danielle Logue (University of Oxford) “How to manage a university (or so it seems): Understanding 90 years of organizational change” Nicole Thaller (University of Trier): “Institutions and organizations – the change of doctoral studies” Chair: Georg Krücken | Stefan Kirchner (University of Hamburg) “The social embeddedness of organizational change: Circumstances and characteristics of the diffusion dynamic of decentralized organizational patterns” Giuseppe Delmestri (University of Bergamo) and Stefano Basaglia (Bocconi University) “Determinants of real and rhetoric change: Top managers’ identities, (trans)national institutions and management fashions” Chair: Renate Meyer |
| 11:30-13:00 | Anett Löscher (University of Giessen) “Some considerations on a theoretical and methodological approach to researching ways in which institutions affect cultural exchanges” Heinke Röbken (University of Oldenburg) “Organzational responses to institutional pressures – a social network approach” Chair: Peter Walgenbach | Markus Höllerer (WU-Wien) “Between creed and fulfillment of social expectations: Theorezation of the management concept of corporate (social) responsibility” André Spicer (University of Warwick) and Markus Perkmann (Loughborough University) “Translating an organizational form: The case of Indymedia” Chair: Giuseppe Delmestri |
| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:30-16:00 | Raimund Hasse and Lucia Schmidt (University of Luzern): “De-legitimated but persistent – the case of unequal opportunities in education” Justin J.W. Powell (WZB Berlin) “From exclusion to inclusion? Special education in Germany and the United States” Chair: Renate Meyer | Markus Hertwig (University of Bochum) “Institutional mechanisms revisited: Towards a systemic approach to institutional influences on organizations” Elke Schüssler (FU-Berlin) “Strategic processes and persistence: Organizational and institutional path dependence in the German clothing industry” Chair: Peter Walgenbach |
| 16:00-16:30 | Coffee-Break | |
| 16:30-18:00 | Andreas Schröer (University of Heidelberg) “Leadership in non-profit sectors – the relation between societal sector and social actor” Julia Eiche and Rüdiger Kabst (University of Giessen) “Institutional uncertainty and market entry in eastern European transition economies: A measurement approach incorporating institutional maturity and institutional stability” Chair: Georg Krücken | Anne Tempel (University of Erfurt), Tony Edwards (University of London), Anthony Ferner (De Montfort University) and Peter Walgenbach (University of Erfurt) “New institutionalism and the transfer of practices in MNCs – subsidiary management agency at the juncture of multiple institutional frameworks” Thomas Klatetzki (University of Siegen) “Power is knowledge” Chair: Giuseppe Delmestri |
| 18:00-18:45 | Keynote (Aula 16) Royston Greenwood (University of Alberta) “Flu-Virus or Plague? Where is Institutional Theory Going?” | |
| 20:30 | Dinner | |
| April 4, 2008 | ||
| | Aula 15 | Aula 16 |
| 10:00-11:30 | Frederike Nebel (University of Potsdam) “The meaning of administrative culture for new management concepts in public administration” Paola Adinolfi and Gabriella Piscopo (University of Salerno) “A neo-institutionalist interpretation of training in the Italian public administration” Chair: Renate Meyer | Simone Schiller-Merkens (University of Mannheim) “Bringing institutional work and institutions together (and down to the local): Institutional conditions for diffusion” Bernadette Bullinger (University of Mannheim) and Julia Brandl (WU-Wien) “Entrepreurship research within institutional theory: Comparison of realist and cultural approaches” Chair: Peter Walgenbach |
| 11:30-12:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 12:00-13:30 | Ralf Elbert and Fabian Müller (TU-Darmstadt) “Cluster development – cluster managers as institutional entrepreneurs” Markus Helfen and Jan Siedentopp (FU-Berlin) “Business lobbying and social movements: The rise of voluntaristic self-advocacy in Germany” Chair: Georg Krücken | Thierry Viale (HEC Paris) “Capital in all forms! Objectifying the resources of the ‘institutional entrepreneur’ in a process of technological change in the field of communication consulting” Evelyn Micelotta (University of Milan), Royston Greenwood (University of Alberta), Raffaella Cagliano and Gianluca Spina (University of Milan) “The Italian resistance? Organizational forms in Italian and Canadian law firms” Chair: Giuseppe Delmestri |
| 13:30-15:00 | Lunch | |
| 15:00-16:00 | General Discussion (Aula 16) | |
