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Sub-theme 43:

Breaking the Silence: Institutional Theory and Inequality

 

Convenors:

Kate Kellogg
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)
kkellogg@mit.edu

Kamal Munir
University of Cambridge (UK)
k.munir@jbs.cam.ac.uk

Marc Ventresca
University of Oxford & Naval Postgraduate School (UK)
marc.ventresca@sbs.ox.ac.uk


 

Session I: Thursday, July 10 – 11:00–12:30
The Production of Inequality

Convenors
Welcome and General Introduction

Klaus Weber and Mary Ann Glynn
Put in place, held in place: Inequality and the relational nature of institutions

Edward J. Carberry
Executive stock options in the American corporation after the scandals: Exploring challenges to legitimacy and the dynamics of institutional persistence

Gail Whiteman
Crimes against humanity: Exploring the visceral edge of institutional theory

Discussant: Ray Loveridge
 

Session II: Thursday, July 10 – 14:00–15:30
How Power is Exercised 

Trish Reay, Karen Golden-Biddle, Ann Casebeer, C.R. Hinings
Power dynamics in institutional change: Institutionalizing new ways of working in primary health care

Kelly Thomson, Brenda Zimmerman and Anne Matlow
Talking about a revolution: How destructuration in the social structure of health care affects professionals and patients

Susanne Boch Waldorff and Royston Greenwood
The social consequences of community translation processes: Danish health care centres

Discussant: Katherine Kellogg
 

Session III: Friday, July 11 – 9:00–10:30
Power Dynamics and the Adoption of Practices 

Rodolphe Durand, Erik Lootvoet and Michael Lounsbury
Competing logics and inequality: The asymmetric structuring of practice diffusion

Michal Frenkel
Power, institutionalization and globalization: The institutionalization of the M-form in Israel as a dynamic in overlapping field

Judith L. Walls and Andrew J. Hoffman
Board make-up and organizational receptivity to field-level pressures: Corporate proactivity on environmental strategy and minority voices

Discussant: Klaus Weber
 

Session IV: Friday, July 11 – 14:00–15:30
Institutional Change 

Lucio Baccaro and John-Paul Ferguson
Whither redistribution? The changing relationship between centralized collective bargaining and wage inequality in the age of neoliberalism

Shahzad Ansari and Bas Koene
From institutional entrepreneurship to institutional maintenance and extension: Dealing with the velvet curtain

Antoine Blanc and Isabelle Huault
Silenced musicians. The major labels' discursive work in the reproduction of institutionalized myths

Discussant: Kamal Munir
 

Session V: Friday, July 11 – 16:15–17:45
Perspectives on Inequality and Institutions – Invited Commentators

Chair: Marc Ventresca

Commentators:
Maureen Scully
Tina Dacin
Final speaker (t.b.a.)
 

Session VI: Saturday, July 12 – 9:00–10:30
Role of Agency in Institutional Change and Persistence 

Silvia Dorado and Marc Ventresca
Reconnecting political and cognitive sources of action: Lessons from Hirchman on development for institutional theories of change

Josephine Stomp
The transformation of the Big Three into the Not-so-Big-Three: Shifts in power between elites and non-elites

Rajshree Prakash and Marvin Washington
Devising deviance: The case of institutional schizophrenia

Discussant: Shahzad Ansari
 

Session VII: Saturday, July 12 – 11:15–12:45
Local Embeddedness 

Julie Battilana, Tina Dacin, Johanna Mair and Christian Seelos
The embeddedness of social entrepreneurship: Understanding variation across geographic communities

Ray Loveridge
The State we are in?

Isabel Fernández-Mateo and Zella King
Open to the market? Prior relationships and competition for projects in the staffing sector

Discussant: Michal Frenkel

 

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