International Doctoral Consortium on Management and Organizational Studies
June 10-12, 2015
Sobey School of Business
Saint Mary’s University
Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada
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Welcome Message
On behalf of the consortium of twelve business schools, we welcome you to the 2015 International Doctoral Consortium -- hosted this year by the
Sobey School of Business at Saint Mary's University, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. This year our consortium welcomes 39 students and 17
faculty members from 16 schools, 8 countries and 5 continents. There is a full and robust agenda that embraces and engages a wide range of
topics within management, human resources and organization studies.
The International Doctoral Consortium brings together critical and qualitatively-oriented organizational and management scholars and PhD students.
Together, established and emerging scholars engage with multi-paradigmatic approaches and gain greater exposure to a range of postpositivist
approaches. The consortium is highly developmental and geared towards PhD students who present, discuss, and debate topics and methods key
to the study of management issues from a critical perspective. The consortium has become an increasingly popular event because of its intimate
size, the intellectual generosity of the academic community, the interactions between participants, and the truly international experience of the
event!
We are delighted to welcome Dr. Puskala Prasad, Skidmore University, and Dr. Anshuman Prasad, University of New Haven, as our Keynote
Speakers. Drs Prasad and Prasad will be presenting their talk, “Decolonizing (Critical) Management Studies: Global Shifts and the Search for
Relevant Knowledges”.
The agenda has been organized to ensure students have the space and time to discuss their ideas in a variety of fora. In the sessions on
dissertation proposals (labelled groups 'I', ‘II’, ‘III’ and IV') students will each have 15 minutes to outline their proposal and to take comments and
questions from other students. The paper sessions (labelled groups A, B, C, D and E) and roundtable discussions (labelled groups a, b, and c) will
provide students with 10 minutes each to present and 5 minutes to respond to questions and comments. The consortium has been organized to
facilitate dialogue both within the sessions and also through informal conversations. In addition to faculty workshops, we will also be having our
“Breaking the Rules” lunch – a panel of faculty who will candidly speak to students about the actions they have taken that may normally be
‘discouraged’ in academia and what the consequences were. Lunch will be followed by small discussion groups relating to issues such as resilience
in academia, completing the dissertation, and being on the job market.
We welcome you all to the 2015 International Doctoral Consortium and hope that we can continue to be a supportive community for emerging postpositivist and critical management scholars!
The Student Organizing Committee, on behalf of the twelve business schools
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Jun 10 – Wednesday
9:00a
10:15a
10:30a
Jun 11 – Thursday
Workshop: Critical Sensemaking (Albert J. Mills & Jean Helm Mills)
[SB 260]
Jun 12- Friday
Workshop: Historiography and Business Studies (Gabie Durepos &
Simon Mollan) [SB 260]
Workshop: Gaining Access to Participants (Amanda Petticca-Harris
& Nadia deGama) [L 280]
Workshop: Actor Network Theory (Chris Hartt) [L 280]
Coffee Break [SB 260]
Dissertation Proposals and Presentations
Student proposals & presentations I [SB 152] Chair: Nadia deGama
Student proposals &presentations II [SB 153] Chair: Maureen Scully
Student proposals & presentations III [SB 260] Chair: Liezel Massyn
Student proposals & presentations IV [L 280] Chair: Virpi Malin
Coffee Break [SB 260]
Round tables
Student roundtables a [SB 152] Chair: Albert Mills
Student roundtables b [SB 153] Chair: Mariana Paludi
Student roundtables c [L 280] Chair: Jean Helms Mills
Student Paper Presentations
Student papers E [SB 260] Chair: Gabie Durepos
11:45a
12:00
1:00p
Lunch/registration [SB 260]
Keynote Speakers [SB 260]
Dr. Puskala Prasad [Skidmore University] &
Dr. Anshuman Prasad [University of New Haven]:
“Decolonizing (Critical) Management Studies: Global Shifts and the
Search for Relevant Knowledges”
2:15p
2:30p
4:00p
4:15p
Lunch - “Breaking the Rules” [SB 260]
Discussion Groups
Albert Mills [SMU] & Pushkala Prasad [Skidmore] [SB 152]
Maureen Scully [UMB] & Virpi Malin [JYU] [SB 260]
Jean Helms Mills [SMU] & Simon Mollan [YORK] [SB 260]
Nadia deGama [YORK] & Gabrielle Durepos [MSVU] [L 260]
Kelly Thomson [YORK] [SB 153]
Anshuman Prasad [New Haven] & Steve McKenna [YORK] [L 280]
Coffee Break [SB 260]
Student Paper Presentations
Student papers A [SB 152] Chair: Chris Hartt
Student papers B [SB 153] Chair: Kelly Thomson
Student papers C [SB 260] Chair: Elina Riivari
Student papers D [L 280] Chair: Steve McKenna
Coffee Break [SB 260]
Workshop: Entangled Domains: Doing (Critical) Management
Research Across Micro, Meso & Macro Levels (Anshuman Prasad &
Pushkala Prasad) [SB 260]
Workshop: Critical Discourse Analysis (Amy Thurlow) [SB 260]
Workshop: Analyzing qualitative data with a critical eye (Kelly
Thompson [SB 260]
Workshop: Mixed Methods from a Critical Orientation (Virpi Malin
& Elina Riivari) [L 280]
5:30p
6:00p
Reception [Sobey Lobby]
Meeting outside of SB 260 to walk to social event
Dinner
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Closing [SB 260]
Student Organizing Committee Lunch [L 280]
STUDENT PRESENTATIONS
Name
School
Amanda Peticca Harris
York
Annika Voltan
SMU
Arun Karthik B.
