Events

2021
 

November, 2021
Seminar "Organization als Verband" on Weber´s Economy and Society with Keith Tribe a leading authority on Weber, a noted historian of economic and social thought and an accomplished translator of (among others Max Weber, Reinhart Koselleck, and Wihelm Hennis).
Organized by: Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth & José Ossandón

November, 2021
Seminar: "Ledelse mellem hensyn og dilemmaer" a CBS event in cooparation with Department of Organization, CBS Leadership Blue Ribbon and Master of Public Governance

October, 2021
Hybrid event: "China's New Data Law - Implications of the law for Danish-Chinese Research Collaboration"
Organized by: Social Science @Sino Danish Center for Education and Research (SDC) and Innovation Centre Denmark (ICDK) in Shanghai

October, 2021
Seminar in the Cross-Roads series: “How organization studies contribute to the Green Transition – Celebrating two new research projects at IOA”. Organized by: OT@IOA (Organization Theory Group)

September, 2021
Seminar in the Cross-Roads series: “Organizational Ethnography on the Streets”
Organized by: Pedro Monteiro and OT@IOA (Organization Theory Group).

March, 2021
PhD event: “Teaching as a PhD”. Teaching coordinator Lise Justesen will address topics such as: How teaching tasks are allocated at IOA; typical challenges encountered when teaching at CBS for the first (or second) time – and how to handle them; courses and support from colleagues; the connection between teaching and research. There will be room for questions and for sharing experiences. 
Organized by: PhD Coordinator Ursula Plesner and Teaching Coordinator Lise Justesen. 

March, 2021
An @bout time webinar on “Reflections from using time in research: Past, present, and future” with Associate Professor Innan Sasaki, Warwick Business School, UK. 
Organized by: COT (Centre for Organization and Time). 

March, 2021
Virtual POVI Keynote speak with Professor Renate Meyer. In this seminar, Professor Renate Meyer, who is Editor in Chief of Organization Studies, will share her thoughts on public sector articles in the journal such as what are the current agendas, missing debates, and possible contributions.
Organized by: POVI Center (Public Organization, Value and Innovation).

2020

December, 2020

2019

December, 2019
Seminar on “Institutions & Creativity” in the IOA Conversation Series “Institutional Interfaces” with Professor Arne Carlsen, BI Norwegian Business School, and Alicja Dánkowska, Kozminski University, Warsaw.
Organized by: IOA Conversation Series

December, 2019

2018

December, 2018

2017

December, 2017
'Institutional Interfaces: City Identity': This seminar will explore the interface between institutional theory and city identity. More specifically, we will discuss opportunities for cross-fertilization between institutional theory and the literature on identity for empirical inquiry into how cities pursue and acquire a stronger or more visible identity. The discussion will revolve around two empirical papers to be presented and discussed at this event. The first paper examines how multi-centenary family firms in the area of Kyoto - collectively known as shinise - help the city of Kyoto maintain its identity. This paper will be presented by Professor Davide Ravasi (Cass Business School) based on a paper that he has co-authored with Innan Sasaki and Evelyn Micelotta. 

July, 2017

2016

November, 2016
Seminar with Associate Professor Anthony Hussenot (Université Paris-Dauphine): "Studying a makers movement through the lens of temporality. The case of IciMontreuil". 
Organized by: Professor Tor Hernes, IOA

October, 2016
The 5th Workshop on Talent Management arranged by EIASM (The European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management). 2 days and taking place at CBS. 
Organized by: EIASM and Associate Professor Sara Louise Muhr

September, 2016
"International Conference on Visuality, Materiality, Multimodality: Novel approaches to the study of meaning, organizations and institutions". 2 days and taking place at CBS. 
Organized by: Professor Eva Boxenbaum, Professor Silviya Svejenova, Professor Renate Meyer, Assistant Professor Lærke Højgaard Christiansen and Assistant Professor Dennis Jancsary. 

2015

February, 2015
6th 2014-2015 Meeting of CBS-Private Public Platform's Markets and Valuation Cluster (session in collaboration with CASPRO). Professor Peter Skærbæk and Associate Professor Kjell Tryggestad will present and discuss their work-in-progress, "Accounting inscriptions in outsourcing trials of strength: time-space dynamics". 
Organized by: CBS-Private Public Platform's Markets and Valuation Cluster and CASPRO

February, 2015
"Leadership and Organizational Development Seminars". 
Organized by: Associate Professor Magnus Larsson

January, 2015
"5th Meeting of CBS-Private Public Platform's Markets and valuation Cluster". Assistant Professor Ann-Christina Lange will present and discuss her paper "Crowding of Adaptive Strategies: Swarm Theory and High-Frequency Trading". 
Organized by: CBS-Private Public Platform's Markets and Valuation Cluster 

