POSTPONED - Institutional Organizational Analysis – Change and Transformation



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Course
POSTPONED - Institutional Organizational Analysis – Change and Transformation
Faculty
Professor Roy Suddaby, University of Victoria, Canada Professor Renate Meyer,Vienna University of Economics and Business Professor Eva Boxenbaum, Department of Organization, CBS Professor Jesper Strandgaard, Department of Organization, CBS Professor Ann Westenholz, Department of Organization, CBS
Course Coordinator
Jesper Strandgaard
Prerequisites
The PhD student must be working on a research project involving the institutional sociological approach or – if this is not the case – be willing to explore if the approach could be applied. Naturally, the idea is not to push students into becoming institutional theorists, but to make them reflect upon their projects from this theoretical perspective. The PhD student is required to present a five-pages (maximum) written presentation in which s/he relates the curriculum literature in the course to his/ her project. The presentation must include specific references to the literature applied. Deadline for submission of presentations is Monday 24 August 2015. The student presentation should provide material for discussion in minor groups during the course, and the student must be willing to participate in discussions of other presentations. It is a precondition for receiving the course diploma that the student attends the whole course
Aim
In the last decade, institutional theory has revolutionized the social sciences, and there is no doubt that the institutional revolution will achieve significance equal to that of the behavioral revolution in the 1950s and the 1960s. At the same time, the social constructionist approach has achieved significant status within anthropology and sociology, and it is currently spreading to a number of other disciplines. The goal of the course is to give participants a broad overview of organizational neoinstitutionalism and develop their capacity to use the approach in their own work.
Course content
The course focuses on the school within institutional theory that is rooted in sociology. Within this boundary, first we concern ourselves with the provocative foundational works of organizational neoinstitutionalism. We will review institutional contributions, exploring the unique, social constructionist approach used by organizational sociologists. Next, we will turn to some of the more recent advances in institutional analysis. Neoinstitutionalists are distinctive in that they are both historical and interpretive in orientation, exploring historical change and transformations in the meaning of organizational structures and practices. We analyze how institutions are constructed and diffused; how institutional elements are incorporated into and translated in organizations as well as how institutional change and institutional entrepreneurship is taking place within specific organization fields. We discuss diverse methodological approaches to the study of institutionalization processes – macro- as well as micro approaches. In addition, we will explore the applicability of neoinstitutional theory and methods to the empirical projects course participants are currently working on.
Teaching style
Lectures with workshops, dialogues and student discussions.
Lecture plan
Monday 21 September 2015 Presentation of the course program and ‘home-groups’ Presentation of participants (who is who?) Expectations to the course Tuesday 22 September 2015 Jesper Strandgaard: Institutional fields and transformations Ann Westenholz: Institutional Change and Multi Logics Discussion of received papers in 3 - 4 parallel groups Each group prensents 3 central points from group discussions Wednesday 23 September 2015 Eva Boxenbaum: Empirical findings on diffusion and decoupling Renate Meyer & Roy Suddaby: Methods in Institutional Analyses Discussion of the received papers in 3 - 4parallel groups Each group presents 3 central points from group discussions Thursday 24 September 2015 Jesper Strandgaard: Translation of Ideas Roy Suddaby & Eva Boxenbaum: Institutional Entrepreneurship Discussion of the received papers in 3 – 4 parallel groups Each group presents 3 central points from group discussions Friday 25 September 2015 Roy Suddaby, Renate Meyer, Eva Boxenbaum & Jesper Strandgaard: New directions in neo-institutional analysis
Learning objectives
Participants get insights into the historical development of institutional organizational theory and the latest development within this approach understanding organizational stability, change and transformation. The participants also get insights how to use the theory on empirical work, especially their own projects.
Exam
N/A
Other

Start date
21/09/2015
End date
25/09/2015
Level
PhD
ECTS
5
Language
English
Course Literature
Selection of the preliminary reading:Selznick (1949), TVA and the GrassrootsMeyer & Rowan (1977), "Institutional organizations: formal structure as myth and ceremony"DiMaggio & Powell (1983), "The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational FieldsTolbert & Zucker (1983), "Institutional sources of change in the formal structure of organizations: The diffusion of civil service reform, 1880-1935"Meyer, R. (2008), New sociology of knowledge: Historical legacy and current strandsMazza, C., Sahlin Andersson, K. and Strandgaard Pedersen, J. (2005). European Constructions of an American Model.Powell (1991): Expanding the Scope of Institutional AnalysesFriedland & Ahlford (1991) Bringing Society Back in: Symbols, Practices and Institutional ContradictionsHoffman (1999) Institutional Evolution and Change: Environmentalism and the US Chemical IndustryStrandgaard Pedersen, J. and Dobbin, F. (2006). In Search of Identity and Legitimation – Bridging Organizational Culture and Neoinstitutionalism.Reay & Hinings (2009) Managing the Rivalry of Competing institutional Logics (compendium)Boxenbaum, E. & Jonsson, S. (2008). Isomorphism, diffusion and decoupling.Lounsbury, M. (2001). Institutional sources of practice variation: Staffing college and university recycling programs.Suddaby & Greenwood (2009), Methodological Issues in Researching Institutional ChangeSchneiberg & Clemens (2006), The typical tools for the job. Research strategies in institutional analysesMohr (1998), "Measuring Meaning StructuresBattilana, J., Leca, B., & Boxenbaum, E. (2009). How actors change institutions: Toward a theory of institutional entrepreneurship.DiMaggio, P.J. (1988). Interest and agency in institutional theoryMaguire, S., Hardy, C., & Lawrence, T.B. (2004). Institutional entrepreneurship in emerging fields: HIV/AIDS treatment advocacy in CanadaLawrence & Suddaby (2006) Institutions and Institutional WorkLounsbury & Crumley (2007) New Practice Creation: An institutional Perspective on Innovation .
Fee
12,500
Minimum number of participants


Maximum number of participants
0
Location
Kysthusene Gilleleje
Contact information
Katja Høeg Tingleff kht.research@cbs.dk Tel.: +45 38 15 28 39
Registration deadline