February 18th 2025
From left to right: Suen Wang, Aalborg University; Jocelyn Viterna, SCANCOR Acting Director Harvard University; Ragnhild Kvålshaugen, BI Norwegian Business School; Frauke Urban, KTH Royal Institute of Technology; Hanna Silvola, Hanken School of Economics; Olga Iermolenko, Nord University Business School; Yumi Park, Copenhagen Business School.
Soule was previously the director of SCANCOR from 2015-2017.
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Both students are currently studying in the Graduate School of Education.
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1948-2024
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Scancor celebrated the 20th anniversary session of its annual weeklong doctoral course in institutional theory. This year the course was hosted by Hamburg University and the University of Mannheim, and brought together top scholars and students from Europe and Stanford.
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Announcement
We would like to share the exciting news that Jocelyn Viterna will be taking over as Acting Director of SCANCOR at the Weatherhead Center at Harvard University for the 2024–2025 academic year while Frank Dobbin is on sabbatical.
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Conference
The workshop brought five leading organizational researchers to Oslo to give lectures and hold seminar sessions.
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Announcement
The three recipients are all students at Stanford’s Graduate School of Education
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Event
Please join us this Spring for our Monday seminar series at Stanford University
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Announcement
Our thirteen scholars are from six different countries and will be visiting Stanford from April to June.
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This year’s SCANCOR Workshop on Institutional Analysis will be hosted by the University of Hamburg in collaboration with the University of Mannheim. Join the
event for a one-week intensive PhD workshop on institutional analysis
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Community, Event
November 2023
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Event
Please join us this fall for our Monday seminar series at Stanford University. Each one will be held at 520 Galvez Mall Stanford, CA 94305 CERAS, Room 123 from 10:00-11:30am. We will also hold the
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We are pleased to announce that a valued colleague in the Stanford Graduate School of Education, Prashant Loyalka, has agreed to join our community as Co-Director of SCANCOR-Stanford for 2023-2024! Prashant will take over running
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Event
The University of Oslo, BI Norwegian Business School and Oslo Metropolitan University will co-host this workshop in Oslo from Monday, August 28th 2023-Friday, September 1st 2023. Details are forthcoming!
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Announcement, Community, Staff changes
SCANCOR welcomes its new Director at Stanford: Patricia Bromley
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Event
Tuesday, October 20 Welcome 9:00AM-9:10AM Session 1 – 9:10AM-10:00AM Jukka Mäkinen, Professor of Business Ethics, Department of Marketing and Communication, Estonian Business School. “Liberal Democracy and Big Tech” Tiina Ritvala, Assistant Professor of International Business,
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Announcement
The Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research (SCANCOR) at Stanford University invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship beginning September 1, 2021. The fellowship is open to high-quality researchers who study the social, political, economic, or managerial aspects of organizations and their environments.
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Announcement
The Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research (SCANCOR) at Stanford University invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship beginning September 1, 2021. The fellowship is open to high-quality researchers who study the social, political, economic, or
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Community
One of the founders of modern studies of organizations and its leading scholar, Professor James G. March passed away on 27 September 2018 at the age of 90. He was the father of such concepts
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Though many will surely try, no one will really forget 2020. The impact of the pandemic on the SCANCOR community was the suspension of in-person meetings.
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