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Sub-theme 34:

Classifying Organizational Diversity: Emergence and Evolutionary Trends

 

Convenors:

Joeri M. Mol
University of Melbourne (Australia)
jmol@unimelb.edu.au

Johannes M. Pennings
Wharton School (United States)
pennings@wharton.upenn.edu

Filippo Carlo Wezel
University of Lugano (Switzerland)
wezelf@lu.unisi.ch


 

Session I: Thursday, July 10 – 11:00–12:30
Towards a Theory of Diversity and Competition?

Chair: Joeri Mol, Johannes Pennings and Filippo Carlo Wezel

Joeri Mol, Filippo Carlo Wezel and Johannes Pennings
Classifying organizational diversity: An introduction to the main themes of the track

Michael T. Hannan, Greta Hsu and László Pólos
Modal constructions in sociological arguments: Typecasting, taken-for-grantedness, and institutionalization
Discussant 1: Nachoem Wijnberg
Discussant 2: Johannes Pennings
 

Session II: Thursday, July 10 – 14:00–15:30
Money Matters: Organizational Diversity and Field Formation

Chair: Nachoem Wijnberg

Fabiana Visentin and Alessandro Lomi
The impact of mergers and acquisitions in the Swiss banking industry, 1936–2002
Discussant 1: Giacomo Negro
Discussant 2: Claudio Panico

Meng Zhao
How similar are organizations in emerging fields? Using a cognitive similarity perspective to evaluate the early years of European venture philanthropy
Discussant 1: Fabiana Visentin
Discussant 2: Soorjith Illickal Karthikeyan

Holger Sommerfeldt
In or out? Boundary struggles over infrastructure in the emerging European securities market, 1995–2007
Discussant 1: Caroline van Landeghem
Discussant 2: Iván Orosa Paleo
 

Session III: Friday, July 11 – 9:00–10:30
Stretching and Eroding Categories: Reinheits Gebot meets Kosher meets Denominazione

Chair: Giacomo Negro

Nikolaus Beck
On organizational forms: Theoretical considerations and an exploratory analysis of the Northern Bavarian beer industry
Discussant 1: Raffaele Corrado
Discussant 2: Philippe Monin

Philippe Monin and Grégoire Croidieu
The erosion of the Kosher imperative in Israeli modern wine industry, 1983–2001
Discussant 1: Nachoem Wijnberg
Discussant 2: Raffaele Corrado

Vincenza Odorici and Raffaele Corrado
Romance of tradition or control? Change of product categories in the Italian wine industry
Discussant 1: Nikolaus Beck
Discussant 2: Holger Sommerfeldt
 

Session IV: Friday, July 11 – 14:00–15:30
Jumping Ship: Boundary Work in Culture, Politics and Medicine

Chair: Nikolaus Beck

Özgecan Koçak, Giacomo Negro and Fabrizio Perretti
Switching domains: Actors' careers across film and television
Discussant 1: Fabiana Visentin
Discussant 2: Joeri Mol

Soorjith Illickal Karthikeyan and Filippo Carlo Wezel
Taking big paces and leaving big paces: Issue space competition in British political parties, 1918–1979
Discussant 1: Claudio Panico
Discussant 2: László Pólos

Dean Pierides and Joeri Mol
When classsification is contested: The origins and consequences of diagnostic inconsistencies in the field of post-mortem examination
Discussant 1: Giacomo Negro
Discussant 2: Philippe Monin
 

Session V: Friday, July 11 – 16:15–17:45
Economics Meets Organization Theory: Breaking Categories and Constructing Realities

Chair: Philippe Monin

Nachoem Wijnberg
Classification and competition
Discussant 1: Johannes Pennings
Discussant 2: Dean Pierides

Alfonso Gambardella and Claudio Panico
Intangible outputs and pragmatic delegation: Discovering new roles for the decentralization of decision-making authority
Discussant 1: Nikolaus Beck
Discussant 2: Filippo Carlo Wezel

Anindya Ghosh and Johannes Pennings
Knowledge space and its influence on organizational field formation
Discussant 1: Dean Pierides
Discussant 2: László Pólos
 

Session VI: Saturday, July 12 – 9:00–10:30
The Societal, Cultural and Economic Aspects of Diversity

Chair: Raffaele Corrado

Iván Orosa Paleo and Nachoem Wijnberg
Actor's transversality and classification: The case of Dutch Hiphop
Discussant 1: Soorjith Illickal Karthikeyan
Discussant 2: Marco van Gelderen

Caroline van Landeghem
From residential care for children with disabilities to a diversity of organizational forms for all people with disabilities
Discussant 1: Marco van Gelderen
Discussant 2: Meng Zhao

Marco van Gelderen, Janet Sayers and Caroline Keen
Home-based internet businesses as drivers of variety
Discussant 1: Holger Sommerfeldt
Discussant 2: Caroline van Landeghem
 

Session VII: Saturday, July 12 – 11:15–12:45
On the Lessons Learned

Chair: Joeri Mol, Johannes Pennings and Filippo Carlo Wezel

Open Roundtable Discussion

 

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