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Course
Institutional Organizational Analysis - Change and Transformation (runs every second year)

Faculty

Professor Roy Suddaby, University of Victoria, Canada

Professor Renate Meyer, Vienna University of Economics and Business

Professor Eva Boxenbaum, Department of Organization, CBS

Associate professor Susanne Boch Waldorff, Department of Organization, CBS

Professor Jesper Strandgaard, Department of Organization, CBS


Course Coordinator
Professor 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 17 September 2018.

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
Preliminary lecture plan

Monday 8 October
Presentation of the course program and 'home-groups'

Presentation of participants (who is who?)

Expectations to the course

Renate Meyer: Classic and New Institutional Theory

Tuesday 9 October
Jesper Strandgaard: Institutional Fields and Transformations

Susanne Boch Waldorff: Institutional Logics and Change

Discussion of the received papers in parallel groups

Each group presents 3 central points from group discussions

Wednesday 10 October
Eva Boxenbaum: Empirical Findings on Diffusion and Decoupling

Renate Meyer & Roy Suddaby: Methods in Insitutional Analyses

Discussion of the received papers in parallel groups

Each group presents 3 central points from group discussions

Thursday 11 October
Jesper Strandgaard: Translation of Ideas

Roy Suddaby & Eva Boxenbaum: Institutional Entrepreneurship

Discussion of received papers in parallel groups

Each group presents 3 central points from group discussions

Friday 12 October
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
08/10/2018

End date
12/10/2018

Level
PhD

ECTS
5

Language
English

Course Literature
Selection of the preliminary readings:

Selznick (1949), TVA and the Grassroots

Meyer & Rowan (1977), "Institutional organizations: formal structure as myth and ceremony"

DiMaggio & Powell (1983), "The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields

Tolbert & 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 strands

Mazza, C., Sahlin Andersson, K. and Strandgaard Pedersen, J. (2005). European Constructions of an American Model.

Powell (1991): Expanding the Scope of Institutional Analyses

Friedland & Ahlford (1991) Bringing Society Back in: Symbols, Practices and Institutional Contradictions Hoffman (1999) Institutional Evolution and Change: Environmentalism and the US Chemical Industry

Strandgaard 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 Change

Schneiberg & Clemens (2006), The typical tools for the job. Research strategies in institutional analyses

Mohr (1998), "Measuring Meaning Structures Battilana,

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 theory Maguire,

S., Hardy, C., & Lawrence, T.B. (2004). Institutional entrepreneurship in emerging fields: HIV/AIDS treatment advocacy in Canada

Lawrence & Suddaby (2006) Institutions and Institutional Work

Lounsbury & Crumley (2007) New Practice Creation: An institutional Perspective on Innovation.

Fee
DKK 6,500 (covers the course, coffee/tea, lunch and one dinner)

Minimum number of participants
20

Maximum number of participants
20

Location
Copenhagen Business School
Kilevej 14 A
2000 Frederiksberg
Room: KL4.74 (4th floor)

Contact information
The PhD Support
Katja Høeg Tingleff
Tel.: +45 38 15 28 39
E-mail: kht.research@cbs.dk


Registration deadline
27/08/2018

Please note that your registration is binding after the registration deadline.

In case we receive more registrations for the course than we have places, the registrations will be prioritized in the following order: Students from Doctoral School of Organisation and Management Studies (OMS), students from other CBS PhD schools, students from other institutions than CBS.
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