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Session Type: PDW Workshop
Program Session: 303 | Submission: 11429 | Sponsor(s): (OMT, OB, SAP)
Scheduled: Saturday, Aug 6 2016 10:15AM - 11:45AM at Anaheim Marriott in Platinum Ballroom 8
 
Pragmatism, Organizations and Management – Ideas and Applications
Pragmatism Org and Mgmt
Research

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Chair: Moshe Farjoun, York U.
Chair: Barbara Simpson, U. of Strathclyde
Presenter: Chris Ansell, U. of California, Berkeley
Presenter: John Paul MacDuffie, U. of Pennsylvania
Presenter: Markus C. Becker, U. of Southern Denmark
Facilitator: Matthew Kraatz, U. of Illinois
Facilitator: Marc Ventresca, U. of Oxford
The proposed PDW draws on past initiatives to promote Pragmatist Philosophy within the community of organization and management scholars, particularly at EGOS, which hosted Pragmatist sub-themes at the annual colloquia in 2007, 2009, and 2011 as well as welcoming Pragmatism as an inspiration for process theorizing in a specialist Standing Working Group that ran between 2012 and 2015. Furthermore, it responds to the growing interest in this tradition that has become evident in recent scholarly publications. The proposed PDW is an important step that draws on these precedents in order to fulfill the vision of Pragmatist Philosophy as a living intellectual tradition and as a school of thought in its own right, which is both relevant to contemporary organizational and management challenges, and in dialogue with other research streams and programs such as process organization studies, practice theory, institutional logics, routine dynamics, creativity and capability research. The plan is to have similar and more targeted workshops at future Academy of Management Meetings and to consider alternative means to make Pragmatism more central, relevant and useful to members of the Academy. The workshop is open to all faculty and doctoral students who are interested in the applications of Pragmatist ideas to organization and management theories and allied fields. It aims to generate interest among those who are less familiar with Pragmatist ideas, to help them and other researchers already familiar with Pragmatism to connect their research projects to Pragmatist principles, to expose them to new research topics and collaborative opportunities, and to help build a viable community of Pragmatism-inspired researchers. This year’s focus will be on education, community building and sketching the contours of a shared identity and research agenda. Subsequent meetings will focus on helping interested individuals develop concrete Pragmatist-related research projects. To ensure some common background for workshop participants this proposal as well as the call for the PDW issued by the conveners will include a short bibliography of key Pragmatist sources as well as a list of recent Pragmatist-inspired publications within organization and management research.
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