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Come join us for an exciting PDW on Studying Institutional Fields Qualitatively for Advancing Knowledge on Grand Challenges!

Session details can be found here:  https://cdmcd.co/jPdv5X

Institutional fields are vital spaces for exploring and deepening our understanding of institutional processes. They also provide a particularly powerful lens for researching grand challenges and other complex phenomena. Studying them presents a number of methodological challenges, that we will discuss with some of the most accomplished qualitative scholars who have undertaken in-depth studies of institutional field:

Santi Furnari, Bayes Business School, will discuss:

How to determine the boundaries of fields and study the interstitial spaces between them

Nina Granqvist, Aalto University, will discuss:

How to study field emergence

Stine Grodal, D'Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University, will discuss:

How to use archival data to study fields

Anna Kim, McGill University, will discuss:

How to study the relational dynamics between diverse field-level actors over time

Elke Schuessler, Leuphana University, will discuss:

How to mobilize field-configuring events as a site for research

April Wright, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, will discuss:

How to analyze field-data at multiple levels of analysis

Charlene Zietsma, School for the Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, will discuss: How to study field evolution and change

Tammar Zilber, Hebrew University Business School, will discuss:

How to study fields ethnographically

No papers to prepare!  A panel on key challenges will be followed by structured roundtable discussions with individual scholars. Just come and chat, and gain some useful guidance, advice, and tips for designing, conducting, and publishing studies on the structure and dynamics of institutional fields.