The SCANCOR-Weatherhead Spring 2017 Conference

Date: 

Friday, May 12, 2017, 10:30am to 7:00pm

Location: 

61 Kirkland Street, 2nd Floor Conference Room; William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 1550

"Organizations, Institutions, and Nation-States"

10:30-11:00AM Breakfast
61 Kirkland Street

11:00AM-12:15PM Organizations and Career Processes
“When Professionals Meet the Crowd: A Study of Journalists Co-producing News with Readers”
Elena Raviola, Copenhagen Business School and University of Gothenburg.

“Why are so Many COOs Promoted to CEO?”
Yamin Xie, Hanken School of Economics.

12:15PM-12:30PM
Relocate to William James Hall, Room 1550

12:30PM-1:45PM Lunch

1:45PM-3:30PM Negotiating Roles of Societal Sectors
“Some Assumptions About the Relationship Between Higher Education, the Labor Market, Vocational Education and the Political System”
Ivar Bleiklie, University of Bergen.

“Forms of Social and Economic Value Creation and Co-evolutionary Structural Transformations”
Seija Kulkki, Aalto University.

“Decline of the Welfare State: Merging the Public and Private Sector”
Antoinette Hetzler, Lund University.

3:45PM-5:00PM Roundtable: Organizations, Institutions, and Nation-States
Guro Refsum Sanden, Tiina Ritvala, Ivar Bleiklie, Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist, University of Gothenburg

5:00-7:00PM Dinner