Corporations, Democracy and the Public Good: One Year Later
Professional Development Workshop
Jointly sponsored by OMT, SIM and CMS
Academy of Management Meeting, Philadelphia
Saturday, August 4, 2007 12:30 to 2:00
Philadelphia Marriott: Grand Ballroom A
Presenters:
* Gerald Davis, University of Michigan
* Royston Greenwood, University of Alberta
* Douglas Schuler, Rice University
Discussant:
* Steve Barley, Stanford University
One year ago, Steve Barley in his OMT Distinguished Scholar Lecture threw down the gauntlet: "it is time for organizational theorists to pay much closer attention to how organizations alter and even create their environments, especially institutional sectors that lie outside the economy and that get little attention".
This PDW aims to follow through and create a space for developing quality research on this important topic. A panel of prominent organizational scholars will demonstrate how three well established theoretical frameworks in organization theory - social network analysis, institutional theory, and research on corporate political strategies - can provide some tools to investigate the mechanisms and processes through which corporations influence larger societal systems.
Our goals in this PDW are to pool knowledge from various domains that can be useful in tackling the issue of corporations, democracy and the public good; identify other promising theoretical frameworks that can be used to as launch-pads for research; forge research partnerships among attendants; and spur debate that will lead to more studies and more publications on an issue where scholars have, so far, remained for the large part silent.
For more information, please contact Dror Etzion (
docdetzion@iese.edu), Bernard Leca (
Bernard.Leca@free.fr), or Ignasi Marti (
imarti@iese.edu).
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