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In this SAP Vlog, Tobias Palm (University St. Gallen) talks to Michael Smets (Oxford University) about his joint paper with Ali Aslan Gümüsay (University of Hamburg) and Timothy Morris (Oxford University) "God at Work: Institutional Logics, Managerial Responses and Institutional Hybridity“ published in 2019 (2020) in Academy of Management Journal. Paper is available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330235624_%27God_at_Work%27_Engaging_Central_and_Incompatible_Institutional_Logics_through_Elastic_Hybridity The interview includes topics such as: • Key messages of paper • Paper Summary • Findings that point beyond this paper References: Gümüsay, ...
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In this SAP Vlog, Tobias Palm (University St. Gallen) talks to Eric Knight (Macquarie University) about his joint paper with Tobias Hahn (ESADE) "Paradox and Quantum Mechanics - Implications for the Management of Organizational Paradox from a Quantum Approach". Paper is available here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341203343_Paradox_and_Quantum_Mechanics_-Implications_for_the_Management_of_Organizational_Paradox_from_a_Quantum_Approach The interview includes topics such as: Key messages of paper Paper Summary Findings that point beyond this paper References: Hahn, T., & Knight, E. (2021). The ontology of organizational paradox: A ...
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The winner of the SAP Pushing the Boundary Award are Matthew James Hurst, Davide Nicolini, Rene Wiedner with their paper “We Get Them Running Through Walls: Strategizing Via an Indignation-Based Moral Battery”. Congratulations on winning the SAP Pushing the Boundary Award! Can you briefly elaborate on what your paper is about? Thank you very much, we were very pleased to receive it! Our paper theorizes a process model of how emotions are harnessed through organization-level strategizing to both materialize strategy and mobilize executives and managers for it. Leaders of large organizations face considerable challenges in getting themselves and everyone ...
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The winner of the SAP Best Practice Oriented Paper Award is Vikas N. Prabhu with the paper “Enacted Clock-Time: How Temporal Agency Structures Strategic Activity”. Congratulations on winning the SAP Best Practice Oriented Paper Award! What is your paper about? First of all, it is a great honour to receive the Best Practice Oriented Paper award from the SAP DIG of AOM. Having my work recognized at such high levels at an early stage of my career is an incredible feeling. My paper is an attempt to understand how temporal agents strategize. By temporal agents, I refer to the temporal embeddedness of agentic actions (as Emirbayer and Mische, 1998, have ...
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The winner of the SAP Best Paper Award are Fannie Couture, Paula Jarzabkowski, Jane Le with their paper "Assessing the Unintended Consequences of Legitimating Responses to Grand Challenges" Congratulations on winning the SAP Best Paper Award! Please, tell us more what this paper is about. Thank you! Our paper looks at the social processes and practices involved in generating a collective response to a grand challenge, and how these processes and practices end up shaping a group’s ability to tackle the grand challenge over time. We specifically follow the dynamics of a multi-stakeholder partnership established to address water health issues in a critical ...
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In this SAP Vlog, Christoph Brielmaier (Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg) talks to Davide Nicolini (Warwick Business School) about his joint paper with Maja Korica (Warwick Business School) “Attentional Engagement as Practice: A Study of the Attentional Infrastructure of Healthcare Chief Executive Officers”. Paper is available online https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/ab... The interview includes topics such as: • Key messages of paper • Practical of attentional engagement for managers • What inspired the paper • Research gaps that provide opportunity for future research References: Nicolini, D., & Korica, M. (2021). Attentional Engagement ...
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The winner of the 2020 SAP Best Paper Award are Amanda Porter, Damla Diriker, and Philipp Tuertscher with their paper "What Does it Take to be Open? Sustaining Openness through Closure in Open Organizing Initiatives" Congratulations on winning the SAP Best Paper Award! Can you please briefly tell us what your paper is about? Thank you! We were so happy and humbled to have received the SAP Best Paper Award! Broadly speaking, our paper deals with how open organizing processes can be organized to tackle grand societal challenges. More specifically, using the constitutive view of openness, we look at openness and closure not as opposite poles, where openness is ...
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The winner of the 2020 SAP Pushing the Boundary Award is Rene Wiedner with his paper “Sustenance Through Liberation: Vinyl Record Manufacturing After Disruption and Before the Hype” Congratulations on winning the SAP Pushing the Boundary Award! Can you briefly elaborate on what your paper is about? Thank you. The paper is essentially about understanding how a disrupted practice – i.e. a practice that suddenly loses meaning – can be kept alive. I follow developments in vinyl record manufacturing after the successful commercialization of the digital audio compact disc to identify relevant mechanisms in this respect. One of the key findings is that a resurgence ...
