Organizing Plurality

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ORGANIZATIONAL SOCIOLOGY (ICOS) (Hamburg, March 27/28, 2025)

Program

Conference venue:

Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg

Campus: Holstenhofweg 85, 22041 Hamburg

Building: Auditorium building (Aula Gebäude) A1

Directions: https://www.hsu-hh.de/en/university/directions

 

Thursday, 27.03.2025


 

Auditorium building A1

12:00

Auditorium (Aula) Building A1 Lobby: Arrival & Coffee

 

 

Plenary Session: Auditorium (Aula)

 

12:45

 

Cristina Besio & Marco Jöstingmeier (Hamburg): Introduction - Organizing Plurality in a Complex Society

 

Thomas Kern, Insa Pruisken & Sarah Tell (Bremen): The Pluralities of Pluralism: The Transformation of the Field of Religious Organizations in the U.S.

 

13:30

Break

 

Aula 1

Aula

Aula 2

Room 403 (H1)

13:45

Violet Petit-Steeghs (Rotterdam),

Katrine Iversen Glintborg (Aarhus),

Silvia Buch Mejsner (Copenhagen) &

Viola Burau (Aarhus): How organisations govern through multi-level, cross-sectoral boundary work

 

Jana-Maria Albrecht (Berlin), Robert Jungmann (Trier) & Arnold Windeler (Berlin): Plural organisational roles and overlapping technological paths. A structuration perspective on the field of Germany’s energy transition

Christian Frankel (Copenhagen) & Kjeld Schmidt (Copenhagen/Siegen): The organization of digitalization

 

Marc Jungtäubl & Mascha Will-Zocholl (Wiesbaden): Digital Governance in the field of medical organizations

Signe Vikkelsø

& Morten Knudsen (Copenhagen): The Constitution of Organizational Misconduct: An Analysis of Danske Bank and the World's Largest Money Laundering Scandal

 

Alexander Paulsson (Lund): Carbon Banking: The Climate Crisis and Investment in the Money-Form

Ingo Bode (Kassel) & Sigrid Betzelt (Berlin): Inconsistent Governance and Accountability Overload. The Case of Childcare Organizations in Germany

 

Nadine Arnold (Lucerne) & Fabien Foureault (Paris): Governing and integrating a socio-environmental field

 

14:45

Break

15:00

Nathalie Iloga Balep (Hamburg) & Christian Huber (Copenhagen): All lights on red – Pragmatist approaches in the negotiation of performance measurement indicators for prisons

 

Kayla Phuong Hoang (Irvine/Edinburgh): Breaking Barriers Beyond Bars: Navigating Discrimination Inside University for Formerly-Incarcerated and System-Impacted Students

Kerstin Thummes (Greifswald): Separation and closure as opportunity or obstacle? A meta-organization’s struggle to engage sustainability and smart farming

 

Laura Scheler (Passau): Organizing and digitizing ecological environments. A systems theory study on the case of dairy cow

Konstantin Hondros (Hamburg), Sigrid Quack (Duisburg-Essen) & Katharina Zangerle (Vienna): Expanding culture, not economy. A longitudinal study of justifying music sampling at court

 

 

Christian Morgner (Sheffield): Temporary Organisations as Governance Spaces: Cultural Plurality in Global Festivals

Stefanie Raible (Linz): Organizational praxis mediated by socio-technical futures: On the recursive interrelation of narratives, organizations, and society

 

Cornelia Fedtke (Hamburg): Is nuclear energy green? The plurality of sustainability narratives in the social media debate

16:00

Break

16:15

Hanna Grauert (Konstanz): How to Recruit and Value Diversity: Balancing Between Symbolic Diversity Goals and Bureaucratic Principles in Practice

 

Mareike Heller (Munich): “Non-German Language of Origin”: How an Unstable Classification Persists in the Post-migrant Education Administration

Kathia Serrano Velarde (Heidelberg): Unsustainable organization? Examining State-Sponsored Energy Transition Initiatives

 

Marius G. Vigen (Trondheim): Organizing Urban Development: Idiocultural reluctance in the Urban Planning Office

 

Jelena Brankovic (Berlin): Plurality of infrastructures and the making of world-scale organizational fields

 

 

Gunhild Tøndel,

Jan Tøssebro &

Odd Morten Mjøen (Trondheim): Measures as machines: The making of the quantitative quality model in Norwegian municipal healthcare policy and management

 

17:15

Hotel Check-In (if needed)

18:30

 

19:15

 

21:15

Transfer to boat tour (Wandsbek Markt subway/bus station)

 

Boat tour in Hamburg Harbor (with snacks and drinks)

 

Transfer back to Wandsbek Markt

 

Friday, 28.03.2025


 

Auditorium building A1

8:30

Building A1 Lobby: Coffee

 

Plenary session: Aula

 

9:00

 

Carly Knight (New York) & Adam Goldstein (Princeton): Ambiguous Actorhood: Twenty-First Century Firms and The Evasion of Responsibility

 

