You are hereby invited to the 2023 Organization Theory workshop put on by the Norwegian branch of the Scandinavian Consortium on Organizational Research (SCANCOR). SCANCOR is a 35-year research and exchange cooperative project between participating Scandinavian universities and Stanford University, California. Its remit is to advance organizational theory and its manifold applications. In 2016 Harvard University became an active partner in this ongoing program.

The workshop will take place at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim on 15-16 November 2023. 

We are open to contributions from academics broadly focused on organization and institution theories, their empirical applications, and methodological design. The unifying element of the workshop is a shared interest in organizational and institutional approaches in the broader sense.

Please submit your name, title, affiliation, and abstract (300-500 words) to: cristina.parau@ntnu.no using “SCANCOR workshop” in the subject of the email by 1 September 2023. Papers from doctoral candidates must be of excellent quality to be considered.

The deadline for full submission is 15 October 2023.

“Organizational Theory in Foreign Policy Analysis” will be the keynote speech delivered by Juliet Kaarbo, Professor Chair of Foreign Policy-Making at Edinburgh University. The talk will be an overview of where institutions currently sit in the field of Foreign Policy Analysis, how Foreign Policy Analysis has theorized institutions so far, and how Prof. Kaarbo’s application of organizational psychology to understanding leader personality has contributed to the field.

Practical matters related to accommodation etc. will be clarified subsequently.  
 
If you have any questions, please contact the workshop coordinators: 

• Dr. Cristina Parau, Coordinator: cristina.parau@ntnu.no
• Prof. Gunnar Fermann, Chair of SCANCOR workshop & member of the Norwegian SCANCOR Advisory Board: gunnar.fermann@ntnu.no

The Workshop is funded by the NFR INTPART funded project SCANCOR-NEWORG which is coordinated by the Department of Political Science at UiO.

Wednesday, November 15

08.45 – 09.05 COFFEE & PASTRIES

09.05 – 09.15 INTRODUCTION

Gunnar Fermann, Professor of International Relations, Department of Sociology and Political Science, NTNU

09.15 – 09.45 SESSION I: ORGANISATIONS

Moderator: Cristina Parau, NTNU

09.15 – 09.45 “How Do Knowing Meta-Organizations “Enact” Grand Challenges? The Case of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES)”

Presenter: Michael Grothe-Hammer, Associate Professor, NTNU & Jennifer Leigh Bailey, Professor, NTNU
Discussant: Morten Thanning Vendelø, Professor, Copenhagen Business School

09.45 – 10.15 “Diffusing Governance Modes of Competition. The Role of Field Logics for Institutionalization Processes”

Presenter: Tim Seidenschnur, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Kassel
Discussant: Gaëtan Cliquennois, Research Professor, French National Centre for Scientific Research, University of Nantes

10.15 – 12.00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS (ROOM D6): “THEORIZING ORGANIZATIONS IN FOREIGN POLICY ANALYSIS”

Juliet Kaarbo, Professor of Foreign Policy, University of Edinburgh 
Moderator: Gunnar Fermann, NTNU

12.00 – 13.15 LUNCH

13.15 – 13.45 “The study of international regimes: Evolution of an empirical research program”

Presenter: Gunnar Fermann, NTNU 
Discussant: Juliet Kaarbo

13.45 – 14.15 “Exit, Voice, and Loyalty Within a Populist Party Organization”

Presenter: Johan Erik Andersen. PhD Research Fellow, University of Agder 
Discussant: Tim Seidenschnur, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Kassel

14.15 – 14.45  “Organizing for Crowd Safety”

Presenter: Morten Thanning Vendelø, Professor, Copenhagen Business School
Discussant: Michael Grothe-Hammer, Associate Professor, NTNU

14.45 – 15.00 COFFEE & PASTRIES

15.00 – 16.00 SESSION II: INDIVIDUALS IN ORGANISATIONS

Moderator: Jens Jungblut, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo.

15.00 – 15.30 “Conservative Groups' Fights at the European Court of Human Rights: A Study of Advocacy Tactics to "moralize" European Human Rights Law”

Presenter: Gaëtan Cliquennois, Research Professor, French National Centre for Scientific Research, University of Nantes
Discussant: Jennifer Leigh Bailey, Professor, NTNU

15.30 – 16.00 “Leadership in Ukrainian municipalities during cyberattacks 2022-2023”

Presenter: Iryna Fyshchuk, Scholar at Risk Programme, University of Agder
Discussant: Barbara Zyzak, Associate Professor, NTNU

18.00 DINNER (Una Pizza, Solsiden)

Thursday, November 16

09.30 – 10.00 COFFEE & PASTRIES

10.00 – 11.00 SESSION II: INDIVIDUALS IN ORGANISATIONS (cont’d)

Moderator: Jens Jungblut, University of Oslo.

10.00 – 10.30  “Individual resilience in times of extreme crisis: Thoughts on the design of a factorial survey experiment”

Presenter: Betina Slagnes, PhD Student, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI)
Discussant: Iryna Fyshchuk, Scholar at Risk Programme, University of Agder

10.30 – 11.00 “Cultural entrepreneurship: Shaping partnership Projectivity in the circular economy”

Presenter: Heli Helanummi-Cole, Postdoctoral Researcher, Aalto University 
Discussant: Erik Aadland, Associate Professor, BI Norwegian Business School.

11.00 – 11.15    COFFEE & PASTRIES 

11.15 – 15.15   SESSION III: ECOSYSTEMS OF ORGANISATIONS

Moderator: Gunnar Fermann, NTNU

11.15 – 11.45 “Coordination of complex systems: the case of governmental meta organizations”

Presenter: Barbara Zyzak, Associate Professor, NTNU
Discussant: Ekaterina S. Bjørnåli, Associate Professor, NTNU Business School

11.45 – 12.15 “Capitalizing on stigma: The strategy of valuation arbitrage”

Presenter: Erik Aadland, Associate Professor, BI Norwegian Business School Discussant: Cristina Parau, Postdoctoral Researcher, NTNU
Discussant: Cristina Parau, Postdoctoral Researcher, NTNU

12.15 – 13.45 LUNCH 

13.45 – 14.15 “The Tripartite Institutional Design of Intergovernmental Membership Regimes and the Interplay of Transnational Elite Policy Networks”

Presenter: Cristina Parau, Postdoctoral Researcher, NTNU 
Discussant: Heli Helanummi-Cole, Postdoctoral Researcher, Aalto University

14.15 – 14.45 “The relationship between dispersed knowledge and distributed leadership in entrepreneurial ecosystems”

Presenter: Ekaterina S. Bjørnåli, Associate Professor, NTNU Business School
Discussant: Johan Erik Andersen, PhD Research Fellow, University of Agder

14:45 – 15:00 Concluding Remarks

Gunnar Fermann