2014

December, 2014
CBS Leadership and Diversity Workshop. Keynotes are Professor Patrice Buzzanell (Purdue University) and Professor Mustafa Özbilgin (Brunell University). 
Organized by: Associate Professor Sara Louise Muhr

November, 2014
New Sites in Organization Studies, an MPP & IOA Seminar. This seminar series, jointly hosted by IOA and MPP, brings new and neglected phenomena to the attention of the field of organization studies. It is grounded as a response to recent editions of the journal Organization Studies (notably 'The dark side of organization', Linstead et al. 2014; 'New sights/sites: Exploring the white spaces of organization', O’Doherty et al. 2013) and is connected to the journal's new section 'X and Organisation Studies'. This section has three related roles. First to encourage a more essayistic style of writing, approachable to readers beyond as well as within the field. Second, to consider hitherto overlooked phenomena, or those considered too elusive or difficult to research. Third, to broach the edges of the field, allowing different conversations in, and informing conversations beyond.

Organized by: Morten Rishede Philipsen (MPP)

November, 2014
CBS Leadership and Organization Development Seminar. 
Organized by: Associate Professor Magnus Larsson

October, 2014
"1st 2014-2015 Meeting of the Copenhagen Markets and Valuations Group". Postdoc at IOA, Karen Boll, will present her paper "State regulation through engagement of buyers and activation of the market economy - Is 'Neoliberal Tax Management' taking form?". Karen’s article discusses a form of state regulation where government officials engage and involve external stakeholders in co-producing regulation. It reports two examples in which the state seeks to regulate in this way; one case concerns illegal contracting in the cleaning sector, the other concerns the operation of un-licenced businesses.
Organized by: The Markets and Valuation Cluster. 

September, 2014
Imagine Seminar with Carmelo Mazza: "The Invention of a Festival in a World Heritage Site: Logic, Actors, Action". A World Heritage site is a perfect object to study how arts and management may collide. On one side, UNESCO sets significant constraints and demanding goals engaging both cultural organizations and local administration. On the other side, expectations of increased revenues from tourism rise the need of proper site management.
Organized by: imagine Center at IOA

June, 2014
"7th 2013-2014 meeting of the Copenhagen Markets and Valuations Group". This time, we will be reading and discussing Philip Mirowski’s book Never Let a Serious Crisis go to Waste, chapters 4 to 6.
Organized by: The Markets and Valuation Cluster. 

June, 2014
Leadership and Organizational Development Seminar with Associate Professor Morten Knudsen (IOA) and Professor Robert D. Austin (Ivey Business School, Ontario). The theme is "Teaching leadership over the internet". 
Organized by: Associate Professor Magnus Larsson

May, 2014
Seminar with Professor Tim Kuhn (University of Colorado, Boulder) - "Managing Anxieties and Performing Competencies - Communicatively Constituting Authority in a Growing Airline with Timothy Kuhn". 

May, 2014
Leadership and Organizational Development "Memories of Momentum". In our next seminar, on May 8th, Visiting Professor Jonathan Gosling, Exeter University, and Ian Sutherland, Bled School of Management, will have a presentation on the topic of ”Memories with Momentum”. An outline of their talk is attached, and some relevant articles will be distributed to participants.

April, 2014
Leadership and Organizational Development - Paper by Associate Professor Magnus Larsson. 

March, 2014
Leadership and Organizational Development with Professor Patrice Buzzanell (Purdue University), who will be the primary discussant. We will also take some time to reflect on emerging themes and common interest that can be further developed in the future, including information on the upcoming ISLC conference here at CBS in December 2014.

March, 2014
Fifth Copenhagen Markets and Valuations Group Meeting. We will be visited by Manuel Tironi (CSISP - Goldsmith, University of London - Instituto de Sociologia, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) who will present and discuss his paper: “Neoliberal electricity: economics and the purification of energy”.

February, 2014
The sixth Leadership and Organization Development Seminar. At the seminar on February 5th, 12.00 - 13.30, we will discuss a paper by Frank Meier. Robert Austin will be the primary discussant. We will also take some time to reflect on emerging themes and common interest that can be further developed in the future, including the ISLC conference in December 2013 and upcoming conferences.

February, 2014
Fourth Meeting of the Copenhagen Markets and Valuations Group - Seminar preparing for Latour workshop. This time, preparing for Bruno Latour’s visit, we will be discussing the “economy” chapters (14, 15 and 16) of his An Inquiry into Modes of Existence. Note that the fifth meeting will be March 5th 10-12 and we will be visited by Manuel Tironi (CSISP - Goldsmith, University of London - Instituto de Sociologia, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) who will present and discuss his paper: “Neoliberal electricity: economics and the purification of energy”.

January, 2014
Seminar with Philippe Lorino, "Innovation as a transactional inquiry: The case of urban development". More information here. 
 

