Doctoral consortium
OLKC 2015 Doctoral Consortium – 9th April, 2015 (h. 9.30-17.00)
OLKC 2015 will hold a Doctoral Consortium prior to the main conference. The one-day consortium will focus on discussing doctoral students’ research. Paper sessions will be limited to doctoral students who have had an extended abstract describing their thesis research reviewed and accepted by the Consortium Faculty.
The purpose of the OLKC 2015 Doctoral Consortium is to help doctoral students further develop their research in a community of peers and academic mentors. Students whose proposals are accepted for the consortium are expected to register for and participate in the main OLKC conference as well as the Doctoral Consortium. This provides a valuable opportunity to learn about what is current in the area of organizational learning and knowledge research and to network with other academic colleagues. The Consortium is designed to facilitate constructive feedback and discussion around the literature, theory, ideas, concepts, frameworks, methods and/or data analysis that that students are developing for their PhD dissertations. The proposed schedule for the doctoral consortium is as follows: During the morning session, students accepted for the Consortium will present and discuss their research in groups of 3-4 people facilitated by the Faculty Conveners. Conveners will review participants’ research proposals, and then provide feedback and lead the joint discussion session. Participants will also be required to read and constructively review papers from their fellow participants in the small groups. Following a working lunch, the afternoon session will host a plenary discussion about doing and publishing high quality research.
Chair: Mara Gorli – OLKC 2015 Conference Chairperson
Faculty members
Andrea J. Casey
Andrea Casey is an Associate Professor of Human and Organizational Learning at The George Washington University where she teaches courses such as organizational culture in an executive doctoral program and chairs doctoral dissertations. Her research interests are diverse and include topics such as the relationship between organizational memory and organizational identity, shared leadership, and organizational change momentum. She has conducted a long-term case study of organizational identity and memory at Nike, Inc. In addition, she is completing a shared leadership study of co-CEOs in family businesses and has recently launched a pilot study of positive organizational change momentum. Before joining the GW faculty in 2000, Dr. Casey was a consultant for over 15 years to non-profit and state and federal government organizations focusing on organizational change, strategic planning, and leadership development. Professor Casey served as the Conference Chair of the OLKC 2013 in Washington, DC. She is an active member of the Academy of Management and has served as a member of the AOM Board of Governors and has been the Division Chair for the Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division.
Ann L. Cunliffe
Ann L. Cunliffe is Professor of Organization Studies at the University of Bradford, UK. She moved to Bradford from the University of Leeds, UK after spending 25 years working in the USA, latterly at the University of New Mexico and California State University. She also holds Visiting Professor positions at Escola de Administraçâo da Fundaçâo Getulio Vargas, Brazil, and the University of Strathclyde, UK. Ann’s current research lies at the intersection of organizational studies, philosophy and communications, exploring how leaders and managers shape responsive and ethical organizations. Other interests include: selfhood, embodied sensemaking, developing the rigour of non-traditional qualitative research, and exploring reflexive approaches to management research, practice and learning. Her recent publications include the books A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Management (2014) and articles in Organizational Research Methods, Human Relations, the Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Management Studies, and Organization Studies. She is Co Editor-in-Chief of Management Learning, and organizes the biennial Qualitative Research in Management and Organization Conference In New Mexico, USA.
Bente Elkjaer
Bente Elkjaer holds a Chair within learning theory with special focus upon learning in organizations and working life at the Department of Education, Aarhus University (Campus Copenhagen). Bente researches at the ‘crossroads’ between educational and organizational research and she is engaged in how organizations and people ‘produce’ knowledge and how knowledge can be shared through the organizing of work and management as well as through learning. Bente’s main theoretical source of inspiration is American pragmatism by way of the philosopher and educational thinker, John Dewey’s works, which she is continuously struggling to understand. She is currently interested in how pragmatism may be understood in light of the ‘practice turn’ in the social sciences. Bente is also the international program coordinator of the European Master in Lifelong Learning. Policy and Management, and she is engaged in the Department’ BA and MA in Educational Science in which she coordinates teaching, teaches and supervise students. Bente has over the years held managerial positions such as being the founder and Head of The Doctoral School of Organizational Learning (DOCSOL) (2004-2010), and the Editor in Chief of Management Learning. The Journal for Managerial and Organizational Learning (2005-2010) (a position shared with Professor Russ Vince). Bente has also served as Department Heads both at the Copenhagen Business School in which she worked for more than 13 years and at the University of Aarhus.
Bjørn Erik Mørk
Bjørn Erik Mørk is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oslo, Norway, and an Associate Fellow at IKON Research Unit, Warwick Business School. He holds a PhD in organizational sociology from the University of Oslo, and wrote his doctoral dissertation about challenges with changing practices in hospitals. He is currently involved in several research projects on learning, innovation and change in the healthcare sector. In his research he draws upon practice-based perspectives, and his research interests include innovation processes, cross-disciplinary collaboration, learning and knowing, boundary work and the role of power when changing practices. He has published in journals such as Human Relations, Management Learning, European Journal of Innovation Management and Process and Knowledge Management. Bjørn Erik has attended all of the OKLC/OLKC conferences since 2002, including some of the OLKC doctoral consortiums. Currently he is also supervising several PhD students. He has also been one of the faciliators of the OLKC teaching workshops in the period 2010 (Boston), 2011 (Hull) and 2013 (Washington DC), and was one of the organisers for the OLKC 2014 conference in Oslo.
