PPI Seminar: Maintaining the Institution Order...
Based on a study of Israeli high-tech conferences after the 2000 crisis, Tammar examines how institutional maintenance is carried out at the organizational field level. Moving from grandiose to disconsolate to balanced conceptions of time and place, conference participants engaged in a collective effort to reestablish their understanding of themselves and their industry. This process was grounded in intense emotions, resembling grief – from denial to anger and negotiation, to depression, and finally acceptance. The field material suggests that maintenance involves working through the field’s identity; it relates to fundamental tensions in the symbolic institutional order; and these issues are delicately re-aligned along time, involving cognitive, emotional, and material dimensions at the intersection of inner- and outer-field pressures.
// With
Tammar B. Zilber is a full professor at the Jerusalem Business School, Hebrew University, Israel. She uses qualitative methods (e.g., organizational and field-level ethnography, narrative analysis) to explore the microfoundations of institutional dynamics, going beyond words to include multimodalities like place, space, emotions, bodies, and visuals. Tammar serves on the EGOS board and as an associate editor for qualitative papers at the Academy of Management Journal.
// Where
Hybrid event - MS Teams and Room #TBC#
// When
Friday 8 April 2022, 13:00 - 14:30
// Contact
maria.l.garcia@wbs.ac.uk
024 765 24503
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