Papers for March 13th OTREG Meeting

1. Brokerage and firm network evolution: The Complementary Roles of Architectural and Functional Brokers (Joanne Jin Zhang & Charles Baden-Fuller, Cass Business School, City University, London)

2. A Knowledge Perspective for Understanding Boundary Object Use in Cross Cultural Software Development (Michael Barrett, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge & Eivor Oborn, Royal Holloway, University of London)

3. Agency, history and ‘structural wholes’: Critical realist refinements of the new institutionalism (Tim Edwards and Rick Delbridge, Cardiff University)

The meeting is in the Billiard's room at 58 Princes Gate and is shown as building no. 23 on this map: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/pls/portallive/docs/1/48903696.PDFIf travelling by tube, the nearest station is South Kensington (on theDistrict, Circle and Piccadilly lines), and Imperial College is a fiveminute walk from the station - either follow the subway signposted tothe museums or walk north up Exhibition Road. The campus is just past the Science Museum.

Trains - plan your journey: http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/
Underground - plan your journey: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tube/

If you are planning to attend, please let Donna Sutherland know and she will mail you the accompanying reviews as well as joining instructions. As always, please do let me know if you would be happy to serve as a discussant for one of the papers being presented.

PhD course on Critical Management Studies

International PhD course:

Supervised by Dan Kärreman, University of Lund; Pushkala Prasad, University of Lund; André Spicer, Warwick Business School

The PhD course aims to give an advanced introduction to the theoretical frameworks, research interests and methodologies in Critical management studies. We will look how this has been applied in organization studies as well as other subdisciplines of management such as accounting, marketing and strategy. The course will also give examples of critical studies and show how critical research can be produced. During the course, participants will be asked to to present their own PhD projects. They will have an opportunity to receive feedback on their project from faculty and other course participants.

Content:

The Theorical Basis of Critical Management Studies.
Applying Critical Management Studies
Doing Critical Management Studies

Teaching:

The course will include 30 hours of teaching, lectures and seminars.

Examination:

Written paper based on students own project


Teachers:

Dan Kärreman, Pushkala Prasad and André Spicer supervises the course. Other teachers include Karen Lee Ashcraft (University of Utah), Mats Alvesson (Lund University), Campbell Jones (Copenhagen Business School) and Yiannis Gabriel (Royal Holloway, University of London).

Schedule

The course fee will be 500 Euros.

Practicalites

Lund is located in Southern Sweden, 1 hour train ride from Copenhagen. We will assist in finding cheap accommodation.

Application

Application should submit a short bio, 1 paragraph on their motivation of interest for joining the course, and short abstract describing their own research project. This should be sent to Jacqueline.Colleary@fek.lu.se by March 1st. We can give earlier notication of acceptance if needed.

For more information please contact Andre Spicer at Warwick.

Next OTREG Meeting - March 13 in London

Dear All,

We would like to thank you for making the 23 Jan 2009 meeting so successful. All the presenters found the discussion extremely helpful (Andre and Marcus doubly so, I hope :). I am attaching a few pictures (taken by Henri Schildt, who can not only recite the 30 volumes of Giddens blindfolded and with his hands tied behind his back but also, as you will agree, take some very good photos). 

The next meeting will be on Friday, March 13 at the same venue (2:00pm-5:30pm). Please let me know if you would like to present. 

Finally, if you have questions or comments, you can comment on these blog posts using the 'comment' feature at the foot of each posting.

kamal

A very happy new year to all of you! We kick off the new year with a meeting on 23rd Jan at our usual place – Tanaka in London. Here are the three papers to be discussed. Please let me know if you would like to volunteer as a discussant.

Henri Schildt (Tanaka Business School)
A failure of sensegiving in response to organizational identity threats: The case of an organizational identity crisis


Marcus Perkmann (Tanaka) & Andre Spicer (Warwick Business Schol)
How Identifcation Shapes the Translation of Organizational Forms: The Case of Indymedia


Ed Carberry (Rotterdam School of Management)
Exploring the context and Work of Institutional Translators

Tanaka BusinessSchool, Imperial College, is in South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ. The meeting is in the main building on Exhibition Road. Room is Lower Ground Round lecture theatre (2 - 5.30pm).

If travelling by tube, the nearest station is South Kensington (on theDistrict, Circle and Piccadilly lines), and Imperial College is a fiveminute walk from the station - either follow the subway signposted tothe museums or walk north up Exhibition Road. The campus is just past the Science Museum.
Trains - plan your journey: http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/
Underground - plan your journey: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tube/

Tenure Track Openings at Tilburg

Tilburg University has opened a search for two assistant professorship positions in Organisation Studies (tenure trackpositions). They are particularly interested in candidates with a focus in either 1) intra-organisational relations / organisational behaviour or 2) institutional theory and strategy.

"We are looking for passionate scholars with the potential to publish in highquality scientific journals. Link to the vacancy text: http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/vacancies/4000841.html

Here are a few pictures (courtesy: Henri Schildt) from OTREG's last meeting in London. Thanks to all participants for a highly stimulating discussion. All presenters felt they benefited greatly from the comments. We hope to see all of these papers in print very soon!

The next meeting will take place in London on Friday January 23rd, 2009. Please let me know if you would like to present.

Speakers for November 14 OTREG Meeting

1. Violina Rindova (UT Austin), Martin Kilduff (University of Cambridge) & Ye Dai: Reinventing Coffee: The Changing Meaning of Coffee in the US Specialty Coffee Industry (1980-1995).

2. Elena Dalpiaz (Bocconi University), Davide Ravasi (Bocconi University), Violina Rindova (University of Texas, Austin) : A cultural quest: A study of cultural repertoire enrichment

3. Shahzad Ansari (RSM), Frank Wijen (Rotterdam School of Management) and Barbara Gray (Penn State Univ): Institutionalization in Collective Action Fields: Actors and Factors for Building Collaborative Institutions