DR415E Managing Institutional and Organizational Change
5-7. April and 22. May 2006
10 ECTS Credits
This course will introduce participants to current streams of literature on institutional and organizational change. The aim is to explore the fundamental questions raised in these lines of research, to assess the utility of various approaches in answering different kinds of research questions and to find ways in which these research traditions can be combined and thus cross-fertilize each other.
Students will be asked to prepare the seminar by writing a 10 page reflective summary of this literature with special focus on how the various streams of research can be understood in relation to each other and how they can be combined. Moreover, in this summary students are asked to reflect upon how these streams of literature can inform their own doctoral research projects.
The seminar on April 5 – 7 will be dedicated to presentations and discussions of the assigned literature. The literature, and the discussion during the seminar around this literature, is divided into four parts:
(1) theories on institutional change
(2) theories on organizational change
(3) theories on technological change
(4) managing change.
The fourth theme seeks to combine insights from the three streams of research. We emphasize that institutional and organizational change are interdependent and reciprocal. Organizational change follows on, but also contributes to and seeks to influence institutional and technological change. In order to further our understanding of this interdependence, we explore how management can be developed in ecologies of changes. Furthermore, change and management of change should be perceived in processual terms with incremental and unintended lines of development.
During the seminar, time will be dedicated to discussion of the participants’ on-going research projects, in an attempt to identify and highlight dynamic aspects and issues related to managing institutional and organizational change. After the seminar, students will be asked to revise and develop their course-papers, with a clear focus on assessing how various streams of research can be combined in order to answer different kinds of research questions. These papers will be discussed during a follow up seminar on 22. May. Both seminars are built upon the active participation of students. Deadline for submitting the final paper is 1 August 2006.
This course should be of relevance for students in business studies, management, political science, sociology and neighbouring fields with a research interest in organizational and institutional change.
Faculty
Kerstin Sahlin-Andersson is professor of Management at Uppsala University. She also hold a position as “professor 2” at Bodø Graduate School of Business.
Udo Zander is professor of international business at Stockholm School of Economics and he is the director of Institute of International Business at Stockholm School of Economics.
Practical Information
The course will be arranged at Saltstraumen Hotel 5-7. April. There is a registration fee at NOK 3000, which includes conference material, lunches and dinners. Travel are the students' own responsibility and cost.
Deadlines
The deadline for registration is 21. March 2006. Please submit the electronic registration form. Also, please send your CV as attached documents on e-mail to: Liv.Nilssen@hibo.no
If more than 20 register for the conference, we will give priority to qualified students who registered first.
Application Form DR415E.doc
Student Credits
Participation on this seminar will give 10 Norwegian Ph.D. student credits (ECTS) (equal to 1/3 of a semester load) if the paper submitted in August is approved.
The course is administrated by Bodø Graduate School of Business.
Preliminary Programme
Location: Salstraumen
5 April
8.30 am. Departure from Bodø, arrive to Salstraumen
10 – 12 opening of seminar
13 – 16 Institutional change
- instititutional theory: main concepts and developments
- institutional change
- institutional entrepreneurship
16 – 18 Discussion 1: participants’ papers and PhD projects
evening : group work on inst. change literature
6 April
9 – 12 Organizational chan
- rationalistic models
- processual models
- ecological models
13 – 15 Technological change
- a short review of studies of technology, society and organization
15 – 19 Discussion 2: participants’ papers and PhD projects
evening: group work in organizational change
7 April
9 – 12 Managing change
- the interdependence and reciprocity of institutional and organizational change
- ecologies of change
- processual perspectives on change
13 – 15 Summing up
Location: Bodø
22 May
9 – 19 Discussion: participants’ papers and PhD projects.
Summing up: how can theories of institutional and organizational change be combined? What future lines of research need to be developed?
Literature
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