Cara-Lynn Scheuer
Catherine (Kate)
Sikerbol
Paper presentation
The New Spirit of Capitalism:
Spirituality and the alternative
work arrangements of yoga
teachers
Scaling Social Innovation: A
proposed conceptual
integrative framework applied
to the context of community
supported agriculture in Nova
Scotia, Canada
Group
Roundtable
presentations
Group
D
C
Understanding Interlocking
Directorates in India: An Empirical
Study
IIT
Fielding
SMU
Channah Herschberg
NSM
II
Exploring the Flow of
Information Between
Older and Younger
Workers Through Social
Network Analysis
b
SMU
Catherine Fitzgerald
Dissertation Proposals/Presentations Group
Constructing Occupational
Health and Safety Teachings in
Canadian Business Schools
Selecting for academic
excellence: How are formal
selection criteria applied in
practice
Dissent in the Workplace
Constructing Occupational Health
and Safety Teachings in Canadian
Business Schools
D
D
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I
III
STUDENT PRESENTATIONS (cont.)
Name
School
Chen Lihuizi
UEF
Chris Walker
Christopher R.
Whynacht
Cristian Erasmo
Villanueva Santillan
Paper presentation
Group
One-Fits-All? A Discussion on the
Applicability of Polluter-Pays
Principle in Sustainable Municipal
Solid Waste Management
C
Roundtable
presentations
Dissertation
Group Proposals/Presentations
Timor-Leste’s Latin American Social
Medicine? Investigating the
Operationalization of Cuba’s Health
Care System in a South Pacific Nation III
SMU
The Ecological Embeddedness of
Global Production Networks:
UMASS Investigating Salmon Aquaculture
Boston and Palm Oil Production
C
EGADE
Connie Graham
UFS
Corey Sigvaldason
SMU
Group
Conceptualizing a MultiLevel Perspectives
Approach to Institutional
Change
c
Social Responsibility in the Informal
Economy
II
Management, Doctoral Attrition,
Interaction Equivalency Theorem E
Goal Setting Theory and
Organizational Effectiveness
Legacy of the Soviet Colonial
Encounter in Post-Soviet
Organizations
David Iremadze
SMU
Debra M. Butler
Organizational Response to
Climate Change: Displacement
UMASS and Diaspora in Urban Coastal
Boston Communities
Elizabeth Hegendijk
UFS
B
C
“Internalization” as a
Potpourri of Discourses
of “Otherness” in the
OB/HR Textbooks
a
Organizational Response
to Climate Change:
Displacement and
Diaspora in Urban
Coastal Communities
b
A policy framework for a
South African
entrepreneurial
university
c
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I
STUDENT PRESENTATIONS (cont.)
Name
Isabella Krysa
John G. Richmond
School
SMU
UMASS
Boston
Kien Le
Kothai Kumanan
SMU
SMU
Leigh Ellen Walsh
Group
SMU
Schulich
The Tenacity and Tenuousness
of Meritocracy: Legitimation of
Status and Inequality in Indian
Management Education
“Is it safer if there is a bomb
shelter in a five-star hotel?”
Searching for the Canadian
Healthcare Manager: Back to
the Future
Non-Profit Financial
Sustainability
D
E
B
Group
Examining root cause analysis and
learning in healthcare: The barriers
and how they are overcome to
prevent recurrences
III
Gender and Leadership in the NonProfit Sector
IV
Developing Professional b
Identity Amidst an
Ethical Crisis
A
Open Governments: do they say
what they mean and mean
what they do?
B
Dissertation
Proposals/Presentations
The Tenacity and
Tenuousness of
Meritocracy:
Legitimation of Status
and Inequality in Indian
Management Education c
Open Governments: do
they say what they
mean and mean what
they do?
c
Challenges of The Saudi female
leader. Is there an Antidote?
Examining Promotion of Drugs to
Health Care Providers through
Medical Representatives in Indian
context
Liela Ahmed Jamjoom SMU
Manu Kanchan
Group
Warwick
Keshav Krishnamurty
Kristin Williams
Paper presentation
Roundtable
presentations
IIT
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IV
III
STUDENT PRESENTATIONS (cont.)
Name
Margaret Clappison
Mariana Paludi
School
Paper presentation
Does Social Capital Augment or
Diminish Strategic Planning in
Athabasca Organizations
SMU
Group
A
Roundtable
presentations
Group
Motivations for
Implementing Corporate
Social Responsibility
b
Dissertation
Proposals/Presentations
Group
An Employee Satisfaction
Management Framework for the
Textile and Garment Industry in
Lesotho
IV
Networking practices in
diversity networks.
