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

Next OTREG Meeting

In November, OTREG returns to its usual haunt: Imperial College, London. The next meeting of OTREG will be held on 14 November, 2008 at 2:00pm. If you wish to attend, please email Donna Sutherland at d.sutherlandsmith@imperial.ac.uk.

Tanaka BusinessSchool, Imperial College, is in South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ. This meeting will not be held in the main building but at

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.PDF

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/

OTREG in Paris, 18 Sept 2008

On September 18th, 2008, OTREG was hosted by Rodolphe Durand at HEC's beautiful campus near Versailles. Papers were presented by David Courpasson, Eva Boxenbaum, Bernard Leca and Kamal Munir. In addition to the usual program, David Courpasson, Michael Lounsbury and Marie-Laure Djelic gave talks to the 50 or so participants. OTREG would like to thank Rudi for hosting us in such a magnificent setting, and for his generous hospitality.