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Speakers/ Thesis defenses / Doctoral seminars / Conferences

Speakers
The Chair organizes a speaker series jointly with the Strategy as Practice Study Group whose co-directors are Ann Langley (chairholder) and Linda Rouleau. Previous speakers since the founding of the Chair are listed below.

3 May 2012, 12:15
Organizational routines and strategy rituals: Opportunities for a practice perspective in organization studies

• Steven W. Floyd, Professor, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachussetts at Amherst

17 April 2012, 12:15
From outlaw to hero: A process study of middle manager deviance within a bureaucracy

• Céline Legrand, Professeure, Audencia-Nantes School of Management

11 April 2012, 12:15
Le commerce comme prétexte? Sites internet comme outils de médiation de la tension entre visées sociales et économiques dans une entreprise sociale

• Valérie Michaud, Professeure, École des Sciences de la Gestion, Université du Québec à Montréal

23 February 2012, 13:30
Social Innovation in Contested Domains: Insite – North America’s First Government Sanctioned Supervised Injection Site

• Tom Lawrence, Professor, Simon Fraser University

7 December 2011, 14:30
Squatting on Seesaws: A Sociology of Art Perspective on the Creativity-Control Tension

• Marie-Astrid Theule, Conseil national des arts et métiers
• Sam Sponem, Professeur visiteur, HEC Montréal
• Jean-Pascal Gond, Professeur visiteur, HEC Montréal

17 November 2011, 12:15
Practice adoption in cases of low cultural fit: Adaptation and cultural repertoire enrichment during the adoption of six sigma at 3M

• Davide Ravasi, Bocconi University

1 November 2011, 12:30
Organisational discourse and the social construction of meaning

• Loizos Heracleous, Professor, Warwick Business School

13 October 2011, 12:15
On the functioning of boundary communities: How decision analysts turn rational choice theory into practice

• Laure Cabantous, Professor, ESCP-Europe

19 September 2011, 12:15
Doing innovative research: problematizing assumptions and creating mysteries

• Mats Alvesson, Professor, Lund University

19 May 2011, 12:15
The strategic competence of accountants and middle managers in budget making

• Bertrand Fauré, Professeur, Université de Toulouse

7 April 2011, 12:15
Transitional identity as a facilitator of organizational identity change during a merger

• Dennis Gioia, Robert and Judith Klein Professor of Management, Smeal College of Business, Penn State University

24 March 2011, 12:15
Theorizing Change and Pluralism in Institutional Context: What Economies of Worth and New-Institutionalism Can Learn from Each Other

• Bernard Leca, Professeur, Rouen Business School et Jean-Pascal Gond, Professeur invité, HEC Montréal

10 February 2011, 12:15
Rules of suspension: A rules-based explanation of the role of strategy workshops in the strategy process

• David Seidl, Chair of Organization and Management, University of Zurich

20 Janvier 2011, 12:15
Penser l’organisation dans la performativité, l’hybridité et le dislocal: de la version “symboliste” à la version “pragmatiste” de l’idée de la constitution communicative de l’organisation

• Daniel Robichaud, Professeur agrégé, Departement de communication, Université de Montréal

2 December 2010, 12:15
John Reed, Citibank and the Commercial Real Estate Crisis of the 1990s: A Case Study

• Sarah Kaplan, Associate Professor, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