2013

December, 2013
Inaugural lecture with Dr. Chris Harty. This inaugural lecture by Chris Harty will focus on two questions - what role does the construction sector play in the provision of healthcare infrastructure and what role does infrastructure play in delivering healthcare? For more information. 

November, 2013
The Department of Organization 60th Birthday Celebratory Seminar. Department of Organization invites colleagues and friends to a seminar in celebration of its 60th birthday. At the seminar, we will focus on the past and current challenges of the theory of organizations, the past and current challenges of the Department of Organization, and the past and current challenges of managing and organizing IOA. For more information. 

November, 2013
Seminar with Emilia Kvarnström, "Coping with institutional complexity - a study of how corporations and NGO's negotiate CSR in collaborations". For more information. 

November, 2013
Guest lecture with Professor Richard Scott, "Higher Education: A Field in Ferment". Currently, higher education is undergoing major changes in all Western countries. An "organization field" framework is applied to help us understand what is going on. Within this framework, insights from three contrasting perspectives will be discussed. For more information. 

November, 2013
Seminar with Professor Hervé Corvellec: "Waste: Object of Management, Valuation and Sustainability". Waste is the new Eldorado. Incineration is to contribute to a domestic production of energy. Recycling is to meet the challenge of peak everything. Food waste is to generate bio-fertilizers and bio-fuels that enable a sustainable food production and transportation by cars and buses. And waste prevention is to prompt truly sustainable modes of consumption. Waste is therefore a multisided topic of interest for management and organization scholars. For more information. 

November, 2013
IOA's 60th Birthday Cake Extravaganza. This year the Department of Organization turns 60 years old. Please join us for our Birthday Celebration on November 8 at 2 PM. To celebrate the anniversary, the 4th floor of Kilen will be adorned with 60 of our greatest cakes from the history of IOA. For more information. 

November, 2013
Second Market Group Seminar with Mariana Heredia, Universidad de San Martin – Argentinian National Scientific Council, who will present and discuss her paper: ‘The Convertibility puzzle: The intervention of local economists in Argentina’s path to neoliberalism’. For more information. 

October, 2013
The 4th CBS Leadership and Organizational Development Seminar. We will discuss a paper by Mette Zølner, and Eric Guthey will be first discussant. For more information. 

September, 2013
"Innovativ HRM: Ny virkelighed - Ny HR dagsorden?". Den 5. september afholder CBS og CBS Executive igen den årlige Cranet konference med fokus på HR som en organisatorisk disciplin. For more information. 

September, 2013
Cranet HRM Konference. Den 5. september 2013 afholder CBS/IOA (med Professor Henrik Holt Larsen i spidsen) og CBS Executive sammen den årlige Cranet HRM Konference for både HR professionelle og studerende på HRM linien. For more information. 

June, 2013
"Origins of Religiousness: The Role of Natural Distasters". Copenhagen Centre for Disaster Research and the Department of Organization presents a seminar by Jeanet Sinding Bentzen. For more information. 

May, 2013
"The Predicament of Privilege: On the Affectivity of Catastrophes". Copenhagen Centre for for Disaster Research and the Department of Organization presents a seminar by Devika Sharma. The seminar will draw on recent discussions within disciplines of cultural theory, moral anthropology, and media studies. For more information. 

May, 2013
Imagine.. seminar with David Stark, "Game Changer: The Topology of Creativity in Video Game Development". Network research suggests that a team topology balancing familiarity (via cohesion) and diversity (via brokerage) is the key to success. We go beyond the duality of brokerage and closure by adopting the concept of structural folding – the generative tension in overlapping cohesive groups. In elaborating the causal mechanisms at work in structural folding, we hypothesize that the effects of structural folding on inventiveness and on creative success are especially strong when overlapping groups are cognitively distant. For more information. 

2012 

November, 2012
Lecture with Mark Haugaard: "Th four dimensions of power and democracy". This lecture re-evaluates the three-dimensional power debate, Foucault’s account of subjectification, which is theorized as the fourth dimension of power, and Arendt’s concept of power as concerted power. For more information. 

October, 2012
Public lecture with Professor Alon Harel, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. This lecture will discuss a non-instrumental argument against privatization of certain forms of political violence. Focus is in particular on the privatization of prisons and on the use of mercenaries in wars. This lecture maintains that some governmental decisions simply cannot be executed by private entities. For more information. 

