The Inaugural Paul R. Lawrence Conference: Connecting Rigor and Relevance in Institutional Analysis

June 2 - 4, 2013

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Schedule

Jun 02

Doctoral Workshop

2:00-2:15

Welcome and Introductions

2:15 - 3:45

Roundtables

4:00 - 5:15

Panel Discusson on Doing Rigorous and Relevant Research with Marc Ventresca, Johanna Mair, Daniel Beunza and Robin Ely

5:15 - 7:00

Reception

 

Jun 03
8:00- 8:30

Continental Breakfast

8:30 - 9:00

Welcome and Introduction

9:15 - 10:45

Paper Sessions

Evolution of the corporate world in the 21st century

Chair: Chris Marquis
Discussant: Ranjay Gulati
Papers:

• Cyndi Man ZHANG; Rose Xiaowei LUO: — "An Affair not to Remember? It Might Help to Change Your Name"

• Mary J. Benner; Ram Ranganathan: — "Persistence and change in analysts' categories: The co-evolution of technology, strategy and institutions"

• John Almandoz; András Tilcsik: — "When Experts Become Liabilities: Bankers, Boards, and Bank Failures"

• Jiwook Jung; Guilhem Bascle: — "An irony of the shareholder-value-maximization logic: The earnings cult and decline of conglomerates"

 
Transformation of work within corporations and public organizations

Chair: Julie Battilana
Discussant: Pam Tolbert
Papers:
• Marvin Washington; Karen D. W. Patterson; Harry J. Van Buren III: — "How institutions constrain or enable leadership: Denominational influences on megachurch"

• Gumato Ukur; Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger; Heike Mensi-Klarbach: — "The impact of Kenya's new constitution on the civil service sector"
 
• Lakshmi Ramarajan; Kathleen McGinn; Deborah Kolb: — "Internalizing Shifting Gender Logics in Professional Work"
 
• Michael Smets; Paula Jarzabkowski; Rebecca Bednarek: — "Getting Institutional Work to Work: Generating Actionable Insights from a Practice-Approach to Institutions” 
11:00 - 12:30

Paper Sessions

Social entrepreneurship and hybrid organizations

Chair: Julie Battilana
Discussant: Alnoor Ebrahimi
Papers:

• Wendy K. Smith; Marya L. Besharov: — "Multiple Logics Within Organizations: An Integrative Framework and Model of Organizational Hybridity"

• Johanna Mair; Marc Schneiberg; Sander Wagner: — "No toilet no bride — organizing for development at the base of the pyramid"

• Eric Yanfei Zhao; Tyler Wry: — "Culture, Economics, and Cross-National Variation in the Founding and Social Outreach of Microfinance Organizations"
Collective action and organizations
Chair: Shon Hiatt  
Discussant: Sarah Soule
 Papers:
 
• Lori Qingyuan Yue; Hayagreeva Rao; Paul Ingram: — "Information Spillovers from Protests Against Corporations: A Tale of Walmart and Target"
 
• Forrest Briscoe; Abhinav Gupta; Mark Anner: — "Activist Tactics and the Diffusion of Social Movement Success in Organizational Fields: Evidence from the U.S. Collegiate Anti-Sweatshop Movement"
 
• Kenji Klein; Renee Rottner: — "Weeding out the competition: How alternatives are eliminated during institutionalization" 
 
12:30 - 1:30

Lunch

1:30 - 2:50

Panel Discussion on rigor and relevance in institutional organization with Thomas D'Aunno, Frank Dobbin and Dick Scott

3:00 - 4:30

Paper Sessions

Globalization
Chair: Chris Marquis
 Discussant: Tarun Khanna
Papers:
• Patricia H. Thornton; Kim Klyver: — "The Invisible Hand: Institutional Logics and Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy"

• Florian Täube; Paul M. Vaaler: — "Migrant Diasporas and Institutional Analysis: Opportunities for Rigorous and Relevant Organizational Research in a Transnational World"
 
Social Finance Crisis / Finance
Chair: Shon Hiatt  
Discussant: Mark Mizruchi  
Papers:
• Aaron Chatterji; Jiao Luo; Robert Seamans: — "Too Legit to Quit: Banks vs. Credit Unions During the Financial Crisis"

4:45 - 5:45

Panel Discussion on cross-disciplinary research with Mary Ann Glynn, Willie Ocasio and Marc Schneiberg

5:45 - 6:30

Reception

6:30 - 7:30

Keynote Address: Larry Summers

7:30 - 9:00

Dinner

Jun 04
8:00- 8:30

Continental Breakfast

8:30 - 9:00

TBD

9:15 - 10:45

Paper Sessions 

invention of new organizational models
Chair: Julie Battilana
Discussant: Rebecca Henderson
Papers:
• Julien Jourdan; Markus Perkmann; Riccardo Fini: — "Through the looking glass: Status spillovers across institutional logics"

• Kate Kellogg; Sara Singer: "Innovation Infrastructure and the Spreading of Reform Inside of Organizations"
 
• Stine Grodal: — "Means Shifting: Creating Institutional Complexity during the Emergence of the Nanotechnology Field" 
 
Social Responsibility
11:00 - 12:00

Keynote Address: Rosabeth Moss Kanter

12:30 - 2:00

Brown Bag Lunch and Panel Discussion on future research directions with Patricia Thornton, Jay Lorsch and Royston Greenwood

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