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24th EGOS Colloquium 2008  
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Open sub-theme II
 


Convenors:

Heidi Dahles
VU University Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Faculty of Social Sciences
Dept. of Culture, Organization & Management
h.dahles@fsw.vu.nl

Peter Groenewegen
VU University Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Faculty of Social Sciences
Dept. of Culture, Organization & Management
p.groenewegen@fsw.vu.nl


 

Session I: Thursday, July 10 – 11:00–12:30
Strategic Interaction

Chair: Peter Groenewegen

Liselore Berghman
Fostering disruptive innovation capacity: The effectiveness of semi-structured learning mechanisms
Discussant: Stefan W. Konlechner

Taman H. Powell
Beyond wellsprings: Influencing absorptive capacity
Discussant: Liselore Berghman

Stefan W. Konlechner and Wolfgang H. Güttel
Learning whilst replicating: The evolution of replication strategies
Discussant: Taman H. Powell
 

Session II: Thursday, July 10 – 14:00–15:30
Knowledge Management

Chair: Heidi Dahles

Maaike Verbree and Robert Braam
Multiple-group membership in knowledge work
Discussant: Peter Groenewegen

Peter Groenewegen and Lois Peters
Innovation and social networks in high technolog. A comparison between biopharmaceutical and nanotechnology networks
Discussant: Maaike Verbree
 

Session III: Friday, July 11 – 9:00–10:30
Change and Culture

Chair: Heidi Dahles

Gianfranco Rebora, Eliana Minelli and Matteo Turri
Change management in complex organisations: Comparing five Italian case studies
Discussant: Sylwia Ciuk

Sylwia Ciuk
The process and consequences of destructive leadership from a cultural perspective
Discussant: Jean-Paul Dumond

Jean-Paul Dumond, Michel Hervé, Florence Saillour, Sandrine Briand, Nathalie Halgand and Matthieu Sibé
Organisation cultures faced with upsetting events: an assessment of typology
Discussant: Gianfranco Rebora
 

Session IV: Friday, July 11 – 14:00–15:30
Project-Based Organization I

Chair: Peter Groenewegen

Marjana Johansson
Engaging resources for temporary organizations: The example of cultural events
Discussant: Paolo Canonico

Paolo Canonico, Ernesto de Nito and Gianluigi Mangia
Interpreting projects: Bureaucratical mechanisms to enforce control or lever for change?
Discussant: Marjana Johansson
 

Session V: Friday, July 11 – 16:15–17:45
Project-Based Organization II

Chair: Heidi Dahles

Jawwad Z. Raja, Stuart D. Green and Roine Leiringer
Learning and project-based organizations: A case study of institutionalised communities of practice
Discussant: Andrew Sense

Andrew Sense
Re-characterizing projects and project teams through a social learning lens
Discussant: Jawwad Z. Raja
 

Session VI: Saturday, July 12 – 9:00–10:30
New Management Concepts

Chair: Peter Groenewegen

Renate Ortlieb and Barbara Sieben
Diversity strategies. Practicing and reasoning the (non-)employment of persons with a migration background
Discussant: Curtis LeBaron

Zoltán Buzády and Achilles Georgiu
The Absorption Model of Leadership. Employee's characteristic absorption curve
Discussant: Barbara Sieben

Curtis LeBaron, Phillip Glenn and Michael Thompson
Identity management in employment interviews: Knowing the file-self and relating to the embodies-self through practices that affirm or upset
Discussant: Zoltán Buzády
 

Session VII: Saturday, July 12 – 11:15–12:45
Accountability

Chair: Heidi Dahles

Isabelle Mari
"Managerial legitimacy" of top executives: A way to reconsider executive power in corporate governance?
Discussant: Johanna Hanson

Johanna Hansson and Jan Lindvall
Rules and roles. Transparancy and accountability in the footsteps of SOX implementation
Discussant: Isabelle Mari

 

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