Davide Nicolini
Professor Davide Nicolini is Co Director of IKON, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick. Davide has previously worked at the University of Trento (Italy) and held a senior social scientist position at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations in London. He also has experience in design and management of action-learning programmes and action-research based interventions. In his research he is drawing upon practice-based approaches to the study of knowing, learning, and change in organisations. He has studied innovation process in healthcare and other complex environments, and worked with advancement of action-based approaches to learning and change. He has published several books, book chapters and journal papers. In 2012 his book “Practice Theory, Work and Organization. An Introduction” was published by Oxford. His publications appears in journals such as Organization Science, Organization Studies, Human Relations, Management Learning, Social Science and Medicine, British Journal of Management and so forth. He has been Associate Editor of Management Learning, and part of the editorial board of Journal of Management Studies and Organization Studies. Davide is part of the OLKC Executive Board of OLKC, and he has been involved in organising the conference several times.
Kevin Orr
Kevin Orr is a Professor at the University of Saint Andrews, Scotland. Previously, he was Professor of Public Sector Management, and founder and Co-Director of the Centre for Organisational Futures at Hull University Business School, UK. His research interests are in aspects of managing and organising in public sector settings, and his work adopts a critical perspective, contributing to conversations about traditions, leadership, discourse, reflexivity, identity, politics and power. Reflecting a commitment to an interdisciplinary approach, Kevin has published in fields including organisation studies, public administration, research methods, and politics. His recent writing appears in journals which include Management Learning, Public Administration Review, Public Administration, and Policy and Politics. Kevin is currently leading an ESRC (UK) project exploring the impact of social science research. His work is connected with a number of international academic leadership roles. He serves on the International Editorial Advisory Board of Management Learning, and is currently Chair of the Executive Board of OLKC, having served as Conference Chair of OLKC 2011. Kevin was a Faculty member of the doctoral consortia at Boston 2010, and Hull 2011, and Oslo 2014 and knows the doctoral program to be one of the highlights of OLKC.
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Teaching workshop
OLKC 2015 Teaching Workshop – 9th April, 2015 (h. 9.30-16.30)
The OLKC teaching workshops aims at producing a refined focus on our teaching practices, rooted in the research interests of the OLKC community. Workshop numbers are restricted to 15 in order to maintain the highly participative and discursive approach required for the type of work we aim to do.
The Workshop theme is based partly on the OLKC 2015 theme, and partly on the themes emerging from previous workshops. We are interested in exploring how learning may be facilitated to circulate around experience, theory and reflection, and how it can trigger new actions and change in different contexts, thus contributing to a renewed sense of authorship. We wish to explore the relationship between class room learning and improvement and innovation in organizational and managerial practices.
Chair: Giuseppe Scaratti – OLKC 2015 Conference Chairperson
Invited speakers
Gail Greig, University of Saint Andrews, UK
Paulo Pedro Cardoso, Leeds Beckett University, UK
Thomas Hoholm, BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway
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Paper Development Workshop
Writing “qualitatively”: developing high quality-qualitative papers in the organizational studies field.
OLKC 2015 Teaching Workshop – 9th April, 2015 (h. 9.30-15.30)
The PDW is aimed at developing stronger papers outline based on earlier submitted draft papers that present qualitative research studies. In order to achieve this aim, the workshop will provide participants with an overview of diverse genres of qualitative writing, in order to show how these genres might usefully be applied to studies of organizations of all kinds. In addition, the challenges of writing less traditional qualitative papers, such as reflexive writings and teaching cases, and for different targets and audiences, will be discussed. Faculty members with ample experience in qualitative writing will chair small breakout sessions where participants will have the opportunity for a detailed discussion of their works. The workshop targets early career scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds and interests, wishing to enhance their knowledge of and skills in qualitative writing.
Chair : Laura Galuppo – OLKC 2015 Organizing Committee
Faculty members
Cathrine Filstad
Cathrine Filstad is Professor (Ph.d.) in the Department of Leadership and Organizational Management at BI Norwegian School of Management. Cathrines main research interests are organizational learning, knowledge management, organizational socialization, power and politics, leadership, middle management, change, emotions and reflections. Filstad has been involved in several research projects in the bank and tax industry, the oil industry and paramedics, public and private organizations, the health sector and policing. She is an experienced ethnographic researcher. Cathrine has written five textbooks, several book chapters and a substantial number of articles in for instance Journal of Workplace Learning, The Learning Organization, Int. Journal of Lifelong Education, Int. Journal Work Organization and Emotion Journal of Human Resources Development and Management, Int. Real Estate Review and Journal of Policing and Society Cathrine was Conference Chair of OLKC2014 in Oslo and has participated in OLKC conferences since Trento, 2005.
Juliette Koning
Juliette Koning is Reader in Organization Studies and Asian Business at Oxford Brookes University, Faculty of Business, Department of Business and Management (UK). She has a PhD in social anthropology (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands). After a career in social anthropology, Juliette turned her academic interest to organization studies, in particular the study of small business organizations in Southeast Asia. She conducts ethnographic research and is generally intrigued by the complexities and dynamics of ‘how things work’ (in context). Her research interests include ethnicity, gender and generations in entrepreneurship, religion and leadership, identity work and sensemaking, and research philosophy and methodology (reflexivity, emotions, life and business histories and creative thinking). She has published on these topics in the Journal of Business Ethics; Entrepreneurship & Regional Development; International Journal of Business Anthropology; Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management; Management Learning (forthcoming); East Asia: An International Quarterly; Asian Journal of Social Sciences; and Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies. Juliette is co-convenor of the Standing Working Group on Organizational Ethnography at EGOS and Research Lead for her department.
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