Discussion of their book: Making a Market for Acts of God

[Jarzabkowski, P., Bednarek, R., & Spee, P. (2015). Making a market for acts of God: The practice of risk-trading in the global reinsurance industry. Oxford University Press, USA.]

Inspired by the book, Kristina and the authors discuss what needs to be considered in such long research projects, tips for ethnography studies, and how data that originates from one project can be used for different publications.

Discussion of the paper: Enabling rapid financial response to disasters: Knotting and reknotting multiple paradoxes in interorganizational systems.

Keynote: Practice Theory Unpacked: Insights and Future Directions

Discussion of the paper: A posthumanist epistemology of practice

Discussion of the paper: Everything flows: Studying continuous socio-technological transformation in a fluid and dynamic digital world.

Discussion of the paper: Time as a Research Lens: A Conceptual Review and Research Agenda

Discussion of the paper: Materiality as an organizing process: Toward a process metaphysics for material artifacts.

Discussion of the paper: Tales of the Unexpected: The Repair Work of an Entrepreneurial Resourcing Practice and the Role of Emotions in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

Prof. Jean Bartunek, Prof. Raghu Garud, and Prof. Ann Langley discuss their perspectives on Prof. Van de Ven's life work and contributions to the Practice and Process Community. The conversation is hosted by Yunchen Sun, Postdoc at Lingköping University, Sweden.

Discussion of the paper: Glaser, V. L., Pollock, N., & D’Adderio, L. (2021). The biography of an algorithm: Performing algorithmic technologies in organizations. Organization Theory, 2(2).

Discussion of paper: Gehman, J. (2021). Searching for Values in Practice-Driven Institutionalism: Practice Theory, Institutional Logics, and Values Work. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 70, pp. 139-159.

Prof. Rebecca Piekkari, Prof. Eriikka Paavilainen-Mäntymäki, and Prof. Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki discuss approaches on how to theorise from case studies. They are discussing the papers:
– Welch, C., Piekkari, R., Plakoyiannaki, E., & Paavilainen-Mantymaki, E. (2011). Theorising from case studies: Towards a pluralist future for international business research. Journal of International Business Studies, 42(5), 740-762.

– Welch, C., Paavilainen-Mäntymäki, E., Piekkari, R., & Plakoyiannaki, E. (2022). Reconciling theory and context: How the case study can set a new agenda for international business research. Journal of International Business Studies, 53(1), 4-26.

Discussion of the paper: Ravasi, D., Rindova, V., & Stigliani, I. (2019). The stuff of legend: History, memory, and the temporality of organizational identity construction. Academy of Management Journal, 62(5), 1523-1555.

Discussion of paper: Chia, Robert. (2017). A process-philosophical understanding of organizational learning as “wayfinding”: Process, practices and sensitivity to environmental affordances. The Learning Organization. 24: 107-118.

Discussion of paper: Ann Langley, Clive Smallman, Haridimos Tsoukas, & Andrew H. Van de Ven. (2013). Process Studies of Change in Organization and Management: Unveiling Temporality, Activity, and Flow. Academy of Management Journal, 56(1), 1-13.