News
Announcements and some media articles authored or co-authored by IDeaS team members.
Announcements
Alberta Institutions 2021: Organizations and Institutions in the Era of Crises
Call for papers for the 6th Alberta Institutions Conference (and PhD Workshop) June 24-26, 2021.
Amidst the current pandemic that has swept the world, it seems a timely opportunity to contemplate the durability and resilience of organizations and institutions. The current crisis related to COVID-19 is one of many crises we have faced and are facing (e.g., 2008-09 financial crisis; Ebola; rise of populism; climate change; displacement/mass migration). It may not be too much of a stretch to consider this the era of crises. How are our organizations and institutions responding? How are they coping with stress, transforming, disappearing, or enabling new forms of organizing and governing? We seek to explore these kinds of questions and their implications for organizational institutionalism at our next triennial Alberta Institutions Conference.
Our aim, as always, is to bring together diverse institutional scholars from all career stages, including PhD students, to discuss these and related topics. We are also delighted to announce that Renate Meyer (University Professor, Head of the Institute for Organization Studies, WU Vienna) will provide the keynote address.
Conference Details
The Sixth Triennial Alberta Institutions Conference, sponsored by the Alberta School of Business, will be held from Thursday, June 24 to Saturday, June 26, 2021 at the Westin Edmonton, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Approximately 25 papers will be selected for presentation.
Deadlines/Submission
Abstract submission (approximately 500 words): November 27, 2020
Notification of acceptance: January 31, 2021
Submission of full paper (maximum 8,000 words): May 1, 2021
Organizing Committee
Emily Block, Tony Briggs, David Deephouse, Joel Gehman, Vern Glaser, Royston Greenwood, Tim Hannigan, Bob Hinings, Dev Jennings, Michael Lounsbury, Trish Reay, Angelique Slade Shantz, Chris Steele, Madeline Toubiana, Marvin Washington, and all of the University of Alberta.
Media Articles
Violence against doctors is increasing worldwide. Will the pandemic revert the trend?
Date: September 09, 2020
Authors: Milo Shaoqing Wang, Mia Raynard and Royston Greenwood
Publication: LSE Business Review
HIBAR Research: The Frontier Is Actually an Ecosystem
Date: August 14, 2020
Authors: Marc-David L. Seidel, Lyle H. Schwartz & Gretchen B. Jordan
Publication: Issues in Science and Technology
Staying in grace: Why some people are immune from scandal – until they’re not
Date: July 9, 2020
Authors: Tim Hannigan, Marco Clemente & Jo-Ellen Pozner
Publication: The Conversation
COVID-19 is an opportunity to challenge problematic VC culture
Date: July 3, 2020
Authors: Marc-David Seidel & Laura Lam
Publication: LSE Business Review
Some media articles related to our work.
How Surveillance Cameras Could Be Weaponized With A.I. - The New York Times. (n.d.). Retrieved August 5, 2020, from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/13/us/aclu-surveillance-artificial-intelligence.html
Leonardi, P., & Contractor, N. (2018, November 1). Better People Analytics. Harvard Business Review, November–December 2018. https://hbr.org/2018/11/better-people-analytics
Confessore, N., LaForgia, M., & Dance, G. J. X. (2018, December 18). Facebook’s Data Sharing and Privacy Rules: 5 Takeaways From Our Investigation. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/us/politics/facebook-data-sharing-deals.html