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23rd EGOS Colloquium 2007  
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Roland Calori Prize


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From Ballroom Dance to Improvisation: Complementary Dances in Organization Studies


Convenors:

Stefan Güldenberg
Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria

Martin Kornberger
School of Management, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

 

Chris Carter
School of Management, University of
St Andrews, Scotland (UK)

Alan McKinley
School of Management, University of
St Andrews, Scotland (UK)

 

Werner H. Hoffmann
Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria

 



 

Session I: Thursday, July 5 – 11:00–12:30
Alliances and Networks

Chair: Werner H. Hoffmann

Catelijne Coopmans
Actors, objects and partial connections: Locating innovation and institution in a drug discovery context
Commentary: Jonghoon Bae and Filippo Carlo Wezel

Yochanan Altman and Josse Roussel
The Georgean feast: Social networks haute cuisine
Commentary: Catelijne Coopmans

Jonghoon Bae and Filippo Carlo Wezel
The influence of interfirm relations on industry evolution
Commentary: Yochanan Altman and Josse Roussel
 

Session II: Thursday, July 5 – 14:00–15:30
Strategy Process and Change

Chair: Martin Kornberger

Daniel Geiger and Jochen Koch
The emergence and maintenance of a strategic core: Exploring strategic path dependency –
The case of a biotech firm

Commentary: Marc Thompson

Stephan Billinger and Nils Stieglitz
Organizational tradeoffs and the dynamics of search and coordination
Commentary: Daniel Geiger and Jochen Koch

Marc Thompson
Strategic renewal in inter-governmental organizations: An exploratory study
Commentary: Stephan Billinger and Nils Stieglitz
 

Session III: Friday, July 6 – 9:00–10:30
Responsibility and Reflexivity of Management Research

Chair: Alan McKinley

Silvia Jordan, Albrecht Becker and Martin Messner
Accounting for critical events
Commentary: Stephen Dunne and Stefano Harney

Hooman Attar and Richard Badham
The politics of risk and the risk of politics in innovation: Opening up the black box of 'unreflexive' modernisation
Commentary: Silvia Jordan, Albrecht Becker and Martin Messner

Stephen Dunne and Stefano Harney
The responsibilities of business and management education
Commentary: Hooman Attar and Richard Badham
 

Session IV: Friday, July 6 – 11:00–12:30
Social Capital and Learning

Chair: Chris Carter

Abhijit Ghosh
Social capital: Illuminating contemporary debates in social science and management
Commentary: Alice Belcher

Karen Yuan Wang and Gian Casimir
Social capital of structural hole and resource acquisition of SMEs
Commentary: Abhijit Ghosh

Alice Belcher
Trust in the boardroom
Commentary: Karen Yuan Wang and Gian Casimir
 

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Session VI: Saturday, July 7 – 9:00–10:30
Innovation and Technology

Chair: Stefan Güldenberg

Christian Czernich and Ivo Zander
The framing of new business concepts in established corporations
Commentary: Daniel Boos, Hannes Günter and Gudela Grote

Kathrin Sele and Simon Grand
Establishing the new through language: How rhetorical figures support the innovation process
Commentary: Christian Czernich and Ivo Zander

Daniel Boos, Hannes Günter and Gudela Grote
Organizational issues, technological frames and the development of a new ubiquitous computing prototype
Commentary: Kathrin Sele and Simon Grand
 

Session VII: Saturday, July 7 – 11:00–12:30
Knowledge and Leadership

Chair: Stefan Güldenberg

Jens Meissner, Simone Schweikert and Patricia Wolf
Dancing the electronic dance: Knowledge practices in organizational communication
Commentary: Arlene Harvey and John Shields

Mousumi Bhattacharya
Strategizing in practice: The role of skill, behavior and HR practice flexibility in generating organizational flexibility
Commentary: Jens Meissner, Simone Schweikert and Patricia Wolf

Arlene Harvey and John Shields
Bringing US 'tall poppies' down-under: Deconstructing the construction of cultural and ethnic identity of 'imported' chief executives
Commentary: Mousumi Bhattacharya