October, 2012
Forskningsseminar om udbredelsen af evidensbaseret praksis i den offentlige sektor. Der har i de senere år været en stigende interessere for begrebet ”evidens” i den offentlige sektor. Fra sundhedsvæsenet har evidensidealer og forskellige former for evidensbaseret praksis bevæget sig til uddannelsesområdet, til sociale indsatser, til ledelse, til politik osv. Specialiserede evidensproducerende offentlige organisationer er under etablering på stadigt flere områder. Samtidig er det ikke evident, hvori evidensbaserede indsatser består. Evidensbegrebet er ikke entydigt, og der udspiller sig løbende kampe om at definere begrebets indhold og dets grænser. En af de forestillinger, der ofte knytter sig til evidensbaseret praksis, handler om, at evidensbasering medfører effektivisering af den offentlige sektor - blandt andet fordi evidensen medvirker til at fastslå, ”hvad der virker” på et givent område. Det er imidlertid værd at overveje, hvordan evidens selv virker i praksis. Vi ønsker at diskutere, hvilke nye forskningsspørgsmål, vi kan stille på baggrund af denne udvikling. 

September, 2012
Lecture with Professor Charles Perrow. Risk and denials: exploring energy risk possibilities and probabilities from 1945 to 2012. 

September, 2012
The role of images (verbal and visual) in organization research. The upcoming seminar will explore the role of images (verbal and visual) in organization research. For more information. 

September, 2012
Public lecture with Professor Ian Hunter. Cosmopolitan Metaphysics and Territorial Diplomacy: Kant and Vattel on International Justice. 

August, 2012
Torben Agersnap 90 år. Institut for Organisation inviterer hermed til 90 års fødselsdagsseminar for professor Torben Agersnap. For more information. 

August, 2012
Seminar with Barbara Czarniawska: Cyberfactories: How News Agencies Produce News. Cyberfactories: News agencies as places where production and consumption, products and services, merge. A study of news production at three news agencies: national, international, global. For more information. 

August, 2012
Cranet HRM Konferencen. Cranet konferencen er det unikke mødested for HR-professionelle, der ønsker at holde sig opdateret på nye landvindinger inden for forskning og praksis. Cranet-undersøgelsen er den største og mest repræsentative, uafhængige undersøgelse af HRM-politikker og -praksis i verden. 

May, 2012
Lecture with Pforzheimer Professor Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard University: In this talk, I turn for explanations to the complex relations among scientific knowledge, evidence, and persuasion in the public sphere. Drawing on decades of comparative research, I identify the challenges faced by institutions that seek to bridge uncertainty across disparate political cultures. I argue that we need to retheorize the constitutional position of science in the contemporary global order in order to build the kind of cosmopolitan knowledge that can resist global skepticism and distrust.

May,2012
Seminar: "Research Meets Practice: Innovation and market creation in and around virtual worlds". The seminar will include lectures by Henry Lowood (Stanford University), Robin Teigland (Stockholm School of Economics), Isto Huvila (Uppsala University) and Ursula Plesner (Copenhagen Business School), as well as presentations from practitioners from Denmark, Italy and England. For more information. 

May, 2012
Imagine.. and "Center for Leisure and Culture Services" at INT present a seminar with Brian Wheeller. Brian Wheeller holds degrees in Economics, in Applied Economics, in the Economic Impacts of Tourism, and in American Studies. His doctorate on Critiquing Eco/Ego/Sustainable Tourism contextualises the debate within the wider arena of tourism planning and management, policy and practice. In addition, his interests have evolved and broadened over the years, his current research revolving around the links between travel, tourism and popular culture - in particular literature, art, photography, film, music - and their relevance to contemporary tourism thinking.

April, 2012
Future of organization studies: Is OS becoming outdated, empirically irrelevant, or losing its scholarly touch? Is it losing out to other fields? Is there hope of renewal, and if so, in what form? What is happening to the field? What can we as scholars do to save it, or should we do anything to save it? We invite international and local scholars to a series of seminars hosted by the Department of Organization, to reflect on the past, the present and possible futures of organization studies. For more information. 

April, 2012
Imagine.. seminar with David Throsby. David Throsby is Distinguished Professor of Economics at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.  He is internationally recognised for his research and writing on the economics of art and culture.  His current research interests include the economic circumstances of artists, culture in economic development, heritage economics, the creative economy and the relationships between economic and cultural policy. For more information. 

March, 2012
Seminar/Book launch: Institut for Strategi og Globalisering (SMG) afholder seminar i forbindelse med lanceringen af bogen: ’Innovating Organization & Management – New Sources of Competitive Advantage’ hvor Majken Schultz er medforfatter. For more information. 

March, 2012
Imagine.. seminar with Amélie Boutinot: Reputation-building is a difficult process, but one that is vital to survive and improve career paths in creative industries. One reason artists face difficulties is that reputation-building may lack of clarity in the relationships between the various and apparently distinct kinds of reputation an artist can have. This paper suggests understanding better the way several kinds of reputations are built and combined in creative industries. Our structural model results, based on a sample of 103 contemporary French architects, indicate that the specific reputations an artist can acquire are inter-constituted and interact with each other. Thanks to our empirical study, we contribute to reputation and creative industries literatures. For more information. 

