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Sub-theme 23:
(Re-)Considering Forms of Power in Organization Studies
Convenors:
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Session I: Thursday, July
10 – 11:00–12:30
Beyond the Usual Discourse on Power |
Chair: David Courpasson
David Courpasson, Damon Golsorkhi and Mark Haugaard
Welcome and general introduction
Itziar Castelló Molina and Josep Maria Lozano
The rhetoric of corporate social responsibility and the power
strategies behind
Romy Kraemer and Gail Whiteman
Social capital and community power
Iain Munro
The productive powers of resistance: Lines of flight from Adam
Smith to Linus Torvalds
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Session
II: Thursday, July 10 – 14:00–15:30
Power 'in Use' in Changing Contexts |
Chair: Mats Alvesson
Tatjana Byrne and Soo Hee Lee
The role of digital technology as a mediator of power within
organisations: Reflections on changing professional practice in the
healthcare sector
Thomas Diefenbach, Rune Todnem By and Patricipa Klarner
Managers multi-dimensional power and ideology of persuasion
during organisational change
George Mathew Kandathil
A multi perspective integrated framework to study the use of
power in organizations during techno-organizational change
Michaela Wieandt
Power games in processes of organizational change:
Client-consultant relationships in IT projects
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Session III: Friday, July
11 – 9:00–10:30
Centrality of Power Issues in Inter-Organizational Relationships |
Chair: Dan Kärreman
Jean-Louis Lacolley, Amélie Trouinard and Albéric Tellier
Disrupt the power of a dominant organization: Lessons from the
introduction of free daily newspapers in Paris
Annekathrin Ellersiek and Patrick Kenis
Potential and enacted power in cross-sector partnerships
Mark Ebers and Thorsten Semrau
Seller or buyer, who takes the risk of investments? A comparative
assessment of power-based and other explanations
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Session IV: Friday, July
11
– 14:00–15:30
Seeing Forms of Power Critically and Radically: The 'Other' Perspectives |
Chair: Damon Golsorkhi
Dan Kärreman and Mats Alvesson
Resisting resistance: Counter-resistance and compliance in a
consultancy firm
Jeffrey Sallaz
Understanding power at work: Two approaches
Mike Reed
Power: A realist (and radical) view
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Session V: Friday, July 11
– 16:15–17:45
Power Form Issues and the Endless Question of Bureaucracy |
Chair: Mike Reed
Gerry McGivern and Ewan Ferlie
Cancer networks in the iron cage
Sergey Osadchiy and Pursey Heugens
Bureaucratic survival and persistence paths
Bente Rasmussen
The mechanisms of power in 'post-bureaucratic' organisations
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Session VI: Saturday, July
12 – 9:00–10:30
Show me the Power! Empirical Explorations of Power Forms in Organizations |
Chair: Jeffrey Sallaz
Frank Schirmer
Exploring the multidimensional character of power in action – The
case of coalition formation among managerial sub-elites
Penny Dick and Sara Nadin
The psychological contract as a weapon of symbolic violence
Theodora Asimakou
The power games of knowledge: Innovation in a technology company
Frédérique Grazzini, Bertrand Malsch and Yves Gendron
Accounting professional service firms and the promise of change:
Orthodox discourses and heterodox beliefs
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Session VII: Saturday,
July 12 – 11:15–12:45
Miscellaneous Theoretical Backdrop of Power Forms in Organizations |
Chair: Mark Haugaard
Ilias Kapoutsis and Andreas Nikolopoulos
Political decision daking: Development of an integrative
framework
Thibaut Bardon and Emmanuel Josserand
The Foucauldian individual as tragic hero: Domination and freedom
in management practices
Alexander Mathew
Power, centrality and control in intra-organizational networks
General discussion and wrap up
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