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Sub-theme 31:

Exploring the Interface between Organization Design and the Humanities

 

Convenors:

Hans Berends
Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands)
j.j.berends@tm.tue.nl

Georges Romme
Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands)
a.g.l.romme@tm.tue.nl

Jennifer Whyte
Imperial College London (UK)
j.k.whyte@imperial.ac.uk


 

Session I: Thursday, July 10 – 11:00–12:30
Designing for Change

Chair: Georges Romme

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Introduction

Sören Augustinsson and Ulf Ericsson
Is it possible to design for sustainable work systems? Exploring the conjunction between regenerative work and complexity

Christiane Prange and Alexandra Steinberg
Managing the innovation paradox: Deleuzian ideas for re-thinking the process of 'unsettling'
 

Session II: Thursday, July 10 – 14:00–15:30
Organization Design Meeting the Humanities: Values, Emotions, and Aesthetics

Chair: Hans Berends

Pieter-Jan Bezemer and Paul Vlaar
Organization design and the role of values: Lessons from religious organizations in the Netherlands

Jan Douglas
What can organizational design learn from work-related emotions in fire and emergency Incident Management Teams (IMTs)?

Joan van Aken, Irene Lammers and Mathieu Weggeman
Designing, creating and sustaining beautiful organizations
 

Session III: Friday, July 11 – 9:00–10:30
Designing Artifacts and Designing Organizations: Exploring the Connections (I)

Chair: Georges Romme

Ileana Stigliani
Artifacts and creativity: The role of artifacts during the creative process in a product design firm

Jennifer Whyte and Paula Cardellino
Learning by design: Visual practices and organizational transformation

Sabine Junginger
Re-visiting corporate design as a form of organization design
 

Session IV: Friday, July 11 – 14:00–15:30
Designing Artifacts and Designing Organizations: Exploring the Connections (II)

Chair: Jennifer Whyte

Mathias Béjean
A design-based view on managerial work: Learning from the arts

Jeroen van Bree and Marinka Copier
The power of play: How game design can upset organizations

Marianne Stang Våland
End user participation as a vehicle for co-designing buildings and organizations
 

Session V: Friday, July 11 – 16:15–17:45
Reflections on Organization Design in Context

Chair: Hans Berends

Elco van Burg, Isabelle Reymen, Georges Romme and Victor Gilsing
Designing in context: Dealing with the embeddedness of organizations

David Knights
Designing for disruption: The failure to develop hermeneutic understanding in organization change

Richard Phillips
The practical value of (organisational) design studies
 

Session VI: Saturday, July 12 – 9:00–10:30
Frameworks for Organization Design

Chair: Jennifer Whyte

Leentje Volker and Kristina Lauche
Designing a decision making framework for judging design quality

Pierre Barbaroux
Towards a unified model of organization design: Applying the principle of decomposition to design organization knowledge and structures


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