March, 2012
"From Theory to Theorizing" with Professor Richard Swedberg, Cornell University. Since World War II methods have advanced very quickly in sociology and social science, while this has not been the case with theory. In this talk I suggest that one way of beginning to close the gap between the two, might be to focus on theorizing rather than on theory. For more information. 

March, 2012
Bogreception: Lise Justesen og Susanne Boch Waldorff, der netop har udgivet bogen "Strategier i praksis – en casesamling", inviterer til bogreception på Institut for Organisation. For mere information. 

March, 2012
Imagine.. seminar with Lasse Steiner. The artistic labor market is marked by several adversities, such as low wages, above-average unemployment, and constrained underemployment. Nevertheless, it attracts many young people. The number of students exceeds the available jobs by far. A potential explanation for this puzzle is that artistic work might result in exceptionally high job satisfaction, a conjecture that has been mentioned at various times in the literature. For more information. 

March, 2012
Imagine.. seminar with Ryan Raffaell: “Mechanisms of Institutional Re-Emergence and Field Level Identity Change: Swiss Watchmaking, 1983-2008”. We seek to understand the processes and mechanisms whereby “dying” technologies in an institutionalized field re-emerge at a later date. For more information. 
 

2011 

IOA Seminars

Invitation to seminar with Christopher Grey, University of Warwick (2011)
Secrecy is a common feature of organizational life, but has received very little attention within the organization studies literature. The paper draws upon sociological and organizational literature to propose a typological framework of the varieties of secrecy in organizations: formal, informal, public and private.
Date: 26.10
For more information on the event, please click the link below.
http://www.cbs.dk/forskning/institutter-centre/institut-organisation/arrangementer/invitation-to-seminar-0

Invitation to seminar with Tim Dartington, The Tavistock Institute (2011)
In this seminar I will focus on some ‘classic’ theories, specially from Bion and from Miller and Rice, with reference to group relations conferences and consultancy with human service organizations. I will refer in particular to work with health systems, and the influence of Isabel Menzies Lyth. Finally I will want to explore the subjectivity of experience, and processes of transference and projective identification, with reference to my book: Managing Vulnerability, the underlying dynamics of systems of care, (2010, Karnac).
Date: 11.10
For more information on the event, please click the link below.
http://www.cbs.dk/forskning/institutter-centre/institut-organisation/arrangementer/invitation-to-seminar

Lecture by Professor Annelise Riles, Cornell Law School (2011)
Drawing upon her ten years of ethnographic fieldwork in the Japanese derivatives market, Riles explores the uses of collateral in the financial markets as a regulatory device for stabilizing market transactions. How collateral operates, Riles suggests, is paradigmatic of a class of low-profile, mundane, but indispensable activities and practices that are all too often ignored as we think about how markets should work and be governed.  Riles seeks to democratize our understanding of legal techniques, and demonstrate how these day-to-day private actions can be reformed to produce more effective forms of market regulation.
Date: 07.10
For more information on the event, please click the link below.
http://www.cbs.dk/forskning/institutter-centre/institut-organisation/arrangementer/lecture-by-professor-annelise-riles-cornell-law-school

Invitation to seminar with Chris Warhurst (2011)
This seminar charts past and current policy thinking on skills and indicates the direction in which policy thinking ought to head with respect to skills utilisation. Across the OECD countries in the 1990s emphasis was placed by government on improving the supply of skills.
Date: 27.09
For more information on the event, please click the link below.
http://www.cbs.dk/forskning/institutter-centre/institut-organisation/arrangementer/invitation-to-seminar-with-chris-warhurst

Invitation to seminar with Professor Andrew Pettigrew (2011)
In his talk Pettigrew will offer a personal view of the rise and fall of the field of Organisation Design in academia since its high point in the 1960's and 1970's.
Date: 07.09
For more information on the event, please click the link below.
http://www.cbs.dk/forskning/institutter-centre/institut-organisation/arrangementer/invitation-to-seminar-with-professor-andrew-Pettigrew

Invitation to seminar with Colin Price (2011)
In this talk Colin Price draws on the most exhaustive research effort of its kind, as well as the experiences of an impressive array of senior leaders, to explore why excellence is so hard to achieve and sustain.  In particular, Colin will argue that the health of an organization is equally as important as its performance. 
Date: 06.09
For more information on the event, please click the link below.
http://www.cbs.dk/forskning/institutter-centre/institut-organisation/arrangementer/invitation-to-seminar-with-colin-price

Invitation to celebration: Carlsberg - The Journey (2011)
The seminar focuses on future marketing, story telling, branding and innovation, based on Carlsberg’s experiences (please, see the attached programme).
Date: 06.09
For more information on the event, please click the link below.
http://www.cbs.dk/forskning/institutter-centre/institut-organisation/arrangementer/invitation-to-celebration-carlsberg-the-journey