And,
Marjolein Dennissen
NSM
Michael Tautchin
Athabasca
Moeketsi Letele
Nina Lunkka
Diversity networks in
organizations: an
intersectionality
approach.
The prescriptive nature
of accurate
performance
measurement for
business units in the
public sector
a
b
Free State
Oulu
Olli-Matti Nevalainen UEF
Hospital Projects as arenas for
materializing meanings - midlevel nurse managers'
experiences from change
processes.
B
Strategic co-operation between
entrepreneurs and business
angels
A
Hospital Projects as
arenas for materializing
meanings - mid-level
nurse managers'
experiences from
change processes.
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c
STUDENT PRESENTATIONS (cont.)
Name
Phaedra Burke
Rafael Burgos-Miraba
Stefanie Ruel
School
Group
UMASS
Amherst
Athabasca Intersectionality at Work
McGill
Tianyuan (Cathy) Yu
SMU
JSBE
Roundtable
presentations
Will new regionalism
strengthen, weaken or
have no effect upon a
nation state’s internal
and external brand?
Is the multiculturalism
act an advantage or a
hindrance to Canada: A
response to Christian
Joppke.
Athabasca
Sung Chul Noh
Tuomas Kokko
Paper presentation
Group
Dissertation
Proposals/Presentations
Group
a
The Department of Polymer
Science and Engineering at the
University of MassachusettsAmherst: The role of institutional
entrepreneurs in establishing a
new (inter)discipline locally (19501994)
I
E
Seeking Solidarity among the
Heterogeneous: Exploring the
Process of Collective Action in
Pluralistic Organizations
II
Business and Politics at the
intersection of West and East: Pan
Am and the Republican China,
1933-1949
II
Leadership challenges between
Finnish municipal civic leaders
and politicians
E
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Student Paper Presentations Group A
[SB 152]
Abhijeet Lele
Kristin Williams
Margaret Clappison
Olli-Matti Nevalainen
WEDNESDAY JUNE 10, 2015
[2:30pm - 4:00pm]
Student Paper Presentations Group B
Student Paper Presentations Group C
[SB 153]
[SB 260]
Leigh Ellen Walsh
Debra M. Butler
Kothai Kumanan
Annika Voltan
Nina Lunkka
Chen Lihuizi
David Iremadze
Christopher R. Whynacht
Student Paper Presentations Group D
[L 280]
Amanda Peticca Harris
Catherine Fitzgerald
Channah Herschberg
Keshav Krishnamurty
Dissertation Proposals & Presentations I
[SB 152]
Catherine (Kate) Sikerbol
Corey Sigvaldason
David Iremadze
Rafael Burgos-Miraba
THURSDAY JUNE 11, 2015
[10:30am - 11:45am]
Dissertation Proposals & Presentations II
Dissertation Proposals & Presentations III
[SB 153]
[SB 260]
Arun Karthik B.
Catherine Fitzgerald
Cristian Erasmo Villanueva Santillan
Chris Walker
Sung Chul Noh
John G. Richmond
Tianyuan (Cathy) Yu
Manu Kanchan
Dissertation Proposals and Presentations IV
[L280]
Abhijeet Lele
Kristin Williams
Liela Ahmed Jamjoom
Moeketsi Letele
FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 2015
[10:30am - 11:45am]
Student Rousndtables a
[SB 152]
Marjolein Dennissen
Phaedra Burke
David Iredmaze
Student Roundtables b
[SB 153]
Cara-Lynn Scheuer
Debra M. Butler
Margaret Clappison
Michael Tautchin
Kothai Kumanan
Student Roundtables c
[L 280]
Christopher R. Whynacht
Elizabeth Hegendijk
Keshav Krishnamurty
Leigh Ellen Walsh
Nina Lunkka
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Student Paper Presentations Group E
[SB 260]
Tuomas Kokko
Connie Graham
Kien Le
Stefanie Ruel
DISCUSSION GROUPS
Thursday June 11, 2015, 1pm - 2:15pm
Title
The Critical
Academic Career
and Beyond
Faculty
Albert J. Mills +
Pushkala Prasad
SB 152
Location
Dissertation
Proposal Writing
Stage: Tips and
Suggestions
Maureen Scully +
Virpi Malin
SB 260
Dissertation
Writing Stage: Tips
and Suggestions
Is there life after
the dissertation?
What does it mean
to do field work?
Getting Published
Simon Mollan +
Jean Helms Mills
SB 260
Nadia deGama +
Gabie Durepos
L 260
Kelly Thomson
Steve McKenna +
Anshuman Prasad
L 280
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SB 153
SPONSORING BUSINESS SCHOOLS
Athabasca University DBA
Queen Mary University
University of Eastern
Finland
UMASS Boston
Sobey PhD (Management)
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Human Resources
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Business and Economics
EPABE FGV School of Administration
BIMTECH
Radboud University Nigmegen
UFRGS - the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
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