The SCANCOR-Weatherhead Spring 2017 Conference

Date: 

Thursday, May 11, 2017, 9:30am to 7:00pm

Location: 

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 1550

"Organizations, Institutions, and Nation-States"

9:30AM-10:00AM Breakfast

10:00AM-11:00AM Roundtable: Organizational Theory and Transnationalism
Samuli Patala, Elena Raviola, Antoinette Hetzler

11:15AM-1:00PM Cross-Border Coordination
“Catalyzing Institutional Work: Building a Bridge over Troubled Waters”
Tiina Ritvala, Aalto University.

“What can Foreign Policy Analysis Offer Research on National Reservations on the Use of Force (“Caveats”) in Coalition Operations?”
Gunnar Fermann, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

“Discretionary Power on the Front Line: A Bottom-up Perspective on Corporate Language Management”
Guro Refsum Sanden, Copenhagen Business School.

1:00PM-2:00PM Lunch

2:00PM-3:45PM Theorizing Institutions
“Translating New Ideas into the Field of Organizational Studies”
Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist, University of Gothenburg.

“The Role of Verbal and Visual Text in the Process of Institutionalization”
Dennis Jancsary, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business.

“Legitimacy Under Institutional Change: How Incumbents Appropriate Clean Rhetoric for Dirty Technologies”
Samuli Patala, Aalto University.

4:00PM-5:00PM Reflections on Scancor-Weatherhead
Seija Kulkki, Dennis Jancsary, Yamin Xie, Gunnar Fermann

5:00-7:00PM Dinner