4 November 2010, 12:15
Le stratège, cet obsur objet du désir

• Florence Allard-Poesi, Professeure, Université Paris-Est Créteil

8 October 2010, 12:15
Toward a theory of innovation: Artifacts, infrastructure and the challenge of novelty

• Paul Carlile, Associate Professor, Boston University

5 May 2010, 12:00
Studying strategy as discourse: Reconstructing a social practice

• Claus Jacobs, Professor, University of St. Gallen

8 April 2010, 12:15
Institutional homology: Explaining corporate art

• Roy Suddaby, Professor, University of Alberta

25 March 2010, 12:15
L’éthnographie organisationnelle extrême: L’expédition “Un rêve de Darwin” en Patagonie

• Linda Rouleau, Professeure agrégée, HEC Montréal

28 January 2010, 12:15
Everyday sensegiving: A closer look at successful plant managers

• Anne D. Smith, Associate Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

3 December 2009, 12:15
Powers of the past: Evoking organizational memory in LEGO Group’s identity reconstruction process

• Tor Hernes, Professor, Copenhagen Business School

12 November 2009, 12:15

Two Perspectives on Managing Paradox in the Practice of Strategy

• Luc Audebrand, University of British Columbia, Okanagan (Macro-level tensions and micro-level coping strategies: Towards a dialogical perspective)
• Wendy Smith, Lerner School of Business, University of Delaware (Managing strategic paradox: Senior leadership characteristics to explore and exploit simultaneously)

16 October 2009, 12:15

Reflections on Engaged Scholarship

• Andrew Van de Ven, Vernon H. Heath Chair of Organizational Innovation and Change, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota

17 September 2009, 12:15

Is there a place for studies of practice within organizational institutionalism?

• Eva Boxenbaum, Associate professor, Copenhagen Business School

20 May 2009, 12:15

The critical power of the practice lens

• Silvia Gherardi, professeur, University of Trento

14 May 2009, 12:00

Organized jointly with the Chaire de management stratégique international Walter J. Somers

Competition and path-breaking in the role playing game industry, 1974-1999

• Benoit Demil, professeur, IAE de Lille

23 April 2009, 12:15

Qu’est-ce que l’historien peut apprendre aux chercheurs en stratégie

• Cyrille Sardais, Professeur adjoint, HEC Montréal

17 April 2009, 12:15

The minimalist world of (implications for) practice

• Jean Bartunek, Robert and Evelyn Ferris Chair of Organization Studies, Boston College

5 February 2009, 12:00

A discursive perspective on substitution and institutionalization: The case of DDT

• Steve Maguire, Associate Professor, McGill University

14 January 2009, 12:00

Le leadership bicéphale: sa logique et ses défis

• Wendy Reid, MBA, PhD, Professeure invitée HEC Montréal
• Hilde Fjellvaer, Professeure à Trondheim Business School, doctoral candidate at Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen

4 December 2008, 12:00

Analyser une réunion de gestionnaires. Une présentation autour du livre ”Interacting and Organizing: Analyses of a Management Meeting”

• François Cooren, Professeur au département de communication, Université de Montréal

Thesis defenses

24 March 2010, 14:00

Candidate: Yann Hébert (Ph.D. en psychologie industrielle et organisationnelle à l’UQAM)

Title: Le rôle de l’identité lors de la fusion d’unités opérationnelles d’un centre hospitalier universitaire

• Jury: Gilles Dupuis, Université du Québec à Montréal (président du jury); Ann Langley, HEC Montréal (codirectrice de thèse); Roland Foucher, Université du Québec en Outaouais (codirecteur de thèse); Jean-Louis Denis, Université de Montréal (membre), Mario Roy, Université de Sherbrooke (examinateur externe).

13 May 2009, 14:00

Candidate: Line Bonneau

Title: Les postulats temporels et le management stratégique du temps: L’exemple de biopharmaceutiques québécoises

• Jury: Taïeb Hafsi (président rapporteur); Ann Langley (directrice de thèse); Linda Rouleau (membre); Benoit Demil, IAE de Lille (examinateur externe).

16 April 2009, 14:00

Candidate: Charlotte Cloutier

Title: Managing opportunity, managing power and managing difference: How nonprofits strategically manage their relations with funders

• Jury: Francine Séguin (présidente rapporteur); Ann Langley (directrice de thèse); Linda Rouleau (membre); Jean Bartunek, Boston College (examinatrice externe).

Doctoral seminars
The chairholder offers two doctoral seminars:

80-459-00 Méthodes de recherche qualitative en gestion
80-426-00 Reading, doing and publishing research in strategy

Conferences

October 31st-November 1st 2011: “Strategic Discourse Days“
Invited speakers:
François Cooren, Université de Montréal
Loizos Heracleous, Warwick Business School
Eero Vaara, Hanken School of Economics

August 5th 2010: “Talk, text and tools in the practice of strategy,” organized jointly with the Strategy as Practice Study Group (GéPS)