Thursday, April 26th 2018

from 9:00 am to 4:15 pm

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9:00AM-9:15AM Welcome
Frank Dobbin and Jesper Strandgaard

9:15AM-10:00AM Plenary Session

Jesper Strandgaard Pedersen, Copenhagen Business School
Sophie Marie Cappelen, Copenhagen Business School
“Hijacked by the Imagined Future: On Organizational Mission and Identity Drift in a Non-Profit Organization”

10:15AM-12:00PM Building Institutions

 Seija Kulkki, Aalto University
“Forms of Governance and Co-evolutionary Structural Transformations”

Samuli Patala, Aalto University
“Building Collective Agency for Cross-Sector Collaboration”

Sampo Tukiainen, Aalto University
“Subjectivity in Discursive Institutional Work”

1:15PM-3:00PM Education through Careers

Markus Latzke, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
“Bringing Institutions Back into Careers Research – What Career Studies can Learn from Drawing on Bourdieuan Inspired Organisation Studies”

Ivar Bleiklie, University of Bergen
“Relations between Higher Education and Vocational Education in Saturated Higher Education Systems – Policy and Organizational Implications of the Turn Towards Labor Market Relevance”

Rolv Petter Amdam, BI Norwegian Business School
“Socialization of Top-Executives through Executive Education: A Global Perspective”

3:15PM-4:15PM Roundtable on Globalization and Organization

Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist, University of Gothenburg
Markus Höllerer, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
Seija Kulkki, Aalto University
Ivar Bleiklie, University of Bergen

Friday, April 27th 2018

from 9:00 am to 4:45 pm

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9:00AM-10:00AM Roundtable on Agency and Institutions

Samuli Patala, Aalto University
Markus Latzke, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
Maarit Laihonen, Aalto University
Rolv Petter Amdam, BI Norwegian Business School

10:15AM-12:00PM Stakeholder Influence

Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist, University of Gothenburg
“New Governance Practices? How the Global Media Landscape Influences Public Sector Organizations”

Katharina Fellnhofer, Lappeenranta University of Technology
“E-MOTIONS: How do Entrepreneurial Emotions Affect Funding Potential?”

Guro Refsum Sanden, Aalborg University
“Multinational Corporations as Language Managers: A Case of Language Choice in Scandinavian Business”

1:15PM-3:30PM Models for Change

Markus Höllerer, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business and the University of New South Wales Business School
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Dennis Jancsary, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
“Inequality and Mobilizing for Robust Action: An Analysis of City Resilience Strategies”

Antoinette Hetzler, Lund University
“Immigration and Integration – Old Solutions for New Situations”

Maarit Laihonen, Aalto University
“Demanding Organization: Learnings from a Protest Camp Ethnography”

3:45PM-4:45PM The SCANCOR-Weatherhead Partnership: Taking Stock at 2

Antoinette Hetzler, Lund University
Sampo Tukiainen, Aalto University
Katharina Fellnhofer, Lappeenranta University of Technology
Guro Refsum Sanden, Aalborg University
Dennis Jancsary, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business