WIP Seminar with PhD Fellow Anne Roelsgaard Obling (2011)
Anne Roelsgaard Obling's second WIP seminar entitled "Emotion management in rationalized medical work".
Date: 07.07
For more information on the event, please click the link below.
http://www.cbs.dk/forskning/institutter-centre/institut-organisation/arrangementer/wip-seminar-10

WIP Seminar with PhD Fellow Anja Svejgaard Pors (2011)
Anja Svejgaard Pors' second WIP seminar entitled "Iværksættelse af kommunikation – patienten i hospitalets strategiske kommunikation". 
Date: 28.06
For more information on the event, please click the link below.
http://www.cbs.dk/forskning/institutter-centre/institut-organisation/arrangementer/wip-seminar-9

WIP Seminar with PhD Fellow Cecilie Glerup (2011)
Cecilie Glerup's first WIP seminar entitled "The Quest for Social Responsibility in Research Organizations".
For more information on the event, please click the link below.
http://www.cbs.dk/forskning/institutter-centre/institut-organisation/arrangementer/wip-seminar-8

Does performativity matter? (2011)
Seminar with Jakob Arnoldi. Abstract of paper presented: We undertake a critique of the performativity thesis as it has been developed by social scientists studying finance and economics. As the performativity concept remains an element in Actor Network Theory (ANT), we also discuss ANT applied to the study of economics and finance.
Date: 24.06
For more information on the event, please click the link below.
http://www.cbs.dk/forskning/institutter-centre/institut-organisation/arrangementer/does-performativity-matter

WIP Seminar with PhD Fellow Frans Bévort (2011)
Frans Bévort's second WIP seminar entitled "The role of actors’ sensemaking in institutional change: The case of professionals-as-managers in a professional service firm".
Date: 20.06
For more information on the event, please click the link below.
http://www.cbs.dk/forskning/institutter-centre/institut-organisation/arrangementer/wip-seminar-7

Seminar with Vaughn Tan (2011)
Vaughn Tan is PhD candidate in organizational behavior and sociology at Harvard Business School. He is visiting the Department of Organization in conjunction with collection of ethnographic data at the Danish restaurant Noma. He will present a paper that draws on interview and observational data from task-oriented groups working in the rapidly changing world of high-end cuisine. His analytical focus is bidirectional, negotiated joining processes, a conceptual alternative to selection-oriented hiring processes by which new group members are chosen from a pool of candidates.
Date: 16.06
For more information on the event, please click the link below.
http://www.cbs.dk/forskning/institutter-centre/institut-organisation/arrangementer/seminar-with-vaughn-tan

How to do research and get it published? (2011)
Professor Stewart Clegg will be visiting our department and has kindly agreed to run a workshop on  "How to do research and get it published".
Date: 14.06
For more information on the event, please click the link below.
http://www.cbs.dk/forskning/institutter-centre/institut-organisation/arrangementer/how-to-do-research-and-get-it-published

Invitation to research seminar with Emerita Professor Joanne Martin (2011)
Using data from discourse analyses and cultural ethnographies, I will explore links to newer forms of institutional theory, Czarniawska's and Sevon's ideas about translating organizational change, and more dynamic approaches to studies of culture.
Date: 27.05
For more information on the event, please click the link below.
http://www.cbs.dk/forskning/institutter-centre/institut-organisation/arrangementer/invitation-to-research-seminar-with-emerita-professor-joanne-martin

imagine.. seminar by Donatella De Paoli (2011)
An evaluation of cultural industries' policies in Norway - a report developed for the Dep. of Commerce. The presentation will contain a discussion of cultural entrepreneurship, what it is and what it needs of public support. Through the extensive evaluation of how the incentives and support mechanisms of the Norwegian Art Council and the Norwegian Innovation Fund, some propositions are drawn about how to stimulate and support cultural entrepreneurs in the fields of music, literature, visual art, crafts & design and the per formative art fields.
Date: 25.05
For more information on the event, please click the link below.
http://www.cbs.dk/forskning/institutter-centre/institut-organisation/arrangementer/imagine-seminar-by-donatella-paoli

WIP Seminar with PhD Fellow Stine Hedegaard (2011)
Stine Hedegaard's first WIP seminar entitled "Do Consumers really care? Challenges aligning identity and image in the context of sustainability at H&M".
Date: 25.05
For more information on the event, please click the link below.
http://www.cbs.dk/forskning/institutter-centre/institut-organisation/arrangementer/wip-seminar-6

WIP Seminar with PhD Fellow Anne Petersen (2011)
Anne Petersen's first WIP seminar entitled "Recovery as legitimation within psychiatry.
Date: 19.05
For more information on the event, please click the link below.
http://www.cbs.dk/forskning/institutter-centre/institut-organisation/arrangementer/wip-seminar-5

