Titre: Social Innovation in Contested Domains: Insite – North America’s First Government Sanctioned Supervised Injection Site

Invité: Tom Lawrence, Simon Fraser University

Social innovation is has gained a great deal of attention as an important mechanism through which communities can address their social problems. Despite widespread popular and political attention, scholarly understanding of social innovation is in its infancy. In this paper, I explore social innovation in contested domains by exploring the case of Insite, North America’s first government sanctioned, supervised injection site for users of illegal drugs. I adopt an institutional perspective, from which social innovation is conceptualized as the production and institutionalization of a novel solution to a social problem. Drawing on my findings, I develop a theoretical model of social innovation in contested domains that describes an iterative process with the status of the innovation evolving from being a nascent concept to a proto-institution to an institution, and each stage associated with a new field configuration in which the discourse, social structures, and practices of the field are aligned in a way that supports the transition.

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Salle: Tata Communications, rez-de-jardin, 3000, Côte-Ste-Catherine

Conférencières invitées: Carole Groleau, Université de Montréal et Christiane Demers, HEC Montréal

Titre: Du dessin à l’image numérique: la confrontation des pratiques situées et des pratiques institutionnalisées dans un bureau d’architectes

Résumé: Depuis quelques années, de plus en plus de chercheurs se tournent vers les approches situées pour étudier le changement technologique au sein des organisations. Ces recherches se penchent trop rarement sur les tensions qui opposent les pratiques situées et institutionnelles lorsque se déploient les nouvelles pratiques de travail dans un contexte de changement organisationnel. Dans cette recherche, nous étudions l’implantation d’un logiciel de visualisation 3D dans un bureau d’architectes. De manière plus spécifique, nous regardons la manière dont l’outil est intégré dans les activités quotidiennes des architectes et comment cela soulève des incompatibilités entre les pratiques situées et institutionnalisées. En nous appuyant sur le concept de contradiction, emprunté à la théorie de l’activité, nous examinons comment les pratiques situées, simultanément, reproduisent et questionnent les pratiques institutionnalisées.

Pour consulter l’article: Groleau, C., Demers, C., Lalancette, M. & Barros, M. (accepté). From hand drawings to computer visuals: Confronting situated and institutionalized practices in an architecture firm. Organization Science.
http://orgsci.journal.informs.org/content/early/2011/06/17/orsc.1110.0667.abstract

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Dates: 21-23 June 2011, Kos, Greece

Conveners:
François Cooren, Université de Montréal, Canada
Eero Vaara, Hanken School of Economics, Finland
Ann Langley, HEC Montreal, Canada
Haridimos Tsoukas, University of Cyprus, Cyprus & University of Warwick, UK

Keynote Speakers:
David Boje, Professor of Management, New Mexico State University, USA, author of Storytelling Organizations
Lillie Chouliaraki, Professor in Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, co-author of Discourse in Late Modernity
Jonathan Potter, Professor of Discourse Analysis, Loughborough University, UK, co-author of Discursive Psychology

Click here for the full call for papers.

Deadline for submissions 31st January 2012

For more details, visit our website: http://www.process-symposium.com/

We are calling for contributions for a Master Class and Writing Workshop on Publishing Qualitative Research to be held at HEC Montréal on June 4th 2012.

Guest speakers play key editorial roles at five premier journals in organization studies:

• Kevin Corley, Arizona State University, (Associate editor, Academy of Management Journal)
• Samer Faraj, McGill University, (Senior editor, Organization Science)
• Ann Langley HEC Montréal (Coeditor, Strategic Organization and Senior Editor, Organization Studies)
• Davide Ravasi, Bocconi University, (Associate editor, Journal of Management Studies)

All are welcome to join the morning master class; The afternoon writing workshop will be limited to 12 participants.

Deadline for submissions: March 5th 2012; Send by email to charlotte.cloutier@hec.ca; Click here for more information

The event is sponsored by Journal of Management Studies and by the Canada Research Chair in Strategic Management in Pluralistic Settings.

Titre: Squatting on Seesaws: A Sociology of Art Perspective on the Creativity-Control Tension

Conférenciers:
Marie-Astrid Le Theule, Conservatoire national des arts et métiers
Sam Sponem, Service de l’enseignement des sciences comptables, HEC Montréal
Jean-Pascal Gond, Service de l’enseignement du management, HEC Montréal

Résumé:
This paper reconsiders the creativity-control tension in light of a broader perspective on creativity informed by the sociology of arts. We consider the thick collective, institutional, and social dimensions of creativity to broaden the scope of the creativity-control discussion. In so doing, we seek to uncover modes of management of the creativity-control tension that have been neglected to date. Our research is based on an artists’ squat located in Paris that for the past ten years has struggled to establish and maintain its existence—the Théâtre de Verre. This extreme case of collective artistic creativity brings to light the way in which creativity-control tensions cross over the individual, organizational and institutional levels of analysis. Our findings show how the artist-squatters balanced these tensions like seesaws in order to maintain their artistic creativity. Specifically, our results point to five fulcra that facilitate the management of the creativity-control seesaws: shared beliefs, boundaries, risky improvisation, organizational nomadism, and symbolic calculation. We show how these fulcra stabilize or destabilize the balance between the search for collective creativity and institutional and organizational pressures for control.

In 2010, the Academy of Management Meeting will be held in Montréal (August 6-10), a city that is also home to the first research group on strategy as- practice to be established in North America. This is thus the perfect occasion for the GéPS (Groupe d’études sur la pratique de la stratégie/ Strategy as Practice Study Group) to invite you to a special event to be held at HEC Montréal, immediately preceding the AOM meeting. This workshop is intended as an opportunity to take stock of recent SAP research and consider new directions.

So far, SAP scholars have explored the question of what strategists “do”, providing at least three different types of answers to this question: strategists talk, they write texts and they use various kinds of tools—models, methodologies, etc. The pervasiveness of ethnographic research in the area has led to a predominance of studies dealing with strategic talk and agency. There is still realtively little research on the production and use of texts and tools; we believe that there is a need to bring to the fore the textual, intertextual and material aspects of strategy as practice. In addition, research on the connections between talk, texts and tools would be very welcome: how do managers talk about texts and tools? How are texts and material objects mobilized during the flow of conversations? How do strategists “textualize” their conversations and their use of tools? How are the choice and usage of tools related to other aspects of the practice of strategy? And finally, what are the best methodologies for answering these questions?

For information on the workshop and to register, go to the special workshop website

http://web.hec.ca/geps/talktexttools/index.html

The workshop is co-sponsored and organized by the Chaire de recherche du Canada en gestion stratégique en contexte pluraliste.