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, Department of Management Studies, School of Business, Aalto University, Finland. “The Politics of Place and the Multinational Corporation: A Dialogue Between IB and Political Geography” Aalto Authors: R. Piekkari, T. Ritvala, I. Saittakari, and P. Kähäri. University of Helsinki Authors: S. Moisio and T. Hanell.

Jon E.B. Lervik, Associate Professor, Department of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour, BI Norwegian Business School. “Temporal Structuring and Global Coordination in Multinational Enterprises” Coauthor: K. Fahy

Session 2 – 10:10AM-11:00AM

Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Management and Organization, Hanken School of Economics. “Organising in Defence of Life – Including Nonhumans and Ontological Multiplicity in Organization Theories”

Ivar Bleiklie, Professor of Social Science, Emeritus, Department of Administration and Organization Theory, University of Bergen, Norway. “Policy Making by Dialogue? Managerial Policy Making and the Higher Education Merger Reform in Norway”

Seija Kulkki, Professor, Emerita, of Management and Organization, School of Business, Aalto University, Finland. “Is Structural Integration Changing Institutional Boundaries of Firms and Societies?”

Wednesday, October 21

Session 1 – 9:00AM-9:50AM

Anne Reff Pedersen, Professor MSO, Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School. “Misconduct in Healthcare – A Case of Organizational Learning from Misconduct, the Dark Side of Informal Organization”

Samuli Patala, Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Business, Aalto University, Finland. “Orchestrating Multi-stakeholder Partnerships for Solving Grand Challenges”

Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist, Professor, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. “Hoovering for Inclusion – On the Scarcity of Women Managers” Coauthor: N. Gillberg.

Session 2 – 10:00AM-10:50AM

Elin Lerum Boasson, Associate Professor, University of Oslo, Norway. “Comparative Renewables Policy: Political, Organizational, and European Fields”

Sarah Valdez, Associate Director and Senior Lecturer, Institute for Analytical Sociology, Linköping University, Sweden. “Ethnic Enclaves and Educational Assimilation in Stockholm, 1990-2012”

Carsten Greve, Professor of Public Management and Governance, Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School. “Climate Partnerships in Denmark and Local Public Value Practices”  

Thursday, October 22

Session 1 – 9:00AM-9:50AM

Torkel Strömsten, Associate Professor, Stockholm School of Economics; Professor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. “Constructing the Ethical and Sustainable Supplier”

Katharina Fellnhofer, Postdoctoral Researcher, Marie Curie Fellow, Erwin-Schrödinger-Fellow, ETH Zürich. “RRI2SCALE: Responsible Research and Innovation Ecosystems at Regional Scale for Intelligent Cities, Transport and Energy”

Rolv Petter Amdam, Professor, Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, BI Norwegian Business School. “The Use of Imprinting Theory in History and Organizational Studies”

Session 2 – 10:00AM-10:30AM

Elena Raviola, Associate Professor, Department of Business Administration, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden; Senior Lecturer, Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School. “New Forms of Organizing Journalism”

Juho Lindman, Associate Professor; Director, Blockchain Lab, Applied IT, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. “Public Sector Blockchains”

Closing Discussion 10:30AM-11:00AM