WIP Seminar with PhD Fellow Karin Strzeletz Ivertsen (2011)
Ivertsen's second WIP seminar entitled "Making sense of interpretative flexibility in innovation projects: forming, breaking, or redefining the sociomaterial relations?"
Date: 06.05
For more information on the event, please click the link below.
http://www.cbs.dk/forskning/institutter-centre/institut-organisation/arrangementer/wip-seminar-4

IOA Seminar (2011)
Professor Munir presents his paper "A LAMINAR MODEL OF INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE. (case the 'Kodak Moment'). The paper combines structuration practice theory, institutional theory and social studies of technology
Date: 06.05
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WIP seminar with PhD Fellow Morten Rossing (2011)
Morten Rossing afholder sit første Work-in-Progress seminar med titlen: ´Performance Management - a longitudinal case study.
Date: 23.03
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WIP seminar with PhD Fellow Lærke Højgaard Christiansen (2011)
"Organizational identity, distinction and legitimacy in pluralistic environments".
Date: 21.03
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Lancering af CHM-bog (2011)
Præsentation af bogen "Kamp, kommunikation og kompleksitet", som er redigeret af Morten Knudsen og Eva Zeuthen Bentsen.
Date: 14.03
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imagine.. seminar by John Heskett (2011)
John Heskett will speak of design as a strategic opportunity and challenge based on a foundation of design as a basic human capability. He has a strong combination of experiences from China, USA and Europe.
Date: 09.11
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WIP seminar with PhD Fellow Steinar Nebb (2011)
"Fra budsjettøkonomi til kunnskapsøkonomi. Hva betyr autonomi til medarbeidere i innovative virksomheter?"
Date: 25.02
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WIP seminar with PhD Fellow Stig Ytterstad (2011)
Stig Ytterstad afholder sit andet Work-in-Progress seminar med titlen: "Ledelse med stil. En intervensjonsstudie av transformasjonsledelse".
Date: 08.02
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5th Nordic Conference on Health Organization and Management (2011)
The conference in 2011 will explore a number of current trends in the healthcare sector and how these can be addressed by organization and management scholars. We highlight, among other things, healthcare innovation, quality assurance and preventive healthcare which will be constitute three new subthemes at the conference.
Date: 13.01
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2010

Public Lecture Series

Lecture with Professor Karin Knorr, Universities of Chicago and Bielefeld (2010)
The Market as an Object of Attachment: What type of Agent is a Financial Market?
Date and time: 07.12 at 15.00 - 16.30
Location: Copenhagen Business School, Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, SP201 Danske Bank Auditorium

Lecture with Professor Donald Mackenzie, Edinburg University (2010)
The Credit Crisis as a Problem in the Sociology of Knowledge 
Date and time: 18.11 at 16.00 - 17.30
Location: Copenhagen Business School, Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, SPs01 BG Fond Auditorium

Lecture with Professor Michael Power, London School of Economics and Political Science (2010)
Rethinking the moral economy of risk management.
Date and time: 03.06 at 15.30 - 17.30
Location: Copenhagen Business School, Porcelænshaven 20, 2000 Frederiksberg, Ovnhallen

Lecture with Professor David Stark, Professor and Head of Department of Sociology, University of Columbia, US (2010)
The Sense of Dissonance: Reflexivity in Organizations
Date and time: 14.01 at 15.00 - 17.00
Location: Copenhagen Business School, Kilevej 14 A, 2000 Frederiksberg, Ks43 Nokia Auditorium

2009

Lecture with Professor Bruno Latour, Director of Research at Sciences Po, Paris, France (2009)
Organizing Uncertainties: the mapping controversies project  
Date and time: 30.10 at 14.00 - 16.00
Location: Copenhagen Business School, Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, SPs01 BG Fond Auditorium

Lecture with Professor Marilyn Strathern, DBE, University of Cambridge, UK (2009)
Organizing Uncertainties
Date and time: 01.09 at 14.30 - 16.30
Location: Copenhagen Business School, Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, SP202 Carlsberg Auditorium

Organizing Uncertainty 2009 - 2011

'Organizing Uncertainty' is a deliberately ambiguous title for a Public Lecture Series, but also, we hope, a not entirely unsuggestive one. After all, formal organization, pretty much the core object of analysis for academics working in business schools, has always existed in a fundamental, even rather banal sense, to manage uncertainty. The idea of formal organization as the management of uncertainty is a constitutive feature of  a number of well known organizational theories -  transaction costs and principal agent modelling, for instance.