Lars Thøger Christensen (Copenhagen): Responsible Sustainability Communication? Inquiring into the Dynamics of Socially Binding Consequences

 

10:00

Break

 

Aula 1

Aula

Aula 2

Room 105 (H1)

10:15

Lukas Lapschieß & Phillip Degens (Hamburg):

Becoming sociocratic: Struggles in the semi-professionalization process of a remote-first collectivist organization 

 

Holger Højlund,

Klaus Brøns Laursen &

Jens Ulrich (Aarhus): Who is the host? Citizen’s involvement in green transition in a rural region of Denmark

Judith Nyfeler (St. Gallen) & Raimund Hasse (Lucerne): The boon and bane of being inert. The case of craft digitalization

 

Stefan Gründler & Christian Ebner (Braunschweig): Digital twins @ work – A discussion of vocational and organizational challenges and opportunities

 

 

Charlie F. Thompson (Trondheim): The Public Governance of Regulatory Organizations: A Comparative Study of Gambling Regulatory Agencies

 

Hanne Knudsen (Copenhagen): Philanthropic giving to public education as a means to self-potentialization of private corporations

 

Dominika Gryf & Weronika Rosa (Warsaw): The role of universities as organizations in combating sexual violence against students –

results of a nationwide study of Polish universities’ anti-sexual violence systems

 

Margit Neisig (Roskilde): Including SMEs in the Twin Transition

11:15

Break

11:30

Kathrin Lutz & Marc Mölders (Mainz): Making sustainable solutions travel: On organizational persuasion work in a differentiated society

 

Kurt Rachlitz, Michael Grothe-Hammer & Jennifer Bailey (Trondheim): How Do Grand Challenges Travel Between Organizations? A Case Study on The Protection of Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems

Benjamin Doubali (Mainz): Data Space Oddity: Re-Combining Expectations in Industrial Digitalization

 

Barbara Zyzak (Trondheim) & Deborah Agostino (Milan): Digital accountability in governance platforms: the evidence from Norwegian seamless digital services

Martin Koch (Bielefeld): Introducing international groups: “a private, informal meeting of those who really matter in the world”

 

 

Viveca Sjösted (Uppsala): The more the messier? How multiple representatives in a meta-organization coordinate their work

Surbhi Dayal (Indore): From Marginalization to Empowerment - A Path to Plurality in Organizational Structure in Primary Education

 

AbdulGafar Olawale Fahm (Ilorin/Bayreuth): Navigating Digital Plurality: Ethical and Organizational Challenges in Islamic Education among Nigerian Muslim Communities


12:30

Lunch (Auditorium (Aula) A1 Lobby)

 

13:30

Alice Neusiedler (Copenhagen): Participation as open organizing for alternatives – four forms for conceptualizing participation beyond access

 

Thorsten Peetz (Bamberg): The shadow of competition in the digital organization of human mating

Sigrunn Tvedten (Kongsberg): Emerging fields in the local organizing for inclusive childhood. A case of organizing local public school and welfare services in Norway

 

Felix Genth, Dorina Kurta & Jaromir Junne (Hamburg): Shifting boundaries between "pure" and "dirty work" in social care: digitalization projects

as an opportunity to renegotiate professional identities

Jennifer L. Bailey (Trondheim): From Whaling to Whale Conservation: The Transformation of the IWC

 

 

Iris Bartelt (Bielefeld): Navigating Deadlock in Global Labour Governance:

Examining Mechanisms and Responses to Crisis and Contestation in the International Labour Organization

 

 

 

Hana Fehrenbach (Freiburg): Artificial intelligence cross-sector partnerships transnationally: flourishing human-centered ecosystems?

 

Michal Sedlačko (Bremen) & Katarína Staroňová (Bratislava): Reconciling plural, heterogeneous and conflicting expectations in ‘doing impartial policy advice’:

The politics and non-politics of analytical advisory units in the Slovak public administration

14:30

Break

 

14:45

Leopold Ringel (Bielefeld): Organizing Evaluative Expertise

 

Michael Grothe-Hammer (Trondheim): How organizations cluster inequalities and reproduce social class

 

 

Klaus Dammann (Bielefeld): Nesting of Protest Movements in Non-Movement-Organizations. How Does this Contribute to Pluralistic Processing of Interests?

 

Jonas Jutz (Friedrichshafen): Organising the Popular? Organisation, Political Inclusion, and the Challenges of Populism

Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen (Copenhagen),

Paul Stenner (Milton Keynes) &

Dorthe Pedersen (Copenhagen): The form, function and history of saying ‘no’ in the public sector

 

Jun Chu & René John (Berlin): The theoretical possibilities and practical limits of governance administration

 

15:45

Break

 

Plenary session: Auditorium (Aula)

 

16:00

 

Aksel Tjora (Trondheim): Local Social Rhythm as Organisational Infrastructure

 

Stefan Arora-Jonsson, Nils Brunsson (Uppsala) & Raimund Hasse (Luzern):
From competition to conflict

17:00

Closing: Auditorium (Aula)