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The winner of the 2020 SAP Best Practice Award are Booth, Branicki, and Badham with their paper “Mindful Ambidexterity An ethnographic study of how managers navigate exploitation and exploration” Congratulations on winning the SAP Best Practice Award! What is your paper is about? Thank you! We are thrilled and humbled to receive the award. Our paper looks at ambidexterity through a lens of collective mindfulness. Collective mindfulness is thought to help organisations to create and sustain enriched awareness and to maintain a capacity to anticipate and contain the unexpected (Weick, Sutcliffe, & Obstfeld, 1999). We follow a company, CallCo, as it tried ...
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In this SAP Vlog, Etieno Enang (Strathclyde Business School, Glasgow UK) talks to Rebecca Bednarek (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) about her and her colleagues’ paper “Conducting global team-based ethnography: Methodological challenges and practical methods”. The interview includes topics such as: • Experiences that led to the key ideas presented in the paper • The key message(s) of the paper • How everyday micro practices can be studies in such a way that they inform an understanding of macro phenomena • Research impact Reference: Jarzabkowski, P., Bednarek, R., & Cabantous, L. (2015). Conducting global team-based ethnography: Methodological ...
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In this SAP VLOG, Etieno Enang (Strathclyde Business School, Glasgow) talks to Julia Balogun (University of Liverpool) about her and her colleagues’ paper “Three Responses to the Methodological Challenges of Studying Strategizing”. The interview includes topics such as: • How do innovative ideas emerge? • What was the methodological landscape in 2003? • What made this piece unique? • What critical insights can be provided for those interested in SAP research today?
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About this Video In this SAP Vlog post, Lorenzo Skade (European University Viadrina) talks to Paula Jarzabkowski (Cass Business School, City University London) about her and her colleagues’ paper “Strategizing: The challenges of a practice perspective”. The interview includes topics such as: • How did the idea of this Special Issue emerge? • In which ways have scholars built on the article to push the boundaries of the field since then? • Which of the mentioned five main questions remain the most challenging in SAP research? • Which topics and questions will be most relevant for the field in the future? About the SAP Vlog The “SAP Vlog” (Video + blog ...
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About This Video In this SAP Vlog, Madalina Pop (Aarhus University) and Anna Plotnikova (University of Leeds) speaks with Julia Hautz (University of Innsbruck) about her and colleagues paper “Open Strategy: Dimensions, Dilemmas, Dynamics”. The interview includes topics such as: - How did the author come to study open strategy and why it is an important topic for research? - Are the identified dilemmas interconnected? And in which context some of the dilemmas are more prominent than others? - Are there any cultural differences in the implementation of open strategizing? - What is methodological advice on studying open strategy going forward? - How the author ...
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The winners of the SAP’s Best Student Paper Award in 2019 are Jane Lê (WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management) and Fannie Couture (University of Sydney Business School) with their paper “Protecting ‘Monsters’: How Complicity Eco-Systems Facilitate Wrongdoing in Organizations”. The paper also received the Carolyn Dexter Award for Best International Paper that is presented to the annual meeting paper that best meets objective of internationalizing the Academy. Congratulations for receiving SAP’s Best Student Paper Award! Can you please tell us what your paper is about? Our paper develops a practice framework to enrich understanding of complicity in organizations. ...
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The winners of the SAP’s Best Practice Oriented Paper Award in 2019 are Madalina Pop (Aarhus University) and Ingo Kleindienst (Aarhus University) with their paper “Spaces and Strategy Work in Inter-organizational Collaborations” Compliments for receiving SAP’s Best Practice Oriented Paper Award! Can you briefly elaborate on what is your paper is about? Thank you! We feel very honored to have received the SAP Best Practice Oriented Paper Award – that was quite a surprise. Now, in our paper we analyze how ‘space’ is used in inter-organizational collaborations to balance the interests of the different actors and to accomplish strategy work. To do so, we look ...
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The winner of the SAP’s Pushing the Boundary Award in 2019 are Meri Jalonen (Aalto University) and Kathrin Sele (Aalto University) with their paper “Innovating through Experiments: The Epistemic Nature of Experimenting in Practice” Congratulations on being the winner of the Pushing the Boundary Award! Can you share with us what the paper is about? Thanks, we very much appreciate the recognition. Broadly speaking the paper deals with the question of how organizations use experiments to innovate. We actually had the opportunity to follow experimenting initiatives at the Finnish Tax Administration over a period of three years. One initiative that we followed ...
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