Many traditional approaches to analysing the relationship between formal organizations and  uncertainty within the field of organizations studies  focus upon the relationship between an organization and its environment,  What have been termed ‘dyadic’ approaches, for example,  examine exchange relationships between organizations and their environments in terms of other organizations in supply chains and customer relationships, or in terms of resources and capabilities, such as technology and labour (Power, 2008). While these dyadic theories have tended to concentrate upon the individual organization as the central object of analysis, other significant strands of work focus upon the ways in which organizational environments themselves are organized. Specifically, work undertaken within what has come to be known as the new-institutionalism suggests that organizational environments themselves help supply the scripts, routines, ideas, and forms of knowledge which formal organizations adopt   to deal with crucial elements of uncertainty, such as legitimacy (Powell & Di Maggio, 1992).

These and many other accounts of how organizations deal with uncertainty suggest that ‘risk’ management, in the broadest and most abstract meaning of that term, is constitutive of organization. Organizing and managing in this sense are fundamentally concerned ‘with individual and collective human efforts to process uncertainty’ (Power, 2008:8). However, uncertainty in this very general sense is also an analytical construct of the organizational theorist, and is certainly not the only way in which we might approach the notion of ‘organizing uncertainty’.

A second, rather different, way of approaching the issue relates to how uncertainties become objects of organization and management in the first place, and this  demands an analysis of the manner in which  they are represented  and assembled within organizational and managerial fields(Hood & Heald, 2006, Power, 2008). Uncertainties in the form of possibilities of financial loss, for instance, have to ‘be organized, ordered, rendered thinkable and made amenable to processes and practices of intervention’ (Power, 2008:9). In this sense, formal practices of ‘risk management, for example, are themselves part of this organizational construction of risk from uncertainty (Hutter & Power, 2005; Power, 2008). From this point of view,  definitions of risk and uncertainty management do not exists prior to practice but are themselves part of the practical organization of uncertainty.

This focus on the organizational processing of uncertainty also requires that attention be paid to the uncertainties that are produced as a result of these very same efforts to manage and organize uncertainty and risk. Exploring and analysing the unintended consequences or effects of organizational action has long been a feature of social scientific enquiry, in economic sociology and organisation studies, for instance, but more recently  a veritable explosion of ‘risk regulation’ has taken place in response to political and social demands to deal with these effects, though not, of course, ‘without further side-effects of its own’ (Power, 2008:9, Perrow, 1984). The notion of organizing uncertainty in this sense, tries to capture both the sense of organizations as constructing  processes of uncertainty management, and relatedly, as producers of uncertainties resulting from those  very same efforts. Again, as recent events in the world of finance have indicated., financial risk models may themselves be an enormous source of risk,  not least when all market participants end up deploying more or less the same one (Power, 2008; Tett, 2009).

Ultimately, any form of organizing involves closure, restriction and limitation, which can of course become a source of uncertainty itself. As Michael Power (2008:202) has indicated, ‘Organized uncertainty’ is a paradoxical idea ‘which signifies that efforts to construct knowledge of things as risks or uncertainties can create new risks and uncertainties’. Clearly, technological systems, for instance, will continue to be a source of risk, but management systems, particularly the sometimes far from  subtle contemporary variants  associated with certain political rationalities of enterprise and audit are implicated too.

It is sometimes claimed in certain epochal forms of social theory, that the present age while apparently more complex than its predecessors – and the word ‘apparently’, should be stressed here  - is also, at the same time, more aware of what it does not know. However, as Power (2008: 202-3) has argued, the rise of a broad “risk management” mandate over the last decade or so suggests a continuing ambition to ‘control and managerialize the future’ in a distinctive way. This ambition is reflected in a powerful, mechanistic focus on internal control systems in organizations, in the creation of ‘new risk categories and definitions to focus managerial efforts, in the creation of new agents and risk responsibility structures, and not least in the development of new procedures and routines that seek to align risk with a certain moral discourse of good governance’ (Power, 2008:203). The reach of this ambition, as Power (2004) describes it, seems to be the ‘risk management of everything’. The re-framing of organizational governance in the name of uncertainty is no mere technical development. It also institutes a new moral economy of organizational life by defining ideals of  best practice for states, public bodies, private corporations, and individuals as particular categories of person, whether  employees, parents, consumers or patients.

References
Hood, C. & Heald, D. (2006) Transparency: the key to better governance? Oxford: OUP

Hutter, B. & Power, M.(eds.) (2005) Organizational Encounters with Risk Oxford: OUP

Perrow, C. (1984) Normal Accidents: living with high risk technologies New York; Basic Books

Powell, W. & di Maggio, P. (1991) The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Power, M. (1997) The Audit Society: rituals of verification Oxford: OUP

Power, M. (2004) The Risk Management of Everything London: DEMOS

Power, M. (2008) Organized Uncertainty; designing a world of risk management Oxford: OUP

Tett, G. (2009) Fools Gold New York; Little Brown
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Professor
Paul du Gay
Telephone: +45 3815 2917
Email: pdg.ioa@cbs.dk
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