ConJunctionPre-Conference Post: The First Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Europe
The first word I encountered right out of the Metro is, of course, “Hygge”.In previous years, I have only blogged after attending international conferences such as the Academy of Management Annual Meeting. However, to some degree, a pre-conference posting might be much more helpful for people who want to meet up. So, having already arrived in Copenhagen, let me briefly and chronologically list sessions and other occasions I will be involved in at this year’s Academy of Management Annual Meeting – the first ever to be hosted outside of North America:
- Friday, 25th at 9 am, “Career Development Workshop for Mid-Career Scholars”, organized by Carola Wolf (University of Liverpool), with fellow panelists Julia Balogun (University of Liverpool), Paul Spee (University of Queensland), Matt Statler (New York University) and Aino Tenhiälä (IE Business School).
- Friday, 25th, 6:30 pm, Offsite Dinner of the Strategizing Activities and Practices (SAP) Interest Group, co-organized by Benjamin Grossmann-Hensel (University of Zurich) and Susan Hilbollling (Aarhus University)
- Saturday, 26th, 10:45 am, Bridging Silos: Toward a Research Agenda for Open Social Innovation, co-organized by Hanna Fults (VU Amsterdam), Susan Hilbolling (Aarhus University) and Philipp Türtscher (VU Amsterdam) and sharing a panel with Anne-Laure Fayard (Nova School of Business and Economics), Lars Bo Jeppesen (CBS), Marion Poetz (CBS) and Ann-Kristin Zobel (University of St. Gallen).
- Saturday, 26th, 3:30 pm, The Future of Strategizing and Organizing as Practice: Extending to Under-Represented Contexts, co-organized by Renate Kratochvil and Yalan Wang (both University of Stockholm) and featuring as speakers David Seidl (University of Zürich), Linda Rouleau (HEC Montreal), Shenghui Ma (Fudan University), Eero Vaara (University of Oxford), Maria Andrea de Villa (EAFIT University) and Rebecca Bednarek (Victoria Management School).
- Sunday, 27th, 2pm, Unconferencing SAP and Beyond: An Open Space for Emerging Topics and Nascent Projects, co-organized with Madalina Pop (Aarhus University) and Maximilian Heimstädt (Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg). Given the BarCamp format of this session, the actual program will be created on the spot by the participants, which include facilitators such as Shenghui Ma (Fudan University), John Bryson (University of Minnesota), Julia Hautz (University of Innsbruck), Birgit Renzl (University of Stuttgart) and Richard Whittington (University of Oxford) among others.
- Monday, 28th, 10:15 am, “Forced to Open Up: A Comparative Analysis of Open Strategizing in Regulated Environments”, paper co-authored with Felix Schmid (University of Innsbruck) and Violetta Splitter (University of Oxford)
- Monday, 28th, 12 pm, Strategy and Organizationality: The More We Strategize, the More We are Organized?, showcase symposium co-organized with Monica Nadegger (LMU Munich), featuring as panelists David Seidl (University of Zurich), Dennis Schoeneborn (CBS), Ann Langley (HEC Montreal), Héloïse Berkowitz (Aix-Marseille University), Birte Asmuß (Aarhus University).
- Tuesday, 29th, “When Frustrations Turn Into a Firestorm: Communicative Constitution of a Collectively Forceful Voice”, paper co-authored with Aleksander Groth (MCI Innsbruck) and Ellen Nathues (University of Twente).
Of course, I also plan to attend several receptions, including Swiss, Oxford, VU Amsterdam as well as the Business Meeting and Social by the SAP Interest Group (Monday, 28th, 5 pm.) See you in Copenhagen!
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Sebastian Spaeth
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