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
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12:00 |
Auditorium (Aula) Building A1 Lobby: Arrival & Coffee
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Plenary Session: Auditorium (Aula) |
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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.
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13:30 |
Break |
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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
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14:45 |
Break |
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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 |
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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
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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 |
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17:15 |
Hotel Check-In (if needed) |
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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
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8:30 |
Building A1 Lobby: Coffee |
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Plenary session: Aula |
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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
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10:00 |
Break |
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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
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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
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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 |
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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)
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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
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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
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14:45 |
Leopold Ringel (Bielefeld): Organizing Evaluative Expertise
Michael Grothe-Hammer (Trondheim): How organizations cluster inequalities and reproduce social class
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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 |
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15:45 |
Break |
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Plenary session: Auditorium (Aula) |
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16:00 |
Aksel Tjora (Trondheim): Local Social Rhythm as Organisational Infrastructure
Stefan Arora-Jonsson, Nils Brunsson (Uppsala) & Raimund Hasse (Luzern): |
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17:00 |
Closing: Auditorium (Aula) |