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Organizer: Vern Glaser, U. of Alberta
Organizer: Stella Pachidi, U. of Cambridge
Organizer: Christopher William John Steele, U. of Alberta
Presenter: Arvind Karunakaran, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Presenter: Joel Gehman, U. of Alberta
Presenter: Paul Leonardi, UC Santa Barbara
Presenter: William Ocasio, Northwestern U.
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| This PDW builds upon previous attempts to create and enhance the community of scholars who perform research developing theories of performativity from a variety of perspectives, including organization theory, strategy, and technology studies. This PDW will provide a forum for participants to reflect on the theme of rationality from the perspective of performativity. One central theme of all theoretical perspectives of performativity concerns how different modes of reasoning and justification are embedded in social and material practices. In the first part of the PDW, an empirical study on rationality in action will be presented. The study, based on a multi- sited ethnography of a large police department (PD) and 911 emergency management center (EMC) in Northwestern United States, will examine how organizational efforts toward quantification shape occupational- and organizational- rationalities. Three senior scholars will then reflect on the study from different perspectives: Joel Gehman will reflect on the study from the perspective of performativity and theorization; Paul Leonardi will discuss how technologies in organizations inform our understanding of how rationality emerges in action; William Ocasio will reflect on the topic from the perspective of institutional logics. The presentations will be followed by a panel Q&A discussion and subsequently a breakout session. In summary, this PDW provides an opportunity for performativity scholars to think about core topics in a new way, and an opportunity to build new connections, outside the core community. |
| The PDW is open to all participants. |
| Search Terms: performativity | analytics | rationality |
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